"What is the potent nourishment?"
"Which one is Final Puzzle?"
Grand Consciousness passed over the entire campus, the gray mist boiled like boiling water, and the unknown words cast a Ill Omen haze over everyone's hearts.
"Nutrition----?"
Upon hearing those words, Commander Han, who had just landed, turned pale in an instant as he was already weak.
Could it be that the rays released by [Blazing Sun Charm] became the nourishment for the recovery of a certain mysterious existence?
"Is it a coincidence? Or did someone guess that I am carrying this [Blazing Sun Charm]?"
His expression was in disbelief. "Of all the Tinghai Citys, knowing that the Black Boxs I am carrying this time belong to [Blazing Sun Charm], there will never be more than five!"
"Even if there are corresponding records at the Special Management Department headquarters and Ordinance Hall, there is no possibility of leakage!"
"Besides, it was Deputy Director Lord who transferred me to the battlefield. There is no way that even his old man is a mole——what is all this going on!"
Commander Han is a little confused.
He has always been proud of his ability, even when escaping Teaching Building, he had to take everyone with him, and he did not even give up on the [Explorer] trio.
But the current facts told him an extremely cruel truth, that is -
It was he who stepped into Certain Existence's trap step by step and personally delivered the last piece of the puzzle.
If the disaster here spreads, he will become the biggest sinner!
"Help, help!"
There were screams in the distance.
On Teaching Building, densely packed people gathered at the rapidly shrinking hole, reaching out desperately.
Their fingertips have grasped the free air outside, but their bodies are tightly bound by Twisted Red Snakes.
If you look closely, you will see that those red snakes are clearly skinned and bright red flesh!
The stumps and severed limbs embedded in the wall that were originally unable to hang down and sway in the wind seemed to come to life at this moment, ferocious and powerful, full of vitality and enthusiasm.
So passionate - these arms have a sticky and slippery touch, and they wrap around the ankles, waists, abdomens and necks of the Extraordinary people with great precision, and their strength is astonishing.
"I----I can't breathe----"
There was an extraordinary person who was pinned to the wall, with a purple rotten broken leg lying in front of his eyes, and behind him was the outside sky.
It's clearly right in front of you----
He struggled hard and his spiritual energy exploded, but more and more stump limbs climbed up from the ground, covering his body like a dense Reed Swamp.
Countless hands, big and small, complete and incomplete, caressed, groped, scratched and tore at his body.
Long-term hypoxia caused hallucinations in front of his eyes, and his eyes bulged like a dying fish.
At the last moment of his life, he remembered the oath he took when he joined FZDC, the scene when Commander Han patted his shoulder to commend him, and his family and past.
"Command----"
The hand was unable to be raised, and was pressed down by countless arms.
Countless arms seemed to be completely covered in dense spider webs, turning him into a personal chrysalis.
He finally lost consciousness. "Didn't you say you wanted to take me back?"
It's not just him.
Everyone is like this.
Many Extraordinaries saw their hope of escape cut off midway. Some even had half of their bodies crawling outside the cave entrance, and were then held down by a frenzy of dense arms.
They were squeezed and covered, as if entangled in spider webs, or like insects solidified in amber.
A picture of hell-like tragedy was staged on the fourth floor of Teaching Building. No matter how cruel the tragedy of poetry is, it is difficult to describe the desperate situation at this moment.
The survivors who were lucky enough to escape stood on the ground, looking up at the burning hole on the fourth floor with complicated expressions, listening to the cries and wails of their former comrades who shared life and death.
In their eyes, there is fear, hatred, and fear----
"No----"
Commander Han collapsed on the spot.
"More than just delivering puzzle pieces - I haven't been able to get them out yet!"
"I----didn't do anything!"
Thinking like this, I had mixed feelings in my mind, and my brain felt a surge of blood. Commander Han's eyes went dark, and he fell to the sky.
But he quickly opened his eyes again, and what he saw was a Silver White mask with rust and blood stains.
"Commander Han, we can't live without you here."
[Rust Silver Knight] injected spiritual energy into his body to regulate his body, and said in a low voice with concern, "Things are already very bad, you must cheer up and clean up the mess!"
The chaotic spirituality was slowly smoothed out. As Commander Han took a bottle of medicine, his body contaminated by Teaching Building was slowly purified.
He was able to regain the ability to speak, but his voice was a little dry when he spoke, "Save them----"
His hoarse tone was almost pleading, and his eyes were looking straight at the purgatory-like fourth floor of Teaching Building in the distance.
"----Okay!"
[Rust Silver Knight] nodded, turned around and jumped into the sky.
"Swish!"
However, several vines suddenly appeared, blocking his path and forcing him back.
"Don't act rashly to avoid being defeated one by one!"
[Emerald Flame] The reminder voice was heavy and cold, and her long hair fluttered with the flames of Emerald Green, showing that her heart at this moment was by no means as calm as the voice.
"But!" [Rust Silver Knight] wanted to say something, but faced [Emerald Flame]'s cold gaze, he hesitated.
He knew that what [Emerald Flame] said was very reasonable, but his own professional ethics and life creed made it impossible for him to remain indifferent to those people's calls for help.
Thinking like this, [Rust Silver Knight]'s Chinese character face hidden behind the visor showed a struggle.
What decision should he make?
"----Fortunately."
"Fortunately we all escaped."
Standing behind the crowd, Number 9 Maiden touched his cheeks, chest, and waist, with a look of relief on his face.
He suddenly felt that the land under his feet and the fog around him were not as scary and terrifying as he had thought before, and even seemed a bit amiable.
-Of course, compared to the cannibal Teaching Building.
Fortunately, as [Explorer], the first secret skill in their lives is closely related to "escape".
For example, Number 9 Maiden, her level 1 secret skill of [Explorer] path is called [Ancient Tomb Escape]!
-A quick escape technique similar to advanced parkour, which requires occasionally exploring ancient tombs and actively triggering ancient tomb mechanisms to gain experience in secret techniques.
In the end, the three of them looked at each other and couldn't help but sigh, "----It's so good to be alive!"
Admittedly, no one can tell what horrific things will happen next.
But at least----
They have lived longer than others.
As long as you are alive, there is still hope!
"That's right"
Number 32 Chubby hesitated to speak and shivered all over.
"When I activated the [Slippery Feet] secret skill, I wonder if I saw it wrong—that Senior Student Zhou seemed to have escaped with us?"
Hearing this, the voices of the other two people suddenly stopped.
They quickly turned around and looked around, but they didn't see the figure in school uniform at all.
On the other side, [Emerald Flame] is still talking to [Rust Silver Knight].
From the corner of [Emerald Flame]'s eyes, he suddenly noticed Deputy Director Liu beside him, and his eyes changed slightly. "Folding Knife!"
"Buzz buzz!!"
The Scarlet Folding Knife in the hands of Deputy Director Liu, the Red Clouds that cultivates the earth and blooms coquettishly, even its shape changes.
The blood-red strange metal seemed to sense the bloody heat wave coming from the Teaching Building melting pot, and it vibrated in response, as if it had been recast and turned into a flowing liquid.
This liquid is like putrid blood, dark red and dark, but with the unique viscosity of metallic solution, and finally condenses into the shape of an ancient key.
"Folding Knife----turned into a key?"
[Winter Sword] was stunned for a moment, with many Spiritual Light flashing in his mind, and he captured some horrifying inspiration from it.
"Buzz!"
The next moment, Blood Key flew out from the hands of the confused Deputy Director Liu, and the sharp corners scratched Deputy Director Liu's palm.
As the blood flew out of a thin line in the air, the scarlet key flew straight towards the building.
"Stop him!"
[Rust Silver Knight] and [Emerald Flame] tried to catch it, but the key disappeared in an instant and appeared in the distance in the air out of thin air, leaving them all in vain.
"Sure enough!"
[Winter Sword]Suddenly, many previous doubts suddenly became clear.
This Folding Knife, or rather this key, is the reason why the principal is so elusive in front of everyone!
This Minor Secret Realm has a special structure, like a maze. From the beginning, only the surface has been exposed to outsiders, but there is a "secret room" beneath the surface.
Only the key can connect to the deep "secret room" inside Yuanmeng Middle School and enter the second or even third layer of reality below.
So in the eyes of people on the surface, the person holding the key is no different from traveling through space.
The principal is not traveling through space, he is just using the key to "open the door" during the battle!
But-
"The space is divided into three floors Minor Secret Realm?"
[Winter Sword] murmured, "Can this still be called a small secret realm? Tinghai How many years has this kind of thing been seen?"
"What is it that's hidden in the depths?"
Thinking of this, [Winter Sword] frowned, and the cold air spread from his body.
He lightly hooked his fingers twice, and Deep Blue ice crystals gathered at his fingertips and slowly lengthened.
"Is all this what the principal expected?"
It is said that the real King of Lustful Evils even has the ultimate form that merges with the Minor Secret Realm, and its strength can grow explosively through this.
But that should never be an area that "Quasi King of Lustful Evils" can touch! -
"It seems like there may be another King of Lustful Evils behind this Quasi King of Lustful Evils!!"
"Is it that "Senior Student Zhou"? But the speaker is clearly a female voice——"
There were a few "buzzing" sounds, the surrounding temperature suddenly dropped, and the Deep Blue-colored Ice Soul Longsword once again condensed in the hands of [Winter Sword].
His face was once again covered with a layer of light frost. [Winter Sword] turned to look at Commander Han, who was pale and weak beside him. "Commander Han, please contact the headquarters immediately and report the situation here."
"The few of us----I'm afraid it's not enough!"
As he said that, he looked at [Emerald Flame] and others. "Those who can't escape, it's time to use Black Box."
"We must try our best!"
[Emerald Flame] and [Rust Silver Knight] looked at each other, then nodded seriously, and each took out Black Box from their bodies.
However, [Emerald Flame] hesitated for a while, his eyes flickered, and his complicated gaze turned to the Ice Soul Longsword in [Winter Sword]'s hand. "If you continue to use this, something will happen to you."
"You will lose your feelings, even----"
[Emerald Flame]'s voice was very low, and the more she spoke, the less it became silent.
[Winter Sword] was silent for a moment and said coldly, "Do we have any other options now?"
Hearing this, [Emerald Flame] and [Rust Silver Knight] were speechless, looking at the dazed Deputy Director Liu next to them intentionally or unintentionally, feeling horrified.
When Deputy Director Liu was needed most, he got into trouble ahead of time.
But Three Sealed Extraordinary knows what this means.
There are some things that they Level 6 Sealed Extraordinary cannot feel, but to the existence of Above Level 6, they are the most deadly poison!
On the contrary, this can better illustrate how terrifying the "thing" hidden deep in Teaching Building is!
"Clatter----"
Without waiting, [Winter Sword] took action against Teaching Building.
In the tremors that spread throughout the campus, the sound of turning paper suddenly came from all directions in the mist.
Waves of sound overwhelmed the waves, approaching everyone crazily. "What's the sound?"
Three Sealed Extraordinary turned around and looked around.
The fog gradually thinned, and the scenery of the school came into view.
School rules, Poor Student Wall, slogans--every corner of the school, places with words in the past, are now undergoing terrifying changes.
All school regulations and photos have turned into pages of yellowed paper.
Looking carefully, I found that there were all kinds of words written on these papers, as if they were entrusted with death wishes. "I want to be a scientist--I want to be a bird and fly out."
"Next time, I will definitely get into the top fifty of my grade!"
"Don't look at me, please don't look at me anymore----"
"My parents are all for my own good, so I should be obedient."
"Red Bow, so beautiful."
"I really want to sleep for a while, just for a while----"
"Mom, I will become what you want--I love you mom, see you tomorrow."
Densely packed yellowed papers were hung all over the walls, swaying in the wind in all directions, but giving people an extremely heavy feeling:
They swished with the wind, and the dense sound made people panic. The fluttering yellow paper was like talisman paper, which made people feel ""
You have to go to the actual practice, or even be in Dojo.
At this time, [Emerald Flame] was stunned for a moment and whispered to himself, "Altar? Dojo?"
"Da!"
The sound of footsteps suddenly sounded from Deep Mist, attracting everyone's alert attention. Focused: "You may not know."
"Someone died here."
"--Many people."
A stiff voice sounded, as if he was still not used to his vocal cords.
A student with a young face but a stiff expression, wearing a neat school uniform, slowly appeared in front of everyone.
The school was clearly in shock, and the Flesh and Blood Horrible building was not far behind him, but the student's expression was quite calm.
His posture was gentlemanly and elegant, with a strong shadow that everyone was familiar with and feared. "----Principal?"
[Emerald Flame] frowned and looked at him questioningly, but his tone was quite sure.
"You are indeed not dead!"
The student didn't answer the question, but continued to say something that confused everyone, "Everything here is closely related to them."
"And I am them, or part of them."
After speaking, he slowly turned around and looked at the building Teaching Building.
There was cold hatred in his eyes, but behind the hatred there was lingering fear.
Revenge Flame burned in his indifferent eyes, but soon these flames turned calm. "Ritual has begun."
"You have all guessed something wrong - I am not the owner of this place, let alone the thing that I summoned there!"
"Just like there are more than one Ritual covering this place - everything that happens now is only partly driven by me."
There seems to be more than one Puppet Master!
The principal spoke expressionlessly, and the thin and short figure of the student stood in the thin mist, calmly facing the crowd of Great Enemy.
He indeed kept "opening the door" through the key, traveling through space and fighting several Titled Transcendent.
But----
"The key is always in my hand."
"But the seal with layers of giant locks at the deepest point was not opened by me."
"Even quite the opposite-"
He whispered softly, with some memories in his eyes. "I am Gatekeeper. This is the mission that gave birth to me, and it is also the Shackles that binds me."
"The key is Folding Knife, but it's not Folding Knife either."
"I myself am part of the key."
"But from a long time ago, I had an idea——"
He raised his head and looked up into the mist, like a prisoner in a cage looking up at the birds sadly. "I don't want to live as Gatekeeper."
"I don't want to continue to be bound to that thing----"
As he spoke, he turned his head to look in a foggy direction with complicated eyes.
People don't know why.
But a certain White-surnamed Black Cat who was hiding there and spying here shivered inexplicably.
"?"
Is he looking at me?
Then, everyone, including Bai Zhou, heard a faint whisper, "So, I need to use Ritual to select someone."
"To be precise, we selected one Successor!"
The campus is still shaking, Teaching Building is still releasing a billowing heat wave, the "principal"'s momentum suddenly blooms, and the boiling spirituality makes many extraordinary people breathless.
After thinking for a while, he added another sentence:
Inherit everything from me!"