CHAPTER 530: CHAPTER 260: 404_2

As soon as she saw the woman on the podium with seven eyes, wearing a bizarre dress, her brain’s self-protection mechanism was triggered.

This was insurance set by the Guild for every investigator, to prevent them from going mad from the omnipresent whispers when investigating high-pollution, high-risk planes.

"Su, are you really okay?"

Her roommates had no choice but to ask again.

Su’s strange behavior attracted a lot of attention—this was not the kind of attention the girls wanted; they wanted to be seen as objects of admiration, not as sick freaks.

They could all tell that Su was in an extremely odd state today. As a noble lady, she usually placed great importance on social etiquette, and wearing a magic robe to the banquet hall was already improper.

More so, she somehow took out a bottle of Magic Potion and drank the entire bottle of black liquid under everyone’s gaze.

This improved her condition somewhat; at least she wasn’t banging her head on the table anymore.

"Honestly, you need to go to the infirmary."

"I just stayed up too late reading last night, a bit fatigued..."

Su weakly explained, though what she was more interested in was the identity of that "creature" on stage, an entity that definitely shouldn’t have appeared in this hall, "That professor... who is she?"

"Which one?"

Her roommates glanced in the direction Su indicated and said, "Oh, there’s a rumor she’s the new teacher for the ’Introduction to Art’ class, which has 3 credits... The professors say she’s from the Sub-human Race, like a Spider-man or some rare sub-species, don’t the skirt and tentacles look alike to you?"

The roommates eagerly commented on the new teacher.

Spider Race sub-human?

Su was certain that the thing on the stage was definitely not any kind of sub-human.

But the next moment, she noticed something odd about her roommates; their reaction to abnormal entities was too abnormal, such a highly mentally contaminant material, yet it had no impact on their sanity?

Su’s pupils shrank.

A horrifying thought began forming in her mind.

Perhaps, the students and teachers here had long been contaminated, Zack and Zul’gara might have realized this, and were attacked by unknown entities.

Wouldn’t that mean...

Su raised her head.

The surrounding conversations suddenly transformed into some kind of noise.

The students sitting at the square tables were all staring at her, their blatant gaze clearly viewing her as an alien, while her roommate gripped her wrist, chilling cold continuously penetrating into her body.

If her suspicion was correct, she was now surrounded by a group of contaminants.

"I admit, I’m indeed feeling a bit unwell, I need to go to the infirmary."

"Shall I take you?"

"No need."

Su practically fled the hall; when she went along the path, leaving light and sound behind, she finally stopped, confirming multiple times that no one had followed, she then sat down weakly by the flower bed with her Magic Book in hands.

She carefully examined everything about this body, not wanting to miss any detail.

She was quite sure that seven-eyed monster was not a professor before in the academy, this was the first time students saw her in the academy, right after the two investigators died!

To save her shattered sanity value, she had no choice but to gulp down a bottle of inhibitor in front of everyone, knowing this would surely attract the attention of other contaminants, yet things were still progressing towards a worse direction.

The only good news was that with the help of the inhibitor, Su’s emotions calmed down quite a bit, her whole-body trembling symptoms stopped, she rested by the flower bed for a while, ultimately deciding on the dormitory over the infirmary.

There was new progress in the investigation.

Evidently, the deaths of Zack and Zul’gara were related to that seven-eyed woman.

Introduction to Art class teacher, Su recorded this crucial piece of information in her notebook, from now on, she must cease all activities related to art, this would maximize her chances of avoiding contact with the seven-eyed woman, she also needed to figure out the opponent’s behavior logic in the following days.

Returning to the dormitory along the quiet and secluded path, Su placed the Magic Book flat on the desk, it was the last text message left by the two investigators before their death.

The energy source is located beneath the academy, the entrance is beneath a black ancient tree.

With the power of the sphere, she could accomplish a time leap, even cut out from this plane directly!

Even if failing to return...

Su turned to the earlier pages of the Magic Book, her gaze rested on "plane rating" and "potential threat," adding notes like "high pollution," "fanaticism," "unknown source of contamination" behind "unpredictable," warnings from Zack and Zul’gara alerted her, allowing her to foresee potential threat in advance, even if she couldn’t cut out from this plane, she must at least bring these messages back to the Guild.

Then Su realized tonight was her best chance.

Everyone, including the principal, was gathered in the hall, which meant she could easily climb over the school wall, in the memory of this body, this was quite a large island, surrounded by the sea, isolated from the world, she would usually use the Teleportation Array to the port of a nearby coastal city only when going home for holidays...

This implied the actual size of this plane might be immensely vast, almost equivalent to several main planes currently known to the Guild.

Zack and Zul’gara had not yet had the chance to explore areas beyond the island.

Su closed the notebook, from now on, she had to race against time.

With the Magic Book hugged in her arms, she headed toward the abnormal energy source, but this thought didn’t last long, as she opened the dormitory door, she almost bumped into someone, she staggered, just barely maintaining her balance.

With her head down, tense enough to immediately reach for the ebony Magic Wand at her waist.

"Student Su, I heard from your roommates that you were feeling unwell."

This voice sounded gentle, likely a professor at the academy.

Her sight was directed at the other’s body, noticing they were wearing a neat evening suit.

It sounded like normal concern from a teacher towards students, yet it made Su’s mood plummet.

The reason she maintained such a strange perspective was due to the sudden warning in her mind.

Do not look up.

Do not make eye contact.

In fact, during her dodge just now, her peripheral vision had already captured some unusual parts.

Like, what was supported on this specific body’s neck was not a human head.

Something was protruding out.

"Yes, I am planning to go to the infirmary."

"Let me take you there, I happen to have something I want to ask you."

The visitor apparently did not intend to conceal the purpose of this trip, "I want to know the components of the Magic Potion you drank in the hall, and can you show me the Magic Book you have?"

"Here you go."

Su bent forward respectfully, handing the Magic Book to the other, she wasn’t worried about this unexpected inspection.

The Magic Book was a token of the Guild, only investigators could read the content on it, for "locals" who hadn’t received the goddess’ blessing, it would appear just like a blank book.

Soon, she heard the sound of pages being flipped right in front of her.

"Thank you for your cooperation, Student Su."

"Professor, can I go to the infirmary now? I really feel unwell."

"Of course, but before that, I have one more question."

The voice paused for a while, "I want to know who Zack and Zul’gara are, and what ’high pollution’ means."

The question from above left Su’s heart stopped right at this point.

This was the information provided by the Magic Book, also her notes just left.

How could a "local" see the content on the Magic Book?

The strong question prompted her to instinctively make a wrong decision, she almost instinctively raised her eyes to see the inquirer’s appearance clearly.

This time, she saw clearly, although those protruding red parts.

The speaker’s face was terribly vague, no matter how carefully she looked, she could not distinguish the features, and those protruding red parts were not deformed lumps of flesh and horns, but a string of enigmatic numbers hovering in front of the head.

"404."

Immediately after, a thousand needles pierced her brain, almost instantly robbing her of her remaining consciousness.

Her vision twisted, falling backward to the ground.

The enigmatic red numbers continued to float in her vision, accompanied by unintelligible dialogue.

—"Professor, do I look terrifying?"

This was the last voice she heard.