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Chapter 27: Zhang Zhe of the Dual Blades

[Heart energy exceeds Level 1 alert.]

[Heart energy exceeds Level 1 alert.]

This heart energy alert notification had appeared nearly ten times already.

This prompt likely meant that the conditions for fully attracting the aberrations had been met!

Thud!

A person who rushed out of the protected area fell heavily to the ground.

The fall came without warning - there was no sign of being attacked before collapsing.

The distance was too far, and a layer of red mist in the air obscured the view. Xu Le could only vaguely see a black shadow flashing across the person's body.

However, he clearly understood the specifics of the scene before him.

Most likely, intense heart energy emanated from this person who escaped the safe zone, attracting the aberrations.

The person had just been killed by Five Heads, or an aberrant ghost similar to Five Heads.

This person's death did not provide sufficient warning to the others.

There were still large numbers of students fleeing towards the area outside the safe zone.

They ran frantically, calling for help, then fell.

They collapsed one by one, group by group.

After enough people had died, those behind began to hesitate.

But by now it was too late to stop.

Inside the classroom, Zhang Zhe had already swiftly slain two black flesh aberrations with his greatsword.

When he rushed out of the classroom and saw the scene before him, his expression turned extremely grim...

"Damn it! Damn it all, why did it have to be like this?"

Zhang Zhe's expression was somewhat ferocious.

Seeing Zhang Zhe's state, Xu Le instinctively reminded him:

"Stay calm, Teacher."

If something happened to Zhang Zhe, everyone here would likely be finished along with him.

Many of the students who had fled began to retreat, their eyes filling with terror. 

Some people's expressions even started to look strange.

However, these people were hidden under the crimson moonlight, and their faces couldn't be seen clearly without looking closely.

Xu Le gazed at the crowd. As these people turned back and frantically rushed to return, an ominous premonition arose in his heart.

[Someone within the safe area has been contaminated by Ancient Sound and will mutate into a Level 1 aberration in 9 minutes and 56 seconds.]

This prompt had also appeared many times.

Xu Le knew that among the group before him, a portion had already been contaminated, and the number was quite high.

"Teacher Zhang Zhe, I think you should stop them from coming in.

After going out once, you have no way to determine who is clean and who isn't.

There are still many students in the classroom. As a retired Nightwatcher, you should understand my meaning."

Zhang Zhe understood the issue Xu Le raised. Although he couldn't see the current state of the aberrations, he could read people's hearts.

Some of these people must have been contaminated after rushing out.

This was inevitable.

If he allowed them to just rush back in like this, Zhang Zhe knew without thinking what would happen when the contaminated people returned to the crowd.

They would slaughter. Students would die. There were probably still about 300 students left in this lecture hall.

If that wave of people outside were allowed in, and a quarter of them mutated...

Then likely less than half of these 300 students would survive.

And the heart energy effect produced in this process would become completely uncontrollable.

"Xu Le, what do you think I should do?"

"You already have the answer in your heart, so why ask me?"

Did Xu Le know what Zhang Zhe was thinking? Of course not, but this was not a responsibility he could take on.

His own judgment could no longer sway Zhang Zhe, so it still depended on Zhang Zhe's own decision.

Just as Xu Le finished speaking, a realization dawned on him.

"Once again! This feeling, is this what correct prediction feels like?"

"Sigh!"

Zhang Zhe was clearly hesitating. He looked at the students fleeing towards the classroom and wavered.

The experience of a retired Nightwatcher told him that at this moment, he should kill all these students.

Better to kill by mistake than let any slip through - that was the Nightwatcher's principle.

But years of experience as a teacher made him hesitate at this moment.

He was a teacher now, not a Nightwatcher.

He understood the logic, just like knowing that even spending money on treatment wouldn't extend a critically ill elderly person's life by much.

Yet many people would still exhaust their family's resources to save them.

Understanding and doing were two completely different concepts.

"Xu Le, perhaps we can have them temporarily gather in a corner of the classroom."

Hearing this, Xu Le immediately shook his head.

This was probably the worst decision, almost no different from allowing these people to rush in.

He knew he had no way to persuade Zhang Zhe further. At this point Zhang Zhe wouldn't listen to him, and there wasn't enough time.

Xu Le turned his head to look beside him at Wang Man, who had secretly snuck out to follow by his side.

Seeing Xu Le staring at her, Wang Man felt somewhat guilty.

"Brother Xu Le, what is it?"

"I have something to ask you."

"Huh? What is it?"

"You have a gun, right?"

Xu Le's eyes revealed expectation. Wang Man silently lowered her head, not letting Xu Le see her expression clearly.

Xu Le frowned slightly. There was almost no time left.

Since Wang Man was unwilling to give it, he wouldn't say much more.

After all, everyone had their own safety needs. He could understand.

But unexpectedly, after a while, Wang Man pulled out a small ladies' revolver from somewhere and pressed it into Xu Le's palm.

This revolver held 4 rounds and still carried Wang Man's body heat.

Xu Le stared at the gun in a daze, because there was a hair on it!

"What are you looking at? Those are bullets, don't look."

Wang Man's face was flushed red, clearly trying to conceal something.

But Xu Le looked at that curled hair stuck in the gun grip - was there any need to hide it?

I bet it's an armpit hair, isn't it?

"Thanks."

He could only use gratitude to dissolve the awkwardness between them.

But he could understand Wang Man's actions. After all, weapons were prohibited in Beacon University.

In the past when weapons weren't banned, shooting incidents often occurred at Beacon University.

This was an extremely serious educational incident. Because of this, the Beacon authorities dispatched many experts to be stationed at Beacon University.

After all, the students were the future of Beacon. Protecting the seeds of education was the most important thing above all else.

The fact that Wang Man could hide a gun was already quite remarkable.

A 4-round revolver with two extra magazines.

That meant he had 12 bullets.

"12 bullets, this number..."

Xu Le's mood became somewhat heavy. The situation was far worse than he had imagined.

After he gripped the ladies' gun in his hand, those students who had fled back had already started crossing over the protective barriers.

They were humans, smarter than zombie-like aberrations.

So when crossing the barriers, if blocked by them, they would naturally move the barriers aside.

This was the first layer of the terrible situation! And the beginning of disaster.

The barriers were meant to defend against aberrations. Once moved aside by people, a pathway would be left.

Zhang Zhe naturally noticed this point as well. He intentionally or unintentionally glanced towards Xu Le, but Xu Le just remained silent, showing no intention of speaking to him.

Seeing the first person rush towards the classroom, Zhang Zhe struck fiercely.

This student's head was instantly separated from the body, blood spraying. This scene made many people behind hesitate.

But their hesitation would not delay the aberrations' attacks.

The next second, the slaughter began anew.

Zhang Zhe looked at the students silently falling to the ground, and hesitated once again.

"Teacher, save me!"

A student collapsed in front of Zhang Zhe, then had their soul harvested by an aberration before Zhang Zhe's eyes.

Five Heads, tainted with aberrant bone ash, flickered in and out of sight before Zhang Zhe.

It killed Zhang Zhe's student, and also killed Zhang Zhe's last shred of rationality.

Seeing this scene, Xu Le could only frown slightly, once again associating it with so-called prediction:

"This Teacher Zhang probably can't make the correct judgment anymore."

Perhaps Zhang Zhe didn't have sufficiently excellent judgment, perhaps he wasn't a sufficiently rational teacher.

But as a retired Nightwatcher, Zhang Zhe's rage towards aberrations was unquestionable.

"Nightwatcher Squad 11, Dual Blades, Zhang Zhe!"

Zhang Zhe pulled out a bottle of liquid from his bosom, gulped down a few mouthfuls, then spat it onto his war sword.

He twisted the mechanism on the sword hilt, and this greatsword actually split in two, transforming into two large blades.

Zhang Zhe gripped the dual blades tightly and charged directly into the aberrations and crowd.

Flames clung to the blade light like a proclamation of death. Wherever they passed, Five Heads screamed miserably as they crumbled to dust.

Xu Le wasn't clear on what the flames attached to Zhang Zhe's battle blades were, but the combat prowess Zhang Zhe displayed had clearly surpassed his imagination.

"Damn, he's only Level 2, how can he be this fierce?"

The Golden Toad hadn't displayed many abilities earlier.

In comparison, Zhang Zhe now seemed almost as absurd as a demon god in Xu Le's eyes.

Those Level 1 Five Heads fell to Zhang Zhe in just two or three strikes.

"Extraordinary."

"Ha!"

With an angry shout, Zhang Zhe's upper clothing instantly burst apart.

His body covered in centipede-like scars shocked many students. What kind of battles and slaughter must Zhang Zhe have experienced during his time as a Nightwatcher to leave such scars?

Some people were surprised, while others hesitated.

A portion of students had already retreated back from outside. Without Zhang Zhe's restraint, they quickly rushed into the crowd.

Some classmates in the crowd also realized this could cause problems.

But like Xu Le, they were ordinary students without enough power to restrain others. They also had no way to refute these people fleeing back.

After all, in the Dark Age, helping others was a normal thing to do.

They wouldn't be so rational, at least not as rational as Xu Le.

Xu Le silently watched the crowd behind him.

"Something bad is going to happen."

Wang Man beside him looked at him with some confusion:

"What's wrong? Didn't everyone escape back? Is there a problem?"

"Think carefully about what will happen when these people flee back."

"What will happen?"

Wang Man still didn't understand. Xu Le frowned slightly - how could this woman be so stupid?

"Contamination."

Wang Man was startled and immediately turned to look behind her. That's right!

What if those people who went out were contaminated? Now they had all rushed into the classroom and were crowded together. If they mutated...

"Brother Xu Le, what should we do now?"

"Come here."

A student who had returned rushed towards Xu Le. Xu Le barely suppressed the urge to pull out his gun and shoot, pulling Wang Man behind him.

The person who had just run over had already been contaminated.

Seeing Xu Le's somewhat protective action, Wang Man smiled. Brother Xu Le was indeed still sentimental about old relationships.

"Hey!"

Xu Le ignored her. He watched Zhang Zhe's battle in front while also keeping an eye on those people who had rushed in behind.

It's not that Xu Le hadn't thought about explaining everything, but this idea was quickly abandoned.

At this point, not only would no one believe him, someone who had been entangled with aberrations.

It would even cause chaos in the classroom, immediately triggering a riot.

As for running out alone... that was an even more foolish idea.

Weren't those people fleeing back for their lives the ones who had run out?

Caught between two fires, it was probably something like this.

In this situation, what would be considered the correct prediction?

Children are sick, will update and adjust a bit

(End of chapter)

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