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Netizens were stunned, their keyboards practically sparking with excitement as they typed.

[It's not a big deal. I can understand that the proctor is a host of an evil god, but what about the rest?]

[Yeah, we were talking about this, why did they suddenly bring up Li Xingguo? Li Xingguo is with an evil god? How could that be!]

I think I've missed something. Can someone explain it to me? I really don't understand. Don't bully people like us who are brainless...

[What happened? I don't believe it! This Teacher Li is such a good person; he had his reasons back then, and he even helped you a lot!]

Principal Zhang let out a shrill, inhuman whistle.

Its massive body began to tremble violently, large patches of skin peeling off and melting away, revealing an even more grotesque true form beneath, composed of countless tiny tentacles tangled together.

"How did you know... Li Xingguo's identity? Did he tell you? Or was it that little bitch?! No! Impossible!"

Cheng Caijun was also shocked. Was Lu Changsheng right? Was Li Xingguo just pretending all along?

But Lu Changsheng didn't have time to pay attention to Cheng Caijun; he keenly caught the key information in Principal Zhang Mingyuan's words.

"Little bitch? And another key figure... Could it be..."

But the timing wasn't right. Without thinking it over, Lu Changsheng continued:

"The failure of the conversion ritual back then was due to his instigation of Xie Yiping's suicide, which is very strange. In Xie Yiping's diary, she mentioned that the dormitory supervisor told them that their parents didn't want them anymore. Li Xingguo wanted to make these students despair and commit suicide to disrupt the conversion ritual. His goal was to make the ritual fail and force them to summon evil gods out of fear of being haunted by ghosts."

"He gave you the method to summon the evil god, right? And you were afraid that one day you would be devoured by the evil god, so you made him sign the employee agreement. But you didn't expect that the ghost's resentment was so great that even the barrier set up by the evil god could not stop it. Therefore, you had to use your own and your teacher's life force to maintain the barrier."

"but......"

Lu Changsheng's voice was even lower, like a cold dagger piercing precisely into the most vulnerable part of the principal's chaotic consciousness, "With your current life force, even maintaining this barely human form is so difficult, do you still have the strength to repair those collapsing barriers?"

He took a step closer, ignoring the wildly waving tentacles and splattering slime, his eyes blazing:

"Or are you still clinging to your last shred of hope in that evil god who promised you protection, and in Li Xingguo, whom you've personally controlled?"

He almost burst out laughing, a laugh filled with chilling sarcasm:

"Principal Zhang, how dare you? How dare you place your last bet on an evil god who feeds on lies and blood, and an 'evil god follower' who has been waiting for you to fall into his trap from the very beginning?"

"Aaaaaaahh ...

The principal's shriek reached its peak, a sound no longer capable of being made by a human or any known creature. Its massive body completely disintegrated, revealing its true, nauseating nature beneath—

It was an aggregate of countless tiny, slippery, constantly wriggling and intertwined dark red tentacles, each with a miniature, twisted ball of flesh at its tip.

These fleshy spheres burst open simultaneously, like countless mouths opening, emitting chaotic and mournful howls.

The light in the entire room was absorbed by this abhorrent presence, making it even darker.

Cheng Caijun was so frightened that he couldn't speak. He could only cling tightly to the door frame, his legs trembling.

The live stream chat exploded with comments; the sheer volume of information and the dramatic plot twists left countless viewers completely bewildered.

[My CPU is fried! Li Xingguo is a follower of an evil god?! He instigated Xie Yiping's suicide? Just to force the principal to summon an evil god?!]

So Li Xingguo is one of the masterminds behind this? He gave the principal the method to summon him? And then the principal used a protocol to control him? What kind of endless nesting is this?!

[This is chilling to think about! If Li Xingguo is a believer, could the evidence he gave Lu Changsheng also be part of a plan?!]

[This is insane! Everyone's gone mad! How many layers of reversal are there in this dungeon?!]

Despite the principal's utterly frantic roars and the wild thrashing of his beard, Lu Changsheng maintained an astonishing composure.

Zhang Mingyuan's consciousness seemed to have finally been driven to the brink by Lu Changsheng's words, and the waving of his whiskers froze for a moment.

But suddenly he calmed down, as if someone had pressed the pause button.

"You think... I know absolutely nothing?"

The principal's voice suddenly changed. It was no longer a pure, frantic roar, but rather a calm tinged with extreme exhaustion and near-emptiness. The wild thrashing of his whiskers abruptly stopped, and a numb, almost resigned expression appeared on his face.

This sudden change made Lu Changsheng's heart sink.

"It's no use."

The principal, or rather the mass of tentacles, said slowly, in an almost sighing tone, "From the moment that ritual failed in 2015 and I had to pray to Him for protection, this day was destined to come."

Its body trembled slightly, not from fear, but from the weakness of some kind of power being exhausted. Its tentacles began to wither and shrivel at a visible speed, as if the power supporting them was being rapidly drained away.

"He was already impatient. Each ring of the bell was not only the completion of 'feeding,' but also an urging and warning to me. And I... could offer less and less."

Lu Changsheng's expression suddenly darkened. The bell rang!

The ringing bell does indeed represent something else. Could it be that... the next ringing bell will mark the beginning of the evil god's "blood feast"?

Thinking of this, Lu Changsheng felt a chill run down his spine. If that was really the case, this instance was even more difficult than he had imagined.

Principal Zhang Mingyuan looked at Lu Changsheng, and a strange, almost sympathetic look appeared in his eyes.

"You're right about a lot, young man. Li Xingguo? He's certainly not clean. But do you think I'm just an unwitting pawn on his chessboard?"

The principal let out a low, hoarse laugh that sounded like a broken bellows.

"No. We are all pawns. What's the use of you exposing all this? When the bell rings, you, me, us... will all die—"

"Then why not..." Its voice suddenly turned cold, carrying the malice of a dying creature, "...you will die by my hand first!"

Before the words were finished, the core of the withered tentacles suddenly contracted violently. Then, the three thickest and most ferocious shadow tentacles, like venomous pythons brimming with power, tore through the air and shot towards Lu Changsheng and Cheng Caijun with a corrosive, foul wind!