Chapter 005 Teacher
Earlier.
A middle-aged man knocked on the door of the principal's office.
As usual, the principal was not there and someone else let him in.
The man had an ancient hairstyle and wore a navy blue traditional costume. He had an ethereal air about him, like an immortal stepping out of an ancient painting—but the trembling and raised legs of his legs instantly dispelled this ethereal aura.
The man glanced at the graceful swordsman in the painting on the wall, then looked at the unruly vice-principal in front of him, and the corners of his mouth twitched silently.
"Are you alone?"
"Yes. That guy is not here today, so it's no different if you tell me anything." The vice principal stretched his waist, stood up and walked to the window, with his back to the man.
"The academy's protective formation was triggered just now, but it did not issue a warning. If I had not been right next to the barrier, I might not have noticed it." The man stood up straight and reported in a serious tone.
New students are enrolled today, but every new student will have the academy's mark left on their consciousness when passing through the teleportation array, and it is impossible for them to trigger the array.
The vice-principal pondered for a moment and slowly spoke, "There are two possibilities for formation fluctuations. Either the opponent is someone who doesn't carry the mark but has been recognized by the formation, or the opponent is powerful enough to block the formation."
The former is one of us, and the latter... is most likely an enemy, and quite powerful.
"These years have really made me feel like I'm going backwards." He sighed, and a cup of hot tea appeared out of thin air in his hand.
"Inform all teachers and seniors to put him on martial law. Find him without alerting the other party."
"I'll do it right away."
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"Wow, it's so real... How did he know..."
"Hehe, this time we can have some fun."
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There always seems to be the aroma of food at the tip of my nose.
Zhu Changan tried hard to open his eyes, and a turkey came into view.
Yes, it was a turkey. From Zhu Changan's perspective, the turkey was at least as tall as a mountain.
"Wow, how huge it must have been when it was alive." Zhu Changan, who hadn't yet realized the seriousness of the situation, exclaimed. He turned his head and looked around, and found that he seemed to have come to a strange place.
The ground was covered with soft red carpet, and all around were tall, strange buildings without doors or windows. Their shapes were bizarre and their colors varied, but their surfaces were all perfectly smooth. It was unclear what material they were made of, but a few of the square and cylindrical structures were crystal clear, and the faint silhouette of Zhu Changan could be seen.
Beyond that, there were some massive, disc-shaped buildings in the distance, some filled with delicious food, others filled with scraps. By this point, even Zhu Changan, no matter how dumb he was, had realized that he hadn't traveled to another world, but rather had shrunk. This wasn't someplace else, but the large dining table they'd used for the previous gathering.
Eighteen-year-old boy changed Thumbelina.
"I, I've shrunk? I'm not even as tall as this upright fork!" Zhu Chang'an's eyes widened, and he measured his length against the fork. After a brief moment of panic, he clutched his head and quickly understood the cause and effect. "It must have been that intruder. Damn it, I can't be afraid... I have to find the others first."
He subconsciously thought of Mo Xuanji and Shen Liuxue. He quickly took out his phone to call them, but when he opened the address book, he realized something awkward—it seemed like they hadn't exchanged contact information yet.
Ying.
Fortunately, Zhu Changan still had some memory of Mo Xuanji's previous location, and after a brief assessment, he walked forward. However, the once bustling dining table now resembled a complex maze, with all kinds of tableware haphazardly placed on it, blocking the way. After being forced to take several detours, Zhu Changan was completely lost.
I don’t know if this intersection is the same as the previous one, they look exactly the same.
"I must carry a compass with me from now on." Zhu Changan once again realized his poor sense of direction.
"Help... Help! I'm drowning!" A cry for help suddenly came from a soup bowl.
"Is there someone inside? Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you!" Zhu Changan was stunned, then ran towards the source of the sound while shouting.
The sound came from a bowl.
To Zhu Changan now, the bowl in front of him was like a huge water tank. After all the struggles, he finally climbed up the spoon and saw the person calling for help—no, Cao'er.
A miserable sunflower was struggling in the soup, using its leaves to maintain balance while trying to push its roots out of the water to breathe.
"Hey?" Zhu Changan quickly realized that this was a classmate from the demon tribe. He quickly picked up the chopsticks beside him and shakily reached the other end into the bowl to try to scoop it up for him: "Quick! Grab it, I'll bring you up."
"I can't catch it! I can't change back to human form..." The sunflower climbed onto the chopsticks several times, but it didn't have much grip in its plant state, and the chopsticks themselves were relatively smooth. Even though it tried hard to tightly wrap its roots around the chopsticks, it eventually slid down helplessly.
Seeing that the unfortunate child was about to die, Zhu Changan steeled himself and shouted, "I'm sorry!" Then he poked the chopsticks under Sunflower's body and pried it up hard.
Sunflower was flung flying, soup and all, with a sharp scream, drawing a beautiful parabola in the air. Seeing this, Zhu Changan immediately dropped his chopsticks and jumped in, successfully saving it just before it hit the ground and collapsed into a puddle of grass.
"Wu ...
"I'm sorry, I really had no choice but to do this. Are you... okay now?"
"I'm fine, thank you." After spitting out the excess water, Sunflower classmate seemed to be a little more alert.
Zhu Changan observed carefully again and was relieved when he found that the other party was indeed fine.
"Hey, you look familiar. Have we met on the train before?" Zhu Changan scratched the back of his head, and immediately thought of the sunflower pot on the train table. However, that pot, including the flower and the pot, was only the size of a palm, while this one was much larger.
Sunflower, who was muttering to herself, froze on the spot. Fortunately, Zhu Changan did not delve into the issue.
"Classmate, have you ever run into Mo Xuanji and Shen Liuxue? One of them has a lot of small locks hanging on his body, and the other carries a sword. They're easy to spot."
Sunflower breathed a sigh of relief, then shook his crown - it looked like this was the head.
"No, I was in the bowl when I woke up, and you were the first person I met."
Suddenly, the sunflower froze, and after a few seconds, it started cursing, "Damn it! What on earth did that guy do? Not only did my body shrink, but I can't even use my magic power! Damn it... This is such a shame and humiliation for us! I'll remember this! I must take revenge!"
Its voice gradually darkened.
Humans and demons use different power systems. Humans' special powers are called superpowers, while demons' are called demonic powers.
Zhu Changan was somewhat bewildered. He had never been able to control his supernatural powers to begin with, and for a moment he hadn't noticed that they were no longer usable.
After Sunflower finished cursing, Zhu Changan asked, "What are your plans now?"
"I'll go with you. We don't know where that guy is hiding, and we don't have any power to support ourselves right now. It's safer for us to go together."
"Okay. Then let's go find Xuanji and Shen Liuxue first. My intuition tells me that as long as we find them, there will definitely be a solution."
Mo Xuanji and Shen Liuxue? Sunflower lowered his head in thought for a moment. He had never heard of the former, but he had heard a little about the latter. Her abilities were among the best in this batch of freshmen, so it was no problem to go to her.
"Okay. I don't know your name yet."
"Hey, my name is Zhu Changan."
"Ji Sheng." The sunflower's voice suddenly became quieter. It was trying to curl itself up into a ball, and its voice was a little bit: "Damn... Saying your own name is really embarrassing."
They chatted as they walked. After passing a plate of fruit, they ran into a rather gloomy-looking young man. He had unusual brown hair, and his green eyes darted towards them. His lips parted slightly, revealing shark-like teeth.
"Hello, classmate, you too... ah!" Zhu Changan was about to step forward to say hello when he was stopped by Ji Sheng.
Ji Sheng looked at the other person, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying. His body trembled, and he squeezed out two words from between his teeth: "Run!"
Zhu Changan was a little confused, and instinctively picked up Ji Sheng and turned around to run. Fortunately, he soon realized why he was running.
Shark Tooth locked his eyes on him, raised his hand, and a green vine grew out from his palm. As his arm swung, it lashed towards Zhu Changan fiercely.
Fortunately, Zhu Changan had practiced before, so dodging the whip was relatively easy. "Ji Sheng, what's going on? Why is he attacking us?"
"He looks exactly like my human form!" Ji Sheng exclaimed in horror. "The legend of the doppelganger* circulating among our clan is true. Run! If he kills us, he'll assume our identity, and then we won't be ourselves anymore."
Zhu Changan dodged several attacks, then quickened his pace, deliberately circling around several tall tableware that blocked his view.
When Ji Sheng's doppelganger caught up, it couldn't help but slow down its pace as it looked at the empty surroundings. It tilted its head, as if listening to something, and then passed Pudding by the side and went to the side.
After a while, a human head and a flower popped out from a light yellow pudding.
"Pfft, I'm dying of suffocation. Tom and Jerry never lied to me!" Zhu Changan was a little excited. He struggled to pull himself out of the pudding and helped Ji Sheng to peel away the pudding around him. Ji Sheng was in a vegetative state, and he was afraid that if he pulled too hard, he would hurt himself.
Suddenly, a chilling feeling shot through his spine. Without a second thought, Zhu Chang'an quickly jumped to the side. Looking back, he saw a rock spike piercing from where he had just stood. If he hadn't dodged in time, he would have been pierced from bottom to top.
"Zhu Chang'an" walked out from behind.
Zhu Changan picked up Ji Sheng and subconsciously took a step back.
The footsteps approached from afar, then stopped. Without looking back, I knew it was another "Ji Sheng" returning.
There is a wolf in front and a tiger behind, with two powerless weaklings in the middle.
It’s over, this one is going to be a failure.
......
A sharp wind blade struck, and Mo Xuanji was unable to dodge it, leaving a wound on his arm. Blood immediately gushed out. He used the force to somersault high up, then half-crouched, covering the wound with one hand and looking warily at the attacker.
The man raised his head, revealing a face exactly like Mo Xuanji's.
"System." The system did not respond.
Mo Xuanji narrowed his eyes, and a hint of coldness flashed in his dark pupils.
"A clone or something, it can actually steal my superpowers."
Mo Xuanji's original ability was to control the wind element. He was extremely gifted, having fully mastered it when it first awakened. But now, his ability was unusable. Was it stolen by this thing before him?
Seeing his attack fail, the thief's handsome face gradually darkened with murderous intent. He remained silent, only increasing the frequency of his attacks. He unleashed every skill Mo Xuanji had at his disposal, relentlessly charging towards the main body's head.
Mo Xuanji jumped in the direction to another plate of apples, and the place where he was originally standing was chopped into pieces by the wind blade.
The "thief" pursued relentlessly, attacking Mo Xuanji relentlessly like a torrential downpour, heading straight for his vital points.
Mo Xuanji jumped back a few steps, kicked up a fruit fork, and spun half a circle in the air. After one foot landed, he used the inertia of his body to kick out the other foot*. The fruit fork was blown away by the sudden burst of force and collided with the wind blade.
The wind blades were completely neutralized, and the metal fruit fork turned into a pile of iron sheets after a moment.
If you fail to dodge this attack, you will definitely be sliced into pieces.
"It" really wants to kill him!
In this situation, the power devourer, system hibernation, and even a vest... a vest definitely wouldn't work. He still hadn't figured out the vest's combat capabilities, nor the intruder's details. Furthermore, the main body would lose consciousness while using the vest. If he rashly summoned it, the vest would be entangled by the intruder and unable to escape in time, and the main body would be doomed.
Mo Xuanji put his left hand into his pocket, squeezed the feather tightly, and then let go.
"No, it's not time to use it yet."
Mo Xuanji's mind moved slightly. He quickly observed the terrain around him, and a plan quietly took shape in his mind.
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