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“Get back!” Without a moment to process, Shi Lei heard his friend suddenly bellowing beside him.
The very next second, an overwhelming force sent him stumbling backward.
‘Huh? What just happened?’
A flicker of bewilderment crossed Shi Lei’s face as he reeled backward.
Boom!
A tremendous crash reverberated in his ears, and shards of concrete whizzed past his face, leaving a searing trail of pain.
Shi Lei stumbled and staggered, his entire body forcefully propelled until he slammed into the outer wall of the teaching building.
“Ow, ow, ow!”
His head had struck the wall, leaving him momentarily dazed, and as he rubbed his aching back, he prepared to rise.
Yet, in an instant, he froze, utterly dumbfounded.
For, inexplicably, a gigantic iron compass, easily as tall as a man, stood impaled in the very spot where he had been standing moments earlier.
While referred to as a compass, its two legs were actually sharp, piercing spikes, making it resemble a professional measuring gauge far more than an ordinary drawing tool.
At that moment, the gauge, having pierced the ground, stood proudly erect.
The frigid moonlight shimmered along its metallic surface, emanating a bone-chilling aura that seemed to pierce the soul.
“Huh? What in the world is that thing?” Shi Lei rubbed his eyes, opening and closing them repeatedly, as if trying to clear a persistent illusion.
Thump-thump-thump!
Heavy, rapid footsteps pounded closer from the distance, and Shi Lei instinctively turned his gaze toward the sound.
He then beheld a sight he knew he would carry with him for the rest of his days.
It was a horrifying monster: a pig’s head atop a human body, drooling foul-smelling saliva, and clad in a tattered blue suit.
“Holy crap, it’s a Zombie Pigman from MC!” he blurted out, the words escaping him on instinct.
“It’s completely different, alright?”
Huang Xiu gritted his teeth, pulling himself up from the ground.
It had been his timely reaction, a flying lunge to push Shi Lei clear, that had saved his friend from becoming little more than a human skewer.
He clutched the raw, scraped wound on his skin, a souvenir from his desperate lunge across the gravel.
Huang Xiu panted heavily, roaring with an edge of fury, “What are you standing around for? Run!”
Shi Lei, still reeling, vaguely turned his head to look at Huang Xiu, his eyes wide with a look of pure, unadulterated bewilderment.
Witnessing this, Huang Xiu, exasperated beyond measure, let out a mirthless laugh before striding forward and delivering a sharp slap to Shi Lei’s face.
The impact jolted Shi Lei awake.
He shivered twice, as if roused from a profound dream, then gripped Huang Xiu’s arm and hauled himself to his feet.
–His legs, he realized, were still terribly weak.
As he regained his wits, he understood that this was a critical moment for their very survival.
Thus, despite his paralyzing fear, he stumbled forward, clinging to Huang Xiu as they bolted into the teaching building.
The heavy footsteps behind them grew increasingly close, only to abruptly halt somewhere in the distance.
Yet, not a shred of relief touched Shi Lei, for he knew the monster had merely paused to retrieve its weapon!
“Left turn, upstairs!”
Huang Xiu glanced over his shoulder as he ran, assessing the situation behind them.
Spotting the Pigman with its weapon now fully drawn, he sharply pulled Shi Lei, pivoted, and plunged into the stairwell.
Crash!
No sooner had they veered into the stairwell than the massive compass whizzed past their backs, like a tank shell, directly piercing the brick-and-green-painted wall at the far end of the corridor.
It left behind only a scattering of brick fragments and a billowing cloud of dust.
‘Damn it, why do Pigmen even exist? Didn’t Professor Yuan explicitly state that Pigmen were merely a manifestation of my awakened delusion?’
Huang Xiu cursed inwardly.
He dragged Shi Lei, tearing through the halls as if their lives depended on it, his hairs standing on end, goosebumps erupting across his skin like mushrooms after a spring rain.
A sinister premonition coiled around him like a venomous serpent.
If it had merely been Professor Yuan claiming it was a delusion, that would be one thing, but hadn’t a special investigator already conducted an inspection?
How could neither of them have seen through it!
Was the Bureau of Anomalous Jurisdiction truly so utterly incompetent?
‘Damn tax thieves!’
And furthermore, why was Shi Lei, of all people, dragged into this? He was clearly not an Anomaly!
Glancing at Shi Lei, who was already panting heavily and struggling to keep pace, Huang Xiu’s expression grew increasingly grim.
And if Shi Lei had been drawn into this, did it not imply that other students might have been ensnared as well?
Huang Xiu scarcely dared to consider the implications, able only to pray.
But then, a girl’s piercing scream echoed from not far off in the campus, confirming his darkest fears: the worst had indeed come to pass.
“Ah!”
Besides themselves, other students had been ensnared, and the threats lurking within the campus were not limited to the Pigman relentlessly pursuing them!
Teacher Yue’s words inexplicably flashed through his mind.
[Death is the most eternal and absolute rule, and within the Void Realm, death is true death—absolute, irreversible, no mere fantasy.]
“Damn it, damn it, damn it!” Huang Xiu snarled, his eyes blazing with furious indignation. “Is this truly my fate?”
The Pigman had killed him that night, precipitating his initial awakening and ushering in a drastic upheaval in his life.
Prior to that fateful night, Huang Xiu had never once conceived that such a monumental shift in his existence would arrive so abruptly.
And now, the Pigman had returned!
‘Is it time?’
The young man lifted his gaze.
Beneath a sky as profound as a velvet curtain, the cold moon hung, soft yet noble, mirroring its appearance on that unforgettable night.
The past echoed the present with an eerie precision.
Yet, ultimately, things were irrevocably different; then, he had been utterly powerless, forced to flee like a stray dog.
But now…
A sudden, knowing smile of resignation touched Huang Xiu’s lips.
His frantic pace gradually slowed, until he finally came to a halt behind Shi Lei.
He slowly turned, facing forward.
“Can’t you run anymore?” Shi Lei exclaimed, his face etched with desperation, as he seized Huang Xiu’s arm. “Quickly, I’ll pull you along!”
‘This fool, he’s truly touching!’
‘Tsk, my judgment in friends isn’t half-bad after all, to have found someone I can entrust my very life to.’
‘Ending these two years of high school life here wouldn’t be a complete waste.’
With a gentle but firm pull, he freed his arm from Shi Lei’s grip, then turned to face his friend.
“It’s not that I can’t run anymore,” he stated, “it’s that I’ve come to a realization.”
He turned, his gaze fixed on the stairwell behind them, where the lights flickered erratically, buzzing and crackling with ominous intensity.
Considering the speed at which the compass had flown moments before, it was evident the Pigman had grown considerably stronger.
“You go on ahead!” Huang Xiu said, his voice grave. “I’ll hold it back.”
While his own stamina was exceptional, Shi Lei’s was not, making this the most opportune moment to create a diversion.
“Damn it, this damned thing, how the hell are you going to stop it?” Shi Lei exclaimed, his voice rising in panic. “Are you going to ram it with your head?!”
“Let’s go! We need to call the police right away!” He seized Huang Xiu’s arm, attempting to pull him back toward the direction they had come.
“The police will surely have a solution!”
But no matter how he tugged, how he strained, Huang Xiu stood firm, as unmoving as if he had grown roots into the very floorboards.
“The police do indeed have a way,” Huang Xiu conceded, his gaze as deep and unyielding as a shadowed pool, “but by the time they arrive, how many more students will have fallen victim to this thing?”
With a swift sweep of his right arm, Shi Lei was sent stumbling backward.
“In this entire campus, I am the only one who can stop it now!”
Facing Shi Lei’s incredulous stare from behind, Huang Xiu stood ramrod straight, like an unyielding tree.
“Do you know why I managed to pass the preliminary test?”
“Why?” Shi Lei questioned, a spark of incredulous understanding flashing in his eyes as a possibility dawned upon him.
While he might appear somewhat simple-minded and his mannerisms clumsy, how could a true fool gain admission to a prestigious high school?
His apparent foolishness was merely a facade, a willingness to play the jester simply to better integrate with his peers.
“Could it be… you?”
“Precisely! Every thought you’re having is spot on!”
Huang Xiu suddenly roared, “Go now, Shi Lei! Your presence here will only hinder me!”
–Otherwise, if this fool witnesses his transformation, it would truly be more agonizing than death itself.
“…” Shi Lei hesitated for a beat. “Brother Xiu, I’m going! But don’t you dare lie to me!”
“Run toward the school gate!” Huang Xiu instructed urgently. “Don’t go to the dorms! There are monsters there too!”
Moments before, a girl’s scream had echoed from the path leading toward the dormitories.
‘It’s likely another Pigman, or some other monstrous creature, lurks there as well…’
‘Time is running out, I hope it’s not too late!’
A flicker of urgency crossed his eyes.
“And get into a good university!” Huang Xiu suddenly murmured, his voice softer now.
Shi Lei’s body stiffened, and his eyes involuntarily welled up.
He nodded vigorously, forcefully suppressing the overwhelming urge to glance back, and then bolted down the other stairwell at his utmost speed.
“Call the police, call the police!” Shi Lei gasped, his fists clenched tightly, breathing frantically like a fish flopping on a sandy beach.
He launched himself down eight steps at once, landing with a heavy thud on the ground floor.
Enduring the sharp discomfort in his ankle, Shi Lei sprinted toward the school gate.
His phone had been confiscated, leaving him no choice but to escape the school grounds and find a security guard or passerby to alert the authorities.
“Hang in there, Brother Xiu!” the young man panted, his tongue lolling as he ran like a desperate hound. “I’ll get help here right away!”