Chapter 140: One vs. Three (Part 2)

Seeing the food department manager standing among the crowd with a smug look on his face, Chen Xiao'er gritted her teeth and said, "Ling, help me! I need to get up there!"

"Okay." Zero immediately stretched out his hand.

Chen Xiao'er stepped lightly on Ling's hand and grabbed the railing of the upper floor with both hands.

She used the strength of her body and waist to flip over to the upstairs, and stood up shakily while holding the railing.

Huh~

The black-haired girl looked at the surging crowd in the corridor, put her hand to her mouth and took a deep breath.

"Don't you guys—your stomachs hurt anymore?!"

She had wanted to ask this question for a long time.

Even if people in society are truly controlled by their superiors, they can't control their instinct to go to the bathroom when their stomach hurts. If someone closes the door and refuses to let her go to the bathroom when she has diarrhea, she will jump up and fight such a heartless person to the death!

Chen Xiao'er roared, and the abnormal people's movements instantly froze.

They were originally abnormal creatures of various shapes, and were given human-like bodies by the Overlord simply to imitate humans.

This shell limits the anomaly's own performance, just like giving humans a few extra hands and feet, which is very disadvantageous for both combat and "mimicry work."

Most abnormal personalities have a low degree of similarity; they possess only vague intelligence, mimicking human "assembly" work under the guidance of rules, contributing to the master's ritual of power.

Low-intelligence anomalies don't tire, don't feel pain, and certainly don't resist. Their aggressive behavior is essentially feeding, one cell devouring another.

However……

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"The nature of things has changed." Milo's hands were on the laptop, and there was an ambiguous light flashing in his eyes.

The devil chuckled. Yes, rigid rules gave the anomalous a body, and the surge of abyssal power within the ritual field unleashed the shackles of intelligence.

Now Chen Xiao'er is here. She uses her extraordinary superpowers to "alienate" the anomalies, allowing them to awaken their will and heartbeat at the same time as they open their eyes.

The change was so clear that Milo could see the anomaly on the screen morphing, gradually becoming more human-like.

Mainly the face. Human faces can make all sorts of subtle expressions, while the anomalies originally wore masks or were simply faceless, but under Chen Xiao'er's influence, they gained facial features.

"Ah, ah~" They screamed on the screen, twisting their cheeks and making one painful expression after another, just like humans shouting "My stomach hurts!"

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"My stomach hurts!"

The sturdy security guard banged on the railing with a bitter face. The female employee next to him also held her stomach and sighed: "Yeah, it hurts too."

Hearing the numerous complaints coming from the abnormal cluster, the head of the food department suddenly panicked.

He glared at Chen Xiao'er first, then gritted his teeth and punched the abnormal person next to him: "Hey! Don't pay attention to what she says. Just block it obediently and don't try to slack off!"

The power of rules gathered into a whip and swung down fiercely!

Crack!

The power of the abyss, like electricity, surged among the "crowd". Their vitality was closely connected with the abnormal master, and they were unable to resist its orders at all.

Live, just to survive.

They recalled their duties and slowly gathered around the supervisor, blocking the students' path.

What a bunch of people! They're in so much pain but still don't dare to go to the toilet.

Chen Xiao'er stamped her feet in frustration, her body swaying on the platform for a few seconds. Fortunately, Ling was right beside her and quickly grabbed her arm.

The two stood in the wind, their heads bowed, staring at the growing anomalies. They were like black spirals, enveloping the supervisor layer by layer.

Data flashed in Zero's eyes. After careful calculation, the possibility of quickly breaking through this barrier with her current energy value was almost zero, and she had to rely on the support of the church.

Click.

The girl next to him suddenly moved, and her hands also shook.

Ling turned his head and saw Chen Xiao'er's resolute face.

Her black hair fluttered in the wind. She gathered all the air in her chest and roared at the suffering adults, "If we obey them, will we live a better life?! You don't even have the freedom to go to the bathroom!"

This was not enough. She scrambled along the edge of the platform, overcoming her fear while shouting in a trembling voice: "They are doing illegal business! The school, the school has evidence! Don't, don't do it again, wah ah -"

Chen Xiao'er's left foot stepped on empty air and she waved her hands in fear. Before her head could fall far, a pair of strong hands firmly held her shoulders.

Whoosh—crash!

A pair of silver-blue hang gliders unfolded from behind Zero, carrying them higher and higher in the air currents.

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"Great! The abnormal cluster is starting to become disordered!" The assistant clapped his thigh and beat the drum happily.

The gray dots on the screen continued to spread. Although the supervisor marked in red could still forcibly control the surrounding area, the anomalies on the periphery had begun to flee and even kill each other.

"No wonder anomalies can't establish civilization." The expert took a sip of tea with emotion.

In fact, there are also highly personalized beings among the anomalies. They can think like humans and even communicate with humans using human language, but they have never established a widely recognized civilization.

There are many possibilities that could lead to this outcome, and one of the factors is probably the reaction of the anomalies today.

When Chen Xiao'er's superpowers opened up their wisdom and five senses, their first reaction was pain, and then they correctly realized the reality that they were completely bound by the anomaly of the previous level.

Humanity's so-called "cannibalism" is more symbolic than anything else; the era of true cannibalism has long passed. However, the anomalous, from its inception, has been driven by complete devouring and control.

This is probably the biggest obstacle for the Anomaly-Overlord to expand its power. As an anomaly, it can imitate but cannot understand the inner workings of human society, so the scenes it creates are full of loopholes.

Without Chen Xiao'er and the church's intervention, the power of rules would have been successfully born much later. However, the power of rules thus conceived would inevitably be incomplete, erasing subjective initiative and perhaps more akin to absolute control.

What a dangerous and cruel ending that would be for humanity.

Fortunately, there is Chen Xiao'er.

The observers who figured this out relaxed their lips: Chen Xiao'er's intervention completed the "incompleteness" of the power birth ceremony, and also made the anomalies controlled by the Overlord closer to humans.

Two chess players were playing against each other when one of them woke up the other's chess piece. "Do you really want to hurt yourself? Why...why would you do this?"

At this point, the nature of the battle has become a collision of beliefs.

Without the tilt of the abyssal power, could abnormal instincts overcome human will?

Human beings have never doubted this.

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"Gu...Gu! Come quickly and protect me - you bunch of worthless trash!" The head of the food department spat out a mouthful of mud, and his centipede-like body twisted in the crowd, using his one hundred or eighty hands to grab the abnormalities around him and block them in front of him.

It's okay, it's okay.

My energy level is higher here, and the Lord has given me a lot of strength. I will be fine.

whoosh.

What's that sound?!

The centipede suddenly turned around, and a brilliant deep purple light swept over like a razor, flattening a cluster of creatures with a rustling sound!

Yes, it's the Devil Hunter—

The centipede curled up its body and rolled on the ground, mobilizing huge amounts of energy to barely block the arrogant attack.

"Ha ha ha ha."

Sinaya laughed wildly as she drew energy from the abnormal cluster. The abundant power of the abyss gathered towards her, causing a warm storm to stir up in the core of her body.

This is awesome! It's been so long since I've had such a satisfying hunt!

Humans are delicious, but they are not as tasty as this extracted food.

The Overlord deliberately piled up so much energy for me to enjoy—ah ha ha ha ha, just thinking about it makes me feel so good~

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Click.

Chen Xiao'er hugged her senior sister's waist and tapped the ground lightly with her toes.

When she turned around, she saw Xinaya dancing ecstatically in the crowd: that second-generation rich kid looked like he had drunk three bottles of Erguotou in a bar, and rushed into the dance floor, shaking his head, completely high!

"Hey...don't wipe your freshly washed hands on other people." Chen Xiao'er muttered to herself, covering her face. She didn't even bother to shout, because it would be useless and she would be treated as a fool.

Sinaya's clothes were clean, so she must have washed her hands... right? Ugh, the people she touched screamed miserably, so she couldn't have washed them.

The flying tactic was simply invincible. Perhaps helped by the lingering stench, Sinaya maneuvered through the crowd and quickly carved out a well-defined path.

"Okay~ Let's go and ask for recommendations now!" Chen Xiao'er grabbed the senior's wrist and rushed forward.

"Um."

Ling stepped on the light band behind Xiao'e and overtook the anomaly cluster as she approached it. Her weapon unfurled a spear of light, deftly deflecting the anomalies, sending up waves of energy.

The centipede twisted its body and retreated continuously. Dozens of its arms broke one by one as Chen Xiao'er approached. In the end, only a pair of hands remained, clasped together and waved desperately: "No, no, no, no, don't hurt me, please!"

"I don't mean to hurt you, I just want to give you a recommendation. Please stamp it~" Wouldn't it be better if you were so gentle earlier? Chen Xiao'er took out her ID card and handed it over, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Tsk, stupid humans.

While maintaining a smile on its face, the anomaly secretly manipulated its two remaining appendages. They coiled around its back, hooking a piece of hard debris with its long claws.

Under the infusion of power, the fragment gradually transformed into the shape of a metal dagger, which was the shape that Chen Xiao'er thought was most likely to be associated with a weapon.

"Let me look for my seal... Oh~ Here it is." The centipede slowly approached the human, placed its hands on its waist, and clenched the dagger with both appendages at the same time.

It stared into Chen Xiao'er's eyes: Closer, a little closer...

[Central Command: Attack.]

[No. 0: Received.]

In fact, before the order was given, Zero had already tensed his muscles, and the moment it approached, he thrust out the spear with force - puff, the tip of the spear pierced through the centipede's throat like a skewer of tofu.

“Aaaaaaah!”

It kept twisting in the large amount of overflowing energy steam, its body becoming smaller and thinner, and finally it fell to the ground with a thud, and its ID card rolled away with a clang.

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"careful!"

Chen Xiao'er watched helplessly as her supervisor slipped and fell to the ground.

Did Zero seem to give it a push? I didn't see it. She quietly scurried over to the supervisor, picked up the seal, stamped it herself, and then stepped away with a smile.

"You should have a good rest. We won't disturb you."

"......" The supervisor lay on the ground without saying a word. He was probably too embarrassed to see anyone. Only his nose was still breathing out.

Successfully got the second recommendation ~ It feels a bit like collecting badges at a gym.

Chen Xiao'er took Ling's hand and walked over to the other side to reunite with everyone. She waved her ID card. "There are two recommendations left, the head of production and the head of security. Does anyone have any suggestions?"

"Yes." Xing Shuyao waved her phone, showing her the text message the school had just sent. "The production manager is in hiding. We can wait for the people outside to come in and then act together."

Someone from outside? Looks like the people hired by the school are arriving soon.

Chen Xiao'er was walking in the corridor when she suddenly saw the factory on the second floor opposite: because the food was "added with ingredients", all the employees inside had run away, but the big boxes of toys were still there, filled to the brim.

She recalled the production manager's expression that said, "I don't think you can win!" and chuckled, "Hahaha, now all our progress for the afternoon is ruined!"

Xing Shuyao followed her gaze and her eyes lit up. "Yes, this plan is feasible. The rules say that as long as we assemble more toys before the end of the day, we can directly get a recommendation from the production department!"

"Yeah." Chen Xiao'er answered casually, "But even if they have diarrhea all afternoon, there are so many toys in the box. We definitely can't catch up. Unless..."

"Unless?" Seeing Xiao'er's slightly raised cheeks, Ling couldn't help but poke her.

Chen Xiao'er's mood suddenly perked up after being prodded by her senior. She stretched lazily and said, "Unless the toys in these boxes are all defective, hahahaha."

She was halfway through laughing when she realized that her classmates didn't laugh with her. Instead, they all had expressions of "good idea!"

Cough cough cough, Chen Xiao'er said softly: "This is impossible?"

"No, it's very likely." Ling said the key for the students: "The rules say we must assemble [more] toys. If the number they have completed is 0, we only need to assemble one."

Eh? Eh, does that mean we have to destroy all the toys in the box? No matter how I think about it—

Crash!

Lin Lang swung his right leg and kicked, and the glass window instantly broke into two pieces.

Chen Xiao'e, dumbfounded, leaned over the handrail and looked down: her classmates' speed was unmatched. As she spoke, they all climbed to the second floor, pulling out baseball bats and hammers from all over their bodies and smashing them with all their might!

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At 2:30 pm, the production department's stamp was successfully obtained.