Chapter 117 Prophecy and Price

The lights flickered, casting a large spot of light overhead.

Chen Xiao'er blinked and walked lightly in the corridor

Where is the exit?

She lowered her head from time to time, and the navigation on the mobile phone map became a line, as if she was going around in circles in a maze.

Strange, I'm not that directionally challenged.

Why doesn’t the direction on the map match the real-world location? Is there something wrong with the software?

Chen Xiao'er looked up and found herself at the same crossroads again.

Taoli University is wealthy and powerful, and the lights are never turned off day or night. The lights on both sides are bright and shining, and you can't tell the difference at all.

"Oh~" She looked at the identical street lights on both sides and covered her face with her hands in pain.

Could I really be lost in school? I don't walk much.

Chen Xiao'er opened her phone again, zoomed in on the map with two fingers, and carefully checked the location and direction, trying to find a clear route to the outside world from the small map.

Now the question is, where are the students?

You can only find the approximate location of campuses ABCD on the map. If you continue walking forward, you can reach the library or gymnasium, as these two buildings cover a large area and have conspicuous main entrances.

On the contrary, the positions of the classmates are very vague.

The notification on my phone didn't specify a meeting location, just "Meet in front of the Red Gate." I had just come out of the Red Gate, and I couldn't go back in; there was no one there.

Chen Xiao'er looked around blankly, holding her phone. She had the illusion that she had gone to the toilet during a spring outing and came out to see the bus carrying her classmates running away.

Beep beep.

【Xiao Nuan: Xiao Ai, are you lost? 】

Xiao Nuan~~Wait, how did you know I was lost?

Xiao Ai: Yes, yes, how did you know that? (Maomao is shocked)

【Xiao Nuan: I saw it.】

[Xiao Nuan: I connected to the school's surveillance system.]

Hiss—Chen Xiao'er tilted her neck back after seeing the reply clearly.

Boss! I didn't expect you to be such a boss!

The cute and slender homegirl Xiao Nuan in her mind has changed.

First he evolved into a bespectacled tech geek, and within seconds he transformed into a movie-style hacker mastermind sitting in front of a bank of computer screens, easily bypassing the firewalls of banks, technology universities and governments with a simple click of his fingers.

She wasn't just imagining things. What kind of place was Taoli University? The nation's top university was bound to have formidable programmers. Chixing University was known for always being at the forefront of scientific research, and protecting the laboratory database alone required the most stringent security measures.

Being able to breach Taoli University's firewall and directly access cameras, he's certainly a well-known figure in the industry. In a movie, he might even be a brain in a jar, full of cyberpunk vibes.

【Xiao Ai: Wouldn't it be dangerous if we were discovered?】

【Xiao Nuan: It’s very dangerous, so I won’t be discovered.】

Xiao Nuan: It's better if you don't tell them. (Bunny spins)

...It's definitely dangerous, and hacking is illegal everywhere.

Chen Xiao'er felt conflicted.

She wanted to persuade Xiao Nuan to stop, but she knew that this technical expert would not stop until he got tired of it, whether out of self-esteem or the desire to show off his skills.

And given Xiao Nuan's family background and gentle personality, she wouldn't use hacking to do anything bad. She probably hacked into Taoli University's surveillance just to check on me.

An indescribable emotion was brewing in her heart. Xiao'er breathed a sigh of relief and continued typing with her fingers flying.

Xiao Ai: Can you see where the students are? I want to gather quickly.

【Xiao Nuan: I can see it.】

Beep, beep.

Two high-definition map screenshots were sent over, along with two corresponding coordinate points, using a nested method of large and small maps to display the specific location.

The screenshot uses orange translucent circles to cover two locations, one large and one small. The large circle says [The current location of most people in Class A], and the small circle says [The location of your roommate (except Zero)]. A bold red pen is also used to mark the optimal route.

Xiao Ai: Thank you, thank you. You are so friendly to people with poor directions! (crying)

[Xiao Nuan: Okay~ I have something else to do here, so I'll go take care of it first.]

[Xiao Ai: Go get busy! Chirp chirp~]

[Xiao Nuan: The school route is quite complicated. I'll have the lighting system coordinate with us. Just follow the flashing light source.]

【Xiao Ai: Hey, hey, hey, no need, it's very dangerous! 】

Xiao Nuan: It's okay. (Bye, Bunny.)

Hey, don't worry, it's easy for the school to find out if you do this.

Kashasha.

Chen Xiao'er heard the sound of the current switch, she looked up, and the street light on her left began to flicker frequently.

Their brightness does not adjust much, from a steady illumination to a gradual change from strong to weak and then back to strong. From a distance, they look like a galaxy woven of light.

That's too exaggerated... huh.

Chen Xiao'er took a deep breath and started walking towards the end of the twinkling starry sky, from walking quickly to jogging and then to running.

She ran quickly along the street lights, glancing at the floating light spots and landmarks on the map from time to time.

With Xiao Nuan's help, there was no more mistake of walking to the same intersection repeatedly. The light spot representing its own position quickly moved to the vicinity of the largest orange circle.

It was an underground passage that looked a bit like a subway station, with the numbers 1121 hanging at the entrance.

......

In the silver-white pipe, Xing Shuyao looked at the communicator with a serious expression.

The last message was from Zheng Lu: "Enemy encountered, number unknown—at least five, including one from the Chaos God Cult, with poison powers? We are doing everything we can to stop them from spreading the poison."

Power... This term is generally used to refer to "abnormal abilities that are of very high priority and very powerful once they take effect."

He had only seen descriptions of the powers of the top-ranked anomalies in the anomaly atlas.

If someone has super powers, except for a few top human beings, anyone else who dares to say in public "I have such and such power!" will definitely make the whole audience burst into laughter.

But when "power" and "god" are linked together, the nature of the matter changes.

Many people know that gods are actually sufficiently powerful abyssal creatures. If the scope of reference is narrowed, it specifically refers to the abyss giants below the 4th or even 5th floor that are extremely difficult to surface.

Such abyssal giants are inherently very powerful and must possess abnormal abilities with very high priority.

Even the devil hunters, who are the best at surfacing among the creatures of the abyss, have the ability of [usurpation], which is also called the power of [usurpation] in literary works.

Although it is called power, in reality it is still limited to powerful abnormal abilities. It is just that the most powerful individuals can usurp some concepts, making humans feel that it is as if God is exercising power.

Judging from Zheng Lu’s text message, what she described should be the most serious situation.

A certain giant from the abyss has begun to touch the legendary authority of the gods.

The gods here are no longer a synonym for the giants of the abyss, but great beings that are associated with the will of the world and even phrases such as "omniscience and omnipotence" and "creation and destruction".

"Light rain."

There were too few clues. After several calculations, Xing Shuyao could not find any signs of the gods' evolution. He had no choice but to ask for help from his companion who possessed the ability of prophecy: "Can you predict anything about the power-toxin and the gods?"

Precognition is an extremely rare superpower, and the foresight that each clairvoyant can achieve is different.

Some people can foresee the future of important people in their dreams, some can see through the death date of the people in front of them in a flash of inspiration, and some can predict extremely serious disasters.

Ye Xiaoyu's predictive ability covers a wide range. She can foresee anything in the "future" and can mobilize her special abilities to proactively make targeted predictions.

However, Ye Xiaoyu's ability not only consumes a huge amount of energy and places a heavy strain on the body, but also only allows her to foresee a fleeting glimpse of the fragments. Furthermore, her predictions are not necessarily the outcome, but merely a possibility.

Hearing Xing Shuyao's request, Ye Xiaoyu put her hands on her knees and sat on the ground back to back with her roommate from the Physical Education Department.

Beads of sweat slid down her cheeks one by one. Her eyelids, which could not be opened, trembled desperately, and a tear of blood oozed out after a few seconds.

"termination!"

Without Xing Shuyao's reminder, the girl next to her had already patted Ye Xiaoyu hard on the back, causing her to come out of the predictive state directly.

"Gu..." Ye Xiaoyu shook her head with sweat on her forehead. She supported her roommate and struggled to speak: "It seems to be true, it seems... I saw many, many fragments of light at the bottom of the abyss."

Lots of fragments of light?

Xing Shuyao immediately soothed him, "Don't say anything yet. Remember the scene in your mind. When the bishops arrive, tell the professionals under their witness. Get some rest first."

Knowledge and the prophecies that come with it are contaminated. It is precisely because of this contamination that foresight users like Ye Xiaoyu can instantly grasp the "truth" from bizarre images.

Because the truth, along with the pollution, will seep into their spiritual bodies, shortening their lifespans while gaining knowledge.

"Wow..." Ye Xiaoyu covered her face and stammered, "But I saw a very special star. I think it might be..."

Beep.

The scanner at the entrance of the passage made a crisp prompt sound, as if it was still working normally.

Everyone's hair stood on end: The intruder hadn't even triggered any of the traps?!

They all ran away from their original position. Except for Xing Shuyao and Ye Xiaoyu, everyone instantly switched to combat status in various postures. At least ten gun muzzles were pointed at the source of the sound at the same time.

…

"Hey, sorry? I'm late~"

Being pointed at by her classmates with water guns and wooden sticks, Chen Xiao'er raised her hands embarrassedly.

So the teacher had called everyone here to clean up? That's right, the school shelter hadn't been used in who knows how many years, so someone had to be responsible for cleaning it.

Fortunately, I arrived in time this time, otherwise I would have been separated from the group activities again.

Brush.

The students put down their weapons one after another. Some of them even cautiously checked the Pasteurizer on their bodies and breathed a sigh of relief when they found that the value was at most 2-3.

No one can do this except Chen.

Chen Xiao'er picked up a rag from the pile of junk and turned around and said, "I'm going to go find Lin Lang and the others. There aren't many people over there, I'll go help them."

Beep beep beep.

Xing Shuyao was about to agree when the communicator on his chest suddenly exploded.

This is - a major disaster warning!

A line of cold words flashed on the screen

[1121-A, 1390-E, and 161-A will be subjected to targeted demolition, mysterious erasure, and century-old seal treatment. Countdown 19 minutes - begins immediately.]

"Student Chen, don't go!"

Xing Shuyao leaned on the wheelchair and jumped up, almost falling out with half of his body falling out.

With the help of his classmates, he reached out his hand and shouted to Chen Xiao'er, who was almost out of the tunnel, "They're almost done over there. Let's hurry to the teaching building! The teacher sent us a text message urging us to go back quickly!"

"They're all finished. They're being wiped out and sealed at the highest level! Hurry up, get out of here!"

"Um?"

Chen Xiao'er turned around under the light from the pipe entrance and smiled slightly: "I will come back with them."