Infinity Throne

"Close your eyes."

The students looked up and looked at this strange new art teacher with confused expressions on their faces.

"Listen to me and I will show you the real art."

Yi Lin said seriously.

The students closed their eyes obediently.

It seems that at this moment, they will let Mr. Muto do whatever he wants.

"Empty your mind,"

"Take a deep breath,"

"Listen to my rhythm,"

"Breathe, breathe...breathe...breathe..."

Yi Lin said slowly with a gentle voice.

While all the students closed their eyes, Yi Lin quietly put on the [Discipline Committee Armband].

"Imagine you are in a blank world,"

"In this world, there is nothing but yourself and a piece of white paper. Yes, a piece of pure white paper without any restrictions."

"You can create anything on paper without even using any tools."

"At this moment,"

"In this world, something else emerged."

"A little bit, something different."

The students' expressions became relaxed,

Like above the clouds.

Following Yi Lin's voice, their bodies rose and fell, swaying slightly from side to side.

Yi Lin even used a little "hypnosis" technique.

Although Yi Lin is not a professional hypnosis master, with the support of that super high mental attribute, it is not difficult for ordinary students to do this as long as they are undefended.

What's more, there are also the effects of props.

Yi Lin continued to fool...ah no, continue the class:

"In this world, something different has emerged."

"ah, "

Yi Lin suddenly sighed, full of emotion:

"You've seen it before,"

"It is the existence deep in your heart that you least want to touch, or are the most reluctant to touch,"

"It's your secret,"

"It's your wish,"

"It's your dream too."

Following Yi Lin's voice, I don't know what happened in the students' imaginations. On each student's face, the facial features suddenly crowded together, as if they were in pain or entangled with something, and their bodies trembled slightly. Many students even had cold sweat on their foreheads.

Many students, holding paintbrushes, began to subconsciously dance on the blank canvas.

Yi Lin walked to the students' side silently, Kai followed him like a shadow.

Yi Lin frowned when he saw clearly what ghosts the students were drawing.

Every canvas has a similar style.

On the pure white canvas, there are random graffiti, split color blocks, twisted lines, colorful and strange, or black and white. Chaos, disorder, fragmentation. Some of them look like monsters whose limbs cannot be distinguished, and some of them look like human faces with their facial features messed up. If you blink again, it seems like they are just graffiti drawn while talking in your sleep.

Yi Lin said nothing as she passed by students one after another, memorizing their "masterpieces" in her mind.

Well, he's worse at painting than me.

"Ah...Teacher, I'm ready."

A voice like waking up from a dream broke the silence.

Right now.

In the corner of the art class teacher, a girl with a small bruise on her face carefully raised her hand.

The girl's voice woke up all the students who had fallen into hypnosis. The students looked at the paintings in front of them and burst into laughter without realizing it.

Yi Lin quickened her pace and walked to the girl.

On that canvas, there is a girl painted.

Perhaps because the painting was done with eyes closed, the facial features of the "girl" on the canvas are not very symmetrical, but it can be seen that this is a very cute girl with short hair and a sweet smile.

On the canvas, the girl is sitting on the endless seaside, looking back and smiling.

"who is she?"

Yi Lin asked.

"I don't know." The female voice in the corner raised her head blankly upon hearing Yi Lin's question, with a bit of confusion in her eyes: "Qianhui doesn't know her."

"Can this painting be given to the teacher as a souvenir?"

Yi Lin asked, and before the girl could respond, she gently took the painting off the easel.

Qianhui lowered her head.

Seeing that Yi Lin had already started to take action, he could only say in a low voice: "...Okay, Teacher Muto."

"...Call Teacher Yi Lin."

"Okay, Teacher Yi Lin."

"May I have your name."

"Chie, Tanino Chie."

…

…

Yi Lin finally finished this art class.

There is another class in the afternoon.

relax and happy.

The wages are ridiculously high.

"It seems that only those who successfully apply for the position of 'teacher' can be qualified for 'reasonable' investigation."

"But what will happen if you force your way into Kanzaki Middle School?"

Right now.

The death mark shook slightly on Yi Lin's chest.

At first glance, it was Jingjing.

The two began to secretly chat privately:

Yi Lin: How's it going?

Xu Jingjing: I have received a follow-up mission!

Yi Lin: Sure enough, please tell me in detail how you answered it.

Xu Anjing: I was shopping in Kanzaki City just now...

Yi Lin: ...wait. Are you still in the mood for shopping?

Xu Jingjing: Don’t interrupt, shopping is a girl’s lifelong enemy, okay? Let’s get down to business first. When I was shopping just now, a woman suddenly passed by me and thrust a USB flash drive into my hand. I found a place and opened the USB flash drive. Guess what I found?

Yi Lin: ...don't be too pretentious, just be direct.

Xu Jingjing: Hee hee, do you remember, there was such a paragraph in our first mission prompt.

Yi Lin: There is a lake in the school?

Xu Jingjing: No.

Yi Lin: That should be an "accident".

Xu Jingjing: That’s right! That's it. On August 5, 27 teachers from Kanzaki Middle School all died in their dormitories. It is said that they committed suicide in various ways. It is said that the police finally came and determined that it was a suicide and there was no suspicion of homicide.

Yi Lin: Is it all suicide?

Xu Jingjing: This should be an important clue. By the way, I hate playing this kind of decryption type trial...

Yi Lin: Are there any other clues?

Xu Anjing: In addition to the sealed case information, the USB flash drive finally gave an address. However, no information other than the address was mentioned, and I don’t know why. But after I saw the address, I received the mission.

Yi Lin: What mission?

Xu Jingjing: Found something called "Pandora's Box". Strange, this shouldn't be a prop, right?

Yi Lin thought for a moment.

After a few simple words of advice, Yi Lin concluded:

"The clue should be very clear. Our identity should be similar to that of 'investigator', responsible for investigating various hidden cases. That's why the original identity said 'your current identity is a social animal'. It should be... similar to Private detective or something like that. The woman who contacted you and secretly gave you the USB flash drive should be your contact person."

"Oh, so mysterious?"

Xu Jingjing was shocked, she didn't expect this level.

"This shouldn't be a bad thing. Moreover, since you don't notice any malice, you should be on our side, so you can ignore it for the time being. In many cases, this kind of background force may just be the tower's way of inserting us into this world. , it’s just a borrowed background board. Just focus on the task.”

"clear!"

"By the way," Yi Lin thought of Xu Jingjing's "malicious" touch and asked again, "Have you found the source of your discomfort?"

"No." Speaking of this, Xu Jingjing was also very depressed: "It feels like looking for a piece of shit in the toilet. The whole city smells like that. How do you want me to find it?"

"...Can you please stop using such disgusting metaphors? You are just a little girl."

"I like it, do you care?"

Xu Jingjing snorted lightly and hurriedly hung up the communication without saying anything more.

"So there are two lines?"

After ending the call with Xu Anjing, Yi Lin fell into deep thought.

The clues gradually became clear.

Obviously, the entire trial should revolve around an existence called "Pandora's Box". Currently in the trial, forty-nine people plus one dog are divided into two groups. One group is outside the school and the other is inside the school. But both outside and inside the school, everyone is looking for clues about "Pandora's Box".

"But actually, it should be right here."

Yi Lin leaned in the corridor, looked at the gloomy sky, smiled, and thought to herself: "For us apostles, it is not difficult to find Pandora's Box. The difficulty is that no one knows now what 'what' is It’s Pandora’s Box.”

Is Pandora's Box, as it appears on the surface, a box? Or is it other forms of existence?

This is the difficulty of the second main task.

If she really wanted to know the true identity of Pandora's Box, Yi Lin could even use the effect of [Congxin's Compass] to point out its location.

"So, it was divided into two lines? It seems like it is. Pandora's Box is hidden somewhere in Kanzaki Middle School. And people outside the school must use various clues to find out the true face of 'Pandora's Box'. Group Split up in team mode? This trial is a bit interesting."

It's lunch break time.

As an art teacher, Yi Lin is actually very free and has a lot of time to hang out on campus.

Taking advantage of nothing, Yi Lin came to the place he was paying attention to.

--"lake".

In the initial mission prompt, there is this sentence:

[There is a lake in the school. 】

This hint is too obvious.

Except for the blind or stupid, probably no one can see it.

In Kanzaki Middle School, there is indeed a lake on the school map.

This lake, located in the woods behind the school, is off-limits to students.

Yi Lin took the time to browse the campus BBS.

It is said that many students have opinions on this.

If you say it's forbidden to go into the lake, just go into the lake, it doesn't matter. What does it mean to be prohibited from entering the woods?

How much fun is missing!

Yi Lin ignored for the time being what fun the students were looking for in the woods.

He quietly came to the back of Kanzaki Middle School.

The grove is surrounded by high barbed wire fences, and security booths are set up at regular intervals. Monitoring equipment is installed throughout the barbed wire fence and the defense is tight.

"The defense here is tighter than a bank vault. Does this place have no silver? If there is no problem in this lake, I will drink all the water in the lake." Yi Lin silently raised a flag.

Yi Lin noticed that there were many "comrades" around the back mountain, quietly hiding in the dark, but they did not dare to act rashly.

I don’t know if it’s because I followed the mission instructions to “be careful in what I say and do”, or because of mutual restraint among peers.

Before Yi Lin came, she had already activated [Following Like a Shadow]. He observed from a distance for a while. The next second, Yi Lin calmly disappeared behind the corner, then turned into an imperceptible small shadow. He moved quickly along the wall and ground from the corner, easily crossed the barbed wire fence, and entered the small woods. middle.

What is there in the woods?

Yi Lin was inexplicably looking forward to it.