92: Chapter 92 The right to go home is not something that can be pledged to the White Pagoda.

[Maintenance Position, Lin Shoushan.]

[Replaced Content: Qualification to Go Home.]

[Related item detected for the original copy of Lin Shoushan's Supplementary Clause.]

[Link and read?]

When the second storage box lit up, everyone in the Reading Room cast their gaze upon Lin Jin.

Qualification to Go Home.

These four words were quieter than "death," but also heavier.

Lin Jin stood where he was, his expression not changing much.

But Chen Ye, sitting at the Witness Reading Seat, could see the knuckles gripping the toolbox handle turning white.

Shen Tingxue did not urge him.

Zhou Heng did not speak either.

Because they all understood what this item meant to Lin Jin.

Lin Shoushan entered the No. 9 Forbidden Zone three years ago and never returned.

In the Abandoned Hospital, his medical record stated that he had not been discharged.

In the Forbidden Building records, he was a Maintenance Position sample, and recovery was incomplete.

And now, the first level of the White Tower was telling them that what Lin Shoushan had been replaced with twenty years ago was actually his Qualification to Go Home.

Chen Ye swallowed hard.

"Brother Jin, shall we link and read?"

Lin Jin looked at the second storage box.

"No rush."

The White Tower's lights flickered gently.

[Reading associated items simultaneously can reduce the difficulty of understanding.]

[Reading separately may lead to incomplete information.]

Zhou Heng said coldly:

"The more it urges us, the less we should do as it says."

Shen Tingxue nodded.

"Linked reading might let the Supplementary Clause explain instead of the list."

Lin Jin said:

"It might also let Lin Shoushan's residual image speak first."

As soon as these words were spoken, Chen Ye sat up straight.

They had just verified it.

The more a reward looks like the answer, the less you should let the person who wants to hear it most read it first.

And you certainly shouldn't let the voice of a relative get ahead of the text.

Lin Jin looked toward the Corroborating Witness Seat.

"Teacher Xu Wenzhou, read the fourth item according to the list first."

Teacher Xu Wenzhou nodded, his face still pale.

"Corroborating Witness Seat recording."

Lin Jin looked at Chen Ye again.

"You continue reading."

Chen Ye took a deep breath.

"Alright."

He looked down at the fourth item in the light book.

Rust spread from the edges of the page inward, like a layer of dried blood, or like the rust on an old wrench.

[Fourth item detailed record]

[Maintenance Position: Lin Shoushan]

[Replaced Content: Qualification to Go Home]

[Recipient: White Tower First Level · No. 9 Outer Perimeter Return Anchor]

[External Confirmer: Lin Shoushan himself]

When Chen Ye read to this point, his voice clearly paused.

Lin Jin closed his eyes for a moment.

Confirmed by himself.

These four words were the most dangerous.

Because it was not like Lu Chengyuan pressing the confirmation for Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue.

Nor was it like Lu Chengyuan rewriting Shen Qingshuang's "currently not allowed to evacuate" into a replacement of evacuation qualifications.

What was written here was that Lin Shoushan himself confirmed it.

The White Tower seemed to be telling Lin Jin:

Your father handed over his Qualification to Go Home himself.

Chen Ye did not look at him, bracing himself to continue reading.

"Confirmation statement excerpt: My Qualification to Go Home, pawned here for now."

The Reading Room was silent for a moment.

Zhou Heng frowned.

"Pawned here for now?"

"Pawning does not equal transferring."

Shen Tingxue immediately followed up.

"And it does not equal permanent replacement."

Lin Jin opened his eyes, his voice low.

"Continue reading the context."

The White Tower's text flickered.

[Context involves No. 9 Outer Perimeter Return Anchor contamination]

[Recommendation: Read by a blood relative of the external confirmer]

Chen Ye slapped the armrest of the Reading Seat.

"Refused!"

"His blood relative will not read it!"

Frost condensed on Shen Tingxue's fingertips.

"Voice sealing takes priority."

Zhou Heng's thunder nail lit up.

"Reading rights follow the protocol."

Teacher Xu Wenzhou also said:

"The Corroborating Witness Seat requests to read the preceding text."

A gray light shone on the Corroborating Witness Seat.

[Reading allowed for the Corroborating Witness Seat]

Teacher Xu Wenzhou looked at the light book and slowly read the follow-up.

"When the first level of the White Tower ends, the team receives evacuation qualifications and a Return Anchor."

"Due to a dispute over the evacuation qualification of the ice-type Lockdown Role Shen Qingshuang, the first-level Return Anchor is incomplete."

"If the entire team evacuates immediately, the No. 9 Outer Perimeter cold wave will follow the Return Anchor to track the real-world entrance."

"Maintenance Position Lin Shoushan requests to temporarily pawn his personal Return Anchor to seal the No. 9 tracking channel."

Chen Ye was stunned as he listened.

"So he pawned his own Return Anchor?"

Teacher Xu Wenzhou nodded and continued reading.

"White Tower prompt: Pawning the Return Anchor will affect the Maintenance Position's subsequent qualification to return to reality from the No. 9 Outer Perimeter."

"Lin Shoushan confirmed: My Qualification to Go Home, pawned here for now."

"Lu Chengyuan ruled: Maintenance Position Lin Shoushan voluntarily replaced his Qualification to Go Home."

Lin Jin's eyes turned cold suddenly.

It was like this again.

Extracting one sentence again, and then writing a temporary on-site measure as a permanent replacement.

"Pawned here for now."

Was changed to:

Voluntarily replaced Qualification to Go Home.

Chen Ye reacted extremely quickly this time.

"This is wrong!"

"Pawning is pawning, replacing is replacing!"

"He didn't say he didn't want it anymore!"

Shen Tingxue looked at the fourth item record.

"And the premise was to seal the No. 9 tracking channel."

"This wasn't to obtain a White Tower reward."

"It was to prevent contamination from flowing back into reality."

Zhou Heng said coldly:

"Lu Chengyuan turned a temporary handling into a permanent result again."

Lin Jin looked at that line [Recipient: White Tower First Level · No. 9 Outer Perimeter Return Anchor].

He suddenly understood why his father never returned after entering No. 9 three years ago.

Perhaps it wasn't that he didn't want to return.

It was that twenty years ago, the White Tower had already pawned his path home on the first level.

Later, when he entered No. 9 again, this old record was activated.

And so, he had a path in.

But no path back.

Lin Jin's breathing deepened for a moment.

The White Tower lit up immediately.

[Strong associated emotional fluctuations detected in Maintenance Position Lin Jin]

[Apply for linked reading of Lin Shoushan's Supplementary Clause?]

[Prompt: The Supplementary Clause can explain Lin Shoushan's own intentions]

Chen Ye immediately shouted:

"Do not apply!"

Shen Tingxue also said:

"Note the dispute on the fourth item first."

Zhou Heng looked at Lin Jin.

"Stay steady."

Lin Jin let out a low breath.

"I'm steady."

He did not pick up the wrench.

Instead, according to the reward isolation protocol they had already established, he spoke to create a note.

"First, Lin Shoushan did indeed have a confirmation statement about pawning his personal Return Anchor."

"Second, the original statement was 'pawned here for now,' which does not equal permanent replacement."

"Third, the purpose of pawning was to seal the No. 9 Outer Perimeter cold wave from tracking the real-world entrance, not to voluntarily give up the Qualification to Go Home."

"Fourth, Lu Chengyuan rewrote a temporary pawning as a voluntary replacement, which constitutes an overreach of definition."

"Fifth, Lin Shoushan's Qualification to Go Home should be treated as a recoverable object and must not continue to be occupied by the White Tower or the Department of Education."

Chen Ye immediately added:

"Sixth, you are not allowed to use this to trick Lin Jin into going to replace it alone!"

Shen Tingxue continued:

"Seventh, if the subsequent repair of the Return Anchor is involved, no member of the current team may be sacrificed."

Zhou Heng glanced at Lin Jin and said coldly:

"Eighth, Lin Shoushan's Qualification to Go Home does not equal Lin Jin's obligation to enter the Tower."

After these words fell, Lin Jin looked at Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng looked away.

"Don't misunderstand."

"I'm just plugging loopholes in the rules."

Lin Jin nodded.

"Well plugged."

Below the fourth item, a gray-gold note began to generate.

[Lin Shoushan's Qualification to Go Home replacement: Significant definition dispute exists]

[Recoverable object: White Tower First Level · No. 9 Outer Perimeter Return Anchor]

[Lu Chengyuan's definition overreach: Marked]

[Lin Shoushan's personal responsibility: Pending review of the original Supplementary Clause]

The second storage box suddenly emitted a soft sound.

[Conditions for reading the original copy of Lin Shoushan's Supplementary Clause have been met]

[Open?]

This time, Lin Jin did not immediately refuse.

Because a dispute note had already been established for the fourth item, and the original copy of the Supplementary Clause was precisely an important objective for their entry into the White Tower.

But the reading order could not be messed up.

Lin Jin looked at Chen Ye.

"The first sentence is still you."

Chen Ye made a wry face.

"I knew it."

He turned from the first storage box to the second storage box.

Shen Tingxue raised her hand, and ice threads sealed off any sounds that might emerge outside the box opening.

Zhou Heng's thunder nail pinned the edge of the box lock to prevent the external confirmation chain from inserting.

Teacher Xu Wenzhou's Corroborating Witness Seat lit up.

"Corroborating Witness Seat recording: Reading of the original copy of Lin Shoushan's Supplementary Clause begins."

Lin Jin stepped back half a step.

This was a clause left by his father.

So he had to stay far away from the first sentence.

The second storage box opened slowly.

Inside was an old piece of paper.

The edges of the paper had scorch marks, and a rusty screw was pressed on top of it.

The first line on the paper surface lit up.

Chen Ye read:

"Supplementary Clause, first sentence."

"Lin Jin himself is a minor, unawakened, and has not signed any No. 9 Outer Perimeter project documents."

This sentence was exactly the same as the previous preview.

Lin Shoushan's voice did not appear in the Reading Room.

Shen Tingxue's sound-sealing ice layer was stable.

Chen Ye continued to look at the second line.

"Supplementary Clause, second sentence."

"Lin Shoushan entered the No. 9 Forbidden Zone solely to exchange for the suspension of the second-generation observation; it does not constitute future consent by Lin Jin himself."

Lin Jin's eyes moved slightly.

The second sentence was more direct than the first.

It took another slash at the logic Lu Chengyuan had previously used, that "the three-year term expires, and observation automatically restarts."

Chen Ye continued to read.

"Supplementary Clause, third sentence."

"After the suspension period ends, if Lin Jin himself has not signed a confirmation in an adult, sober, and non-pollution-coerced state, the Department of Education shall not restart the second-generation project chain on the grounds of blood relations, professional inclination, paternal transactions, or tool contact."

Zhou Heng said coldly:

"This sentence is ruthless enough."

Shen Tingxue nodded.

"Paternal transactions have also been excluded."

Lin Jin did not speak.

His gaze landed on the words "non-pollution-coerced state."

When his father wrote this, he clearly had already anticipated that the Department of Education would make an issue out of things like contamination, risks, and tool contact.

Chen Ye turned to the next sentence.

But the fourth sentence did not appear immediately.

On the old paper, the rusty screw suddenly turned.

Lin Jin's heart sank slightly.

Shen Tingxue immediately strengthened the sound sealing.

Zhou Heng's thunder nail also lit up.

But this time, there was no voice.

Only a line of small handwritten characters slowly floated onto the paper surface.

The handwriting was the same as what Lin Jin had seen in the old toolbox.

[Fourth sentence, do not let Lin Jin see it first.]

Chen Ye's scalp tingled.

"It wrote it right in front of me."

Lin Jin immediately closed his eyes and stepped back.

"Read."

Chen Ye looked at the content emerging behind that line of text with an ugly expression.

For the first time, his voice carried obvious tension.

"Supplementary Clause, fourth sentence."

"If Lin Jin has already entered the first level of the White Tower, it means the Department of Education is still attempting to restart the old project chain."

"Please have a teammate read it on your behalf, and confirm the following content—"

Chen Ye stopped.

Zhou Heng frowned.

"Continue."

Chen Ye looked up at Lin Jin, his voice dry.

"Lin Shoushan's Qualification to Go Home is not in Lin Shoushan's hands."

"It is not in the hands of the Department of Education."

"And it is not in the hands of the White Tower either."

Lin Jin opened his eyes.

Chen Ye gritted his teeth and read the last line.

"It was pawned by me to the future Rule Maintenance Special Class team."

The floor of the Reading Room shook violently.

Four badges lit up simultaneously.

On the walls of the White Tower, countless characters flowed crazily.

[Legacy ownership change detected]

[Lin Shoushan's Qualification to Go Home recourse right: Binding object updated]

[Binding object: Rule Maintenance Special Class current four-person team]

Chen Ye's eyes widened.

"You've got to be kidding me?"

Zhou Heng's expression darkened suddenly.

Shen Tingxue also raised her head.

Lin Jin finally understood why his father repeatedly warned him not to read it first, not to speak first.

Because this was not a path left for Lin Jin alone.

This was a right of recourse left to the team.

But the next second, the White Tower displayed a new judgment.

[Recourse right activated]

[Please choose, current team: Do you want to immediately enter the No. 9 Outer Perimeter Return Anchor and attempt to retrieve Lin Shoushan's Qualification to Go Home?]

[Prompt: If refused, this White Tower first-level real reward settlement will close this recourse entrance.]