Chapter 618: Chapter 600: Halloween
The overall score of “Rust Rain” is very low. Except for Gust and Mr. Question Mark who gave passing scores, all other teachers gave failing marks, and the final score is less than five.
Although eliminated,
Despite having an extremely vile nature,
but since he came here as a new student, he still received Teacher Guo’s reverse spiral reset and was allowed to stay and watch until the assessment was completely over.
Lebeite’s ease does not mean the remaining participants will also have it easy,
Among the three new participants currently in the assessment, Rabbit Riley and this Rust Rain are basically at the bottom in terms of strength. Although Jiang Mansion’s former butler was formidable, he was disqualified due to negligence.
The remaining new students are all extraordinary, and the subsequent assessment is the key.
Teacher Guo began announcing the list for the fourth assessment.
“The assessed new student is a lifelong resident of the Screaming Inn, the delicious Pumpkin Fran.
The assessor drawn for him is my student, Song Huiwen.”
It’s normal for monsters to have titles, just like the Carnivorous Family.
Most of the titles are mainly used to highlight their fear traits, often conveying fear just by stating their name.
However, this monster’s name has nothing to do with fear and there’s no sense of intimidation.
Instead, it evokes the feeling of waking up in the morning to find your mom has made a bowl of fragrant pumpkin porridge.
Moreover, this monster’s appearance is very “strange”.
Head: A large, plump, mature pumpkin covered in a sun-like orange color, the kind not easily found on the market, looking very appetizing.
The pumpkin’s surface doesn’t have facial features carved with a knife, no eyes, no mouth, no nose—just a complete pumpkin.
Neck: Below the pumpkin is a thin and long neck, excessively slender, making one worry if it might snap due to the pumpkin’s size and weight.
Upper body: A lanky body wearing a newly bought white T-shirt, with cartoonish pumpkin prints on it.
The tag on the shirt wasn’t even removed, showing how much he values this visit.
Lower body: Similarly, new shorts, with feet in straw shoes.
As he walked onto the field, Gust already showed dissatisfaction, giving a zero even before the competition started.
Because he couldn’t taste anything related to the tongue; the pumpkin seemed to contain only pumpkin pulp.
Moreover,
In the previous mixed battle phase, the delicious pumpkin was under siege by a temporary team.
Strangely, when those monsters surrounded him, they disappeared silently from the field along with him. Luo Di, mainly focused on the Carnivorous Family, didn’t pay much attention to this.
It wasn’t until almost the end of the mixed battle that the pumpkin and those monsters returned to the field.
No one was injured, no one died, although everyone seemed fine, except the first thing the other monsters did upon returning, apart from the pumpkin, was to forfeit.
Many couldn’t see through the true nature of the pumpkin, but perhaps the upcoming final assessment could reveal the truth.
Coincidentally,
The assessor drawn is also a Green Door Monster and a comic holder.
This is truly a monster vs. monster scenario.
When Luo Di inadvertently looked at Song Huiwen, who was preparing to go on stage, he found her arm span seemed longer and her height seemed about to break three meters… and it was still continuing to [grow].
This growth began when Teacher Guo announced her participation… or rather, Teacher Guo granted some kind of permission.
Perhaps a true, never-revealed monster was hidden inside her.
Unlike Lebeite’s internal monster,
Song Huiwen had no distinction between inside and outside. She only barely learned to suppress her nature under Teacher Guo’s guidance, barely maintaining a human form.
Her appearance wasn’t human, and even her thought patterns were more like a beast’s.
Although she possessed rationality and could communicate, decisions were often made based on instinct.
Because of this, Teacher Guo never let her act alone; at least one person was needed to lead and suppress her.
Previously, Dormo was arranged because sleep could effectively control her. Since Yu Ze came, the person was changed.
The two had no communication,
Yu Ze didn’t even look at Song Huiwen, instead staring at the pumpkin monster, similarly unable to see through this Green Door Monster, vastly different from the ones in his understanding.
Green Door is the category closest to “monsters”, the most divergent from humans, and the most atavistic in all fear systems.
But this pumpkin somehow had a strange human-like quality.
Recalling the internal intelligence from the Exploration Bureau, “Screaming Inn, a very famous corner organization, only Green Door Monsters can join. There’s no review process, one can simply get a temporary rental by joining and just needs to pay rent weekly.
If unable to pay rent, the room will be vacated, and the temporary tenant will disappear completely.
Very few monsters become lifelong tenants.
This pumpkin, I’ve never seen it in the Exploration Bureau’s archives… It feels very strange.”
Unable to see through, Yu Ze started calculating.
After a round of calculation with a small Liu Ren, his expression changed drastically, not because he calculated a divine demon, but because a pumpkin candy appeared in his palm, clearly labeled:
“Very fresh, very delicious!”
Yu Ze directly unwrapped the candy, and inside, it was still warm, as if freshly made.
Without hesitation, he popped it into his mouth. It tasted warm and refreshing, with a scent of pumpkin, containing a rich pumpkin filling, sweet but not greasy.
“Delicious!”
As Yu Ze was savoring the candy, he also felt Pumpkin Fran’s gaze, though it wasn’t malicious, just purely observant.
Yu Ze nodded in response, though his smile was slightly stiff.
“Indeed… The monsters arranged by these large organizations are extraordinary.”
On Teacher Guo’s side, he was already raising his arm,
Song Huiwen, standing on the field, had grown over four meters tall, with her mouth fully split open to her ears, exposing dense sharp teeth in her oral cavity,
Her body tilted forward, bending, with arms almost dragging on the ground.
“Start the assessment!”
At the moment of receiving the command, Song Huiwen transformed into a terrifying beast, her initial burst of speed slightly faster than Wu Wen’s.
Just as she was about to capture the target, buzz!
Song Huiwen suddenly stopped because her target disappeared, and in front of her was no longer the field but a small town adorned with pumpkin lanterns.
The city broadcast was playing the song “This Is Halloween”.
Residents in various bizarre costumes gathered on the streets for the annual festival carnival, and some residents passing by Song Huiwen even paused to praise her exquisite outfit.
It wasn’t just Song Huiwen,
New students watching from the sidelines, seniors behind the scenes, and even teachers serving as judges were all drawn into this town.
They were also given the identity of town residents, finding corresponding ID on themselves.
Only the two from the Question Mark House weren’t pulled in,
Mr. Question Mark, looking at the vanished students and faculty outside the window, seemed surprised, “There’s someone like this in the Corner; why don’t they come to my company for games?”
He put the mask back on, led Jia Wen out of Question Mark House, stood in the center of the field, conjuring a door out of thin air, painting a large question mark on the surface in pumpkin-like colors.
Click!
The lock turned,
a town filled with holiday spirit and eerie atmosphere appeared before them.
“What a well-established spatial rule, seems like the school might lose this round.”