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

"..."

Mu calmly shifted his gaze, as if he suddenly found the greenery beside him particularly attractive, and he could never get tired of looking at it.

"How could that be? Our president is flawless."

Li Wenyin stared at Mu You suspiciously: "Really? Why does your tone sound a bit off?"

"No, it's your imagination." Mu still didn't look at her.

"Alright, I'll believe you," Li Wenyin replied without hesitation. "I trust that Youyou and the president wouldn't bother playing tricks on me, right?"

Muyou: "..."

Wait a minute, let him think about it first.

-

Meeting Room No. 7.

Li Wenyin strolled in carrying the little wooden cat, intending to see up close how Vice President Zhou's clone interrogated the students, and also to gossip about why these students had come.

Zhou Mixuan's clone was exactly like him. If Li Wenyin hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she probably wouldn't have been able to imagine that it was his clone.

The same figure, the same lifeless eyes, the same unfriendly and decisive expression.

There were two students, a boy and a girl, opposite them.

Zhou Mixuan, the clone, flipped through the files on the table without even lifting her eyelids: "Relationship disputes?"

The male student straightened his neck and said, "Yes! Vice President."

"When did the student council become the neighborhood committee?" Zhou Mixuan turned to the next page expressionlessly. "The president didn't even tell me about such a big thing."

The female student retorted defiantly, "I told you long ago I didn't want to come, but this guy insisted on dragging me here! Seriously, he's making a fuss over such a trivial matter."

The male student retorted, "This isn't just a typical relationship dispute; I personally believe it's very serious!"

"Oh?" Zhou Mixuan looked up at him. That's how it should be, but her unfocused and lifeless eyes were strangely unsettling. "So interesting? Then it doesn't make sense that you've been struggling here for so long without losing an arm or a leg, does it?"

Upon hearing this, Li Wenyin trembled and hugged the child in her arms tightly.

Oh my god, that's really scary. She truly lives up to her name as a demon. Luckily, it was the president who interrogated Li Wenyin before.

The wooden figure in his arms didn't know what was wrong with her this time. She suddenly squeezed him, looked at him with a puzzled expression, and tilted her head in confusion.

What's wrong? As it stands, isn't this still a friendly and normal interrogation?

-

"You've hit the nail on the head, Vice President! I'm so upset! She cheated on me!" the male student said indignantly, berating the female student next to him who was his sworn enemy.

Zhou Mixuan: "Cheating?"

"I didn't cheat at all! I've told you a hundred times that I didn't cheat at all. That night I was clearly feeding my bird," the female student argued. "This damn guy insists that I was arguing with another man. It's ridiculous."

The male student was furious and started yelling at her, his face flushed red: "What kind of bird are you? I think you're the bird of your future happiness! I saw it all, I saw it with both eyes, you were just cuddling with some guy, some little puppy who doesn't even know what grade he is."

The female student rolled her eyes: "I actually wish it were a cute little puppy, then you'd be so mad. Too bad, he's a total jerk."

They were arguing fiercely, while Zhou Mixuan, the clone, quietly flipped through the files on the other side.

"The night before last, downstairs at Building 4 of the girls' dormitory in Canghai College, two people, a couple, were there. The man claimed he witnessed the woman arguing with an unidentified man, and the woman claimed she was feeding a bird. Is that right?"

"Yes!" the male student exclaimed indignantly. "We had just finished our date during the day. I walked her to her dorm, and not long after I left, I realized she had left her necklace with me, so I went back. That's when I caught her in a compromising situation with a guy!"

"That's true at first, but the rest is complete nonsense," the female student said angrily. "I was in a good mood, just feeding the birds, when he suddenly came rushing over angrily, scaring all my birds away. He even said he caught me seeing a man!"

Their conversation was chaotic and filled with anger towards each other. They each believed they were telling the truth and were very confident, thinking the other was just being unreasonable and making a fuss for no reason.

It's true, no one seems to be lying.

At this moment, Zhou Mixuan asked the female student, "You said you were feeding birds, describe what the birds look like?"

"Hmm... the feathers are very beautiful, black and blue, with more blue. When it stands on the ground, it doesn't bark or make a sound, it's very well-behaved." The female student tried hard to recall.

Zhou Mixuan: "And the size?"

"size......"

At this point, the female student suddenly seemed dazed and said something unbelievable in a confused and helpless manner.

"His size... seems to be... half a head taller than me?"

Zhou Mixuan asked, "Is the little bird standing on the ground half a head taller than you?"

"You mean, you're feeding a bird taller than you downstairs in your dorm?" He placed his hand on the table and tapped the surface slowly and rhythmically.

The female student's face turned deathly pale in an instant.

"See! You've been exposed! You were the one lying. The Monster Forest is sealed off; normal birds outside aren't nearly as tall as a person!" the male student said smugly. "You were just arguing with a guy!"

"And you."

Zhou Mixuan looked at the male student unhurriedly.

"Since you already caught her 'lover,' why didn't you bring that man along? What did you see?"

"I was so angry at the time, I was careless for a moment!" the male student explained, then suddenly frowned as he recalled the events, "I saw a man in the distance... but as I got closer..."

Zhou Mixuan pressed further, "What did you see when you got closer? Her explanation was that you startled the birds and they flew away."

"I saw... oh right, I saw a big bird, spread its wings and flew away..."

As the male student spoke, his voice grew softer and softer, and he suddenly became extremely bewildered and terrified.

Zhou Mixuan closed the folder and placed it on the table.

"Haven't you all noticed that there are very strange things even in your own memories?"

The two students were deathly pale and couldn't utter a single word.

They didn't.

Their attention seems to be deliberately drawn to something, causing them to ignore everything else. Even the slightest hint will reveal numerous flaws that are terrifying.

A woman was feeding a bird that was taller than her.

A woman catches her lover cheating on her in the act but doesn't care about him.

Zhou Mixuan stood up, opened the conference room door, and ordered the members outside: "Send two people to take them to the technical department for a full-body checkup to see what kind of magic has been cast on them."

Li Wenyin, carrying Mu You, took the opportunity to sneak out.

-

Mu blinked gently, gazing in the direction of the two students from before: "What do you think?"

"What you see is not the truth; it's some kind of magic that can create illusions," Li Wenyin whispered, "I've had a similar experience."

"Was it during that time in the Monster Forest?" Mu asked again.

"Yes, I remember that there should have been two senior students guarding the entrance to the Monster Forest, but that day, there was no one there. We just walked straight in. And the Monster Forest we saw was completely different from the one I had seen a few days ago. The Monster Forest used to be full of birds and flowers, but that night it was overgrown with thorns."

Li Wenyin analyzed meticulously.

"But hallucinations don't affect the reality. No matter what I see, there should be students guarding the checkpoint stopping me, but there aren't."

"This means," Mu continued, "that you were indeed subjected to a hallucination, but this hallucination didn't make you perceive a guarded person as an unguarded one, but rather..."

Li Wenyin: "Instead, they saw a secret entrance as the gateway to the Monster Forest."

That's why the scenery of the monster forest that you see after entering is completely different from what you saw before.

Because that night, Li Wenyin, Mu Feng, and Pei Yuan did not enter through the Monster Forest gate at all!

It is a secret entrance, a secret entrance located elsewhere.

This explains why, even though the Monster Forest was supposed to be sealed off in the novel, the main characters were still able to enter and explore it.

It also explained why Qin Guanyu's reinforcements were so slow later on, because they took a completely different route, entering through the real pass, which is why they encountered the guards who had been there all along, saying something like, "No one entered tonight."

Mu murmured for a moment, then asked, "Regarding that emotional dispute earlier, do you think it was a person or a bird?"

"It's a person, it must be a person."

Li Wenyin made a bold conjecture.

"And I feel that person is Ruiyuan."

"Why do you say that?" Mu asked again.

Li Wenyin carried Mu You upstairs: "Youyou, did you notice what the female student described as the 'bird'? It was black and blue... If the black refers to its black hair, then the main blue color must be its clothes, right?"

Ruiyuan is a student at Canghai Academy, and the school uniform is azure blue.

From a distance, it looks like a mix of black and blue, with more blue.

And weren't the male and female students right downstairs from the dormitory building of Canghai College at that time?

"You mean Ruiyuan possesses a kind of illusion magic that makes others mistake him for an animal and not doubt his true nature?"

Mu pondered Li Wenyin's unusually bold guess.

"In that case... I've figured something out."

"What is it?" Li Wenyin asked.

Mu You: "That's why his roommate said he's only been back to the dorm twice in almost two months."

Li Wenyin was still a little confused.

Mu continued, "When Yu Lan was spouting nonsense earlier, I had some doubts. How could a student stay away from the dormitory for so many nights without being discovered? Even in the remote Monster Forest, there are people like Yu Zhiyuan guarding the forest, not to mention that the Monster Forest was later sealed off."

"Based on your point of view, I think..." Mu said again, "Ruiyuan actually goes back to his dorm every night, but his roommates think he doesn't."

Li Wenyin was greatly alarmed.

Yes, that makes sense now.

He goes back to the dorm every night! But from his roommate's perspective, it's not Ruiyuan who comes back, but some inconspicuous bird, some stray cat or dog, some random thing, anything but Ruiyuan.

Then why did they see Ruiyuan on two other nights?

The unusual thing is the smell of blood.

For some unknown reason, Ruiyuan was injured at that time, which destroyed his own illusion magic.

Yu Lanxie followed Ruiyuan into the grove and saw Ruiyuan himself, not some other animal, probably because Ruiyuan was bleeding.

Illusion magic, it's illusion magic again!

Li Wenyin's heart pounded: "I feel like I'm very close to the truth, but all of this is based on the premise that he knows illusion magic. How can I prove that he knows illusion magic?"

"Well," Mu smiled slightly, "didn't he give it a grand performance in front of everyone?"

Li Wenyin's mind went blank for a moment.

That flag-raising ceremony!

-

"Under everyone's watchful eyes, Ruiyuan raised his hand and threw the potion like a firecracker, silencing everyone around him and making them stare with bated breath."

The once towering flagpole shrank, becoming a pole that Ruiyuan could easily hang the college flag on without even raising his hand.

After he leisurely hung up the school flag, the flagpole grew back to its usual height.

"I knew it! How could the flagpole for the college flag be so easily resized?" Li Wenyin exclaimed in sudden realization, "It was an illusion magic!"

He had already demonstrated his amazing illusion magic to many people long ago.

Moreover, Ruiyuan always uses the pop-up potion-smashing method, which can be used on people or objects. Since it can be used on the flagpole, it means that Ruiyuan can also cast illusion magic on the secret entrance of the Monster Forest.

"What a pity. If he hadn't taken the crooked path," Mu lowered his eyes, "he would have been a genius."

Li Wenyin held Mu You in her arms, looking at the torture chamber in front of her: "The problem now is, what exactly happened to Ruiyuan's blood?"

If the investigation results confirm what Yu Lanxie said—that the blood was mixed with an astonishing proportion of demonic beast blood—then it can be basically concluded that the matter of the Demonic Beast Forest is inextricably linked to Ruiyuan.

He disguised himself as an animal, discovered the secret entrance to the Monster Forest, and on that full moon night, used illusion magic to make the secret entrance look like a checkpoint... What was the purpose of all this?

Li Wenyin stared at the interrogation room in front of her.

Mu heard Li Wenyin's slightly rapid breathing and asked softly, "Are you nervous? Should I go in alone?"

"No."

It seemed as if fire was burning in Li Wenyin's eyes.

"I'm very curious."

Mu glanced at her again, his heart trembling slightly, as if he had been burned by the fire in her eyes.

"And besides," Li Wenyin said, her serious expression turning playful again after a moment, "You're not allowed to leave me, you feel so good to touch."

It's tiny and pretty, with a tender body and very soft hair that's a bit too long, reaching its shoulders. It's fragrant and soft to hold, and it has a unique scent that Li Wenyin noticed from the beginning. It smells delicious.

It really is like a little kitten, so easy to pet, and so obedient that it can't resist.

"..."

Mu smiled again.

Okay, you just wait.

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