A little girl at a magic school, she's a goofy troublemaker who can do anything.

"The term 'abandoned school students' is what our college calls those students; their full name is 'students in abandoned school buildings,'" Yu Lanxie continued. "I don't think I've ever seen them at school before."

Li Wenyin picked up the conversation: "Senior Nangong once mentioned to me that there is a barrier between that place and the outside world, so it seems that whatever happens inside won't affect the outside."

Yu Lanxie asked, "Aren't we going to let them out?"

"No, I came out very smoothly."

Li Wenyin pondered carefully.

"The area was very large. I didn't stay long, but I knew it wasn't just abandoned classrooms; there were many other buildings, and it was noisy, chaotic, and unmanaged."

So, many people there stayed there voluntarily, right?

Yu Lanxie frowned upon hearing this: "I've always been puzzled. Since they've already received their admission notices from the school, why don't they assign them to any colleges and leave them stuck in abandoned school buildings?"

Li Wenyin turned her gaze to Mu You: "Youyou, do you know what the inside story is?"

Yu Lanxie also turned his gaze over.

"..." Mu glanced at them again. "This, you're asking me?"

Okay, maybe I was just desperate and grasping at straws.

Li Wenyin looked at Yu Lanxie again: "Let's put aside the students from the abandoned school for now. What happened next? How did you report Ruiyuan?"

-

After learning about Ruiyuan's cheating, Yulanxie felt both bewildered and furious.

He thought to himself, what does this have to do with his father? What does it have to do with him if his opponent's teammates are fake? Besides, they were having a one-on-one duel, and Ruiyuan, who cheated, still lost. Why should Yulanxie lose the academy points for nothing?

He took a step back and became angrier the more he thought about it. He felt he couldn't take it anymore, so he decided to find Ruiyuan and reason with him, dragging him to the student council to argue.

With that thought in mind, Yu Lanxie changed direction and decided to go to Canghai Academy to look for someone.

During his search, Yu Lanxie stopped several students from Canghai Academy and asked them questions, discovering that they all seemed to disdain the name Ruiyuan.

After it was revealed that Ruiyuan's three teammates were all students from a disbanded school in disguise, the other students in the same college found it very difficult to understand.

The point is that cheating is shameful enough, ruining their college's reputation, but cheating by using fake teammates is even more shameful and absurd. Most people would cheat by tripping up their opponents or using some illegal method to improve themselves.

-

"That makes sense," Li Wenyin nodded in agreement. "I don't understand why they would use a student from a defunct school to impersonate a student from Canghai Academy. What's the reason? Is it because Ruiyuan is really unpopular and no one wants to team up with him?"

"That's exactly what I was thinking too," Yu Lanxie replied.

He continued, "So I investigated his interpersonal relationships."

"You...investigate other people's interpersonal relationships?"

Li Wenyin looked at him incredulously.

"?" Yu Lanxie turned his head. "Is there a problem with this?"

"It's quite unbelievable," Li Wenyin said, looking at him with affection. "Little Xie Xie, you've grown up."

"..." Yu Lanxie was speechless. "Don't call me that like you're some kind of crazy grass."

"Hey, did you go visit the Neurotic Grass later?" Li Wenyin changed the subject. "I heard it was sent to the Student Council's Rare Plants Observation Room."

Yu Lanxie nodded: "I read it, and then I learned that the reason it was so melancholy when it was with me was because it had a crush on another nerve grass in the same cultivation room. Being forced to separate from it when it went out to work made it very unhappy."

"Now that it's gone back and is with the grass it loves, it's become much more cheerful and optimistic. When I came to visit, it was reciting love poems like crazy."

Li Wenyin: "..." This is something I've never imagined before.

"A very touching love story," Mu You commented.

-

Yu Lanxie then went on to investigate Ruiyuan's interpersonal relationships.

You don't know until you investigate, and once you do, you find that Ruiyuan is a very strange person.

The dormitories at Canghai College are divided into male and female dormitories, with four people per room.

It's been almost two months since school started, and Ruiyuan's roommate described that Ruiyuan has only come back to stay for two nights, and each time he came back almost in the early hours of the morning, and he always smelled of blood.

-

"The smell of blood?"

Li Wenyin got goosebumps.

"It's not a particularly strong smell of blood, it's more like the smell of someone with several wounds who haven't stopped bleeding yet," Yu Lanxie explained.

"That sounds strange, doesn't it?" Mu asked doubtfully. "Didn't his roommate consider reporting it to the student council?"

Yu Lanxie was silent for a moment, then shook his head solemnly: "No, it is said that his injuries are not very deep. When asked, Ruiyuan said that it was caused by a private fight, so they did not suspect anything. In addition, private fights are something that is turned a blind eye to. Once it is mentioned that it is a private fight, most students will not talk about it, because it concerns the reputation of the academy."

Moreover, Ruiyuan was brooding and calm, and didn't seem to care about his wounds. He didn't seem like he had been bullied or his life had been threatened. If it was just a private fight, they didn't really want to take it to the student council or the teachers.

Li Wenyin found it a bit strange.

"Isn't this a great way to encourage school violence?"

Actually, when Li Wenyin, Mu Feng, and Mu You had a one-on-one private duel with the three tyrants of the Obsidian Academy Library, it was about the same thing.

The massive library complex at the time was nothing short of oppression and violence against other younger students.

Mu lowered his eyes in thought, and after a moment of contemplation, he murmured to himself, "It seems it's time to clean up these things."

"What?" He spoke too softly, and Li Wenyin didn't hear him clearly.

Mu looked at Yu Lanxie again: "Did they mention which two nights he came back with blood?"

Yu Lanxie: "Yes."

Li Wenyin stared at him with a look of intense curiosity, waiting for him to continue.

"Probably a few nights before the monthly exam, and the night before my duel with me."

"A few days before the monthly exam..." Li Wenyin repeated Yu Lanxie's words, her brain racing, "Wait, was it the days when the incident happened in the Monster Forest?"

Yu Lanxie looked at her seriously: "Ruiyuan's roommate said they don't remember very clearly, but they do remember that the moon was very round that night."

-

The moon outside the window was full and round, and its bright light shone in. Ruiyuan, who pushed open the dormitory door in the early morning, carried a bloody smell, which annoyed his other roommates who were studying for exams.

His roommate wrinkled his nose, peeked out from his bed, and asked him why he was back so late, smelling of blood again.

Ruiyuan glanced at her with a dry, calm look, and replied in a deep voice that it was just a private fight, then ignored his roommate's other questions.

His roommate, preoccupied with studying for the monthly exam, didn't bother with him anymore. He muttered a few words, "Can you not disturb the others?" but then, finding the moonlight streaming in through the window too bright, he retreated back inside.

-

"The night of the full moon..." Li Wenyin murmured, then suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "That's the night the incident happened in the Monster Forest, the night the Good-Love Bird mutated!"

Is Ruiyuan connected to the incident in the Monster Forest?!

Looking at the surprised Li Wenyin, Yu Lanxie asked, "Li Wenyin, I've heard about your exploits in the Demon Beast Forest. What happened that night?"

"It was a large bird called the Good Fortune Bird, which is usually very docile. That night, it suddenly went berserk and attacked people," Li Wenyin explained. "I have a senior who is an expert in magical beasts and lives in the Magical Beast Forest year-round. My seniors and I went to rescue her that night, and incidentally..."

Li Wenyin glanced at Xiao Muyou beside her.

I also picked up this person along the way.

Mu knew she was talking about him, so he smiled innocently at her and remained silent.

"Monster mutation..." Yu Lanxie caught the key words and pondered for a moment, "Then it really might be related to Ruiyuan."

Li Wenyin's interest immediately surged: "Why do you say that?"

"The smell of blood," Yu Lanxie pointed out the key point.

Muyou: "Is the smell of blood unusual?"

"Didn't you say that Ruiyuan's wounds weren't deep, and that his roommate believed he got them from a fight?" Li Wenyin asked.

"That's right, but I'm really puzzled," Yu Lanxie continued, "According to his roommate, the only visible wounds on his body are a few scratches on his arms and face, but he emphasized several times that he smelled very bloody."

"You mean..." Li Wenyin continued along this line of thought, "Even if a person is injured, if the wound is not deep, there won't be a strong smell of blood."

"Yes."

Yu Lanxie gave a short and forceful answer, and then came to a conclusion that was hard to believe.

"So I suspected that there might be something wrong with his blood."

Li Wenyin paused for a moment.

However, it's also possible that Ruiyuan's blood is tainted with something else...

wrong.

Yu Lanxie pointed it out; his roommate said that Ruiyuan's wounds hadn't stopped bleeding, and that was the smell of his blood.

The wound wasn't large, but the smell was terrible. It's hard to describe the smell of ordinary human blood in this way.

Then the only possibility is that Ruiyuan's blood is not that of an ordinary human.

As Li Wenyin pondered, she and Mu You exchanged a glance.

-

"For some reason, I am very sensitive to the smell of blood," Yu Lanxie continued. "After suspecting his blood, I asked his roommate if there was anything left on his blood since Ruiyuan had come back once before my match with me."

Li Wenyin expressed her full understanding.

As Senior Sister Zi Sangtang once mentioned, Yu Lanxie comes from a top-tier assassin family, so it's perfectly reasonable that he's sensitive to blood.

Yu Lanxie: "His roommate took me to their dorm room. I stood by Ruiyuan's bed for a while and smelled the lingering smell of blood."

Li Wenyin held her breath and stared intently at him.

"That's definitely not human blood; it must be mixed with an astonishing proportion of demonic beast blood."

Yu Lan spoke with a stern and righteous expression.

"Moreover, it is the blood of many different kinds of monsters that are mixed together to create blood with such a strong taste."

Li Wenyin's heart skipped a beat.

That almost certainly means that the matter of the Demon Beast Forest is related to Ruiyuan.

She was sensing many unknown secrets, hidden behind the calm of everyday life, hidden between the lines of a novel, and gently brushed aside in the corner of a rolled-up edge.

Now it is being gradually torn apart, exposed in a bloody and naked manner, cruelly and nakedly revealing itself, telling her, look, this world is also full of ugliness.

Li Wenyin fell silent, pursed her lips, and lowered her gaze.

"The monster mutation in the Monster Forest almost caused Senior Sister Yu Zhiyuan to never recover. The benevolent bird that had been with her for a long time was also shot and killed by her own hands because it was mutated and injured people. Now the Monster Forest that she loves is completely sealed off."

"It seems like my senior only has one choice: either never leave or never return. She struggles to get used to and accept this life outside that she doesn't really like."

"We all initially thought it was a natural disaster, but now I'm being told it might be man-made... I..."

She didn't know what to say.

The hands hanging by her sides clenched gently, then relaxed limply.

Mu noticed her change, reached out and gently grasped her right little finger, and asked, "Should we continue the investigation?"

Her right pinky finger was held in a small, warm hand. Li Wenyin turned to look at Mu You: "Of course I want it, and I want it even more, I absolutely must."

Having finally discovered some clues, Li Wenyin had to find out what exactly happened in the Monster Forest for her senior. After all, Mu was also in the Monster Forest, and she wanted to know the truth.

Mu smiled again.

Well, this guy was just curious at first, but now he's become determined.

Then he couldn't just ignore it for the time being.

-

"Such a thing is true," Yu Lanxie frowned, his contempt and disgust evident in his words, "Then he really is a rotten person."

Li Wenyin asked, "So, senior, is this why you reported Ruiyuan to the student council?"

"Pretty much. I reported this discovery to the student council," Yu Lanxie said, still a little annoyed. "But they didn't seem to take it seriously and never gave me a reply, so I just went to find Ruiyuan myself."

Muyou: "..."

He was silent for a moment, then asked, "Who did you contact? Don't they take your reports seriously?"

"Um... Vice President, Zhou Mixuan," Yu Lanxie replied, "He was the one who apologized to me before, saying he was too busy."

"Yes," Mu nodded quietly, "I understand."

Li Wenyin: "Why are you asking this, Youyou?"

Muyou: "Nothing, just writing down names out of boredom."

"Because I smelled Ruiyuan's blood this time, it was easier to find him again," Yu Lanxie said. "I followed the scent all the way to a small grove on the edge of Canghai Academy."

Li Wenyin: "About what time is it?"

"It was getting late, and the sky was getting dark. Plus, the light in the grove was poor, so it was quite dark. That's when I spotted Ruiyuan's back."

Yu Lanxie recalled this experience, a lingering doubt between his brows.

"Ruiyuan... He was like an animal back then. His eyes were strange, like he had no reason. He stared at me with unfamiliar vigilance, not saying a word. He didn't respond when I called his name. He just treated me as if I was going to attack him and attacked me."

Li Wenyin: "Your eyes look like an animal's... That's terrifying. Senior, did you go back to the student council?"

Yu Lanxie: "At the time, I thought, 'How dare he attack me? Can he even beat me?' So I started fighting with him."

Li Wenyin and Mu You: "..."