Two Probes

That night, Feng Xue once again climbed out of his dormitory and came to the Teaching Building adorned with corpses and bones. After these few days of student life, he vaguely sensed some problems here.

Unfortunately, this wasn't his original world. Confined to the school and unable to connect to the internet, he couldn't check the network of this world to see if such a well-equipped high school existed around 2001 and what had happened there.

Feng Xue went straight to the Copy Room and saw the stacks of Exam Paper again. However, this time he wasn't there to print the papers, but to make a mark (pointing out the mark).

He attached seeds of Gu Poison Body to the Exam Paper one by one. Although marking so many Exam Paper would consume a lot of Internal Force, as Martial World Myth with the characteristic of "playing the Erhu at full strength", Feng Xue did not value his internal Internal Force reserves much. Even if he only had 10% of his strength left, his Nine Deaths Undying Body, Six Immortal Method, and Xuanjun Secret Scripture would be enough to make up for it. If all else failed, he could just pilot a Gundam.

After marking all the Exam Paper in the Copy Room, Feng Xue went to the senior high school faculty office.

That's what they say, but there are quite a few offices. Although the security doors are quite sturdy, under the skill of Grandmaster Feng Xuewu, even the most complicated locks are no more than a few hairs' breadth away.

The moment Feng Xue opened the office door, her brows furrowed; what she saw was a strong sense of distortion.

There was no blood, flesh, or piles of bones, but the environment inside the office seemed to possess a natural distortion. To put it another way, it was like the scene one would see after drinking three kilograms of vodka and spinning upside down three hundred times.

The desk seemed to stretch infinitely, the chair was excessively tall, and as for the Phantom Object...

Looking at the distorted room, Feng Xue ultimately did not step inside, but merely glanced around from afar. Even so, he still managed to glean quite a few [Element], as well as a "normal" ballpoint pen placed on the desk that seemed out of place in the distorted world.

Name: Phantom Object - Sharp Ballpoint Pen

Elements: [Stationery], [Danger], [Weapon], [Sharp], [Ballpoint Pen]

Description: A ballpoint pen that can be found anywhere, but for some reason, the nib is exceptionally sharp. Please handle it with care.

Note: Have you ever looked at a ballpoint pen and thought about sticking it into someone's eye?

"I think I roughly understand what's going on."

Silently closing the office door, Feng Xue went straight up the stairs to the second floor. Compared to the special pressure of the negative state on the first floor, although the second floor still brought fatigue, headache, and sore eyes, it was much lighter. In fact, Feng Xue, who had just come up from the first floor, almost didn't feel them anymore.

His gaze swept across the classrooms, but he found no trace of the Phantom Object, which surprised him slightly.

He found the faculty office with practiced ease, unlocked the Door Lock, and found it much more normal this time. However, the moment Feng Xue stepped into the office, he felt as if he had shrunk several sizes.

"No, that's not right. It's not that I shrunk, it's that the whole room expanded!"

Looking at the desk, which was now taller than him, Feng Xue used his light-footed skill to leap onto it. Then, he saw the Phantom Object again— the Phantom Object.

Name: Phantom Object - Sealed Table

Elements: [Seal], [Storage], [Table], [Authority]

Synopsis: A desk belonging to a high school sophomore homeroom teacher. The desk drawers are filled with all sorts of trinkets confiscated from students, most of which seem destined never to return to their owners.

Note: Have you ever thought about sneaking into your teacher's office to retrieve your lost treasure?

"It seems my thinking was correct."

Feng Xue stared blankly at the desk and shook her head slightly.

Just then, soft footsteps came from the corridor. The sound was almost imperceptible, but perhaps because the office had the function of amplifying external sounds, the sound was particularly clear to Feng Xue's ears.

Immediately jumping off the desk, Feng Xue walked a few steps to the door, closed the office door, and entered a state of Breath Concealment. As Feng Xue silently suppressed her presence, the footsteps grew closer and closer.

The beam of a flashlight shone from afar in the corridor, casually sweeping across both sides. A seemingly normal security guard walked calmly through the Teaching Building, which resembled the entrails of a demon, creating a strong sense of unreality.

"Is this security guard part of the Teaching Building, or is this Teaching Building the type that 'doesn't seem out of place while on duty'? Students don't notice anything unusual during the day, and the security guard doesn't notice anything wrong at night?"

Feng Xue quickly considered several possibilities, but she didn't intend to confront the security guard head-on. Instead, she used her movement skills to stay at a distance behind him.

Using her Golden Finger, Feng Xue could confirm that the other party did not possess Phantom Object. Under these circumstances, it would be virtually impossible for them to see through Feng Xue's tracking.

Of course, if the Teaching Building itself is sentient, that's another story, but if it really was sentient, it would have been exposed last night, and wouldn't have waited until today.

At three in the morning, Feng Xue returned to his dormitory and sighed helplessly. The security guards did not patrol the hidden rooms or secret treasure vaults as he had expected, which made him slightly disappointed.

However, having achieved his main goal for the day, he took out a photocopier, computer, switch, and other equipment, wrapped it in Santa's Wrapping Cloth, and photocopied another stack of Exam Paper. After confirming that they still hadn't turned into Phantom Object, he officially confirmed that whether or not the Exam Paper could be printed was unrelated to time.

"The conditions are almost all in place. Next, we just need to wait for the exam this weekend and then track down the progress of the Exam Paper."

Thinking this, Feng Xue tidied up the items that shouldn't be in the dormitory, lay back down on the bed, and decided that today was another day without the Long Neck Ghost, but she didn't miss him.

Feng Xue thought she had completed 80% of her exploration of this Ghost School, and was only one crucial step away from cracking its overall operating mechanism. However, all of this was shattered on Tuesday morning.

Because during morning reading that day, the homeroom teacher brought a student into the classroom, temporarily interrupting the English teacher who was teaching during the morning reading time, and said to the students:

"Starting today, our class will have a new member. He had some things to do the past two days, so he was late in registering. I hope everyone can get along well."

After speaking, the homeroom teacher turned to the student who had followed him in and said:

"Please introduce yourself."

Hearing the teacher's words, the student stepped forward, a shy smile on his face, and said to the class:

"Hello everyone, my name is Lin Shu..."