I write obituaries for the gods

This made her feel somewhat guilty, and she muttered to herself:

"It's because I couldn't predict what would happen to you..."

Lin Chen paused slightly before recalling this matter.

"Sorry, I forgot..." He scratched his head.

“It’s not your fault, it was your first time after all,” Li Zhanyi quickly shook his head.

Just then, a sound came from the other end of the corridor. The two turned around and saw Lucy walking over, clutching her stomach, her petite body swaying unsteadily.

“Merde! Doesn’t anyone care about me?!” she cursed in French. “This thing is so complicated. I thought they were all small fry, but then a big one showed up.”

"Could this thing be the core of another anomaly?" Li Zhanyi asked.

“It doesn’t seem like it. It should also be a cyborg,” Lucy shook her head. “It’s even more dangerous.”

"Are you...are you alright?" Lin Chen asked, looking at Lucy who was panting heavily.

"It's nothing serious, but this charging vest can't just sit around doing nothing, can it?" She rubbed her stomach. "I'm really not feeling well... Don't just stand there, we need to hurry. This blackboard head can teleport directly through space, so the subspace lens isn't very useful anymore. Find the survivors, then evacuate!"

"it is good."

Lin Chen nodded and took the lead towards the classroom where he had previously observed people.

Li Zhanyi and Lucy exchanged a glance: Why did he so readily take the lead...?

"..."

Upon reaching the classroom door, Lin Chen immediately understood why the teachers and students inside were not evacuating:

The door was locked.

“You’re really late,” a human mouth appeared on the giant U-shaped lock. “Answer five questions each time, and I’ll clock you out if you get them right.”

"The very first question is: for any compact simple gauge group G, prove the existence of a quantum Yang-Mills theory on four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, and that its particles..."

"boom!"

Lin Chen fired a shot directly into the lock's mouth, then yanked it, throwing the whimpering, broken lock to the ground.

He opened the door, and a scream immediately erupted from the classroom: the students struggled to retreat to a corner of the classroom, where a teacher stood in front of them, arms outstretched.

"Don't panic, we're here to rescue you," Lin Chen said. "Um... how was it again?"

“Rain City Abnormal Investigation Bureau, Rapid Response Section 1,” Li Zhanyi took out his badge from his coat and showed it to everyone in the classroom, “Everyone, you are safe now.”

"I'm going to pick up the boys from Section Two." Lucy slung her light machine gun over her shoulder and headed for the stairs.

Upon seeing that it was investigators who broke down the door, the terrified students seemed to be calmed down immediately.

Li Zhanyi and Lin Chen walked to the teacher's side. As soon as they approached, the teacher sat down on the ground with a sigh of relief.

"Great, you've finally arrived..."

Lin Chen walked closer and saw that there was a deep wound on the teacher's arm, with blood still gushing out.

It was that anomalous entity that did it.

Upon seeing the teacher's wound, Li Zhanyi immediately took out a syringe, replaced the disposable syringe head, and then inserted a tube of red liquid into the liquid chamber.

She injected the syringe into the teacher's arm, and the gushing blood immediately congealed.

"This is a combat sustaining agent; it can stop bleeding, inhibit infection, and relieve pain," Li Zhanyi explained to Lin Chen. "Let's clean and bandage the wounds outside, teacher. What's the situation at the scene?"

"Yes...yes..."

The teacher wanted to speak, but her breathing was weak and her words were not very coherent.

She had appeared so upright and indomitable just moments before, protecting the students.

"Sister...sister, I can speak now."

A little girl wearing glasses stepped forward:

"At that time... the window suddenly went dark, and then, then a classmate fainted, and these monsters ran out of the shadows."

"The door was locked, and the teacher couldn't open it no matter how hard he tried. Then a monster with a blackboard head came in and kidnapped several students..."

"Someone's been arrested?"

Li Zhanyi and Lin Chen exchanged a glance. The latter was slightly taken aback and said softly:

Does this mean... that entity possesses intelligence?

“Of course, that guy even managed to evade the subspace lens’s scan by teleporting,” Li Zhanyi said seriously. “But under normal circumstances, anomalies below the Alpha level are unlikely to possess intelligence. This situation means that someone is controlling the entity behind the scenes.”

The manipulated entity, the abducted student.

“I had a guess just now,” Lin Chen said softly, “These entities all seem to have been born from ‘shadows’ and ‘fears’, like the electric fan, Lu Bu, and the teacher who just wanted to ‘keep others on probation’. They all seem to represent someone’s fear.”

“Indeed, that makes sense,” Li Zhanyi said thoughtfully. “But that would be difficult. If we can’t find the core entity, it will be hard to save this school.”

"I'll think of a way."

Lin Chen stood up and looked around the classroom.

As mentioned earlier, some students have been arrested.

Once we figure out where those students were taken, we can naturally find the core entity.

It would be difficult for an ordinary person to do this in a short period of time, but Lin Chen is different.

He has a "city of mirages".

......

Chapter 37 Ruins

As the world gradually turned pure white, Lin Chen floated in the corridor, focusing his consciousness and retracing back to seven minutes ago.

The entity suddenly appeared on the third floor, seemingly preparing to arrest a few more students. Therefore, Lin Chen deduced that the time it first arrested people was not long ago.

Sure enough, when time rewound to five minutes, Lin Chen saw the classroom door be pushed open and the blackboard head entity walk in.

"Don't touch my students!"

The teacher blocked the students' way, and the blackboard-headed figure picked up a ruler and chopped down.

"what!"

While the teacher was falling to the ground, the solid figure at the top of the blackboard waved its hand:

"...Probationary period at the school..."

Six students collapsed to the ground as if suddenly lost in thought. A few seconds later, they stood up, followed the "blackboard leader," and walked out of the classroom.

Lin Chen followed them out and saw that the blackboard leader had opened a door in the wall and led the students inside.

Can I go in? A question popped into Lin Chen's mind.

He followed the blackboard head, went through the door, and found that the scene around him had changed.

Wow, they managed to get in there.

Lin Chen looked around: what came into view was a gray corridor with concrete walls on all sides.

He roughly memorized the features of his surroundings, then took a deep breath and exited the "Mirage City".

"..."

As soon as Lin Chen opened his eyes, he found a beautiful face right in front of him.

It was Li Zhanyi.

The girl's eyes were very close to his, almost touching.

"Amazing..." Li Zhanyi muttered, "I still can't figure out what kind of spiritual knowledge this is..."

"Super hearing." Lin Chen shrank back a little, feeling somewhat uncomfortable.

He turned to look at the teacher and asked:

"Are there any buildings on campus with walls made entirely of concrete? The architectural style is very old, with many arched structures."

"Have..."

The teacher weakly raised her head:

"There's an air-raid shelter underground...you can go down from the school building..."

“That should be it,” Lin Chen nodded. “The hostages are in the air-raid shelter.”

"Are you sure?" Li Zhanyi asked.

"determine."

"Then let's go, I trust you." Li Zhanyi nodded slightly.

Just then, footsteps sounded outside the classroom, and Lucy entered with more than ten soldiers from Section Two:

“The road is completely cleared,” Lucy waved her hand. “Let’s go, kids, let’s get out of here.”

The children were clearly surprised to see Lucy, who was about their height, carrying a machine gun, but her adorable appearance seemed to give them a strong sense of affinity, so they all obediently followed Lucy.

After evacuating to the first floor, Lin Chen and Li Zhanyi found Lucy and explained the situation.

"The hostages are down there?" Lucy turned her head and looked at the stairs leading to the basement. "Let's go down there again."

"Are you alright?" Lin Chen asked.

"It's nothing, it's just a minor injury."

Lucy shook her head and pressed her earpiece:

"Louis, what's the situation?"

"The depth is still falling, and the strength of the dimensional stability anchor seems unable to delay the process."

"How many anchors?" Lucy asked Marcus behind her.

“Five of them, placed on every floor.” Marcus frowned.

"So it seems the problem really is underground..." Lucy sighed. "This is so annoying... But where did this information come from? Was it from your amazing little brother?"

“I guessed,” Lin Chen said, “but it seems I guessed right.”

"Nonsense, you're making a fool of yourself by telling me what's wrong with you."

As Lucy inspected the light machine gun in her hand, she said:

“Marcus, send the children and teachers out. The depth is dropping too fast. There might be entities outside that slip out. Make sure it's safe before they come to our aid.”

"no problem."

After Marcus finished speaking, he led the soldiers and escorted the children away.

Lucy turned to look at Lin Chen and pointed to his sewing kit:

"Let's replenish our rationality. Judging from the strength of that blackboard head, it's likely to be a tough battle ahead."

Lin Chen nodded, took out a syringe, filled it with the blue medicine, and injected it into his arm.

"Zizi..."

After the three of them finished receiving their injections, Lucy took the lead and began to advance underground.

After turning a corner and descending two flights of stairs, an iron gate blocked their way.

“A lens,” Lucy said softly.

Lin Chen took out a lens and held it against the door; all he could see was gray and white.

“There’s nothing there,” he replied.

"Prepare for a charge."

Lucy reached out and grabbed the door lock, looking at Li Zhanyi behind her.

"Three...two...one..."

"Crack!"

Lucy pulled on the door lock, and the high temperature melted the lock, causing it to fall to the ground.

She charged in with a machine gun in hand, followed closely by Li Zhanyi, and then Lin Chen.

However, when all three of them crossed the gate, they were dumbfounded by what they saw before them—