"Water... water..."
The girl's face was deathly pale, and she looked extremely weak.
She stared at Lan Yu and Mo Fan with terrified eyes, hoping they could help free her from the agony of being parasitized.
Lan Yu went to the vending machine to buy water, while Mo Fan took off his jacket, wrapped it around the girl, and carried her somewhere safer.
Before long, Lan Yu returned with water. The girl took the bottle of mineral water, already uncapped, and gulped it down.
She drank several bottles before she finally managed to recover a little.
"Wait here. I'll get someone to take you to the hospital," Mo Fan said.
"Can you... please... please don't leave?" the girl asked, her eyes reddening. She was frightened now.
She didn't know what had happened, but she could feel that she had done something terrible. Now, she felt an instinctive dependence on the two men who had saved her.
"Don't worry. That brat outside will be here to help you soon," Lan Yu said.
"Brat, my ass!" Lingling's voice came through the earpiece. She paused, then continued, "Actually, you two should stay out. Wait for my dad and the others to handle it. There are too many red dots inside, and it's dangerous!"
This had already become more than they could handle, and the number of red dots inside the gymnasium was still growing.
If the two of them charged in like this, they could easily be swallowed up by the red dots.
"Brat, Grandpa used to say that heroes can't flee in the face of danger," Lan Yu said.
Mo Fan was silent for a moment, then said, "Lingling, tell us where the nearest red dot is."
"But... all right, be careful. Try to fight somewhere with surveillance cameras. I can support you," Lingling said, no longer trying to talk them out of it.
On the surveillance footage, Lingling could see her partner and that annoying guy sprinting through the empty entrance to the gymnasium.
For some reason, those two, who usually seemed so unserious, possessed the guts to fear no demon beasts.
"Twenty meters ahead!"
"There's a wall ahead. No door!"
"I checked the gymnasium's floor plan. Unless you blast straight through the wall, you'll have to run another two hundred meters to get around to the other side."
"Damn it!"
The two had no choice but to turn around and take the detour Lingling had directed them toward.
When you went somewhere unfamiliar without doing any research or asking for directions, it was easy to end up going around in circles.
And blasting through the wall wouldn't have been difficult. The problem was, if there was someone on the other side, knocking the wall down would be no different from murdering them.
Two hundred meters was nothing for two Intermediate Mages. They wouldn't need long to cover the distance.
They soon reached a room that looked like a private dressing room. Lan Yu charged forward and kicked the locked door open with a Rider Kick.
With a thunderous crash, the door took a Rider Kick it was far too old to withstand.
The moment the door flew open, the two of them saw a girl in a performance outfit hanging on the wall.
She had passed out. Her wrists had been slit, and blood was flowing from the wounds.
Beside her, a Cyan-Yellow Demoness greedily licked the blood, which seemed to pour out without end.
"Die!"
The demoness had been savoring the taste of blood and hadn't feared anyone, even when the door was kicked open.
Unfortunately for it, this time it had run into two protagonists.
Rose Flame and Light Radiance, two attacks shimmering with different lights, shot toward the Cyan-Yellow Demoness.
It dodged Lan Yu's Light Radiance, but Mo Fan's Rose Flame had perfectly anticipated its movements.
It was struck by Fire Burst Explosion. The blast of flames sent it flying, and it crashed through several dressing tables in a row.
"Hey! Where do you think you're going?!"
Lan Yu threw another ball of Light Radiance, sending it straight at the Cyan-Yellow Demoness.
The demoness struggled to get back up, trying to escape the Light Radiance that was like a deadly poison to it.
But this wasn't a turn-based game. As Lan Yu attacked, Mo Fan also flung out a Thunder Seal.
Crackle—
The Thunder Seal struck, lashing viciously across the Cyan-Yellow Demoness's body.
At the same time, the Light Radiance landed right after it.
"Gyaah—"
The Cyan-Yellow Demoness let out a piercing scream, then collapsed and lay still, falling into a deathlike sleep.
Soon, its cyan-yellow scales began to peel away, revealing another girl beneath them, pale-faced and terrified.
Mo Fan grabbed a performance outfit and slipped it over the girl, while Lan Yu went to help the girl who had fallen from the wall.
Fortunately, Lan Yu was a Hunter Mage too. He might have been little more than a tagalong, but he still carried potions with him.
He applied hemostatic potion to the girl's slit wrist, and before long, the bleeding stopped.
Not only that, her wound even began to heal slowly. She was probably a Healing Element mage.
Lan Yu pinched her cheeks and fed her some water, but Mo Fan couldn't make heads or tails of his technique.
Was that really how you treated a lady? Where was his chivalry?
"Annoying guy, cut her thumb!" Lingling's voice came through the earpiece.
"Brat, are you telling me what to do?"
Lan Yu took out a utility knife and cut the girl's thumb. A thin line of blood appeared.
A few seconds later, Lan Yu spotted something wriggling inside the cut.
The wriggling thing seemed to realize it had been exposed and frantically tried to burrow into the girl's arm.
Lan Yu was quick, squeezing it out like toothpaste. A little blood came out with it.
A tadpole-sized insect covered in cyan-yellow scales fell to the ground.
"Ugh, disgusting." Lan Yu crushed it underfoot with a look of disgust.
"Th... thank you..."
The girl woke up as Lan Yu crushed the Parasitic Demon Insect under his foot.
But she had lost too much blood. Her face was pale, and she looked haggard.
"What element are you?" Mo Fan asked casually.
"H-Healing."
"Can you cast magic after you rest for a while?" Lan Yu asked.
The girl nodded, managing a faint smile.
"All right. Please look after that female student. Afterward, hide in the infirmary. I remember there's water, food, and medicine there," Lan Yu said.
The girl hummed in reply, then asked, "Are there... many more of those monsters?"
"Lots. But we've already notified the school and the Hunter Union. Everyone will be rescued soon," Lan Yu said.
In a situation like this, managing to stay conscious and calm was already impressive.
If it had been an ordinary person who had never seen a demon beast before, they would probably have been too terrified to know what to do by now.
"Then, if you save anyone else, could you bring them to the infirmary? I'll heal them," the girl said earnestly.
"All right."
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