106: Chapter 106 Empty seats aren't for others to sit in.

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

As the instructor finished this sentence, the expressions of everyone outside the training hall changed.

Chen Ye had originally been sitting on the ground, but upon hearing the words "bed space," he stood up abruptly, only for the injury on his chest to flare up, nearly causing him to collapse back down.

The Medical Instructor pressed him down.

"You can't move around right now!"

Chen Ye gritted his teeth.

"That's my bed!"

"It just locked me out of the course, and now it wants to erase my bed?"

Lin Jin's expression was extremely grim.

The direction of the third bill had just emerged.

[Who will fill the vacancy]

The next second, something went wrong with the dormitory doorplate.

The White Tower did not let them choose this time.

It directly created a "fact."

Chen Ye is not in the instance field.

Chen Ye has entered the medical observation pod.

Chen Ye is currently injured and staying temporarily in the Medical Area.

Consequently, the White Tower wrote "temporarily absent" as "vacancy."

The next step after that was to fill the vacancy.

Lin Jin looked at Qin Shanhe.

"Go to the dormitory."

Qin Shanhe didn't waste words; he raised his hand to open the academy's short-range teleportation array.

"Everyone go."

The Medical Instructor said anxiously:

"Chen Ye must follow for medical treatment!"

Just as Chen Ye wanted to refuse, Lin Jin spoke first:

"Bring the stretcher."

Chen Ye's face darkened.

"I don't want to be carried back lying down!"

Zhou Heng said coldly:

"If you go standing up now, you're writing 'severely injured' for the White Tower."

Shen Tingxue also said:

"Lying down doesn't mean absence."

Lin Jin looked at Chen Ye.

"You are present in person, and your identity is present."

"The posture doesn't matter."

Chen Ye held it in for a long time, then finally gritted his teeth and sat on the medical stretcher.

"Fine."

"But if anyone dares to say I was carried back to the dormitory, I'll fight them."

Zhou Heng didn't even look at him.

"It's already a fact."

Chen Ye: "..."

The teleportation array lit up.

The next instant, everyone appeared in the Rule Maintenance Special Class dormitory area.

This wasn't a regular student dormitory, but a tactical living area specifically arranged by the academy for the Special Assignment Class.

Outside was a public combat room, and inside were separate, independent rest rooms.

Originally, four identity tags hung at the doorway.

[Lin Jin]

[Chen Ye]

[Shen Tingxue]

[Zhou Heng]

At this moment, the second one, [Chen Ye], was fading bit by bit.

Beneath the name, the White Tower's grey fire emerged.

[Detected tendency for long-term medical observation for Protection Role Chen Ye]

[Detected dormitory bed unused]

[Detected vacancy in squad protection function]

[Third bill detail pre-loaded: Who will fill the vacancy]

[Vacancy determination in progress]

Chen Ye lay on the stretcher, watching his name being erased, his expression even uglier than when he was pressed down earlier.

"Long-term medical observation?"

"How long have you even been torturing me?"

"I haven't even had a chance to lie in the bed yet, and you're saying it's unused?"

The grey fire at the doorway continued to burn.

[Protection Role under pressure overload]

[Recommend transfer to Medical Area for recuperation]

[Squad dormitory must maintain a stable four-in-one structure]

[Recommend temporary replacement in living position by White Tower S-Class Defense Sample-01]

At the end of the corridor, the White Shield Sample did indeed appear.

In his hand, he no longer just held the giant silver-white shield.

He also had a standard suitcase.

The temporary school badge on his chest read:

[White Tower S-Class Defense Sample-01]

[External Control]

[Living position replacement application in progress]

Chen Ye saw that suitcase and was so angry he nearly flipped off the stretcher.

"You even brought luggage?!"

The White Shield Sample calmly replied:

"If the living position replacement is established, I will receive the Protection Role's living records to ensure the stability of the squad structure."

Chen Ye's eyes turned red.

"Receive my living records?"

"You even want to sleep in my bed?"

Lin Jin raised his hand to block the front of the stretcher, his voice growing cold.

"Stop."

He looked at the White Shield Sample.

"You are not a teammate right now."

"Not a student."

"Not a dormitory member."

"And certainly not Chen Ye."

The White Shield Sample said:

"I do not use Chen Ye's name."

"I am merely filling the vacancy."

Zhou Heng sneered.

"You changed your wording pretty fast."

Shen Tingxue looked at the doorplate.

"The problem is the vacancy."

Lin Jin nodded.

"It writes the bed space as empty first, then lets the sample fill it."

He walked to the doorplate, picked up chalk with his left hand, while his right hand was still wrapped in bandages.

He didn't touch the wrench.

He didn't need to.

He wrote directly next to the doorframe:

[Bed Space Boundaries]

Article 1.

[Dormitory bed space is for student rest and living records, not a slot for squad member eligibility.]

Article 2.

[Students temporarily leaving their bed space due to medical treatment, training, tasks, or review does not constitute a vacant bed space.]

Article 3.

[A bed with no one lying in it does not mean the person does not exist.]

Article 4.

[Living positions must not be occupied by course samples, temporary substitutes, or external controls.]

Article 5.

[Chen Ye's bed space only records Chen Ye's own living usage rights, not the gap in protection function.]

After writing, the grey fire on the doorplate paused.

The White Tower immediately retorted.

[Rule Maintenance Special Class is a four-person squad]

[Four-in-one structure must remain complete]

[Protection Role medical absence leads to incomplete structure]

Chen Ye propped himself up on the stretcher's handrail and spoke in a hoarse voice:

"Protection Role Chen Ye confirmed."

"I am in medical observation, not in bed."

"But I have not withdrawn from the dormitory."

"My bed space is not empty."

"My room is not empty."

"My squad position is not empty either."

He paused, staring at the White Shield Sample.

"You can stand outside the door as a control."

"But you have no right to come in and live in my place."

The school badge on Chen Ye's chest lit up.

The doorplate that had been fading began to brighten again.

Shen Tingxue raised her hand, and an ice line landed on the edge of the doorplate.

"Lockdown Role Shen Tingxue verifies."

"Chen Ye is in a treatment state, not a withdrawn state."

"During treatment, his living records should be frozen and protected; no replacement is allowed."

Zhou Heng's Thunder Spear nailed itself outside the threshold.

"Barrier Breaker Position Zhou Heng verifies."

"The vacancy replacement application attempts to rewrite medical absence as squad absence."

"Incorrect nature."

Lin Jin finally pressed down on the grey fire next to the doorplate.

"Maintenance Position Lin Jin verifies."

"The dormitory's four-person structure does not require all four people to be lying in bed at the same time."

"Otherwise, anyone attending class, showering, or eating could be judged as a vacancy."

Chen Ye was stunned hearing this.

"That example of yours..."

Zhou Heng said coldly:

"Shut up, the point is correct."

The grey fire on the doorplate was suppressed.

Qin Shanhe raised his hand, and the academy dormitory permissions descended.

[Academy Confirmation: Student dormitory living positions must not be filled by course carriers.]

Gu Changye continued:

[Abyss Processing Bureau Confirmation: Living record replacement belongs to high-risk behavior of identity contamination.]

Inspector Han Su's surveillance projection also emerged.

[Department of Education Inspection Seat Record: White Tower bills must not occupy enrolled student dormitory beds, access control, or living archives.]

After the three parties pressed down, the [Chen Ye] doorplate finally stabilized.

But the school badge on the White Shield Sample's chest lit up again.

[Living position replacement blocked]

[Switching to public functional position replacement]

[Applying to enter public combat room]

The tactical living area door lock clicked, actually opening half an inch automatically.

Chen Ye's expression changed abruptly.

"It can't enter the public area either!"

Lin Jin turned around immediately.

Sure enough.

The White Tower didn't necessarily have to sleep in Chen Ye's bed.

As long as it entered the public combat room, it could access the training whiteboard, squad scheduling, equipment racks, Mutual Verification Contract projections, and even the daily protection records of the three real reward sealing marks.

Living position blocked, it took a step back and applied for a public functional position.

It sounded reasonable.

In reality, it was still a replacement.

Lin Jin quickly wrote down the second set of boundaries.

[Public Combat Room Boundaries]

[Public Combat Room belongs to the shared living and training space of the Rule Maintenance Special Class.]

[External control samples must not enter without the consent of all squad members.]

[Course controls can be conducted in designated training grounds and must not enter the dormitory public area.]

[Empty seats, blank whiteboards, and spare equipment racks in the public area do not constitute squad vacancies that can be filled.]

[It can stay empty.]

After the last sentence was written, Chen Ye's eyes lit up.

"This sentence is good."

"It can stay empty."

"My bed, my chair, my cup, my charger—they can stay empty even if I'm not here."

"They aren't waiting specifically for you."

The tactical living area door lock closed again.

The White Shield Sample stood outside the door, the giant silver-white shield trembling slightly.

[Public functional position replacement: Restricted]

[Vacancy determination failed]

[Third bill detail generation blocked]

The grey fire began to shrink.

Just as Chen Ye wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, the lights in the dormitory corridor suddenly flickered a few times.

Although the doorplate was saved, the academy life system projection at the end of the corridor suddenly lit up.

A string of records appeared on it.

[Dormitory doorplate replacement: Failed]

[Public functional position replacement: Failed]

[Switching to low-risk daily record replacement]

[Target: Class schedule, meal card, training check-in, medical escort list]

Lin Jin's expression changed.

This was its true third bill.

The bed space was just the first layer.

If it couldn't get through the door, it would go and change the daily system.

In the class schedule, it marked Chen Ye as medical absence.

In the meal card, it added the White Shield Sample to the squad quota.

In the training check-in, it wrote "Protection Role signed in by White Shield Sample."

In the medical escort list, it wrote "Chen Ye does not participate in squad daily routine."

These small records, viewed individually, were not fatal.

But stacked up over one day, two days, three days, they would become fact.

Chen Ye would gradually become a person who could only be visited in the Medical Area.

The White Shield Sample, meanwhile, would slowly fill into their daily vacancies.

The White Tower's grey fire burned a new official detail onto the life system.

[Third bill cost detail: Who will fill the vacancy]

[Delivery method: Daily record accumulation]

[Item 1: Tomorrow's breakfast squad quota]

[System suggestion: Chen Ye medical absence, White Shield Sample fills the four-person meal quota]

[Confirm?]

At the same time, a soft sound came from inside the public combat room.

The meal card that originally belonged to Chen Ye on the table lit up by itself.

The name on the meal card was fading bit by bit.

And beside it, a blank meal card appeared out of thin air.

It began to write: [White Tower S-Class Defense Sample-01]