Virus

The license holder is the only offering currently by Yu Xing's side.

The school's structure is too large, making it extremely difficult to forge a fake identity. Moreover, his face is already confined by his identity as Roy, a student, and there hasn't been a suitable opportunity. So, his impersonation license has been gathering dust until now.

Fortunately, it's perfect for fooling those red-armbanded ghosts who skip class.

Similarly, he only decided to play the role of the intern teacher after the girl with the ponytail introduced the Female Ghost. Judging from the importance the fishtail skirt Female Ghost placed on learning and honor, the teachers were the group she could not compete with most in this school.

"What's the problem? I'll tell you whatever you want to know, teacher!" After being helped up, the Female Ghost in the fishtail skirt suddenly realized that her hands were terrifying. She awkwardly tucked her knife-shaped fingers into her wide sleeves, her head lowered so that her face was not visible.

Yu Xing: "Do you know anything about the new..."

"By the way, teacher, if you feel it's inconvenient to talk here, we can go to the dormitory to talk!" The Female Ghost in the fishtail skirt suddenly looked up.

Her voice was really loud. I don't know why, maybe she'd been practicing her speech as an outstanding student representative? Anyway, a sentence that would definitely be misunderstood echoed down the corridor through her loud voice, Yu Xing almost wanted to facepalm in amazement.

It's possible that by tomorrow's class, stories will be circulating about a male teacher sneaking into the girls' dormitory at night—if any of the students currently in the dorm dare to mess with this red-armband-wearing teacher.

The advantage is that as long as Qu Xuanqing isn't asleep or has his ears plugged, he should be able to guess from the words of the red-armbanded Female Ghost that it is him.

Yu Xing didn't want to delve too deeply into whether the Female Ghost had experienced something unpleasant when she was a normal student, which was why her first reaction was to invite the teacher to chat in the dormitory. He glanced at the dormitory doors on both sides, silently waiting for Qu Xuanqing to come out on her own, and casually replied to the Female Ghost in the fishtail skirt, "No need, I think the person I'm looking for already knows I'm here."

"Did you come to see someone, teacher? Teacher, if there's anything I can help you with, I'm happy to. I want to get back to class as soon as possible. Could you perhaps mention it to Director Gene? I haven't forgotten to study while I was in the dorm, and even if I were to take an exam now, I could still do very well!"

Accompanied by the urgent voice of the Female Ghost in the fishtail skirt, a door on Yu Xing's left quietly opened, revealing a crack.

A hand reached out, its long, slender fingers bent, tapping the wall with its knuckles, attracting Yu Xing's attention before withdrawing.

Yu Xing smiled, turned to the Female Ghost in the fishtail skirt, and said, "I'll talk to her tomorrow, but if Director Gene doesn't allow it, there's nothing I can do. I have to go now, remember to follow the school rules and hurry back."

"Thank you! Thank you!" The Female Ghost kept bowing, and then, at Yu Xing's prompting, she reluctantly walked to the dormitory door on the right and finally agreed to go back to her room.

306...

Yu Xing watched the Female Ghost's figure disappear behind the door, memorizing the room number. At least he knew that only the Female Ghost lived in this dormitory, so it was practically empty. In case anything happened, he could come here to take refuge.

Then, he arrived at the dormitory door, which was slightly ajar. The owner of the hand was still peering at him through the crack in the door. Qu Xuanqing's gaze was calm, and the corners of his lips were slightly upturned, giving off an air of watching a good show.

Yu Xing pointed behind Qu Xuanqing, who silently Qu Xuanqing aside and let Yu Xing into the dormitory.

"Intern teacher?" As soon as the door closed, Qu Xuanqing repeated the word in her distinctively cool voice, with a hint of mockery in her tone, "If the hallway isn't convenient, let's chat in the dorm?"

She was wearing a silk nightgown, leaning against the wall with her arms crossed. Both her demeanor and figure were completely out of place among the high school girls at St. Johnis Middle School.

"What? You've been here for two days, don't you know what that ghost's personality is like? What's so funny?" Yu Xing rolled her eyes at her, then noticed that Qu Xuanqing's shirt button was undone, so she looked away and peered into the dormitory. "Where's your roommate?"

"They knocked them out." Qu Xuanqing said coldly, uttering a chilling statement. "I overheard you talking to that thing outside. You knocked out all three of your roommates, and they're not awake now. You can talk to them about anything without worry."

"Well, actually, we were planning to do a dormitory building task tonight. Zhao Yijiu was checking the boys' dorms, and I came to the girls' dorms to check the situation. I didn't expect the two sides to be so different." Yu Xing looked around Qu Xuanqing's dormitory for a while. The size and specifications of the dormitory were the same as the boys' dorms, except that a girl with spider legs was lying on the floor.

The girl had her back to him; her upper body looked perfectly normal, but her lower body resembled a spider in hibernation, with the tips of her legs huddled together.

Seeing Yu Xing staring at the spider legs, Qu Xuanqing explained, "She's the only student in my dorm with a red armband, and she's the kind who's already started to mutate into a monster. Before we went into the dungeon, she wasn't allowed to go to class in the teaching building."

Was she outside just now?

"No, she prefers staying in her dorm room and asking her roommates every day if she looks good."

Yu Xing really couldn't understand what these guys who had mutated from humans into monsters were thinking. Even when he was at his most inhuman, he wasn't mentally challenged.

"... I see. So, have you found anything in the past two days about the reasons for the current situation in the girls' dormitory?"

"Of course, I gained my roommate's trust and managed to get some information out of her." Qu Xuanqing's ability to act and her experience have never been questioned.

"It seems that the girls' dormitory only became like this about half a year ago. Before that, the girls' dormitory was the same as the boys' dormitory. Students who were too alienated could only stay in the dormitory and wait to die. Half a year ago, this situation in the girls' dormitory suddenly increased dramatically, as if they had been infected with some kind of virus."

"Initially, the symptoms of the already mutated red-armband students worsened. Many of the half-monster students who remained in the dormitories died from the mutation within a few days. In contrast, the remaining students who did not die from the mutation became stable monsters that no longer age and decompose on their own. You've seen all of these since you came to the girls' dormitory."

Qu Xuanqing said, "In other words, unless someone uses external force to eliminate them, they will exist in these dormitories forever. However, most of them have their own consciousness and can communicate, so they won't attack each other on sight... For example, that one just now, if you were a girl who could appear in the girls' dormitory, she wouldn't kill you on sight. At least you would have to provoke her like the one who asked about the homework first."