Campus Disappearances

"Master Lu!"

"Look at me, look at me!"

"Master Lu, over here!!"

The surrounding crowd was incredibly excited, waving enthusiastically.

The eerie atmosphere has left too many shadows on the citizens, and when hope arises, people are willing to believe it is real.

Lu Bai waved to both sides, and after greeting them, he walked into the campus under the excited gazes of the crowd.

School leaders immediately came up to him, showering Lu Bai with all sorts of flattery as if it were free.

"Excellent! With Master Lu's intervention, the strange phenomenon will surely have nowhere to hide."

Safety first!

However, the disturbance didn't last long. The school leaders quickly stopped, realizing that continuing further might have led to some unnecessary dangers.

As they ventured deeper into the school, only Captain Mao and some members of the Action Department remained by Lu Bai's side.

It must be admitted that this art university does a good job in terms of landscaping, with lush vegetation and flower beds everywhere.

Furthermore, due to suspected strange occurrences at the school, classes were immediately suspended, and all faculty and staff were given leave.

The campus was eerily quiet, devoid of any human presence.

The Action Department team has been investigating the campus for two days and is very familiar with its layout.

Captain Mao led the way, guiding Lu Bai and his group across the playground. After turning past the fence, they could see a row of buildings with clothes hanging on their balconies.

This is the girls' dormitory building of Keshan University of Arts.

Downstairs in the dormitory building, a team of the Action Department personnel was stationed, each holding a walkie-talkie that was always in a state of constant communication.

Captain Mao stopped and turned to look at Lu Bai: "Master Lu, in your opinion, could the strange thing be in the dormitory building?"

Instead of giving a direct answer, Lu Bai muttered an incantation and waved his finger in front of his eyes.

Surprisingly, the entire girls' dormitory building had almost no eerie atmosphere and showed no signs of anything strange.

His gaze swept across the dormitory balconies, finally lingering for a moment on the black pantyhose hanging on the second-floor clothesline. He then looked away and shook his head at Captain Mao: "Even if something is strange, it shouldn't be in this dormitory building."

The Lu Bai Service and Research Guarantee Bureau observer, who had been following Lu Bai the whole time, noticed this detail, quickly took a few steps back, and dialed the Lu Bai Service and Research Guarantee Bureau's dedicated hotline, which was open 24 hours a day.

"I am Observer No. 073. Based on the information I have now, please have the Entertainment Lu Bai Service and Research Guarantee Bureau immediately issue a work arrangement announcing that all women in the Lu Bai Service and Research Guarantee Bureau are prohibited from wearing any clothing other than black stockings on their lower body for the present and for the foreseeable future. This is urgent. I will call the head of the Entertainment Department later to explain the situation."

"Received by the General Administration, will process immediately. Wishing Master Lu happiness."

"May Master Lu be happy."

On the other side of the city, there is a private hospital more than 20 kilometers away from Keshan University of Arts.

White fluorescent lights stretched along the ceiling. A man in a suit was squatting on the floor, chopping up a corpse. He placed a Medical Record on a hospital bed in the corridor to prevent blood from splattering on them.

A girl wearing a bow hair clip sat curled up on the hospital bed, hugging her knees.

She glanced at the rather graphic scene and said helplessly, "We are guests after all. Isn't it a bit inappropriate for you to treat the owner of this house like this?"

"No, I just want to verify my hypothesis."

The man in the suit didn't even look up, his hand holding the knife steadfastly without the slightest tremor. "Don't you want to know how these so-called supernatural phenomena came about? Can they be artificially created?"

"In no mood."

The girl with the bow hair clip pouted and casually picked up the remote control to turn on the wall-mounted LCD TV in the hallway.

The sound of a news broadcast came from the television.

"Master Lu Bai's actions are of great significance to the safe development of Keshanshi City. Now, please follow our reporter Liu..."

The man in the suit, who had been patiently chopping up the corpse, suddenly stopped, looking annoyed, and shouted, "Turn the TV volume down."

Upon hearing this, Fu Xuejia giggled.

After laughing enough, she turned her head and said with a hint of mockery, "If you want to verify your guess, why don't you just expose yourself like this guy named Lu Bai? Then, I reckon these natives will try their best to fulfill any requests you have."

"This guy is just asking for death. Among all these deathmatch fighters, do you see any others who would willingly step forward like this?"

The man in the suit loosened his tie and glanced disdainfully at Lu Bai on the television screen. "Even if he's lucky enough not to be killed by those monsters, he'll still become the target of everyone's ire."

Several Construction Worker squatted in their prefabricated steel dormitory, eating their boxed lunches while turning on their phones to broadcast a news live stream at maximum volume.

One of the young men was different from the other Construction Worker; he didn't eat, but instead focused all his attention on the live news broadcast.

He listened to the conversation between the host and the reporters on site, fiddling with the large wrench in his hand, his eyes darting around.

A moment later, he picked up the wrench, got up, and walked outside.

His coworkers found it strange and called out to him a few times, but received no response.

Three taxi drivers got out of their cars, squatted by the roadside, held their phones horizontally, and stared thoughtfully at the images on their screens.

"How many times has this happened? Is this the second or third time? This is interesting. What do you guys think this guy is thinking?"

A driver wearing sunglasses rubbed his fingers back and forth on the ground. "Are you really planning to help these natives deal with the strange things?"

"The 'Node' hasn't appeared yet, so it's probably just bored, right?"

"Whatever this guy's planning, I don't think he's a normal deathmatch fighter."

The driver, with a round face, grinned and said, "Why don't the three of us go and join in the fun?"

Upon hearing this suggestion, the last driver promptly got up and got into the car.

"Let's go together, let's go together."

Keshan University of Arts.

Lu Bai stopped in Teaching Building and confirmed that there was no yin energy in the building.

He then turned to Captain Mao, who was standing beside him, and said, "No need to go in, the strange thing isn't here."

Captain Mao readily agreed, but he had some doubts. "Master Lu, we've basically seen all the buildings on campus. What do you think about this...?"

Having personally experienced the power of Lu Bai's Lightning Law, Captain Mao naturally had no doubt about Lu Bai's judgment.

He looked around, then leaned close to Lu Bai's ear and whispered, "Do you think it's possible that this wasn't a strange thing at all?"

"It's hard to say."

Lu Bai rubbed his temples. "Let's wait until it gets dark before we look at it."