In her extreme excitement, she completely forgot about modesty and the difference between men and women, and stood on tiptoe, looking at Gu Chuan's cheek, who was closest to her—

"Come on!"

A crisp sound.

A soft, warm kiss landed on Gu Chuan's face.

"This is a reward!" Fujiwara Chika smiled like a child who had received candy, innocent and pure.

Gu Chuan was taken aback by the sudden reward, and then silently wiped his face.

This scene was precisely and completely captured by Yukino Yukinoshita's eyes.

Yukinoshita Yukino was silent.

What exactly is the relationship between these two?

25 Daily Collapses

The air seemed to freeze.

Yukino Yukinoshita fell into deep thought.

Looking at Secretary Fujiwara like this, she suddenly had a horrifying thought.

Could Fujiwara have been drugged by Gu Chuan?!

Upon realizing this, her face turned deathly pale.

After all, Fujiwara's reaction was too illogical. The two of them hadn't interacted at all not long ago, but that day Fujiwara seemed to have just... [something]. It's obvious that such a reaction couldn't have been achieved through normal means.

Aside from superpowers, is that all there is?

Yukino shivered under the snow.

Gu Chuan, on the other hand, was pondering a philosophical question: should he push Fujiwara away now, thus confirming his crime of being a scumbag who "used and then abandoned"? Or should he let her hold him, thus confirming his crime of being a pervert who "enjoyed the fruits of mind control"?

This is an unsolvable, potentially fatal problem.

Just as this silent standoff reached its climax, a moment when even the air itself seemed awkward—

"Sizzle—sizzle—"

A sudden, extremely unsettling high-frequency static sound, not from the broadcast system but seemingly resounding directly in the space, exploded in the ears of the three.

The sound seemed to penetrate directly into one's brain, disrupting thoughts, carrying an ominous, non-physical penetrating force.

Gu Chuan's pupils suddenly contracted.

Immediately afterwards, the world before my eyes, like an oil painting thrown into water, became violently distorted and blurred.

In this distorted light and shadow, Yukino and Fujiwara's figures flickered and stretched wildly like a poorly receiving television screen, and finally vanished into thin air with a piercing static noise.

"!"

Gu Chuan subconsciously reached out, but only grasped a piece of cold air.

The distorted scene lasted for less than a second before returning to normal.

The corridor was still the same corridor, and the afterglow of the setting sun still slanted in through the windows.

But here, he was all alone.

Yukino Yukinoshita and Chika Fujiwara have disappeared.

For the first time, Gu Chuan's expression turned completely somber.

His eyes, which always carried a hint of composure and detachment, now became as sharp as an eagle's.

Gu Chuan immediately closed his eyes, and activated the power of the [All Things Editor] to the extreme, attempting to trace the spatial fluctuations from earlier.

However, the feedback received was a chaotic data gap.

[Warning: Spatial jump detected, target lost...]

[Warning: Current coordinates show overlapping concepts; recalibrating in progress...]

Just then, a series of slow and stiff footsteps came from the stairwell at the front of the corridor.

Gu Chuan suddenly opened his eyes and looked over.

A boy who had just been playing on the playground downstairs turned around unsteadily and blocked his way.

His eyes turned into that kind of desperate, lifeless gray-white that Gu Chuan knew all too well.

The peaceful daily life was utterly shattered in this moment, in a more bizarre and terrifying way!

Gu Chuan looked at the "infected body" in front of him, then looked out the window.

On the playground and below the teaching building, the once vibrant students, like puppets whose switches had been flipped, all stopped in their tracks, their movements becoming sluggish and stiff. They slowly raised their heads, their gray eyes gazing in the direction of the teaching building.

Seeing this, Gu Chuan smiled and calmly opened his editor interface.

[Warning: Spatial jump detected, repositioning coordinates...]

Location successful!

[Current Coordinates: Shattered Mirror World - Echoes of the Academy]

[Current global concept: T-Ω virus infection zone (low concentration)]

is it.

Gu Chuan felt no fear, but rather a sense of exhilaration, a researcher's excitement.

“Interesting,” he murmured to himself.

It was the [T-Ω virus] that he observed in the chat group—a virus that evolved from the Saeko world and possessed anti-editing properties!

"So that's how it is. The so-called distortion of narrative has such a powerful impact? It can actually drag people directly into a dungeon, and the surrounding environment doesn't seem to be near Suzy Academy..."

Gu Chuan's lips curled into a cold smile. "Yukino and Fujiwara's disappearance should not be because they were erased, but because this 'dungeon' identified them as the first batch of 'NPCs' or 'infected beings' and teleported them to some corner of this area."

He pondered for a moment, first needing to confirm whether he could still use his biggest trump card.

Thinking of this, Gu Chuan immediately tried to immerse his consciousness into the [Cross-Dimensional Film Viewing Event].

Fortunately, the connection was successful.

The group chat was filled with jubilation.

[System notification: World coordinates have stabilized; system upgrade complete.]

[Announcement: The new "World Missions" module is now online. Members can earn a large number of Inspiration Points and special rewards by completing designated tasks.]

[Announcement: A new dimensional link has been detected. A new member will be joining soon. Please be prepared.]

A series of system announcements brought the atmosphere in the group to an unprecedented level of enthusiasm.

[Gem Magician: Great! World Quest! Now I finally have a way to quickly earn points! Those expensive theories of the Observer, here I come!]

[Butterfly Dance: Is a new member coming? I wonder which world she'll be from? I hope she's a gentle girl.]

[Ice Queen: It would be best if someone who can fight well joined. There are already enough ordinary players in this group.]

[Sword Dao Asura: Welcome, newcomer.]

The girls chattered excitedly, full of anticipation for the future. They were completely unaware that the central figure, who always seemed to spark conversation, had been silent for quite some time.

Looking at the jubilant scene in the chat group, and then at the "infected" figure closing in on him, and the two girls whose whereabouts were unknown, Gu Chuan felt an overwhelming sense of absurdity.

He quickly opened his personal interface and glanced at the "Human" entries on the "infected" bodies that were rapidly turning from gray to red.

Then, in the group chat, he posted the only sentence that could express his feelings at that moment.

[Observer: Don't get too excited yet.]

[Observer: It seems like I'm also facing an apocalyptic crisis here.]

This sentence was like a bucket of ice water taken from the Siberian ice field at minus seventy degrees Celsius, instantly extinguishing all the enthusiasm in the group.

The chat window was completely silent.

After a few seconds.

[Gem Magician: ?]

[Butterfly Dance: ?]

[Ice Queen: ?]

[Sword Dao Asura: ?]

26 Deep Fryer Chat Group

Gu Chuan's casual remark, as if he were saying "I had curry for dinner," was like a hot meteorite thrown into a Siberian icy lake, instantly freezing the lively discussion in the [Cross-Dimensional Film Screening] into a deathly silence.

Immediately following was a volcanic eruption of messages filled with utter bewilderment.

[Gem Magician: ?]

[Butterfly Dance: ?]

[Ice Queen: ?]

[Sword Dao Asura: ?]

A series of perfectly synchronized question marks precisely expressed the shared, indescribable feelings of all the members at that moment.

[Gem Magician: Hey! Observer! What do you mean by "apocalyptic crisis"?! Aren't you in your peaceful, everyday world?!]

Rin Tohsaka's voice was filled with urgency and disbelief.

She couldn't imagine that a world capable of producing a monster like Gu Chuan could also face its end.

[Butterfly Dance: Mr. Gu Chuan, are you alright? Are you safe now?]

Shinobu's concern is always so direct and warm.

[Ice Queen: Hmph, so you've finally run into trouble? Tell me, what kind of enemy could plunge your world into crisis?]

Esdeath's tone even carried a hint of... schadenfreude excitement?

Faced with a barrage of questions from group members, Gu Chuan did not reply immediately.

His attention was focused intently on the several "infected" bodies closing in on him.

He could clearly "observe" that the "human" entries on them were being rapidly eroded and covered by the concept of the "T-Ω virus".

Their movement patterns, strength, speed... are exactly the same as the zombies in Saeko's world, but the sense of oppression and corrosiveness is much stronger.

"A counterattack by distorted narratives?"

Gu Chuan's eyes were cold and sharp, his brain working at an unprecedented speed, "Or rather, the spread of 'pollution'? It used me as a coordinate, directly turning my world into a 'copy', and teleported Yukino and Fujiwara away as the first batch of 'NPCs'..."

He felt no fear whatsoever; instead, he felt a surge of excitement, the kind that comes with the anticipation of a researcher dissecting the unknown.

"However, just to be on the safe side, let's test it first."

He needed to confirm a few things: First, whether his newly ascended [Transcendent] power would still be effective in this polluted reality;

Second, and most importantly, will killing these "infected beings" still grant Inspiration Points?

This is the key to whether he can break the deadlock.

He fixed his gaze on the boy who was staggering towards him at the front, a former member of the tennis club.

Gu Chuan didn't use any fancy abilities; he simply calmly raised his hand, gently clenched it in the air.

"Concept Editing & Space Compression"

An invisible force instantly acted on the space around the infected body.

"boom!"

A dull thud.

The infected body, along with the air within a meter around it, seemed to be gripped tightly by an invisible giant hand, instantly collapsing and compressing inward, and finally exploding into a tiny cloud of dust mixed with flesh and bone fragments.

Simple, direct, and efficient.

The moment he made his move, a series of brand-new system announcements that covered the entire movie screening interface appeared like a waterfall!

[System notification: The 'Observer' has killed 1 'T-Ω Infected' and gained 1 Inspiration Point.]

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