Girls' Dormitory

"You! Which class are you from?! Where's the original Flag Bearer?!" The flag-raising ceremony had just ended when the teacher in charge rushed up to Lin Qiye with a ferocious expression and began questioning him.

Lin Qiye had no time to deal with him at all. He simply sidestepped him and headed into the distance.

The teacher in charge widened his eyes. In all his years of teaching, he had never encountered such an outrageous student!!

"Stop right there! I'm talking to you! What kind of attitude is that?! Believe it or not, I'll drag you straight to the principal's office and have the whole school publicly discipline you!!"

He grabbed Lin Qiye by the shoulder and roared!

Ahead, Lin Qiye stopped.

Slowly, he turned his head.

Within his eyes,

Two golden flames suddenly ignited!

In that instant, an unprecedented pressure descended upon the teacher in charge!

Under the gaze of those eyes, he felt as though he were staring into the entire universe. Amid that vast, boundless darkness and the unknown, he was as insignificant as a grain of sand.

Oppression!

This was the oppressive force of a higher level of life!

In merely an instant, cold sweat drenched the teacher's back, and his whole body seemed on the verge of collapsing.

The flames in Lin Qiye's eyes vanished in a flash. In those black pupils, it was as though nothing had ever appeared.

"What happened just now was my fault. You can publicly criticize me before the whole school, or even file a complaint against me with the office." Lin Qiye looked at the teacher, who was gasping for breath, and spoke calmly.

"But you'll have to wait until I'm done with my work."

With that, Lin Qiye turned around and sprinted away under the teacher's terrified gaze.

"Captain."

"Qiye, report your situation."

"I checked all the teachers and students in the school... The situation is terrible. I think resolving this quietly will be as difficult as reaching the heavens."

"Give me the details."

"Among the three grades, there are relatively fewer infected in the first and third years. Together, they total no more than ten. The second year is in the worst condition, with thirty-six infected people. In one class, even half the students are infected!

"And that's only the students. There are also nearly twenty infected teachers and administrators!

"So I can infer that at least sixty teachers and students in the entire Second High School have already been turned into monsters!"

Silence fell over the other end of the earpiece.

"Captain, more than sixty infected! Even if every infected person is only at the 'Lamp' realm, there are still more than sixty 'Lamp' realm monsters in this high school!

"If we find the true body of this Mythical Creature, those sixty-odd infected at the 'Lamp' realm will definitely enter a berserk state and indiscriminately attack the teachers and students around them!

"And there are simply too many of them. If even one slips out of the school, it'll become a disaster that affects all of Cangnan City!"

Lin Qiye calmly laid out his deduction.

"Qiye, it's not a matter of 'if' one slips out of the school..." The sound of chopping came through the earpiece as Chen Muye slowly spoke. "They've already begun spreading outward."

At that moment, in a rented apartment several kilometers away from Second High School.

Chen Muye held a blade as he stepped over the mangled flesh and blood scattered across the floor. Beside him stood Wu Xiangnan, his face solemn.

"We investigated Liu Xiaoyan, Han Ruoruo, and the Dean of Students' homes. We found that their families had also been infected, and we only just finished clearing them out.

"The situation is more severe than we imagined."

"Then..."

"We need to visit the homes of those infected one by one and cut off the spread as quickly as possible, so we can't support you for now. But for such a troublesome Mythical Creature, its own combat strength certainly won't be high. I believe the three of you can clear it out."

"But if we do that, chaos will inevitably break out at the school. We might expose both ourselves and the Mythical Creature."

"You don't need to worry about that. We have a Forbidden Artifact called Dream Whisper. It can create dreams within a certain range and erase parts of people's memories.

"Also, I'll have Leng Xuan temporarily take over as a Watcher and deploy the Boundless Void Domain around Second High School. No one will be allowed in or out. For the time to come... Second High School will become an isolated island cut off from the world."

Chen Muye walked to the window and looked toward where Lin Qiye and the other two were. He spoke calmly.

"Our enemy this time is difficult to deal with. Don't hold back, and don't hide anything. Find its true body in the shortest time possible... and kill it! At the same time, protect the teachers and students. We can't allow too many more casualties.

"This time... you can give it everything you've got!"

On the other end of the earpiece, Lin Qiye fell silent for a moment, then nodded heavily.

"I understand."

Lin Qiye cut off the earpiece. Wu Xiangnan, standing beside Chen Muye, frowned slightly.

"For his first mission to run into such a major incident, isn't this too difficult for him?"

"Xiang Nan, this child is different from you and me." Chen Muye shook his head slightly. "He has potential, temperament, and resilience. All we need to do is give him a clear path and a broad stage.

"He'll ascend to the clouds on his own."

Second High School, girls' dormitory.

Hong Ying stealthily poked her head out from beside the window, glanced inside, and waved to the person behind her.

"Quick, go! The dorm manager isn't here!"

Si Xiaonan quickly ran in from outside, lightly leaped over the access barrier, and slipped behind the duty room.

Hong Ying did the same. After the two of them bypassed the duty room, they ran straight up the stairs, taking three steps at a time as they flew upward!

In the blink of an eye, they arrived on the fifth floor.

The flag-raising ceremony had just ended, and the students had all gone straight back to their classrooms to prepare for class. The dormitory building was completely empty. The doors on both sides were all locked, and the corridor was dim and narrow. The only light came from a ray of sunlight cast down from the terrace at the far end.

Hong Ying cautiously pressed herself against the wall and surveyed the floor in the dim light.

"Which room did Lin Qiye say those girls were staying in again?" Hong Ying turned her head and asked softly.

"The second-to-last room on the north side," Si Xiaonan answered.

Hong Ying looked toward the northern dorm rooms and silently made her way over. Si Xiaonan tightly clutched the hem of her clothes, fear appearing in her eyes.

"Sister Hong Ying, slow down."

"Got it, got it. You're not afraid of cutting down monsters, yet you're scared of the dark." Hong Ying replied helplessly.

The two gradually approached the dorm room door. Hong Ying used a thin needle to pick the lock again, and the door slowly opened...

Just as Hong Ying had expected, there wasn't a single person inside the dormitory.

The two entered the room and quickly began searching.

"Tsk, this school's dorms are pretty nice... The balcony's quite large too." Hong Ying opened the door and stepped onto the balcony, remarking casually.

Suddenly, she seemed to see something, and her pupils abruptly contracted.

On the clothes rack in the dormitory, besides a collection of pink clothes and underwear...

There were also four thin sheets of human skin,

Swaying in the wind.