Liu Yun stood nearby. Hearing this, she replied, “Rank 4.”
Xie Xuan whipped his head around, clear shock in his eyes as his face instantly darkened.
“Rank 4?! Is Dawn City really this corrupt?”
“Who decided this?! This is completely ridiculous...”
Liu Yun: ...
Who decided it? Wasn't it exactly her!
But back then, she hadn't done it for personal gain.
Rather, guided by her perception as a Prophet, even though Bai Feifei's strength had already reached the level of a Rank 5 Scavenger, she had felt like something was off. She felt that the girl belonged at Rank 4.
Additionally, since Bai Feifei had just returned from the Outer City, she had assigned her Rank 4 to avoid drawing too much attention.
Could she really have been mistaken?
...
On the red soil, Bai Feifei finished leveling up and let out a long breath.
The pain was incredibly real. She felt as if her internal organs and bones had all cracked apart just moments ago. Fortunately, leveling up had fully healed her injuries.
She looked down at the pile of rubble from the stone aberration. It was beginning to sink again, as if something beneath the red soil were opening its mouth, swallowing the remains of the aberration bite by bite.
Are the aberrations in other areas ending up like this too? Bai Feifei asked in her mind.
Where do we go next?
Bai Feifei waited for several seconds before a cold, stiff voice finally echoed in her mind.
“You injured yourself this badly just fighting a thing like that? We need to plan our next battles more carefully.”
Before Bai Feifei could even process this, Xu Mo spoke again.
“From now on, taking care of your body is your absolute top priority!”
“You are not allowed to risk your life unless I give you permission!”
Bai Feifei opened her mouth slightly. This was a turn of events she had completely failed to anticipate.
Was this Evil God... showing concern for her?
Bai Feifei felt somewhat “flattered by the favor.”
While that phrase might not be entirely accurate here, she really couldn't find a better way to describe it.
“Uh... Okay, I understand,” Bai Feifei finally managed to reply.
“As long as you remember.” Xu Mo's voice was still tense.
Just now, he had really been on the verge of breaking from the pain.
This woman's pain tolerance was insane. It was truly terrifying...
In the distance, the people from Yaoguang Academy began to slowly approach.
The students were clearly awed by Bai Feifei's performance. They looked at her with a mixture of respect and fear.
Feng Guozhi walked at the front, his expression deeply embarrassed.
But as he reached her, he lowered his voice and said,
“Teacher Bai... thank you for just now.”
“Don't mention it,” Bai Feifei said.
Feng Guozhi nodded and fell silent for a few seconds.
“About what happened before... you and our Yaoguang Academy have had plenty of conflicts.”
“But if it weren't for you this time, these students probably would have lost their lives here. I will remember this favor.”
Without waiting for her response, he turned to look at the students who were still trembling behind him and sighed.
“To be honest, Yaoguang is already out of the game.”
As Bai Feifei looked at him, not knowing what to say, the red soil beneath their feet suddenly shuddered.
The ground was actually moving!
Bai Feifei whipped her head up. At the edge of her vision, a massive crowd of bizarrely shaped figures suddenly appeared, charging toward them like mad.
They were all aberrations!
There all kinds of aberrations—some on all fours, some standing upright like humans, and others slithering along the ground like snakes.
At the same time, her Heart of the World Medal began to spin furiously. Countless heartbeats flooded into her ears simultaneously, merging into a deafening, rhythmic thumping.
Bai Feifei's expression changed instantly.
“How...”
Just a moment ago, she had been running around like she was in a marathon, searching everywhere for aberrations to kill.
How did so many of them suddenly appear? Where did they all come from?
The students of Yaoguang Academy, who had only just escaped with their lives, nearly wet themselves at the sight.
“What is that?!”
“Aberrations! They're all aberrations!”
“Why are there so many?!”
Feng Guozhi instinctively drew his blade, but the tip was trembling. The chaos unfolding in the North District was something even a veteran Scavenger like him could not comprehend.
Xu Mo looked at the riot in the distance and was also momentarily stunned.
“Oh? Has Party Time started as well?”
During his previous playthroughs, the riot in the North District would change every time. Xu Mo had already memorized all the possible scenarios.
The second route of the North District riot: Party Time. All hidden aberrations would reveal themselves, go berserk, and actively launch assaults on humans.
Including the Assemble-a-Monster from earlier, did two different riot routes actually trigger simultaneously in Bai Feifei's playthrough?!
...
In the camp's monitoring room, alarms were blaring in unison.
On almost every student's and instructor's real-time feed, aberrations were visible!
“Anomalous readings detected across the entire red soil region.”
“A massive surge of aberrations has been detected. They are actively closing in on the students.”
“All academy teams are starting to engage the aberrations!”
The instructors from each academy stared at their respective screens, shouting in panic.
Some aberration groups were even beginning to fuse during their charge, combining into even stronger monsters.
The logistics area was in utter chaos.
Liu Yun stood in the center, her purple robe rustling violently from the wind whipped up by the people rushing past her.
As she watched the screens, she began to realize that the situation was spiraling out of control. Should they terminate this Graduation Show?!
Even though the goal was to have the students face real combat and sudden emergencies early on, this was far too abnormal!
...
Deep within the red soil.
“What is Party Time?” Bai Feifei drew her longsword, bracing herself for the impact of the oncoming aberration tide as she quickly asked the Evil God in her mind.
Before Xu Mo could explain, the ground beneath Bai Feifei's feet shuddered once more!
This time, the earth before them began to churn violently, like quicksand flowing in reverse!
A pair of stone-like hands clawed their way out of the red soil. Pressing against the ground, a heavily scarred corpse dragged itself out unsteadily.
Similar occurrences were happening across this entire stretch of land. The aberrations that had been killed earlier and swallowed by the red soil were now being spat back out.
What was worse, they were rising one by one, their mangled and limbless bodies beginning to shuffle forward once again!
Staring at the scene, memories of past playthroughs instantly flashed through Xu Mo's mind.
The third route of the North District riot: Undead!
All slain aberrations would be unearthed by the soil, their dead bodies driven by an unknown power to continue attacking the enemy.
The earth churned, and the tidal wave of aberrations on the horizon drew closer by the second. The ground beneath their feet continued to crack open as long-dead aberrations rose once more.
Even Xu Mo was starting to feel a bit dazed.
Three different riot routes occurring in a single playthrough?!
What kind of hell-mode save file was this?
Rate on N.U.
