Chapter 58
“Woo—woo—”
The shrill sirens sounded across the campus.
The students, who originally thought it was just another air defense drill, ran while pulling out their cell phones. When they saw the blood-red emergency notice on the forum, they realized that this time it was for real!
"Students from all departments, find your squad leaders immediately, gather and count the number of people, and enter the bunker!"
Tang class counselor Su Shiqing stood at the foot of the dormitory building with a loud speaker and shouted loudly, directing a group of students who did not even have time to put on their clothes to evacuate to a relatively safe area.
Just from the name, you can tell that she and Wen Huayi, the president of the Student Union of Mo University, are sisters.
But she was not much older than her sister. She had only been working for two years, and she had just encountered a time travel.
After confirming that all the students in this dormitory building had evacuated, Su Shiqing did not hesitate and immediately ran quickly towards the next dormitory building.
On the way, she turned her head and looked in the direction of the school hospital. A raging fire had already broken out there, with thick black smoke rising into the sky. However, because of the obstruction of the buildings, Su Shiqing had no idea what exactly was happening there.
A strong feeling of uneasiness swept through her heart. Su Shiqing bit her lower lip, shook off those messy thoughts, and concentrated on running towards her next destination.
on site.
"No, the fire is too big, the fire extinguisher is useless!"
A member of the special action team who was trying to put out the fire with a campus fire extinguisher was almost burned in the hair by the flash explosion. He hurriedly pulled his teammates back more than ten meters. Just when they were anxious, they suddenly saw the help coming from all directions. Suddenly, their eyes lit up: "Captain Yi, you are finally here!"
"Second brother, you and the others don't come over yet, go get the fire truck parked by the lake! Gong Ming, send a few people over there too, we can't let the fire continue to burn!"
The most important instruments in the school hospital are placed in the basement. The CT room is on the third floor of the school hospital. Yi Yan has observed it just now. The building collapsed from top to bottom. The scope of the fire is currently limited to the third and second floors and the garden downstairs that was ignited by flammable materials. If the fire is put out in time, maybe the instruments in the basement can be saved.
"Okay, I'll go right away!"
Yan Beichen's voice of agreement came from the communicator. The center of the base was the closest to the lakeside. Yi Yan's arrangement could maximize efficiency. Moreover, as the captain of a team, he had the power to mobilize all the special forces at critical moments.
Gong Ming also nodded seriously, picked up the communicator and began to arrange the tasks.
"You, can you try to put out the fire with your magic power?"
Gu Liangyi was taken to a safe place alone by Zong Qinyuan, but when he looked at the billowing black smoke in the distance, he couldn't help but ask.
"The magic power of the demon god tends to destroy things. My attribute is wind. Using it in this situation will only make the fire grow bigger," Gu Liangyou said, and then paused, "But the noisy white-haired guy in the dormitory can be asked to try. He is a plant mage who tends to be natural. Although his level is not very good, a group of people together is better than nothing."
Gu Liang understood what was going on and immediately told Yi Yan about it through the communicator.
Because Zhuge Xiao had been obsessed with raising grass, his physical fitness was not up to standard, and he did not have any solid skills, so he was not recruited into the second special forces team. He could only wait eagerly for the third team's mage special attack team to be formed.
But just like You said, even if Zhuge Xiao's ability is limited, but a group of cobblers together can always be of some use, right?
After receiving the notice, Zhuge Xiao immediately rushed to the scene with a group of classmates who had also learned magic from the elves.
Before the fire truck arrived, they gathered in a circle and recited a eulogy for rain.
Yi Yan frowned and looked up at the sky, and saw light dark clouds gathering over the school hospital. Not long after, a sparse rain really began to fall!
“That’s amazing!”
There was a cheer at the scene. Zhuge Xiao's cheeks flushed with excitement. After Yi Yan patted him on the shoulder, he clenched his fist and shouted "Yes".
Although this little rain could only barely suppress the fire, for these beginners who had only learned magic for less than half a year, such coordination was already amazing!
And most importantly, with four people in the dormitory, he can finally be put to use!
Just when everyone was excited, a fire truck came rushing over with a fire alarm. Several water hoses gushed out from the pipes. Within a few minutes, the fire on the second floor and the third floor which had collapsed mostly became visibly smaller.
Everyone smiled, but Yi Yan did not look relaxed. He said in a deep voice, "Everyone, be alert at all times and take out your weapons. We don't know what's going on inside yet, so don't take it lightly."
Jin Xuan was the first to respond. As the deputy captain, she had cooperated with Yi Yan many times, so before Yi Yan finished speaking, she had already loaded the gun in her hand.
"Captain Yi, what's going on?" She stared at the collapsed floor and asked sinisterly, "Did this grandson suddenly turn against us and attack us?"
"It's still unclear right now, and I'm not sure."
Thinking of what Yan Beichen said, Yi Yan's eyes flashed with deep thought: "I personally tend to think that the explosion was caused by an accident during the CT scan, but it cannot be ruled out that he deliberately chose this time to attack."
"Can a CT scan explode?"
A technician beside Gong Ming immediately questioned: "Unless his body structure is different from that of humans, how could a mere X-ray beam blow down a building? Could it be that he has a high-energy explosive in his body that reacts to X-rays?"
This is also Gu Liangyi's question.
"Principal Zong, I think what Yi Yan said makes sense. It is very likely that we accidentally triggered some passive trigger mechanism in this cultivator's body," he observed the location where the concrete slab on the third floor collapsed, thinking intently, "The radiation-proof door of the CT room will be closed when it is working. The thickness of that door plus the thickness of the wall is very impressive."
"However, when the explosion occurs inside, the power of the explosion can instantly return Yan Beichen and his companions who are waiting outside to their resurrection points. Ordinary bombs cannot do that at all."
Zong Qinyuan has also read a lot of immortal cultivation novels. He proposed a possibility: "Could it be that the elders of their sect have placed a restriction in his body? I've seen that it's written this way in the novels."
"It's possible," Gu Liangyi sighed, "but I still find it very strange. Not to mention that Zhou Ming claims to be just an ordinary disciple in the foundation-building stage, even if he is a disciple of a very high status, which master would place such a vicious ban? If they explode when scanned by X-rays, isn't this the same as forcing their own family members and the enemy to perish together?"
Zong Qinyuan nodded: "What you said makes sense."
Regardless of whether Zhou Ming was intentional about the explosion, it has already caused a very bad impact. Zong Qinyuan is a very easy-to-talk-to leader most of the time, except when his bottom line is touched.
His students are his bottom line.
"Students, be careful when you're looking through the rubble," Zong Qinyuan told them on the public channel through the communicator. "If the other party shows any attempt to hurt you, don't hesitate, remember to shoot immediately."
"Don't worry, Principal Zong. With such a big fire, I think everyone will be burned to charcoal," Jin Xuan said, holding the gun while slowly approaching the school hospital with others. She was even in the mood to make a joke, "If I really open fire, will I be given administrative leave?"
Gong Ming added with a smile: "There is no administrative leave, but there is psychological counseling leave and adjustment leave. We should reflect the local characteristics."
Jin Xuan: “…………”
Thank you, I don't want to take a break anymore.
They found Zhou Ming under a stone slab on the third floor. Just as Jin Xuan had described, half of his body was burnt and he looked horrible.
Several members of the special task force couldn't help but reveal an expression that looked like they were about to vomit. Jin Xuan's face was also very ugly. Yi Yan was relatively the most normal one. He just frowned and pushed the stone slab aside with force.
Zhou Ming's legs were also smashed by the stone slabs, but the miraculous thing was that despite such serious injuries, his chest was still rising and falling slightly!
"Captain Yi, look!"
Jin Xuan pointed at his legs and exclaimed.
In fact, he didn't need to say it at all, because everyone present saw that Zhou Ming's only intact abdomen was wriggling in a horrible posture. The bulging lumps of flesh were about the size of ping-pong balls, as if there was some kind of alien inside that was about to burst out. The scene was so weird that it made people's scalps numb.
"What the hell is this?" someone muttered.
He lowered his voice, as if afraid of disturbing the "living thing" in Zhou Ming's belly.
"This position should be considered the Dantian of a cultivator," Jin Xuan swallowed her saliva. She subconsciously took a half step back and pointed her index finger at the madly squirming position on the trigger. "Don't tell me that all cultivators' Dantian are like this. Don't they feel sick looking at it?"
Yi Yan suddenly gestured for them to be quiet.
"Shhh."
Everyone shut their mouths at the same time. Apart from the faint sound of the wind coming from outside, the scene was so quiet that even a pin drop could be heard.
"Gulu, gurgle, gurgle..."
A sticky sound, like the movement of intestines, came from Zhou Ming's abdomen. Gradually, his originally uneven belly returned to calm. The painful look on Zhou Ming's face also gradually faded away, replaced by a kind of illusory smile, just like he was high.
But at the same time, his limbs quickly became thin, his hair turned from black to white, and his skin gradually became rough and old. Only the size of his abdomen did not decrease but increased, as if something had sucked away the nutrients of his body, and he aged dozens of years in an instant.
Seeing this scene, Yi Yan's sixth sense suddenly began to warn him frantically. He immediately raised his hand to stop the people around him from approaching and ordered, "Everyone, step back! Get out of the school hospital!"
Although they didn't understand why, the members of the special task force still obeyed the captain's orders unconditionally.
"Captain, what about you?" Jin Xuan asked him worriedly before leaving.
"I'll give him first aid and observe his condition for a few minutes. I'll let you in when he's alright."
Yi Yan chose to stay alone. Although his companions had already evacuated, his nerves were getting more and more tense for some reason. He took a deep breath, suppressed his inner anxiety, half-knelt down with the medical kit he found in the ruins, and began to treat Zhou Ming's wounds.
The burns were severe. He thought that with the current treatment technology on Earth, he would most likely be able to survive, but he would probably be disfigured. He wondered if there was any way in this world to restore his appearance.
He avoided the complicated burns and helped Zhou Ming stop the bleeding from his broken leg first.
While administering first aid, Yi Yan was also thinking, Zhou Ming's condition was too strange, what was in his stomach? Why did it cause an explosion, and why did it make him so old all of a sudden?
The most important thing is, is this a common phenomenon among cultivators in this world?
Just as he tied the bandage, suddenly, a blood-red soft-bodied creature burst out of Zhou Ming's body and attacked him in the face!
Yi Yan, who had been on guard, subconsciously turned his head and avoided this unexpected attack.
However, this creature, which looks like a baby embryo but has soft suction cups and ferocious mouthparts, is too fast. It has no legs at all, but it can compress its own volume and fly quickly in space like a spring.
Yi Yan fired several shots at it, but it dodged them all, and it seemed that this had completely enraged it.
It paused for a moment and stopped attacking. Instead, it curled up into a ball of flesh again, constantly compressing itself, compressing it, and compressing it again, until it was compressed from the size of an adult's fist to the size of a ping-pong ball, and then began to vibrate wildly!
Yi Yan's pupils shrank and he thought to himself that something was wrong.
Regardless of the fact that he was on the third floor, he immediately turned towards the window, protected his head with his arms, leaped into the air, and rushed out with force!
"Team Yi!"
Amid screams, the flames of the explosion expanded again from behind him, and the fiery wind burned the exposed back of his neck, and a burning pain spread throughout his back.
Yi Yan closed his eyes tightly, ready to break his bones from the fall.
While falling in mid-air, his wrist was suddenly grabbed by the man, and he pulled him upward with force, and Yi Yan's feet landed on solid ground.
He suddenly opened his eyes and found himself half-kneeling on a wall of empty air.
The black-haired young man who was also standing on the air wall pushed up his glasses, glanced down at him, looked away and said calmly: "Just consider it as a favor for you just now."
Yi Yan panted and stood up shakily:
"Be careful, there's something very fast in there."
"I know." Gu Liangyou put his hands in his pockets and cast a cold gaze towards the center of the explosion.
The young man's clothes fluttered in the strong wind, and his tone was no longer as cold as he had pretended to be just now, but instead was calm and indifferent.
"I came here to help because I sensed something very disgusting."
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