Chapter 44: You Want to Buy This School?

When Chen Mu finished speaking, the classroom instantly fell into a deep silence.

The surrounding students were all left dumbfounded.

Were we taking the same exam?

Why was my mind completely blank when I looked at the test paper, filled only with thoughts of killing and slaughter?

Yet when Chen Mu got the test paper, it was as if he had turned on an X-ray wallhack, seeing the answers straight away?

The gap between human beings...

Can really be this vast!

"Chen Mu, your way of thinking is simply too monstrous!

Ordinary people like us couldn't possibly think of so many things.

We wouldn't even be able to get past the first hurdle with all these twists and turns.

Just like you said, we wouldn't have even realized that the anomaly wasn't a fellow classmate."

Some student cried out in despair, despairing over the gap between themselves and Chen Mu.

This remark caused many students to nod repeatedly.

They certainly didn't possess Chen Mu's monstrous deductive abilities.

If not for Chen Mu, they would have been dead for sure!

If previously they only thought Chen Mu was very strong without having a clear understanding of just how strong he was,

then by now, they had gained a crystal-clear realization of the chasm between them.

It was a gap they could never catch up to in a lifetime!

If Chen Mu had still appeared to be a capable ordinary person in their eyes before,

then right now, Chen Mu had condensed a divine persona, transforming in their eyes into a god within the apocalyptic world of anomalies.

"Hehe, there's no need to be so discouraged," Chen Mu smiled.

"In anomaly trials, the path to survival is always hidden within the rules.

A truly formidable expert, even without having participated in a specific anomaly trial, only needs to obtain a few rules from the task to deduce the path to survival straight from them.

In fact, several rules on the test paper were hinting to us that the anomaly wasn't a classmate!

Take Rule 4, for instance, which is everyone's personal rule.

My personal rule was to let out a loud shout one and a half hours into the exam.

This seemingly nonsensical rule was actually giving us a hint.

Think about it, since the rule I received was so nonsensical, is it possible to deduce that the personal rules of other classmates were equally nonsensical?

Once you have this mindset, when you see a classmate sitting motionless in their seat all this time,

you might assume they are an anomaly, but is there a chance they are simply completing their personal rule?

Therefore, this also hinted that judging whether someone is an anomaly simply by observing which student doesn't move is actually extremely unreliable."

As Chen Mu reached this point, the eyes of the girl he had saved earlier were already twinkling with tiny stars.

Only Chen Mu truly understands me!

At that time, she had simply been carrying out her personal rule. If Chen Mu hadn't stopped her, she would have long since been killed by her classmates as an anomaly!

The more Chen Mu analyzed like this, the more shocked and worshipful the students' gazes toward him became.

It was as if, within the anomaly trial, Chen Mu had become an omniscient and omnipotent god.

There was no trap that Chen Mu could not see through!

After listening to Chen Mu's exposition, the invigilator could not help but gasp softly.

She had to admit that among all the humans she had ever witnessed, Chen Mu was unequivocally the smartest one!

"Your prowess surpasses my imagination. I admit, I underestimated you just now,"

said the invigilator.

For a proud anomaly to actually say to a human, "You are even more powerful than I imagined!"

If any outsiders were to see this, their jaws would undoubtedly hit the floor.

"You flatter me," Chen Mu maintained his effortless and calm expression.

Even after just passing the exam, even while surrounded by students adoring him like stars around the moon, even after winning the awe and admiration of an anomaly,

there was not the slightest trace of arrogance or conceit on Chen Mu's face.

Composed, serene, mature...

The invigilator had to concede that this was the first time she had ever encountered someone at Chen Mu's age possessing such profound sophistication.

This unshakable calmness was definitely not something fumed up just to put on a facade.

To acquire such temperament required baptism through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, witnessing grand storms, and watching towering structures collapse...

Only through a series of tempestuous trials could one forge this tranquil and detached disposition.

In that instant, the invigilator suddenly felt that she could no longer read the Chen Mu standing before her.

What on earth had this young man experienced in his past?

Chen Mu's image grew increasingly mysterious in her eyes.

A mysterious man always held an inexplicable allure...

The invigilator suddenly felt that Chen Mu looked rather handsome...

Just at that moment, Chen Mu suddenly spoke:

"Teacher, now that I've passed the exam, am I qualified to meet your headmaster?"

"You want to meet the headmaster?"

The invigilator was astonished once more.

If it were ordinary people, having finally passed the exam, they would undoubtedly be thinking of escaping as fast as possible.

Wishing they could leave sooner rather than later, and preferably never return to this place for the rest of their lives.

Yet not only was Chen Mu not leaving, but he actually wanted to see the headmaster!

Chen Mu certainly knew that the headmaster of Dark Night High School was a terrifyingly powerful anomaly.

Humans would give anything to circle around anomalies and stay as far away from them as possible, yet Chen Mu was actively seeking to meet one?

What a peculiar man!

"You certainly have courage," the invigilator remarked. "As the sole candidate who found the answer, you naturally have the opportunity to see the headmaster.

However, I am curious, why do you wish to meet the headmaster of Dark Night High School?

Could it be that, having passed the exam, you are looking to demand a reward from the headmaster?"

The other surrounding students were also filled with confusion, casting their gazes toward Chen Mu, completely clueless as to what he was planning to do.

"What on earth is Chen Mu trying to do?"

"No idea. A single exam was already this terrifying; wouldn't the headmaster of Dark Night High School be even more horrifying?"

"Right, if I saw an anomaly like that, I'd probably wet my pants from fear, yet Chen Mu is voluntarily wanting to go see it."

The students couldn't help whispering speculations, none of them able to guess Chen Mu's objective.

"A reward? Hehe, of course not," Chen Mu smiled and shook his head.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Mu delivered a sentence in a calm tone that shocked everyone present.

"Because I am going to buy Dark Night High School!"