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It narrowed its eyes and looked at Luster, who was observing it with the same caress as a small animal. "I've been watching you the entire time since you came out of the Night World. From what I've observed, Ishtar didn't tell you these things, or perhaps she doesn't have the authority to know."

"So, how did you know I helped you with the college's risk assessment?"

"Just because Ishtar called me Dean Yin just now?"

"That's not it."

Last also mixed a glass of wine for himself. He held the goblet and sat down opposite Dean Yin.

"At best, what Ishtar said only led me to conclude that you were the director of the Institute for Magical Creatures. After all, her expression, as if she had been caught speaking ill of a teacher behind his back, was far too explicit."

He picked up the goblet and stared at the rapidly changing scenery outside the train window: "As for other things--"

"I'm just guessing."

Chapter 46 Welcome to Star University

"Guess?"

Dean Yin wrapped his tail around the glass, took small sips from the straw, and showed a very satisfied expression.

At this moment, the Silver Gear has already left the base and is traveling through a dense forest where few people have ever been.

The lush and towering treetops completely blocked out the sky, and the entire train was shrouded in dim shadows. After the sunlight passed through the treetops, only mottled spots of light remained, as if countless faint stars were shining on the earth.

"Yeah." Rust nodded. "Or rather, it's actually a very simple deduction."

"Based on my understanding of Starry University, you have left absolutely no room for maneuver regarding the Night World Reverberations and the Twilight Disaster, factors that could threaten the stability of this world."

"And the little tricks I used in psychological testing might have worked for Ishtar, but they couldn't fool everyone."

"Even though Hiltina has a certain say in Star University, she's still just a student after all..."

"I'm very aware of the unknowns and the risks involved. Frankly speaking, I've already prepared myself mentally for being taken away by armed guards to a prison surrounded by an electric fence and imprisoned as soon as I leave the night world."

Last paused for a moment. "But in the end, I was only asked a few simple questions and was finally freed. This was definitely possible thanks to the help of the higher-ups at other colleges."

"Furthermore, even Ishtar is completely unaware of what happened in Deep Blue Harbor's historical reverberations... This suggests this information is highly confidential. Hiltina will likely only reveal it to those she trusts most."

"Dean Yin, you've appeared here again at this very moment, and as soon as you appeared you mentioned my experience of circulating in Deep Blue Harbor for two or three hundred years. This naturally can't be just a coincidence."

Last took a look at the unidentified creature in front of him that claimed to be a snow marten and smiled.

"Dean Yin and I have never met before."

"The reason you're willing to help me is probably because of Hiltina."

He stared at the crimson wine in the glass and said, "I didn't expect that before I even paid off the 1,600 gold coins, I'd already owe her a new favor."

Dean Yin narrowed his eyes and looked at Last for a long time.

"I finally understand why you played that little girl Ishtar around so hard."

It returned to its original lazy posture, and its furry snow-white tail shook slightly.

On Rast's desk, a contract document written in black and white silently emerged.

"You have your acceptance letter. Sign it."

Luster took the document and began to look through it.

The content of the document was basically the same as the offer from a foreign university in Last's previous life.

The only difference is that there is an extra half-page confidentiality agreement about the Night World, which prohibits the disclosure of any information about the Night World, Night Travelers, and Dusk Disaster to civilians and uninformed people.

Of course, considering the series of social unrest that may be triggered once the truth about the Twilight Disaster is made public, the intention of this confidentiality agreement is not difficult to understand.

While Last was signing the contract, Dean Yin was also looking at the young man in front of him calmly.

As a magical creature, its advancement cannot be done step by step like that of human extraordinary beings, but it has to find another way.

Over a long period of time, Dean Yin discovered that contact with humans and feeling their sincere emotions seemed to promote and stimulate his own growth.

The more genuine and pure the human emotions it comes into contact with, the more obvious the improvement it will gain.

This is also the reason why Dean Yin chose to accept the invitation to join Star University and serve as the dean of the Institute of Magical Creatures.

Therefore, Dean Yin, who possesses the ability of the "Moon of Truth" and can easily identify lies, hates those students who are smooth-talking and have impure intentions the most.

There are too many impurities in their emotions, which not only cannot help it, but may even have a counterproductive effect.

The extraordinary friendship between Dean Yin and Hiltina stems from this... Compared to other students in Star University, Hiltina's pure belief is as bright as the moon in the night sky.

Originally, based on Dean Yin's initial judgment of Last, he thought that he was also the type with a complicated mind... After all, he wore too many personality masks, and was almost no different from a patient with schizophrenia. Such emotions were as useless to Dean Yin as a stinking ditch.

Dean Yin agreed to take care of Last entirely out of respect for Hiltina. He had originally only planned to secretly allocate a bit of his mental power to look after him, and he hadn't even planned to show up.

only--

At the end of the psychological inquiry, Dean Yin inadvertently caught a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg in Last's heart.

"Partners of justice?"

Dean Yin looked at the young man in front of him who was examining the contract. He recalled what Hiltina had told him about Last's actions in Deep Blue Harbor and couldn't help but mutter under his breath, "It doesn't seem like it."

Ordinary people wear masks to cover up their ugly, dark and flawed parts, and to package themselves as perfect as possible.

However, Laster used layers of personality masks to disguise himself as an ordinary person who was a little greedy, a little lustful, a little selfish, had all kinds of emotions and desires, and had many flaws... He was an ordinary person who could be seen everywhere and was not noticeable.

However, in that fleeting glimpse, the emotion that Dean Yin saw was even more monotonous and purer than that of Hiltina, so pure that it was even a little absurd.

It was as if he was not a human being with flesh and blood.

Instead, they put on the cloak of humanity, disguising themselves as human beings, but their core is just acting for a certain preset goal...

machine.

"By the way, what will happen if I don't sign this?" Last suddenly raised the contract in his hand.

"Do you know how much effort I put into helping you pass the admission review?" Dean Yin was immediately furious.

Its eyes flashed with a dangerous glint. "By the way, Ishtar has been deducted 20 points from the Seancetary for slandering the Director of the School of Magical Creatures behind her back. She will also be exiled to another dimension for two hours. There's still one hour and thirteen minutes left."

As if frightened by Dean Yin's threat of "exile to another space", Last's fingers trembled slightly, and the pen fell from his fingers to the ground.

He bent down to pick up the pen and quickly signed his name on the contract.

Dean Yin took in everything in front of him.

An illusion...?

Although the "Moon of Truth" is never wrong in distinguishing truth from falsehood, truth and lies are sometimes quite vague concepts.

Just like the sentence "My heart and my actions are as clear as a mirror, and everything I do is justice", even if it is said by an unforgivable criminal, if he believes it from the bottom of his heart, it will be judged as the truth.

Perhaps this was the reason why my judgment of Last became confused.

As this thought arose in Dean Yin's mind, the train suddenly sounded a loud whistle.

After a few seconds, as the train moved forward, the darkness in the dense forest gradually faded away.

Dazzling golden light shone into the carriage from the cracks in the forest ahead, as if piercing through the curtain of darkness.

The trees suddenly disappeared on both sides, replaced by a vast plain.

It was truly a golden field. The wind rushed in from the end of the earth, blowing out undulating waves on the grassland. The spreading sunlight dyed the entire earth, including the mountains in the distance, into a brilliant gold.

The winding railway tracks run through this golden ocean like a silver line, and at the end of the silver line——

Green lawns, long paths paved with red cobblestones, towers resembling castles, white doves flying up and down from the church spire...

In the golden glow, the magnificent building complex is already in sight.

"Welcome to—"

"Star University."

After Dean Yin finished speaking, only the roar of the high-speed train echoed in the wilderness.

Chapter 47 They are committed to the night, yet they are as bright as stars

The dark forest where the treetops blocked out the sun and no sunlight could be seen was left behind.

Amidst the resounding roar, the Silver Gear train traveled along the rails across the boundless wilderness, with the azure sky overhead.

Rast recalled the promise he made in Canaan—

At that time, he had promised Amys that he would go to the New World to see the magnificent plains where the wind blew the grass and the cattle and sheep could be seen.

And now, Rast saw the golden field with his own eyes.

The high-speed train sped past, and the gust of wind that broke through the air pressed down the grassland beside the railway... There were actually cattle and sheep grazing there, and they were eating grass leisurely at this moment, their figures were looming among the grass leaves bent by the wind.

What if Last had not traveled to a completely new world, but was playing the fantasy game called "Embroidery of Snow and Moon".

So at this moment, it is probably the time when the game's theme song starts to sound and the opening animation plays.

There was a brief silence in the carriage.

Neither the man nor the beast spoke, but just stared silently at the golden plain outside the window.

"It's a beautiful view, isn't it?"

"This is why Little Tina and countless other Night Travelers from Starry University are determined to eliminate the old disasters from the night world at all costs, even at the risk of their lives."

Dean Yin had stood on Last's shoulder at some point, gazing at the distant scenery with his ruby ​​eyes.

"So, please don't harbor any resentment towards the academy's almost rigorous investigation and testing of you."

"These procedures are indeed a bit cumbersome, even to the point of being inhumane, but in the final analysis, it's because we can't afford to gamble, and we can't afford to lose."

"There's only a thin passage between the night world and the present world, between the twilight disaster that destroyed past civilizations and the beautiful world before us... Even the slightest mistake would have consequences we cannot afford."

"I don't know where you come from."

"But the scenery you see before you is our whole world..."

Dean Snow Ferret's words dissipated in the wilderness along with the gust of wind.

……

An hour later, the Silver Gear came to a stop at the end of the track.

Luster walked out of the car.

And Ishtar was finally released from the "exile space" as Dean Yin called it after serving her two-hour confinement. At this moment, she was staring at Dean Yin with a resentful look on her face.

Dean Yin remained calm and completely ignored Ishtar's resentful look. He still maintained his lazy and elegant posture, eating a small dried fish from time to time.

Behind the platform is a long staircase paved with red pebbles, leading directly to the building complex on the top of the mountain.

pat-

pat-

The two people and the beast walked up the steps covered with fallen maple leaves.

It was not until I walked up the last step that the scene before me suddenly became clear.

It was a wide square, behind which was the castle-like college complex. On the spire of the church, white carrier pigeons flew up and down.

In the center of the square stands a huge black obelisk, towering and majestic, reaching into the sky.

On the obelisk, there is a line of ancient text written in light golden ink:

【The stars change, but wisdom is eternal】

Rast walked to the obelisk and looked up at the magnificent obelisk.

He clearly did not recognize the language engraved on the stele, but for some reason, when Last looked at the line of pale golden characters, he could understand their meaning.

"This is written in Aramaic. Although the Night World provides basic language support for travelers in the Remnants of History, there's no need to be unable to communicate due to language barriers."

"However, within the remnants of the Night World's history, there are also ancient books and texts from that era. For us, these are extremely valuable secret intelligence, and are of great research value in verifying the lost history before the 'Pale Age'."

"Therefore, Aramaic, Ancient Elvish, Ancient Giant... these ancient languages ​​widely used in the Night World Reverberations are all required courses for you after you enroll."

Dean Yin had stood on top of Ishtar without him noticing, looking at Rast who was looking up at the obelisk beside him.

"However, there's no need to look at the school motto engraved on the obelisk."

"That's something that Principal Lao Deng uses to decorate the house and fool outsiders and onlookers."

"Because of the Night World confidentiality clause, most outsiders regard Starry University as a prestigious institution of higher learning with a long history and a strong academic atmosphere on the mainland."