Chapter 22: Redemption is a circle. Don’t stop talking halfway! …
“Don’t go out the normal way.”
Wei Zhehan stood on the collapsed wall, giving instructions with his eyelids half closed. He looked like he was about to fall asleep, just like a firefighter who was woken up in the middle of the night to put out a fire.
A lazy breath came from his mouth.
Wei Zhehan sighed, raised his head sleepily and murmured: "In the end... I still want to sleep..."
The sound of staggering footsteps sounded in front of him.
Wei Zhehan squatted down with an impatient expression, staring at the student who had not left in front of him, and said with a fake smile: "What? You can't even run away?"
Even though there was no sarcasm in Wei Zhehan's tone, the content of his words was extremely sarcastic.
“Not really…”
The boy who was just saved by Wei Zhehan responded timidly. He looked up at Wei Zhehan, but his eyes couldn't help but look at the long-necked teacher who was violently cut in half behind him.
The monster teacher's body was still twitching, and he was making a meaningless, instinctive stress response just like the vertebrates he had seen in nature that had not yet realized their own death.
This wasn't his first encounter with a monster, but it was the first time he saw one killed.
"Can...can I ask your name one last time..."
The boy rubbed the corner of his clothes and asked tremblingly.
The long period of hiding made him subconsciously stay away from all dangerous existences. A sound, a glance, a whisper... would stir his already fragile nerves.
But he also knew that he had only been away from normal college life for less than three days.
"Hmm..." Wei Zhehan lifted his chin in boredom. He suppressed the urge to roll his eyes and said hastily, "A normal firefighter."
He jumped off the broken wall impatiently and lowered his head to pat his trouser legs.
"But you should at least study your talent. There are only a few people in this world who can become apocalypses, and those who are lucky enough to survive the initial catastrophe are even fewer among the few..."
As Wei Zhehan spoke, his voice gradually faded away, and finally only a meaningless, vague murmur remained:
"After all, it's been so many years since the disaster."
"ah?"
The boy who didn't hear clearly uttered the syllables in confusion.
"fine."
Wei Zhehan waved his hand casually. He pulled out his saber stuck in the wall and waved to the boy behind him, "Hold on a little longer. It won't be long before I can break through this realm."
At that time, whether you are willing to be recruited by the authorities will be entirely up to you.
Wei Zhehan, who was gradually walking away, finally dared to roll his eyes unscrupulously. He didn't think the other party could help the authorities, but there was no other way -
Who made him have an identity with so many rules and regulations?
"Normal students wouldn't go out that way, so you should go out that way. It doesn't matter if you climb over a wall or carry a fire hydrant on your back. Anyway, any method that is not possible in your imagination will do."
Wei Zhehan couldn't help but shout at the back: "Don't be assimilated by consciousness. If it doesn't work, try your previous method."
It's quite a burden on the body.
Wei Zhehan added slowly in his heart. Among the currently known talent sequences, quite a few talent sequences will have a negative impact on the owner after use.
And he could clearly see that the boy's talent had some spiritual aftereffects.
But in the face of survival, what does this sequelae matter?
He is no longer the boy who hoped to become a frog. He has grown up and become an adult who needs to influence words and judge the situation like his father.
Wei Zhehan walked leisurely towards the depths of the teaching building.
With a sleepy face, he still couldn't figure out why he appeared here, but he knew that since he could appear in the disaster area, he had to break this disaster area.
But why school?
Wei Zhehan frowned in annoyance.
The inexplicable sleepiness came again. He took a deep breath and knocked his head hard, but the effect was not obvious. Wei Zhehan was still very sleepy.
He clearly felt unnaturally sleepy.
Now he was walking lightly, as if he was dreaming or walking on a revolving lantern. But he had no memory of his own death, so what was going on?
"It's impossible to become an earthbound spirit, right?"
Wei Zhehan muttered to himself.
His footsteps were intermittent until they suddenly stopped.
"Zhou Haoyu?"
Wei Zhehan, attracted by the sound, looked at the figure in the classroom next to him and murmured strangely.
The space they were in had already become distorted and overlapped.
Classrooms are connected to classrooms, stairs are connected to stairs, and the scenery outside the door seen through the glass window and the actual scenery outside the door are completely different things.
Even when Wei Zhehan looked towards the classroom just now, he had already passed through four or five mirrored classrooms.
He had reason to suspect that the problem was caused by flaws in the building's rules.
The disaster that originally formulated the rules for the teaching building never considered that any prey could avoid, or had already avoided, the death trap it had set, so that the rules without any countermeasures began to distort themselves.
Consciousness assimilation, space blockade, monster pursuit...
These interconnected traps can really test one's insight, but Wei Zhehan feels that they are not that dangerous. At most, they will be very tricky in the early stages of a disaster.
After all, that period was really chaotic.
Wei Zhehan ran towards the figure.
He passed by many classroom windows along the way, and finally arrived at the classroom he wanted to be in.
"It's really Zhou Haoyu."
The moment the footprints landed on the floor, Wei Zhehan glanced at the other party and summed it up in a strange tone. Although he still had only a limited understanding, it was still a good thing to meet an acquaintance.
Zhou Haoyu raised his head with difficulty and looked towards the direction of the sound.
He tried hard to open his eyes, but along with the blurry image, there were also more and more densely packed images appearing before his eyes.
Teaching building, dormitory building, library, basketball court...
He felt like he was split into sixty or seventy parts. One seventh of himself was in the teaching building, one seventh of himself was in the dormitory building, and another seventh of himself...
Realizing that the situation was not good, Zhou Haoyu quickly closed his eyes and groped his way back to the locker.
"Wait, wait!"
Seeing this, Wei Zhehan hurriedly grabbed the other person's arm and said, "It's me, I'm Wei Zhehan."
"Xiao Wei?"
Zhou Haoyu, who had half of his hand on the locker door, instantly understood the current situation.
His tense nerves suddenly relaxed. He had not heard Wei Zhehan calling out his name before. The scenes he saw were too complicated, and the voices he heard were one after another.
Zhou Haoyu felt like a large signal receiver, constantly and overloadedly receiving signals.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you running away when you see me?"
Wei Zhehan complained softly upon seeing this, and then he realized belatedly that Zhou Haoyu’s talent might be in conflict with [Consciousness Assimilation].
"Hiss... How dare they let you in..."
Wei Zhehan grumbled in dissatisfaction with this.
Before Zhou Haoyu could react, he asked in a low voice as if compromising: "Zhou Haoyu, have you seen anyone else? I can't find anyone else."
But what made Wei Zhehan feel strange was——
Zhou Haoyu suddenly fell into a dead silence after hearing this. A mixture of confusion, alertness and other emotions flashed across his face for a moment, and finally he returned to his original calmness.
What's going on? Is there something I said wrong?
Wei Zhehan scratched his head in confusion. Just as he was about to ask the reason, he heard Zhou Haoyu slowly and calmly say:
"Xiao Wei, don't call me the head of the dormitory anymore."
"But what's so strange about this?"
Wei Zhehan blinked his eyes after hearing this. He asked back in confusion, as if he didn't understand at all:
"Don't I always call you by your full name?"
He even nodded at the end, saying in deep agreement: "Even if I don't always call you by your full name, the last time I saw you, and the time before that, I definitely called you by your full name."
Very good, now I am sure that the other party did not understand.
Zhou Haoyu smiled helplessly: This is quite like Xiao Wei. The encrypted calls in their dormitory have always been handled by him and Li Ming.
So it’s Wei Zhehan?
He wanted to believe it, but he didn't dare to believe it. Finally, Zhou Haoyu had to gently change the subject and asked, "How did you get here?"
“I just walked here like this.”
Wei Zhehan responded in a bad mood. He felt that Zhou Haoyu suddenly stopped considering him as a comrade-in-arms. He really didn't know what Zhou Haoyu was thinking...
But there was no way, he had to stay here to protect Zhou Haoyu.
It was because Zhou Haoyu's talent conflicted with [Consciousness Assimilation]. If the disaster reacted and came along the "network cable" to kill Zhou Haoyu, he would have nothing to say.
But Wei Zhehan became more and more angry the more he thought about it, so he chose to puff up his face and sit cross-legged on the table not far away.
This distance is his revenge on Zhou Haoyu.
If Zhou Haoyu still doesn't recognize his mistake and apologize to him, then any injury to Zhou Haoyu today can't be his fault!!!
The crisp sound of metal collision suddenly rang out along with Wei Zhehan's movements.
"Did you bring anything with you?"
Zhou Haoyu asked subconsciously.
He couldn't see clearly at this moment, and could only judge the distance between him and Wei Zhehan based on the strength of the sound.
"Isn't it just a few sabers or some guns?"
Wei Zhehan answered the other party's question with a bit of confusion: "I used my talent to do all these urgently. It's funny to wake up and find myself in a strange place without even bringing any equipment."
"Um……"
“Come to think of it, Zhou Haoyu, did you not bring any equipment with you either?” Wei Zhehan looked up at Zhou Haoyu who had his eyes closed, as if he suddenly thought of something.
Before Zhou Haoyu could react, he had already thrown his silenced gun to the other party:
"Here you go. You're welcome."
The silencer gun drew a simple parabola in the air and finally landed steadily in Zhou Haoyu's panicked outstretched palm.
So Zhou Haoyu silently fumbled for the gun in his hand in the corner, not knowing how to react. He was not Xiao Wei, but he was Xiao Wei...
Confusion finally fermented in his heart at this moment.
"What about you? How did you get here?"
Wei Zhehan thought about the time that was slipping away, suppressed his impatience and asked. He was really upset at the moment, he was already sleepy and tired, and now he had to kill time with Zhou Haoyu.
Shouldn’t Zhou Haoyu be the most enthusiastic?
Wei Zhehan's doubts flashed across his mind, but did not leave any ripples.
Sleepiness and instinct together stifled his deep thinking.
"Um……"
Zhou Haoyu hesitated for a moment, then finally pointed to the storage box behind him and said:
"That's how I hid."
The previous communication between Li Ming and Jiang Huai had revealed enough key information to him. If he couldn't escape at the normal running speed of humans, then why couldn't he choose to hide from the beginning?
But that's exactly what's problematic.
Since leaving the classroom, his vision, hearing and all the senses he could name have started to fail. He began to see scenes that were clearly not his surroundings.
Zhou Haoyu originally thought that he had violated some rules, but when he noticed that other human students began to appear on the screen, he became a little uncertain.
Li Ming... He even saw Li Ming...
"For you, it is indeed the most efficient way to survive." Wei Zhehan chuckled after hearing this. He did not choose to ask Zhou Haoyu how he left the classroom, nor did he want to continue to delve into this topic.
Because he knew that the so-called "hiding" escape method was a method that only Zhou Haoyu could achieve.
But it seems that Zhou Haoyu didn't have any teammates around him at first...
Wei Zhehan secretly clicked his tongue.
The current situation was even stranger than he had expected. Even though he hadn't seen Zhou Haoyu for a long time, the fact that the situation was beyond his control only made him feel deeply uneasy.
Wei Zhehan had tasted this kind of uneasiness a long time ago.
Before he became the Apocalypse, before he had any concept of the catastrophe, he had also encountered this kind of situation 'beyond the scope of comprehension'.
Li Ming, his roommate, his friend.
He is the third person besides Wei Zhehan's parents who is willing to give up his life for him, and the only one who has already given up his life.
The more Wei Zhehan thought about it, the worse he felt.
Just as he was having the vicious idea of knocking Zhou Haoyu out and bringing him to the battlefield between him and the Domain Lord, he heard Zhou Haoyu suddenly exclaim:
"Oh no, Li Ming—"
It had been so long since he last heard this name from someone else, and Wei Zhehan suddenly woke up from his dream. He woke up in a second and shouted to Zhou Haoyu anxiously:
"What happened to Li Ming? Dormitory head, what happened to Li Ming?"
"Um?"
"Come on, dormitory head, please tell me quickly!" Wei Zhehan's words showed that he was so anxious that he wanted to shake the information in Zhou Haoyu's head onto himself.
"Xiao Wei?" Zhou Haoyu murmured softly in confusion.
He subconsciously reached for the gun he had placed on his lap, only to find that the silencer was gone. The person he had just met and what had happened seemed like a dream that only he knew about.
And Wei Zhehan once again became the Wei Zhehan he was familiar with.
"Don't stop talking midway!"
Wei Zhehan walked quickly towards Zhou Haoyu's position. He looked increasingly anxious, and his actions seemed to show that he had not noticed the strangeness of the person in front of him. He said in a rush, "Head of the dormitory, I... I..."
"I don't know why, but I get nervous when I think of 'Li Ming is in the teaching building'."
This sentence...
He seemed to have heard this sentence before...
Zhou Haoyu's thoughts suddenly exploded like fireworks in the summer sky. He opened his eyes slowly and unfamiliarly, observing Wei Zhehan in front of him carefully, and murmured:
"It's really Xiao Wei."
He missed Wei Zhehan, but he also didn't miss Wei Zhehan. So what is the situation now? The two people who appeared one after the other at different times thought of the same thing:
Could he have become an earthbound spirit?
"Huh? Haven't I always been me?"
Wei Zhehan muttered in confusion after hearing this. He vaguely sensed that something was wrong, but soon gave up the idea of investigating. Because now, compared to these trivial things, the most important thing is Li Ming's safety.
Save Li Ming first, then think about other things.
So he quickly put his hands on Zhou Haoyu's shoulders and said anxiously, "Compared to this--"
"Dormitory Head, have you seen Li Ming? Do you know where he went?"
Zhou Haoyu quickly stopped Wei Zhehan's actions and replied with a wry smile:
"He's in a very bad place at the moment."
He could see that Li Ming's strength was gradually failing, and he also realized that Li Ming alone could not escape the chase.
It was precisely because Zhou Haoyu himself was also of a non-aggressive talent sequence, and also because he could see that the positioning of the monster teacher in Li Ming's t class was similar to the 'elite monster' in the game.
But not all teachers can give extra lessons.
Zhou Haoyu thought of this and said to Wei Zhehan without even a second's thought: "He is on the third floor of the laboratory building. You have to turn left and climb four stairs. Then, go through the window twice in the seventh classroom at the end of the stairs on that floor."
"The exact location is still changing. It's all up to you when the time comes—"
Just as Zhou Haoyu was about to give a few more instructions, he subconsciously looked up and could no longer see Wei Zhehan there.
Walking so fast...
Well, he and Li Ming do have a very good relationship.
Zhou Haoyu comforted himself with some disappointment.
He struggled to stand up by leaning against the wall. Cold sweat trickled down his forehead, but Zhou Haoyu could only grit his teeth and hold on: he had to move as soon as possible... The faceless student's subjective consciousness had already sensed something was wrong...
If he were discovered now, he would have no chance of escape.
Zhou Haoyu wasn't even sure how long his 'earthbound spirit' state could last.
"Zhou Haoyu, what about you?"
Just as Zhou Haoyu lowered his head to observe the road, he heard a nostalgic male voice suddenly sounded. He looked up at the other party, it was Wei Zhehan, the young Wei Zhehan.
He turned back halfway because he was worried.
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