Chapter 62
Chapter 62
“Abyss really is here… How did he arrive so soon?”
Li Dao stared in shock. “According to our intelligence, he wasn’t supposed to arrive for another two or three days!”
“He sped up…” Zuo Yuanshan murmured. “An ancient SSS-class wild deity. He must be after the Divine Seal Fragment…”
Cao Yi went rigid. His aged face turned positively green.
Damn it. That bastard Guo Shoubo had well and truly screwed him over.
Mingjiang No. 7 Special School had already become a veritable dragon’s den. Now even the SSS-class Abyss had shown up ahead of schedule…
At this point, even with a Burial Shroud from the Old-Grave Clans in his hands, Cao Yi was close to despair.
Even the habitually composed Yin Rumei raised an eyebrow, a shadow passing over her face.
She knew perfectly well that Abyss was extremely difficult to deal with.
“Abyss is finally here! Hahaha…”
An ill-timed laugh suddenly rang out.
Sun Xingsheng, who had been lying on the floor barely conscious, somehow struggled to his feet. His face shone with delight.
“Do you want to know why he came early?”
“Because I summoned him!”
Madness and smug triumph filled his face as he glared at Qin Shiyu and the others.
“You thought the likes of you could scheme against me?”
“Once Abyss descends upon this place, you’ll all die! Every last one of you!”
He had been served up as the “final dessert.” Not only had he lost his dreams, he had overdrawn his very life. He did not have long left.
Now all he wanted was revenge. He wanted to watch everything before him be utterly destroyed.
As he raved, the entire auditorium abruptly dimmed.
The light vanished in an instant, as if some colossal presence had blotted out the whole building.
“He has entered the city… My anomaly domain is being suppressed.” Lin Xiaoyu was the first to frown.
“It’s Abyss…”
Even Nightmare’s expression changed. He had helped Meng Mo use Lin Xiaoyu’s rain to drag every anomaly and anomaly wielder in the city into a dream, where Meng could harvest their dreams. Naturally, he could sense what was happening.
That ancient SSS-class wild deity had merely entered the city. He had not even reached the school yet, but Nightmare and Lin Xiaoyu were already being suppressed!
The pressure was overwhelming.
“So this is the power of SSS-class?”
“Before absolute strength like this, everything else is meaningless…”
Li Buhai and the others looked shaken to their cores.
Sun Xingsheng, meanwhile, had descended into a frenzy.
He could hardly wait to see everything before him annihilated.
Qin Shiyu let out a heavy sigh, her brows tightly knit. Abyss had come far too quickly.
Without hesitating, she headed straight for the room backstage.
Every gaze followed her. Everyone understood that the Water God and Nightmare were powerless against an SSS-class anomaly. It was time for the true mastermind of this place to reveal himself.
Yet when Qin Shiyu reached the backstage door, she paused. Then she raised a hand and knocked.
“Come in.”
Only after Li Que’s voice came from within did Qin Shiyu open the door and enter.
…
The backstage room was used for storage. When Qin Shiyu stepped inside, she found Li Que writing something at a table.
She moved closer and saw that it was another certificate.
This one was for Meng Mo. He had performed exceptionally well lately and had bravely pursued his dreams, so Li Que had decided to honor him as a “Dream Star.”
Things like this cost a teacher or a school almost nothing. To a student, though, they could often mean the world.
“Dean Qin, has Meng Mo finished his speech?” Li Que asked after adding the final handwritten stroke to the certificate.
He could hear quite a commotion outside, but he could not make out what was happening.
Qin Shiyu froze for a moment, then nodded. “He has.”
“And how did it go? He wasn’t nervous, was he?”
Qin Shiyu had been frantic only moments ago. Yet the sight of Li Que taking his time, utterly composed, somehow calmed her as well.
“He… wasn’t nervous at all.”
“How did the audience respond?”
Qin Shiyu’s expression turned complicated. “The response… was probably very positive.”
After all, Meng Mo had devoured the dreams of so many S-class anomaly wielders and anomalies. How could the response not be positive?
Li Que finally relaxed. With a faint smile, he said, “I was worried my presence would put more pressure on him and make him nervous, so I didn’t go out to listen to the speech.”
“It seems to have gone well.”
He picked up the certificate and handed it to Qin Shiyu.
“I’ll have to trouble you to present Meng Mo with his award next, Dean Qin.”
Li Que understood how students thought. Receiving an award from a dean or principal felt far more special than getting one from an ordinary teacher like him. It gave the student a much greater sense of recognition.
Qin Shiyu was more baffled than ever. Abyss was almost upon them, yet Li Que still wanted to hold some award ceremony?
Then something occurred to her.
The last time she had gone to Five Dragons Mountain with Li Que, Lin Xiaoyu had received divine investiture-and Li Que had given Lin Xiaoyu a certificate then, too!
Now there was another certificate…
Her heart gave a violent thump. Could divine investiture actually have something to do with this?
Surely not.
Didn’t divine investiture require a Divine Seal Fragment?
Her curiosity suddenly overwhelmed her panic. Throwing caution to the wind, she nodded.
“All right… We’ll hold the award ceremony first!”
…
Meanwhile, in Mingjiang City, the steady drizzle abruptly stopped. The dark clouds scattered as well.
“Has the storm passed?”
“Did the Anomaly Suppression Bureau deal with all those anomalies?”
“Can we go outside now?”
Many residents were already growing restless. Anomalies had run rampant through the city for days, and everyone had been confined to their homes. They were going stir-crazy.
But after that brief calm, the sky suddenly went black.
Before, dense storm clouds and unending rain had merely darkened the city. Now it was nearly pitch-black.
A frigid wind swept through the streets, carrying river spray with it. The temperature plummeted, as if the city had been thrust straight into the killing chill of autumn.
“What’s going on?”
“It’s freezing… Don’t tell me everything’s going to ice over again.”
“Goddamn it! Are they ever going to let us live in peace?”
Everyone retreated into their homes, leaving the streets deserted. Then a sheet of river water suddenly surged into the city.
It advanced swiftly. Before long, it had followed the roads all the way to the gates of Mingjiang No. 7 Special School.
…
On the mountainside outside Mingjiang City, Guo Shoubo stared in alarm, his face darkening.
“What’s happening? Why did Abyss suddenly speed up?!”
From his vantage point, he could see the entire city shrouded in a colossal shadow, as though it had become a forbidden zone no one could enter.
He could not see Abyss’s true form, but he knew the wild deity had arrived.
He was two whole days ahead of their estimate!
Their original plan had been for Xu Guoguo to obtain the Divine Seal Fragment and use it to help Abyss complete his divine investiture. That would keep Abyss from causing trouble.
But Abyss had arrived early, while Xu Guoguo had yet to find an opening to enter the conflict.
At this rate, both the Water God’s Authority and the Divine Seal Fragment might fall into Abyss’s hands!
How were they supposed to proceed now?
Their entire plan had been thrown into disarray.
“Guo Shoubo, you really are useless,” Xu Guoguo said mercilessly from behind him, her teeth clenched in fury.
Those prizes had practically been in her hands. Now fresh complications had arisen yet again…
Worse still, even she was deeply wary of this SSS-class Abyss. With him entering the field ahead of schedule, she could no longer make her move and seize anything.
“I’ll send word to my uncle… He’ll have to come negotiate with Abyss himself.”
She was beside herself with frustration.
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