Reinforcements and Realizations

“What is this?”

Huang Xiu’s attention was sharp. She spotted the monster from the corner of her eye in an instant.

“Damn, the dormitory is too cramped. Neither the mutated iron tree nor the osmanthus tree can unfold here.”

Her expression shifted. Of her plants, only the cactus was suited for fighting in such a narrow space.

She had strength but nowhere to use it.

With a thought, the cactus received the command. It dropped the monkey it had nearly beaten to death and rushed into the girls’ dormitory, intending to drag down the snake dormitory manager who was heading upstairs.

Huang Xiu had done everything she could.

Controlling the mutated plants continuously had drained her mental energy. On top of that, the persistent lack of void energy made her extremely tired. Her eyelids felt as heavy as lead.

She felt like she might fall asleep at any moment.

“No, I can’t sleep!”

Just as her eyelids were about to close completely, she startled awake.

Then she bit her tongue hard. The sharp pain brought tears to her eyes, but it gave her a rare moment of clarity.

“It hurts so bad!” Huang Xiu mumbled, her tongue feeling thick.

She panted heavily, half-leaning against the osmanthus tree. She squinted as she watched the battle in the dormitory.

But then, her small ears, which looked like they were carved from white jade, twitched.

Thump, thump, thump!

Footsteps like thunder approached rapidly.

Who was it?

Before she could turn her head, a black silhouette appeared in the moonlight.

He kicked down the locked iron door of the dormitory in one step, crossed the lobby in two strides.

Then, at a speed no one but Huang Xiu could perceive, he caught up with the snake dormitory manager, grabbed its tail, and dragged it down from the stairs.

“Hiss, hiss, hiss!” The snake’s low hissing was drowned out by a series of thuds and shouts.

The cactus Huang Xiaoxian had no martial ethics. It knew the principle of striking while the enemy is down.

It simply went in. Tricked! Attacked!

While the snake dormitory manager was being dragged down by Yun Ning, Huang Xiaoxian laid into it with a flurry of punches and kicks.

Its fists were small, but they hit hard. Wherever they landed, deep spines would grow.

Normal attacks were true damage. Did you like this little cactus?

“An interesting creature.”

Yun Ning recognized the cactus as one of Huang Xiu’s ability creations and paid it no further mind.

This snake dormitory manager was sturdy, much stronger than the fox security guard from before.

But compared to him, it fell far short.

“Void Art – Void Attachment!” A faint white light flickered on his right hand.

Swish!

He slashed downward with his right hand like a blade. It cut through the snake as easily as a hot knife through butter. The massive snake head flew off, hit the ceiling, and rolled to the ground with a clatter.

Dark green snake blood gushed like a fountain from the headless body.

Yun Ning walked through the iron door and came to the foot of the osmanthus tree. He glanced briefly at the girl on the tree.

Then he turned to look at the boys’ dormitory diagonally opposite. A faint white light flickered in his eyes.

“The situation is urgent. I’ll go deal with the monster in the boys’ dormitory first. Huang, take everyone and retreat.”

Both dormitories had managers. Since the girls’ manager was a void world monster, the boys’ manager was definitely one too.

“Understood.”

Huang Xiu nodded her head like a bobble doll, looking relieved.

The reinforcements had finally arrived. If they hadn’t, she would have been exhausted.

“By the way, Senior Yun, did you see a male student? Tall and thin, running toward the school gate?” Huang Xiu hurriedly asked.

“Don’t worry. He’s fine. He should be outside by now,” Yun Ning replied softly.

He saw the sweat on her forehead and her pale face. A hint of guilt flickered in his eyes.

“Sorry for being late.”

He knew that Huang Xiu was unwilling to use her ability because of the cost.

But at this moment, to protect her classmates, she still stepped up and used it.

“It’s nothing!” Huang Xiu waved her hand dismissively. “You’d better go to the boys’ dormitory now!”

If Yun Ning didn’t go soon, she was afraid her roommates would die.

Watching Yun Ning leave, Huang Xiu turned to look at the girls’ dormitory, planning to lead the evacuation.

“Hurry up and pack your things and come down!” she shouted, waving her arms, calling to the boarding students.

She was worried that some girls might still insist on putting on makeup or bringing useless stuff.

She ordered the cactus to go up and check each room.

She herself came down from the osmanthus tree giant, intending to personally direct things at the dormitory.

The girl leaped down from the osmanthus tree, but she had clearly overestimated her energy.

Her legs were aching terribly. As she landed, she nearly fell to her knees.

Luckily, there was a tree nearby to support herself.

“Awkward. I almost knelt down right there.”

She pounded her useless thighs and, enduring the pain, walked into the girls’ dormitory.

Before she even entered the dormitory lobby, the pungent smell of blood made Huang Xiu wrinkle her nose.

On the ground, blood had pooled into puddles. There were also green and red things, like snake gallbladders, sliding out of the headless body.

It made Huang Xiu feel nauseous.

“This Senior Yun is too violent…” She endured the urge to vomit and walked up the stairs.

Several girls were standing at the stairwell, too scared to come down because of the blood in the lobby.

“Don’t just stand there! Bite the bullet and run through!”

Huang Xiu herself was also struggling.

After the adrenaline faded, her body was as soft as a silicone dummy. She could barely stand.

But she was the only one in charge here. Huang Xiu had to force herself to stay alert.

“I’m a man!” she cheered herself on inside.

“Everyone, check if your roommates are here!” the girl shouted as she directed the girls downstairs.

Before transforming, she was 1.78 meters tall. After transforming, she shrank a bit to 1.72 meters.

She was neither short nor tall among the girls. With her cute face, she looked like a doll.

But somehow, this Huang Xiu gave the girls a strong sense of security.

They came downstairs in an orderly manner. It took more than ten minutes for all the boarding students to gather in the lobby.

Many girls turned pale and vomited at the sight of the blood and flesh.

But there was nothing Huang Xiu could do.

She told the girls to stay in the lobby and not move. Then she found the roommates of the girl who had been in a daze and told them to take the prepared clothes to help her change.

After everything was ready, she looked at the boys’ dormitory with some anxiety.

“Is Senior Yun not done yet? Did something happen?”

The osmanthus tree giant knelt on one knee and extended its right hand. Huang Xiu sat on it, and it gently placed her on its shoulder.

“Forget it. Let’s go!” she shouted.

She wasn’t a clueless fool. She could tell that tonight’s events were very wrong and suspicious.

The void world descent was mysterious, but setting that aside,

the fact that only Yun Ning came to support, while other specials, including Professor Yuan, were absent,

was completely inexplicable.

While directing the girls downstairs, Huang Xiu had been thinking about this.

She finally reached a conclusion that made her tremble.

That was… Ying City was in chaos tonight. So chaotic that there weren’t enough people to come and support them.