A Style of Architecture

"Will do." Zhu Yan looked down at the furry head of the cow-patterned cat. "Uh... it won't make a mess, it can perfectly take care of itself."

It's just that sometimes it eats human flesh.

Zhu Yan worried a bit about Yang Zhanbai's level and gave a low warning to the cow cat.

"Don't eat the people in the dorm."

"Wow!" the cow cat said loudly.

Yang Zhanbai immediately turned his head to look at it: "Let me hold it. Why is it a reward? Is there anything special about it?"

To be honest, Zhu Yan didn't know either.

He hadn't looked up [Cat] in "Coexisting with Forbidden Objects," but this cat, like him, was level five or six.

It shouldn't be that useless, right?

"It might be able to deal with some thriller creatures."

Zhu Yan said uncertainly.

They walked to the door of 303, and Yang Zhanbai took out that red student card and swiped the door open.

A blurred noise came from downstairs, someone let out an excited shout, mixed with several loud laughs from the surroundings.

"Go in first." Yang Zhanbai put on a stern face. "The people downstairs have been partying all day."

On the desk was a simple dinner, consisting of two Roujiamo with dry, fragrant, and shiny fillings, and a cup of soy milk.

Beside the table, Qi Yinming was looking down at his phone.

Seeing Zhu Yan return, he stood up in pleasant surprise: "You're back! What instance was it, how was the content?"

"An instance of killing monsters and grabbing supplies."

Zhu Yan said vaguely, feeling that this sentence wasn't a lie.

"I brought some things back. You guys talk about your stuff, my business can be told anytime."

Zhu Yan was starving.

He sat down, stuffing food into his mouth in big bites while listening to Yang Zhanbai's explanation.

"I originally wanted to just kill them. But it was stated on the application form to join the [Human Alliance] sent by Officer Guan."

Yang Zhanbai felt a bit regretful.

"Applicants must not have a criminal record, and must not have a record of killing outside of instances."

"If it weren't for these two rules, I would have made a move long ago."

Zhu Yan nodded, not asking much more on this topic.

He hadn't filled out his form yet; he planned to fill it out on his phone before going to bed tonight and then send it to Guan En.

"What did you guys find out about that [Metabolism Module]?"

Yang Zhanbai and Qi Yinming exchanged a glance.

Qi Yinming cleared his throat and said, "We searched everywhere, and synthesizing it all, we think it most likely refers to an architectural style from the Eastern Region."

What?

Architectural style?

Zhu Yan raised his head in surprise.

"We went to the library to ask about the exam location, and the librarian said it was in the school building."

"Which specific building it is will be notified separately."

Qi Yinming couldn't help but frown when he thought of the meaningful tone of that pile of rotten meat slime.

"The 'metabolism' that best fits a building is a certain architectural school from the Eastern Region."

Zhu Yan devoured a Roujiamo like a whirlwind.

He picked up the soy milk, took two big gulps, and then picked up the other one.

Qi Yinming brought up his phone's memo to show him.

"The Metabolism school... advocates that buildings should be like living organisms, able to grow, renew, and change."

This first sentence made Zhu Yan cry out inwardly that this was bad.

This wasn't right.

Human society advocates that buildings should be like living organisms, but [Carnival Paradise] can actually turn buildings into living organisms.

If that was the case, how difficult would this instance be?

They were just weak, pitiful, and helpless freshmen!

"Buildings should not be static monuments, but organic bodies with life."

"They will go through a life cycle of growth, decline, and death, adapting to social and technological changes through continuous metabolism..."

What does it mean to adapt to changes through "metabolism"?

Randomly spawning monsters in the building?

That seemed too violent and too simple.

It didn't seem like the game style of [Carnival Paradise].

"Therefore, Metabolism school buildings are often composed of a main trunk and functional modules, just like the trunk and branches of a tree."

"The functional module areas on the main trunk can be plugged in, replaced, or expanded according to needs..."

After reading it, Zhu Yan turned his head to look at his two roommates.

"Don't look at us like that." Qi Yinming pushed the rimless glasses on his nose. "Zhu Zeyu, you are already a mature player, you need to analyze it for us."

Zhu Yan had no idea how to analyze it.

[Carnival Paradise] had so many little tricks, how would he know which one those thriller creatures would use?

"Uh, it feels like the rooms in the building will change randomly."

Zhu Yan bluffed dryly.

Anyway, he had already bluffed that "supervisor" of the Plum Garden Street small kitchen today.

Tomorrow, the instance information of this [Metabolism Module] would be in his hands, wouldn't it?

"The change of room modules should have conditions, and since people are in the rooms, they will most likely move along with the rooms."

Zhu Yan made up nonsense with a straight face, then quickly changed the subject.

"It's very likely that being metabolized out counts as elimination. Anyway, there are still a few days, should we divide the food first?"

There was simply too much food in Feng Qiang's ring.

Zhu Yan couldn't explain the origin of the ring, so he simply said the ring was also part of the reward.

Bags of rice, noodles, and vegetables were taken out, and the tense mood of the few people was finally relieved again.

"Great contributor!"

Yang Zhanbai sighed with emotion, struggling to stuff a bag of rice into the dorm's cabinet.

"You haven't been to the cafeteria, you have no idea how expensive the stuff inside is! That dinner of yours cost 2 bone gold coins, and that's the cheapest set meal there."

2 bone gold coins?

Zhu Yan said in astonishment: "Who can afford to eat? Might as well go to the online mall and buy that set meal of who-knows-what meat."

He remembered there was a char siu rice set meal that only cost thirty or forty bone silver coins.

Anyway, it was much better than the food in the cafeteria.

Thinking of the people he encountered in the cafeteria, Qi Yinming frowned.

"Some people do indeed solve it this way," he said. "But that dorm on the first floor will send people to rob. This time it was all thanks to Yang Zhanbai, they didn't dare to mess with him."

"The person who killed someone on the first floor is named Tu Shan, we've already met him..."

Zhu Yan didn't really care.

Now that he had [Telekinesis], people like this were practically defenseless in front of him.

But how could he take the initiative to attack?

Taking the initiative to attack would not only lack style but also bring him a bunch of moral troubles.

He didn't want to be some conscientious righteous leader.

It would be better to endure it a bit more and develop stealthily first.

Wait until this Tu Shan robbed enough grain, oil, rice, noodles, items, and gold coins, and the people downstairs were plunged into misery and suffering, then he would lure Tu Shan upstairs to make a move, catching a big one with a justified reason.

That would be so satisfying!

Thinking of this, Zhu Yan let out a suppressed sigh.

"Let's keep a low profile for now. Don't cause trouble."

Yang Zhanbai patted his shoulder: "I talked to Officer Guan, and Officer Guan said the same thing."

"By the way, tomorrow [West Mountain University] will be open to the public for once, and students can leave the campus."

"Officer Guan said that all students must go to the [Hall of Mourning] to open an account!"