Three months later.
News of the large-scale experimental disaster at the Alien Spirit Communication Academy spread through every Eye of the Storm at incredible speed.
Although no one had witnessed the unexplained disaster firsthand, multiple versions of its cause, events, and outcome had already taken shape.
Some said it had been caused by a leak of dangerous chemicals. Others claimed it was a warning from a spy at the X Advancement Academy, retaliation for An Liya's complaint to the dean of the Grand Natural Sciences Academy. Still others blamed the ill-fortune curse on the T-Gene Engineering Blueprint.
Those who believed in the T-Gene Engineering Blueprint's ill-fortune curse were undoubtedly in the majority.
After all, ever since the Night Expedition returned, the T-Gene Engineering Blueprint had become far too famous. It had practically become a treasure that everyone craved, one said to surpass even Sacred Demon Artifacts. Yet, strangely, the scholars who had participated in the Night Expedition weren't particularly interested in this treasure that the Academic World coveted.
The reason was that so-called ill-fortune curse, which was practically regarded as utter nonsense.
As for what had happened during the disaster...
Although many accounts differed in their details, one point was universally acknowledged: only after the dean of the Grand Natural Sciences Academy personally intervened was the crisis temporarily averted.
The aftermath of the disaster, however, gave rise to all sorts of bizarre rumors.
Some said more than a thousand people had died in the disaster, and that even Dean An Liya had been killed by Reilo. The Alien Spirit Communication Academy, they claimed, was about to be struck from the Academic World.
Others said only dozens had died. Before their deaths, they had all gone mad, seemingly afflicted by a vicious curse, and their deaths had been extremely gruesome.
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