What a Long Last Name!

Yaochuan Guang immediately understood what the alien homeroom teacher meant. "Oh! I get it! The ones behind it must be the old butler and the head maid! That's how it always goes in movies!"

Indeed, movies often had similar plot devices.

Put nicely, it was called subverting expectations. Put bluntly, it was deliberately misleading the audience for the sake of suspense.

The first person to use this technique could leave people amazed, but once everyone started using it, it only became more and more clichéd and boring.

At the start of the movie, they ruled out this person and that person, then investigated everyone else one by one, only to reveal at the end—

Wow! The culprit was actually that person they ruled out at the very beginning.

Like in those snowbound manor mysteries, where the "first victim" in that sort of setting had merely faked their death.

Such a cliché made Lantian Zhu and Cong Yu look at Yaochuan Guang as if they wanted to say something but held themselves back.

Xiao Cui and Alya, meanwhile, did not understand what was wrong with Yaochuan Guang's joke, so they had no particular reaction.

Although the alien homeroom teacher did not quite get Yaochuan Guang's reference, she could still answer based on its surface meaning. "No."

Yaochuan Guang blinked and pressed on. "Why not? What if whoever dug this secret passage gave them some kind of benefit?"

As Yaochuan Guang spoke, she watched Cong Yu lift the tapestry, revealing an uneven secret passage inside, though one wide enough to pass through while bent over.

The alien homeroom teacher's answer was simple, and her expression was even one of surprise. "A benefit from someone else? It probably wouldn't even amount to a fraction of their salary... No."

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