After driving Jackson away, no one else dared approach Chu He.
The terrifying aura around Xia Yao vanished in an instant. She took Chu He's hand again. Her touch was icy, but her grip left no room for refusal.
Chu He looked down at the hand clasping his, his feelings complicated.
It looked slender and delicate, its skin fair as jade and its nails neatly trimmed. It was just like the hand of an ordinary, beautiful college student.
But Chu He knew that those hands possessed the terrifying power to tear apart space and annihilate life.
More troubling still, he realized Xia Yao's possessiveness was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
From the killing intent that had flared in her eyes when Jackson approached, Chu He knew this School Belle Anomaly had completely claimed him as her own.
And her possessiveness kept intensifying, like a snowball growing larger and larger as it rolled.
"X-Xia Yao, listen to me..." Chu He had just begun to explain the school rules.
But Xia Yao turned around. Her eyes, which had been clouded with shyness moments ago, now looked at him in confusion.
She tilted her head, a lock of long, dark hair falling over her shoulder. Paired with her stunning face, her voice was still hoarse and halting, but noticeably improving. "You... don't like it?"
As she spoke, a trace of nervousness crept into her eyes.
Chu He was instantly defeated.
That question, so utterly pure, paired with her stunning face, was more than any man could resist.
What was more, this was an SSS-Class anomaly with the power to destroy the heavens and the earth, yet she was showing such a vulnerable expression in front of him.
The sheer contrast was enough to kill him.
"It's not that I don't like it, it's just... Hey, hey... you..." Before Chu He could finish, Xia Yao had already pulled him toward the girls' dormitory.
Her pace wasn't fast or slow, but every step carried an unshakable determination.
Chu He had no choice but to follow, his mind racing as he tried to think of a way out.
He didn't dare defy Xia Yao too much just yet. After all, she could kill him with a flick of her finger.
But the school rules clearly stated that anyone who entered a dormitory for the opposite sex without permission would be annihilated.
Xia Yao clearly didn't take that rule seriously.
As an SSS-Class anomaly, Xia Yao was herself one of the rule-makers.
But that didn't mean she could completely ignore the rules.
The rules governing the anomaly world were complicated. Even high-level anomalies couldn't disrupt the balance at will.
He had no idea what consequences this would bring.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Xia Yao ignored the newly issued [School Rule Two] and pulled Chu He straight toward the girls' dormitory, a gloomy building open only to women.
The other players were all dumbfounded.
"Is he crazy? Is he going to break the rules again?"
"That's practically asking to die! The system's annihilation program is no joke!"
"He's so infatuated with that anomaly that he's completely lost his mind!"
"Not necessarily. Look at Chu He—he looks bitter. That female ghost is clearly dragging him along against his will."
"Hard to say. Let's wait and see..."
Jackson was hiding in the distance, his eyes filled with conflicting emotions.
Fear, jealousy, and a trace of schadenfreude.
"Damn yellow monkey. You're about to pay for your stupidity!" he thought viciously. "That'll teach you to show off and steal the spotlight."
Chu He heard the comments, but he was more concerned with what Xia Yao was thinking.
Ever since he'd kissed her, this School Belle Anomaly had shown a strong desire to protect him.
His instincts told him she wouldn't just stand by and watch him die.
That meant either she had a way to protect him, or...
A possibility occurred to Chu He, and he broke out in a cold sweat.
Was she planning to change the rules for the girls' dormitory outright?
If so, it meant Xia Yao had far more authority than he could have imagined.
The instant Chu He's foot crossed into the girls' dormitory grounds, a shrill alarm blared across the sky, and the entire school shook!
"Warning! Warning! Serious rule violation detected!"
A thick, blood-red beam gathered in the sky, radiating a terrifying aura that could destroy everything. It took aim directly at Chu He!
The beam's power was so immense that even its aura made the air around it tremble.
The ground began to crack, and nearby trees withered in an instant.
[Warning! Serious rule violation detected. Annihilation... Target locked: Chu He...]
The voice cut off abruptly.
The blood-red beam, suspended above Chu He's head and powerful enough to obliterate everything, eerily froze in midair. Its light flickered erratically, as if it had gotten stuck.
Xia Yao furrowed her delicate brows, her face clearly displeased.
She looked up, her lifeless eyes gazing into the void as a cold killing intent burst forth.
The entire space began to distort under the influence of that killing intent, and the temperature around them plummeted below freezing.
Her cherry lips parted. She uttered a single word, cold and hoarse, yet filled with supreme authority: "Begone."
The instant the word fell, the blood-red beam shattered like a mirror struck by immense force. It broke into countless pieces and dissolved into a rain of red light.
The system alarm vanished completely, as if it had never sounded.
Chu He stared wide-eyed, his heart pounding.
He knew Xia Yao was powerful, but he hadn't expected her to directly break the rules governing the school dormitories! And she'd done it so effortlessly, as if swatting a mosquito.
What did that even mean?
It was like a player in a game directly telling the game program to shut up—and then rewriting the rules!
The next second, global opinion exploded.
Eagle Country livestream:
"FUCK! She... she gave the rules an order?!"
"My God, this SSS-Class anomaly is the very embodiment of the rules!"
"What kind of divine backer has that Dragon Country kid found?! I'm seriously starting to think he's cheating!"
"Cheating? This is way beyond cheating. He bought the whole game server!"
Cherry Blossom Country livestream:
"Impossible! This absolutely can't be!"
"The system's annihilation program can instantly kill even A-Class anomalies. How could a single word defeat it?"
"I think our understanding of SSS-Class anomalies is still too shallow..."
"Shallow? We don't understand them at all!"
The Dragon Country livestream had already erupted:
"Holy crap! My God Chu's woman is incredible!"
"She broke the rules with a single word! And those rules were clearly no joke. What kind of god-tier move was that?!"
"I'm seriously starting to wonder if God Chu is a hidden BOSS in the anomaly world!"
"Whoa, she's so domineering, so powerful. That's awesome!"
"I suddenly have a question. Do you think humans and anomalies can have babies?"
Jackson, who had just been gloating, turned deathly pale.
His legs began to tremble uncontrollably, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.
He finally understood what kind of being he'd just faced.
An anomaly that could directly veto an annihilation order wasn't merely powerful. It was utterly beyond anything a player could understand.
Dragon Country Command Center.
General Wang stared fixedly at the screen, unprecedented light blazing in his old eyes.
"Good! Excellent!"
The old man slammed the table, his voice booming. "Technical team, analyze those data fluctuations in detail! I want to know what kind of authority an anomaly of this level possesses!"
A young technician scrambled to retrieve the data, his voice breaking with excitement. "Reporting! We've detected a direct alteration at the Rule Level of space! The energy fluctuations exceed our instruments' measurement limits! This is already beyond our understanding!"
"Beyond our understanding?" General Wang sneered. "Then find a way to understand it! Starting today, our research will focus entirely on the interactions between Chu He and this School Belle Anomaly!"
Chu He was still trying to process what had just happened.
He felt as if his entire worldview had been rebuilt several times in just a few minutes.
Xia Yao turned around. Her eyes, which had been filled with killing intent moments ago, were now shy again.
She smiled at Chu He, her expression infinitely tender.
She gave his sleeve a gentle tug, her voice tinged with tentative nervousness. "Are you... afraid of me?"
As she spoke, her gaze darted away, like a child who'd done something wrong and was waiting for a parent to scold her.
Chu He looked into her clear eyes, his emotions a jumble.
Afraid? Of course he was.
Any normal person would be afraid after witnessing a power that defied the heavens.
But there was more than fear. He was awestruck, and felt a strange sense of security.
With a bodyguard on the level of a rule-maker, what did he have to fear in this instance?
"I'm not afraid." Chu He answered softly, reaching out to caress her cheek. "Thank you for protecting me."
A blush instantly spread across Xia Yao's cheeks, and joy nearly spilled from her eyes.
She clung tightly to Chu He's arm, her voice as light as a feather. "You... are mine."
Then she added, "Forever... mine."
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