Doubt spread like vines into every corner of the painting classroom, instantly silencing the once somewhat noisy art space.

All eyes turned to the single target—Lan Qi.

As if hoping to find an explanation on his naturally innocent face.

However.

His face was like a painting even more difficult to decipher than the one in the professor's hand, leaving everyone unable to figure him out.

Four consecutive second-answer responses had struck the correct option like lightning.

It was too difficult to explain away as a coincidence; no demon doubted that Lan Qi was relying on luck anymore.

Although they couldn't understand what strange magic this Radiance Demon was using to analyze the answers so accurately and quickly...

"..."

The Hawkeye Demon sat there, lost in thought because of Lan Qi's prompting. His eyes were annoyed and conflicted.

He knew it was only natural for Lan Qi to take revenge.

So, Lan Qi might have deliberately answered correctly a few times, only to give him a wrong answer to mislead him!

But.

It was also possible that Lan Qi had predicted that he would see through the trap, so he still answered correctly, luring him to deliberately answer in the opposite direction.

After analyzing, the Hawkeye Demon got more and more tangled, unable to figure out what layer Lan Qi was on, and began to suspect that Lan Qi was purely messing with his mind!

Finally, after thinking about it for a while longer.

The Hawkeye Demon slowly raised the corner of his mouth, as if he had found some clue.

As if he understood what to do.

"You're clever, but you overlooked one thing..."

The Hawkeye Demon stared at Lan Qi, like a police officer who had found a clue to a criminal.

As someone specializing in mental magic, he could clearly distinguish the mental fluctuations of other demons.

When Lan Qi told him the answer just now, he hardly produced any complex thoughts.

His words were too calm, his eyes too pure.

The Demon Realm would never have a demon who could—so sincerely give the correct answer to a hostile target without any distracting thoughts!

This was also the only flaw in the trap this Radiance Demon wanted to set! He must be harboring the most instinctive malice of the demons and speaking the wrong answer.

"It was painted by a student."

The Hawkeye Demon did not adopt Lan Qi's answer. His voice was firm and echoed in the empty classroom.

Then, he glanced at Lan Qi with a sneer.

As if mocking Lan Qi's feeble plan, which not only failed to harm him but helped him instead!

"..."

Professor Mogut remained silent, shaking his head.

"Wrong, I painted it."

There was a hint of displeasure in Professor Mogut's words.

Lan Qi was full of regret, looking at the Hawkeye Demon like an idiot.

"I already told you the correct answer, why don't you believe me..."

He seemed to have no bad intentions, truly wanting to help his classmates as much as he could.

"..."

Hyberia stared at Lan Qi's face. She knew that what Lan Qi said must be true, but this Hawkeye Demon refused to believe it.

After thinking about it, Hyberia felt that another demon had been casually played by Lan Qi again.

Whether the Hawkeye Demon believed it or not, Lan Qi's behavior of revealing the answer had disrupted the Hawkeye Demon's mind, because even the Hawkeye Demon himself hadn't realized that he had unconsciously shifted the focus of his attention completely from the painting to Lan Qi.

"What's wrong?"

Lan Qi seemed to notice Hyberia looking at him, turned his head, and looked at her with a smile. His voice was as clear as a spring.

"...Nothing."

Hyberia didn't say much to Lan Qi.

She knew that even if she asked Lan Qi, Lan Qi would definitely only tell her innocently, "I don't know," "That guy is judging a gentleman's heart with his own mean measure," "How could I harm my classmates?" and so on.

This guy's naturalness and darkness had become perfectly integrated, making it completely impossible for her to tell whether he was doing good or evil, and he even began to possess duality...

……

The entire right side of the classroom fell into a silence that penetrated the bones.

"Ah ah..."

The Hawkeye Demon's face was full of fear, his eyes reflected Lan Qi's figure with interlaced light and shadow behind him, as if the distorted face of the demon was reflected in a darkness.

His face became twisted, full of resentment and helplessness.

Looking at the approaching professor, the sharp eagle eyes quickly had only bottomless despair left.

Even at this moment, he couldn't understand why the Radiance Demon could display "kindness," something that didn't belong to the demons, so purely and flawlessly!

Professor Mogut's steps were steady and powerful, each step like a death knell knocking on the Hawkeye Demon's heart, palpitating his last fear.

Soon, Professor Mogut's hand slowly rested on the Hawkeye Demon's head, causing his skin to wither, blood to evaporate, muscles to thin, and finally turn into a shriveled corpse, the light in his eyes gradually extinguished.

The expression of fear and despair was forever frozen on the Hawkeye Demon's face.

"After I store his body, the next is the free-response round."

Before taking out the next painting, Professor Mogut held up the corpse in his hand and took a deep look at Lan Qi.

He felt that the nature of this class might have changed.

This classroom might be difficulty level 3 for other students.

But for this Radiance Demon, the difficulty was like negative 3.

……

More than an hour later.

The melodious bell rang again, like an invisible tension penetrating the walls and seeping into every corner of the classroom.

Professor Mogut stood at one end of the round table, frowning, his eyes full of suspicion about his demon life.

The paintings in his hand had been replaced one after another, trying to increase the difficulty and challenge Lan Qi's appreciation ability.

But in the end, not once was Lan Qi able to feel even the slightest bit of difficulty.

Professor Mogut was now even beginning to reflect, how did it become him challenging the student?

Mogut was very certain that Lan Qi's magic power didn't fluctuate at all when he was identifying the paintings. He relied entirely on his eyesight to carefully observe every corner.

It was unimaginable why there would be such a terrifying student in painting appreciation at this school, like he was possessed by the god of art!

"What on earth are you..."

Professor Mogut stared at Lan Qi. He was deeply shocked by Lan Qi.

At this moment, Lan Qi had become like an unfathomable art master in the eyes of Mogut, a senior professor in the art department.

Professor Mogut even couldn't help but wonder, if he handed a paintbrush to this Radiance Demon and let him paint, what level of work could he produce...

"So, Professor, can you first tell me what the reward for 263 points is?"

Lan Qi just calmly propped his cheek with the back of his hand, leaned back in his chair, and asked with a smile.

(End of this chapter)