The Shadow Legion was not particularly powerful because Sun Yuan himself was not strong. But in terms of intelligence, Zhao Cheng believed their IQ was actually higher than Sun Yuan's.
It was only because their underlying code had been written with an instruction of absolute loyalty.
More than two hundred shadows, in groups of two, appeared in each classroom at once. They easily suppressed the resistance of the few bold students. Then, class by class, the students lost all will to resist, becoming like quails.
Some people tried to contact the outside world, but the shadows discovered them immediately and destroyed their communication devices.
Humans, even elites, could make mistakes. But the shadows never did. They took attention to detail to the absolute extreme.
There was simply no chance for hostages to turn the tables through cleverness.
After that, class after class descended the stairs in neat order under the shadows' control, like rehearsals staged to fool the higher-ups.
There were a few minor incidents during the descent. Some seized the opportunity and tried to run, but before they could take more than two steps, a mental shock blasted them to the ground, drawing agonized howls from them.
Very quickly, everyone was brought to the school field.
Throughout this process, Wang Qingyun had wanted to act from the very beginning, but she quickly restrained herself.
She had keenly noticed that there were quite a few of those ghostly, godlike shadows, while the mastermind behind them had yet to reveal himself. Killing a few Grunts would be meaningless and might instead increase the casualties for nothing. So, she chose to keep her move hidden for now. Secretly, however, she used special means to contact the supernatural organization she had joined.
In this world, the supernatural was no secret, but supernatural beings