Anomalous Fields

At present, it seemed that there was neither a dangerous environment nor a threat from mutated plants and animals.

The plain teaching building had suddenly transformed into a totally new look. The primary school principal must have smiled from ear to ear without spending any money to obtain a brand new campus skin.

Lv Cheng squatted in front of a stand, picking out things. Occasionally he would hold up the item in his hand towards the sky, trying to find better light to help him judge the value of the goods.

A while later, he clapped his hands and stood up: "I can't understand a word of what's inside here."

There were still many live streamers on the streets, interacting with their fans.

The words on the stone tablet looked the same as those on the plaque, and Qi Yuan looked around fruitlessly after studying them. He didn't see the group of uncles and aunties. They must have headed straight for the gymnasium to participate in the rescue with clear goals in mind.

"Brother Yuan, we saw a first floor entrance ahead. Shall we go in and take a look?"

Qi Yuan ignored Lv Cheng's words. He hurriedly took big strides and circled the street.

Too strange...

Lv Cheng hurriedly caught up: "What's the matter?"

"The preliminary fusion should have ended. So where are the monsters?"

Qi Yuan's question made Lv Cheng freeze up for a moment.

Yeah, where are the monsters?

Lv Cheng reacted belatedly. He looked around but couldn't find any traces of the monsters.

"Is it possible that they're all hunting down those kids? The monsters are intelligent. It's normal for them to choose easy targets."

Qi Yuan neither affirmed nor denied Lv Cheng's speculation.

They had come in at the right time. The spawn locations of the monsters were random. Even if they really went after soft targets, it was impossible for not a single one to appear.

Moreover, if all the monsters were gathered around the primary school students, the patrol squad must be battling the monsters. Such a commotion would not be small.

After Lv Cheng finished speaking, he also felt his guess was laughable and shut his mouth awkwardly.

"Let's go, find the gymnasium first."

The absence of monsters was bizarre, but it also made it more convenient for them to act.

Along the way, they saw some buildings that combined ancient and modern elements, as well as purely ancient architectural structures like temples, tea houses and inns.

As a stocky building amongst other structures, the gymnasium was easy to recognize despite the changes to its exterior and geographical location.

The two pushed open the door of the gymnasium. It was bustling inside.

The primary school students were gathered together in groups. Don't expect them to stay quiet. They were having fun playing games in circles. Several teachers and a few uncles and aunties shuttled around to prevent the children from fighting and slipping away.

But the number of people was completely wrong. At most, only one third of the students were here.

"Ah, are you the golden-eyed Qi Yuan?"

The young patrol officer guarding the door saw him and was overjoyed.

Golden Eyes?

Hearing the keyword, Lv Cheng shifted his gaze to Qi Yuan's eyes, but no matter how he looked, he felt they were light brown.

Lv Cheng silently ridiculed silently, taking such an unimpressive nickname. Might as well call him Handsome Guy directly.

If not for the added name, he might not even recognize that they were calling Brother Yuan.

It was no wonder Lv Cheng didn't know. Qi Yuan had not revealed his name in either of his two live broadcasts, resulting in Lv Cheng's failure to find anything when he searched online for Qi Yuan.

The older patrol officer scolded: "How can you be so careless in your work?"

Seeing his disciple shut up awkwardly, he then turned to Qi Yuan and said, "Student Qi, Team Leader Xue told me to tell you that your younger brother has not arrived at the gymnasium yet."

Xue Shiyun was not in the gym, and there were not many patrol squad members on site either. They probably went out to look for the students.

"Do you know how they got separated?"

The elderly patrol officer shook his head: "The timing is uncertain, the triggering conditions are uncertain."

"I see, thanks."

Since his brother was not here, he should go back and check the teaching building.

There were no new messages from his brother in his phone either. Given the little brat's personality, he probably couldn't send them out.

"Achoo!"

Qi Yuan rubbed his nose. Although there was no evidence, he was very sure that the brat was cursing him.

The first floor lobby of the teaching building looked a bit neither here nor there. The entrance was a miniature model, marking the location of all the buildings in the school.

There was a modern floor, but when looking up, it was all wooden beams and round columns, with a hanging plaque in the middle, still with unrecognizable words.

Lv Cheng randomly found a room nearby and pushed open the exquisite wooden door. It was empty inside, with only office desks and scattered documents.

"Someone's been here before, but..." Lv Cheng shrugged. "This information is useless and gives no clue."

"It's not completely useless."

Qi Yuan looked out the window at the street outside the entrance. A new batch of people was checking and filming there.

"With so many people coming in, the whole teaching building should not be so quiet."

It had taken them quite some time to go back and forth to the gymnasium. The live streamers and espers who entered with them should have already explored the teaching building.

As soon as he said this, Lv Cheng felt chilly down his back. The empty room seemed to harbor a sinister ghost peering gloomily at them.

"Hey hey, this is a paranatural filming site. Paranormal events are not in line with our style."

"I didn't say it was a paranormal event. You just imagined that."

Just as he activated his paranatural ability to check if there were any hidden monsters around them, Lv Cheng's fantasies were laid bare before Qi Yuan.

Don't take what you imagined as facts. Qi Yuan didn't want to take the blame for this baseless pot that flew in.

After speaking, Qi Yuan headed upstairs.

Lv Cheng hurried to catch up. By now, he no longer dared to take this field lightly because of his experience.

It was not scary to encounter monsters. What was scary were abnormal phenomena.

The lighting in the corridor was insufficient. Qi Yuan tried the light switches but found them completely useless.

It seemed he had greatly misunderstood the primary school principal just now. This was a loss.

The fused domains certainly wouldn't care if the utilities were working or not.

He had no choice but to turn on the phone's built-in flashlight to barely illuminate two to three meters ahead.

After confirming that there were no special rules in and around the room that would affect his paranatural abilities, Qi Yuan quickly scanned the teaching building using his abilities.

Soon, he scanned several floors.

Just as he stepped onto the corridor of the next floor, his flashlight flickered once before returning to normal.

Sensing that there were no intelligent creatures nearby through his abilities, Qi Yuan did not take this matter to heart until he saw the scene ahead.

Black mist lingered around before dissipating quickly.

The pungent smell of blood. Dark red blood splattered on the walls and corridor floor. Broken limbs and fleshy pulp flowed in the blood pool.

Lv Cheng neatly lined up the small shoes he picked up from the floor and pursed his lips without saying a word.

"I will tear these monsters limb from limb."

Putting down the blood-stirring book on the floor, Qi Yuan looked at this rarely serious, righteous and passionate youth, and didn't know whether to tell him that these were the monsters' limbs.