Infinity: Our Zhongzhou team is really amazing!

Chapter 701 Classmate Reunion
"Look who's here, our great writer Zhan." A male student with a thick beard and a receding hairline stood up.

"Great writer, you've finally arrived! I thought you didn't want to see us."

Zhan Lan stood there awkwardly, unable to recall her name.

The male student was clearly aware of the problem as well.

"You really have a bad memory."

"Even though I have less hair, you still shouldn't not recognize me."

"I am Liu Cheng!"

He even playfully touched his shiny forehead.

Zhan Lan finally remembered him, and a smile appeared on her face.

You've changed so much.

"I'm not going to talk about it anymore. Who told me to study computer science in graduate school? I've lost all my hair," Liu Cheng said with a forced sigh.

“Liu Cheng, who doesn’t know that you joined that top tech company?” Qianqian said.

"What's there to be so smug about!"

“His salary must be at least ten thousand.” Another classmate stood up.

Another girl laughed and said, "You underestimate Liu Cheng."

"After acquiring the shares, our CEO Liu might be the first to achieve financial freedom."

"Don't flatter me too much, I'm just a programmer," Liu Cheng said with a wry smile.

"Come on, Zhan Lan, sit down." Zhan Lan was pushed and shoved by several female classmates to sit in the middle.

"So? Have you achieved your dream of becoming a writer?"

"These days, who reads print media?"

“I’ve heard they’re all reading online novels, but you insist on going into print media.”

The girls were chattering away, but embarrassingly, Zhan Lan couldn't remember their names at all.

"Zhan Lan, with your looks, you could easily make money online by marketing yourself as a beautiful writer, right?" A thin, bespectacled male classmate looked at Zhan Lan.

"Skinny monkey, where are you looking? You're always staring at our Lanlan." Qianqian scolded her angrily.

"Hey, hey, hey, when you talk to someone, where are you looking instead of their face!" Skinny Monkey muttered.

"Ideally, I could make a living off my looks, but I don't have any to rely on yet," said another chubby girl with freckles all over her face.

"This..." Zhan Lan was about to speak when the conversation was interrupted again.

Qianqian took her hand: "Okay, okay, let's take a picture together and then go have dinner."

"It's this late, are you guys going to chat on an empty stomach?"

"Li Qian, we've finally gathered together from all over the country, what's the rush!" Skinny Monkey was talking to Qianqian, but his eyes were fixed on Zhan Lan.

The dark and cryptic gaze made Zhan Lan feel somewhat uncomfortable.

"Yes, yes, I took a ten-hour train ride, and I even had a week's salary docked for taking leave," Liu Cheng said.

"Stop talking." Qianqian slapped her thigh. "Come on, let's take a picture together."

Zhan Lan stood up and was surrounded by her classmates as she walked to the center.

Liu Cheng quickly set up the camera, and the group exchanged hand gestures, revealing happy smiles.

"3, 2, 1, eggplant!"

Click!

The flash was so bright that Zhan Lan couldn't help but close her eyes for a moment.

When I opened my eyes again, all the students were already packing their things.

"Come on, let's go eat."

However, for some reason, that unease continued to plague Zhan Lan.

She looked around, as if suddenly noticing something, and asked, "Aren't there forty people in our class?"

"How come there are only 20 students now? Where are the rest?"

"Have they all taken leave?"

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately stopped what they were doing.

They looked at Zhan Lan with strange expressions.

Zhan Lan's heart skipped a beat, and she forced a smile.

"It's okay to take the day off, let's go eat first, hahaha..."

She walked to the classroom door.

Kaka-

The door is locked.

Ruined.

Zhan Lan felt the gazes behind her growing increasingly strange, and cold sweat broke out on her forehead.

At that moment, she suddenly realized that it had been very quiet outside ever since she entered the room, as if there were no students at all.

She slowly turned her head and looked at her classmate who seemed frozen in place.

"Aren't we leaving yet?"

"Forty? Do we have forty classmates?" Liu Cheng looked up at the skinny monkey.

The skinny monkey nodded: "It seems to be forty."

“No, that’s not right.” Liu Cheng’s face broke into an exaggerated smile.

“I counted before, there are only eighteen sets of feasts.”

"Who didn't come?"

The skinny monkey's gaze toward Zhan Lan grew increasingly blatant.

"It seems there's one person who hasn't come."

"But I can't remember either."

"It's okay, Zhan Lan is enough."

"What are you talking about?" Zhan Lan took two steps back in fear, moving closer to the wall.

“I’m talking about our lunch.” Liu Cheng’s face became increasingly contorted.

"What lunch?"

“Of course, it’s the best lunch.” Qianqian walked over and grabbed Zhan Lan’s arm.

Zhan Lan was startled, but her hand gripped her as if it were made of steel.

"Lanlan, why are you in such a hurry to leave?"

"Those eighteen large meals are not enough for the twenty of us."

Qianqian's face began to contort: ​​"We invited you from Shanghai."

"But a lot of thought was put into it."

"What? Eighteen large meals?" Zhan Lan's heart sank.

"Zhan Lan, whether it's your memory or your imagination, you're amazing." Liu Cheng took a step forward, his facial muscles began to contort, and the corners of his mouth stretched wider and wider, even reaching the back of his head.

"Don't you know what we mean by a grand feast?"

"Stop pretending."

"No!" Qianqian grabbed Zhan Lan from the doorway and slammed her against the wall. The wall thudded, and Zhan Lan felt a sharp pain in her back.

"Now it's nineteen." The wall began to crack, and the outer layer was quickly peeled off, revealing the grotesque and twisted corpses behind it.

Their bodies looked as if they had been gnawed by wild beasts, their jagged teeth were horrifying.

And those faces were all the faces of the students who weren't there!

"You...you are ghosts!" Zhan Lan's face showed despair.

She never left!
"Are we ghosts?" Liu Cheng looked at them, then at Zhan Lan.

So, you're saying you're human?

"Let me have the first bite." The skinny monkey bared his sharp teeth, drool dripping from the corner of his mouth.

"I'm so hungry for this! I've been craving this delicious meat for ages."

"Haha!" Liu Cheng laughed too.

"So, me too."

"Hahahaha!" Qianqian laughed too.

"You can't take this lump of flesh from my chest from me!"

"She always relies on those two lumps of fat to attract all the men's attention!"

"Let me try it now and see if it's delicious!!"

Twenty vengeful ghosts simultaneously let out eerie laughter.

Zhan Lan looked desperate: "No...it's impossible, why is this happening?"

"How can there be ghosts in this world?!"

Peng!
The door shattered with a loud crash.

Amidst the flying wood chips, a tall man leaped through the air, stomping against the wall, and kicked Qianqian in the face.

She slammed against the wall like a tattered sack.

"You mere brats, get out of my way!" As soon as the man landed, he threw out a handful of paper coupons, the Franklin portrait printed on them instantly bursting into flames. The intense flames caused the monsters to scream.

But the man didn't linger. He grabbed Zhan Lan and jumped out of the stairwell window.

Before Zhan Lan could react, she saw the ground getting closer and closer to her.

Bang! A violent impact sent Zhan Lan reeling as her face was shoved hard against the grass, then she rolled several times.

Dizzy and disoriented, she was lifted up again. Zhan Lan could only wipe the grass dust off her face and spit out the grass from her mouth.

"Run!!" The man grabbed her and ran outside.

"what?"

Before Zhan Lan could react, dozens of terrifying humanoid monsters crawled out of the windows and corridors of the Xingzhi Building behind her.

They let out a piercing scream at Zhan Lan.

"Zhan Lan!!!"

"We haven't eaten yet!!" "It's so rare to see each other!!"

Why did you run away?!

Zhan Lan felt a chill run down her spine and her legs went weak, almost causing her to fall.

"How come you tripped and fell on flat ground too!" the man complained.

"Zhan Lan, you can't escape, you can't escape..." A strange shout came from the loudspeaker.

"What is that?!" Zhan Lan exclaimed in shock.

"A ghost!" the man said succinctly.

He stared wide-eyed at the teaching building on one side.

"You're going to go this far!!"

As the broadcast continued on repeat, the teaching buildings on both sides simultaneously "woke up".

More and more monsters emerged from the school building and surrounded the two who were running away.

Those twisted humanoid monsters were incredibly fast.

Even though the man in front of them was nearing his limit, he would be surrounded soon.

A red Ferrari was already in sight ahead, but it was covered in red roses.

"Coming!!"

The blond man flung Zhan Lan away, then leaped high into the air, using the heads of several monsters as stepping stones to jump into the driver's seat of the convertible Ferrari.

Shift into gear and floor the accelerator.

boom!
The performance monster unleashed unprecedented horsepower and charged straight toward the school gate without looking back.

But at this moment, quite a few humanoid monsters had already blocked their way.

"Eat your grandpa Cheng Xiao's Ferrari wave speed!!"

The man chuckled and slammed on the brakes, simultaneously swerving the car sideways.

When Zhan Lan saw the monsters' faces pressed against the car window, she immediately covered her head and let out a shrill scream.

Boom!
Clearly, these monsters were no match for the steel behemoth's power and were sent flying. Amidst a shower of petals, the Ferrari crashed through the school gate's railings and onto the road.

The blond man turned around, his handsome yet annoying face smiling at Zhan Lan: "We meet again, lady!"

"Let me introduce myself. I am Cheng Xiao, the 98th generation direct disciple of Maoshan!"

Zhan Lan nearly choked: "Didn't you say you were an exchange student at MIT?"

“That’s not contradictory. That’s my public identity, but my actual identity,” Cheng Xiao said cautiously.

"He is an exorcist."

"Huh?" Zhan Lan opened her mouth.

“There are too many truths in the dark side of the world that ordinary people cannot see.” Cheng Xiao tossed his blond hair.

"And our duty is to protect the normal lives of ordinary people."

"As for the dark side, what you just saw is it."

"Really?" Zhan Lan seemed to realize something.

"Tell me quickly, what did you just see?" Cheng Xiao asked.

"I...I saw my classmates turn into monsters." Zhan Lan said uncertainly.

"Is there anything else special? For example, what you fear most?" Cheng Xiao deliberately prompted.

"Why do you ask that?" Zhan Lan immediately became alert.

Cheng Xiao casually made up a story: "Because the dark side of the world will absorb your fear."

"What you are experiencing now is what you fear most."

"Only by knowing your fears can we deal with them."

This is the world of inner demons, and only Zhan Lan herself can find her inner demons.

Cheng Xiao could only guide.

"But why me?" Zhan Lan's face immediately turned despairing.

She's just a small-time writer, though she loves to daydream.

But to actually bring a world of horror to her head is absolutely unacceptable!
"Girl, don't you think you're the chosen one?" Cheng Xiao said with a smile.

"The whole world revolves around you."

"Shut up!" Zhan Lan said, exasperated.

Stab it!

The electrical noise directly caused Cheng Xiao's ears to throb with pain.

He quickly swerved the steering wheel and nearly crashed into a telephone pole on the side of the street.

"Don't add any more drama!!" Zhang Jie's angry roar pierced Cheng Xiao's eardrums.

"You're increasing the likelihood that he'll fall into darkness."

"It's already at 0.6, do you want the world to become 0.5?"

Cheng Xiao could only explain to Zhan Lan with a bitter face, "This is just... one way of putting it."

"Because once he sets his sights on you, he will invade your normal world."

"It's like falling into another parallel universe."

"You can't go back to a normal life unless you really defeat him."

Cheng Xiao brought the topic back to itself.

"Yes, really?" Zhan Lan said, half believing and half doubting.

On a distant high-rise building, Zhang Jie sighed. He had never seen a male lead who liked to add so much drama.

Not professional at all.

He glanced at the clock, which was already fully prepared and ready to go.

"Cover Cheng Xiao."

At midnight, he pulled back the bolt and then pulled the trigger.

The bullet flew past, and the monster, which was about to leap off the tall building, had its head explode.

"Things are not looking good now; the entire city has been thrown into chaos," Zero said.

"Of course it's not good, it's already at 0.6," Zhang Jie said with a headache.

"These monsters can also be defeated by our weapons."

"If it reaches 0.5, then we'll be in real trouble."

"That bastard Cheng Xiao is really unsettling."

"Have you seen Zheng Zha?"
"No." Zero shook his head slightly.

Zhang Jie complained, "The inner demons of mental power users are really troublesome."

"No wonder Chu Xuan arranged for the few of us to help Zhan Lan together."

Even if Zhan Lan's inner demons cause problems, Zheng Zha and Zhang Jie will not be harmed.

After all, no matter how strong a fourth-order mental power user is, they cannot threaten a fourth-order mid-level or fourth-order high-level user.

But that's precisely what makes those with spiritual powers so strange.

Even someone as advanced as Zheng Zha, at the fourth level, could easily fall into this endless sea of ​​the mind.

Unless he truly unleashes his true potential and forcibly breaks the deadlock.

But this also means that he will tear apart Zhan Lan's spiritual body, which is no different from killing Zhan Lan.

Therefore, the group was hesitant and restrained when they fought.

"Hopefully Zheng Zha can find Luo Li soon. The world is sinking deeper and deeper, and nobody knows what will happen then." Zhang Jie rubbed his temples and looked up at the sky.

at this time.

Snapped!
A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, and dark shadows rippled behind the clouds, as if some enormous shadow was watching the earth.

Then, it got even darker.

Zhang Jie opened his mouth, then slapped himself across the face.

"You jinx!!"

"What's wrong?" Zero asked.

“The world has fallen into 0.5,” Zhang Jie said painfully.

"This means that those unsolvable monsters will appear."

At midnight, he frowned slightly.

In his line of sight, the monsters seemed to have spotted him, and then dozens of monsters began to merge together, forming a huge, fleshy ball-like monster.

Zero's expression remained calm. He placed his fingers on the sniper rifle and then took a deep breath.

When he opened his eyes again, a dazzling light, similar to the origin of all things, flashed across them.

The bullet flew out, *bang!*

The enormous black shadow was instantly blasted to pieces.

Zhang Jie's eyes widened: "How did you do that?"

He looked at midnight, his face filled with disbelief.

“The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception are, in a sense, a kind of spiritual light.” Zero pointed to his own eyes.

"A spiritual light leading to the vortex of roots."

"It was only the bullets that killed the monster, not any special ability."

Zhang Jie patted Zero: "You little rascal, you've taken another step forward without making a sound."

To be able to use the Light of the Mind within the Demonic Realm without causing a backlash, Zero's utilization of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception is absolutely extraordinary.

Lingdian nodded slightly, but a trace of worry still lingered in his eyes.

Just now, he actually heard a strange sound in his headset.

Those monsters seem to be invading us.

The entire city has been engulfed in a sea of ​​monsters. Twisted humanoid monsters are everywhere on the streets, emitting shrill screams as if they are searching for something.

(End of this chapter)