Xuanyuan Plague Exterminator Zhou Zhi (4)

Night.

Sun Shun carried the Plague-Slaying Blade.

He stood far away, outside the main gate of Suhui Central Academy.

In the distance, the school, not particularly large, crouched in the darkness like a vicious beast.

"That's the place... there's only one old man on night watch, the gatekeeper, stationed at the very perimeter."

Sun Shun whispered.

Zhou Zhi stepped out from the shadows.

"What's the situation inside? Although I haven't asked before, I'd like to know now... what kind of monsters are the Disease Seeds inside, and what abilities do they possess?"

Zhou Zhi gently lifted his Blade Case.

Sun Shun looked a bit nervous, but he forced himself to remain calm.

"It seems to be... it seems to be a mass of mucus... with, with a few streaks of blood..."

Sun Shun seemed to be recalling.

"Forget it."

Zhou Zhi waved his hand: "Let's go in."

"Recently, the disappearances of many students in Suhui have already been traced back to me... I have to go in and take a look."

Zhou Zhi smiled, then walked toward the entrance.

"Wait..."

Sun Shun hesitated for a moment, then spoke up.

Zhou Zhi turned his head: "What is it, Sun Shun? Is there something else?"

Sun Shun coughed twice, looked at Zhou Zhi's calm face, and then instinctively shook his head: "No, nothing. Just a reminder to stay safe. It's truly dangerous; everyone else has died."

"They may have died, but I won't."

Zhou Zhi said indifferently: "Didn't you say that if one does well in clearing out Strange Incidents in the Outer City, they can obtain a ticket to the banquet in the Inner City?"

"I'm quite interested in seeing it."

The iron gate was pushed open.

Zhou Zhi's gaze flicked toward the security booth to the side.

There was some dim, yellowish light.

It felt as if someone in the security booth was spying on him.

That old man?

Or perhaps someone else.

Zhou Zhi walked straight in.

Sun Shun hesitated for a moment before following.

The interior of the school was not as modernized as in his past life; to Zhou Zhi, it looked more like an old-fashioned academy.

Students receiving basic education and plague-suppression training were divided into two areas, comprising about a dozen classrooms.

The ground was paved with damp, cyan bricks.

Under the cover of night, the entire school was as quiet as a corpse.

Occasionally, leaves were stirred by the wind; even though it was late March, the fallen leaves still made a dying sound.

Zhou Zhi walked along the school path, the surrounding darkness bringing a chill to his skin.

"The feeling of being watched is heavy... it feels like there are things looking at us everywhere in that three-story teaching building in the distance."

Zhou Zhi tilted his head slightly as he spoke.

Sun Shun's body trembled slightly, and he did not speak.

"I heard there are over twenty people in the infected class who have already turned into Disease Seeds, scattered throughout the corners of the school."

"Are those them?"

Zhou Zhi waved his hand: "Mr. Guide, you could try to be a bit more professional."

"I don't know either."

Sun Shun seemed different from before.

The once arrogant man now appeared to have an indescribable timidity.

It was as if something had been stolen from him.

"However, it should be that way. The [Disease Seeds] are wandering in various parts of the school; we still need to be more careful."

Sun Shun's answer could even be described as absent-minded.

Zhou Zhi did not mind.

He walked straight ahead.

To the right of the road lay a thicket of bushes.

They followed the road for several dozen meters.

The streetlights on both sides were all extinguished, standing tall like giants.

Zhou Zhi's footsteps fell.

A single eye.

It was exposed from the middle of the bushes.

That eye was filled with death, devoid of any vitality.

Sun Shun was startled.

"It's a dead person..."

Zhou Zhi used the corner of his Blade Case to push aside the bushes.

The corpse of a girl tumbled out.

Her body was covered in tiny red rashes.

Many subcutaneous nerves seemed to have pierced through her skin.

Her entire face was a deep, bruised black, yet dressed in a school uniform, one could vaguely discern the pretty features she once possessed.

[A female corpse].

[Died of Chickenpox Plague, showing signs of contaminating and mutating the surroundings].

[She thought she could escape, just a little bit more... or so she thought].

Sun Shun frowned and turned his head away, seemingly unable to bear the sight.

"In life, she must have been the moonlight in many boys' hearts."

There was rarely any emotion in Zhou Zhi's voice.

"Disease is truly a terrifying thing."

"It is very good at taking things away, and the cheapest among them is life."

Sun Shun turned his head back: "You... do you not feel anything at all?"

"Seeing a scene like this?"

He asked in a low voice.

Zhou Zhi turned his head: "The person is already dead; what kind of emotion am I supposed to have?"

"Should I be compassionate and mournful like you?"

"That... that is really quite unnecessary."

"After all, when Le Wei and the others died, you must have had this same expression."

Upon hearing Zhou Zhi's words, Sun Shun's expression changed in an instant.

From surprise, to disbelief, and finally to resolve.

The shift in his expression was incredibly rapid.

"Did you come here on purpose?"

Sun Shun's voice was hoarse.

Zhou Zhi did not answer the question.

Instead, he looked toward the rear.

From the darkness of the school.

Dozens of men and women wearing identical white uniforms walked out with wooden expressions.

Their footsteps were silent, and they were muttering something under their breath.

In the darkness, their behavior was so eerie that it sent a chill down one's spine.

"Daily bread, keep the mouth shut and sit upright..."

Sun Shun took a step back, forcing a smile onto his face: "Everyone."

"I have brought another Apprentice Plague Exterminator!"

"Everyone!"

"Where is the Lord?"

"I have brought another one!"

As Sun Shun spoke, he looked toward Zhou Zhi, his eyes gradually turning vicious: "Regardless of whether you did this on purpose or not, you are going to die here tonight."

His eyes were filled with malice.

How he loathed the boy standing before him.

He was younger than Sun Shun, yet he always put on an air of detachment, as if everything were firmly within his grasp.

In Sun Shun's heart, he was the top student of Chang Medical.

Everyone should be like that trash Le Wei, revolving around me!

"Go to hell!"

Sun Shun growled, his voice like the roar of a beast.

"Everyone..."

The next second, Sun Shun was completely stunned.

"My Lord."

"My Lord."

"My Lord."

"You have arrived."

Dozens of men and women pressed two fingers of their right hands together against their chests, bowing their heads slightly.

Everyone!

They were all doing it!

"The time is not too late; I just happened to take a stroll," Zhou Zhi said.

What was happening?

Sun Shun found it impossible to comprehend.

What was going on?

"No... they... aren't they Longevity Path... what... you..."

Sun Shun began to stutter, appearing completely at a loss.

The information before his eyes assaulted his brain.

"What... on earth is..."

Zhou Zhi shook his head slightly.

"Student Sun Shun, why are you so agitated?"

"You're making it look so real."