Chapter 84
Chapter 84
[You were sliced into blocks of tofu. Killer: Chinese Teacher.]
[Strength permanently increased by 5.]
[Current Strength: 31 > 36]
[Constitution permanently increased by 5.]
[Current Constitution: 32 > 37]
[Please choose a resurrection point.]
Everything around him froze. Qin Lan’s consciousness looked down on the classroom from the perspective of an outside observer.
Time had stopped. The deathly pale hand protruding from the blackboard remained suspended in the middle of its swing.
Qin Lan could even see his own body torn into pieces, the blood it had sprayed frozen in midair.
“So this is what it feels like to choose my own resurrection point…”
Qin Lan immersed himself in the strange sensation, momentarily dazed.
At a thought, a sight that could only be called miraculous unfolded before him.
It was no longer a single classroom, but tens of thousands of them.
Every individual point in time had been separated from the others and laid out before Qin Lan.
He could see countless versions of himself, countless Xue Chuans, and countless pale hands reaching out of the blackboard.
When he looked behind him, he could see distant classroom scenes in which another version of himself was still trading insults with Xue Chuan.
In the nearer scenes, the invisible claw strike had already reached him but had yet to make contact.
“So this is how time appears.”
“Not a flowing river, nor a waterfall that can never run backward. Not even a thread connecting the past and future, but a series of separate yet continuous points…”
Qin Lan felt as if he had understood something, yet the illusory truth still lay beyond his grasp.
“It seems this isn’t something I can comprehend at my current level.”
With a helpless sigh, Qin Lan abandoned his attempt to study the profound vision.
Once he selected a point in time, the classrooms began to collapse, disintegrate, and disappear one after another.
In the end, only the moment Qin Lan had chosen remained.
It was just after the Chinese Teacher had warned the two of them to remain silent.
His consciousness returned to his body. The sensation of looking directly upon time vanished in an instant, leaving Qin Lan profoundly uncomfortable.
It was as though his once clear, crystal-bright vision had suddenly been covered by a hazy veil.
“Is maintaining discipline a rule limited to this classroom, or does it apply throughout the entire instance? Could it work like the safety regulations in Terror Subway?”
Qin Lan considered the question, then began another test.
Without further hesitation, he stood up, left his seat, and started strolling around the classroom.
[Walking around during class is strictly forbidden!]
Another claw strike swept toward him and tore his body apart.
Although Qin Lan had been prepared this time, he still could not withstand the ferocious attack.
The gap between a 4-Star anomaly and a 3-Star one was nothing short of an uncrossable chasm.
Even the full-force attack of a high-level 3-Star anomaly would only leave Qin Lan badly injured. It could never kill him this effortlessly.
[You attempted to turn yourself into Lego blocks. Killer: Chinese Teacher.]
[Strength permanently increased by 4.]
[Current Strength: 36 > 40]
This time, only one attribute increased, and the gain had already begun to decay.
When Qin Lan awoke once more, he had more or less grasped the rules of Dead Silence Academy.
Just as he had suspected, many different actions could trigger an anomaly’s attack, but most of them corresponded to the rules and disciplinary codes of an ordinary school.
To verify his theory, Qin Lan took out his phone and began using it as brazenly as possible.
Sure enough, he died again.
[Speed permanently increased by 2.]
[Current Speed: 30 > 32]
[Constitution permanently increased by 2.]
[Current Constitution: 37 > 39]
“They won’t even let us use our phones. No need to guess what country’s high school this is…”
Qin Lan grumbled in displeasure.
However, the Chinese Teacher’s abilities also appeared before him, which meant he could select one to copy.
[Ability 1: Verbal Condemnation (4-Star)]
[Description: You have defied the strict Chinese Teacher. She will launch a mental attack against you with blistering words! Damage is calculated based on her Spirit and the amount of curse energy infused into the ability. Ignores physical and elemental defenses.]
[Ability 2: Written Denunciation (4-Star)]
[Description: You have enraged the strict Chinese Teacher. She will pass judgment upon you with a ruthless stroke of her pen! Delivers an attribute-neutral slash with a weapon. Damage is calculated based on her Strength and the amount of curse energy infused into the ability. Affected by physical defense.]
Huh?
Qin Lan looked toward the pale hand and finally realized that what he had mistaken for a claw technique was actually an attack performed with a pen.
Only after focusing intently could he just make out the warped, invisible pen clutched in that hand.
“Verbal Condemnation and Written Denunciation?”
Qin Lan was caught in a dilemma.
The attack just now had clearly been the Chinese Teacher’s Written Denunciation. Its effect was straightforward and extremely powerful.
Verbal Condemnation, on the other hand, was a relatively rare mental attack. Thanks to the boost from his Soul Strength, Qin Lan’s Spirit was currently the highest of his four primary attributes.
He could copy only one ability from any given anomaly.
Which one should he choose?
After a brief hesitation, Qin Lan ultimately chose Verbal Condemnation.
“I’m not lacking close-combat techniques right now. Baton Secret Art may be fairly low-ranked, but when I pair it with a cursed weapon and infuse curse energy, it can still deal considerable damage…”
“A mental attack will give me far more value.”
[Ability copied successfully.]
[Acquired: Verbal Condemnation (4-Star)]
Qin Lan felt a strange current of energy flow into his body. A moment later, he had mastered the new ability as naturally as though he had always known it.
A more detailed description surfaced in his mind.
[Description: You have defied Qin Lan. He will launch a mental attack against you with blistering words! Damage is calculated based on his Spirit and the amount of curse energy infused into the ability. Ignores physical and elemental defenses.]
[Description: When the ability is activated, the content of the user’s words may inflict additional abnormal status effects.]
“This… This ability has that many variations?”
Qin Lan was stunned.
He had assumed Verbal Condemnation was a simple attack. He had never expected different words to produce different secondary effects.
“Rage, intimidation, temptation…”
“Its control effects are even more versatile than Baton Secret Art?”
As expected of a 4-Star anomaly’s ability.
Qin Lan’s heart began to race.
This instance was an enormous treasure vault for him.
Never mind the attributes he could gain from those anomalies. Obtaining even one random 4-Star ability was like striking gold.
Just as excitement surged through Qin Lan, the Chinese Teacher’s cold voice rang out.
“Today’s lesson is composition!”
“Your assigned topic is: My Favorite ( ).”
The deathly pale hand gripped a piece of chalk and scrawled the title across the blackboard in huge letters.
At the same time, a new notification appeared.
[Complete an essay of no fewer than 600 words within the allotted 30 minutes.]
[The writing must be vivid, the theme must be profound, and the essay must receive no fewer than 30 points out of 60.]