He shook off a small blob of black slime from his leg, but couldn't get it off, so he simply peeled it off with the scabbard.
"Why did you come in looking like that?"
The slime was spilled onto the ground, and the tentacles waved wildly in the air, rolling rapidly before finally straightening up.
"Dungeon! I can't get in!" The slime climbed up Yin Xiu's calf again, clinging to him tightly.
Yin Xiu remembered that when he was in his inhuman state, he always spoke incoherently and was extremely sensitive, so he reached out his left hand and let the black lump that was hugging his lap climb up.
"Can't you turn into a human now?"
The black slime swayed, and the eyes on it blinked. "Not enough. Not enough of what's come in to form a human."
Yin Xiu seemed to be deep in thought. He had been isolated from the other players since he entered, and was in a separate space. He saw that Ye Tianxuan's previous message mentioned Li Mo, which meant that Ye Tianxuan had already met Li Mo. So Li Mo was with Ye Tianxuan from the beginning.
It seems that even Li Mo couldn't easily enter the area he was in, which is why he squeezed in in this twisted and inconvenient way, and he was only a small lump like this.
"Have you been looking for me all this time?"
She smeared some mucus on her skin, then rubbed against Yin Xiu's arm, looking even more aggrieved than him, "I've been looking for so long..."
"Alright, then I'll forgive you for being late." Yin Xiu touched the liquid on his left hand, patted it to soothe it, and then turned to walk towards the classroom. "Could you hide in my left hand like you did in the last instance? I don't know what's so special about this instance yet, and I'm afraid you'll be kicked out if you're discovered later."
The slime quickly seeped into Yin Xiu's school uniform sleeves, then spread out, becoming a thin layer that enveloped his arm.
Seeing Li Mo's reaction, Yin Xiu could understand that his current environment was very special, so special that Li Mo could no longer freely enter and exit the instance as before, and could only turn himself into a small ball and squeeze in.
However, Yin Xiu was quite happy that he was able to get in.
Li Mo kept his promise and valued his agreement with him, so in return, this monster would also be special to him.
Upon entering the classroom, Yin Xiu returned to his desk, where the homework given to him by the girl with compound eyes from yesterday was still on it.
Yin Xiu sat down and solemnly opened the book, eager to see the legendary homework that had troubled countless students.
He opened it, but he couldn't understand any of the text on it. It was just as unfamiliar as the regular characters nailed to the wall.
How do I write this?
Yin Xiu remained silent, then shook his left hand. "Li Mo, come out and do your homework."
A small amount of slime oozed from the cuff, and the eyes on it looked at Yin Xiu with confusion. Then Yin Xiu pointed his finger at the words on the workbook. "Can you understand this?"
Li Mo paused, then shook his head, a small mouth emerging from the mucus, "I don't understand."
"How come you can't understand this either? Isn't this the script of your own kind?" Yin Xiu's mind went blank. He had always thought that this was a dungeon that was somewhat related to Li Mo. The dungeon environment would be the place where Li Mo used to stay, the monsters in this school would be similar to those in Li Mo's place, and the script would be the same as that of Li Mo's kind. But now he was completely clueless.
"Fellow clansmen?" The slime tangled and knotted in the air. "I have no...fellow clansmen, I am a...a...a...one?"
"Anyway, you're the only one in the dungeon, right?" Yin Xiu didn't want to see his slime continue to tangle, so he helped him replenish it.
"Yes, just me." Many tiny tentacles emerged from Yin Xiu's sleeves, dancing happily. "But I have you… I'm not… one… one… two anymore."
Yin Xiu pondered. When Li Mo turned into mucus, his brain capacity was really small. Because of his lack of knowledge, he also spoke incoherently.
He touched the tentacle-like strips emerging from his sleeve. "Do you always talk like this when you're only a small part of yourself?"
The moment his finger touched it, it was immediately wrapped up and sucked in by the tentacles.
The slimy tentacles wrapped around his fingers and curled up.
"Because… it's a part, and people are a part too. Now it's a small part of a small part, scattered." The mouth emerging from the tentacle spoke intermittently.
Yin Xiu painstakingly pieced together a complete meaning from his meager words: "Your true form is very large?"
"right."
"Humans are also part of you, which means that the humanoid Li Mo I see is actually part of your true form?"
"right."
"And now you're a small part of the human form of Li Mo that has differentiated?"
"Yes, yes."
Yin Xiu nodded, immediately understanding, "Your brain was taken away too, right?"
"Yes, yes, yes...right?"
Li Mo doesn't know if Yin Xiu's analysis is correct or not, but whatever it is, it's correct.
It's just a tentacle now, who cares?
"Although it's only a small part, the function should be the same." Yin Xiu stood up and started walking around the classroom, rummaging through other students' desks, then pulled out another strange book, tore off a page with a ripping sound, and handed it to the tentacles' mouths. "Open your mouth."
The mouths on the tentacles obediently opened, revealing a dense array of teeth.
As soon as Yin Xiu stuffed the paper in, his teeth began to chew it, crushing it into tiny pieces like a paper shredder.
After turning a page, Yin Xiu stared at Li Mo again, pointing to the words on the workbook, "Can you understand it now?"
The tentacles swayed, "I can understand one or two."
Yin Xiu nodded in satisfaction. It was indeed true that Li Mo could see the words on the paper in the copy. The rules were the same, and so were the books in the Strange School.
He immediately tore off pages one by one and fed them into the tentacles' mouths until the entire book was finished.
The viewers watched as Yin Xiu sat there talking to the tentacle strips that were sprouting from his sleeve, then stuffing pieces of paper into that terrifying mouth one by one—the scene was extremely bizarre.
"Brother Xiu finally remembered to do his homework."
"Boss Ye finished writing it after class yesterday. He had that player who has mutated and can understand strange characters write it for him."
"Yes, after he finished writing, he even let other players copy his workbook, maintaining cooperative relationships with a small number of normal players."
"As expected, the big shots all have their own ways of passing the test. I'm guessing that the dark and eerie monster didn't appear, so my brother Xiu will hold a knife and force the other monster students to write for him."
"Hahaha, you know my brother Xiu well, you can already picture it."
After Yin Xiu sat in the classroom and fed him a whole book, his tentacles were finally able to understand the words on the homework. According to his interpretation, the homework question was the "anthropology" that the teacher had mentioned in class yesterday.
The questions were all about how many eyes and legs a human has, and what a human should look like.
Not only does it affect people's cognition in class, but it also assigns homework after class, forcing people to recall, think, and record.
Yin Xiu silently fed the remaining page to Li Mo, closed the notebook, then stood up at the classroom door, knife in hand, motionless, as if waiting for something.
"What are you doing?" Tentacles emerged from the sleeve, staring curiously at Yin Xiu.
"It's waiting for the early students. The monster that arrives early must be a good student, and it will definitely help me with my homework." Yin Xiu nodded seriously and analyzed for a while.
He wasn't sure how much this assignment would be affected, but even if it was just once, he wanted to avoid it and not give the copy any chance.
Before long, the strange students who had arrived early did indeed come. Before the class bell rang, some of them had already entered the classroom.
Early in the morning, feeling refreshed, it strode briskly into the classroom, and the moment it entered, a knife was pressed against its neck.
The strange student: ? ? ?
What happened?