Exploration

"Tap tap tap..."

There was a knock on the office door. The teachers, who were busy with the paperwork, were too lazy to get up and immediately said:

"Come in, the door's unlocked."

However, no one answered the door.

Only the continuous "thump thump thump"...

Knocking on doors as a prank is a common form of prank, but the problem is that someone who dares to knock on a teacher's office door as a prank is extremely rare.

"Tap tap tap..."

Perhaps truly fed up with the noise, one of the teachers finally stood up and walked angrily toward the door, but did not open it immediately; instead, he stood behind the door and waited quietly.

"Thud..."

The knock had barely finished when he flung the door open, only to find, to his surprise, that there was nothing there.

He peeked out and looked around, but saw no students. The nearest doors to the teachers' office were seven or eight meters away, and there was a wall opposite them. There seemed to be nowhere to hide in an instant.

The scene, originally a prank, First Turn to a horror movie set, but...

This room is full of ghosts too!

"I don't know which idiot knocked on the wrong door! If I catch him, I'll fire him!"

The teacher walked into the office muttering to himself, and the teacher next to him rolled his eyes at him and said:

"Stop slacking off, get to work!"

"Okay, okay!"

The teacher turned and closed the door behind him, but no one noticed that a cardboard box was following him and slipping into the office.

"We really can't be careless!"

Crouching inside the cardboard box, peering through two small holes into the office, Feng Xue felt excruciating pain all over his body. His earlier Open Mouth, Close Eyes had averted death once, but the power of this Phantom Object Exam Paper seemed to be continuous. If Feng Xue weren't not fundamentally human, capable of avoiding many forces that would kill a human, he might already be in a secluded spot, simultaneously responding to the Descent Rule and Stack Armor.

It sounds strange, but as long as the armor is made faster than it explodes, he can keep his mouth open and his eyes closed indefinitely.

And the fact that Coffin board are an infinite material means that as long as no one interferes, he can Stack Armor indefinitely.

"Got it!"

Suddenly, Feng Xue's gaze fell on a stack of science exam papers, and she immediately took small steps toward it.

"Have the papers from this morning been graded yet? How did they go?" A teacher, who was announcing the papers, chatted casually. A colleague nearby, upon hearing this, pursed his lips and said:

"What else could it be? A bunch of kids have been having a blast this summer. Uh, where did that cigarette come from?"

"Fire?"

Almost at the same time the question was raised, the entire office was suddenly enveloped in thick fog. The smoke detectors on the roof immediately started beeping, followed by a large amount of water spraying down from the roof, causing chaos throughout the office.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Feng Xue had already stuffed a stack of science exam papers into a cardboard box, and then lay down next to the desk to start looking for her own papers.

Although her name had been blurred out, finding the exam paper by her own handwriting wasn't difficult. Feng Xue quickly found hers, and upon seeing her answers, Feng Xue broke out in a cold sweat.

"Luckily, the basic building blocks of my body are suspected to be proteins, otherwise, given this pile of biology questions, I really don't want to imagine what I would have turned into."

Feng Xue drew out the Ouija board and activated her rarely used [Revision] power. All the questions involving calculations were instantly cleared, and the excruciating pain that had been tormenting her ever since she handed in the paper finally disappeared.

"But it would be troublesome if the score was too low and a penalty was triggered... Hmm, this should work!" Feng Xue re-examined the question and then began to answer it again.

This time, however, he only wrote down the formulas but did not calculate the final result. He wrote all the data as symbols. Although he certainly wouldn't get full marks, he could still get points for the process.

As the teacher wielded the pen with lightning speed, the smoke detector in the office finally stopped working, and the teacher who had rushed out earlier returned to the classroom.

Upon seeing this, Feng Xue immediately put the exam paper back on the table, picked up the cardboard box, and quietly left the office...

"We must learn from this lesson and in the future, we need to create a 'Decoy Doll' or some other kind of Phantom Object to bear the curse."

Feng Xue muttered to herself as she packed up the cardboard box and returned to her dormitory to wait for room check.

Although he tried to completely hide his dormitory using the powers of [Hermit] and [Incomprehensible] to avoid room checks, the dormitory supervisor seemed to have some kind of connection with the dormitory. Even with the interference of her powers, she was still able to knock on the Room Door and conduct room checks smoothly.

Don't be fooled by Feng Xue's successful bribery the day before yesterday; that was just a small favor within her authority. When it comes to "work," these faculty and staff members become ruthless and impartial.

"Snap!" At midnight, the lights in the dormitory suddenly went out, and the entire dormitory building fell into a deathly silence. Feng Xue put the power back on in her dormitory and then carefully went to the window.

"Good, it seems the Long Neck Ghost's psychological trauma won't heal so quickly." After looking around with eyes smeared with Ox Tear Eye Cream to confirm that there were no ghosts lurking outside the window, Feng Xue immediately began to change her equipment.

Over the Saint Seiya Training Suit that served as her inner armor, Feng Xue donned the Phantom of the Opera evening gown, which had been gradually replaced by the Hermit Authority, before stepping out of the window in her Boots of Silence.

The campus at night feels completely different from during the day. A chilly wind carries an unsettling stillness, and in the distance, in the Teaching Building that should be completely dark, there is a faint green light flickering.

The girls' dormitory building next door had already Lights Out, but Feng Xue could faintly detect several reflections. She wondered if they were some kind of school Weird Tale about "dormitory voyeurs" or some players gathering intelligence in the middle of the night.

Ignoring the reflections, whether from a scope or a telescope, Feng Xue yanked off her cloak, instantly entering a state of shadowy movement, blending into the tranquil night.

The evening outing was not a spur-of-the-moment decision. In fact, Feng Xue had the idea to investigate it as soon as she saw the Phantom Object Exam Paper.

Although he had only been in the school for two days, Feng Xue had already explored the area as a freshman. However, he did not see any Phantom Object or even any individual elements.

But today, he saw Phantom Object that could give each student a set of Exam Paper, which made him start to wonder where these Exam Paper came from.

If they are generated by Weird Tale, where are the Weird Tale that generated them?

If it was made and stored here by some force, then where is it stored?

Since Feng Xue found no trace during the day, the only clues could be found at night!