Chapter 20: Evil Spirit
The people around Xu Le were now looking at him with an expression of wanting to avoid him at all costs.
Xu Le felt somewhat helpless. "I didn't do anything, okay? Can you not look at me with those eyes like I'm some kind of monster?"
Xu Le looked around, basically confirming that no one here was willing to help.
He could only steel himself and walk up to Li Mo:
"Classmate, let me help you up."
Li Mo looked up at Xu Le, his eyes filled with what seemed to be either remorse or fear:
"Big brother, don't kill me, I just want to go to school properly."
"Do you really not need help?"
"Really, I don't need it. Big brother, go on about your business, I'm fine.
Oh right, here's 5 yuan, half of my monthly living expenses. Please don't think it's too little, big brother."
Xu Le looked at Li Mo's still-bleeding forehead and the money in his hand, and fell silent for a moment.
Anyway, no one would believe anything he said now.
He didn't take the 5 yuan and was about to get up and leave, of course not because he had suddenly turned over a new leaf.
But because in the instant when greed stirred, Xu Le had a feeling.
Taking that 5 yuan would lead to trouble.
"Li Li yuan shang pu!" Xu Le muttered to himself.
"Take care, big brother."
...
Arriving at the center of the campus, Xu Le glanced at the clock tower - there was still some time left.
What exactly was this Red Moon Calamity, and whether it was the same concept as the Black Tide, he still couldn't be certain.
But he did know about the situation with the Black Tide.
Countless anomalies charging towards human strongholds, their target being the deepest part of the Lighthouse, the High Tower.
So even if there were gaps in the city wall defenses, the residents who remained in the lower city districts weren't in too much danger.
With how powerful the current guns and cannons were, in recent years' Black Tides, apart from occasional reports of scattered anomalies killing civilians in the lower city districts,
They no longer left a very deep impression on people.
Lighthouse University was still a key protected area of the Lighthouse city-state, staying here was safe enough.
"I should go back to the dormitory first, there should still be some things left there."
Just as Xu Le was about to head towards the student dormitory, a piercing sound rang out from the loudspeakers.
It sounded like the friction noise produced by someone hastily picking up a microphone.
"Bzz bzz, attention all students, attention all students.
Please immediately proceed to assembly areas A, B, and C classrooms for concentrated defense and protection.
There may be changes in tonight's Guyindo Dark Tide.
Students must follow the broadcast announcements and protect themselves."
The school's broadcast kept sounding, and the surrounding students immediately looked towards the direction of the speakers.
Most of their eyes showed bewilderment, disbelief, and even disdain.
Until the person sending the broadcast took several deep breaths before speaking again:
"Students, this is Vice Principal Mo Lan, everything I just said is true.
Please remain calm. According to the Lighthouse Council's detection, uncontrollable situations may occur in this Guyindo Black Tide.
Everyone must quickly go to the ABC classroom areas and establish defenses with the teachers on duty.
Lighthouse University is the hope of the Lighthouse, we will not abandon any student.
So I also hope everyone can cherish themselves and follow the requirements.
May the light of the Lighthouse forever illuminate you."
Vice Principal Mo Lan's words sounded somewhat terrifying to many students. As university students, their awareness was quite sufficient.
It wasn't that the Black Tide wasn't scary, but that it was blocked outside the city by guards and night watchers.
Now that the principal had come out to say there was a problem today, that was truly a big issue.
The broadcast began to repeat, and these students with varying expressions quickened their pace.
Xu Le pondered for a few seconds:
"So the Lighthouse higher-ups are also aware of the so-called Red Moon Calamity?
Forget it, no matter what, I should go back to the dorm to get my things first."
...
Xu Le walked briskly, and near the girls' dormitory, he immediately stopped in his tracks when he saw a male student running by.
"This..."
His body tensed up, because he clearly saw a nearly two-meter tall phantom clinging closely behind this person.
[Level 1 Anomaly, Five Heads, Ghost.]
This so-called Five Heads had five animal heads, with a horse as the main one, and sheep, cow, chicken, and dog on the sides.
Each head held a weapon in its mouth, with no arms, looking quite creepy.
It was suspended behind this student, with the scythe in the horse's mouth almost about to cut the student's neck.
Looking at this scene before him, Xu Le didn't know whether he should shout loudly or pretend to ignore it.
Just as Five Heads was about to reap this person, Xu Le somehow thought of Gan's words again.
"Do one good deed a day, avoid one calamity a month."
He couldn't help but shout loudly.
"Hey! Watch out..."
The student was startled for a moment, and Xu Le's loud shout seemed to have an effect.
But the Five Heads behind him completely ignored Xu Le, and the movement of the horse's mouth didn't pause at all.
It just slashed down like that.
There was no splatter of blood, no wound, and no sound.
This student just fell straight down, as if fainting.
But Xu Le knew that this person's soul had been severed!
If it were normal times, some passing students would check on him at this moment.
After all, helping each other was the main theme of the Dark Age.
But now everyone was hurriedly packing their things, rushing to the classrooms to establish defenses.
Preparing to deal with the potential Black Tide crisis that might occur next, they simply had no time or mood to come over specifically to check.
This student was just killed like this by Five Heads.
Watching Five Heads devouring the soul of the dead, Xu Le didn't know if he should continue to warn others.
While hesitating, Five Heads' gaze seemed to sense something and began to sweep towards his position.
As if looking for new prey.
Xu Le's scalp tingled and his back broke out in a cold sweat.
He knew that if he ran away at this moment, he would definitely be discovered.
He did the opposite, slightly lowering his gaze, walking forward numbly, his fingers constantly clenching.
Under his fingers was the Golden Toad imprint.
The Golden Toad possessed the ability to kill ghost bodies. Last time the ghost Zhou Ke was Level 1, and the Five Heads before him was also Level 1.
The Golden Toad could definitely deal with it.
Just as Xu Le was about to make his move, Five Heads looked at him, with some hesitation and some disdain.
Then, as if receiving some kind of summons, Five Heads flew towards the sky.
Xu Le breathed a slight sigh of relief, he could feel Five Heads moving away.
But he didn't dare to look up, he was afraid that if he raised his head, he would make eye contact with Five Heads, which would be terrible.
Although the probability of this happening was very small, it's always shown that way in TV dramas, and Xu Le didn't want to find himself in such a situation.
"It should be fine now."
...
Leaving the girls' area, taking three steps in two, Xu Le arrived at the boys' dormitory.
Bypassing the crowd, he quickly ran to his own dorm, Building 18, Room 202.
The previous dagger and pistol had already been confiscated by the Night Watchers, what the original owner left in the dorm might be the last valuable things.
Making sure there was no one in the dorm, Xu Le directly lifted up his bed board.
Under the bed board was a package tied with cloth strips and a sheathed long sword.
This was a genuine guard-issue sword, which he had saved two years of scholarship money to buy.
The original owner even had thoughts of signing up for sword technique courses, but these ideas were shelved due to obtaining the sorcerer's manual.
Besides weapons, there were two phosphorus fire clusters in the package.
Phosphorus fire was a byproduct of alchemists, simply put, it was something alchemists didn't need, trash.
But even the trash that sorcerers didn't need was a useful treasure in the hands of ordinary people.
Phosphorus fire was very unstable and easily combustible.
Using phosphorus fire as the core, tying on small pieces of flint, then wrapping it with sand and gravel, one could make a simple explosive device, somewhat like a homemade grenade.
Having obtained weapons and phosphorus fire, Xu Le felt a bit relieved.
With weapons, he felt slightly more at ease.
Looking at the crowds coming and going downstairs, Xu Le thought of the ghostly anomaly, Five Heads, he had encountered on the way earlier.
Such spirit bodies were virtually invincible existences for ordinary humans.
Even though the original owner had done some research on anomalies, he still had no way to deal with spirit bodies.
"Ghosts are too troublesome."
Just as Xu Le was sighing, a prompt suddenly appeared.
[There is a corpse within the safe range, death time has exceeded 4 hours, the corpse will turn into a Level 1 anomaly in 15 seconds.]
Xu Le: ...
(End of Chapter)
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