Infinite Throne

   Chapter 530 Back Mountain, Woods and Lakes

   "Close your eyes."

  The students raised their heads and looked at this strange new art teacher with a puzzled look on their faces.

   "Listen to me, I'll show you how, real art."

  Irin said seriously.

  The students obediently closed their eyes.

   It seems that at this moment, they will let Mr. Muto do whatever they want.

   "empty brain,"

   "Take a deep breath,"

   "Listen to my rhythm,"

   "Breathe, breathe...breath...breath..."

  Irin said slowly in a gentle voice.

   While all the students closed their eyes, Yi Rin quietly put on the [Disciplinary Armband of the Disciplinary Committee].

   "Imagine you are in a blank world,"

   "In this world, there is nothing, except yourself, and a piece of white paper. Yes, a piece of pure white paper without any restrictions."

   "You can even create anything on paper without any tools."

"At this moment,"

   "In this world, something else appeared."

   "A little, something different."

  The expressions of the students became relaxed,

   as above the clouds.

   With Irin's voice, their bodies rose and fell, swaying slightly from side to side.

  Irin even used a little "hypnosis" technique.

  Although Yi Rin is not a professional hypnotist, but with the support of his super high spiritual attributes, it is not difficult for students who are just ordinary people to do this under the premise that they are not defensive.

   Not to mention the effect of props.

  Irin continues to fool around... ah no, continue the class:

   "In this world, something different has appeared."

"what,"

  Irin suddenly sighed, full of emotion:

   "You've seen it before,"

   "It is the deepest part of your heart that you are most unwilling to touch, or the existence you are most reluctant to touch,"

   "It's your secret,"

   "It's your luxury,"

   "It's your dream too."

With Yi Rin's voice, I don't know what happened in the imagination of the students. The facial features of each student suddenly crowded together, as if they were in pain, and they seemed to be entangled with something, and their bodies trembled slightly. Many students even broke out in cold sweat on their foreheads.

  Many students, holding brushes, began to dance on the blank canvas subconsciously.

  Irin silently turned on and went with him, walking to the students.

  Irin frowned when he saw what the students were drawing.

   On each canvas, there is a similar style.

  On the pure white canvas, scribbled, split color blocks, twisted lines, colorful and weird, or black and white. Chaos, disorder, fragmentation. Some looked like a monster whose limbs were indistinguishable, and some looked like human faces with disorganized facial features, and in the blink of an eye, it seemed like they were just graffiti drawn along with babbling.

  Irin said nothing, passing students one by one, remembering their "masterpieces" in his mind.

   Well, I draw even worse than me.

   "Ah... Teacher, I'm fine."

   A sound like waking up from a dream broke the silence.

   right now.

  In the corner of the art teacher, a girl with a small bruise on her face raised her hand cautiously.

   The girl's voice awakened all the students who had fallen into hypnosis. When the students looked at the paintings in front of them, they burst into laughter without realizing it.

  Irin stepped up and walked to the girl.

   On that canvas, a girl was painted.

   Maybe because of painting with eyes closed, the facial features of the "girl" on the canvas are not symmetrical, but it can be seen that this is a cute girl with short hair and a sweet smile.

  On the canvas, the girl sits on the endless seashore, looking back and smiling.

"who is she?"

  Irin asked.

   "I don't know." The female voice in the corner, hearing Yi Rin's question, raised her head blankly, with a bit of doubt in her eyes: "Qianhui doesn't know her."

   "Can this painting be given to the teacher as a souvenir?"

  Irin asked, and before the girl could agree, she took the painting off the easel lightly.

   Chie lowered her head.

   Seeing that Yi Rin has already started to do it, he can only say: "...Okay, Mr. Muto."

   "...I'm called Irin-sensei."

   "Okay, Irin-sensei."

"What's your name."

   "Chie, Tanano Chie."

  …

  …

  Irin finally finished this art class.

  There is another session in the afternoon.

relax and happy.

   Wages are ridiculously high.

   "In this way, the qualification for a 'reasonable' investigation can only be obtained after a successful application for a 'teacher' position."

   "But what would happen if you forced your way into Kanzaki Middle School?"

   right now.

  Irin's death brand vibrated slightly on his chest.

   At first glance, it is quiet.

   The two began to chat secretly:

  Irin: How is it?

   Xu Jingjing: I received a follow-up mission!

  Irin: Sure enough, how did you get it? Let me be more specific.

   Xu Jingjing: I was shopping in Kanzaki City just now...

  Irin: …Wait. Are you still in the mood to go shopping?

   Xu Jingjing: Don't interrupt, shopping is a girl's lifelong mortal enemy, okay? Let’s get down to business first, when I was shopping just now, a woman suddenly passed me and shoved a USB flash drive into my hand. I found a place to open the USB drive, guess what I found?

  Irin: …Don’t be rude, just order.

   Xu Jingjing: Hee hee, do you remember, there was such a passage in our initial mission prompt.

  Irin: There is a lake in the school?

   Xu Jing: No.

  Irin: That should be an "accident".

   Xu Jingjing: That's right! That's it. On August 5, all 27 teachers of Kanzaki Middle School died in the dormitory. It is said that they all committed suicide in various ways. It is said that in the end all the police came, and they all judged it to be suicide, and there was no suspicion of homicide.

  Irin: All suicide?

   Xu Jing: This should be an important clue. In other words, I hate playing this decryption-type trial the most...

  Irin: Are there any other clues?

   Xu Jingjing: In addition to the archived case data, the USB flash drive was finally given an address. But no information other than the address was mentioned, and I don't know why. But after I saw that address, I received the task.

  Irin: What mission?

   Xu Jing: Find something called "Pandora's Box". Strange, shouldn't this be a prop?

  Irin thought for a moment.

   After a few simple exhortations, Yilin concluded:

"The clue should be very clear. Our identity should be similar to an 'investigator' who is responsible for investigating various secret cases. Therefore, in the initial identity, it was said that 'your current identity is a social animal'. It should be... similar to a private person A detective or something. The woman who touched you and quietly gave you the USB flash drive should be your connector."

   "I rub, so mysterious?"

   Xu Jing was shocked, she didn't expect this level.

"This shouldn't be a bad thing, and since you didn't perceive the maliciousness, it should belong to our side, so you can ignore it for the time being. In many cases, this kind of background force might just be when the towers put us in this world. , a borrowed background board. Just focus on the task."

"clear!"

   "Right," Yi Rin recalled Xu Jing's "malicious" touch, and asked again, "Have you found the source of your discomfort?"

   "No." Speaking of this, Xu Jingjing was also very depressed: "That kind of feeling is like looking for a **** in the toilet. The whole city smells like that. How do you ask me to find it?"

   "...Can you stop using such a disgusting metaphor, you are a little girl."

   "I like it, can you handle it?"

   Xu Jing snorted lightly, and didn't say anything more, and hurriedly hung up the communication.

   "It turned out to be two lines."

After    ended the call with Xu Jingjing, Yi Rin fell into deep thought.

  The clues gradually became clear.

   Obviously, the entire trial should revolve around an existence called "Pandora's Box". Currently in the trial, forty-nine people and a dog are divided into two groups. One group is outside the school, one group is inside the school. But whether it is outside or inside the school, they are looking for clues about "Pandora's Box".

   "But in fact, it should be here."

Yilin leaned on the corridor, looked at the gloomy sky, smiled, and said in her heart: "For us apostles, it is not difficult to find Pandora's Box. The difficulty is that now no one knows what 'what' is. It's Pandora's Box."

  Pandora's Box, is it a box as described on the surface? Or is it some other form of existence?

   This is the difficulty of the second main mission.

   Really want to know the real body of Pandora's Box, Iren can even use the effect of [Compass from the Heart] to point out its direction.

"That's why it's divided into two lines? It looks like it should be, Pandora's Box, hidden somewhere in Kanzaki Middle School. People outside the school have to find out the true face of 'Pandora's Box' through various clues. Split action in team mode? This trial is a bit interesting."

   It is lunch break now.

  As an art teacher, Yi Rin is actually very free and has a lot of time to wander around the campus.

   Taking advantage of nothing, Irin came to the place he was concerned about.

-"lake".

  In the original task prompt, there is this sentence:

  【There is a lake in the school. 】

   This hint is too obvious.

   Except for the blind or stupid, it is estimated that no one can't see it.

  In Kanzaki Middle School, there is indeed a lake on the school map.

  This lake, located in the grove behind the school, is forbidden to students.

  Irin took time to visit the BBS on campus.

   It is said that many students have opinions on this.

  You said that if it is forbidden to go to the lake, go to the lake, it doesn't matter. What does it mean to be prohibited from entering the grove?

  How much fun is missing!

  Irin ignored for the time being what fun the students wanted to go into the woods for.

   He quietly came to the back mountain of Kanzaki Middle School.

  The grove is surrounded by high barbed wire, and security guard booths are also set up at three or five places. There are monitoring equipments everywhere in the barbed wire, and the defense is tight.

   "This place is more tightly guarded than a bank vault. Is there no silver here? If there is no problem with this lake, I drank the entire lake." Yi Rin silently stood up a Flag.

  Irin noticed that around the back mountain, there were many "peers", quietly hiding in the dark, but did not dare to act rashly.

   I don't know if it's because of following the task prompt "be careful with words and deeds", or because of mutual restraint between peers.

  Before Irin came, [Follow the Shadow] had already been activated. He observed from a distance for a while, and in the next second, Yi Rin's expression calmly disappeared behind the corner, and then turned into an imperceptible little shadow, moving quickly along the wall and the ground from the corner, easily traversing the barbed wire and entering the grove middle.

  What is there in the woods?

  Irin looked forward inexplicably.

   (end of this chapter)