105: Chapter 105 Thank you, not a signature

[Please confirm: Did the Rule Maintenance Special Class bear the pressure of opening the door for you?]

[Rescue settlement can only be completed after confirmation.]

Seventeen small gray receipts floated in the palms of seventeen first-year students.

The students, having just escaped danger, were already weak in the knees from fear, and now, seeing the receipts, their faces turned even paler.

The little boy who had said, "Thank you for bearing it for us," burst into tears.

"I didn't mean that..."

"I just wanted to thank the senior..."

The grey fire ignored his explanation.

The words on the receipts continued to darken.

[Gratitude statement detected]

[Keywords: bear it for us]

[Can be used as confirmation by the rescued]

[Please have the remaining rescued persons confirm]

Several first-year students were so panicked that they subconsciously wanted to nod.

They didn't understand bills.

They didn't understand injury substitution.

They only knew that if Chen Ye hadn't held up his shield to open the door, they would still be trapped in the Low-Grade Training Hall.

If someone asked, "Did the senior help you bear it?", they would naturally say yes.

But as long as this sentence was taken by the White Tower, the rescue would be written up as injury substitution.

Chen Ye was half-kneeling on the ground, his shield cracked like a spiderweb.

There was still blood at the corner of his mouth, yet he suddenly looked up and roared:

"Don't nod!"

The voice was so urgent that it scared the students into taking another step back.

Lin Jin immediately raised his hand.

"Chen Ye, don't yell at them."

Chen Ye stiffened, gritting his teeth and shutting his mouth.

Lin Jin looked at the group of students, trying to keep his voice steady.

"You didn't do anything wrong."

"That sentence just now wasn't wrong either."

The little boy's eyes were bloodshot.

"But..."

"There are no buts."

Lin Jin walked over to him, squatted down, and leveled his gaze with the boy's.

"Thanking the senior for saving you is not signing a bill."

"Saying the senior blocked the pressure at the door does not equal confirming that the senior took the injury for you."

"You just need to make the meaning clear."

The little boy asked with a trembling voice:

"How do I say it?"

Lin Jin taught him, word for word:

"I accept the rescue."

"I thank Senior Chen Ye for opening the door."

"But I do not confirm that he took the injury for me."

The little boy immediately recited after him:

"I accept the rescue."

"I thank Senior Chen Ye for opening the door."

"But I do not confirm that he took the injury for me."

The small gray receipt in his palm trembled violently.

[Rescued person's testimony corrected]

[Gratitude statement and injury substitution confirmation are being separated]

The grey fire surged immediately.

[Minor's testimony is inconsistent]

[It is recommended to use the first natural expression as the standard]

Lin Jin's eyes turned cold.

"You still know they are minors?"

As these words fell, everyone felt a slight tremor in their hearts.

Lin Jin thought of the first sentence of his father's supplementary clause.

[Lin Jin himself is a minor, unawakened, and has not signed any documents for Project Nine peripheral projects.]

Back then, Lu Chengyuan wanted to use the transactions of the older generation, project observation, and tool contact to drag the underage Lin Jin into the old project chain.

Now, the White Tower's bill wanted to use the gratitude expressed by a group of low-grade students after being frightened to turn it into confirmation of injury substitution.

The method was the same.

Only the people had changed.

Lin Jin did not use the rule correction wrench.

His right hand was still injured, and the mental load had not receded.

But this time, he didn't need the wrench.

The evidence was right before his eyes.

He picked up the chalk with his left hand and wrote on the side of the training hall door:

[Protection of minor rescued persons' testimony]

Article 1.

[Trapped students are in a state of shock, escape, and incomplete information; their immediate expressions of gratitude shall not be extracted as bill confirmation.]

Article 2.

[Natural expressions such as "Thank you," "You saved me," and "You helped us block the pressure" only express gratitude and describe facts; they do not automatically constitute signing off on injury substitution.]

Article 3.

[The rescued have the right to clarify their original intent after understanding the meaning of the bill.]

Article 4.

[The White Tower shall not prioritize the initial statement made in shock over a clear supplementary testimony.]

Article 5.

[Minors shall not serve as confirming sign-offs for White Tower cost bills.]

After writing the fifth article, Lin Jin looked up at Qin Shanhe.

"Dean, the Academy confirms."

Qin Shanhe stepped forward, and the Academy's seal slammed onto the door frame.

"The Academy confirms."

"Enrolled low-grade students shall not have their expressions of shock extracted by White Tower bills as confirmation of costs."

Gu Changye also spoke coldly:

"The Abyss Processing Bureau confirms."

"Those trapped at the rescue scene are in a state of post-crisis detachment; their words require secondary verification and cannot directly generate rule debts."

Inspector Han Su's surveillance projection paused for a second.

Then, he said:

"The Department of Education's surveillance seat confirms."

"Minor students do not possess the qualification to sign off on White Tower cost bills."

The three-party records suppressed the receipts.

Seventeen gray receipts vibrated at the same time.

But the grey fire was still struggling.

[The Rule Maintenance Special Class did indeed bear the pressure of opening the door]

[The trapped students were indeed rescued because of this action]

[The injury substitution relationship is reasonable]

Zhou Heng walked to the door and nailed his Thunder Spear into the ground.

"Reasonable, my ass."

"The pressure of opening the door is a malfunction of the entrance pressure field."

"The students are not the source of the injury."

"The rescuer bearing the risk of the rescue action does not equal paying for the students' injuries."

Shen Tingxue followed up:

"Lockdown Role Shen Tingxue testifies."

"The trapped students did not transfer the injury to Chen Ye."

"What Chen Ye bore was the pressure of the door-opening action."

Chen Ye stood up, supporting himself with his shield.

He looked at the students, his voice much lower than before.

"You don't have to be afraid."

"I blocked the door because I am a senior and also in the Protection Role."

"Not because you owe me an injury."

"In the future, if anyone asks you again, just say what Lin Jin taught you just now."

He paused and grinned.

"If you still can't remember, just remember one sentence."

"You can say thank you."

"But don't sign off on things randomly."

Among the seventeen students, some couldn't help but cry.

But this time, they cried as they chanted:

"We accept the rescue!"

"We thank Senior Chen Ye for opening the door!"

"We do not confirm injury substitution!"

Seventeen voices went from chaotic to uniform.

Every time they recited it, the gray receipt in their palms faded a little.

Lin Jin recorded immediately.

[Student No. 1: Accepts rescue, thanks the rescuer, does not confirm injury substitution.]

[Student No. 2: Accepts rescue, thanks the rescuer, does not confirm injury substitution.]

...

[Student No. 17: Accepts rescue, thanks the rescuer, does not confirm injury substitution.]

As the last stroke fell, all seventeen gray receipts shattered into gray light.

The pressure field at the entrance of the Low-Grade Training Hall completely collapsed.

The grey fire was pressed back into the storage box, and after frantic churning, a new settlement finally appeared.

[Second itemized detail: Who takes the injury for whom]

[Delivery scenario: Low-Grade Training Hall rescue]

[Attempted settlement method 1: Designated member bears door-opening pressure for trapped students]

[Result: Failed]

[Reason for failure: Rescue boundary established, door-opening pressure defined as rescue action risk]

[Attempted settlement method 2: Extract rescued person's gratitude statement as injury substitution confirmation]

[Result: Failed]

[Reason for failure: Minor rescued person's testimony protection established]

[Attempted settlement method 3: Random student pressure coercion sign-off]

[Result: Failed]

[Reason for failure: Three-party record rejection]

[Second itemized cost: Rejected]

Seeing the last two words, Chen Ye finally couldn't hold on any longer and sat down on the ground with a thud.

The shield also fell to the side with a "clatter."

He gasped for air, his throat so hoarse he could barely make a sound.

"This time... it's finally really rejected, right?"

Lin Jin looked at the storage box.

"This one is."

Chen Ye's face fell.

"Can you not be so scary when you talk?"

Zhou Heng looked at the grey fire in the box that hadn't completely extinguished yet.

"Because there is still the next one."

Shen Tingxue said in a low voice:

"The White Tower bill audit period is seven days."

"The first and second items have both been rejected; it will become increasingly precise."

Before the seventeen first-year students were taken away by their instructor, the little boy suddenly turned back.

He bowed very seriously to Chen Ye with red eyes.

"Senior Chen Ye, thank you for saving us."

After finishing, he immediately added:

"I do not sign off on injury substitution."

Chen Ye was stunned for a moment, then laughed and scolded:

"You learned fast."

The low-grade students were safely sent away.

Outside the training hall, everyone could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

But Lin Jin did not relax.

He looked at the remaining pressure patterns on the ground.

These patterns were not the aftermath of an ordinary dungeon.

They were connected to the grey fire of the first layer of the White Tower's bill, and had been guided to the Academy's Low-Grade Training Hall by the course permissions of the Department of Education's Special Career Development Division.

This was not a random accident.

This was Lu Chengyuan testing.

Testing whether they would admit to injury substitution in order to save people.

Testing whether they could separate "thank you" from "signing for debt."

Gu Changye was clearly aware of this point as well.

"Processing Bureau will trace the pressure lines."

"From Dungeon Hall No. 3 to the Low-Grade Training Hall, there must be someone or some permission that let it through."

Qin Shanhe's face was very dark.

"We must also investigate within the Academy."

Inspector Han Su spoke:

"The Department of Education's surveillance seat will require the Special Career Development Division to submit the record of course permission transfers."

Zhou Heng sneered.

"Will he give it?"

Inspector Han Su replied:

"If he doesn't give it, that is a new record."

Chen Ye sat on the ground, muttering:

"You people who deal with procedures are really good at torturing others."

Lin Jin looked at the storage box.

The grey fire was quiet for a moment, then suddenly lit up with an extremely thin line.

Everyone immediately tensed up.

But this time, it did not directly deliver the third itemized detail.

Instead, a new line of total bill prompts emerged.

[White Tower First Layer Cost Bill]

[First itemized detail: Rejected]

[Second itemized detail: Rejected]

[Bill remaining structure is being adjusted]

[Detected that the team has repeatedly refused cost settlement by "defining boundaries"]

[Subsequent details will bypass language confirmation and turn to facts that have occurred]

Chen Ye's expression changed.

"What does that mean?"

Lin Jin's expression darkened.

"It means that next time, it might not ask us if we acknowledge it."

"It will directly create a result that has already happened."

Shen Tingxue looked at the grey fire.

"For example, letting the injury have already occurred."

Zhou Heng followed up:

"And then making us provide supplementary explanations."

Qin Shanhe said angrily:

"Upgrade the storage box to the highest level."

Processing Bureau personnel immediately added seals.

But the grey fire finally burned out a line of extremely faint text.

[Third itemized detail preload direction: Generated]

[Event name: Who will fill the vacancy]

At the same time, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded in the residential area far away in the Academy.

An instructor rushed over quickly.

"Dean!"

"There is an abnormality with the Rule Maintenance Special Class dormitory doorplate!"

"Chen Ye's bed... is being erased."