This statement sounded very much like—

Yuan Fang, what do you think?

Yuan Fang indicated he was a bit panicked.

He appeared to ponder seriously for a moment, analyzing with a straight face:

"I also think it's possible there's something fishy about the 'ideological reform' we're about to receive in the grand auditorium..."

As he said this, he seemed to just react, suddenly exclaiming in shock: "If that's really the case, then Senior, your memory-stealing skill could actually steal our *future* memories?!"

"In that case, your skill could practically be used as a prophecy-type skill!"

As soon as these words were spoken, they indeed caused the other youths to be shocked and unable to believe it.

Initially, they were a bit skeptical about the notion of "stealing future memories."

After all, the future, things that haven't happened yet, how could memories be generated in advance?

But in their memories, there really was no experience of working in a crematorium...

While they were still shocked, Du Yuheng took the opportunity to propose a new point of view—

His gaze swept back and forth around them, looked up at the extremely high ceiling of this grand auditorium, and finally turned to Jiang Ye to speculate anew:

"Could it be that there's something special about the environment of this 【Grand Auditorium】?"

"Actually, I also suspected before whether the room where we operated the sewing machines had something special about it, which caused my 【Heart's Voice Externalized】 skill effect to be so useless..."

"Of course, because I used the skill outside that room and still saw garbled code, I dismissed that conjecture."

"But now thinking about it—according to what the veteran players said, this grand auditorium we're in now is the fixed location in this bizarre school where 'ideological reform' is conducted for students..."

"So, could it be that there's something special about the environment here that's affecting the effect of your skill, Senior?"

Once he said this, the other newcomers present also began to examine this grand auditorium.

To be honest, this grand auditorium wasn't particularly special.

Its biggest feature was probably its size.

It was especially large.

At the front was an enormous stage that could serve as a performance venue for cultural performances, a podium for speeches, or for projecting PPTs.

Facing the stage were rows upon rows of seats.

At a glance, each row had dozens, nearly a hundred seats.

Each row of seats in the back was a bit higher than the one in front.

This continued all the way to the last row, presenting a stepped arrangement, probably also with dozens, nearly a hundred rows.

The seats in the very last row appeared particularly high.

Sitting there, one could oversee the entire grand auditorium;the view should be quite good.

Apart from this, the entire grand auditorium had no chandeliers.

The ceiling featured that kind of European-style white wall relief decoration.

This white wall relief extended from the ceiling to the upper half of the surrounding walls.

The patterns depicted various types of beasts.

Of course, the appearances of those beasts were very strange.

The one in the very center of the ceiling looked like an elephant, given its long trunk paired with fierce-looking tusks.

Yet, on top of its head, it also grew antlers like those of a sika deer.

The other beasts were basically arranged around this deer-elephant hybrid monster, presenting an attitude of myriad beasts paying homage.

Of course, the other beasts were also strange, feeling like complete hybrid species.

A bird head resembling a crane was paired with a body akin to a flood dragon, the whole thing looking rather like a snake.

There was also a giant turtle, but from the places where a turtle's limbs should extend, four long tentacles emerged.

At the tip of each tentacle was a sharp-beaked bird head.

There was also a giant lion;at first glance, it was clearly a lion, but upon closer inspection, its face faintly had a human-like appearance.

In short, it was very strange and also very abstract.

After the various abstract hybrid beasts encircled the deer-elephant, there was a type of very small fish.

These fish were all shaped like slender leaves, densely packed, extending all the way to the upper half of the surrounding walls.

Through their dense, piled-up numbers, they faintly created a flowing sensation on the walls.

It seemed these orderly little fish schools were clearly more in line with human aesthetics than the abstract beasts on the ceiling.

It was precisely these aesthetically normal fish that occupied most of the area within the players' line of sight in the auditorium, which made Jiang Ye initially feel this grand auditorium looked quite normal.

Now, carefully looking at those beast reliefs on the ceiling, he felt something was off.

However, this "something off" only stemmed from the abstract aesthetic of the reliefs.

Otherwise, nothing special could be seen... wait!

Jiang Ye carefully examined the wall relief art of the entire auditorium once more, then suddenly moved from the aisles outside the seats into the rows of seats.

He did not head towards the last-row seats with the best view.

Instead, he went to the central seat corresponding to the deer-elephant relief in the very center of the ceiling.

However, after arriving at this central seat, he didn't observe the majestic deer-elephant relief more carefully.

From this angle, he surveyed the entire grand auditorium's surroundings.

His gaze fell upon those fish schools surrounding the beast reliefs.

To better follow the fish schools, he even slowly turned his body along the direction the fish schools seemed to flow.

At first, he turned in the direction the fish schools flowed.

After a few steps, he felt it wasn't right, so he then turned in the direction opposite to the fish schools' flow.

This way, the fish schools "moved backward" in his field of vision, creating a visual sensation of flowing towards the direction of the fish heads.

Jiang Ye moved step by step, his gaze chasing the fish schools inch by inch.

At this moment, he felt regret, wishing he had an extra pair of eyes on the back of his head.

But also at this time, Du Yuheng walked over, leaning against his back, and turned with him.

Thus, the two of them turned back-to-back along the direction opposite to the fish schools' flow.

During the first circle, they turned relatively slowly.

Later, during the second and third circles, the two cooperated, turning faster and faster.

In this visual experience, those fish schools flowed exceptionally smoothly...

Until both of them grew dizzy and stopped in their tracks.

Du Yuheng directly plopped down into a nearby seat, rubbing his temples while blinking hard to relieve the discomfort.

Jiang Ye also frowned.

At this moment, He Yuliang and the other five newcomers came over. They also mimicked the actions the two had just performed, though without the back-to-back cooperation.

He Yuliang also seemed to have noticed something, turning faster and faster.

The other five clear-eyed but foolish youths just felt utterly confused, turning left and right, like a bunch of silly sons of a landlord...

Finally, they clearly couldn't stand their own foolish appearance either, simply plopping down into the seats around them, curiously discussing and asking:

"Did you guys see anything?"

"I didn't see anything. At most, these fish schools seem to be swimming in the same direction?"

"I can also understand that when we ourselves are turning, the fish schools in our vision appear to be swimming... but so what? That's just a normal visual phenomenon, right?"

The bespectacled youth saw He Yuliang was still turning and couldn't help asking: "What did you see?"

He Yuliang didn't directly answer this question but instead posed another one:

"Don't you guys find it strange?"

"In this bizarre school of ours, there is no sun and no moon."

"So the light we perceive all comes from lighting."

"Like street lamps, like the lights in the classrooms..."

"But in this grand auditorium, have you seen any lights?"

Once this detail was raised, the five youths suddenly realized—

"Yeah! Such a large auditorium, yet without seeing a single light, is brighter than our previous classroom!"

"So what? But what does this have to do with the fish schools..." As he said this, the bespectacled youth also started turning again, spinning a few more circles.

Then, when he sat down again, he also wore a thoughtful expression.

The other four youths also turned in circles one after another. Suddenly, one youth exclaimed: "Is there light within these fish schools?"

"Just now when I was turning very fast, I seemed to sense a feeling of light within the fish schools!"

"Yes! A sense of light! That feeling, like light is flowing!"

"So, is the light in this grand auditorium caused by the fish reliefs? Or is there a hidden light source within the abstract beast reliefs on the ceiling too?"

These few youths looked up again, walking in circles to observe the giant beast reliefs on the ceiling above.

Including He Yuliang, who also stared at the giant beast reliefs for a while.

However, he directly lay down on a seat, no longer turning in circles.

After staring for quite a while, he still couldn't see anything peculiar about the giant beast reliefs.

At this moment, the bespectacled youth glanced at He Yuliang, then at Jiang Ye.

Seeing Jiang Ye snap out of his contemplative state, he dared to ask curiously:

"Even if there are hidden light sources within these fish reliefs, what does that prove?"

"The veteran player who guided me said that even during the school's free time, we cannot damage the school's public facilities."

"Veteran players have existed for so long, these fish reliefs have never been damaged, so we also can't damage the reliefs to see what the light source inside is."

Jiang Ye did not answer directly.

In fact, the information he obtained wasn't just the flowing "sense of light" within the "fish school" reliefs that these ordinary newcomers also felt.

More crucially...

Along with the flow of the "fish schools," the flowing "light" he perceived...

Resembled more a kind of "colorful white" corresponding to "colorful black"!

Yes! The light they sensed from the fish schools was a kind of "sense of light."

And this "sense of light" wasn't them actually seeing a light source with their naked eyes.

But rather sensing the light...

Like the kaleidoscope played with as a child, where you could clearly "sense" the light inside.

And this kind of "sensation," when we are accustomed to light and look directly at it, we instead "sense" it less.

Therefore, this kind of light that can be "sensed" gives people a "colorful" feeling.

Like a scattered rainbow.

If it were just this feeling, that would be one thing.

More crucially...

Jiang Ye had once seen that kind of colorful black on the black crow feathers!

So, when the entire "fish school" flowed, presenting a kind of colorful white...

In his eyes, that was no longer a "fish school"!

But flowing crow feathers!

Even, if the giant beast relief pattern in the entire ceiling area were completely replaced with a crow's head...

Then the densely packed "fish schools" surrounding the beast area could be completely viewed as large swathes of crow feathers covering the crow's body!

Then the entire aesthetically chaotic, abstract wall relief picture of the auditorium would become one whole, naturally formed crow relief picture!

Of course, there was still one issue—

A crow's feathers, seen by the human eye, are black.

But the wall reliefs here are pure white.

This tone of white looks too holy.

Very fitting for the theme of "ideological reform."

But in Jiang Ye's conception...

This holy white here might not be impossible to transform into black.

It just requires a most violent "great fire"...

More accurately, if the "sun" were moved here... what would happen?

In ancient mythology, the sun is the three-legged Golden Crow!

If the Golden Crow were to burn and destroy everything here.

Then these white walls would either be completely destroyed or turn black.

And the sun...

It is said the sun is in the normal cities.

Apart from that, the moon is also in the normal cities.

Based on the situation of later times, the 【Moon Phase Clock】 on the rooftop of the Doomsday Apartment should have some relationship with the "moon" from this prison period.

Then, what did the "sun" from this prison period evolve into in later times?

Once he began pondering this, Jiang Ye realized...

Li Ku's dream indeed must be realized!

Not only because the threats suffered by sinners must be resolved by overthrowing those Superior People.

More importantly...

Jiang Ye wanted to obtain the sun and moon of the normal cities!

However, considering there was a potential threat nearby that stole heart's voices, and this auditorium responsible for "ideological reform" also had an effect that could cause players' mental collapse, he didn't let his thoughts wander further. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Including the bespectacled youth's question, he didn't answer it either, merely saying to these few youths:

"My memory-stealing skill can also be used on physical objects."

As soon as these words were spoken, they indeed caused another wave of shock.

Simultaneously, He Yuliang quickly grasped his meaning: "You want to use the skill on the reliefs?"

Even the fish school reliefs existed on the upper half of the walls.

And this part was also over five meters high.

Even if Jiang Ye stood on the highest back-row seats with the best view, it probably wouldn't be very easy to reach the lowest fish.

Moreover, He Yuliang speculated: "You want to use the skill on the giant beast relief in the center of the ceiling?"

In that case, they would have to find a way to send Jiang Ye over ten meters into the air!

However, after thinking for a moment, Jiang Ye shook his head: "I want to try using the skill on the fish schools first, to see if the skill effect can be used on each individual fish, or if the entire auditorium wall can only be used once."

Hearing this, the newcomers present felt somewhat speechless again.

Obtaining memories from inanimate objects was outrageous enough, but you actually dare to think that an entire wall would provide different memories according to the relief patterns?

Even He Yuliang felt his idea was too outrageous.

He couldn't help but advise tactfully: "Trying is indeed something we should try, but shouldn't the first experiment be on the giant beast in the sky?"

What if it can't be used a second time?

Then would you have to wait for your skill's six-hour cooldown before using it on the giant beast relief?

So obviously, using it on the giant beast relief the first time would maximize benefits!

Yet Jiang Ye insisted on walking towards the back-row seats: "I'll still use a fish for the first experiment."

"You guys come along too, act as my backup. Oh right," as he spoke, Jiang Ye remembered and turned to ask Du Yuheng, "You should have a Glyph Pattern Ability, right? Can you directly use your Glyph Pattern Ability to lift me to the height of the fish schools?"