Compared to Yin Zhu's live stream, viewers definitely prefer watching the live streams of other chosen ones.

For example, Louis.

All the chosen ones are pathfinders for various countries. The higher the ranking of the chosen one in each instance, the greater the probability that the country will abandon them, because they often have a few more chances to make mistakes later.

Therefore, how to avoid being abandoned by the country and demonstrate one's importance becomes a consideration for the chosen ones in addition to passing the test.

Not every chosen one is immune to the need for the help of the national think tank. Unlike Hirano San, whose progress is slow but who steadily reaches a perfect ending, most chosen ones need appropriate reminders from the state at certain times.

At this moment, Louis was really hoping that the Romantic Kingdom could give him some help.

Because he encountered a strange child.

The child had an androgynous, exquisite face; his skin was as white as snow, his lips as red as blood, and his eyes and hair as black as ebony window frames… That was the description of Snow White's appearance in fairy tales, but when Louis first saw him, he felt that it was just as fitting for him.

However, that's not the point.

The key point is that this child was wearing a kindergarten uniform but had no name tag, and was chatting with several other children in the class who were considered mentally challenged.

"Who is he?" Louis asked, somewhat puzzled.

“That man has been here for a long time, and I don’t know him,” Alain whispered to Louis. “But you’d better not go over there; he’s definitely suspicious.”

"What's the problem?" Louis asked instinctively, then immediately realized his question was inappropriate.

If Alan knew what was wrong with the boy, this loose tongue would have told him the important points directly, instead of being so vague.

As expected, Alan shook his head: "I don't know. I only know that all the normal people who got close to him disappeared later."

disappear?

Louis was sensitive to this description. Alain didn't say they died directly, but used the word "disappeared." Perhaps those people didn't die, but simply left the kindergarten.

With a glimmer of hope, Louis felt he had found a glimmer of hope to leave kindergarten.

However, there is another point in Alain's choice of words that Louis should note—"normal people".

Indeed, Said, who was talking to him, might be considered an ordinary child in kindergarten, but to him and the indigenous people, he was nothing more than a child whose mind had regressed to that of a preschooler. Even if he remembered the correct way to hold a pen, his mind was a complete mess, and he couldn't write the correct words.

All of this started because he attended the class.

Louis was quite surprised when Alain got to this point, but he could only patiently listen on.

Saide was once a member of the "Teacher Hunting Squad". He listened attentively in class one day, and after class, a strange change occurred.

He became irritable and rebellious, no longer behaving as he used to be—though short-tempered, he knew how to restrain himself. Instead, he began to unleash his true self, and eventually, because he disturbed other children's meals in the cafeteria, he was taken to the meditation room by Teacher Maria.

After he was released, Saide became a "good kid".

If Louis hadn't learned from the other children that there was no medical equipment in the meditation room, he would have thought it was actually a brain surgery room, used to remove certain tissues from children's brains.

Some "schools" on Earth used to do this, artificially creating obedient children while actually torturing them.

Louis had no idea how the kindergarten managed to do it.

But Louis didn't want to know. The world was already full of strange things; nothing seemed too strange anymore. All Louis could do was make the sign of the cross and pray for God's protection.

Even without Yin Zhu's teacher's perspective, Louis could still sense the handsome boy's special qualities.

The boy was just interacting with those silly children, yet he possessed an indescribable sense of maturity, as if he had experienced many trials and tribulations, a unique mark left by the passage of time.

Louis had last experienced this feeling with his grandfather.

Louis' keen intuition told him that this handsome boy was definitely suspicious and was likely a key figure in the entire kindergarten, but he was also dangerous and not so easy to deal with.

Out of caution about the world of rules, Louis activated his talent to assess the emotions of those around him: those who noticed the handsome boy showed tension, the silly boy was very happy, and that boy... no emotion? No, he seemed to be puzzled?

Louis abruptly stopped his talent and met a pair of merciless eyes.

The handsome boy stopped chatting with the silly boys and stared straight in Louis's direction, paying attention to the boy who had been staring blankly in his direction.

Suddenly, he smiled.

That smile sent chills down Louis's spine.

He didn't say anything, but simply walked out of the classroom. The two boys who had been chatting with him turned around at the same time, looked in Louis's direction, and flashed the same standard smile, revealing eight teeth.

Louis was startled and took a step back, bumping into Alain, who was chatting with someone next to him.

"What are you doing?" Alan asked, drawing out the sound with a grimace.

"N-nothing..." Louis quickly apologized, and when he turned back, he found that Saïd and the others had returned to normal and were back in that silly, innocent childlike state.

Savoring the handsome boy's smile, Louis turned his gaze to the statue in the classroom.

Previously, Louis had never associated the boy's cold face and resentful eyes with the statue until the boy revealed a strange smile, at which point Louis belatedly realized that the boy's face was almost identical to the statue.

However, he lacked the compassionate and serene gaze of a deity.

Clothing and demeanor are often important components in shaping a character's image, so when Louis saw the face of that idol appear on a gloomy young child in reality, he didn't even notice it at first.

Fortunately, it wasn't too late to realize it.

Ever since the "Teacher-Hunting Squad" in the class killed the new teacher, Ms. Maria put the statue on the teacher's desk in Class 2.

However, since no one listens to the lectures, not many people deliberately stare at the idol.

It was as if it were just an insignificant decoration.

Now that all the clues are connected, Louis is determined that if the boy appears again, he must find a way to safely approach him and find the key to breaking the deadlock.