Chapter 42 The Only Person Who Found the Path to Survival

As Chen Mu picked up the dagger, the eyes of the entire class converged upon him.

"Oh my god! Chen Mu is finally making a move!"

"That's wonderful!"

"Chen Mu must have figured out the path to survival. The anomaly won't be able to hide much longer, hahaha."

"I hereby declare that Chen Mu is the strongest student in the entire school!"

"He really is as amazing as the rumors say. If only he were my boyfriend..."

Under the gaze of the whole class, Chen Mu gripped the dagger and walked toward the back row of the classroom.

On the podium, the invigilator's eyes still revealed a hint of disdain.

These were just a bunch of wet-behind-the-ears children; whatever they did was nothing more than childish play in the eyes of the invigilator.

How could a bunch of brats possibly discover the path to survival?

The invigilator admitted that even she herself, without knowing the answers, would have absolutely no possibility of passing the exam.

That kid named Chen Mu was merely struggling in a futile death throe.

Soon, Chen Mu stopped in front of a female student.

"I know you're hiding right here."

Chen Mu said to the girl.

Faced with Chen Mu's words, the girl remained completely silent, her eyes staring blankly straight ahead like a specter.

However, Chen Mu's action caused a commotion among the students in the class.

"Is Chen Mu suspecting Wang Xiaoxiao of being the anomaly?"

"Impossible! Wang Xiaoxiao spoke earlier, she can't be the anomaly!"

"Yeah, Wang Xiaoxiao isn't talking now, I bet it's because of the rules!"

"Wang Xiaoxiao's exam paper must contain her own rule prohibiting her from speaking at this moment."

"That has to be the reason. Why on earth is Chen Mu still suspecting Wang Xiaoxiao?"

The students were utterly baffled. Situations similar to Wang Xiaoxiao's had occurred in other classes as well.

At the very beginning of the exam, one class had killed a student in such a condition.

Later, facts proved that the killed student was indeed not an anomaly, but merely restricted by the rules.

Now that Chen Mu was standing right in front of Wang Xiaoxiao, was he suspecting her of being the anomaly?

How could Chen Mu make such an obvious and glaring mistake?

Even the slowest-witted students knew that Wang Xiaoxiao could not possibly be the anomaly.

Chen Mu's action looked like the desperate thrashing of a cornered beast, his final burst of madness.

This left quite a few students feeling a faint sense of disappointment in their hearts.

Could it be that even Chen Mu was unable to find the answer?

The next second, Chen Mu raised the dagger, aiming it directly at Wang Xiaoxiao.

"This strike will send you to your death!"

With that, Chen Mu thrust the dagger downward with a vicious force, pouring every ounce of his strength into the blow.

Immediately afterward, a scene that shocked everyone unfolded before their eyes:

"Crack—"

A loud, shattering sound echoed through the room!

The dagger missed Wang Xiaoxiao entirely, instead plunging straight into her desk.

With a single blow, Wang Xiaoxiao's desk was hacked into a pile of splinters.

Wood shavings scattered all over the floor.

Amidst the shattered wood shavings, a wisp of black smoke slowly rose upward.

At that moment, the entire classroom fell into a dead silence!

Everyone's eyes were filled with extreme shock!

Pair after pair of astonished eyes stared incredulously at Chen Mu.

Even the invigilator on the podium stood up, her gaze written over with profound astonishment.

This brat had actually... truly found the hidden anomaly!

How could this be possible!

A moment later, an eruption of unadulterated cheers swept through the entire classroom.

The cheers were deafening!

"The desk! The anomaly was actually the desk!"

"I never would have imagined that the anomaly would disguise itself as a desk."

"Chen Mu! You are my god!"

"You actually found the anomaly! How on earth did you do it?"

"A desk! The anomaly actually hid as a desk! Who could have ever thought of that?"

"Chen Mu thought of it!"

Chen Mu patted Wang Xiaoxiao on the head and said, "Haha, I hope I didn't scare you."

It was only then that the students realized what Chen Mu's earlier words—"This strike will send you to your death"—had actually meant.

They hadn't been directed at Wang Xiaoxiao at all, but at her desk.

At that moment, the classroom broadcast chimed in:

"Class 27, Senior Year Three, Chen Mu has successfully found the answer. The first class to pass the exam has appeared! The exam is about to conclude. Chen Mu is the sole person who discovered the path to survival. Congratulations, you may now go home."

To the students in the classroom, the broadcasted voice sounded like heavenly music.

The two hours of hellish torment were finally coming to an end.

They were finally going to return from hell back to the mortal world.

And the one who had pulled them back to the human world was none other than Chen Mu!

The classroom boiled over with excitement once again!

Chen Mu was surrounded in the center by the students, his ears filled entirely with praise and adoration.

Quite a few female students looked at him with starry eyes.

Without a doubt, in this apocalyptic era of anomalies, no one other than Chen Mu could give them such a sense of security.

Yet Chen Mu remained entirely calm. He wiped the dagger clean and slid it back into its sheath.

Utterly nonchalant and composed!

He had conquered his past self and defeated his former enemies!

This exhilarating sense of triumph brought Chen Mu immense satisfaction.

It also foreshadowed that his ability to seek paths of survival had reached a higher plane.

Faced with even more dangerous situations in the future, Chen Mu would be able to handle them with complete poise.

A person's composure and temperament were accumulated precisely this way.

By facing death again and again and conquering it, one could ultimately cultivate the demeanor of a true powerhouse.

Otherwise, even with a vast fortune, one would merely be a vulgar nouveau riche.

Students in other classrooms heard the broadcast as well.

Upon hearing the announcement, the students in the other classrooms were driven completely green with envy.

"Chen Mu! It's really Chen Mu! Only he has the capability to find the path of survival."

"I told you so long ago, Chen Mu is the absolute best. You guys kept saying he was just overhyped, and now you've been proven wrong."

"So what if we were wrong? You're not even in the same class as Chen Mu; can he save you?"

"Damn it, why am I not in Chen Mu's class!"

"If I survive this, I'm definitely going to make my dad transfer me to Chen Mu's class, right to his desk!"

"If I can make it out alive, I'm going to chase after Chen Mu and make him my boyfriend."

"You guys better worry about surviving first."

Meanwhile, back in Chen Mu's classroom.

The invigilator stepped down from the podium and walked toward Chen Mu step by step.

"Student Chen Mu."

The invigilator arrived before Chen Mu. If she weren't an anomaly, she would have looked like a very attractive woman in uniform.

"You actually discovered the path to survival. This feels truly incredible to me. I admit that I severely underestimated your strength. Even I would have been unable to find the path to survival. So, I would like to ask you a question—how did you manage to discover the path of survival? And how were you so certain that among all the desks in the classroom, the anomaly had to be Wang Xiaoxiao's desk?"

An anomaly teacher was actually asking a human student for answers!

If word of this got out, it would undoubtedly shatter everyone's preconceived notions.

The invigilator's words precisely echoed the questions in every student's mind.

Instantly, pairs of eyes looked toward Chen Mu, filled with curiosity and confusion.

"It's very simple. The absolute law of the anomaly apocalypse—the path to survival is hidden within the rules! I deduced this path of survival straight from the rules themselves."

Chen Mu said slowly.