1. The Inverted Tree's Classroom Horrors
The black pear tree's downward branches pierced through reality itself, each blossom revealing increasingly disturbing scenes:
Tier 1 Blossoms (Basic Training)
Showed children being tested with needles made of their own frozen screams
The "passing" students developed pear blossom scars where they broke cleanest
Tier 2 Blossoms (Intermediate Conditioning)
Revealed Bai Yu's prototype strapped to the laughter engine:
His ribs spread open like a puppet stage
Forced to perform until humor became a reflex action
Tier 3 Blossoms (Advanced Fracturing)
The 7th undergoing silence quantization:
Her vocal cords replaced with silver strings
Each attempt to speak played nursery rhyme commands
The Tree's True Nature
Its roots weren't feeding on soil - they were:
Suckling from time fractures
Drawing up forgotten failures as nutrients
Leaving chalk dust residues in reality's cracks
2. Petrified Oracle's Dark Prophecies
Bai Yu's stone form developed alarming new features:
Stopwatch Transformation
The negative numbers (-13:00) now appeared as:
Tiny scars circling the dial
Each representing a failed cultivation era
The hands moved backwards when:
Lin Feng's primer fluid dripped near it
Nurse-dolls performed assessment rituals
Rubber Chicken Quark's Evolution
Its spasms now produced:
Actual prophecies in squeaky tones:
"When the thirteenth scar completes...
...the first student becomes the final lesson."
Blood-red rubber chunks that:
Formed answer keys when assembled
Smelled of disinfectant and pears
Most Chilling Vision
Showed the facility's true original form:
Not a building, but a massive whetstone wheel
With thirteen grooves for grinding down children
Powered by liquid mnemonics pumped through veins
3. Primer Fluid's Memory Unlocking
Lin Feng's biological changes accelerated:
Bone Marrow Production
Now yielding three fluid types:
Black Primer: Standard memory-softening agent
Red Ink: Concentrated pain signals
Clear Solvent: Pure forgetting essence
Chalk Growth Patterns
Elbow nodules formed lesson plan tables
Spinal vertebrae developed syllabus engravings
His left pinky (lost to editing) regrew as a grade-stamping tool
Involuntary Writing Samples
His tear-ink produced:
Pop quizzes about events not yet experienced
Essay questions demanding self-criticism
Grading rubrics that changed mid-evaluation
4. Nurse-Dolls' Quality Control
Their assessment protocols became terrifyingly precise:
Fracture Grading System
Grade A Breaks: Clean fractures (became cultivators)
Grade B Breaks: Jagged edges (repurposed as whetstones)
Grade C Breaks: Powdered remains (became mnemonic ink)
New Collection Behavior
Harvesting Lin Feng's chalk flakes for:
Standardized testing booklets
Answer key formulation
Preserving Bai Yu's rubber prophecies as:
Curriculum adjustment guides
Temporal alignment markers
Shocking Discovery
The mosaic whetstone's grooves:
Matched the Tome's binding pattern
Contained microsculptures of:
Current personas mid-breakage
Previous generations' final moments
5. The First Scribe's Final Joke
The self-writing quill's revelations:
Autonomous Writing Samples
On Lin Feng's arm:
"Extra Credit:
Calculate how many selves must be lost
to find the equation's missing variable."
On black pear leaves:
"Show Your Work:
Trace the veins in your primer fluid
to their first fracture point."
Ultimate Realization
The quill wasn't writing lessons...
...it was writing its own autobiography:
Each stroke chronicled:
How it taught the first scribe
How the scribe became it
How they trapped the facility in the Tome
Cliffhanger
As the quill finished its last sentence:
The black pear tree uprooted itself
Its branches formed a cage around Lin Feng
From its roots emerged thirteen petrified children...
...each holding a different version of the quill