"This is a crappy school! Give me back my son!"
"Wow wow wow... my son..."
"It doesn't matter? How can it have nothing to do with you! If it weren't for your school, how could my son learn bad habits and go out to surf the Internet every day..."
On Monday, as soon as Xia Xu arrived at the school gate, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
The entire school gate was surrounded by a group of people, and some people even held up white banners. A middle-aged man and woman were crying and shouting, and the woman was even more agitated. When she saw the school people coming out, she went up to them and started fighting.
The rest, who were probably their relatives and friends, also came forward aggressively. A group of more than ten people blocked the school gate tightly. The students who came to school one after another gathered around the school gate because they could not get in.
It is obvious that most students are somewhat happy to see this happen. Firstly, they can feel justified in being late for morning self-study, and secondly, it is human nature to like to watch the fun.
Not only them, but more and more passers-by around also stopped and gathered, all with the intention of watching the fun.
But this excitement seems a bit immoral.
Someone is dead!
Xia Xu inexplicably felt a little uneasy, especially when he saw that the people from the school who came out to persuade them included not only the principal and other leaders but also his class teacher Liu Xiulan, his heart skipped a beat.
"Ma Bing, what's going on?"
After looking around at the growing crowd of onlookers, Xia Xu squeezed into the crowd and found his deskmate Ma Bing who was standing at the front row of the onlookers.
It seems that he should have arrived quite early and should know something about the cause and effect.
"Tang Hao is dead, and those people are Tang Hao's parents and relatives."
There was no trace of blood on Ma Bing's face, and his expression was filled with fear and terror.
Tang Hao is the typical poor student type. Some people are afraid of and reject them, but in fact there are also many boys who like to play with them for various reasons.
Ma Bing and Tang Hao have a good relationship. They often go out together to surf the Internet or play ball, and hide in secluded corners or toilets during class breaks to smoke or something.
"How did he die?"
The bad expectation in his mind became a reality, and Xia Xu's face turned a little ugly.
Tang Hao was a supporting character in "Hunter", but now he is dead. It is really hard for him not to associate the cause and effect relationship between the two.
Since he is a supporting character, he always has to participate in the plot. He can't die before the plot starts. Now that Tang Hao is dead, it can only be that the plot has already started or is about to start, and he has begun to play his own role in the plot.
And it is obvious that his role is to die, perhaps to serve as a plot advancement or an introduction to the beginning, or even simply a background board that flashes by in the resume of a certain murderer.
"He was killed by some ferocious beast on his way back from an all-night internet cafe. I heard he died a horrible death."
The more Ma Bing spoke, the uglier his expression became.
After all, he and Tang Hao were surfing the Internet in an Internet cafe on Friday, and Tang Hao was bitten to death after staying up all night in that Internet cafe for two nights. Yesterday, the police came to his house to find out what happened.
After learning that Tang Hao had died, he was still so frightened that he has not recovered until now. If he had stayed with Tang Hao all night or gone online that day, perhaps his family would be among those crying now.
"Beast? So it's this hunter..."
Upon hearing this, Xia Xu remained silent.
He had initially thought it was about 'Hunter', a police chase and undercover agents, but now it seemed obvious that he had guessed wrong, as the plot name literally meant Hunter, and it was probably about hunting wild animals.
However, this kind of film might be somewhat interesting if set in a rural village or a foreign country, but what kind of exciting plot can be constructed if it is set in a densely populated city
Chasing down wild animals that have escaped from the zoo and hurt people
No matter how powerful the beast is, it can only kill a few people at most. When the police find it, it will just be a matter of one or two shots. It seems that no matter how it is arranged, it can't be exciting. At most, it can be a delicate drama or a horror survival film, and the latter is basically set up to be a bad movie.
"Unless... this beast is unusual!"
After analyzing and thinking about it in his mind, Xia Xu felt increasingly uneasy.
In the city, the theme is hunters and real beasts and prey, and there are basically only two situations he can think of.
Either it's about supernatural creatures like monsters, demons, and ghosts, or it's a popcorn sci-fi movie, with classic genetic experiments where animals mutate and the male protagonist comes out to save the world.
No matter which one it is, if he guessed it right, then this world would be very different from the normal parallel world he had known before, and his ordinary high school life of "rebirth in the city" would obviously be impossible.
"The second possibility should be more likely. If this world is really a supernatural world where demons and monsters are born, then the birth of these things must be a common phenomenon..."
Xia Xu felt that the possibility of it being a demon was not high.
After all, whether from the original body's memory, the situation of the people around him, or even the information he has accessed through the Internet, this is just an ordinary world that is not much different from Earth.
From the ordinary technological world to the extraordinary world where monsters and demons exist, this is a very huge span of world background. Monsters and demons can be born on their own, the impact they cause is uncontrollable, and there cannot be only one of them.
If this really were the world, it would be impossible to conceal it so perfectly that no one would be aware of it.
Relatively speaking, mutant creatures are much easier to accept.
Although genetically modifying a powerful creature is considered black technology both on Planet Aquamarine and on Earth, it has finally taken the first step, and the birth of mutant creatures can also be explained by existing theories such as biological genetics.
Moreover, this type of popcorn "science fiction film" that focuses on visual effects is also the most common. The worse ones just find an excuse of radiation and chemical leakage to create a giant crocodile, a giant snake, or a man-eating shark. The more reasonable ones just set up a genetic experiment and cloned dinosaurs.
At worst, it can be like in superhero movies, with black technology created by XXX special organization and horrible monsters bred by XXX mad scientists. There are simply too many plausible possibilities, and no one can tell the exact probability.
"It shouldn't be a creature with horrible destructive power. If it is a monster of huge size or capable of causing heavy casualties, there must be a lot of supporting characters involved. There should be a lot of passers-by around me with hunter supporting character fates..."
Xia Xu comforted himself in this way.
It's a pity that the effect is not great. The dryness in my mouth cannot be suppressed at all, and the worry and sense of crisis in my heart are also sweeping my mind.
He did not forget that he was also a supporting character of Hunter. As classmates and also supporting characters of Hunter, his situation was highly similar to Tang Hao's.
Tang Hao has already received his lunch box at the beginning of the plot, so how long will he be far behind
The fact that the monster does not have large-scale destructive power only means that other people are relatively safe, but it means nothing to him, a supporting character who is supposed to be involved.
Theoretically, mutant monsters and the like might not be considered "supernatural creatures", but what was the difference between the two for him? If they could serve as "prey", they must be strong and extremely dangerous and could easily take his life.
He had never had any fights in his two lifetimes, and had never even encountered anything life-threatening. But now he was told that he might encounter an extraordinary and unknown monster. It would be strange if he didn't panic.