69: Chapter 69 Rule Loopholes

An invisible, heavy pressure pinned Fang Che firmly in place; Fang Che felt as if he were being crushed by a heavy object, unable to move a single inch.

"Fang Che!"

Su Qingxue gasped in alarm, and Teacher Qin Bing beside her also choked on her breath.

Is this the power of the rules?

Violators are erased on the spot.

It's over...

This time, it's really over.

Fang Che, completely immobilized by that force, showed not the slightest hint of fear on his face.

He even smiled.

"Heh."

A soft chuckle escaped his throat.

The next second, his arm, the one still able to move while gripping the fire axe, suddenly sank.

Clang!

The fire axe, stained with black blood, was slammed hard against the ground by him; the blade collided with the concrete floor, emitting a harsh, scraping sound.

This abrupt noise caused the suited ghost figure to pause in its movements.

To think he could still resist.

Fang Che lifted his chin, which was still mobile, and gestured toward the hundreds of faceless Hungry Ghost students in the Cafeteria.

"Disrupting dining discipline? Making loud noises? Trampling on food?"

His tone was full of mockery; ignoring the erasure force locking onto him, he sternly interrupted the Dean of Students' mechanical judgment.

"Dean, is that it?"

"Take a look at your good students!"

Fang Che raised his hand, pointing to the meat and vegetable trays overturned all over the floor, and the tables and chairs scattered by the Hungry Ghosts.

"School Rule Number One: Love the campus, respect teachers, and unite with classmates!"

"School Rule Number Five: Do not waste food!"

"These things on the floor! Who overturned them? It was those girls who turned into monsters!"

"Not only did they waste food, but they also attacked a teacher! Can you not see the wounds on Teacher Qin?"

"As students, attacking a teacher, doesn't that count as disrespecting a teacher?"

"Although I am a transfer student, reporting for my first day."

Fang Che held his head high, his gaze not retreating in the slightest.

"Seeing them act so excessively, wasting food, and even trying to kill our teacher! As a student, was I supposed to just stand by and watch?"

"I stepped out to stop them, to prevent them from continuing their mistakes—I call that upholding school rules! I call that respecting my teacher! I call that uniting with my classmates!"

Not to mention the terrified girls, even Teacher Qin Bing and Su Qingxue were stunned by what they heard.

The projection of the Dean of Students in the black suit had its hand frozen in mid-air.

On its blank face, a giant question mark seemed to have frozen into place, as if it were considering Fang Che's words.

Taking action to stop a rule-breaker... does that count as a violation?

The atmosphere in the Cafeteria was terrifyingly silent.

Su Qingxue and the others had sweaty palms from nervousness, staring fixedly at that black shadow, fearing it would go berserk from logical confusion the next second.

Finally, the erasure force that had been locked onto Fang Che began to loosen.

Phew...

Su Qingxue, Jiang Ning, and the other girls felt their legs go weak, almost collapsing to the floor.

The Dean of Students' projection gave Fang Che a deep look, said nothing more, and slowly retreated into the deep shadows from which it had come, disappearing from sight.

Following its departure, the hundreds of ghost students also instantly returned to their original state.

They all turned their heads back in unison, lowered them again, and continued to stuff food into their faces with that same mechanical, numb posture.

As if that deadly confrontation from just a moment ago had never happened.

"My god... you scared me to death." Mu Waner patted her chest, her voice still trembling.

"Fang Che, you're too amazing, right? You were actually able to persuade it?" Jiang Ning's eyes were filled with stars of admiration.

"It's very dangerous; don't trigger the rules carelessly. We still can't ignore the rules and kill monsters."

Everyone nodded; the rule suppression from the Dean of Students just now truly made them understand what despair meant.

Fang Che moved his body and walked straight to the pool of filth left behind by Li Wei.

His gaze swept over the pool of filth.

A faint glimmer flickered within the black flesh and blood.

If you didn't look closely, you wouldn't be able to spot it at all.

Fang Che bent down and reached out to grope through the still-warm pile of flesh.

Very quickly, a cold, hard object was within reach.

He realized in his heart that it turned out monsters transformed from team members also dropped items.

He took it out and saw that it was a key.

An ancient key, covered in dark red rust, stained with dried, blackened blood.

The most critical part was that the key was broken, only half of it.

The moment Fang Che picked up the key, a system prompt sounded in his mind.

[Ding! Obtained Special Key to the Fourth Floor West Staircase (Half)]

Half a key?

Fang Che pinched the broken key, his eyes flickering slightly.

To get to the Fourth Floor, he still had to find the other half.

He didn't think too much about it and directly put the key into his backpack.

After doing all this, his gaze swept toward the remains of the other Hungry Ghosts that had been killed.

Sure enough, within those filthy remains, there were also a few faint points of light flickering.

Fang Che casually picked up the dropped item from the nearest corpse, and a metal nameplate stained with blood appeared in his hand.

[Ding! Obtained Item: Mutated Identity Nameplate (Common)]

[Note: It once belonged to a living being, but now it is just a piece of cold metal. It has no practical use; it can be decomposed into 1 unit of basic metal material, or... kept to commemorate your deceased companion.]

Another one of these nameplates.

Fang Che glanced at the other spots of light; they were dim, no different from this nameplate, so he couldn't be bothered to move again.

"The smell of blood is too strong; it's not safe. Let's go."