Chapter 21: So, the trap was waiting for me here?

Is this a coincidence?

Or can the other party truly see through him?

Teacher Yao felt a slight numbness in the palm of his hand gripping the ring. He actually felt a sense of pressure emanating from this student in damn bizarre clothing—a pressure no weaker than that of Principal Wang.

The difference was that Principal Wang’s pressure made him tremble with absolute power.

This guy’s pressure came from unknown behaviors and methods of seeing through and manipulating the human heart, which left him feeling a profound sense of dread upon reflection.

"Fine... a pleasure doing business with you."

Teacher Yao had no choice.

Things like this happened either zero times or countless times.

After compromising at the Black Room yesterday, it was destined that the two of them were now grasshoppers tied to the same rope.

To this end, Wu Wang used [Shadow Mutual Combat Technique] to quietly turn on the voice recorder in his pocket.

*You and your brother are connected heart to heart.*

*Your brother is playing mind games with you!*

Smiling, he asked, "So, which class teacher do you plan to target? Give the students a goal."

The thin old man in front of him blurted out without the slightest hesitation: "The Class 7 teacher! Zhang Yanli!"

"Oh? Why her?"

This question caused Teacher Yao's expression to turn somewhat distorted as he said fiercely, "Because she is the only one who can threaten my position. Once she is eliminated, after the Principal is promoted next year, I will be the Principal here!"

"Great! As you wish!"

Wu Wang's smile grew even more brilliant.

Seeing the old geezer practically drooling while fantasizing about a beautiful future, he lightly tapped the table.

He signaled that the other party had more to say.

Only then did Teacher Yao snap back to his senses. He looked out the window cautiously, like a thief, then pulled a blank notebook from the desk and quickly wrote down information regarding the Art Building—

[The Art Building only appears between 12:00 midnight and 3:00 AM]

[Location is behind the Black Room]

[One must smear oil painting pigments to enter; the only pigment box is locked in the safe in the Principal's office, and no one knows the password]

[The Principal is not in his office after 12:00 midnight]

He stopped writing and looked up at Wu Wang.

After approximately ten seconds of confirming the other party had read the contents, he tore off the page and pointed at the lighter clutched in Wu Wang's hand.

*Whoosh—*

Another pile of ashes.

Grinning to reveal a row of teeth stained yellow by tea and cigarettes, he shrugged and said, "I have provided what you wanted to know. The rest is up to your own ability. Don't expect me to go get the thing for you."

What Teacher Yao was referring to was clearly the pigment box in Principal Wang's office.

In his view, stealing that item was even more difficult than pulling Li Yang out of the Black Room.

After all, Principal Wang was simply too powerful.

Within Gaoshan High School, his strength was unrivaled; nothing or no one could oppose him.

Being out of the office did not mean he was unguarded.

Once exposed, the Principal could use spatial transfer to appear in the office at any time.

The result would be certain death.

"I have my own ways. Goodbye."

Before leaving, Wu Wang cast a strange look at the space above Teacher Yao's head.

A string of text hung there, exceptionally eye-catching—

[The other party expects you to succeed, but also hopes you die in the Principal's office. He is conflicted.]

He glanced again at the white ring on the table.

A strange light flashed in Wu Wang's eyes.

His shadow gave a subtle twitch...

***

After winding his way back to the dormitory.

He locked the doors and windows, even pulled the curtains, and used a book to block the peephole in the door to ensure no one could notice the situation inside.

Wu Wang began to undress.

He removed his fingerless tactical gloves, unbuttoned his military combat uniform, and unzipped the ballistic vest underneath.

Revealing the colorful Gaoshan High School uniform beneath, he reached out to rub the colors.

"As expected, everything except the red was applied with oil paints," he joked to himself. "So the trap was waiting for me here?"

He didn't need to steal the pigments.

He only needed to wear this uniform to enter the Art Building!

Why call it a trap?

If nothing went wrong, the reason his main quest was different from everyone else's was because of this school uniform.

It wanted him to enter the Art Building! But for what purpose?

Wu Wang did not know.

"Yuan Shen, this has something to do with you too, doesn't it?" He flipped his wrist, staring at the mark Kor's gave him below.

At this moment, that red vertical pupil actually blinked from time to time, and could even rotate its pupil to survey its surroundings.

It showed clear signs of life.

Furthermore, staring directly at it now no longer produced that eerie whispering or the sensation of losing Sanity.

[Truth Vision (Passive)]

[You are using His vision to see through the truth]

The information panel appearing over the red vertical pupil read as such.

The reason Wu Wang had mentioned the two points—"Rule Privilege" and "Stupid Curiosity"—which had turned Teacher Yao's face pale, was because those two sentences had been hanging over the man's head at the time.

Combined with the text before he left.

He could basically be certain that the red vertical pupil allowed him to see through the true thoughts in people's hearts.

"So, Gul'dan, what is the price?"

Wu Wang used the classic line from Warcraft to mock the situation.

Unfortunately, the vertical pupil did not respond.

After a moment of contemplation, he smiled.

Setting aside whatever the cost of this ability might be, since the mission wanted him to throw the situation into chaos, he might as well make it even more thorough!

This was a five-person dungeon, after all!

He had to make sure they had fun!

He quickly dressed to cover the blood-stained school uniform.

He dashed toward the teaching building.

The exams had just begun over there.

*Bang—*

The door to Class 1, Grade 12, was kicked open.

The proctor frowned and looked at the student in bizarre clothing standing outside the door.

Confused, he asked, "Student, what are you..."

"Taking the exam! Otherwise, am I here for a buffet?" Wu Wang walked back to his seat cheerfully.

He picked up the blank exam paper on the desk and scanned it quickly.

Then, he began to write furiously.

Beside him, Baili Dao was even more bewildered.

"Doesn't this guy have a leave of absence? Are you fucking serious, a model student actually coming to study and take exams?" He was utterly confused.

But he couldn't afford to be careless during the exam; after all, failing meant being thrown into the Black Room.

He quickly adjusted his state and continued solving problems.

Time began to fly across the exam papers.

*Swish—*

Wu Wang suddenly stood up.

He grabbed his paper and walked past Baili Dao, accidentally bumping his desk.

Then, under the wary gaze of the proctor, he placed the paper on the podium.

He turned around, intending to leave the classroom again.

"Student, what exactly are you trying to do? I'm warning you, this is an examination hall!" The proctor's tone was no longer kind.

He would naturally punish any student causing trouble.

Wu Wang turned back and said with a look of confusion, "I'm blind, teacher. I can't see the exam paper, so I can't take the test."

As he spoke, he pulled a leave of absence from his pocket and poked his eye sockets with his fingers.

There was nothing inside.

[Shadow Mutual Combat Technique] had already replaced his eyeballs with ones hidden where the proctor could not see.

"?"

Now it was the proctor's turn to be dumbfounded.

What was wrong with this kid? Coming to an exam while blind, and then just scribbling a few lines and trying to leave.

Was he mentally unstable?

"Get out, get out! Don't come back in!"

Faced with the leave of absence, he still couldn't do anything to Wu Wang; he simply kicked him out of the exam hall.

The whole process seemed nonsensical.

Only Baili Dao knew what had actually happened.

The paper on his desk had changed!

It was no longer the blank exam paper that had him sweating in thought, but a paper filled with answers!

And there was a small note—

[Turn in your paper and find me in the restroom]

*Gulp—*

Baili Dao swallowed hard.

Twenty minutes...

Wu Wang had taken only twenty minutes from entering to leaving!

One had to realize that this exam paper contained content from all subjects. With a perfect score of 100, multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions were worth 0.2 points each, and even the large math and science problems were only worth 1 point each.

Aside from the Chinese essay, the total volume of the exam exceeded three hundred questions.

The exam duration was a full five hours.

He had finished it!?

With a skeptical attitude.

Baili Dao gritted his teeth and stomped his foot.

He turned in his paper.

He left the exam hall under the murderous gaze of the proctor.

"Brother, are you serious? It better be an actual emergency, otherwise, if I fail, I'm screwed!" Baili Dao asked helplessly to Wu Wang, who was playing with water in the restroom.

However, the other party said something that left him speechless.

"Don't worry, I guarantee a perfect score so you can be top of the class. Isn't something this simple something you can know the answer to just by glancing at it? If you're slow, that's your problem, not mine."

"?"

Baili Dao was stunned.

Recalling the exam paper in his hands just now, it seemed...

There really were no mistakes?

Immediately, his expression became strange.

In his heart, he quietly labeled Wu Wang—

[High-IQ psychopath, excellent potential, worth inviting to the Anomalous Affairs Bureau, but must be given the best psychological treatment immediately.]

Looking at the stunned Baili Dao, Wu Wang walked up to him.

He wiped the water from his hands onto the other's school uniform and said seriously, "I have a lead on the Escapers."

"There is a box of oil paints hidden in the Principal's office safe. After 12:00 midnight, go steal it and take it to the back of the Black Room. That will open the entrance to a certain building, and all the clues are inside."

"!"

This news made Baili Dao's eyes light up.

Finally, there was substantive progress!

The "certain building" mentioned by the other party must be the Art Building they had been searching for so desperately!

But he was still somewhat confused: "We go steal the paint? Then what are you going to do?"

Wu Wang explained with a determined tone

"I'll go to the Black Room ahead of time to scout for you. The building is only open for three hours. I need to prevent any unexpected situations, like that tentacle ghost, from appearing in the Black Room before you arrive."

Hearing that the other party was volunteering to go to the Black Room.

Baili Dao almost burst into tears.

Collecting vital intelligence, taking on danger voluntarily, and helping him through the crisis of the exam.

What was this?

This was a true brother! A true teammate!

He took back his previous thoughts.

This guy, the Widow, is actually very reliable!