CH 77.2

I Was Admitted To The Villain School Chapter 77.2

Lin Xinghe flipped through the previous mermaid lord's handwritten letter, analyzing it word by word.

At that time, all eyes were on her in the examination room, and Xie Wuan brought her a sense of urgency, so she couldn't calm down and think about it. Now that she could quietly look at the journal, the more she thought about it, the more terrifying the meaning.

It was like these two sentences from the previous mermaid lord-

"Ah...why am I not dead yet?"

"I'm ninety years old! How come I'm still alive! Do mermaids live so long?"

The previous mermaid lord was not afraid of death, and even mocked himself for how long he had lived. From his tone, he sounded more like a bystander. He wrote stories, but he had never been involved in this story.

Another example, this sentence—

"Ah...it looks like it's going to be a long journey."

The previous mermaid lord believed that this world was a long journey, that is to say, he must have experienced other worlds and had different journeys, short or long, which all finally ended in death.

And the words at the beginning of the journal——

"I have summoned all the young talents of my clan. Looking left and right, not one seems to be able to fight. It seems that they cannot escape the fate of being exterminated…"

"I told my daughter not to provoke Baleen, and she asked me, as the daughter of the city lord, why couldn’t she provoke a commoner? I told her that Baleen was stunning. My daughter thought I was going to marry her and did not provoke Baleen anymore. I knew she had misunderstood, but I had no explanation"

This expressed the way the novel world operated: the characters did not know the future, and the heroes and villains were not fixed. Past experience dictated that he was not the protagonist and there was no protagonist in the mermaid clan. It was not until he met Lucius that he confirmed that Lucius was the protagonist, and the stunning mermaid Baleen in the mermaid clan also guessed from the beginning that he would be the protagonist. That's why he told his daughter not to provoke Baleen. The old mermaid lord was a cannon fodder character, and his daughter probably was too.

Lin Xinghe's head was spinning and thinking rapidly, deciphering the journal of the previous mermaid lord.

That is to say, the cast of the characters in the novel world were not fixed, and all the characters were just parts to be played by different people. After they walked through the entire world of the novel storyline, they would go to another world whether they died or not. These paper insert characters would forget the events of the previous world and become new fictional characters.

So, did that mean that there was no real death in the world of fiction? Regardless if you died horizontally or vertically, if you went to another novel world, you would come back to life with a new identity.

… That wasn’t right..

Her eyes fell on the last sentence in the handbook—

Andrew, farewell*.

*TL Note: This way of saying goodbye means farewell forever.

The previous mermaid lord knew that Andrew was awakened. Both of them were paper insert characters. How could they be sure that they would not meet in the next infinite world? Even if the chance was slim, it was still possible.

This goodbye was likely a true goodbye.

Andrew couldn’t go on to the next novel, so it was a farewell.

Could it be that the characters in the novels who were killed by the candidates really died?

The previous mermaid lord knew that the devil was going to deal with Andrew, so he said farewell.

Having said that, Lin Xinghe had another doubt.

Why did the school go to such great lengths to make students go in and kill the villains? Wouldn't it be better to just arrange the plot to kill the villains?

Lin Xinghe tried to figure out the relationship between the school and the novel worlds as well as the rules of the novel worlds.

After thinking about it, she felt that there was only one possibility—the school did not have enough authority, so the school itself could not kill a villain, interfere with an already formed plot, or change the character designations. The novel world also put certain constraints on the school, and the school's authority was most likely only to reset the world and the characters’ memory as well as place some irrelevant people in the world.

After solving the troublesome characters (awakened characters), they would reset the plot, put things right, and let the plot of the novel return to normal. Since the paper insert characters could have unlimited identities, after the awakened character really died, another paper insert character could be arranged to become an "awakened character" and therefore know the plot line, so that the story could become normal and the novel world could be restored to normal order.

Thinking of this, Lin Xinghe suddenly felt a little pity.

The previous mermaid lord was killed by Xie Wuan, and it seemed that he couldn't go to the next world. But if he really died, he wouldn’t be targeted by the villain school. Otherwise, with the style of the villain school, knowing that the previous mermaid lord was an awakened character, eliminating him would become the next exam question in a certain examination room in minutes.

Lucius was also killed by the students, and it seemed that he couldn’t go to the next world.

In this examination room with the three cities fighting each other, no city owner could avoid true death.

Lin Xinghe couldn't help thinking of Ling Xiran in the alpine rimerose examination room. After Anthony III died and their candidates left, the world would be reset. Her apprentice Ling Xiran was going to return to her original state, but without Li Jun, she might be able to escape her tragic fate under the leadership of the heroine.