57: Chapter 57 High-Risk Error Correctors: First, Get Out of the Forbidden Building Alive

[External surveillance target locked: Lin Jin]

[Processing level: High-Risk Corrector]

When this line of text appeared on the first page of the correction copy, Lin Jin's first reaction wasn't fear.

It was to laugh.

Since Awakening Day, he had heard too many absurd definitions.

F-grade trash.

Pollution carrier.

Patient.

Illegal Maintenance Worker.

Now there was one more — High-Risk Corrector.

It sounded like a compliment.

At the very least, it meant he had truly corrected something others didn't want him to correct.

But the next second, all the red lights in the fourth-floor corridor lit up.

A piercing alarm sounded from within the walls.

[High-Risk Corrector detected carrying sealed file copy.]

[Rule correction tool detected detached from regulatory cabinet.]

[Initiating school history containment procedure.]

[All exits redefined as evidence recovery points.]

Chen Ye's expression changed.

"Redefined exits into what?"

Lin Jin looked toward the stairwell.

On the stairs that originally led to the third floor, a silver-gray sign appeared.

[Evidence Recovery Channel]

[Carrier, please voluntarily return illegally obtained items]

"It means."

Lin Jin gripped the rule correction wrench tightly.

"They want us to walk into the recovery point ourselves."

Chen Ye cursed directly:

"These people are really addicted to playing with definitions!"

Shen Tingxue raised her hand, and frost covered the edge of the stairs.

But just as the frost fell, the silver-gray sign lit up with a layer of light.

[External interference: Invalid]

[Recovery process priority higher than normal element blocking]

Shen Tingxue let out a muffled groan, the frost on her fingertips shattering.

She had consumed too much energy in the containment room earlier.

Now, forcibly resisting the Department of Education's old seals put significantly more pressure on her.

Lin Jin glanced at her.

"Don't force it."

Shen Tingxue didn't try to be brave; she just nodded.

"You fix the definitions, we'll block the interference."

Chen Ye immediately held his shield horizontally in front of him.

"Understood."

"You're in charge of cursing the rules, we're in charge of taking the hits."

Lin Jin didn't waste time.

He stuffed the correction copy into the innermost layer of his backpack and pressed the 105 file copy on the outside.

Finally, he held the rule correction wrench in front of him.

This newly acquired tool was much heavier than the rusty wrench.

Not in weight.

But in "authority."

Every time it vibrated, it was like reminding Lin Jin:

Correction wasn't about changing whatever you wanted.

You must have evidence.

You must have an anchor.

You must have a wrong definition.

Otherwise, the wrench would backlash against the user.

Lin Jin looked at the stair sign.

The Hand of Rules and the rule correction wrench responded simultaneously.

[Target: Stair exit definition]

[Current wrong definition: Evidence Recovery Channel]

[Original definition: Safe stairs from fourth floor to third floor]

[Evidence: School history architectural plan, Forbidden Building original passage structure, correction applicant's temporary custody authority]

[Correct?]

Lin Jin raised his hand.

"Correct."

The wrench slammed onto the stair railing.

Clack!

The silver-gray sign flickered violently.

[Evidence Recovery Channel]

The characters seemed to have a layer peeled off, revealing the original text underneath.

[Safe Stairs]

But the moment it recovered, the display cabinets on both sides of the fourth floor opened simultaneously.

Pieces of old school uniforms slid out from the cabinets.

They stood up empty.

They wore silver-gray tags on their chests.

[School History Protector]

[Duty: Prevent illegal carriers from leaving]

Chen Ye gasped.

"The clothes stood up by themselves."

"The ghost quality in this academy is quite high."

The next second, a dozen old school uniforms charged over at once.

Chen Ye roared, sweeping his shield horizontally.

Bang!

The leading old school uniform was smashed away, shattering the display cabinet glass.

But it didn't dissipate.

Its sleeves elongated like ropes, wrapping around Chen Ye's arm.

Shen Tingxue raised her hand, frost freezing that school uniform in mid-air.

"Go!"

The three of them rushed toward the stairs.

Lin Jin walked in the middle.

Chen Ye took the front.

Shen Tingxue covered the rear.

The stairs had returned to being a safe passage, but every few steps, the words on the steps would distort again.

[Escape]

[Theft]

[Recovery]

Lin Jin had to fix it as they walked.

Every time the rule correction wrench struck, his wrist ached.

This pain wasn't physical.

It felt like someone had inserted a thin needle into his brain, stirring his cognition, memory, and judgment bit by bit.

[Pollution erosion: 40%]

[Mental load rising]

[Hint: Continuous correction will increase backlash]

Lin Jin gritted his teeth.

"Less talk."

He struck the railing with the wrench.

[Escape Stairs] turned back into [Safe Stairs].

The three finally rushed down to the third floor.

But as soon as they landed, the door to Classroom 103 opened abruptly.

Those blurry students holding test papers were standing inside the door again.

They all turned their heads in unison, looking at Lin Jin.

"Please submit your papers."

"Please submit your papers."

"Please submit your papers."

Chen Ye felt his scalp tingle.

"Why are there still these?"

Shen Tingxue took a look.

"It's not 104's test."

"They have been called by the school history containment procedure."

Lin Jin understood.

The Department of Education's old seals were using the Forbidden Building's original test remnants to stop them.

It wasn't a single monster.

It was mobilizing the entire Forbidden Building's historical fragments to redefine Lin Jin's guilt.

Submitting papers meant handing over the correction copy.

If they handed it over, they would lose.

Lin Jin raised the rule correction wrench and pointed it at Classroom 103.

[Target: 103 test-taking remnants]

[Current wrong call: School history containment procedure defines test-taking remnants as confiscation units]

[Original duty: Test guidance, does not possess evidence confiscation rights]

[Correct?]

"Correct."

Bang!

The wrench fell.

The student phantoms at the entrance of 103 froze.

The test papers in their hands burned one by one.

Subsequently, all phantoms retreated back into the classroom.

The door slammed shut.

Chen Ye was invigorated.

"This new wrench is useful!"

Lin Jin's face, however, turned a bit pale.

"It is useful."

"But it costs life."

Chen Ye immediately shut up and quickened his pace.

The three continued downward.

The second floor originally didn't have the area they had been to.

At this moment, a long corridor appeared.

The walls of the corridor were covered with photos.

Every single one was of Lin Jin.

There was him standing on the playground on Awakening Day.

There was him repairing the elevator in the Abandoned Hospital.

There was him flipping through files in the Old Archives Room.

There was him opening the containment room just now.

Below the photos, different labels were written.

[Abnormal Maintenance Position]

[Suspected Pollution Carrier]

[Illegal Rule Contact]

[High-Risk Corrector]

Chen Ye was furious.

"It secretly photographed you?"

Shen Tingxue said coldly:

"This is a tracking file."

Lin Jin looked at those photos.

He suddenly realized that the Department of Education, or the God System remnants, hadn't just started observing him today.

From the moment of his awakening, even from the moment he entered the Abandoned Hospital, some record had already started following him.

The Hand of Rules popped up a hint.

[Target: Lin Jin tracking wall]

[Status: External surveillance automatically generated]

[Function: Fix high-risk definition]

[Warning: If defined, it will affect academy enrollment status]

This was the most dangerous part.

If these labels were fixed, once he walked out of the Forbidden Building, he would no longer just be a freshman.

But a high-risk object in the Department of Education's files.

By then, even if Qin Shanhe wanted to protect him, he would have to face a whole set of legal procedures first.

Lin Jin stopped.

Chen Ye was anxious.

"Why aren't you moving?"

Lin Jin looked at that photo wall.

"If I don't fix this, I will be labeled with crimes even after I go out."

Shen Tingxue immediately stood at the corridor entrance.

"I'll block."

Chen Ye also raised his shield.

"Hurry."

Lin Jin walked to the photo wall.

When the rule correction wrench was raised, the entire wall began to vibrate.

[Target: Tracking definition wall]

[Current wrong definition: High-Risk Corrector equivalent to illegal rule pollution source]

[Correctable direction: High-Risk Corrector corrected to accident correction applicant]

[Required evidence: Accident liability dispute confirmation form, correction copy, Rule Maintenance Special Class test excellent evaluation]

The evidence was complete.

Lin Jin pressed the three items onto the wall one by one.

The version of himself in the photos began to distort.

A cold voice came from inside the wall.

[Correction refused.]

[Department of Education surveillance definition priority is higher than academy test evaluation.]

Lin Jin's eyes turned cold.

"Is that so?"

He took out the rule correction wrench.

"Then let the priority be corrected too."

[Warning: Touching external surveillance authority]

[Success rate: 49%]

49%.

The first time it was below 50%.

Shen Tingxue also saw the change in Lin Jin's expression.

"Is the risk very high?"

"Yeah."

Chen Ye gritted his teeth:

"How about not fixing it?"

Lin Jin shook his head.

"Must fix it."

He smashed down with the wrench.

The entire wall exploded with silver light.

Lin Jin's chest felt like it had been hit by a heavy hammer, and his throat tasted sweet.

The smell of blood welled up.

[Correction failure risk rising]

[Mental backlash starting]

The five characters "High-Risk Corrector" on the photo wall didn't disappear; instead, they became brighter.

Shen Tingxue's expression changed.

"Lin Jin!"

Lin Jin raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth.

"I'm fine."

He suddenly realized that directly correcting the Department of Education's priority was too difficult.

He didn't have enough authority right now.

Then don't change the priority.

Change the angle.

Don't argue with the Department of Education about who is higher.

Just prove that its definition is incomplete.

An incomplete definition cannot be used as the final basis for processing.

Lin Jin raised the wrench again.

[Maintenance plan adjustment]

[Do not change surveillance priority]

[Only add missing fields: Accident correction applicant, temporary evidence custodian, Rule Maintenance test passer]

[Success rate: 78%]

"That's right."

The second wrench strike fell.

Clack!

The labels below the photos began to rearrange.

[High-Risk Corrector]

It didn't disappear.

But three lines of text were added behind it.

[Accident correction applicant]

[104 key evidence temporary custodian]

[Rule Maintenance Special Class test excellent passer]

Lin Jin's third wrench strike fell.

[Processing suggestion: Shall not be directly recovered, requires joint review by the academy and the Department of Education]

The photo wall's light dimmed.

The fixed definition failed.

At the end of the corridor, the stairs leading to the first floor were restored.

Chen Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

"Although still high-risk, at least they aren't arresting people directly?"

Lin Jin nodded.

"Temporarily."

The three rushed down to the first floor.

The Forbidden Building's main gate could already be seen.

Real sunlight shone in from outside the door.

But a person was standing at the entrance.

It wasn't a surveillance shadow.

And it wasn't Xu Wenzhou.

It was Qin Shanhe.

He was standing outside the Forbidden Building door, still holding that enamel mug in his hand.

But this time, there wasn't a hint of laziness on his face.

Because he couldn't get in.

On the inside of the Forbidden Building's door, silver-gray seals locked the door frame.

Qin Shanhe looked at the three of them through the seals.

"Got it?"

Lin Jin nodded.

"Got it."

Qin Shanhe's gaze fell on the rule correction wrench in his hand, then looked at the correction copy in his arms.

The old man's eyes were incredibly complex.

Like relief.

Like guilt.

Also like finally waiting for a long-overdue blade.

"Then come out."

Lin Jin looked at the seal on the door frame.

[Target: Forbidden Building exit seal]

[Current definition: High-Risk Corrector must not leave]

[Fault: External surveillance lock overrides academy test passage right]

Qin Shanhe suddenly spoke from outside the door:

"Lin Jin."

"I cannot tear this seal for you."

Lin Jin looked up.

Qin Shanhe's voice was low.

"Twenty years ago, I signed my name once."

"That signature still weighs on me to this day."

"So this time, you walk out yourself."

Lin Jin looked at the old man.

He suddenly understood.

It wasn't that Qin Shanhe didn't want to save him.

It was that he couldn't use his own signature to decide for Lin Jin anymore.

The path must be walked by Lin Jin himself.

The definition must also be changed by Lin Jin himself.

Lin Jin raised the rule correction wrench.

"High-Risk Corrector must not leave?"

He looked at the seal on the door and said coldly:

"Wrong."

"Freshmen who passed the test should be enrolled."

The wrench fell.

Bang!

The silver-gray seal burned violently.

The Forbidden Building's main gate swung open with a boom.

Sunlight shone on Lin Jin.

At the same moment, a piercing alarm sounded over the academy.

A cold voice from the outside covered the entire Jiangcheng First Combat Academy.

[Department of Education special surveillance order has been issued.]

[Target: Lin Jin.]

[Please Jiangcheng First Combat Academy immediately hand over the High-Risk Corrector and the illegally held files.]

Qin Shanhe looked up toward the academy gate.

There, three black surveillance vehicles were slowly driving in.

The old man placed the enamel mug on the ground and sneered.

"They came quite fast."