Had she heard nothing?
"Teacher Yao, isn't that a bit like putting up a sign saying there's no silver buried here?" Qin Ze toyed with the Mighty Dragon in his hand.
At those words, Teacher Yao's heart sank to rock bottom. She could already sense the killing intent rippling from Qin Ze.
A tiger stranded on the plains was bullied by dogs. She had never imagined that one day she would die at the hands of a little brat who had barely grown any hair.
Qin Ze's performance, however, had indeed taken her by surprise.
In such a remote little city, there was actually a young martial artist who was both ruthless and immensely talented.
As long as he didn't die prematurely along the way, he was bound to accomplish great things.
But Teacher Yao had no desire to become one of Qin Ze's accomplishments.
During her earlier fight with the exotic beast, she had used her trump card to escape in the end, but she had also sustained serious injuries.
In particular, her qi and blood had been exhausted, leaving her without even the strength to truss a chicken.
"Shoot."
Since she was powerless to resist, Teacher Yao simply shut her eyes and gave up.
That left Qin Ze at a loss.
Was she really not going to say anything else?
A trick!
Teacher Yao was being too cooperative. Qin Ze felt things couldn't be that simple.
Could this woman still have some trump card, waiting to ambush me while I gather my qi and blood to shoot?
The atmosphere froze for a moment.
Qin Ze aimed at Teacher Yao, hesitating over whether to gamble on a shot.
When no gunshot came after a long while, Teacher Yao opened her eyes and saw Qin Ze's indecision. She smiled inwardly.
He really is too young.
The room was pitch-black, and Qin Ze was blocking the light from the corridor.
He carefully edged to one side, letting the corridor light fall on Teacher Yao. Qin Ze was startled again, and the Mighty Dragon nearly slipped from his hand.
Teacher Yao was covered in wounds and drenched in blood.
But none of that mattered.
What mattered was that the blood on Teacher Yao was golden.
It even glowed faintly.
An alien!
Teacher Yao was actually an alien!
Qin Ze's mind raced.
An alien had actually infiltrated the school as a teacher. What was her purpose?
Qin Ze's CPU was practically smoking, but he still couldn't make sense of it.
"Teacher Yao, are you all right?"
A shout suddenly came from the corridor nearby.
Qin Ze noticed a red light flashing on the locator on Teacher Yao's wrist.
She had sent out a distress signal long ago.
The rescue team had arrived and wasn't far away.
If he fired now, they would definitely hear it.
"You've lost your chance."
The corners of Teacher Yao's mouth lifted slightly, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
Qin Ze smiled too.
Seeing his ill-intentioned smile, Teacher Yao had a bad feeling.
"Teacher, you wouldn't want your identity as an alien exposed, would you?" Qin Ze put the gun away.
"What do you want?" Teacher Yao frowned slightly.
It really would be inconvenient for her identity to be exposed right now.
Qin Ze took off his jacket. "It's simple. You keep my secret, and I'll keep yours."
That's it?
Teacher Yao had thought Qin Ze would open his mouth like a lion and demand the world.
"No problem."
"Glad to be working with you."
Qin Ze tossed his jacket to Teacher Yao, and she quickly put it on.
Teacher Yao was a head shorter than Qin Ze, and the school jacket was already a little loose on him. Its hem hung down to her buttocks, concealing her wounds completely.
"Teacher Yao is here!"
Qin Ze walked out the door and waved.
The City Defense Bureau soldiers on the other side of the corridor immediately ran over at the call.
There were four soldiers in all, fully equipped and carrying loaded guns.
They breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Teacher Yao was still alive.
"Teacher Yao, can you still move?" the captain asked.
"Yes." Teacher Yao glanced at Qin Ze, and he immediately understood.
"Teacher, let me help you." Qin Ze stepped forward, draped Teacher Yao's arm over his shoulder, and helped her up.
The soldiers split into pairs.
One pair went in front and the other behind.
Qin Ze and Teacher Yao were guarded in the middle.
Qin Ze was quite surprised.
Since when did the City Defense Bureau serve the people so wholeheartedly?
As they passed He Bi's corpse, Teacher Yao suddenly spoke.
"Wait. He was my student too."
Qin Ze's eyelid twitched sharply, and he gave her the hint of a smile.
"Teacher Yao, you wouldn't want..."
Teacher Yao rolled her eyes. "He was ambushed and killed by an exotic beast. My qi and blood were exhausted at the time, so I couldn't save him."
"Take his body out. I'll apologize to his family."
The captain hesitated.
After all, exotic beasts were everywhere. Getting the living out was difficult enough, let alone taking a corpse along.
"You carry him," Teacher Yao said directly to the captain.
The captain gritted his teeth and nodded. "Understood."
He then hoisted He Bi's headless corpse onto his back.
The group withdrew quickly.
They encountered quite a few exotic beasts blocking their path, but the soldiers shot them all dead.
Qin Ze noticed that the bullets the soldiers fired were unusual.
After the exotic beasts were hit, their bodies quickly began to disintegrate, melting into bloody water in less than a minute.
Teacher Yao also seemed to be seeing this for the first time. Her eyes were full of surprise.
Seeing this, a soldier beside them explained, "The bullet tips contain Alpha Reagent, the latest product from the Black Mountain Research Institute. It's remarkably effective against exotic beasts below F-rank."
Holy shit, Qin Ze cried inwardly.
What had he just heard?
Alpha Reagent?
Was it the Alpha Reagent mentioned in the administrator's diary?
How could something from the Otherworld appear in the real world?
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Qin Ze lost in thought, Teacher Yao assumed the boy was worried about his killing being exposed.
"I know you're heartbroken that He Bi died. I'll take full responsibility for his death."
Teacher Yao's implication was obvious.
I keep my word. There's no need to let your imagination run wild.
Qin Ze came back to his senses and forced a smile. "Don't blame yourself too much either, Teacher Yao."
"Roar-"
As they rounded a corner, the D-rank exotic beast Teacher Yao had seriously injured earlier suddenly pounced out.
The soldier at the front was pinned down, and his head was stomped to pieces the next second.
"Open fire!"
The three remaining guns spat a continuous stream of scorching bullets.
But the Alpha Reagent had no effect on the D-rank exotic beast. Instead, it only enraged it.
It swept out with its sharp claws, cutting the captain in half at the waist.
The ordinary soldiers were all around level 0.5.
Although the D-rank exotic beast before them had a weakened aura, the power it unleashed at that moment was still on par with a Level One Martial Artist.
"Run!"
Teacher Yao shoved Qin Ze away and rolled to the side, dodging the exotic beast's fatal blow.
"At least you have a bit of a conscience."
Qin Ze gathered the attributes of all his clones, rushed in front of the exotic beast, and knocked it to the ground with a low sweeping kick.
He immediately slammed his right fist into its head. The force of more than a thousand qi and blood erupted in an instant, smashing the exotic beast's head to pieces.
The two soldiers stared at Qin Ze in bewilderment.
Were high school students this fierce nowadays?
Teacher Yao saw Qin Ze leaning coolly against the wall, his legs trembling slightly, and guessed he had used some secret technique that overtaxed his body.
"Can you still walk?"
Teacher Yao came closer, and the two supported each other.
"No big deal!"
"Oh, right, bring my Soul Orb."
Qin Ze spoke to a soldier nearby.
The soldier shook his head. "The exotic beasts in the Otherworld don't have Soul Orbs."
Mutants don't have Soul Orbs?
Qin Ze really hadn't noticed that before.
Generally, F-rank exotic beasts and above had Soul Orbs.
But only Soul Orbs above S-rank contained innate abilities.
Ordinary Soul Orbs, once purified and absorbed, only increased qi and blood.
The rest of the journey was frightening but uneventful. Twenty minutes later, they finally emerged from the Otherworld.
At the entrance to the Otherworld, a woman in a white lab coat was directing things.
When Qin Ze got a clear look at her face, he couldn't help freezing.
Lin Siyao!