School Hell

The black sphere is a byproduct of Feng Xue's failed attempt to create Phantom Object using her cheat Golden Finger. It is a special substance that can only exist in the Infinite City environment. Although it has the characteristic of evaporating in the real world like False Thing, it cannot exist in reality through observation and cognition like a False Thing.

The reason for this is that the Infinite City itself is an environment rich in free-floating consciousness.

This is also why the [consciousness] required for survival in the Infinite City is only one ten-thousandth of that in the Real World.

To put it simply, in a supersaturated solution, the added solute will not dissolve.

However, at this moment, these black spheres did not evaporate directly as normal. Instead, they gradually spread out like oily fried chicken pieces falling onto absorbent paper.

This scene was not unfamiliar to Feng Xue, because he had done something similar several years ago.

However, at that time, what was stained by the black sphere was not Paper Scraps, but corpses.

Back then, Chen Xiyao's Gold Water acted as a catalyst, but now, the mosaic tiles filling the entire room have begun to surge wildly.

The roots, which had been slowly wriggling like internal organs, suddenly began to twitch wildly, as if they had been fitted with an eccentric vibrating motor.

That scene, even if filmed, wouldn't be allowed to be broadcast!

Feng Xue forcibly suppressed the urge to take out her Gynomorphic Filter and observe the objects, instead tossing packets of black balls into the sand table.

He had been in the game for several years, accumulating countless black balls. Now, in order to verify that possibility, he poured out all his reserves at once.

The school model, almost entirely covered by the black sphere, began to vibrate along with the tentacles, and cracks of all sizes began to appear on the structure that had been maintaining the building's shape.

Immediately afterwards, the ground beneath their feet trembled as if the model was transmitting everything happening to the entire school.

However, Feng Xue's attention was not on this at all. His gaze was fixed on the mosaic that rolled like a black cloud. It kept rolling and twisting, with characters floating and sinking in it, so fast that it was almost like it was murdering his eyes.

Seeing that the black ball and the False Thing stockpile had all been thrown out, the mosaic only rolled more fiercely. Feng Xue's expression was slightly unpleasant. Although the size of this Omen far exceeded the total number of Omen he had seen since his debut, he still did not expect that his stockpile would not even make a ripple.

The massive amount of mosaic is still churning, and the school model in the sand table has lost its original appearance. Now it looks more like a living thing pieced together from some kind of deformed flesh, with only a rough shape and a trace of the Teaching Building still visible.

"If only I could add fuel to the fire." Looking at the churning black clouds, Feng Xue had a death urge to throw firecrackers into the biogas digester.

The idea is good, but the Supernatural Tale Fire," though called a flame, is essentially the same as "Heart Fire"—it's just a descriptive term. It's called that because the Trait appears as a flame in Weird Tale; it can't actually be used for attacks and has no temperature whatsoever.

But...

"Supernaturalized, then why not try a different approach?"

As the idea of Supernatural Tale Fire arose, Feng Xue suddenly had a flash of Spiritual Light, just like Conan who had been shot in the back of the head by a laser sniper rifle, and felt a sense of clarity in her mind.

However, he immediately frowned, because what he was about to do could very well irreversibly damage this precious sample.

But soon, he laughed again.

Anyway, this school isn't his. There are plenty of similar challenges in this world. Even if it gets damaged, it won't necessarily mean the research has to stop.

With that thought in mind, Feng Xue immediately made up his mind. After confirming that the adaptability function of the 22nd-century toy was still activated and that there was still plenty of time to run, he finally reached out his hand.

Although separated by the Kamen Rider armor, the excellent toys of the 22nd century still provided Feng Xue with a remarkably realistic visual experience. The sensation of pressing against slippery, greasy pork fat made him slightly uncomfortable, but he gritted his teeth and activated his power—

[Make the Best Use of Everything] / [Item Master]!

The power to Make the Best Use of Everything most of an object can amplify and conceptualize its characteristics to an incredible degree. For example, it can enhance the vacuum cleaner's ability to "suck up dirt" so that it can even suck up "dirty things" like ghosts.

The Item Master, on the other hand, can temporarily Phantomatization items, giving their abilities a unique "setting above all Phantom Object" priority.

The moment these two powers were activated, the rolling black clouds suddenly paused, and then one by one, characters began to appear, while the remaining mosaics swarmed towards the center of the model like wasps returning to their hive.

The mosaic that Feng Xue had to dribble repeatedly to create a path for was instantly solidified, then compressed and compressed, and then...

"Call!"

There was actually no sound, but in that instant, Feng Xue seemed to hear a hallucination in her mind. Immediately afterward, a murky purple flame, like mud, was ignited, and at the same time, the dark clouds in the sky disappeared without a trace.

The tremors of the earth stopped instantly, and the sand table abruptly returned to its original state. Except for the disappearance of the mosaic tiles, everything seemed to have returned to how it was when Feng Xue first entered the room.

Only...

"Those roots are gone."

Feng Xue looked at the Paper Scraps in the sand table that had disappeared along with the black ball, leaving only an empty plate and the school model, which was much shorter because of the disappearance of the Paper Scraps.

It still looked like the 1:1000 architectural model, but in Feng Xue's eyes, the murky black flames kept flickering. However, unlike the Supernatural Tale Fire ordinary Weird Tale, which could only be roughly observed, Feng Xue discovered that her Golden Finger actually reacted to this Supernatural Tale Fire!

Title: Phantom Object: School Hell

Tag: [World], [School], [High School], [Hell], [Reincarnation], [Creation], [Nurture], [Growth], [Learning], [Rules], [Disguise], [Assimilation]

Synopsis: Among the many campus Weird Tale, there exists the ultimate Weird Tale, called the College Entrance Examination (Gaokao). But what's even more terrifying than the Gaokao is that you're always preparing for it.

This is the ultimate work that brings together all the supernatural Weird Tale of the school, and those who are captured by it will experience endless reincarnation throughout their years of high school.

Note: Welcome to our program.

Those who know the title joke are all old.