Master of Kaidan-Chapter 541

For those test papers bundled up in heaps in the copy room, Feng Xue actually hadn’t taken notice of them, or perhaps he’d already seen what kind of attribute they had during the day.

What really caught his attention was, how these test papers came to be produced.

After all, under the vision of his Golden Finger, other than the test papers in this room, there was nothing else, be it computers, tables, or even copiers, that involved elements of the supernatural, not even a single element.

"It’s truly surprising that items with no elements involved can mass produce phantoms."

Feng Xue squinted his eyes, picked a table that held both the copier and a computer, grabbed some copier paper, and then pulled out Santa’s wrapping cloth from his waist pack to cover both himself and the table.

Standing inside the wrap, Feng Xue carefully pressed down the corners to ensure no light would escape, and then fumbled to turn on the computer.

The computers from 2001 were quite rudimentary or rather simplified, as there was no 360 security software or other rogue software bindings (actually the computers back then couldn’t accommodate so many things), and although the screen resolution and the mouse were a bit uncomfortable, the experience was surprisingly smooth.

Of course, there were no fancy browsers and various games either.

"Wow, Diablo 2 is actually here? According to this version’s timeline, it must have only been released for a year, right?"

While randomly browsing through the computer, Feng Xue saw a familiar icon, his eyes lit up but with willpower, he suppressed the urge to play for a few hours, quickly opened the printer options, and began printing the test papers from the paper library.

Then, as expected, yet unexpectedly, the incident occurred.

Ordinary blank papers went in, and phantom test papers were produced!

"Darn it!"

Feng Xue watched, dumbfounded, as the papers were printed, completely baffled because the entire process involved no elements at all.

If he had to make an analogy, it was almost as if he discovered that deconstructing items in a computer game would cause the computer’s system unit to spit out real gold, which was outrageous.

Stopping the printing activity, Feng Xue immediately began to eliminate the interference factors. Fortunately, he had numerous Powers in hand, first using the Powers of "Cleverly Crafted" and "Seven-orifice Exquisite" to analyze and draw out the designs of the printer and computer, then using the Power of "Follow the Map" to make a one-to-one replica out of coffin wood.

When he connected this outrageously crafted wooden printer to the computer and began the operation, the white papers were once again transformed into phantom test papers.

Next, Feng Xue used the same method to make a computer, a table, and even later tried not using the school’s power supply but instead connecting his own phantom power gate, but the result was the same; as long as it printed test papers, even if he created the questions, they would definitely become phantoms.

"Damn, what on earth is the principle behind this?"

Feng Xue spent most of the night in the copy room, and seeing it was almost five in the morning, he finally stopped his futile effort, packed up his hand-rubbed wooden table, wooden computer, wooden printer, along with all kinds of test papers produced as experimental items, and quickly left the teaching building which was transitioning back from underworld-style to normal.

...

Back in the dormitory, the more Feng Xue thought about it, the more it felt wrong and outrageous. He simply took out the printer and computer again, connected them to the power grid, and started printing, but this time, the papers that came out were incredibly ordinary.

"It doesn’t make sense! Is it because it’s dawn now?"

Feng Xue looked out the window, looking at the emerging light of dawn, but then shook his head again and turned his gaze towards the direction of the teaching building—

Perhaps the crux of the problem wasn’t in the time, but in the location.

"The slogans in the classroom became phantom items, and the test papers printed in the copy room also turned into phantom items. I might have formed a preconceived notion, and the generation of these phantom items might not align with the theory of Infinite City."

Feng Xue repackaged the printer and the computer, sitting quietly on the bed, deep in thought. Some inspiration faintly lingered in his mind, yet he couldn’t grasp it.

"The stimulation from all the phantom items in the house tonight consumed my time in the copy room; I didn’t explore other places. Now, there isn’t enough data to continue the analysis."

Feng Xue silently reflected, but he then thought that if he hadn’t messed with the entire set of printing equipment in the copy room, he also wouldn’t have discovered this peculiar mechanism.

Seeing that the teaching building had shed its Underworld facade decorated with White Bone, Feng Xue started rethinking his tasks for the day.

Besides the mystery of the birth of phantom items, he discovered another problem—

Where do these phantom item test papers eventually go?

Though it might seem meaningless at first glance, upon careful consideration, it makes one furrow their brows because a basic property of phantom items is their nearly indestructible nature when not in attack mode.

Not to mention destroying them, even getting dirty or damaged, they would automatically repair.

So the question arose, with the school producing at least thousands of test papers every week, how would all these phantom items be handled?

It was outrageous that True Objects could produce phantom items, but it wasn’t incomprehensible, considering that even in the trash dumps of Infinite City, there are occasionally natural phantom items from other worlds that appear.

But if ordinary items could destroy phantom items, it wouldn’t just be a matter of understanding—it would completely destroy the foundational operational principle of Kaidan!

Kaidan is a collection of Cognitions, and phantom items are the crystals of fantasy. It is impossible for ordinary items at the level of reality to destroy fantasy. If it were possible, they would certainly not be ordinary items!

Feng Xue felt he had faintly grasped the core of the problem, and simultaneously, his next direction in investigation also surfaced—

Tracing the subsequent whereabouts of the test papers in this school.

"If this school had a phantom item capable of destroying other phantom items, well and good, but..."

Thinking this, Feng Xue shook his head, for with just a few years in the world of Kaidan, he simply couldn’t imagine what circumstances would lead to a True Object without special abilities destroying a phantom item.

"And after all, the very existence of phantom item test papers is strange. Although they are not one-off items, producing them in such large quantities seems pointless. Surely, it can’t just be to trick less than twenty players combined?"

Feng Xue almost scratched his hair into a bird’s nest and still couldn’t find an explanation; even someone with a Golden Finger for creating objects wouldn’t make hundreds of the same phantom item.

Putting aside the matter of expenditure, there was simply no need for it, right?

"According to the grading speed, scores should be out by Wednesday. If this school mimics a real high school, they’ll distribute the papers for review then, and afterwards, the whereabouts of the papers can be tracked."

Having made up his mind, Feng Xue then took out his pocket watch to check the time, which had already turned to six o’clock.

He tidied up his appearance a bit and left the dormitory—

Today was Monday, and there was a flag-raising ceremony to attend!

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