My organs are too abstract.

Meanwhile, Xu Yuan, who was still running, was completely unaware that someone was secretly cricketing at him.

Just now, while he was running and contemplating life, he happened to catch a glimpse of a campus patrol car approaching from behind, and a sudden inspiration struck him.

"Hmm, is the job of a security guard really suitable for me?" Xu Yuan stroked his chin, pondering to himself.

Jobs like those in residential communities and shopping malls, which require frequent interaction with people, might not be suitable, but wouldn't security guard positions in warehouses and factories be perfect for me?

It's peaceful and carefree, undisturbed by anyone. He rarely encounters anyone on a normal day. Even if he's unlucky enough to run into a thief, it doesn't matter. The thief will only be more unlucky if he runs into him. As for running into a ghost, that's even less of a concern, since Xu Yuan is also somewhat skilled in martial arts.

Of course, the salary of a security guard may not be top-notch, but there's an old saying that goes something like this: "Graduating and becoming a security guard will save you decades of detours in life."

Xu Yuan thought about it more and more and felt that this matter was reliable. His gaze unconsciously followed the patrol car. Just then, a line of pale white characters appeared in front of him without warning:

[Your left hand senses your strong ambition and is very gratifying. A true hero is one who strives for progress and protects the peace of their community!]

"What the heck?" Xu Yuan was taken aback. "Is there any necessary connection between being a security guard and being a hero?"

Your left hand is deeply concerned about your awareness—there is no distinction between high and low, and even ordinary people can be heroes. It urgently hopes you will apply for a job.

"Forget it then. Being a security guard is just a future dream, not something for now." Xu Yuan glanced at it listlessly. "Besides, I'm still in school. What job am I looking for? I'll think about it after I graduate."

[Your left hand has noticed your laziness and is therefore offering the following incentive: If you successfully get the job, you will be free to decide your own daily training time from now on.]

"What?!" Xu Yuan's eyes widened instantly, his face filled with disbelief. "Why didn't you tell me sooner that there was such a good thing?"

God knows how torturous it is for him to be urged by this mentally challenged left hand every day to train at various times in the underworld. Now that he has such an opportunity to get rid of the forced check-in, isn't this a godsend?

"You're right. Protecting the peace of this region is the act of a true hero!" Xu Yuan instantly perked up, straightened his back, and declared with a righteous and awe-inspiring expression, "I, Xu, will accept this mission!"

His eyes then lit up, and he asked tentatively, "So, now that you're not pressuring me to train anymore, does that mean you'll behave yourself and won't suddenly act crazy anymore?"

[Your left hand indicates that you completely don't understand what you're saying.]

"...Alright then."

Xu Yuan sighed helplessly, having no way to deal with this mentally challenged left hand.

He secretly comforted himself, "No matter what, escaping this hellish lifestyle is already a huge win. Let me think about where I should apply for a security guard job..."

As he was pondering this, his left hand suddenly rose uncontrollably and pointed directly at the patrol car in front of him.

"What do you mean?" Xu Yuan was slightly taken aback. "You don't mean you want me to apply for a job as a school security guard, do you?"

He gently twitched his left fingertips twice, as if nodding in agreement.

Xu Yuan's eyes widened as he looked at his left hand with disbelief: "Me, a college student, applying for a security guard job at our school? Is that even appropriate?"

[Your left hand shakes its head and sighs: A true hero is not bound by conventions; why should a real hero care about the idle gossip of others?]

"Sigh, let me think about it first."

Xu Yuan was initially unable to accept it, but seeing the two security guards in the patrol car chatting and laughing so leisurely, he couldn't help but feel envious. Then, remembering his mentally challenged left hand and the fear of being controlled by it, a wave of sorrow washed over him.

He raised his left hand, looking utterly devastated, and asked himself, "Xu Yuan, do you want to lose face for a moment and apply for a school security guard job, or are you going to be controlled by this idiot for the rest of your life?"

Thinking of this, his gaze towards the two security guards changed. He stared at them intently, and when one of the guards turned around and shook his head at him, he subconsciously interacted with him remotely.

"Why are they staring at me like that? Do they really like me and want to recruit me into their group?" Xu Yuan thought to himself. "If that's the case, wouldn't that be a win-win situation?"

His expression shifted several times before he finally gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "Very well, it seems I have no choice but to take this security guard job!"

With that thought settled, Xu Yuan felt a sense of relief and quickened his pace, intending to strike up a conversation with his future colleague and become acquainted with him. However, the patrol car suddenly accelerated, leaving him far behind in the blink of an eye.

"Strange, why are they suddenly driving so fast? It's like they're being chased by dogs." Xu Yuan was a little puzzled, but didn't pay much attention to it.

The campus of Yanda University is not very large, and the roads are not complicated, so finding this patrol car is not difficult.

Sure enough, after running for a short while, he saw the patrol car parked outside Building 2 in Area C. The car was already empty.

Xu Yuan was taken aback: "How did they get here?"

He had a strong impression of the building; rumors of it being haunted had been circulating on campus for a long time.

"Did you go in?"

Xu Yuan walked towards the entrance of the teaching building, only to see a sign at the intersection: Teaching building under maintenance, entry temporarily prohibited.

"Never mind, let's wait and see."

Xu Yuan has always been a law-abiding and good kid. Seeing this, he ran back and forth in front of the teaching building, wanting to wait for his two colleagues to come out before saying anything.

He ran for over an hour, but still couldn't see anyone. He gradually became restless, and a faint thought came from his left hand, urging him to go in quickly.

"Sigh, I really can't do anything with you." Xu Yuan looked at his left hand and sighed, "I'm such a well-behaved kid, and you're corrupting me."

Xu Yuan shook his head helplessly, stepped over the warning sign and entered the teaching building, but after only a few steps, he suddenly froze.

"That's strange, I remember this building... wasn't like this before?"

……

"That's definitely not how it is," Pei Yan said nervously. "I used to come to this building for classes all the time, and the inside is definitely not like this."

Pei Yan looked around with a serious expression. She had taken many classes here and was quite familiar with the building, but as she looked around, she always felt that something was wrong and a strange sense of unease arose in her heart.

"It's hard not to notice," Zhou Wenyu shook his head and sighed softly, his gaze scrutinizing the surrounding scenery—

The fluorescent lights in the corridor were covered with a thick layer of grime, casting a cold, bluish-white light that flickered on and off; large areas of plaster had peeled off the walls on both sides, covered with curled, blackened mold; cracks crisscrossed the ceiling, and every now and then, pieces of debris would fall to the ground with a rustling sound.

The dilapidated and desolate scene before me was nothing like a normal modern school building; even a fool could see that something was wrong.

"It's a disaster zone, this is troublesome." Li Chuan frowned, his expression grave.

"What is a disaster zone?" Pei Yan's heart tightened, and she quickly asked.

"A different dimension detached from reality can overlap with the real world under special conditions," Zhou Wenyu explained in a deep voice. "Simply put, we are no longer in that school building in reality. The most troublesome thing is that what can distort reality and create a disaster is at least a serious calamity."

Pei Yan's heart sank, and she instantly recalled the calamity level information from the training course. Her face paled slightly: "Critical Illness Level?"

The document only listed four levels: abnormal, minor ailment, serious illness, and severe illness. The instructor did not mention any levels above that.

"Anomalies only slightly affect reality and can only cause disturbances on a small scale. It's very difficult for them to hurt people, and they can't possibly cause the kind of distortion and mutation that can affect the entire building," Zhou Wenyu said as he walked. "Moreover, anomalies are unpredictable and act entirely on instinct. They don't even have a well-developed killing mechanism."

Li Chuan looked around and replied without turning his head: "The Minor Injury level can now officially enter reality and kill people according to a fixed mechanism, but the scope of its impact is not large. It usually only harms a group of people. As long as you understand the trigger taboos, you can safely avoid danger."

"But the level of chronic illness is completely different." He emphasized, "At this level, one already possesses the ability to slightly rewrite reality, which means one can create calamities, making it extremely dangerous."

"And its most troublesome aspect is that it's very difficult to escape by circumventing its mechanisms," Zhou Wenyu added, then looked at Pei Yan, "You should remember the summary of the calamity levels during training, right?"

Pei Yan recalled the annotations on the title page of the training manual and nodded: "Abnormalities have no rules, minor ailments follow the rules, chronic illnesses disregard the rules, and severe illnesses break the rules."

“That’s right,” Zhou Wenyu nodded solemnly. “The fact that it is a chronic disease with widespread effects means that its killing mechanism is not like a minor calamity with specific conditions, but rather it is extremely universal and difficult to prevent in advance.”

Pei Yan's heart tightened, and she couldn't help but ask, "Wasn't it said that this mission was only of the abnormal level?"

Li Chuan frowned and shook his head: "The intelligence we received beforehand was indeed like this, but we don't know where things went wrong."

"Then... can we handle it?" Pei Yan asked, her voice tinged with nervousness.

"Don't panic. The level of calamity focuses on the ability to interfere with reality and the scope of its impact. It doesn't mean that it is absolutely impossible to resist. The most important thing is to relax."

"That's right," Zhou Wenyu laughed. "Don't worry, Brother Li and I are not pushovers."

Even so, his heart sank.

Although the level of a calamity is classified according to its impact on reality, it is not entirely equivalent to the degree of danger. For example, some minor calamities can still be very dangerous. However, generally speaking, the higher the level, the more troublesome it is to deal with.

Li Chuan glanced back at the exit that had disappeared, took a deep breath, and said, "Let's go in. We can't just stand here and wait to get out."

He looked at Pei Yan and softened his tone: "Xiao Yan, this is the first time you've encountered something like this. Remember to stay calm and don't act rashly."

Although Pei Yan was a little nervous, she remained calm: "I will be careful."

Li Chuan took the lead and walked at the front, while Zhou Wenyu tacitly stayed at the back of the line, protecting Pei Yan in the middle.

Li Chuan looked around, seemingly remembering something, and asked Pei Yan, "Xiao Yan, neither Wen Yu nor I have been here before. Since you've attended classes here, did you discover anything?"

"Although it's quite dilapidated, the overall layout is exactly the same as the real C2 teaching building, even the door numbering is identical." Pei Yan observed carefully for a moment, then asked with a puzzled tone, "Did they just drag the entire real teaching building in?"

Zhou Wenyu's tone grew increasingly grave: "We had someone conduct a routine check here last night, and everything was normal then. To be able to enter and interfere with reality in such a short time, turning the entire building into this dilapidated state overnight, is already a severe impact on reality. The level of this calamity is likely higher than we anticipated."

He paused, his brow furrowing slightly: "But logically speaking, an anomaly of this level should have been detected by the Bureau's internal warning system long ago, and the impact shouldn't be so small, limited to just one teaching building. It's really strange."

"It does seem strange." Li Chuan nodded, then looked down at the ground, his tone becoming more serious. "There should be other people here."

Following his gaze, everyone saw several clear footprints on the dusty floor that did not belong to the three of them.

"We clearly put up warning signs prohibiting construction, so how come someone still dares to barge in?" Zhou Wenyu's expression was rather unpleasant.

"Most of them are students who don't follow the rules." Li Chuan shook his head helplessly. "Some people are just like that; the more restricted a place is, the more curious they are and they try to force their way in."

Zhou Wenyu said coldly, "They're just unlucky; they ran into a disaster. Good luck to them."

"Sizzle..."

Suddenly, the corridor lights emitted a piercing crackling sound. The three of them immediately looked over warily, and only breathed a sigh of relief after finding nothing there.

Zhou Wenyu breathed a sigh of relief: "You scared me..."

Before the words were finished, a chilling sound of building materials tearing came from above.

"Back off!"

Li Chuan's pupils contracted sharply, and he immediately reached out to protect Pei Yan and Zhou Wenyu behind him. With a loud bang, a large section of the ceiling collapsed, and amidst the billowing dust, something crashed heavily to the ground.

Pei Yan asked nervously, "What is that?"

"...It's a corpse."

Li Chuan cautiously observed for a moment, and finding nothing else amiss, he slowly stepped forward and bent down to examine the area.

The body's face was severely damaged, making the features indistinguishable. The entire abdomen had been forcibly cut open, exposing the internal organs, a gruesome sight.

Pei Yan was seeing such a bloody scene for the first time, and her face turned pale instantly. Li Chuan and Zhou Wenyu, however, were used to it and remained calm.

Zhou Wenyu crouched down and stared intently at the wound on the corpse's abdomen, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper: "This wound is strange."

The wound was an irregular star-shaped tear with everted and curled edges, covered with a fine, spiderweb-like tear. Even more bizarrely, the abdominal organs appeared to have been completely devoured from the inside by something, with jagged cut surfaces, yet no traces of external tearing or impact could be seen.

"This doesn't look like it was cut open by external force." Zhou Wenyu felt a chill run down his spine and gasped. "It looks more like..."

"It was torn open from the inside." Li Chuan's voice was low and heavy as he pointed to the inward curling of the skin and flesh at the wound. "Looking at these muscle marks, it's like something... forced its way out of his stomach."