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The suites in the Red Eye Hotel look no different from real hotel suites at first glance.

A soft carpet, elegant wallpaper, a living room furnished with exquisite tea sets, and a semi-circular balcony...

If there is any difference, it is that there is a slightly worn parchment pasted on the door, on which several rules need to be followed are written.

1. After nightfall, please ensure that a light is always on in your room. This will ensure your safety.

2. If you see a reflection that is not yourself in the bathroom mirror after midnight, do not look at it and immediately turn off the mirror light until the reflection disappears.

3. Late-night snack service is only available from midnight to 3 a.m. Outside of that time, if you hear the sound of dishes clattering outside your door, no matter how hungry you are, please do not respond or open the door.

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After quickly glancing at the rule slip, Jiu Chonglou looked around the room and discerned the hidden rules, such as: "After 3 a.m., if the living beings in the room are not in a dormant state, their hunger will increase rapidly as they become more awake."

Like blind box apartments, red-eye hotels also like to write deadly rules on the surface, and then secretly add rules that make people either obey or violate the explicit rules.

The encryption level is quite high; at least a level 5 reconnaissance skill is required to detect and uncover the hidden rules.

Bah, it's all nonsense.

But it's of no use to us anyway. Jiu Chonglou added to himself, skipping over to Ji Mo, who was in the living room.

"You're not going to your own room?" Ji Mo asked in surprise.

"We have to work through the night to research the 'Yellow Springs,' who has time to sleep? Since we're not sleeping anyway, does it matter which room we're in?"

Jiu Chonglou spoke with conviction, this time it was her turn to shoo Ji Mo away and occupy part of the sofa space: "Make way, make way, I don't have a place to sit."

"That's true." Ji Mo pretended to take out his terminal and turned on the TV.

Although it's unlikely that the show will air at the same time and contain any strange information, what if it does?

Even if it's just background noise, it's still good.

The world of rules is a world with very little entertainment. Even ghost stories have some entertainment pursuits, but the supernatural only have how to lure people to their door and kill them, and the methods they can think of are quite simple and brutal.

Red-eye hotels, for example, are considered high-end and complex.

There are very few films and variety shows that belong to the rule-based world. Most of the content on television that is truly related to the supernatural and ghost stories is a program invested and planned by the urban world.

When the TV is turned on, it broadcasts news from the legal world.

A TV presenter, speaking in a clear and articulate voice, recounted the strange tale:

"...Recently, the highly anticipated extradition plan for the mysterious teacher has successfully completed the handover of the first batch of personnel."

We successfully received a total of seventeen low-ranking but highly knowledgeable and intelligent aliens returning to the country from the Extraordinary Countermeasures Bureau of the Mortal Realm.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hope City once again expresses its gratitude to Weifanjie for their high level of cooperation and understanding in this humanitarian collaboration.

A blurry scene, seemingly a signing ceremony, appeared on the television screen, with the outlines of both sides' representatives shrouded in shadow and indistinct.

The announcer continued: "It is understood that this group of returning talents mainly involves materialistic fields such as physics and chemistry, which fully makes up for the lack of experience in applying materialistic knowledge in the rule-based world."

To properly accommodate the returning supernatural beings and effectively utilize their professional expertise, Hope City has officially approved the campus construction plan. This will be the first university in the history of the Rules Realm where supernatural teachers serve as instructors and humans are the students…”

Ji Mo unconsciously put down the terminal and stared at the television with a look of astonishment.

After the announcer briefly described the cause and effect, the reporter switched to the perspective of the on-site reporter, and a familiar face appeared on the screen.

Kuroko, the eerie teacher at Hengrui High School.

"I'm very happy to be able to communicate with everyone in this way," Kuroko nodded slightly to the camera, her voice still gentle and pleasant. "To be honest, I never expected that after returning to the world of rules, I could continue my beloved education career. I feel equally honored, even more fulfilled. Of course, I will also miss the students I taught in the mortal world; their thirst for knowledge and imagination gave me many wonderful memories."

Reporter on site: "It seems you're really looking forward to life after your return. What are your plans for the future?"

"I received a request from Hope City and am actively preparing for the ritual to transform the ghost stories..."

"If Ms. Kuroko succeeds, it will be the lowest level of transformation in the history of the rules world, which will be a major step forward in the transformation of the supernatural into the ghost story."

"..."

The reporter shifted perspectives and continued interviewing other strange beings returning to their realms, but Ji Mo's thoughts drifted far away.

He never expected to witness the aftermath of Hengrui High School here.

"They didn't deal with those strange teachers, but instead negotiated with Hope City to extradite them back?" Jiu Chonglou was also somewhat surprised.

Like ██ Amusement Park, Hope City is an area controlled by ghost stories, essentially a residential area for ghost stories.

The fact that Kuroko was able to settle in Hope City means that the ghost stories of Hope City recognize her potential to become a ghost story.

"Perhaps they took advantage of the fact that Kuroko and his group are low-level but have exceptionally high rationality, and wanted to replicate that in other supernatural beings."

Ji Mo seemed to be deep in thought. He had always found it strange that the only way to gain power was through killing. With such a high level as Kuroko-sensei, who had likely killed many people, how could he maintain a normal attitude towards human students?

Back then, Kuroko seemed more rational than some first-tier monsters who had never killed anyone.

Looking back now, perhaps the project's claim of researching bizarre changes in intelligence was indeed a lie, but the project planners weren't simply looking to capture black slaves to use as teachers for a quick and easy fee.

Perhaps the real research direction of the project is how to give the bizarre a method of upgrading like a ghost story, without transforming it into a ghost story, that is, how to upgrade by gaining fame.

For something to be transformed from a supernatural tale into a ghost story, in addition to requiring strength, the ability to think is also an important indicator, which in a sense aligns with the research direction of the project.

During the experiment, the control group should maintain as consistent conditions as possible, except for the control factor. For example, all the eerie teachers initially started from the same level, namely, first-order eerie.

The comparison factors are nothing more than whether someone has killed someone or how well-known they are.

Kuroko happens to be the most popular teacher at Hengrui High School, as well as the most enigmatic teacher.

As for whether Hei Zi has killed anyone, Ji Mo tends to believe that she has not.

Asking is based on intuition.

"Is this considered a successful research project?" Ji Mo stated his speculation. "If we can reduce the requirements for transforming into ghost stories through extensive learning and restraint of desires, it will also benefit humanity."

"But the cost is too high. Think about how much investment was involved in Hengrui High School? How many connections were used to cover it up, and how many strange teachers actually got away with it?" Jiu Chonglou was more realistic.