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

Interrogation Room No. 9, first floor of the Student Union building.

As a student whose crime wasn't particularly serious, Xing Rui was in a relatively safe and comfortable interrogation room.

Student council members had already interrogated her, and now that it was getting late, she was too lazy to go back and planned to sleep on the sofa in the interrogation room for the night.

Just as she took off her shoes and coat, settled into a comfortable position, and prepared to take a long nap, the interrogation room door was suddenly pushed open with a "bang".

Two girls stood at the door, staring intently at her as she lay down.

"Are you Senior Xing Rui?" the taller girl asked.

"..."

Xing Rui sat up somewhat awkwardly, put her shoes and coat back on. She recognized the two people: Li Wenyin and the vice president, Ji Moxuan.

"Ahem, it's me. What's up? Was the statement not completed properly?"

Li Wenyin asked, "Let's double-check. Could you please briefly tell us what you did to get in here?"

Ji Moxuan stepped forward, picked up the record on the table, and looked down at it.

Xing Rui didn't have any objections and said, "Well... in the match between you and Zi Sangtang, I placed a bet in the audience and was judged to have violated the rules by gambling and affecting public order and good morals."

It sounds pretty unethical. I never expected Xing Rui to have this kind of personality. For a moment, Li Wenyin felt a little sorry for her, but then she realized that what she had done wasn't a big deal.

"Then, a few days ago, I ventured into the Monster Forest at night to do a daring challenge, and was taken away by the student council who happened to be passing by."

Xing Rui scratched the back of her head and giggled foolishly, completely oblivious to the world around her.

"I wasn't punished for that, but I figured the competition was over soon and I was about to start a new phase, so I came to the student council to confess and settle the matter all at once."

Huh?

Upon hearing this, Li Wenyin...

"Breaking into the Monster Forest at night? Was it the night the monsters mutated?"

"It really is true," Xing Rui said, still feeling a bit scared as she recalled the incident. "That night was really strange. There was no one guarding the checkpoint, and I got lost not far after I went in. Then I heard the roars of birds and beasts in the distance. Then, the student council came and found me, who was lost. They sent someone to take me there. Later, I found out that there was a monster mutation that night. I was really lucky; nothing happened to me."

Li Wenyin was speechless: "Senior, you know it's creepy, yet you still went in..."

Xing Rui looked at her incredulously: "You're asking me that?"

Who doesn't know about Li Wenyin's feat of leading a team to raid the Monster Forest at night?

Li Wenyin coughed twice to clear her throat.

Unexpectedly, Xing Rui was also in the Monster Forest that night.

-

After reading the transcript in her hand, Ji Moxuan asked directly, "Xing Rui, do you know Xing Qi?"

Li Wenyin fell silent and looked at Xing Rui.

"I know, Xiao Qi is my younger brother," Xing Rui answered confidently and without any reservations. "It was his idea to break into the Monster Forest at night for a daring challenge."

This isn't right, is it?

Li Wenyin and Ji Moxuan exchanged a glance.

In Ji Moxuan's memory, Xing Qi had already been expelled from school several years ago after the incident, so how could he have been playing some kind of daring challenge with Xing Rui just over ten days ago?

Li Wenyin thought for a moment and asked, "Senior, what's your relationship with Xing Qi like?"

"We have a very good relationship," Xing Rui said, a little talkative and happy to share with the two of them, "We go to class together, eat together, and so on."

Ji Moxuan: "Classmate, you're currently in fifth grade. Has Xing Qi been with you for the past five years?"

"Pretty much... We see each other every day, we're in the same year and the same department."

Xing Rui didn't know what they wanted to ask, so she tried to explain in more detail.

"We can't say they're inseparable; they each have their own friends. But they manage to go to class together every day. Maybe it's because they're older, and Xiao Qi doesn't want to be with her sister all the time? Overall, their relationship is still pretty good."

That's not the point at all.

Li Wenyin was puzzled.

Did Xing Rui have no idea about Xing Qi's past or that Xing Qi had already been expelled from school?

What has it been like for him to get along with Xing Rui all these years?

Xing Qi... Rui Yuan... Illusion Magic...

Li Wenyin and Ji Moxuan left the interrogation room.

-

At this point, the results of Zhou Mixuan's interrogation came out.

A document was delivered to Ji Moxuan by a member of the student council.

"Zhou Mixuan said that Ruiyuan's actual bone age is twenty years old, and his body contains the blood of seventeen kinds of magical beasts, which accounts for two-thirds of his body. There are traces of him casting a lot of illusion magic on himself and others. His illusion magic has been cultivated to a very powerful level, so we need to be careful. As for the function of the blood, it has not yet been found out."

"Twenty years old, fifth grade, isn't that Xing Qi?" Li Wenyin said, "Back then, when Xing Qi was expelled from school, he only had one-third of the monster blood."

Good heavens, not only have they not repented over the years, they've become even worse, and they've mixed up even more blood.

Ji Moxuan frowned slightly: "It seems so."

It seemed to be very close to the truth, but Ji Moxuan's brows did not relax at all; instead, they furrowed even more deeply.

Li Wenyin: "Vice President, what's wrong?"

"...That's a bit strange," Ji Moxuan said, holding the document in her hand. "That bastard Zhou Mixuan, his main body and clones are always coming to me looking for a beating, but this document was given to me by someone else."

Li Wenyin was taken aback.

"Oh no! Vice President Zhou is in trouble!"

-

Ignoring the obstruction of other student council members, they rushed to the interrogation room. Ji Moxuan pushed aside the two students guarding the door and kicked open the door of the interrogation room.

The student council members, unable to keep up with the two girls, followed behind, panting heavily.

"I'm sorry, Vice President Zhou... I... I couldn't stop Vice President Jimo..."

Ji Moxuan was stunned.

She stared at the scene in the torture chamber, completely frozen. At that moment, her breathing became extremely light and slow. She could only hear her own heart pounding like thunder, the pounding sound engulfing her mind.

Li Wenyin saw that in the torture chamber, the torture instruments and magical artifacts on Ruiyuan-Xing Qi's body had been removed, and one of his hands, which should have been chained, had been freed.

On the other side, Zhou Mixuan, who was standing against the wall, had blood splattered all over his face and half of his school uniform. Black patterns covered his hands and climbed up his face.

Zhou Mixuan had a purple mark around her neck and black lines clearly visible on her forehead.

Li Wenyin's heart sank.

She recognizes this! She will never forget this!

These are the patterns of mutation! These are the patterns of the benevolent bird that mutated into the cursed king!

That night, the big bird went berserk, and the marks on its body look like this! Just like Zhou Mixuan looks now!

That's it!

It was Xing Qi's blood that drove the monsters mad!

-

Inside the room, Zhou Mixuan remained motionless. At the doorway, Li Wenyin swallowed hard, a bead of cold sweat sliding down her cheek. She reached out to block Ji Moxuan.

"Vice Chairman Zhou of Jimo, I'm afraid the current Vice Chairman Zhou is not the same Vice Chairman Zhou you know..."

Ji Moxuan stared intently at the person inside the room, uttering each word through gritted teeth: "Zhou Mixuan."

She had told him to take care of himself.

-

This was probably the first time Zhou Mixuan had remained unmoved by Ji Moxuan's call. His eyes were already lifeless, and now, entangled in black patterns, a layer of black mist had been added to his eyes, making them appear hazy and unreadable.

"click"

The handcuffs binding Xing Qi's other hand were also removed.

Xing Qi steadied herself, slowly adjusted her crooked glasses, and looked at them at the doorway and the student council members behind them.

He looked at Li Wenyin: "You should know what's wrong with him now."

Li Wenyin stared intently at him: "Ruiyuan, or rather, I should call you Xing Qi, right? The monster mutation on the night of the full moon was your doing."

"That was just an accident."

Xing Qi said calmly and composedly.

"I just wanted to get some blood from that bird, but it hurt me and went berserk after it got infected with my blood."

Li Wenyin: "You're making it sound like you're completely innocent?"

"I am completely innocent. At most, I only hurt a wild beast." Xing Qi's emotions remained completely unmoved; his humanity and basic emotional functions seemed to have vanished entirely.

These words made Li Wenyin's head buzz. If Senior Yu Zhiyuan were here, she would definitely kill this guy on behalf of the Monster Protection Association.

Li Wenyin asked, "Didn't you ever consider that a raging beast might hurt someone?"

"It was only after that I learned that it would go berserk if it infected my blood. It's such a pity. If it had been more obedient and let me take its blood, none of this would have happened."

Xing Qiping calmly expressed his regret, showing no sign of remorse. It was a pity that the monsters wouldn't obey.

He's probably cold-blooded now, less so than an animal.

"But it was also because of that incident that I learned," Xing Qi continued, "that with my blood, plus a little bit of my family's ancestral contract magic, I can make animals or even people go mutated and insane, and control them."

Just like Zhou Mixuan is now.

-

Xing Qi slightly raised his hand, and from the shadow behind Zhou Mixuan, who had been silent, one after another, clones with the same black patterns emerged, filling half the room in an instant, ready to strike.

Ji Moxuan turned around and blocked Li Wenyin behind her. Not only her, but the other student council members also tacitly blocked Li Wenyin behind them.

They all belong to the student union and are responsible for protecting students' rights and safety. Right now, Li Wenyin, who is standing here, is their only person to protect. They have an unshirkable duty to do so without the slightest hesitation or retreat.

Li Wenyin broke out in a cold sweat as she watched one Vice President Zhou after another emerge.

"How many have been produced already, Vice President Jimo? What's his maximum production capacity?"

"The upper limit? I only know the lower limit is nine," Ji Moxuan replied. "Each clone has about seven-tenths of his combat power."

"Damn it," Li Wenyin couldn't help but curse out loud, "He's practically a god of war."

What are we going to do? The enemy has turned and controlled one of our main combat forces right from the start. What kind of game is this?

"Don't be afraid, I'm here."

Despite the danger, Ji Moxuan stood at the very front of everyone, her eyes fixed on the people inside the room.

"On average, I can eliminate one of his clones every two seconds."

I rely on.

Li Wenyin then looked at Ji Moxuan.

She was practically a war goddess.

This is a war of gods, and Li Wenyin somehow ended up here.

-

A chaotic battle is about to break out.

The student council members who remained in the student council building were divided into two groups. One group followed Ji Moxuan and fought directly with Zhou Mixuan's clone, while the other group protected the non-student council members.

Xing Qi, that cunning scoundrel, had Zhou Mixuan's clone splatter his blood during the fight, and also infected and controlled several student council members.

This situation actually confirmed Li Wenyin's previous thoughts.

Fortunately, she urged Yu Lanxie to leave early when his infection level was low, otherwise he would have really turned into a zombie.

Li Wenyin has always been protected by others. Since Ji Moxuan can no longer take care of her personally, other student council members will naturally come forward to protect her.

That pure white uniform.

Like the gentlest and most sacred armor in the world.

-

Li Wenyin was used to being arrested by the student council, and this was the first time she had been so firmly protected, which made her feel a little strange.

They were all top students, all in their third year or above, and it was a battle of geniuses. Li Wenyin couldn't beat them, and she felt that things couldn't continue like this.

She witnessed firsthand the painful transformation and madness of a gentle and docile magical beast, its inability to control itself, and its eventual demise at the hands of its best human friend's magical arrow.

Vice President Zhou, along with several other student council members, have also been corrupted. Continuing the fight will only deplete their own resources, and it's uncertain what the final outcome will be.

Li Wenyin couldn't be of much help in the battle, but she wanted to do something else.

She weaved through the chaos, quietly watching Xing Qi behind her, and tentatively spoke:

"Xing Qi, I am a student from a closed school."

-

The reason this matter has evolved into what it is today is because of Xing Qi's cheating and the three disgraced students who disguised themselves as teammates from Canghai Academy.

Li Wenyin was gambling. Xing Qi knew something special about the students from abandoned schools, and that they were useful to him. So she took the initiative to reveal her status as a student from an abandoned school in an attempt to attract his attention and ease the current situation.

Li Wenyin won her gamble once again.

Xing Qi looked over quietly: "You?"

The surrounding attacks stopped.

"Have you forgotten?" Li Wenyin mustered her courage and stepped forward. "I was originally a student at a disbanded school, but I managed to get into Obsidian Academy by pestering them."

When she mentioned it, Xing Qi remembered that there was such a thing.

Li Wenyin continued, "Fighting like this isn't a solution. It's just a waste of our Vice President Zhou and senior students. In the end, we'll just have to fight until our reinforcements arrive. This is such a big school, you won't be able to escape anyway. Why don't you tell us what you want? We'll let you go for now, and you'll let our people go in return."

Both sides stopped attacking and remained locked in a stalemate.

"Okay, I want you, you abandoned school student."

Xing Qi stared at him intently.

"If you sign a voluntary blood exchange contract with me, exchanging blood from each other's bodies, and then release me back into the Monster Forest, I will no longer control these people."

Li Wenyin: "???"

what?

Is there anything wrong.

Two-thirds of Xing Qi's body contained the blood of a magical beast, which prevented him from exploding and dying inside his body. But if it were in Li Wenyin's body, who knows what would happen to her?

What's the difference between this and simply killing her?!