Narrowly Escaped Disaster (Seeking Recommendations, Collections, and Encouragement) Trial Water

There was a tremendous clang.

The door panel was kicked clean off and slammed heavily into the wall.

The black-robed old man strode in with four Evil Soul Masters.

His gaze swept over the empty ward, and his brow furrowed. He lifted his fingertips slightly and focused, scanning the soul power fluctuations around him.

The window was wide open.

The wind whipped the curtains back and forth.

A faint trace of residual soul power still lingered by the windowsill, not yet fully dispersed.

"Someone just ran out through the window."

An Evil Soul Master beside him spoke in a low voice.

The old man snorted, not taking it seriously.

"From the seventh floor? Without a flying martial soul, jumping down means death."

He could sense that the lingering soul power aura was mixed and uneven, with the strongest only at the level of a Spirit King. It would not be enough to withstand a fall from that height.

Besides, the real business was urgent.

The deputy mayor was gravely injured and paralyzed in the intensive care area, unable to leave the life-support equipment, and there were definitely guards by his side. He was the primary target.

There was no need to waste time in an ordinary ward searching for a few minor nobodies who had jumped out a window to escape.

"Go. Search ahead."

The group turned and left.

Their footsteps quickly faded down the corridor.

Three minutes later.

Outside the edge of the window, Tang Wulin was the first to poke half his head in.

"They're gone?"

At the critical moment just now, he had thought fast and released his Blue Silver Grass.

He had woven a wide net outside the window, then borrowed Gu Yuena's spear and Xie Xie's dagger, jamming them into cracks in the wall as anchor points.

Several of them had squeezed onto the narrow net surface and barely managed to keep their footing.

Fang Yuan had used Little Broken Watch to turn into a gray-feathered fledgling the size of a palm.

Gu Yuena held it steadily in her palm.

Xie Xie half-crouched on the outermost side, gritting his teeth as he supported Wu Zhangkong, who was half-leaning against him. His arms had long since grown so sore they were trembling.

"Shh—wait a little longer. What if they double back?"

Xie Xie's voice was shaking, lowered until only breath remained.

"I can't hold my soul power much longer."

Tang Wulin's forehead was covered in sweat, and even his fingertips were trembling.

The net woven from Blue Silver Grass had already begun to quiver.

He only had a ten-year soul ring. The fact that the soul power in his body could sustain a martial soul skill for five minutes was already something to be thankful for.

"Come in."

Wu Zhangkong spoke in a low voice.

"The higher a soul master's cultivation, the more sensitive they are to soul power fluctuations.

The moment he entered, he detected the residue by the window and assumed we had jumped out to escape. He won't turn back."

Gu Yuena was the first to flip back into the room, holding the little bird in her palm.

White light flashed.

Fang Yuan changed back to his original form. When his feet touched the floor, he staggered a little, as if he still had not fully woken up.

"Xie Xie, gently."

Wu Zhangkong sucked in a cold breath, his brows knitting tightly together.

Xie Xie gritted his teeth and moved him in from outside the window, then carefully placed him back onto the hospital bed.

His back was soaked through with sweat.

Only after everyone had entered the room did Tang Wulin withdraw his soul skill.

His legs went weak, and he sat down on the floor, gasping for breath.

"Teacher, what do we do now? Report it to the Law Enforcement Team?"

Xie Xie wiped the sweat from his face and asked.

"The matter of Evil Soul Masters is not for us to handle. There are professionals for that."

Wu Zhangkong leaned against the head of the bed, his face as pale as paper.

"Just help me to the outpatient building, then go back to school for class."

Tang Wulin nodded, then turned his head, wanting to call Fang Yuan.

But the words stopped at his lips.

The room was empty.

Fang Yuan and Gu Yuena had disappeared at some point.

"Fang Yuan and the others... left first."

"If they left, they left."

Wu Zhangkong did not take it to heart.

"Take care of me first. It hurts whenever I move right now. You really went hard yesterday!"

"Okay. Xie Xie, come help support Teacher."

Tang Wulin braced himself against the wall and stood up.

"I'm not going."

Xie Xie waved a hand and edged two steps toward the door.

"It's almost time for class. You take Teacher to the outpatient building. I have to go back to school and buy water for those two."

"With something this serious happening, why are you still buying water? If we're late, I'll explain it to Director Long."

Tang Wulin frowned slightly.

"No way. I promised them."

After Xie Xie finished speaking, he pulled the door open a crack and peered outside, then ran off in a flash.

Tang Wulin watched his disappearing back, the corner of his mouth twitching.

Xie Xie really had been trained into perfect obedience.

He even abandoned his brother, going off to run errands for that brother-and-sister pair first.

Just then, a piercing scream suddenly came from outside the window.

Tang Wulin's heart tightened, and he rushed to the window to look down.

On the concrete ground below, a middle-aged man in a hospital gown had fallen and shattered into pieces.

The scene was too gruesome to look at.

Even his head had rolled onto the ground.

It was the deputy mayor.

The one whose attack had been reported on the news every day. He recognized that face.

His stomach churned violently.

Tang Wulin bent over, bracing himself against the wall as he retched dryly for a long while.

"The Evil Soul Masters still succeeded..."

"Why would they do something like this?"

He raised his head, his eyes a little red.

Before, he had only heard on the news about Evil Soul Masters burning, killing, and looting.

But truly seeing a dead person with his own eyes was an impact on a completely different level.

He could not understand it.

Why would perfectly normal people do something so utterly devoid of conscience?

"It has nothing to do with you."

Wu Zhangkong's voice sank slightly.

"Stop looking. It's not good for children to see too much of this."

"When I get stronger."

Tang Wulin clenched his fists, his knuckles turning white. His voice trembled, but his words were gritted out with utter resolve.

"I'll clean out every last one of these bad people!"

He walked over, carefully supporting Wu Zhangkong's arm, and slowly headed outside.

At the entrance to the inpatient building.

Gu Yuena had just walked out holding Fang Yuan's hand when she heard the screams from upstairs.

The crowd surged over with a roar, cries of shock rising one after another.

"Little Fang Yuan, don't look."

Gu Yuena saw the scene.

She hurriedly reached out and pulled him into her arms, gently covering his eyes with her palm.

"Mommy, I won't look."

Fang Yuan buried himself in her arms, his voice muffled.

"I'm sleepy. I want to sleep."

"All right, we'll go back to the classroom and sleep."

Gu Yuena bent down, picked him up, then turned and walked out of the hospital.

Fang Yuan rested his head on her shoulder.

Before long, his breathing evened out, and he truly sank into a deep sleep.

The sound of sirens drew closer and closer.

The Law Enforcement Team's mecha rumbled over and sealed off the front gate completely.

Members of the Law Enforcement Team began setting up a cordon and evacuating the crowd.

Holding the child, Gu Yuena followed the flow of people outward, casually tore down the police tape, and walked out.

"Student, wait a moment."

Seeing this, a uniformed Law Enforcement Team member hurried forward to stop her.

"What's the situation inside? Please cooperate and register."

Gu Yuena did not stop, nor did she even look back.

The team member frowned and reached out to stop her by the shoulder.

Just as his fingertips were about to touch her clothes, his body suddenly went rigid.

A companion beside him patted his arm.

"Hey, what are you spacing out for? Ask her."

The moment he finished speaking, the team member toppled over stiffly, hitting the ground with a bang.

Blood spread across his uniform.

The surroundings instantly erupted.

Screams and chaos rang out all at once.

No one saw when Gu Yuena's figure disappeared.

Every surveillance device on the entire street blacked out at the same instant.

Even the signal was severed cleanly.

"Mommy, I want to eat the pancakes you make!"

Fang Yuan slept peacefully in her arms.

He knew nothing.

He did not know that his mommy had simply found it troublesome and did not want anyone waking him from his sleep.

So she casually ended this little interlude.