Master of Kaidan-Chapter 545: What’s Behind the Door

In the following days, Feng Xue’s exploration hit a deadlock. Every night he would explore the teaching building transformed into its underworld form, but aside from encountering some phantoms that could also be found during the day, there wasn’t anything worth noting.

Of course, perhaps the very appearance of the underworld was a matter "worth noting", but without uncovering its specific significance, it was hard for him to confirm whether its shape was intended to meet some need or was simply there to add to an atmosphere of mystery, terror, and distortion.

Compared to the nocturnal explorations, his daytime findings were somewhat more fruitful—for instance, he had relived his youth once again.

However, compared to revisiting campus life, his main accomplishment was that he had interacted with all the NPCs within his permitted range.

This complete interaction was not just simple communication, but also included various encompassing inducements, and even involved using a Feminization Filter. Through the filter’s cognition alterations, he sought to evade certain potential cognitive influences.

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In this school, at least the teachers, students, and staff that the second-year students were able to contact, all "did not know" they were ghosts.

In simple terms, it was as if, just like in certain comics or novels, a hypnosis switch had been set, making all things paranormal "ignored", even if someone activated a death rule, others would simply see it as "isn’t that normal?"

It was just like the unfortunate player during the opening ceremony; to Feng Xue, it was clear that the player summoned ghosts, took a few students away, and then was devoured or erased by some power, but to these ghosts, it probably just looked like the principal reprimanding students for not following the rules.

And then...

There was no and then because they had completely forgotten about the incident.

Eliminations within the school could generally be divided into two types: rule-triggered or ghost-initiated. The former was nearly unsolvable; one mere touch could get you erased by some power after only a bit of struggle.

Ghosts acting on their own had much more leeway, like the Long-necked Ghost that Feng Xue encountered earlier—after dumping some kitchen waste into its mouth, it never showed up again.

As for whether these NPC ghosts in the school would take on a ghostly form, Feng Xue didn’t know because he hadn’t gone and gotten himself killed; the only thing certain was that these ghosts possessed "Undying" qualities.

For example, Feng Xue once remotely controlled the No-thought Divine Power to drop a ghost out of the window, and after it flattened like a pancake upon hitting the ground, it just rolled and got up as if nothing had happened, returning to the classroom in the afternoon. Except for the loss of memory related to the fall, there were no changes whatsoever.

He even found it hard to understand how a fall from a two-story building could result in such a pancake transformation.

Time flew by, and another flag-raising ceremony of the week came; Feng Xue didn’t know if any live players were left, but to him, it hardly mattered.

Although he was still sitting in the classroom, Feng Xue’s consciousness was entirely focused on the Poisonous Insect Body Seeds he had planted. Yesterday, the second Sunday after school started, saw another weekly exam, and the test papers stored in the copy room were thoroughly filled out.

Based on the previous week’s experience, those test papers would soon be copied and sent to where they were supposed to go.

And Feng Xue was waiting for this to happen.

As time ticked away, the Poisonous Insect Body Seeds dispersed in the offices began to move. Feng Xue sat in the classroom, pretending to listen attentively, while constructing the school’s three-dimensional structure in his mind.

At this moment, he was glad that it was just a school composed of two dormitory buildings, one three-story teaching building, and a playground with a few minor storage areas around it. If there were more floors, it wouldn’t be that easy for Feng Xue to build the model in his mind.

"Out of the teaching building? No, that’s not right, it went in again... Could there be a basement in the teaching building or perhaps a room that can only be entered from the outside?"

Feng Xue tracked the movement of his Poisonous Insect Body, constantly updating his mental map, and then...

"Gone?"

Feng Xue frowned as he realized that a batch of Poisonous Insect Body Seeds had indeed lost contact.

In the world of the supernatural, it’s quite normal for entities like the crystallization of life force to go missing—being sucked by ghosts or neutralized in a shadowy area were just some of the possibilities.

But the current situation was different because he could clearly feel that these Poisonous Insect Bodies were going missing in batches.

"From another perspective, maybe it’s the test papers that are disappearing in batches."

Feng Xue glanced at the teacher lecturing vigorously on the podium, suppressing the urge to jump out the window to check, remembering the weekly exams were routine. There was no need to rush and possibly trigger a deadly rule.

He toughed it out until evening, then effortlessly snuck out of the dormitory, avoiding the patrolling dorm supervisors and security guards, and followed the path where the Poisonous Insect Body had vanished earlier in the school.

This time he didn’t enter the teaching building directly from the main entrance, but circled around to the side of the building—this was the place where the Poisonous Insect Body Seeds had re-entered the teaching building during the day.

While searching along the wall obscured by trees and weeds, Feng Xue quickly found an iron door that looked like it hadn’t been used for years, covered with the traces of rust, and a large padlock secured with a heavy chain firmly locking it.

Such doors weren’t unusual in schools; even in the school before Feng Xue transversed, such doors were common, serving a variety of purposes.

From Feng Xue’s experience, anything could be behind it—a unicycle or old equipment that had been retired years or decades ago yet remained unsold. There were also cases of offices and classrooms sealed due to accidents or criminal cases. Even in his past life, while adventuring with classmates, they found bags of cement dating back over thirty years behind one such door in their school.

But it was the normalcy of it that made it of particular interest to Feng Xue. After all, it was nighttime, and the entire teaching building had undergone the transformation; any door looked as twisted as the gates to Yama Hall, making this plain rusty iron door seem extraordinary.

"Safety first," Feng Xue mumbled to himself as he reached out to pull out the All Things Squeezing Driver, transformed into Masked Rider Orca, and then began his task with a wire.

Copper locks couldn’t be picked with something as thin as a hair strand, considering the possible internal rust due to age and the sheer weight of the lock itself.

But this wasn’t a problem for the skilled Feng Xue, he quickly unlocked the padlock, and with the chain removed from the door, he forcefully pulled open the iron door...

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