I fabricated myths to guide the revival of spiritual energy.

[Outside the North Campus dormitory building, Jiangnan University]

2:14.

The once bustling university campus was now deathly silent, with only the piercing sound of alarms echoing in the night sky.

"Quickly! Seal off Area A! Evacuate all students to the gymnasium!"

"Set up the chemical defense perimeter! This is not a drill! Repeat, this is not a drill!"

Dozens of special vehicles painted in matte black had surrounded the dormitory building. There were no sirens, only a suffocatingly tense atmosphere. Those who emerged from the vehicles were not ordinary police officers, but a group of armed personnel dressed in fully enclosed biohazard suits and carrying tranquilizer darts and net guns as their primary weapons.

Special Operations Team Three.

This is a rapid response force specifically designed to handle "non-natural/high-risk biological events".

Zhao Feng stood in front of the temporary command vehicle, his face darker than the night.

"Something's not right."

He looked at the dormitory building in front of him.

Five minutes ago, this was just an ordinary night view. But just now, a strange black mist surged out from the basement ventilation shaft, as if it were alive, and quickly enveloped the entire building against the wind.

The fog was so thick that when the searchlight beam shone into it, it was instantly swallowed up, like a mud ox entering the sea.

"Reporting, team leader!" The technician's voice trembled. "The drone can't fly in! As soon as it enters the fog area, the signal will be subjected to strong electromagnetic interference, and it will crash immediately."

"What about thermal imaging?"

"It's malfunctioning...no, not malfunctioning." The technician pointed to the chaotic static on the screen. "The magnetic field inside is out of control. The magnetic field strength of the entire building is now five hundred times normal! This is completely illogical! Even moving an MRI machine inside wouldn't cause this much of a disturbance!"

Zhao Feng took a deep breath and pressed the red button on the headset.

"Connect to the Beijing command center."

The screen flickered, and Professor Wang Jianguo's aged and anxious face appeared on the screen.

"Zhao Feng! We've received the data from the scene." Professor Wang spoke rapidly, "Be extremely careful! This magnetic field waveform... resonates with the pineal gland waveband in the brain of the Kunlun Mountain mummy!"

"Resonance?" Zhao Feng's pupils contracted.

"Yes! Simply put, the one in the Kunlun Mountains is the 'transmitter,' and this one in front of you might be a newly activated 'receiver'!" Professor Wang's voice carried a hint of fear. "Whatever's inside, it's 'awakening.' Control it at all costs!"

"clear."

Zhao Feng cut off the communication and pulled the bolt of his tactical rifle with a click.

"Groups one and two, follow me in."

"Three groups set up high-voltage power grids on the perimeter."

"If any non-human creatures rush out..." Zhao Feng paused, his eyes turning cold, "the use of lethal force is permitted."

……

[The basement, deep within steam and black mist]

"Cough cough... Wow!"

Chu Tian slammed heavily onto a row of rusty storage cabinets, denting the metal cabinets from his impact. He coughed up a mouthful of blood, feeling that at least two of his ribs were broken.

pain.

Excruciating pain.

But the pain actually cleared his mind, which had been dazed by the high temperature.

"What kind of monster is this... what the hell is this?!"

Chu Tian looked ahead in horror.

In the billowing black mist and steam, the four-horned monster, resembling both a sheep and a wolf, was approaching him step by step with elegant yet cruel steps.

It was not in a hurry to kill Chu Tian.

It is enjoying the hunt.

The greed in its four red eyes was like that of an addict seeing the purest form of drug. To this "earth ant" that had been modified by Gu Qing, the newly awakened and wildly surging spiritual energy within Chu Tian's body was the most delicious tonic in the world.

"roar……"

The earthworm lowered its head and let out a strange growl that sounded like a baby crying. Its hind legs bent slightly, and its sharp claws dug deep furrows into the cement ground.

It's about to launch its final assault.

"I'm going to die... I'm going to die here..."

Chu Tian leaned against the deformed iron cabinet, his body trembling uncontrollably.

He was just an ordinary college student. Half an hour ago, he was still worrying about getting financial aid for students from impoverished families. He thought he had encountered a miracle, that he could defy fate like the protagonist in a novel.

Reality, however, gave him a harsh slap in the face.

There was no old man to save the day, and no system to allocate skill points.

All that remained were cold, monstrous creatures and the despair of being torn apart.

"No... I'm not reconciled!"

At the critical moment of life and death, the instinct called "will to survive" within Chu Tian finally overwhelmed his fear.

A sentence from the book "Taoist Health Cultivation Exercises" suddenly exploded in his mind:

"The Qi flows along the Du Meridian, passes the coccyx, rushes along the spine, and penetrates straight to the occipital bone..."

"Get moving! Aren't I a monster too?!"

Chu Tian roared, no longer trying to suppress the violent heat within his body, but instead following the heat flow and frantically guiding it towards his arms.

sizzle-

His arms quickly became congested with blood and turned black, with blood vessels bulging like earthworms, and even making tearing sounds as if they were being overwhelmed.

Just then, the earthworm moved.

The black afterimage instantly covered a distance of ten meters, and its foul-smelling mouth lunged straight at Chu Tian's face!

"Go to hell!!!"

Chu Tian didn't dodge, nor could he. He used all his strength to slam his arms, brimming with violent spiritual energy, down hard into the monster's head.

This is completely illogical.

It's like the wild, uncontrolled punches of street thugs fighting.

However, this is the first physical attack in human history driven by "spiritual energy".

boom! ! !

A dull, loud bang, mixed with the sound of bones shattering.

……

[Basement Entrance]

"blasting!"

Zhao Feng gave the order.

The directional explosives instantly blew open the heavy fire door of the basement.

There was no explosion as expected, because the sound was absorbed by the eerie black mist.

"Advance! Maintain formation! Turn on the main lights!"

Six special operations team members charged into the black fog in tactical formation. The powerful tactical lights on their heads could only illuminate a distance of two meters ahead in the thick fog.

"Extremely low visibility! Unknown biopheromones detected in the air!"

"Captain! Look ahead!"

Following the direction his teammate was pointing, Zhao Feng witnessed a shocking scene.

In the center of the basement, a pipe burst, and water vapor gushed out.

Amidst the chaos, two figures are facing off.

One was a "human" whose entire body was crimson, whose skin was cracked, and who looked like a demon. He was riding on the monster's back, his fists raining down like a storm, each punch carrying a faint, visible pale red shockwave.

The other was a gigantic black monster. It was struggling frantically, two of its four horns were broken off, and black blood was spraying everywhere.

"What...what kind of creature is that?"

Zhao Feng, a veteran of countless battles, felt his worldview being challenged at this moment.

That is not any species known on Earth.

It was like... a nightmare that had stepped out of an illustration from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

"hold head high!!!"

Driven mad by Chu Tian's dominance, the earthworm suddenly flipped over, using its size advantage to throw Chu Tian off balance, and its sharp hind claws slammed into Chu Tian's abdomen.

scoff!

Chu Tian's abdomen was instantly slashed open with three bloody gashes, and he flew backward like a rag doll, crashing heavily at the feet of the special operations team members.

"cough……"

Chu Tian struggled to get up, but he had reached his limit. The flurry of punches had exhausted all his spiritual energy, and now he felt dizzy and didn't even have the strength to lift a finger.

Through his blurry vision, he saw several pairs of black military boots and the dark muzzles of guns.

"Help...help me..."

Chu Tian stretched out his bloodied and mangled hand and grabbed Zhao Feng's trouser leg before completely losing consciousness.

Zhao Feng glanced down at the young man covered in blood, then looked up at the black monster that had stood up again and was baring its teeth at the special operations team.

The monster's four eyes no longer held greed, but savagery. It seemed to realize that these two-legged creatures wielding strange pipes (guns) were also a threat.

"Attention all."

Zhao Feng's voice remained unchanged, but his finger gripping the gun was already firmly on the trigger.

"Drag this student to the back, medic, provide first aid."

"The rest of the people..."

"Open fire! Turn it into a sieve!"

Da da da da da!

A barrage of gunfire erupted instantly in the cramped basement. Countless tongues of fire wove together a web of death, engulfing the young beast from the age of myth.

[Behind-the-scenes Director's Perspective]

On the distant clock tower, Gu Qing listened to the dense gunfire, a weary smile appearing on his pale face.

"Act One is over."

"Official intervention, awakening of mortals, and the appearance of demonic beasts."

"Captain Zhao, I hope your bullets... are tough enough."

(Because he knew that even though the mole ant was a low-end version, it wouldn't truly die without bloodshed.)