Just like that, after Jun Beibei tried for the last time to warn the campus and called on the seafood inside to save themselves, but failed again, her obsession value and cumulative progress were completed.
Soon, on her shell, the prompt jumped -
[Candidate No. 1, test phase 1, completed.] [Now entering, test phase 2: obsession value clearing phase.] [Candidate: No. 1; test phase: phase 2; obsession value clearing progress: 0.] Leaving the principal's office, Wen Nan quickly chased after him, calling out "Beibei", and Jun Beibei's skirt stopped, turned around, and waited for him for a moment.
Wen Nan walked to her side, lifted up Ji, held her skirt, and whispered, "Let's go, let's leave here together?"
Jun Beibei's shell slightly opened into a small arc of smile, "Yeah."
At the same time, there was a slight change in the degree——
[Candidate: No. 1; Testing phase: Phase 2; Obsession clearing progress: 4%.] At 11 o'clock in the evening, the bell for the end of the evening self-study class rang on time, and the originally quiet teaching building suddenly became restless.
Seafood of various shapes and sizes, noisy and laughing, poured out from the staircase of the teaching building, and divided into three streams, rushing towards the cafeteria, dormitory, and school gate respectively.
The salty smell of sea water and the fishy smell of seafood enveloped Wen Nan and Jun Beibei, making them like two people who went to the beach and accidentally encountered a surging tide.
That sea cucumber and a clam shell, two figures, one black and one white, were tightly held together, forming an "IO" shape, going upstream towards the playground behind the teaching building.
Finally stepping into the empty and dark playground, away from the waves of seafood, Wen Nan breathed a long sigh of relief.
But the thorn on his side still tightly grasped the edge of the shell next to him, with no intention of letting go.
Jun Beibei lowered her eyes and glanced at their tightly held hands. The hem of her skirt swayed slightly, and the degree on the shell jumped slightly again——
[Candidate: No. 1; Testing phase: Phase 2; Obsession clearing progress: 12%.] Crossing the playground, they walked into the abandoned staff dormitory building again, going down through the damp and stuffy passage and into the underground.
After just a few hours, the temperature underground soared again, and the temperature of the ground closest to the water surface exceeded 50 degrees.
Shellfish like Jun Beibei are okay, but sea cucumbers like Wen Nan are extremely intolerant to high temperatures. After standing on the ground for a while, I felt that several small spines under my feet were almost steamed. I could only keep changing my feet left and right to prevent myself from falling to the table of grilled squid.
Jun Beibei originally wanted to pry open the door on the ground and check the situation of the water underground, but when she looked up, she saw the sea cucumber next to her swaying like a piece of seaweed, so she finally gave up the idea.
"The temperature is rising too quickly. We can't jump directly into the water..." Jun Beibei said in a low voice.
Wen Nan was shocked when he heard this, "You still want to jump in? That won't be a waste?"
Jun Beibei's eyelashes drooped.
This area of water is the boundary between this campus and the outside world. Before Ye Cancan appeared, she often came here alone, opened the door, sat on the ground, put the hem of her skirt into the water, and watched the ripples she created on the water surface, as if a part of her body had reached the outside world.
At that time, unlike the icy and snowy environment on campus, the temperature of this area of water was only about one or two degrees above zero. The water temperature was so comfortable that she wanted to take off her shells and jump in to take a bath.
Therefore, Jun Beibei's initial plan when he wanted to leave this world was to dive directly into the underground waters and find a way out from the bottom of the water.
Obviously, at the current rate at which temperatures are rising, this path is no longer viable.
Even if she, an Arctic clam, could barely tolerate this temperature, the night ginseng next to her and the clams in the freezer would definitely not be able to bear it.
After thinking for a while, Jun Beibei stood up, holding the freezer with one side of her skirt and holding the scallop spines with the other side of her skirt, and walked upstairs.
"Change of plan, another route."
No matter what guesses and thoughts he had in his mind, Wen Nan vaguely felt that everything that was happening at the moment was actually centered on Jun Beibei. He was more like a bystander. As a bystander, he should not interfere too much in the other party's actions and plans.
So, Wen Nan didn't say much and let the other party lead Ji and follow him to the rooftop.
Finally, Jun Beibei led Wen Nan to the top floor of the staff dormitory, stopped in the middle of the handrail again, and looked at the torn gap in the air.
If their campus is an oval surrounded by an invisible curved wall, then Jun Beibei and Wen Nan are standing at the vertex of one side of the oval.
Jun Beibei faced the direction of the gap, closed her eyes, and did not move for a long time.
"What should we do now?" Wen Nan asked softly.
"Shh." Jun Beibei interrupted him in a low voice, the hem of her skirt swaying slightly, feeling the warm wind blowing in from the gap.
After a while, Jun Beibei opened her eyes again and said, "The wind is blowing from top to bottom."
Wen Nan stretched out a thorn and felt the gap for a moment, "Hmm."
"We'll be here, waiting," said Jun Beibei.
"Okay." Wen Nan had no objection.
Yi San and Yi Bei stood silently for a moment. Jun Beibei turned around, leaned against the railing and looked at the campus in the distance.
From this direction, you can see the remaining emergency lights in the corridor of the teaching building, and further away, in the brightly lit dormitory building, people are coming and going.
After staring for a long time, until her eyes were a little sore, Jun Beibei blinked and spoke softly: "I often think that if I could always be like them, in that planned world, like a merry-go-round fixed on a turntable, spinning in place non-stop, up and down, seemingly very busy, and live my life happily, it would not be a happy thing."
Wen Nan couldn't understand, "I can be the one riding the horse, but why do I envy the horse being ridden?"
Jun Beibei turned her head and looked at the handsome profile of the sea cucumber next to her.
The other person's eyes were like a clear, cloudless night sky, pitch black, with such pure, complete, and unfettered madness.
She felt that she was very similar to Ye Cancan, but she was also very clear that she and Ye Cancan were not of the same type at all.
Ye Cancan could respond to his classmates' questions full of doubt and ridicule without any psychological burden: "Yes, I am sick!"
But she couldn't do it.
She didn't have the courage to admit that she was completely different from the other individuals around her.
She is an outlier, but she refuses to face this fact.
Because after all, she is not a member of a group like Ye Cancan.
So where does she belong?
Jun Beibei sometimes thinks that it would be great if she were also a sea cucumber, completely isolated from the present world.
But she is not. Although she has an unusual white shell, she is still an Arctic clam after all.
Ye Cancan would say such words because he was the one riding the merry-go-round from the very beginning. He was a customer who came to the amusement park to play, and after riding the merry-go-round, he could just pat his butt and leave.
But Jun Beibei was originally just a Trojan horse on the turntable. However, unlike other Trojan horses, the mechanical shaft inserted into her broke, giving her the opportunity to leave the turntable.
This does not mean that she can transform from a Trojan horse to a customer.
What is she? Wen Nan didn't know what the Arctic clam next to him was thinking, but he clearly saw that the value on the other shell had changed in silence.
[Candidate: No. 1; Testing phase: Phase 2; Obsession clearing progress: 8%.] No, why can the clearing progress be reduced?
Moreover, how can it be lowered just by standing here quietly, doing nothing and saying nothing?
"boom--"
Suddenly, there was a deafening sound in the distance, like a landslide.
Jun Beibei and Wen Nan looked in the direction of the loud noise in the distance at the same time and found that it was a row of low shops outside the school gate that suddenly collapsed, raising clouds of dust.
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Then, the ground beneath my feet began to shake violently.
You can vaguely hear the underground water hitting the ground at a high speed, making the sound of waves.
Yi Can and Yi Bei lowered their heads and looked down, and found that the roof of the building they were on was tilting to one side at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The frozen metal medicine box that Jun Beibei had placed at her feet slid away from them as the ground tilted.
Jun Beibei rushed forward in panic, stretched out the hem of her skirt, grabbed the metal box, and held it in her arms. Then, her body slid uncontrollably to the other side of the rooftop.
She subconsciously stretched out the hem of her skirt and tried to hook onto the railing behind her, but she found that she had rushed too deep in her haste, and even if she stretched the hem of her skirt to its longest length, she still couldn't reach the railing.
The white skirt waved twice in the air, and the next moment, her soft flesh was tightly hooked by a black thorn.
Looking up, I saw that one of Ye Cancan's thorns was hooked on the railing, and the other thorn was pulling her hard. Then every muscle in her body was tensed, and like a crane, she tried to pull her body up.
Using his last bit of explosive strength, Ye Cancan swung his body violently, like throwing a discus, and tried his best to throw the Arctic clam directly to the outside of the handrail.
Immediately afterwards, Ye Cancan also grabbed the handrail and jumped to the other side of the railing.
At the same time, on the other side of the campus, shortly after the row of convenience stores collapsed, the school gate also quickly fell.
As if the ground was cracking, the buildings collapsed into the ground one after another, raising smoke and dust. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the dust was not dust or dirt, but white mist.
The entire oval-shaped campus is like a seesaw. When the side with the school gate sinks, the side with the abandoned staff dormitory where Wen Nan and Jun Beibei live is naturally lifted up.
As the ground on this side was raised, the concrete building where they were was squeezed hard against the invisible wall of air, as if it seemed to have pierced through it.
Wen Nan had no shell and his body was soft. He was squeezed in the middle and was almost suffocating.
At this moment, a protective umbrella suddenly appeared behind him, blocking his vision.
Wen Nan raised his eyes and looked over, and found that Jun Beibei had opened her shell, with the edges of the shell placed on both sides of Wen Nan's body, forming a warm little tent for him.
This posture completely protected Wen Nan, but at the same time, it also placed all the pressure on his shell.
The air wall rubbed against her delicate white shell, making a harsh sound like nails scratching on a blackboard, which made Wen Nan's heart tighten.
Every thorn in his body could clearly feel the delicate flesh wrapped in his skin trembling and twitching uncontrollably because of extreme pain.
Something warm dripped onto Wen Nan's body.
Wen Nan lifted Ji, looked over, and found a pool of transparent liquid.
It's blood.
Jun Beibei's shell was about to be worn out by the invisible air wall.
"How can you live without the shell?" Wen Nan was anxious. He pushed the Arctic clam hard, trying to pull himself out, but found that it was too tight and he couldn't pull himself out at all. "Let go! Don't hold on!"
Jun Beibei refused to let go, her voice trembling, "Even if the sky falls, I will hold it up for you, Ye Cancan."
[Candidate: No. 1; Testing phase: Phase 2; Obsession clearing progress: 20%.] "I said I would take you with me, and I will never break my promise."
[Candidate: No. 1; Testing phase: Phase 2; Obsession clearing progress: 30%.] "Must, must, leave here."
[Candidate: No. 1; Testing phase: Phase 2; Obsession clearing progress: 40%.] "No matter what, I must leave this world."
[Candidate: No. 1; Testing phase: Phase 2; Obsession clearing progress: 50%.] Every word the other party spoke tremblingly hit Wen Nan's heart hard.
Looking at the constantly changing numbers on the blood-stained white shell, Wen Nan seemed to truly feel the obsession in the other party's heart at this moment.
No matter what, I must leave this world.
Wen Nan lifted Ji and wanted to touch the other person's face.
A stream of hot steam suddenly poured in from the invisible air wall right in front of it, making a huge "puff" sound similar to that of a steam locomotive starting.
The next moment, Wen Nan seemed to have plunged into a thick cloud, feeling so stuffy that he could hardly breathe.
After coughing violently twice, Wen Nan closed his eyes tightly. When he opened his eyes again, he found that the surrounding environment had completely changed.
The mist lingering around them dissipated, and they leaned on the handrails to take in everything around them.
After seeing the scene clearly, Wen Nan and Jun Beibei fell silent. (End of this chapter)
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