northernbook Chapter 34: Operation Begins.
Chapter 34: Operation Begins.
"Don't move from here. I'll go check out the teaching building first," Liu Lang said to Lin Qiye.
"Let's go together, that way we can look out for each other," Lin Qiye said, looking at Liu Lang with some concern.
They've already found three or four offspring of that mythical creature among the dozen or so people in the corridor. What about near Liu Xiaoyan? Wouldn't there be even more?
Li Yifei anxiously looked around from the third-floor corridor and finally spotted Lin Qiye and Liu Lang below, waving to them.
In Lin Qiye's mental perception, the people around him who were playing with the other party looked like a group of people playing with a flesh-and-blood monster in human skin.
Clearly, the infected individuals were manipulated very skillfully; even their close friends didn't notice anything unusual.
"Approximately how many are there?" Chen Muye's voice came through the headset again.
Liu Lang and Lin Qiye pretended to be nonchalant as they walked towards Li Yifei's location, while remaining wary of the infected people around them.
Lin Qiye said, "I have one or two within my perception range. We've already found six along the way, and that's just from those playing outside the classroom... There are probably more inside the classroom."
"46. I saw 46 students in the teaching building who looked like they were infected... just like Lei Haojie I saw before. Most of them are concentrated in the second-year classes. I only saw about ten in the first and second-year classes," Liu Lang said decisively, then continued his analysis: "Now there are already so many infected students, I suspect there are probably quite a few among the teachers as well..."
Although he couldn't see through the other party's disguise as directly as Lin Qiye, but...
The "bioelectricity" in the bodies of infected people and normal people is different, so the appearance of them in Liu Lang's eyes is also different.
His eyes emitted a pale purple light, and the entire teaching building was laid bare before him.
"Hiss!" Chen Muyi gasped upon hearing Liu Lang's assessment. "Then... is there any hope for them?"
"Gone!" Lin Qiye was also shocked to hear Liu Lang's words, but he was clearly more qualified to answer Chen Muye's question. "My [Mortal Divine Realm] sensed that their internal organs have all disappeared..."
Beneath the human skin was nothing but a grotesque mass of flesh and blood; they were already dead the moment they were eaten.
Hearing Lin Qiye's words, Chen Muye also gave up the idea of saving the infected people in the end.
"Be careful, there are so many infected... Don't alert them before we identify the parent organism."
"Ok."
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By the time Liu Lang and the others finished their conversation, Li Yifei had already rushed downstairs.
Seeing Liu Lang was like seeing a pillar of support. "Fei, you must protect me well... otherwise, it will truly be a case of a black-haired person burying an white-haired one."
"What time is it? And you're still bickering? Aren't you worried about being eaten by that monster?" Liu Lang replied with a smile to Li Yifei's words.
After all, once Li Yifei became Lin Qiye's caregiver, who knew when he would see him again?
However, Li Yifei didn't forget to take advantage of him, and Liu Lang retorted without hesitation, "Then you'd better live a long life. I'm still waiting for you to take care of me in my old age and see me off in my deathbed! Don't make me eat your food..."
"How could that be? Even if you die, I might not," Li Yifei retorted. "Anyway, you're not going to get to eat at my table!"
"Hahaha." Liu Lang and Li Yifei's group did indeed look like a group of normal high school students, chatting as they walked, which didn't seem out of place at all.
......
When they reached the stairwell, Li Yifei finally couldn't help but ask, "How's your investigation going?"
"We've got a preliminary understanding of the situation here." Liu Lang glanced in the direction of Class 2, Grade 11. "Now, we need an opportunity to gather this group of mysterious people together..."
Li Yifei paused, as if remembering something, "You mean..."
Lin Qiye didn't understand what Liu Lang meant by "opportunity." "It's not Monday yet, and there's a flag-raising ceremony. How can we find an opportunity to gather all the teachers and students together?"
"If there's no opportunity, then create one!" Liu Lang smiled. Having been a student at No. 2 Middle School for so long, how could he not even know where the fire alarm was located!
"How do we create it?" Lin Qiye still couldn't think of any scene that could bring all the teachers and students together.
"Oh dear! Qi Ye, you haven't been here long. You didn't know our school often holds fire and earthquake drills. It's quite normal," Li Yifei reminded him.
"You mean..."
Liu Lang squinted slightly, looking at the playground... his mind was elsewhere.
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Office building.
"This is 403."
Led by Hongying, Hongying, Si Xiaonan, and Lei Yingdian went to the wrong building before finally finding the door to the dean's office.
"Which class are you from, and what are you doing here?"
Before Hongying and the others could knock on the door, a stern voice came from behind them.
He could see three people standing at the entrance of the dean's office from a distance, two of whom were dressed as students from his school.
He wore round-framed glasses, had a receding hairline, and wore a striped shirt with suit pants.
A classic look for an excellent teacher.
Si Xiaonan, carrying the black box, observed the approaching person... wary.
Without saying a word, both she and Hongying looked at Lei Yingdian at the same time.
She's the only one here who has the ability to tell whether someone is infected...
Lei Ying shook her head; the other party was an ordinary person, not their target this time.
After the teacher approached, he adjusted his glasses, carefully looked Lei Yingdian up and down, and asked, "Are you also a teacher at our school? Why do I feel like I've never seen you before?"
Before Lei Yingdian arrived, Liu Lang had already prepared an excuse for her, explaining, "I'm a newly hired intern teacher at our school this year... It's normal that you don't recognize me."
The head of student affairs informed me that my internship certificate had been issued and asked me to come and see it.
"Oh, I see!" The teacher seemed thoughtful, then looked at Si Xiaonan and Hongying beside her and asked, "What are you two doing loitering outside the dean's office? You weren't trying to steal a leave slip, were you?"
“No, we didn’t come with Teacher Lei.” Hongying was the first to react and answer, then pointed to the black box behind Si Xiaonan, “This is something Teacher Lei asked us to help move… She said she couldn’t move it by herself, so I asked us students to come and help move it.”
"Is that so..."
"Then you may have to wait a while. The dean of students went to inspect the classes... Classes just ended, so it may take some time for him to come over."
"Okay, thank you for reminding me, teacher."
.....
"We almost gave ourselves away. Luckily, Sister Ying's outfit was quite convincing, otherwise we would have been exposed..." Si Xiaonan said with lingering fear.
Hongying took a thin thread out of her pocket and gently turned it on the lock; the door opened.
Then he said, "Since the head of the teaching department isn't here, let's search around and see if we can find any clues."
Si Xiaonan nodded, "The two of us came to find... Lei Yingdian, dressed like this, can keep watch at the door in case anyone else comes..."
“I’m fine.” Lei Yingdong nodded slightly.
Si Xiaonan and Hongying searched almost the entire office of the Dean of Students, finding nothing but a pile of documents and materials of unknown purpose.
Nothing else of value was blown up.
But... Hongying smelled a foul odor and followed it, finding... a yellowish-brown soft membrane on the tile under a chair.
“This is human skin.” Si Xiaonan recognized it as she looked at it.
"Human skin?" Hongying looked up at Si Xiaonan. "Are you sure this thing is human skin?"
Si Xiaonan nodded, "It's already starting to develop lividity on it, it's not human skin or what..."
Are they molting?
"snake?"
"possible."
"Let's report this information to Wu Xiangnan. Perhaps we can find out about this mythical creature soon."
Hongying clicked on the miniature earpiece and reported the situation to Wu Xiangnan.
but.......
Next second,
"Der!"
The entire Cangnan No. 2 Middle School,
A loud and long sound echoed throughout the campus.
"This is... a fire alarm!" Hongying immediately realized.
Si Xiaonan and Lei Yingdian also heard the alarm and their expressions turned serious.
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