Chapter 41: Unfortunately, You Met Me

Amidst the chaotic disorder, the slaughter began.

Once order collapses, people's behavior turns far more frantic than they could ever imagine.

Just ten minutes passed, and another classroom passed the exam.

The method by which this classroom passed was Rule 6:
When the remaining number of people in the class is less than or equal to half, the exam is considered passed, and it ends automatically. Congratulations, you can go home.

Upon seeing those students, covered in blood and carrying their school bags, leaving the hallway, the students in the other classes immediately understood what had happened.

"Holy shit! Look at them, they actually get to go back. Did they pass the exam?"
"They're covered in blood! If I'm not mistaken, they killed people!"
"You mean they killed half of their classmates and then passed the exam?"
"Oh my god, monsters! They are absolute monsters!"

Witnessing such a tragedy, the students in the other classes were completely terrified.

Perhaps it was only at this moment that they finally woke up to reality—
This is the apocalypse! A bizarre and horrific apocalypse!

The world they were once familiar with had long since collapsed step by step, and they had plunged straight into the hell of the bizarre apocalypse.

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Throughout the entire Dark Night High School, only Chen Mu's class maintained the best order, with zero fatalities.

In every other class, at least two people had died.

Not only that, as time ticked away, the submission deadline was fast approaching.

Finally, with half an hour left before submission, some students who had long failed to find the answer succumbed to the immense psychological pressure and chose to commit suicide.

"Crack—"
The sound of shattering glass.
"Thud—"
The sound of a heavy body hitting the ground.

Within the span of just five minutes, three students chose to smash the windows and jump to their deaths.

This series of extreme actions once again stirred up a riot throughout the teaching building.

Under the compounding pressure, the students in the other classes finally suffered a total mental breakdown.

The bottom line of human nature began to be trampled upon with reckless abandon.

"We are all equal, but some people are more equal than others. If you want to be one of the more equal ones, pick up a knife with me, kill the others, and trade for our chance of survival!"
In a certain classroom, someone picked up a dagger and shouted to his followers.

"We want to survive!"
"We want to live!"

And then, they swung their daggers at their former classmates.

Every single classroom had transformed into a dark forest.

Survival of the fittest!

Of course, amidst the extreme chaos, a small handful of classes managed to maintain stability.

The students in these few classes were all working desperately to find the answer.

"Invigilator, we collectively agree to submit our papers. Our answer is—there are no anomalies at all! The true answer to this exam is that there are no other anomalies in the classroom besides the invigilator, which is why we couldn't find any!"

Hearing the students' answer, the invigilator sneered coldly and collected the test papers.

"Your answer is wrong. Go to hell!"

Following a series of tragic screams, half of the students were reduced to shattered corpses.

It could not be said that these students didn't try; to survive, they had exhausted all their strength and searched for every possible answer.

The simplest one was that the anomaly was a classmate.
To verify this answer, an untold number of students had died at the hands of their peers.

Then, after careful consideration, a top student concluded that the anomaly was the invigilator.
This was already an imaginative answer that broke free from conventional constraints, yet it was still incorrect.

Later, even more students guessed that there were no anomalies at all.
The result was naturally wrong.

No matter how conventional the answer, or how outrageous the answer, none of them could pass the exam!

The exam told you that the answer was right there, that an answer truly existed.
Yet, despite using all your might, you could not find it.

Much like a drowning person clearly seeing a straw to cling to for life, yet utterly unable to grasp it.

This was true despair!

One hour and thirty minutes...
One hour and forty-five minutes...

"Attention all examinees, there are fifteen minutes left until the end of the exam. Those who have not yet answered, please complete your answers as soon as possible."

The cold, automated announcement echoed from the classroom loudspeaker.

Finally, even in Chen Mu's class, chaos began to emerge.

"Chen Mu, is this exam simply impossible to pass?"
"I suspect there's no answer to this test at all! This is an anomaly mission with no way out!"
"That's right, even someone as smart as Chen Mu can't find a way out, there definitely isn't one!"
"We're finished. Half of us are going to die here."
"I'm so scared, I want to go home, sob..."

The classroom descended into a commotion, as noisy and chaotic as a vegetable market.

Amidst this uproar, Chen Mu remained completely silent.

Chen Mu simply sat in his chair, maintaining a posture of deep thought, as calm as a sculpture.

Even at the height of panic, Chen Mu remained like a statue—calm and composed.

This was simply not something a normal person could achieve!

Clearly, Chen Mu was no normal person. A normal person could not have survived five years in the bizarre apocalypse.

Those who could survive for five years all possessed extraordinary qualities in certain aspects!

Take Chen Mu, for instance; his exceptional quality was calmness!

No matter the environment, Chen Mu could always maintain his composure.

The more perilous the environment, the more urgent the situation, and the more flustered everyone else became, the calmer Chen Mu grew.

It was precisely this extraordinary calmness that allowed Chen Mu to discover the ultimate way out in countless moments of crisis.

At this moment, after more than an hour of thought, Chen Mu had already formed a train of thought.

However, this train of thought was like a cloud of fog shrouding his mind.

It seemed as though with just a gentle poke to break through the fog, the hidden truth would be revealed.

Chen Mu concentrated all his focus, wanting to shatter the fog in his mind!

He was on the verge of discovering the truth; he had a strong sensation—
The truth was right before his eyes!

However, to take this final step, he still needed that last flash of inspiration.

This path to survival that had plagued Chen Mu for five years was about to be cracked by him as he clashed with it once more!

Finally, another familiar sound rang out.

This sound was too familiar, heard far too often in the classroom.
So much so that almost all the students had treated it as a normal sound and completely ignored it.

When Chen Mu heard this sound again, a smile finally curved across his calm face.

You hide so deeply!

The path to survival for this mission is indeed craftily deceitful!

A normal person would hardly ever imagine that you were hiding right here.

It is just a pity that you ran into me, and what is more, you ran into me for the second time.

I have finally discovered your secret!

Chen Mu, still as still as a sculpture, sprang into action!

He stood up and picked up the dagger from the table.

In my past life, I failed.
This time, I am going to make you reveal your true form!