Vortex Town, Fourth Middle School, teacher's office.

Teacher Guo stuck out his tongue, looking at the small missing piece of flesh on the side, and then looked at his feet, where a pitch-black demon with a human body and a tongue for a head was lying.

The demon's back was completely caved in, its spiral structure having churned the flesh thoroughly.

Rather than being angered by the demon's ambush, Teacher Guo instead showed a smile he hadn't worn in a long time, as if this was what qualified a person to be a teacher and to face threats from the Outer Realm.

Just as he was glad to have such a person join the teaching team and restart lesson preparations for tomorrow, his gaze suddenly changed.

"Why are there so many things happening today all at once..."

...

Luo Di on this side had already agreed with Gust to let him meet his friends in advance.

Since classes would proceed normally later on, and he, as a teacher, would meet everyone anyway, Luo Di figured he would call everyone directly for a meet and greet, having a gathering at Wu Wen's villa.

Getting acquainted beforehand would resolve any potential issues early, better than having conflicts erupt within the school.

Just as the two were heading toward the villa area, Luo Di suddenly felt a familiar aura.

Walking behind him, Gust had already turned his face toward it.

The familiar sackcloth head, the familiar question mark emblem.

"Mr. Question Mark, why are you here? Damn it!"

Along the way, the thing Luo Di had heard most frequently was Gust's intense desire for Mr. Question Mark's tongue, a longing that had matured like fermented beer over decades of being sealed, becoming more fragrant and richer!

It was like a young man who had decided to abstain from desires, successfully holding out for a full hundred days, only to accidentally open a chat group where a seasoned friend had unknowingly shared series of premium films, inadvertently viewing the animated previews.

Luo Di couldn't deeply comprehend this feeling, but he knew clearly that it was impossible for him alone to stop it.

Sure enough,

when he snapped back to reality, Gust was no longer behind him.

He was pouncing forward with the most primal and frantic posture, his tongue high in the air, displaying his excitement.

Although it was a simple lunging motion, Luo Di vaguely saw something not quite normal.

It seemed that the entire street had sprouted numerous tongues, surging from all directions like a tide.

However,

Mr. Question Mark made no move, the red question mark on his face gradually turning yellow, and the bottom "dot" of the question mark seemed to become an eye.

As Gust was about to touch his face,

suddenly,

a powerful aura descended from an external source,

a pristine, large punch landed solidly on Gust's cheek, the air blast dispersed all the tongue illusions throughout the street.

Crack!

Gust was nearly decapitated by the punch, barely held together by the densely packed tongues at his neck, his body crashing into a house across the street, penetrating three buildings before finally coming to a stop.

The one who delivered this punch was not Mr. Question Mark,

but rather Jia Wen— the First Generation Zombie, who had just gotten certified and entered Vortex Town, the same person who had taken part in the videotape incident with Gust back in the day.

However,

Jia Wen, after delivering this overwhelmingly powerful punch, looked incredibly grim.

The sensation of the punch was very strange, unlike any creature he had hit before, as if he were hitting an endless "mountain of tongues."

Not only was he unable to damage the mountain, he was also left with saliva all over his hands.

Buzz!

Jia Wen decisively bit into his right shoulder, biting off his entire right arm.

Even as the severed right arm was still falling, it began sprouting tongues from the inside, turning bones, skin, and muscle into tongues.

Splat!

The fallen right arm exploded on the ground, turning into countless tongues, continuing to surge forward.

Yet Jia Wen instantly regenerated an arm, performing a highly exaggerated move.

He stretched his arms backward until his palms could meet behind him; then, with great accelerating force, he clapped them forward in a massive arc!

Bang!

The space quaked under the impact,

the ground dented into a fan-shaped depression from the shockwave.

The resulting air pressure flung and shredded all the tongues.

Even standing a hundred meters away, Luo Di had to cover his ears, stepping back three times, as blood seeped from his eye sockets and nostrils.

"What level of battle is this..."

Cold sweat dripped down Luo Di's forehead, astonished by the scene before him.

But he wasn't fearful, nor worried about being affected, instead, he wanted to step closer, to observe every detail clearly.

As a murderer by nature, he sought to obtain this rare combat information, to gain this physical strength.

"What is that?"

Luo Di suddenly noticed behind Jia Wen,

there was one corner he had overlooked, a complete blind spot, where a silent figure was swiftly climbing down the building facade.

Luo Di saw it— a creature with a human body and a tongue for a head, the tongue monster form Gust had once used to influence external events.

But this thing was visible yet devoid of any perceivable aura, as if the tongue monster had licked away its own presence.

Almost at the moment Jia Wen withdrew, the creature closed in, ready to strike.

Buzz!

An invisible force field was suddenly unleashed.

The tongue monster seemed to be immobilized, unable to move!

Upon receiving the news, Jia Wen immediately turned around, eyes wide open, evidently unaware of this strange creature's approach.

Strangely,

Jia Wen did not make a move this time but instead took two steps back.

It seemed he couldn't attack the motionless tongue creature, as if the opponent had been marked by something and trapped in a special realm.

Mr. Question Mark, who had been sitting still, stood up to face the tongue creature.

He clenched his right hand into a fist and slowly raised it.

The tongue creature mirrored the action, making the exact same fist movement.

When both raised their fists above their heads, they suddenly brought them down.

It was not an attack on each other but a game, a simple game that everyone knows—Rock, Paper, Scissors.

One round determines the winner.

The tongue creature chose rock,

Mr. Question Mark chose paper.

The outcome was decided!

An irreparable crack, destructive from the root, formed on the surface of the tongue creature's flesh, and as it split, the flesh quickly disintegrated without leaving a trace.

As soon as the tongue creature was completely obliterated,

Gust, who had been punched away earlier, walked back from the other side of the street.

Strangely, he seemed to have suppressed his desire for tongues or perhaps been thoroughly awakened by the punch.

"Oh my~ you two are still together! I thought it was just you, Mr. Question Mark, alone, thinking it was the best opportunity ever.

But with the two of you, never mind!

Even though I've pondered underground and come up with many new tactics, your coordination is flawless. We can only wait until Luo Di grows stronger, then we'll have a two-on-two match again.

By the way, Mr. Question Mark, why are you two here?"

"What are you doing here, tongue?" Mr. Question Mark directly countered.

"Ah? I've signed up and officially become a member of Vortex Town. I'm now the biology teacher here.

If you're interested, you both should stay too! Let me think! Jia Wen would be perfect as a gym teacher, and Mr. Question Mark, you could be a computer lab teacher! That way, we can meet daily, wouldn't that be great!"

"Signed up? Teacher?"

Mr. Question Mark was still unclear about the specifics of Vortex Town, but this kind of organization structure was something he had never heard of before; it genuinely intrigued him.

"And who are the students?"

Gust patted Luo Di on the shoulder, "Luo Di is one of them, and there's some other natural-born monster, I guess? I just arrived, so I'm not really sure."

Mr. Question Mark stopped conversing, just gave Luo Di a glance before walking deeper into the town with Jia Wen.

Just when they thought this farce was over,

Gust, who had seemed normal seconds ago and decided not to instigate a conflict, suddenly changed his expression, and a mass of tongues grew rapidly from beneath his feet, charging silently.

It looked as if he was preparing to ambush the two from behind.

Just when conflict seemed inevitable, an incomprehensible scene unfolded.

Slap!

As he approached five meters behind the two, Gust unexpectedly kneeled on the ground with a painful expression.

"Mr. Question Mark, be kind~ Could you cut off a part of your tongue for me? Preferably a large part, no... preferably the whole tongue.

I must make your tongue into a specimen to treasure, hanging it beside my bed as decoration!

If you give it to me, I can also give you something very important."

Even with his face covered by a sack, Mr. Question Mark seemed to reveal a disgusted expression, just wanting to leave quickly, far away from this tongue.

He swiftly moved to a small house by the road, drew a question mark on the door, opened it, and went inside.

When Gust got up to chase after them, there was no trace of the two behind the door.

He could only walk back dejectedly towards the dormitory, just short of having the word "lost" written on his face.

Luo Di looked at Gust, who was about to head back inside, and asked, "Senior, aren't you going to meet my friends?"

"I am going to sleep."

"Alright then..."

Gust slowly walked back to his teacher's dormitory, closed the door, shut the window, and turned off the lights.

Sitting at the dining table,

The earlier sense of loss had completely disappeared, replaced by a face of extreme joy, even sweating profusely from happiness.

In his hand, he firmly held half a tongue, its form, surface pattern, and proportional structure were all perfect.

It wasn't a complete tongue, but he was satisfied!

He took out some side dishes and began his solitary tasting of this exquisite delicacy.

…

Elsewhere.

Mr. Question Mark, having arrived at another location in Vortex Town via a "door," suddenly reached out to touch his mouth.

"The door just now had already been tampered with by that guy!

It was during the time when Jia Wen punched him away,

and when we were distracted by the tongue creature,

he quietly interfaced with this door, applying saliva on the lock surface, then using my revulsion to trap me.

Interesting… truly interesting!

Jia Wen, be prepared, we might have to stay here for a long time."

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