11: Wasn't Chapter 11 supposed to be about flipping the table?
"You... You..."
The monster that had mutated into Old Zhou froze in place, expressions of astonishment and anger alternating on its face.
Its simple and crude terror-based mindset could not bypass Su Yun's rogue logic no matter what.
"Cutting off physical conditions... forcing a play of cloth... to think it could even be done this way!"
Its entire body of dark red flesh began to twitch, and hundreds of rolling eyeballs beneath its skin oozed thick, black blood.
Suddenly, as if it had grasped some fatal loophole, it stopped twitching abruptly.
"Wrong! You are lying!"
Old Zhou's massive body, which had been retreating, instantly expanded to twice its size like an inflated tumor.
Countless tentacles with bone spurs danced wildly in mid-air.
"Hehehe... Article 3 of the Examination Room Discipline: It is strictly forbidden to bring controlled knives or other dangerous items into the examination room!"
"You don't have a fire axe! You absolutely cannot do it! You are engaging in sophistry! This question is judged as an incorrect answer! You must die! Die! Everyone must die!!"
As the judgment fell, the power of the rules of the entire Pseudo-Human Examination Room contracted with a roar, and the suffocating, bloody wind almost blew away the students in the front row.
Chu Youwei turned pale, looking like she was about to crush the ballpoint pen in her hand to forcibly intervene.
The students below closed their eyes in despair.
A B-Level Weird Tale is, after all, one of the Strange Tales; it's impossible to reason with it. If it can't win an argument, it will just flip the table!
However, facing the violent, scarlet giant maw lunging at him, Su Yun didn't even move an inch.
He even let out a heavy sigh, looking at the monster inches away with the gaze one would use for an illiterate person.
"Old Zhou, I take back what I said earlier. You not only lack capitalistic thinking, but you have also lost even the most basic reading comprehension skills."
Ignoring the tentacles, Su Yun reached out and poked the exam paper heavily twice.
"Read the question again for me. The question says: 'You encounter a monster with three hands in the corridor'."
Su Yun's voice was incredibly clear amidst the despairing sobs.
"The teaching building's corridor belongs to a public area and is completely unaffected by your bullshit Examination Room Discipline."
"Furthermore, according to the 'National Fire Safety Standards', as long as it is a standard teaching building corridor, it must be equipped with standard fire cabinets. I obtained the fire axe locally in the corridor; it is reasonable, legal, and compliant."
Su Yun leaned forward abruptly, his eyes sharp as knives, his Aura actually overpowering this B-Level Weird Tale in an instant.
"Instead, you, the teacher, are not invigilating in the examination room, but running into the public corridor to drag students into activities like 'Rock-Paper-Scissors', which has serious gambling characteristics. It violates the 'Public Security Administration Punishments Law'!"
"As the question setter, you lack even the most basic scene setting and common legal knowledge; it is detached from reality, full of errors and omissions, and lacks any rigor whatsoever!"
"With your level, you actually dare to stand on the podium and set exam papers? This isn't education; you are murdering the students' futures!"
Su Yun coldly spat out the final verdict:
"Old Zhou, you are not fit to be a teacher. You, failed!"
Old Zhou's wildly dancing tentacles instantly stiffened in mid-air.
"I... I misread the question?"
"The question I set... violates the Fire Safety Law and public security management?"
"I failed?"
"What he said makes so much sense!"
Old Zhou suddenly calmed down.
"No! That's not right!"
Stopping his roar, the split-open giant maw pulled into a strange, cold sneer.
Su Yun frowned slightly; is this bastard preparing to cheat since it can't win the argument?
"Hehehe... stop spouting nonsense about the law to me."
Old Zhou stared fixedly at Su Yun, suddenly circling back to the physical execution of the third question.
"Even if you have a fire axe, you, a frail ordinary high school student, how could you possibly cut its limbs?! You are lying!"
He suddenly raised his tentacles, with a condescending attitude, and began to forcibly settle this exam question using the rules.
"Rule settlement: Inability to execute the answer, answer invalid, die!"
The temperature in the classroom instantly dropped to freezing point.
The students below closed their eyes in despair, seemingly already seeing the miserable death of Su Yun being torn into pieces.
Old Zhou's eyes were full of greed; he couldn't wait to pry open this human's skull and eat that brain filled with outrageous logic!
If he ate it, perhaps he could also learn so many badass operational methods and become the most Advanced Weird Tale!
But the next moment, the fanaticism on Old Zhou's face froze, and extreme terror welled up in his hundreds of eyeballs simultaneously.
Because when his core rules were being settled, it actually judged... that Su Yun was right!
The rules instinctively believed that the human before him could not only cut off the monster's limbs but could even hack it until it begged for mercy on its knees!
"What is going on? You are clearly just a..."
Old Zhou couldn't understand it at all, but his bloody maw trembled uncontrollably, hoarsely spitting out the final verdict:
"100... 100 points! Full marks! You got everything right!"
In front of the podium.
Su Yun maintained the posture of having one hand in his pocket, a row of question marks slowly appearing above his head.
???
What the hell?
Aren't you supposed to flip the table and start fighting?
He had even prepared his Void Tentacles, and just a moment ago, he was frantically performing micro-management calculations in his head, figuring out how to pack this B-Level Weird Tale and stuff it into his mouth secretly and quickly in this classroom full of ordinary students, without exposing his true identity as the "Lord of Blind Idiot God".
As a result, I had all my tableware ready, prepared to start the feast, and you suddenly chickened out and even gave me a 100?
So, are you going to fight or not?
Just then.
Two lines of text appeared before Su Yun's eyes.
[Cracking progress: 100%]
[Weird Tale underlying logic completely collapsed]
For Strange Tales, rules are the cornerstone of their existence.
Although having their rules cracked won't directly cause them to die, a mental breakdown leading to SAN value reaching zero will.
And Old Zhou was exactly like that.
His mentality had been completely shattered by Su Yun.
He had fallen into a state of severe existential crisis.
The massive monster collapsed rapidly like a deflated ball; amidst the disintegration of flesh and blood, Old Zhou desperately clutched his head, emitting a broken, shrill scream on the podium:
"I am not fit to be a teacher!"
"No— I failed!!!"
Accompanied by a shrill cry of grief, the monster's massive body disintegrated rapidly, turning into pools of black ash and some dissipating black mist.
On the podium, Su Yun maintained the posture of one hand in his pocket, looking at the pile of ash at his feet, completely dumbfounded.
"Wait... it just died like this?"
Su Yun's eye twitched slightly, his heart filled with speechlessness.
You just collapsed from anger yourself?
The mental fortitude of this B-Level Weird Tale is way too poor!
If you don't even have this little bit of stress resistance, what kind of teacher are you?
Although his heart was full of complaints, high-end ingredients delivered to his doorstep shouldn't be wasted.
While everyone was still in extreme terror and stupor, a few purple-black illusory Void Tentacles that only Su Yun could see quietly emerged from the shadows.
Like efficient sweeping robots, they curled up on the podium with lightning speed, swallowing the black mist cleanly.
A semi-transparent panel immediately popped up in front of Su Yun:
[Devour successful: Pseudo-Human Examination Room (B-Level Weird Tale)]
[Growth progress: 55/100]
[Acquired ability: Zero-Marks Disposal Right]
[Zero-Marks Disposal Right: People who score zero on an exam will lose their human rights when they see you! By making eye contact with them, you forcibly deduct 1 SAN point from them.]
Feeling the power surging within him, Su Yun licked the corner of his mouth with satisfaction.
But what the hell is this Zero-Marks Disposal Right?
He swore he never discriminated against people who scored zero!
Meanwhile, the students below were still maintaining the posture of clutching their heads, eyes tightly shut, and slumped in their chairs.
It wasn't until they realized the anticipated cruel slaughter hadn't arrived that Li Hao and the others opened their eyes trembling.
There was no terrifying monster on the podium, only the unharmed Su Yun.
The whole class, including Chu Youwei in the front row who was gripping her special ballpoint pen tightly with cold sweat soaking her back, were all dumbfounded.
What happened?
That terrifying B-Level Weird Tale that was just opening its bloody maw and threatening to kill everyone...
Was actually talked into a breakdown by Su Yun, and even talked to death?!
The next moment.
Because the Weird Tale died.
The cold film on the classroom windows began to shatter.
The morning sunlight shone back in.
They survived.
But the air in the entire Class 2 of Grade 12 solidified.
As that extreme psychological oppression faded, a total breakdown followed.
"Blech!!!"
Li Hao was the first to kneel on the ground and vomit wildly; this was a chain reaction, and half the class began to cling to the windowsills or vomit crazily into trash cans.
In the air, besides the lingering fishy stench, a suffocating sadness and disbelief gradually spread.
"Old Zhou... wuwu... Old Zhou just died like this?"
Wang Dan covered her face, tears streaming down, sobbing uncontrollably.
Although Old Zhou was usually strict and even a bit annoying, he was, after all, the Homeroom Teacher who had led them for three years.
One second he was the person alive on the podium lecturing them, the next second he turned into a man-eating Weird Tale, and now not even a whole corpse was left, only a pile of black ash.
This huge impact of life and death being so fickle caused this group of high school students who hadn't experienced major storms to completely break down.
But beyond the sadness, there was more fear for the boy on the podium.
Dozens of eyes stared fixedly at Su Yun, who was calmly brushing off chalk dust; that look was even more terrified than when they were facing the Weird Tale just now.