As she spoke, she pointed toward the large tree that had been struck by the poisoned needle at the start.
The students followed the direction of Ye Yu's finger and gasped. The tree had completely withered and died, looking as if it had been charred by a raging fire.
How potent was this poison to be so ruthless?!
The other students who hadn't witnessed the entire encounter from start to finish also sucked in a cold breath.
Looking at the poisoned needle embedded in the trunk, Ye Yu's face flushed with anger as she began to kick the three people on the ground.
“What are you doing?! Are your brains scrambled? You usually act all decent, so why are you being so vicious now?”
As Ye Yu continued to kick them, she suddenly noticed something was off.
Their physical strength seemed wrong; how were they so much stronger than she remembered?
Moreover, they didn't show their usual fear of her.
At that moment, Xu Mo spoke in her mind.
“Use Gaze of the Ancient One. There is something wrong with these people.”
Bai Feifei fell silent for a moment before looking up at the trio and speaking calmly.
“Did the three of you inject yourselves with potions?”
The moment those words left her mouth, the expressions of the three on the ground changed simultaneously.
Their bodies jerked, and their eyes instantly became cold and sinister.
As if triggered by a certain thought, the three of them moved at once!
One of them suddenly lunged upward, a dagger appearing in his hand as he tried to charge forward again.
The other two rolled across the ground, dodging Ye Yu's attacks and even attempting to strike at her.
Ye Yu's expression shifted as she instinctively moved to block.
But the attack never came.
Their charge lasted only for a fraction of a second.
Their feet seemed rooted to the ground; they remained in a forward-leaning posture, yet they couldn't even move a finger.
The expressions in their eyes shifted from rage to shock, and then from shock to sheer terror.
Bai Feifei hadn't moved.
But someone else had.
Ye Yu turned around and met “Bai Feifei's” eyes, noticing a clear change in her gaze.
It had become playful, lazy, and condescending.
—Xu Mo had logged in.
“Bai Feifei” slowly raised her other hand and flexed her wrist, the joints letting out a faint cracking sound.
She gave her finger a light twist, and the light from the skull on her metal bracer deepened another layer, enveloping the three in front of her.
Gaze of the Ancient One, activated.
With Bai Feifei's current Sanity limit of three hundred points, she could use this thing for quite a while.
He walked past Ye Yu and stood before the trio.
“You don't have to listen to your Class Monitor Ye. If you have tricks, you should use them!”
“Poisoned needles, poisoned arrows, Word Souls—using any means necessary is exactly how it should be!”
As he spoke, he glanced at Ye Yu before looking back at the other students in the class.
Inside her mind, the real Bai Feifei was currently speechless.
Bai Feifei: “...”
“Teacher Bai is very happy that you can fight seriously.”
“However, Teacher Bai doesn't like it when you keep juicing after I've spoken.”
The bodies of the three shuddered simultaneously.
Xu Mo stopped and stood before them, snapping his fingers.
“Speak. Who gave you orders?”
“What were the benefits? What kind of fancy new drugs did you inject?”
The terror on the three faces intensified, but they all clenched their teeth, and not one of them spoke.
Xu Mo waited for about ten seconds, the corners of his mouth curling upward.
He wasn't angry; he simply turned his gaze toward the boy who had charged the furthest forward and tapped the boy's face lightly with the ruler.
“I suggest you speak quickly...”
He paused, his tone carrying a hint of well-meaning advice.
“I am famously impatient, and besides...”
“Your Teacher Bai has quite a bit of blood on her hands, too.”
Under the pressure of Gaze of the Ancient One, the boy's soul was heavily suppressed, leaving him so terrified he couldn't move at all.
He didn't know what was happening; when he had experienced this feeling yesterday, he hadn't been this paralyzed.
He had clearly juiced, so why...
“You... you don't dare kill us! There are so many cameras recording this!”
“Who do you think you are? You're just a teacher in the academy, you think you can kill students?”
As he spoke, he lifted his chin, forcing himself to muster some courage.
“I'm telling you, my dad is—”
Before he could finish.
The ruler in Xu Mo's hand suddenly flicked upward with a twist of the wrist. The ruler carved a black arc through the air, striking the boy's ribs with the sound of rushing wind.
Crack.
The sound of the break was clean and sharp, causing the hearts of every student present, including Bai Feifei, to skip a beat.
A blood-curdling scream suddenly erupted, tearing through the air of the training hall.
“AAAAAAAH—!”
He collapsed directly onto the floor. The sharp pain from his broken ribs caused his face to contort, tears and snot streaming down together.
Combined with the effect of Gaze of the Ancient One, his mental state had completely collapsed.
The fear of death enveloped him!
“You answered the first question wrong, so I'm helping you improve your memory,” Xu Mo said, retracting the ruler and weighing it in his hand.
He turned his head toward another boy whose eyes were bulging with terror.
“And you?”
His psychological defense shattered completely!
“Don't! Don't!...”
He wailed, his voice thick with a sobbing tone as tears and snot poured down. He no longer cared about his image.
Xu Mo didn't say a word, simply lifting the ruler and pressing it against the boy's throat.
The boy felt a surge of icy coldness against his neck, and his entire body went rigid instantly, making him unable to even wail.
He couldn't see the ruler; he only felt as if a long sword were held against his throat!
“I'll talk! I'll tell you everything!”
“One is for physical enhancement, one is for mental enhancement, and there's... a new one.”
“That new potion activated our physiques and actually allowed us to obtain Word Souls!”
As soon as those words were spoken, the crowd broke into an uproar.
Everyone knew about potions, but one that could directly grant a Word Soul? That was too perfect!
“Oh?” Xu Mo's brow quirked slightly. “So there's new stuff again.”
“Who gave you the drugs?” Xu Mo leaned in closer, the tip of the ruler pressing an inch deeper into the boy's neck. “Did they also ask you to do something?”
A final flicker of struggle crossed the boy's face, but seeing the flash of impatience in “Bai Feifei's” eyes, he quickly continued to cry out.
“I don't know who it was! It was all through drug distribution channels; I really don't know which pharmaceutical company actually developed it!”
“They told us to find an opportunity to ambush you in school.”
“As long as we could touch you, or ideally injure you, it would prove that you are wrong—that Scavengers should use drugs as supplements to grow better.”
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