Rose Middle School

"Hoo..."

Liu Yuqing got out of the RV and closed the car door.

Seeing Wang Meng and Guo Shuai standing guard beside the car, she walked up and showed them the scroll in her hand.

Then she repeated Jiangnan's instructions.

"Since it's the Boss's order, there's no time to delay."

Wang Meng clapped his hands.

"Let's split up and search the surroundings to pinpoint the exact location of the red dot."

"The sooner we find the signal tower, the sooner we can get the map."

The three exchanged glances, looking at the red dot on the scroll, their eyes filled with hope for the future.

However, they didn't know.

In the area represented by that red dot, a nightmare, the complete opposite of sunlight, was unfolding at that very moment.

Meanwhile.

In a certain valley on Weird Island.

There was no sunlight here, only thick dark clouds and pouring rain filling the sky.

"BOOM!!"

A bolt of purple Mad Thunder tore through the pitch-black Sky Curtain, the thunderclap deafening.

Next, lightning struck a huge, already rusty Signboard.

Crack!

The Metal Plaque broke in the lightning and fire.

The character "Rose" from "Rose Middle School" was directly struck down, landing in the mud and splashing up a patch of murky black water.

Only the incomplete "Middle School" remained, appearing particularly sinister and eerie under the reflection of the Lightning.

Rainwater washed the ground, gathering the Dark Red Liquid flowing down from the school's slope into a stream, winding its way down.

That wasn't red mud water; it was blood.

At the school entrance uphill, countless bone-white Skeletons were scattered.

Some bones still had un-decayed mince clinging to them, and fragments of the black stand-up collar school uniform and sailor uniform were scattered in the mud.

It was obvious...

A slaughter had just occurred here. The deceased hadn't even had time to become mummified before their flesh was stripped to the bone.

"Screech!"

Two blinding beams of headlights forcefully pierced the curtain of rain.

A heavily modified, dark green Hummer, equipped with radio radar and a heavy machine gun, stopped in front of the abandoned middle school.

The car door opened.

Three men and two women, dressed in matching yellow-green special operations uniforms and carrying katanas on their backs, disembarked fully armed.

They were the Black Wolf Squad, an elite team dispatched by the Cherry Blossom Country.

The middle-aged man leading them was named Ono, his eyes sinister. He held a fully equipped M416, his movements practiced.

Beside him followed a proud young man, Sato, wielding the same equipment.

At the rear of the team was a tall, bear-like man, Ikeda.

He carried an alloy heavy shield and an NG-7 general-purpose machine gun, responsible for firepower and defense.

The remaining two women were: one, the cold and stunning sniper Kujo, holding a TRG-42 sniper rifle.

The other was a petite healer, Hoshino, armed with a P90 submachine gun.

The five wore night vision goggles, scanning their surroundings vigilantly.

After confirming there was no immediate threat, they turned their attention to the derelict campus in front of them.

"Ono-kun."

The tall Ikeda removed his rain-blurred tactical helmet and looked at the school, exuding a deathly aura, his voice muffled.

"This school... seems to be the one from our Cherry Blossom Country where all the teachers and students mysteriously disappeared thirty-three years ago..."

"Rose Middle School."

Ono wiped the rain from his face and nodded gravely.

"That's right, Ikeda-kun."

"This school was outsourced to a Huaxia Country enterprise for construction and naming back then."

"Later, the infamous 'Rainy Night Disappearance Case' occurred, and the entire school vanished overnight."

"I didn't expect... it would also cross over here."

"Shut up! You're too loud!"

Another young man impatiently interrupted this nostalgia.

His name was Sato, an A-Class Transcendent with the Supernatural Ability Storm Herald. Although he was a newcomer, he was the most arrogant person on the team.

"I hate middle schools the most, this kind of broken place, it's all sour and smelly."

Sato snorted coldly and kicked a skull by his foot.

"Let's quickly complete Mr. Muraguchi's mission and get the surrounding map."

"I'm starving to death, I just want to quickly return to base and eat rice balls."

"Stop arguing! Sato!"

The woman Kujo, holding a sniper rifle, reprimanded him coldly.

"You bastard, keep your voice down!"

"There are usually monsters guarding the vicinity of the terminal signal tower. If your big mouth attracts them, I'll shoot you first!"

"Tch, Kujo, don't drag me down just because you're a coward."

Sato sneered dismissively, a miniature whirlwind rotating in his palm.

"I'm an A-Class Transcendent, I don't care about these trash monsters!"

"And that Huaxia Country guy, 'No Need to Say More'..."

"When I meet him, I'll personally twist off his head and snatch his S-class item."

Sato clenched his fist with immense confidence, as if the other party was nothing in his eyes.

Kujo, who was about to scout, snorted upon hearing this.

"Overconfident fool, you'll be instantly killed if you encounter that Man."

Just as the two were arguing.

The healer Hoshino, who had been shrinking in the back, suddenly trembled and raised her hand. Her face was pale, and her voice was shaking.

"Ev... everyone..."

"I think I heard... chewing sounds nearby."

"Did... did you hear them?"

"Chewing sounds?"

Sato let out a scoff, looking at her as if she were an idiot.

"Haha, Hoshino, have you gone crazy from hunger? Where would there be chewing sounds in this desolate wilderness?"

"Right, boss? You're C-class hearing-enhanced, how could you not have noticed any sounds?"

Sato turned to Ono beside him, seeking affirmation.

However.

His words received no response.

Ono remained in a stance of aiming his gun in alert, standing motionless in the rain, back facing everyone.

"Boss?"

Sato was a little confused and reached out to pat Ono's shoulder.

The feel was light.

Even... a bit rough.

Plop.

The moment Sato touched him, Ono collapsed stiffly onto the ground like a pile of dismembered blocks.

Then he fell into the mud and water.

"Boss!!"

Sato was startled and quickly crouched down to help him up: "Hey! What's wrong? Don't scare me!"

But as soon as he flipped Ono over, he was so terrified that he stumbled back several steps, falling onto the ground!

"Ahhh!!!"

A scream pierced the rainy night.

"Bastard! What are you screaming about now?!"

Kujo, who was observing the school grounds through her sniper scope, was startled by the shout, causing her hand to tremble.

But when she turned her head and saw Ono on the ground, her pupils instantly widened in shock.

Ono, who had been fine moments ago, was now reduced to a stark white skeleton!

His combat uniform was intact, but the flesh and organs inside had vanished within these past few seconds!

Being gnawed away by something invisible!

"Alert!!"

Kujo shouted, her voice cracking.

"There's an invisible monster! Ikeda-kun! Quickly activate your Shield Supernatural Ability!!"

However.

Ikeda, the heavy shield wielder who should have been the first to step forward, was currently standing frozen, trembling violently.

Even the heavy shield and machine gun in his hands had fallen to the ground.

"Ikeda, what are you doing?! Open your shield!"

Kujo was anxious.

Ikeda slowly turned around, revealing a face filled with despair and terror.

"Quick... run..."

"It... it's on me..."

Everyone looked on in horror.

They saw that Ikeda's left side was disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Raindrops fell on his ribs, making a "drip-drop" sound.

His body was being torn apart and devoured in large chunks, yet there was nothing to see!

It was as if he was being eaten by Air!