Chapter 034 Rescue
“Hua ...
Chen Xiao'er covered her throat and almost vomited in the corner.
She ran so fast that even though she didn't know how many floors underground this place was, she ran up and down at least three floors of the dormitory building.
She once encountered school workers who looked like dormitory supervisors and sanitation workers, but for some reason they simply ignored her and disappeared around a corner, never turning back no matter how she called them.
Could it be an order from the school? Perhaps to ensure the effectiveness of the general cleaning, they're not allowing janitors to talk to students? But I really have an urgent matter, adults.
Xiao'ai rubbed her sore ankle and continued to limp forward, not stopping even though her chest was exploding with pain.
Although Xinnaya was neurotic, perverted and greasy, she was the one who pulled me down, but she... at least protected me with her body when I fell.
Phew~ Instead of treating her to a meal, I'd better help her find a psychologist.
Chen Xiao'er walked up the stairs again, and the more she walked, the more puzzled she became: Not only could she not find the elevator, but where had her classmates gone?
I clearly heard young people talking downstairs earlier, but every time I ran over, I couldn't even catch up with their shadows. Are they cleaning or playing hide-and-seek?
Next time I must sew a waist bag on my belt specifically for my phone. I will never be separated from my phone!
She took a deep breath and shouted hoarsely, "Everyone—where are you?"
"Lin Lang—Lin Lang, are you there?"
"Someone's hurt! Someone's hurt in the basement—"
The sound echoed in the corridor, giving a sense of the spaciousness of the echo in a valley.
Chen Xiao'er ran forward for a long distance and finally heard a tinkling sound.
She looked closely and saw no other paths at the end of the corridor, only a main entrance. Judging by the structure of the room, it should be a large event room or conference hall.
She cheered up and pushed open the door: "Classmates, help me——"
Clang.
The bearing broke with a deafening sound, and the entire door panel fell to the ground with a clang.
Chen Xiao'er was embarrassed for only a moment before she forgot about the disciplinary action for damaging public property. She stomped on the door panel and rushed in, waving her arms enthusiastically at her classmates: "Everyone, can anyone help contact the teacher? There's a person in the basement, an outsider, and she's almost died!"
The scene was silent.
Chen Xiao'er swallowed her saliva. No wonder there wasn't a single student outside. It turned out that most of them were gathered here.
The large conference hall was packed with students, each holding cleaning tools.
Some people stood on the scaffolding and carefully cleaned the ceiling and high hanging windows, some people held feather dusters and dusted everywhere, and some people stood among the dismantled tables and chairs, wiping them desperately with a rag dipped in water.
The floor was covered in foam and detergent, mixed with dirt, creating large, soy sauce-colored patches. Just dealing with these stains required at least six people frantically mopping the floor.
Now everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at her with very strange eyes.
Even the school workers who were standing nearby helping to hold the ladder and tying safety ropes to the students to hoist them up stopped moving. The scene was unusually quiet.
Chen Xiao'er looked left and right and found a rather special man standing in the right corner.
He wore black-framed glasses and a classical suit, and stood very far away from the students who were cleaning, as if he was afraid of being splashed by dust, mud and water.
This should be a teacher or administrator, right?
She simply walked around the classmates who had strange expressions and were a little timid, and walked straight towards the gentleman.
"Teacher, can you please call the infirmary..."
"I'm not a teacher, you got the wrong person!"
The man stepped out of the shadows as quickly as possible and trotted towards the door. "I'm just passing by, ahem, they asked me to come and help, it's none of my business!"
"ah?"
Before Chen Xiao'er could react, she saw many unfamiliar adults in the hall starting to run out.
Some of them carried ladders, while others ran away with brooms, muttering to themselves.
"It's none of our business!"
"Don't mind me, girl. This is just an old habit. It's all for the sake of making money..."
"Make way, make way, I'm leaving now."
In less than half a minute, the conference room was empty, leaving only Chen Xiao'er and the students staring at each other.
Could it be that... these people were paid by classmates to help with the cleaning?
Xiao Ai opened her mouth in amazement, feeling as if she had accidentally caught her classmate's pigtail. She wanted to explain but didn't know how.
Is it that everyone is breaking the rules together, and they're just hiding it from me? But while the students who "broke the rules" were busy cleaning, I was upstairs playing tag for half a day.
If you can't figure it out, just stop thinking about it. Saving people is more important.
Her face flushed red as she stretched out her hand and walked towards her classmates: "Can someone please lend me a phone? It's a matter of life and death, and I really won't tell the teacher..."
"Xiao'e?"
Lin Lang jumped down from the ladder and ran to her in two or three steps. "Great, are you okay? We have too many things to do here, so we really don't have time to talk to you. I'm sorry."
"Great, you're alright. It was a frenzied fight here just now, with all sorts of monsters and trouble. Thanks to you for helping to drive them away."
"I'm fine. By the way, can I borrow your phone?"
"cell phone?"
Xiao Ai didn't have time to say anything more. She quickly reached for the toolbox and successfully dug out Lin Lang's phone. The moment she grabbed the phone, she felt like she had grabbed the whole world.
She pressed the power button and looked at the screen with only 1 bar of signal, and her smile gradually disappeared.
The signal on Red Star is much worse than that on Blue Star. One bar means no signal! If there is no signal, you can just scream for help.
Chen Xiao'er opened the communication bar anxiously and found that Lin Lang's mobile phone was difficult to use. Many functions were missing, and no calls could be made.
"Xiao Ai, Xiao Ai!"
A boy squeezed out from the crowd. He sat in a wheelchair and a classmate helped push it from behind.
"Hello, Xing..." Chen Xiao'er agreed weakly and rummaged through the toolbox, trying to find some bandages, medicine or something to use first.
“Huh~”
Xing Shuyao slowly raised his head. Everything around him was shrouded in thick evil, like a sea of fire in purgatory. Only the girl in front of him was blank, without any color.
There is no good or evil, no luck or death, it is a true emptiness.
Even though this emptiness was most likely caused by her superpowers, he was still willing to stare at this blank space to gain a little peace and security.
"Xiao Ai, you just said... someone fell and got hurt in the basement, right?"
He spoke tentatively, word by word.
The school's introduction handbook did not contain all the files of all the students. As for Chen Xiao'er, he only knew that she had a superpower that "could suppress or even neutralize abnormalities."
The video of Chen Xiao'er suppressing the anomaly in the cafeteria has spread throughout the campus network. It can be seen that it is an extremely high-priority ability that can even ignore some rules.
You should know that most rules follow the principle of "first come, first served".
To explain it in simpler terms, Chen Xiao'er's superpower is equivalent to adding an effect: "I can invalidate your invalidity, and my effect will take precedence."
Such a domineering superpower would certainly not be without side effects.
In just two weeks, Xing Shuyao had already discovered that there was something wrong with Chen Xiao'er's mind: the symptoms were not like schizophrenia, nor were they autism where she lived in her own world, but more like some kind of cognitive error.
What she heard and saw was completely different from what normal people perceive.
Therefore, the “outsiders in the basement” most likely do not refer to humans.
Secondly, Lin Lang and the others said on the way that Chen Xiao'er fell to the surface of the abyss due to a cradle accident.
Did an "outsider" fall and get injured? Perhaps they "infiltrated" from the surface. Abyssal creatures with this ability are definitely not weak, at least stronger than any anomaly in the building.
Moreover, Chen Xiao'er witnessed the other party's serious injury, but the anomaly did not die, which shows that it can resist Chen's superpowers to a certain extent.
The situation is very bad.
Hearing someone willing to ask, Chen Xiao'e nodded quickly: "That's right! I don't know what happened upstairs, but a section of the stairs and the floor broke, and she fell down and broke her leg."
She gestured on her legs with her hands, then glanced hopefully at the classmates behind Xing Shuyao and said cautiously, "There's no signal here. Can we bandage her first? I'm not very good at it... Mainly, I can't find the elevator, otherwise I'd go upstairs and find the teacher right away!"
Xiao'ai felt her face was burning. After all, she couldn't carry the stretcher by herself, so she had to persuade her classmates to help.
Damn Xinaya, remember to send thank-you gifts to everyone when you get better!
Xing Shuyao held his chest tightly as she spoke, magnifying his five senses to the extreme.
If Chen Xiao'er is like a transparent star, then everything around her is distorted with ominous black.
Black is also different from black.
It's hard to tell them apart, but the color and taste of disharmony, ill will, malice, and misfortune are different. The color that now envelopes her, no, the color that envelopes everyone except her is—
Die die die die.
Pure death, an inevitable dead end.
Crack, as if someone was strangling his throat, Xing Shuyao fell backwards suffocating.
"What’s wrong with you?!"
Chen Xiao'er looked up and saw her classmate falling backwards, so she quickly rushed over and grabbed his sleeve.
Fortunately, the boy was only a little weak and shook his head at her in a friendly manner: "No, I'm fine. My body is just like this."
While speaking, Xing Shuyao quickly reviewed his memory, hoping to find a way out.
Hesitantly, he asked, "Did the man carry any weapons?"
"No, no, she~not necessarily. She should be quite rich, so she might carry a gun." Chen Xiao'er thought about it and felt that it was unreasonable for someone with Xinnaya's personality not to hide two weapons.
Xing Shuyao continued to pay attention to the colors around him and felt that the color of death seemed a little weaker.
In other words, the strategy of delaying time is correct, at least it cannot be over immediately.
Moreover, the fact that Chen "did not see" the other party's weapon may mean that it would be difficult for the other party to use powerful weapons to kill others when Chen was present.
He tried to suggest: "Then why don't we wait for the teacher——"
The color of death suddenly became thick. No, if I stayed where I was, I would definitely be doomed! The important thing was not to delay time, but to reach the basement at the right time.
Xing Shuyao's mind was working quickly, trying to break away from Chen Xiao'er's perspective and look at the matter from a normal person's perspective.
We know there is a highly dangerous anomaly in the same building as us. It has the ability to cross boundaries, not to exclude teleportation.
We will surely die if we fight against it with our current combat power. We need at least an entire fully armed rejection team to hunt the [high-risk] abyss creatures.
At the same time, we can't just ignore them. Abyssal creatures love to devour those with superpowers, and once they recover, they'll definitely attack and kill us all.
Then there is only one way, to take the initiative after making all preparations.
We lack armor, but we have an ace in the hole.
Xing Shuyao raised her head and looked into Chen Xiao'er's eyes seriously.
"Student Chen, we're going to help now. Can you walk in front?"
"Student Chen, let's go hunt anomalies now. Would you like to go ahead?"
"Of course, I will lead the way!" Chen Xiao'er nodded vigorously and put the packed toolbox on her back.
You might die.
Xing Shuyao stared at her face intently, reflecting the truth beneath this emptiness into his mind.
I'm sorry I can't make you aware of this risk, but I, and we, will fight this battle with you.
He slowly turned around in his wheelchair and gave instructions to his companions behind him.
"Those students who are stronger, please make some simple stretchers."
"Physical fitness students, please assemble your heavy weapons."
"Lin Lang, just stay behind Chen Xiao'er and provide immediate assistance if anything goes wrong."
"Lin Lang, just follow Chen Xiao'er. If you see a monster, attack immediately. Don't hesitate."
"Take out the medicine and bandages and put them in the hands of one or two people. Zheng Xiuli, you are very good at first aid, so I may need you later."
"Gather the protective gear and instant-acting items. Those wearing protective gear should stand in the back row. Zheng Xiuli, I'm sorry that you might have to use your super powers later."
…
In fact, everyone does not need my mobilization, just some simple instructions.
Because we are part of the human race, the elite super-powered beings among humans, we will eventually have a fierce battle with the creatures of the abyss.
Looking at the classmates who quickly packed their belongings and lined up in order, Xing Shuyao sat up straight on the chair, then bowed slightly.
"Thanks."
【"Thanks."】
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