The moon is bright and the stars are sparse.
The bell for the end of evening self-study get out of class rang, and students walked out of the classroom in twos and threes, chatting and laughing as they walked into the night. After a day of hard work, this might be the most relaxing time for them.
No homework, no teachers, and a few good friends around you. When you go home, take a shower, and then climb into bed to rest comfortably, isn’t that wonderful
Among the scattered crowd, a large group of more than a dozen people suddenly emerged and walked out of the school in an orderly and steady manner.
In the middle of them, a young man in black satin-wrapped clothes was like the filling of a dumpling, tightly wrapped.
Such a large team immediately attracted the attention of all the surrounding students.
"Actually... I can walk back by myself, really." Lin Qiye's mouth twitched slightly, and he said helplessly, "I can see, but my eyes can't really see the light..."
"You don't need to say anything, classmate Lin Qiye!" Jiang Qian interrupted Lin Qiye and said righteously, "We promised your aunt that we would take good care of you, and we will definitely do it!"
"Yes, Qiye, our homes happen to be in the same direction, so it's convenient for us."
"I'm on my way too."
Lin Qiye: …
To be honest, he now prefers to be the isolated one. After staying in the dark for so long, he is not used to the feeling of being cared for by so many people, which makes him feel uncomfortable.
Of course, my aunt and Yang Jin don’t count because they are his family.
But after all, they had good intentions, so he couldn't say anything and could only helplessly follow the crowd.
"I have to turn right at the next intersection, but I can walk with you for a while."
"I'm about to turn here. I'm leaving now. See you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow."
"… "
As they got farther and farther away from the school, the classmates surrounding Lin Qiye said goodbye and left one after another. After a few minutes, there were only five people left around Lin Qiye.
The originally noisy atmosphere gradually quieted down, and the space suddenly became full. Lin Qiye breathed a long sigh of relief.
"You think... will the fog really revive again and swallow Daxia?" Li Yifei asked curiously, his bag on his back.
“Didn’t you listen to what the experts said? The probability of the fog reviving is very small. Maybe there will be no changes in the next hundred years. As for what will happen a hundred years later... we won’t be here by then anyway, so why worry so much?” Jiang Qian rolled her eyes.
"Oh, you know that what those experts say is the most unreliable. What if we finally get into college and before we can enjoy life, the fog swallows up the whole of Daxia? Wouldn't that be a huge loss?"
"So this is why you're just wasting your time and not focusing on your studies?" Jiang Qian walked up to Li Yifei and said seriously, "I have to remind you that Teacher Wang has already said that if you come in last in this exam, you'll have to move your desk to the side of the podium."
"I know, I know." Li Yifei smiled awkwardly.
"However, I really don't think that the fog can revive again." Wang Shao, who was walking in the front, suddenly spoke up. "After all, the fog is just a natural phenomenon. After reaching a certain critical level, it will gradually dissipate, just like the Ice Age. When the glaciers cover the earth, they will slowly dissipate as the temperature rises, and a new era will follow."
"I know what you are talking about. It seems to be called the natural disaster theory, right? It is quite widely recognized now." Jiang Qian nodded.
"What if... this fog is not a natural phenomenon?" At this moment, Lin Qiye, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.
Wang Shao was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "Qiye, you don't really believe what those so-called theologians say, that this fog is related to supernatural forces, do you?"
"It's the 21st century now. We have to believe in science. There aren't so many weird things in the world." A classmate named Liu Yuan interjected.
Lin Qiye did not answer. He knew best whether there were things beyond science in this world, but there was no need to tell these things to outsiders.
Li Yifei muttered quietly, "I think if those things really existed, the world would be more interesting."
"Why talk about so much useless stuff? These things are not what we should care about. Instead of worrying about whether the fog will revive, it is more realistic to wait until the three-day holiday on Survival Day and sleep in more." Jiang Qian said with a smile.
"Yes, vacation is the most real thing!"
…
At this moment, in the old town of Cangnan City.
A man was carrying a signboard, walking leisurely on the lonely and dim street. The old street lamps cast a dim light, stretching his back...
He glanced at his phone, walked to the entrance of a narrow street and stopped.
"That's it..."
He muttered, lowered the sign on his shoulder and straightened it.
Under the flickering street lights, the shadow of the signboard appeared and disappeared, and on the black background, the large bright red characters were extremely eye-catching!
—No entry ahead!
The man leaned against the street light, lit a cigarette for himself, took a deep puff, and turned on the headset.
"Captain, the third sign is in place."
"Got it, let's get started."
"Um."
The man held a cigarette in his mouth, walked to the sign, put his thumb on the tip of his teeth, and bit it hard!
A drop of blood oozed out from the wound. The man squatted down and used his bloody thumb to draw a long horizontal line across the four big words "No Entry Ahead"!
His eyes focused, and an inexplicable aura burst out with him as the center!
He looked up at the black night sky and whispered in a voice that only he could hear...
"Forbidden Ruins, [Unrestrained Skyspace]."
The next moment, the bright red bloodstains on the signboard in front of him faded rapidly, as if they were absorbed, and then the four big words "No Entry Ahead" flashed red!
Then gradually return to normal.
The man sat down on the ground, took a long breath, and spoke with some complaints.
"Damn, I've been emptied again..."
At this moment, if someone looked down at Cangnan City from the sky, they would find three points of light flashing near the old city, and then a dark red equilateral triangle was rapidly outlined with these three points of light as the vertices!
At the moment the triangle was formed, the half of the old city that was covered gradually disappeared as if it had been wiped off a map...
However, viewed from the ground, the old town is still the same old town.
At the same time, in the center of the triangle, six black and red cloaks flashed across the sky like lightning!
The leading man looked up at the dark red sky, reached out and grasped the hilt of the knife behind him, his eyes narrowed slightly.
"The Ghost-Faced Man Purge Operation has begun."