Master of Kaidan-Chapter 539: Exploration

"Knock, knock, knock..."

The door to the office was knocked, and the teachers busy labeling papers were too lazy to get up, immediately saying,

"Come in, the door’s not locked."

However, no one entered.

Only the continued "knock, knock, knock"...

Playing pranks by knocking on doors is a very common form of mischief, but the problem was, daring to play such a prank on a teacher’s office door was truly unparalleled.

"Knock, knock, knock..."

Perhaps genuinely annoyed by the disturbance, finally, a teacher stood up, angrily walked towards the door, but didn’t open it immediately, just stood behind it, silently waiting.

"Knock..."

As soon as the knocking stopped, he abruptly opened the door, but to his surprise, there seemed to be nothing outside.

He stuck his head out, looking left and right, but saw no trace of any students, and the nearest doors on both sides of the teacher’s office were seven to eight meters away, with a wall directly across, nowhere in sight that could hide a person instantly.

The scenario, which started as a prank, had taken a turn straight onto a horror movie set, however...

This room, too, was filled with ghosts!

"Don’t know which idiot knocked on the wrong door! If I catch them, expulsion is a must!"

The teacher grumbled as he walked back into the office, another colleague glanced at him and said:

"Don’t slack off, get back to work!"

"Got it, got it!"

The teacher turned and shut the door behind him, but no one noticed a cardboard box sneakily following him into the office.

...

"Can’t really let my guard down!"

Hunched in the cardboard box and peering through two small holes to observe the office, Feng Xue felt a sharp pain all over. His previous "Open Mouth and Close Eyes" had avoided a death once, but the power of this phantom test paper seemed to be constantly active. If it weren’t for the fact that Feng Xue wasn’t actually human, capable of evading many powers that could lead to human death, he could’ve been looking for a hidden place by now, responding to the descent rule while layering armor—

As odd as it sounded, as long as the armor’s production speed surpassed the exploding speed, he could continue "Open Mouth and Close Eyes."

And this coffin board, being an infinite material, meant that as long as no one interfered, he could keep layering armor till the end of time.

"I’ve got it!"

Suddenly, Feng Xue’s gaze focused on a stack of comprehensive science test papers and he immediately stepped over with tiny, quick steps.

...

"Did you finish marking this morning’s papers? How did they do?" A teacher labeling papers casually started a chat, and upon hearing it, a colleague smirked and said:

"What else can you expect? A bunch of kids went crazy during summer break, uh, where’s this smoke coming from?"

"Is there a fire?"

Almost as soon as the question was uttered, the whole office suddenly became shrouded in Fog. Smoke detectors located on the ceiling immediately set off a beeping alarm, and right after, a large amount of water sprayed down from above, turning the office into absolute chaos.

Taking advantage of the pandemonium, Feng Xue had already slipped a stack of comprehensive science test papers into a cardboard box, and now she was squatting next to the desk, looking for her own paper.

Although they had been scribbled on, it wasn’t difficult to find her paper based on her own handwriting. Feng Xue quickly found her own, and looking at the content of her answers, she broke out in a cold sweat—

"Thank goodness the basic unit of my body is a protein-like substance, otherwise with these biology questions, I can’t bear to imagine what I’d turn into."

Feng Xue took out her pen, activated her rarely used "Revision" Power, and all the calculation-related questions were immediately erased, and the severe pain that had been tormenting her since handing in the paper finally disappeared.

"But if the score is too low and triggers a punishment, that would be quite troublesome... Hmm, this should work!" Feng Xue re-evaluated the questions and then began to re-answer them.

This time, however, she only wrote down the formulas without calculating the final results, replacing all the data with symbols. This way, she might not get full marks, but she could secure the marks for the process.

As she wrote swiftly, the smoke detectors in the office finally stopped, and the teachers who had previously rushed out had now returned to the classroom.

Seeing this, Feng Xue immediately put the test paper back on the desk, grabbed the cardboard box, and sneaked out of the office...

...

"We need to learn from this lesson, in the future, I have to create something like a ’Shape Replacement’ or a ’Substitute Doll’ to bear the Curse for me."

Muttering to herself, Feng Xue neatly packed the cardboard box and returned to her dorm to wait for the bed checks—

Although she had tried to completely hide her dorm room using the "Hermit" and "Hard to Understand" Powers to avoid the checks, it seemed the dorm matron had some kind of connection with the dormitory. Even with the Powers interfering, she was still able to knock on the door for the checks.

Don’t assume that because Feng Xue had succeeded with a bribe the day before yesterday that it was all smooth sailing; that was just a minor convenience within her duties. However, once it comes to "work," these school staff members would all become uncompromising.

"Click!" At midnight, the lights in the dorm suddenly went out, and the whole dormitory building plunged into dead Silence. Feng Xue re-applied her Power to her dorm, then cautiously moved to the window.

"Good, it looks like the Long-necked Ghost hasn’t quickly recovered from its psychological shadow." Using eyes coated with Cow Tears eye cream to look around, once she confirmed there was no Ghost lurking outside, Feng Xue immediately began to switch her Equipment.

Over the Saint Seiya Training Suit, which served as Inner Armor, Feng Xue donned the Phantom of the Opera evening gown, slowly being replaced by the Hermit Power, then stepped into the Silent Boots and leapt out the window.

The night campus felt completely different from the daytime, the chilly wind carrying an unsettling calmness. In the distance, where the teaching buildings should have been completely dark, there was a faint green light flashing.

Next door, the girls’ dormitory lights were also out, but Feng Xue could faintly detect several reflections. She wasn’t sure if they were related to "dormitory peeping" Kaidan or some players investigating in the middle of the night.

Ignoring these reflections, which could be from scopes or binoculars, Feng Xue pulled on her cloak, and her whole person instantly entered the shadow-leaping state, merging with the muted night.

Going out late at night wasn’t a spontaneous decision. In fact, as soon as she saw that magical test paper, Feng Xue had the idea to investigate.

Having only been at the school for two days, Feng Xue had already explored everywhere under the guise of being a new student, but throughout the process, she hadn’t seen a single magical item, nor had she encountered any entities with elements.

But today, she had seen test papers that could be distributed to every student. This made her start to wonder where these papers came from.

If they were generated by a Kaidan, where was that Kaidan located?

If they were prepared by some Power and stored here, where was the Storage place?

Since Feng Xue hadn’t found any traces during the day, she could only search for clues at night!

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