The Underground Office

The so-called "free activity time" means exactly what it says.

Apart from his normal lectures and occasional free time, Hogney Zed will be completely confined within this closed teaching building. The school will provide for his meals, experiments, and all life necessities as much as possible.

"His outdoor time is strictly limited. Is the academy treating him like a usable 'prisoner'? Just how dangerous is this guy to force the administration to make such a decision?"

Yi Chen sensed more danger hidden within Teacher Zed, but he felt no fear or desire to escape. Instead, he grew more curious and excited about the physical training.

Because in class, he had personally witnessed Teacher Zed dissect almost every part of his body, even displaying his internal organs... Actions that should have killed him a hundred times over were like child's play to Zed.

And, He seemed to possess "super-fast, targeted self-healing." For example, any cut body part would heal immediately after it was no longer needed for display. As for the parts that needed to remain exposed, he would keep the wounds open, and could even proactively stop blood flow and interfere with circulation.

Every inch of his body was completely under his control. If he could learn something real from Zed, it would greatly help his physical growth.

Before following Zed to his 'office,' Yi Chen looked at the classroom filled with corpses. "What about these bodies?"

"Don't worry. Their purpose was to be used for class. Their bodies have been injected with special preservatives, with a shelf life of three months or more. Since they'll be needed for next week's class, just leave them in the classroom."

"Got it."

Yi Chen followed Zed down the narrow stairs of the sealed teaching building... The stairs even extended below the first floor, leading further down.

Click He opened a hidden door. Below it, there was actually a small elevator leading even deeper.

"We're going down further?"

"That's right~ Ever since I got into trouble, my title was stripped, and my original office was renovated. The people in the academy specially customized an underground office for me."

"Mr. Zed, were you a professor at the academy before?"

"I barely qualified as an associate professor. I'm not very good at socializing or writing... In fact, I don't really like teaching students. It's just that when I demonstrate and cut up my own body in front of you newcomers, seeing your astonishment gives me a kind of mental satisfaction. It might have a lot to do with the peculiar structure of my hypothalamus. That's why I chose to teach here."

"Oh..."

Hearing this, Yi Chen roughly understood what the "quirk" was... Of course, 'displaying his body' might just be one of his quirks.

While riding the elevator, Yi Chen subtly glanced at the black cloth covering Zed's eyes. From the details during class, he could roughly tell that Teacher Zed had issues with his eyes. Yi Chen was quite curious how a gentleman like Zed, with such powerful self-healing abilities, could be blind... Even if his eyes were damaged, couldn't his self-healing fix them?

However, it would be better to ask about such sensitive matters after they got to know each other better.

Just then, Little Grape's voice chimed in:

"His [eyes] were stripped away."

"Stripped away? Can't he self-heal?"

"I can't sense the concept of [eyes] from him. It's a completely different concept from damaged or missing eyeballs... It's as if, on a fundamental biological level, the organ 'eyeball' doesn't exist for him. Naturally, he can't self-heal, and there's no way to repair it. However, judging by this human's daily actions, he's long been accustomed to living without eyes, and his other senses can completely substitute for visual observation."

"Is it congenital?"

"It might be... or it might have been conceptually stripped away while exploring the Gray Zone."

"I see."

Clang!

The elevator descended to the lowest level.

Before them was only a narrow, arched passage, barely wide enough for one adult to pass through.

At the end of the passage was a fully sealed iron door with no windows, equipped with a hydraulic valve.

A clock-like timer was also embedded in the door, with only one minute remaining.

Every time Teacher Zed went out, the clock would start timing. If he failed to return before the timer ran out, the entire teaching building would sound the alarm, and a large number of gentlemen would rush to capture and suppress Teacher Zed. If he was found to have escaped maliciously, he would also be executed.

Buzz! The iron door opened.

Teacher Zed rushed into his office in the last few seconds.

The hydraulic valve turned, and three cylindrical locking mechanisms extended from the two-meter-thick iron door, embedding themselves into the walls and completely securing it.

As the door closed, Yi Chen felt completely cut off from the outside world.

The office interior was quite spacious, with multiple rooms for Teacher Zed's daily life, storage, corpse storage, personal experiments, and some rooms whose purpose was unknown.

However, each room was equipped with a "Surveillance Living Eye."

That's right, it was a living eyeball, with a large number of nerves connected to its tail, hanging in the corner of the room, constantly monitoring everything within Teacher Zed's office. If any needs arose, one only had to signal the eyeball, and after some time, staff would come down to inquire about the specifics.

This isn't an office, it's practically a high-class private prison.

Just how dangerous is this Teacher Zed, or what terrible things has he done, to warrant this kind of underground prison with 24/7 surveillance?

Weirsterman Teaching Building, Upper Level - Monitoring Room

This was a room filled with a large amount of brain tissue and neural connections, and also "installed" with numerous zombie heads. These heads were produced from the organization's cemeteries and were products of zombies with well-developed brains. A "data port" was smashed into the back of their skulls, and neural connections were inserted. The other end of the connections corresponded to the "surveillance eyeballs" in every corner of the teaching building. The staff in the monitoring room only needed to use a magnifying glass to observe the eyeballs of the zombie heads to get real-time "surveillance footage" from their pupils.

Such "improper" areas would never appear on the surface of Zion.

Gulp~

Professor Chamberson had arrived here an hour ago, with only one purpose: to see if there were any problems with Yi Chen's first meeting with Hogney Zed. Upon learning of Yi Chen's excellent performance in class, and seeing from the surveillance footage that the two were getting along harmoniously on the elevator and heading to the office, he was mostly relieved.

"It's quite rare for Professor Chamberson to be paying attention to a freshman, and even more so to introduce this freshman to that perverted Zed. I'm a bit curious, could you tell me the reason?"

The person asking was the head of the monitoring area—a tall lady, wearing high heels, a black evening gown, and a mask with the pattern of a "Dark Gold Brain."

"Zed's talent in the physical realm is unmatched in the entire academy... My student's profession is related to Intellect, but he also wants to develop his Physique. I agree with his idea, but to reach the extreme in multiple attributes, one must seek the best guide. That's the reason."

The supervisor retorted, "Is it okay even if he might die in the process and a valuable talent is lost?"

"Dying at Zed's hands is much better than dying outside..."

"Interesting. I'll pay a little more attention to this student and try my best to prevent his death."

"Thank you, Ms. Aurelia."

It's the weekend today, Little Afei just got discharged from the hospital, so I'll take him out to play. I'll only update once.

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