Reversal (Featured Promotion Bonus Update)

At the very instant Zhou Bai walked toward death, the gemstone hanging around Christina's neck released a dazzling radiance.

In an instant, Zhou Bai felt everything around him freeze. Then, as if a video were playing in reverse, his body reassembled and recovered, and the blood on the ground flowed back into his body.

Bandu, Alice, Elsa—their blood all flowed backward, and their bodies rose back to their feet.

The snake-shaped Heavenly Demon also retreated as a whole, turning into a plume of black smoke and withdrawing into the ventilation duct.

Everything—everything in the entire world—was rapidly rewinding, returning to how it had been five minutes earlier.

When Zhou Bai once again sensed time flowing normally, Bandu stood before him, whole and unharmed, while Alice was behind him. "No, the outside world is already at its end. We'll die if we go out."

"Lies! They're all lies!" Bandu shouted agitatedly. "The teacher is lying! Humanity outside has long since developed a way to fight the apocalypse! He only kept us here for his own selfish desires."

Watching the two of them still speaking, Zhou Bai suddenly understood. He shouted in his mind, "What happened, Christina? What was that just now?"

Christina cried out as well, "Time flowed backward? Or did we foresee the future? I told you, I told you this gemstone was important! I told you it was important!"

Zhou Bai looked at the gemstone hanging around Christina's neck. At this moment, the diamond-shaped jewel had gone completely dim, with even thin cracks spreading across its surface. No matter how he looked at it, it seemed to have exhausted all its power.

Christina was nearly in tears. "Ah! My gemstone! My gemstone is broken!"

Zhou Bai said, "There's no time."

Recalling the future he had just witnessed, Zhou Bai's expression changed. Primordial Spirit Power surged forth, and ignoring Bandu's resistance, he lifted him into the air.

"Everyone, follow me. Hurry!" Seeing the others still hesitate, Zhou Bai quickly said, "The teacher set up a secret room here. Everyone, come over."

Zhou Bai rapidly considered what he could do now.

If that future was real, then the main door wasn't broken or opened. That means the monster will come in through the ventilation ducts. Neither Bandu nor I are any match for that monster at all... Damn it.

Then, under Bandu's astonished gaze, Zhou Bai led everyone into the laboratory and opened the hidden door with practiced ease.

There's no choice. All of Underground Level 5 is a deathtrap. Escaping through the vents means running into that monster, while the main door needs Dr. Zhuang's fingerprints to open... Damn it.

When everyone saw the rows upon rows of corpses in the secret room, their faces all showed shock.

Alice crouched down, tears continuously streaming from the corners of her eyes. "Th-this... what is going on?"

Elsa said, "What's happening? Am I dreaming?"

Bandu sneered, about to say something, but Zhou Bai did not want him to drive the already terrified group into an even deeper collapse. He directly used Primordial Spirit Power to seal Bandu's mouth shut.

Zhou Bai thought to himself, The secret room was real. That means the Heavenly Demon coming next is real too... As he thought this, he quickly lay down on the ground, intending to gather some Laziness Qi Value first.

Lying on the ground, Zhou Bai looked at the children beside him. "The enemy may attack us here next. Everyone, hide in the secret room... Mix in with these corpses."

As he spoke, without caring that some of the children were still protesting, he directly activated his Primordial Spirit Power, swept everyone into the secret room, and shut the hidden door.

Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit Power was now a full 30 points. Though its range was still only ten meters, it was equivalent to the strength of dozens of adults—enough to restrain everyone before him.

Faced with rows upon rows of corpses in the secret room, especially when some of them looked almost exactly like themselves, how could these children in their teens possibly stay calm?

No matter what Zhou Bai said, most of them had already sunk into despair, terror, and hysteria.

Christina said, "It won't work, Zhou Bai. The worldview they've held for years, the world they depended on to survive, has been shattered. How could they possibly calm down now? Knock them out."

Zhou Bai sighed and controlled his Primordial Spirit Power to knock out the children one by one, Bandu included.

Only Alice, her face covered in tears, and Elsa, whose mind was a complete mess, remained.

Alice kept crying as she repeatedly sniffed. "Zhou Bai... knock me out too. I'm afraid I won't be able to control myself."

Zhou Bai nodded. After knocking Alice out, he tucked her among the corpses, then turned to look at the bewildered Elsa.

Elsa clutched her head, her face full of distress. "What the hell is this? Did everyone starve to death?!"

With a smack.

Elsa, too, was knocked unconscious and fell to the ground. After Zhou Bai tucked her among the corpses as well, he found a spot and lay face-down.

Zhou Bai said, "Christina, will this... fool the Heavenly Demon?"

Christina said, "That depends on what kind of Heavenly Demon it is. A stronger one probably won't be fooled."

Zhou Bai said no more. His ears twitched slightly as he listened to the muffled sounds coming from afar, knowing that the Heavenly Demon had likely crawled out of the ventilation duct.

The only one we can count on is probably Dr. Zhuang. I hope we can hold out until he comes to save us.

If I went out now and drew that Heavenly Demon's attention, maybe I could buy everyone a little more chance to survive?

But I'm scared... I'm so scared... I don't want to die...

Zhou Bai gritted his teeth. He hated the situation before him beyond measure and desperately wanted to live, yet he had no power at all to make that happen. Courage, wisdom, strength—none of them were enough...

This feeling of helplessness was truly awful.

Boom! Boom!

The sound of tables and chairs being overturned came from outside the door. Zhou Bai's heart tightened, and he hurriedly controlled his breathing, pretending to be dead...

Seconds ticked by, yet Zhou Bai was so tense that he could barely feel time passing.

The sounds of rummaging through drawers and cabinets continued for a while, then, accompanied by crashing and snarling, gradually faded into the distance.

Zhou Bai let out a breath. "Whew... It finally left."

Christina said, "That scared the life out of this cat. I was about to shed all my fur. I thought we were going to die again. Looks like this Heavenly Demon isn't that powerful..."

Before Christina could finish speaking, with a deafening bang, the secret room's hidden door was instantly smashed open. The snake monster-like Heavenly Demon slowly crawled inside, black mist spreading from its body throughout the entire secret room. The killing intent and chill it gave off made goosebumps rise all over Zhou Bai's body.

The Heavenly Demon chuckled. "Do you think hiding is useful? The heartbeats and body heat of pigs like you are as obvious as a blazing fire in my eyes."

Not good! Zhou Bai's heart jolted. He fiercely poured all the Laziness Qi he had gained since lying down into his Primordial Spirit Value.

Over the past few minutes, Zhou Bai had kept lying down and had already accumulated Laziness Qi Value to today's limit of 200 points.

The moment he used all of the Laziness Qi Value at once, his Primordial Spirit Value instantly began rising from 30, breaking through again and again until it reached 50 points in one breath.

With a sudden increase of 20 points of Primordial Spirit Power, Zhou Bai could not adapt at all. Blood began continuously flowing from his nose, and his head ached as though needles were stabbing into it.

At the same time, the black mist spread throughout the secret room rippled, transforming into countless black blades that stabbed toward everyone hiding among the corpses.

Sounds of puff, puff, puff, puff rang out as one fresh life after another died in unconsciousness.

Survivors: 12