Chapter 231 - 221: Teacher Ning, You Simply Don’t Understand...
"There are monsters outside! Classmates, open the door quickly!!"
A flurry of urgent and chaotic knocking sounded from outside the door, accompanied by a voice trembling with fear.
"That’s Teacher Li’s voice!"
A female classmate spoke with a crying tone, her voice full of terror and helplessness.
"It’s fake! Absolutely do not open the door!"
Zhang Wei immediately recognized it as the disguise of a Ghost Slave, promptly stopping everyone, while swiftly stepping forward to shield others, preventing anyone from opening the door.
"Classmates, hurry and open the door, it’s me!" That familiar voice once again reached everyone’s ears.
Before the classmates could react, Zhang Wei’s eyes were sharp, quickly scanning around, calmly explaining, "Teacher Li should be downstairs preparing lessons right now. If encountered by monsters, the logical path would be run downwards where survival chances are greater, not foolishly staying at the door calling to open it. He is definitely not Teacher Li!"
"But..." The students looked at each other, if the person outside was truly Teacher Li... it would mean a life is at stake!
At this moment, Yue City spoke up saying, "Everyone, don’t forget, Zhang Wei knows a lot about the strange phenomena. If we want to stay alive, we should listen to Zhang Wei now!"
Wang Liang also stepped up to stop.
"There are monsters outside! Classmates, open the door quickly!!"
"Open the door! Save Teacher!"
That familiar voice continued to call from outside the door, only now it was heard by the students as a bone-chilling cold wind, sending shivers through them, their hearts filled with an indescribable fear and unease.
"Quickly open the door! It’s too late!! Ah—!!"
Outside suddenly came a scream of agony.
The sound, abruptly silenced.
It was pitch black outside the window, nothing could be seen.
"There seems to be no sound outside anymore." Yue City deliberately lowered his voice.
"Let me check." Zhang Wei cautiously walked forward, pressed his ear against the door, trying to see if the Ghost Slave had left.
"Boom!"
A loud noise echoed, the door suddenly hit with great force, Zhang Wei’s heart thudded, he took a few steps back.
Several students were so frightened that their bodies went weak, collapsing to the ground, hurriedly covering their mouths, afraid of making any sound.
Zhang Wei, Yue City, and Wang Liang reacted swiftly, quickly stepping forward, using all their strength to hold the door. The monster outside struck a few times, seemingly realizing it couldn’t break through, the sound of footsteps gradually faded away.
"Don’t let your guard down, it might not have gone far." Zhang Wei said in a deep voice.
Yue City and Wang Liang nodded, their expressions grave.
The classroom was filled with an indescribable oppressive atmosphere, sporadically punctuated by low sobs, echoing inside.
"What should we do next?" Several male classmates gathered their courage and approached the three, asking.
Zhang Wei, who had been observing the surroundings, shook his head, "I have no solution for now. The black fog outside is a domain that only Celestial Calamity level anomalies possess, similar to a ghost wall, it can isolate sound, once a person enters, they lose direction and can’t distinguish north from south."
Everyone looked at the three sentences Zhang Wei wrote madly on the blackboard, their hearts filled with despair.
"We can’t get out... even if the supernatural can’t get in, we will starve to death here."
Zhang Wei remained silent.
In his past life, he managed to escape due to dozens of classmates who ran slower than him, he sprinted to the first floor, fortunately encountered Teacher Ning... huh? Isn’t Teacher Ning right here among the crowd now?
His gaze fixed on Teacher Ning, who was deep in thought among the crowd.
Zhang Wei sighed inwardly, truly worthy of Teacher Ning, able to remain so calm in this situation... By the way, Teacher Ning teaches history? History? Perhaps Teacher Ning possesses unknown clues, having found some pattern in the Celestial Calamity level anomaly.
Then, Zhang Wei’s mind involuntarily conjured a picture: Teacher Ning valiantly battling alone in the black fog, undergoing countless hardships, solving mystery after mystery with his wisdom, ultimately succeeding in sealing this terrifying Celestial Calamity level anomaly with his mortal body.
"Everyone don’t panic, as long as we find the pattern of the anomaly, there’s a way to escape."
"Teacher Ning, do you know about the school’s summoning game?" He shouted towards Ning Xunqiu.
Everyone present saw Zhang Wei actually ask Teacher Ning, clearly the hope of escaping lay with Teacher Ning, they all turned their gazes towards him.
At this moment, Ning Xunqiu was staring at the black fog, trying to fathom its essence, his own power subtly increasing under the fog’s pressure. Feeling everyone’s eyes gathering on him, he couldn’t help but question:
"What summoning game?"
Zhang Wei saw his bewildered face, hurriedly urged, "Teacher Ning, think carefully, is there any unusual rule or legend in the school, perhaps having intricate connections with this black fog."
"...I don’t know."
Ning Xunqiu recalled for a moment, gently adjusted the glasses on his nose with his hand.
Main God Reincarnator.
Reincarnation, in brief, is another form of saying rebirth.
Ning Xunqiu’s current body is the reincarnated form of Ning Wudi in this world, except without the intervention of the Main God, reincarnators cannot awaken the so-called "Innate Wisdom" on their own.
Generally speaking, only the Main God’s Apostle can walk freely in other worlds with body and soul, but even so, their powers are suppressed by the world they are in.
Furthermore, forcibly overturning the rules of a world usually costs far more than destroying it, truly a loss-making endeavor.
Reincarnators are akin to "traces" left by the Great Dao Divine, the option with the lowest cost.
Although Ning Xunqiu possesses the memories of this body from childhood to adulthood, among them there are no memories concerning this black fog.
"Think carefully, you must have a way. In your last life, it was you who disappeared along with this Celestial Calamity-level anomaly," Zhang Wei blurted out in a moment of desperation.
"What the hell! Last life?! No wonder you suddenly understand so much, Zhang Wei. I knew you were a strong Reincarnator! Hey dude, do you need a sidekick to carry along?" someone shouted excitedly.
Zhang Wei’s initial confidence in reincarnation dwindled.
What sort of strong person was he? Handling anomalies, he had only lived ten years longer than ordinary people. In his past life, he had gone through life-and-death trials and, with the country’s strong support, became half-human, half-ghost, barely managing to handle the Celestial Calamity-level anomaly. However, in the face of Mythical Level anomalies, he was still just a Mortal.
This time, upon reincarnation, he planned to try to handle those still weak Mythical Level anomalies. Only by doing so might he have a glimpse of hope in the great catastrophe ten years later.
Zhang Wei said solemnly, "Keep your voice down. In front of Celestial Calamity-level anomalies, I’m just an ordinary person like you all, perhaps... just a bit calmer than you."
"...No superpowers?"
"Remember, only anomalies can combat anomalies."
"Teacher Ning, you managed to deal with Celestial Calamity-level anomalies in your last life, so you can definitely do it this time. Don’t rush, there’s still time to think it through," Zhang Wei encouraged Teacher Ning.
Yue City, Wang Liang, and Fang Yuechan were surprised to look at the bespectacled Teacher Ning.
This history teacher usually had a very low presence.
Can he really solve anomalies?
But Zhang Wei’s sudden change in behavior, combined with his calm and decisive demeanor in the face of anomalous situations, was completely different from the weak and easily bullied person he used to be. Such a sudden change could only be reasonably explained by the identity of a "Reincarnator."
The group chose to believe in Zhang Wei’s words about the future, and the heavy stone in their hearts finally settled down.
"Unexpectedly, it was Teacher Ning who solved the anomaly outside!"
"Teacher Ning, I’m the only child in my family. If something were to happen to me, my parents would be heartbroken! You must lead us out of here safely!"
"Everyone, quiet down, don’t interrupt Teacher Ning’s thoughts, or we’ll all be doomed."
All eyes fell on Ning Xunqiu.
"Me?"
Ning Xunqiu was slightly stunned,
and the surroundings fell into a brief silence.
"Enough." After a moment, Ning Xunqiu spoke.
"Teacher Ning, did you think of something?" Zhang Wei asked eagerly.
"Yes." Ning Xunqiu walked through the crowd, heading straight for the door, reaching out to pull open the classroom door.
"Teacher Ning, what are you doing?" Zhang Wei quickly pulled Ning Xunqiu back.
"Opening the door." Ning Xunqiu stated, "I can now kill anomalies."
"...How will you kill it?"
"Just like this." Ning Xunqiu raised his fist.
Zhang Wei’s expression froze, his mouth opened wide enough to swallow an egg, as he stared dumbfounded at Ning Xunqiu’s clenched fist.
"Teacher Ning, this is no time for jokes. As I said from the beginning, anomalies can’t be killed!"
"Trust me, in your last life, I should have solved it this way too." Ning Xunqiu said.
He observed the Black Fog and found the anomaly here was strange, in a state of superposition between "existence" and "non-existence."
Creating a method now required some time, but under the omnipresent pressure, his body had already broken through to the Divine Being Realm, awakening the Will Flame, enough to dissipate such an anomaly.
"Are you really going to rely, rely on your fists?!!"
In Zhang Wei’s cognition, he simply didn’t believe anyone could defeat anomalies with fists,
"Teacher Ning, you simply don’t understand..."
"Bang!"
Suddenly, there was a loud noise from outside the window.
A Ghost Slave crashed through the door, rushing towards the group, its body twisted and ferocious, letting out a series of piercing and horrifying screeches.
The anomaly’s power was growing.
Zhang Wei’s face changed drastically, he hurriedly turned around, wanting to alert everyone to run quickly, but found Teacher Ning already standing at the front.
"Teacher Ning, small..." Zhang Wei shouted.
The Ghost Slave moved extremely fast, in the blink of an eye, it was already in front of Ning Xunqiu, swinging its branch-like arms, accompanied by a whooshing wind, savagely clawing at Ning Xunqiu.
With a loud "boom,"
the twisted body of the Ghost Slave was shockingly smashed to pieces by Ning Xunqiu’s punch!
A thick Black Qi burst from the Ghost Slave’s body, instantly permeating the entire classroom.
"Care...ful...care...ful..."
Zhang Wei stared dumbfounded at Teacher Ning, feeling an unprecedented shock surge in his heart.
He had never thought someone could defeat a Ghost Slave so easily, nor had he conceived that fists could become a force to combat anomalies.
At this moment, Zhang Wei seemed to open a new door, completely overturning his understanding.
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