He looked at the girl with compound eyes at the next table, hoping she could help him take a look, but before he could even ask, the teacher on the podium glared at him fiercely, "No whispering in class!"
Yin Xiu wasn't sure about the school's rules yet, so he decided to be a little more cautious. He was the only one standing in the class, which made him very conspicuous, and any small movement he made could be clearly seen. So he decided to wait until after class to ask.
After the classroom quieted down, the teacher began the lesson.
"Please turn to page thirty-five. Today we will continue our discussion of anthropology."
As the teacher's voice rang out, the sound of pages turning filled the classroom, then everyone fell silent, waiting for the teacher to begin the lesson.
"As we all know, humans have many eyes. Depending on the individual, most humans have three, four, or five eyes. Each eye is vertical. In addition, humans have four or five arms for the convenience of work or entertainment, and eight legs for the convenience of walking."
The teacher paused slightly, coughed twice, and some bits of meat flew onto the faces of the students in the front row with his saliva.
The teacher casually wiped his mouth, and the student casually wiped his face.
Then the teacher continued:
"They have a long history, and because of war, they all have huge bodies. In order to breathe underwater, they have gills and lungs. Humans are the most suitable organisms for the environment and are constantly evolving."
"And we are human beings."
Yin Xiu frowned, looking somewhat confused.
But the teacher continued to explain tirelessly, and the students below listened attentively. The clear voice echoed throughout the quiet classroom, subtly intruding into everyone's minds.
The teacher twisted her slender yet incredibly tall body, turned around, and drew a completely distorted human figure on the blackboard. The head, arms, and legs were twisted like a vortex, making it almost impossible to recognize that it was a person. Staring at it for too long could even make one feel dizzy.
Yin Xiu felt dizzy and lightheaded after just one glance, and quickly looked away.
But the teacher's voice continued, "Human tears are black, saliva is black, and blood is also black. The human body has no red liquid, nor any transparent liquid."
"A fully realized human being has no blood vessels or bones in his body; he is simply an existence that grows out of resonance with the gods."
"You are all still young, so your bodies still have flesh and bones. When you grow up, you won't have those fragile things anymore."
As the teacher's explanations became increasingly absurd, Yin Xiu could barely stand. He suddenly turned his head and almost fell to the ground due to dizziness, barely managing to stay upright by grabbing the table.
"What's wrong?"
Because of Yin Xiu's stumble, the sounds in the classroom stopped, and the eyes of the students and teachers all fell on him.
Yin Xiu waved his hand, feeling that he couldn't listen anymore, and quickly said, "Teacher, I'm not feeling well, my illness has flared up again, and I'm not feeling well."
The teacher waved his hand silently, already used to these troublesome students in class. "If you're not feeling well, go to the infirmary first. Remember to be on time for the next class."
"Okay." Yin Xiu nodded and immediately ran out of the classroom.
Once he was in the hallway, away from the sounds of the classroom, he finally caught his breath, and the throbbing and foggy feeling in his head subsided.
Yin Xiu squinted at the comments section, and only when he saw the messages flying past in unison in the upper right corner did he suddenly realize that he still had comments to read. But for some reason, once he entered the classroom and the bell rang, he completely forgot about them.
"Brother Xiu! Good thing you came out of the classroom! You can't listen to the teacher's lesson!"
"That was too dangerous! Thank goodness Brother Xiu came out in time!"
"From what I've seen in other scenes, apart from Boss Ye, the vast majority of players who were listening to the lecture have suffered."
"This dungeon is absolutely terrifying!"
Yin Xiu looked confused and stood in the corner of the stairwell, trying to calm himself down. He watched the comments section and started shouting to explain what they had just seen.
After the school bell rang, most players went into the classroom. Only one or two stubborn players wandered outside and were killed by the red monster. The rest of the hesitant players almost immediately went into the classroom.
Once inside the classroom, it was natural to listen to the lesson. Many players chose to sit down, while some stood or squatted in a corner.
As soon as the teacher started lecturing, they listened intently as the teacher described what humanity should be like.
Then, the viewers in the live chat were horrified to discover that while the players were listening attentively to the lesson, they were slowly beginning to distort their appearance, becoming more and more similar to the strange players around them. What was even more terrifying was that they were unaware that their appearance had changed, believing that this was how they were supposed to look and that it was the others who had become strange.
After class, Ye Tianxuan stared expressionlessly at the player in front of him who had grown a third hand, exhaled a puff of smoke into his face, and laughed, "Friend, do you still remember that you're a player?"
The person on the other end started nodding. "Of course, I definitely remember I'm a player, but why have you become so strange? Ugh, those two eyes are disgusting."
Ye Tianxuan stared silently at his three eyes, then flicked the cigarette between his fingers, nodded, and looked at the completely incomprehensible rules on the wall. "Can you understand that now?"
The player in front of him turned to look at the wall. "Isn't that the school's rule? Hmm... I remember I couldn't understand it at all before."
"Now you understand..." Ye Tianxuan stared at him meaningfully, "Read it to me?"
"Why should I read it to you—" Before the player could finish his sentence, Ye Tianxuan blew smoke all over his face.
The purple smoke slowly dissipated in the air. The player obediently squinted at the rules on the wall and began to read them to Ye Tianxuan, sentence by sentence.
School rule: 1. New students must be warmly welcomed.
"2. Disputes are not allowed on campus, and killing classmates is not permitted."
3. Students must go to the classroom every day to receive instruction from their tutors.
4. No discrimination or exclusion should occur on campus.
5. You must respond to your classmates' greetings and not ignore them.
6. You must accept gifts from classmates; you cannot refuse them.
7. Students may not leave the school gate before the graduation ceremony.
Ye Tianxuan listened to the rules and wrote them down, then had the comments repeat them to Yin Xiu.
"You have to go to the classroom every day to receive instruction from your tutor... which means you have to attend classes?" Yin Xiu wrote down the rules while analyzing them.
It seems I have to attend that teacher's class, but I can't listen to her attentively, otherwise my understanding of humanity will change.
Yin Xiu now understands the meaning of the first rule for passing the level.
[Upon graduation, please leave the instance in a manner befitting a human being.]
Spending seven days in such an environment, interacting amicably with classmates who are all strange, constantly having your perceptions altered in every class, and still being able to remember what a human should look like after seven days without being changed at all—that's very difficult.
"Is Ye Tianxuan still in classroom A on the first floor?" Yin Xiu asked after memorizing the rules.
The comments section was filled with responses: "Yes, Boss Ye is still in Classroom A, and there are many normal players on his side."
Yin Xiu silently looked at the classroom and corridor on his side.
No, not a single one.
Neither Ye Tianxuan nor any normal players were there; he was surrounded only by strange creatures.
It's likely that the moment he entered the instance, it separated him from the other players.