13: Chapter 13 Who taught you to break the rules of death like this?

Just then, the classroom door was violently pushed open.

Grade Level Director Lao Wang and the principal rushed in, panting.

The two had been patrolling the floors during the exam, but after hearing the commotion in Class 2, they pushed the door open to take a look.

Good grief.

This smell.

Could these students have been pooping in the classroom?

No, this isn't poop!

This is vomit!

The Grade Level Director's scalp tingled with shock.

He didn't even consider the possibility of Strange Tales; after all, the Second High School was protected by an official Psionic Matrix.

"Quick! Call 120!" Lao Wang howled at the top of his lungs. "The entire Senior Class 2 has food poisoning! Notify the school infirmary to bring stretchers!"

Beside him, the beer-bellied principal's face turned green.

He fumbled to take out his phone, his hands shaking so much that he failed to dial several times, but finally, he got through to a number.

The principal covered the phone, turned his back, and lowered his voice to curse at the other end of the line.

"Wang Mazi! Screw you! I just took a million-yuan kickback from you for the cafeteria contract, and you're feeding me breakfast made of dead rat meat?!"

The principal's voice grew louder and louder, completely forgetting that there was a classroom full of students behind him.

"It's one thing if the boarding students got sick from eating in the cafeteria! But you didn't even spare the day students! The whole class is vomiting! Tell me, how exactly did you poison them?! Are you trying to get me sent to jail?! If this can't be covered up, I'm not done with you!"

Silence.

Li Hao, who was hugging a thigh, froze.

Chu Youwei, who was holding her phone to call the police, also froze.

In the entire classroom, only the principal's frantic roaring at the phone remained.

Su Yun raised an eyebrow, unable to help but feel amused inside.

Goodness, this sanctimonious fatty has such wild side hustles?

I not only casually raw-ate a Strange Tale, but I also happened to crack a corruption case?

Am I truly a Genius?

Grade Level Director Lao Wang was even more terrified and desperately tugged at the principal's sleeve.

"What are you doing!" The principal shook off Lao Wang's hand and turned around in a rage. "The students are poisoned, we're finished, and you're still here... Gah?"

The principal's voice stuck in his throat.

Because he discovered that the entire class, including the usually well-behaved Chu Youwei, was looking at him with a strange expression.

Chu Youwei cleared her throat. "Principal."

"Huh? Uh."

The principal subconsciously hid his phone behind his back.

"It's not food poisoning."

Chu Youwei pointed at the pile of black ash that hadn't completely dissipated in front of the podium.

"Just now, the Homeroom Teacher mutated into a B-Level Weird Tale, and the classroom was sealed off. Everyone vomited from fear."

The principal was stunned. Lao Wang was also stunned.

Strange Tales? B-Level? In the school?!

What the hell is this?

No, you guys should just be suffering from food poisoning!

The two looked in the direction Chu Youwei was pointing.

"Is this... is this Old Zhou?"

The principal stammered.

"To be precise, it's the ash left behind by the mutated Old Zhou," Chu Youwei explained. "Su Yun used a unique method to break the rules of the Strange Tale, which is why the barrier shattered."

A unique method?

The principal and Lao Wang exchanged a glance, then stiffly turned to look at Su Yun.

To be able to survive a B-Level Weird Tale single-handedly and even turn the Strange Tale into a pile of ash... Could he be some hidden big shot?

The principal's fat face twitched visibly. He rubbed his cheeks hard, forcing out a smile that looked uglier than crying.

"Su... Student Su Yun. You must be shaken."

Su Yun looked at him. "I'm not shaken. But Principal, isn't that million yuan you took a bit too hot to handle?"

The principal's legs went weak, and he nearly knelt before Su Yun.

It's over.

This big shot is going to get serious.

I'm afraid I won't be able to stay on as principal.

Ten minutes later.

Several black armored riot vehicles roared into the Second High School campus, and the screech of brakes echoed from downstairs.

The sound of heavy combat boots stomping and cold, efficient commands echoed in the hallway.

"Team Two, immediately construct a B-Level Psionic Shielding Net! Team Three, set up the Mental Pollution Purifier and seal all exits!"

"Turn the pollution detectors to maximum, medical team prepare super-strong sedatives! Be ready to deal with aberrations at any time!"

Accompanied by the urgent commands, several heavily armed Investigation Bureau agents, holding high-energy suppression weapons, stormed into Senior Class 2 in a perfect tactical formation.

Su Yao ran at the front.

Her face was deathly pale, devoid of any color, and her forehead was covered in cold sweat.

The moment she received the report that a B-Level Weird Tale had appeared at the Second High School, she felt as if the sky had collapsed.

Memories of her past life gnawed at her sanity.

That alley filled with blood, her younger brother's mangled, severed arm... That heart-wrenching despair followed her like a shadow, even after her Rebirth.

But in her past life at this time, she was still in a state of collapse.

She had absolutely no idea that a Strange Tale would appear in the school the next day.

And a B-Level one at that.

"Xiao Yun!"

Su Yao spotted Su Yun standing in the middle of the classroom at a glance. She rushed over like a madwoman and hugged him tightly.

"You're okay... It's good that you're okay..."

Su Yao's voice was trembling uncontrollably, and her eyes were red.

One of her hands trembled as she touched Su Yun's right arm and squeezed it hard.

It was still there, alive and warm.

It wasn't the cold, severed limb from her past life.

Su Yun was being squeezed so hard he couldn't catch his breath.

He sighed helplessly, raised his hand, and skillfully patted his sister's back.

"Sis, I'm fine. Not even a scratch. Really."

Beside them, a female investigator with a high ponytail walked over quickly. This was Su Yao's partner, Agent Chen Li.

Agent Chen Li held up a military-grade pollution index detector and scanned Su Yun carefully. Seeing the steady green light on the screen, she let out a long sigh of relief.

Su Yun also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yao Yao, I told you not to rush. Your concern is clouding your judgment."

Agent Chen Li patted Su Yao's shoulder and sighed.

"For ordinary students to survive under a B-Level Weird Tale lockdown is already a miracle. The fact that Class 2 didn't lose a single person—the entire class must have had their ancestors' graves smoking with good fortune!"

Su Yao finally let go of Su Yun, but her hand still gripped his sleeve tightly.

After confirming safety, Agent Chen Li quickly switched back to her sharp, professional state.

She took out a military-grade voice recorder with psionic fluctuations and walked toward Chu Youwei and a few student representatives.

"Students, don't be afraid. Take a deep breath."

Agent Chen Li's voice was steady. "Please describe in detail what happened just now. Especially, how was the Domain of the B-Level Weird Tale broken?"

Chu Youwei glanced at Su Yun.

Li Hao and Wang Dan also looked at Su Yun.

The Grade Level Director and the principal also looked over.

The gazes of dozens of people in the class instantly focused on Su Yun.

Agent Chen Li was stunned and followed their gazes.

"Him?"

Agent Chen Li's eyes were filled with dual skepticism toward science and mysticism.

"An ordinary high school student with no psionic fluctuations broke the barrier of a B-Level Weird Tale?"

Chu Youwei nodded. "Yes."

"How did he break it?"

Agent Chen Li was invigorated, her eyes full of curiosity.

"Did he use some lost sequence weapon? Did he find the escape route in the Strange Tale's rules? Or is he gifted, having Awakening his psionic talent during the crisis to become an Awakened? What ability did he awaken?"

Chu Youwei took a deep breath, recalling the ten minutes that could only be described as magical.

She resolutely shook her head.

"None of those!"

"After the Homeroom Teacher mutated, it gave us a multiple-choice question. There was a bloody finger at the bottom of a bowl, and it asked us what we should do."

Agent Chen Li looked grave and turned to the agents behind her. "Record this. This is a typical desperate-situation rule question, containing extremely strong psychological manipulation and a sure-death trap."

She turned back. "What did you choose?"

"Su Yun didn't choose."

Chu Youwei swallowed hard. "He criticized the Strange Tale right to its face for not knowing how to maximize resource utilization. He suggested eating the finger, throwing the bones and organs into a pressure cooker to make soup, and forced the Strange Tale to create a food consumption schedule."

"Click."

The thumb Agent Chen Li was using to press the voice recorder slipped violently.

Su Yao was also dumbfounded, tears still hanging on her eyelashes, as she blankly turned to look at her well-behaved younger brother.

Chu Youwei continued, "For the second question, a headless student asked to borrow an eraser. Su Yun suggested charging high interest, connecting that student's artery to a thermos, and drawing blood as collateral for the eraser's usage fee."

"Clatter!"

The military-grade pollution detector in Agent Chen Li's hand dropped to the floor, making a dull thud.

Behind her, the heavily armed, battle-hardened Investigation Bureau agents had hands that were trembling as they held their guns.

An agent leaned over and asked in a low voice, questioning the meaning of life.

"Deputy... is the Investigation Bureau's Strange Tales Behavior Analysis Manual outdated? Do Strange Tales now care about return on investment?"

The classroom was dead silent.

"There was a third question." Chu Youwei's expression completely broke down. "A three-armed monster wanted to play rock-paper-scissors. Su Yun taught us to solve the problem from a physical perspective."

"H-how to solve it?" Agent Chen Li stammered subconsciously.

"Take a fire axe, chop off the monster's extra two arms, beat it until it begs for mercy, and then throw scissors yourself."

Agent Chen Li was nailed to the spot, her worldview shattered into pieces.

The Investigation Bureau had been dealing with Strange Tales for so many years; they had seen people scared out of their minds, seen life-and-death struggles, and seen hardcore suppression using high-tier weapons.

But they had never seen anyone give a capitalist exploitation lecture to a terrifying Strange Tale!

Is this something a carbon-based lifeform is capable of?!

Agent Chen Li stiffly turned her neck, and her gaze upon looking at Su Yun changed completely.

She was no longer looking at a survivor who had escaped death, but clearly at an extremely dangerous, anti-social, anti-human "Living Yama."

"Then... what happened next?"

Agent Chen Li struggled to find her voice. "Even if he won the logic battle, the Strange Tale is still a physical monster. If pushed, it would go berserk and kill. How did it... turn into a pile of ash?"

Su Yao also gripped her hands nervously.

As someone who had fought countless monsters in her past life, she knew the terrifying destructive power of such Strange Tales when provoked.

Su Yun rubbed his nose. Facing the ghost-like stares of all the investigators, he spread his hands in an extremely innocent manner.

"After it heard my problem-solving approach, it probably felt its own question-setting level was too inferior and that it wasn't even worthy of being a Strange Tale."

Su Yun's tone was sincere and regretful. "So, filled with shame and anger, its Dao Heart shattered, and it committed suicide on the spot."

The entire room was deathly silent.

After a full half-minute, Agent Chen Li silently glanced at Su Yun, then at the insignificant pile of black ash in front of the podium.

She let out a long breath, picked up the instrument from the floor, put on her tactical gloves, and then picked up the walkie-talkie, reporting to her superiors in a numb voice that had seen through the Mortal World:

"Command Center... This is Team Three. The B-Level Weird Tale Pseudo-Human Examination Room at the Second High School has been confirmed eliminated. Threat neutralized. Yes, that's right, not a single shot fired."

"Cause of death... uh, the cause of death is that the Strange Tale's own logical framework was shattered. To put it simply, its worldview was destroyed by a high school student in our city using extremely vicious workplace PUA logic. The Strange Tale's SAN value hit zero, and it spontaneously combusted on the spot. Over."

The agents nearby, after hearing the report, silently put away their guns, and then, with uniform and extremely tacit synchronization, moved half a step backward, distancing themselves from Su Yun.

Can't mess with him, can't mess with him. Although this kid looks harmless now.

But if he were to be contaminated and become a Strange Tale or an aberration, he'd be at least S-Level.