"Today is the day of the exam?" White Goodson said in a low voice as he and Chi Xiaozhu walked down the corridor. It was unusually quiet, with not a sound coming from any classroom. Their footsteps seemed particularly loud, echoing through the hallway.
"No, it's not..." Chi Xiaozhu, as the student council president, naturally knew the exam date. It should be a normal class time, and it shouldn't be this quiet. At the very least, there should be the sound of teachers lecturing.
There was a strange, eerie atmosphere in the air, as if an invisible female ghost had silently approached them. Her bone-like hand lightly touched their backs, sending shivers down their spines. Chi Xiaozhu raised an eyebrow, her face showing a nervous expression. Her purple eyes flickered as they approached a classroom in front of them, and she reached out to stop White Goodson.
"There's something wrong," Chi Xiaozhu said softly, approaching the classroom carefully, leaning her back against the wall and slowly poking her head out. When she saw the scene inside the classroom, her pupils contracted sharply, and a drop of sweat slid down her forehead.
There were no less than ten "mutated" students in the classroom. They wandered around like walking dead, their bodies slowly undergoing changes. One student had already sprouted animal fur on his skin, his face twisting and his fangs protruding, resembling a wolf. Other creatures also revealed their true forms, while the other normal humans remained motionless, as if their souls had been sucked out, leaving behind lifeless shells.
"What's wrong with you? You've been standing there for so long without responding." White Goodson patted Chi Xiaozhu's shoulder, startling her, and she let out a scream. This scream instantly caught the attention of the creatures in the classroom. The werewolf was the closest to the door, and as he turned around, his scarlet eyes met Chi Xiaozhu's terrified face.
"Crack!"
The werewolf directly broke through the glass window of the classroom door, rolling on the ground before quickly locking onto his prey and lunging towards Chi Xiaozhu with its jaws wide open.
"Tsk!" Chi Xiaozhu instantly gathered her magic power, her body burning with purple flames. With a backflip, she avoided the werewolf's attack and quickly followed up with a flying kick while the werewolf missed its target. The werewolf took the full force of the kick and crashed into the wall. At the same time, not only did more creatures pour out of this classroom, but even the adjacent classrooms, rushing towards the two of them in a frenzy.
"These small fries..." White Goodson flexed his muscles, ready to take on a big fight, but Chi Xiaozhu grabbed him by the collar and led him away.
"What are you standing there for? Run!" Chi Xiaozhu said with a forceful pull, dragging White Goodson along. Whether it was because Chi Xiaozhu was too strong or White Goodson had become lighter, he was being dragged along against his will, missing out on his chance to show off.
The two of them quickly ran upstairs, encountering more and more creatures along the way. Although they were all small fries to White Goodson, dealing with them all together would still be a difficult task, considering their sheer numbers. And whether Chi Xiaozhu's strength would be enough to handle them was also an unknown factor.
"How many transfer students have there been in the past two years?!" White Goodson escaped from Chi Xiaozhu's "claws" and regained his freedom, following behind her and asking in a near-roaring voice. The number of small fries was simply too much, causing him a headache. Although he had encountered similar situations in the other world, this was different. These were all inherently kind guys. White Goodson couldn't kill them, he could only knock them out. But that wasn't the most troublesome part. The most troublesome part was that he didn't have the opportunity to show off.
"According to the student council records, there were about five hundred or so, but I can't remember the exact number," Chi Xiaozhu didn't pause for a moment. After the two of them reached the top floor of the teaching building and turned the corner at the intersection, a creature suddenly jumped out, a male centaur. Centaurs were naturally kind and neutral by nature, one of the few species that could remain rational even after being affected by the mutation point. But now, even he had gone berserk, indicating just how terrifying this mutation point was.
Centaurs were a natural warrior race, becoming ferocious and savage after going berserk. With their unreasonable horse hooves, they could easily crush the head of a knight wearing a helmet. This horse suddenly charged out, and Chi Xiaozhu couldn't dodge in time. Just as the horse hooves were about to kick her chest, White Goodson decisively intervened. With a swift movement, he hugged Chi Xiaozhu, instantly turning around to face the centaur with his back. At the same time, he forcefully kicked the horse hooves that were coming towards him.The centaur flew out directly for a long distance, smashing into a wall at the end of the corridor, leaving a hole that seemed like a living specimen embedded in it. By the way, during the centaur's flight, it also happened to crash into all the other monsters in a straight line. Several students who were fighting those monsters were stunned, but when they shifted their gaze, they happened to see the two people whose bodies had already been separated.
"President, president!" A glasses-wearing girl who was covered in injuries saw Chi Xiaozhu and ran towards her as if she had seen a savior.
This person was the treasurer of the Student Union, White Goodson immediately recognized, not because he had seen her before, but because the prominent "treasurer" on her chest badge was quite eye-catching.
Ignoring the glasses-wearing treasurer, White Goodson saw two boys not far away, one with golden hair and the other wearing glasses. After soothing the monsters that had been knocked unconscious, they also ran towards Chi Xiaozhu. White Goodson saw from their badges that they were the vice president and the secretary respectively.
"President, thank you for your timely help," the secretary with glasses expressed his respect to Chi Xiaozhu.
"Well done, Xiaozhu!" The golden-haired vice president laughed arrogantly and patted Chi Xiaozhu's shoulder.
"No, that person is not... let go of me!" Chi Xiaozhu was initially distracted, but this golden-haired guy took the opportunity to make a move on her, touching her shoulder. Chi Xiaozhu instantly lost her composure and slapped away the golden-haired guy's wandering hand.
"Who is this person?" The glasses girl looked at White Goodson and asked. When this question came up, the other two also looked at him curiously. These three were all students in their second year of high school and were three grades below White Goodson. When White Goodson was still in school, they were all still in junior high, so naturally they didn't know him.
"I guess he's just some guy who wants to work part-time at the school. He looks shabby no matter how you look at him. But what caught me off guard is that he's also an Exorcist." The proud tone of the golden-haired guy annoyed White Goodson, what's more aggravating was that they seemed to have missed the moment when White Goodson showed off just now.
"In any case, he is a helper. President, what should we do next?" The secretary with glasses smoothly bypassed White Goodson with a single sentence. Regardless, an outsider is just an outsider, and the president of their own organization is the top priority.
Chi Xiaozhu gestured to White Goodson with her eyes, seemingly wanting to tell him not to mind these things and that dealing with the monsters at hand was the primary task. She said seriously, "How are those two doing?"
The two people she referred to should be the two remaining members of the Student Union. According to what Chi Xiaozhu said earlier, both of them were monsters.
"I knocked them unconscious. They're sleeping soundly in the conference room now," the golden-haired guy proudly said, like a 'golden retriever' thirsty for praise from its owner.
"Great job. Let's go inside and discuss our next move." Chi Xiaozhu pushed open an adjacent activity room and walked in. White Goodson looked up and realized that it was the Student Union room. Because he had never been here before, it felt somewhat fresh to him.
"Hmph, such a naive expression," the golden-haired guy walked past White Goodson and dropped this remark, bumping his shoulder against him.
White Goodson twitched at the corner of his eye. He was just about to clench his fists and teach this disrespectful person a lesson when he saw Chi Xiaozhu gently shake her head at him.
"Ah..." White Goodson sighed helplessly, as if he had let out all the anger pent up in his stomach. It's not worth it, after all, he was already twenty years old, why bother comparing himself to this immature brat?
- But why did this golden-haired guy start to give me a hard time as soon as we met?
"Send me to battle, my President Xiaozhu." Before anyone else could sit down, the golden-haired guy imitated the manner of a nobleman and saluted Chi Xiaozhu.
"I've told you so many times, don't call me by name directly," Chi Xiaozhu said angrily. She didn't know when she started wearing the nameplate with the words "president" on it. Judging from the current situation, no matter whether she was a student or an Exorcist, she was the "supreme leader" of these three people. White Goodson was able to sense their aura just now. Among the three, the golden-haired guy had the strongest strength, but he was still slightly weaker than Chi Xiaozhu."As you can see, these three are also members of the Student Council, and at the same time, they are Exorcists." Chi Xiaozhu introduced the three to White Goodson.
"Hmph, I am a B-rank Exorcist who joined the Exorcist Guild, the 'All-Powerful Warrior'! Remember my name well," Jinmao proudly pointed at White Goodson.
"Impressive, impressive." White Goodson's words were not insincere. It was quite impressive for a seventeen-year-old to reach the B-rank.
Ignoring Jinmao's smug look, Chi Xiaozhu continued, "I believe you all know the current situation. The anomaly point has appeared again, right here in our school."
"Let's go and eliminate the guy!" Jinmao suddenly became passionate for some reason, coincidentally meeting Chi Xiaozhu's gaze. He winked at Chi Xiaozhu, as if he was flirting.
Chi Xiaozhu turned her head away and ignored Jinmao, saying, "We have two choices now. One is to eliminate the anomaly point, and the other is to calm down the rampaging students. The 'Barrier of Time' doesn't last long. If we don't solve the problem before it disappears, ordinary humans will suffer fatal injuries."
The Barrier of Time refers to one of the effects caused by the appearance of the anomaly point, where the timeline of the otherworld intrudes into the human world and replaces its timeline, causing time in the human world to freeze at the moment the anomaly point appears. Ordinary humans won't be harmed during this time, as if they are protected by time itself. However, once the Barrier of Time disappears and the timeline of the otherworld returns, the ordinary humans visible to the monsters will be in danger.
Exorcists and monsters are not affected by the Barrier of Time, and the duration of the barrier is the optimal time for their battles.
After Chi Xiaozhu presented her two plans, the others began to engage in a heated debate. Jinmao suggested "catch the thief first" - only by eliminating the monster that caused the anomaly point to appear can other ordinary monsters regain their sanity. The two individuals with glasses opposed this view, believing that our strength is not enough to eliminate the anomaly point. They proposed to do their best to restore the sanity of more ordinary monsters and seek support from stronger Exorcists.
Just as the group was in a heated argument, White Goodson interrupted them.
"Um, have any of you seen these three people?" White Goodson somehow managed to find a pen and paper, and wrote down three names for them to see:
"White Rosa, Lin Qingzheng, Lin Guo."
