Chapter 13: A Small Dark Room? A Garbage Station!

"Go quickly and come back quickly!"

Teacher Yao truly did not want to debate with this student in front of him, who was dressed in such bizarre attire.

By the end, the kid had even extended the topic toward the direction of gender diversity and coexistence.

It gave the fifty-year-old Teacher Yao a bit of a worldview shock.

"That might be a little difficult. I have some urinary frequency, urgency, and a feeling of incomplete emptying..."

"Fine, fine! Just be back before class ends!"

Such nonsensical words made Teacher Yao feel as if he had forgotten to check the almanac before leaving the house today.

Watching the other party skip away lightly, preparing to leave the classroom, Teacher Yao's voice suddenly turned sinister: "You'd better maintain your ranking in tomorrow's exam..."

Ignoring the old man's threat, Wu Wang had already made it outside.

The long corridor stretched on endlessly. Within his field of vision, aside from the white tiles, there was nothing but the greenery outside the corridor windows. It was so clean and tidy it was almost spotless, yet it gave off a strange sense of incongruity.

The direction of the restroom was marked on the wall.

But strangely, the markings contained more than just the location of the restrooms.

There was other information as well—

【Class 3, Senior Year, is a twenty-second walk from the restroom】

"Time, huh..."

Wu Wang recalled the signs on the guide board downstairs.

Indeed, it didn't just mark the locations of all the buildings on campus; it also thoughtfully noted how long it would take to get to each place from where you were standing.

It was as if someone was constantly reminding you not to slack off while on the move.

He didn't linger outside the classroom door for too long.

He walked toward the restroom.

In about twenty seconds, Wu Wang arrived at the restroom.

Inside the restroom, which was equally clean and devoid of any odor, the most eye-catching feature was a timer hanging on every stall.

With a curious gaze, Wu Wang stepped into a stall.

He really did need to use the bathroom.

*Ding-dong!*

Suddenly, a piercing notification sound rang out from the timer.

*Tick—tock—*

Then, the number 300 appeared on the display.

With every tick of the irritating sound, the number decreased by one.

Five minutes in total.

"Be a human being, will you? Even going to the bathroom requires a countdown?" Wu Wang was somewhat speechless.

He really hadn't expected that the first school rule he encountered would be in the restroom.

A notice was posted on the stall door—

【Restroom duration must not exceed 5 minutes】

【For special circumstances, apply for a leave slip from your homeroom teacher; otherwise, it will be treated as a violation of school rules】

*Are you kidding me? You're going to get executed just for taking a crap?*

After finishing quickly, Wu Wang left.

He returned to the location of the guide board on the first floor.

He found the location of the building labeled "The Little Black Room."

He was lucky; the place was right next to the Senior Year teaching building.

It would only take about three minutes to run there.

That way, he wouldn't run into the situation where he stayed away too long and couldn't make it back to class in time.

It wasn't that he planned to defy the school rules head-on.

Wu Wang was cautious; he always believed that his [Undying] trait only provided a margin for error.

It didn't mean he could act recklessly in the face of an entity like a ghost.

Ghosts in newbie dungeons that caused direct physical harm were one thing, but Wu Wang was mainly worried about encountering supernatural situations that could trap him.

Like this "Little Black Room."

What if it didn't just kill him directly?

Or rather, what if it discovered he couldn't be killed, and that old man just locked him in the Little Black Room for the rest of his life?

Then he'd be truly screwed.

"Damn it, it's scattered all over the floor. It takes forever to clean up every single time."

As he approached the Little Black Room, Wu Wang suddenly heard cursing coming from nearby.

Hiding and moving closer to observe, the full view of the Little Black Room was revealed to him.

It was a small, entirely black single-story building.

The weeds growing wildly around the house stood in stark contrast to the cleanliness of the campus.

Even from a distance, one could smell a revolting, rotten stench.

The entire clearing contained nothing but the Little Black Room.

It looked incredibly eerie, sitting there all alone.

At this moment, two people were talking in front of the house.

Both were wearing thick protective suits, making their figures appear abnormally bloated.

"Maybe next time we should tell those teachers to have them jump into the river. Jumping from buildings is just too hard to clean up," the person on the left said.

His companion responded with a cold sneer, "Sure, go suggest that to the principal. I'll prepare a spot for you here in advance. Don't worry, it'll definitely be a prime location!"

"Hehehe, just joking. Get to work, get to work!"

The two pushed open the door while talking.

They hoisted a large black bag from the ground, but they didn't walk inside.

They simply made a throwing motion.

*Thud—*

The black bag was tossed into the Little Black Room, but due to the force of the movement, something fell out of the opening and landed in the weeds.

The two didn't notice the dropped item; they only let out disgusted tuts and quickly left the area.

Once he was sure they had gone far, Wu Wang stepped out.

Completely ignoring the strange, foul stench, he reached into the weeds to search.

After a few moments, he found what had fallen.

"Hiss, this is..."

After seeing clearly what it was, Wu Wang's pupils contracted slightly.

It was a bloodstained school ID.

The name on it was—Li Yang.

"Was that black bag just carrying Li Yang's corpse?" A possibility suddenly occurred to Wu Wang. He observed the Little Black Room with a look of astonishment and carefully identified the stench in the air.

"There's no mistake! This is the smell of a decomposing corpse!"

"The Little Black Room is just a place for disposing of bodies?"

But thinking of this, Wu Wang felt something was off.

If it were merely a place for disposing of corpses, it shouldn't make the students so terrified.

They could remain bystanders even when facing Li Yang jumping from a building, yet they turned pale at a single mention of the Little Black Room by Teacher Yao. Clearly, there was something far more terrifying than death that they feared.

A mere corpse was nothing to fear.

"Should I go in and take a look?" Wu Wang hesitated.

Based on the content of the side quest, it was almost certain that there was a ghost in this place.

This was different from a newbie dungeon.

There were no microphones to provide evidence; once you were targeted by a ghost, things would get "fun."

If the ghost could even follow him out of the dungeon, it would be even harder to deal with.

"Do you want to know what the Little Black Room is for?"

An abrupt voice rang out from the other side of the clearing.

Wu Wang turned his head to look, and a familiar mask appeared in his vision.

The masked woman, [How Can One Bear It]!

"You know?"

"What information are you using for an exchange? Even if you are a newbie, I won't provide clues for free," [How Can One Bear It] said coldly.

Wu Wang stared into her eyes.

After a moment, he said, "I'll exchange the cause of death of the guy who was just thrown in there. Don't tell me you didn't know that what was just thrown in was a corpse."

"Fine! Deal!"

This was a team-cooperation dungeon, and everyone's gains were calculated collectively—at least, that's how it appeared to others. No one knew that Wu Wang's main quest was slightly deviated.

But there was no need for him to lie about clues.

After all, Baili Dao also knew how Li Yang died, so Wu Wang told him everything that had happened in the classroom without any concealment.

[How Can One Bear It] nodded inwardly after listening.

She then spoke: "The Little Black Room is a place responsible for handling 'trash.' It's not just for disposing of corpses; if a normal person goes in and comes out alive, they become even more obedient, thinking of nothing but studying."

"Because in my Class 3, someone just came back from the Little Black Room alive right after class started. The homeroom teacher was very happy and celebrated in advance, saying his exam results would surely improve massively in the future."

"There are two students in the top ten of the grade in Class 3. They are both people who have entered the Little Black Room at least five times, but their state seems very strange..."

At this point, [How Can One Bear It] paused.

She seemed to be thinking about how to describe the two people she was talking about.

Finally, she said coldly, "They look like tireless studying machines. They have no reaction to their surroundings, or even to pain; they only exhibit extreme madness when it comes to studying."

"I suggest that before we investigate what's inside, it's best not to enter the Little Black Room lightly, lest your cognition be affected."

Cognitive influence was a terrifying thing.

Because it had nothing to do with death; it only changed who you were as a person.

This meant that even after leaving the dungeon, it would not disappear.

No one wanted to return to reality with a broken mind.

This was just a side quest; even if ignored, it wouldn't affect the completion of the main quest.

"By the way, why did you come to the Little Black Room?" [How Can One Bear It] suddenly asked Wu Wang. She had assumed Baili Dao would be the one coming out to investigate.

After all, this guy was just a newbie; how could Baili Dao feel at ease letting him investigate alone?

Wu Wang smiled at this

"Because the homeroom teacher told me to go in."

"?"

Hearing this, [How Can One Bear It] was filled with question marks.

Although she couldn't see his face clearly through the mask, she could imagine that her current expression was likely one of wide-mouthed disbelief.

*Is this newbie mentally ill?*

*How long has it even been since he entered the dungeon?!*

*And he's already offended the homeroom teacher?!*