After The Abyss Dragon Woke Up

The members of the Management Bureau were divided into several teams and came to the emergency entrances of each area in an orderly manner.

Although the atmosphere in the control room was still tense, it had returned to its previous order.

At the same time, with the emergency repairs by relevant technical personnel, some functions in the simulated actual combat system were finally restored.

Although most of the large screen on the side is still dark, some areas have been lit up.

Although it is still impossible to locate the specific location of each student, it is now possible to see how many students are left in each area, which at least eliminates the need for a blanket search.

"52 people in the glacier area, 48 people in the rain forest area, nine people in the desert area, and forest area..."

The staff member looked down at the list, and suddenly paused slightly: "There are two people in the scorched earth area."

"The scorched earth area?" the person in charge asked.

It is the area where the abyss rift is said to be located...?

The staff member's expression became ugly, and he whispered: "Yes."

Although he didn't know anything about combat, he still clearly knew...these two students were probably in danger.

The person in charge took a deep breath, raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose, his face was tired and old.

He said: "You go, I will go and talk to Chief Mu about the scorched earth area."

After exhorting the next action plan, the person in charge walked towards Mu Heng who was not far away.

Mu Heng turned his head and looked over, raising his eyebrows suspiciously.

Person in charge: "Sir... there is a very unfortunate incident."

He took a deep breath: "I just found out that two freshmen were also trapped in the scorched earth area."

The person in charge hesitated for a moment and said, "You said, is there any possibility of them surviving?"

Mu Heng paused: "Maybe."

"...Anyway, thank you very much." The person in charge sighed and handed over a watch: "You take this, although the GPS in the map has lost its function, but if a student enters your area It will tell you if it is within Minei."

Mu Heng nodded, took the watch and put it in his pocket:

"I try my best."

Suddenly, he thought of something and asked, "What are the names of the two students trapped in the scorched earth area?"

The person in charge was taken aback for a moment, as if he didn't expect the other party to ask this question.

He replied: "This...we don't know yet. The system has not been fully restored. We can only know the number of students trapped in each area, but we don't know who is trapped."

Person in charge: "Are you looking for a student?"

Mu Heng withdrew his gaze: "No, just asking casually."

Lin Yanming kept stealing glances at Shi An who was walking in front of him.

In the darkness, the pale side face of the young man appeared blurred and distant, only the clear and sharp outline of the lower jaw could be vaguely seen, which looked familiar yet unfamiliar.

Even after walking a short distance, the burnt smell still lingers at the end of his nose.

Lin Yanming blinked.

The aftereffects of the fire seemed to remain on the retina, and the black spots left by the hot spots were looming in front of my eyes.

He took a deep breath, did enough mental construction, and finally said:

"Shian..."

Shi An turned his head and let out a heartless "Huh?"

The expression on his face was so natural that it seemed that the terrible fire had nothing to do with him.

"The one just now... your magic power, that fire..."

Lin Yanming racked his brains to find adjectives.

"Oh! That!" Shi An showed a dazed expression.

You understand!

You understand what I want to ask!

Lin Yanming lifted his spirits and looked at the other party expectantly.

I saw the boy in front of me scratching the back of his head in embarrassment, and said:

"It's not that I didn't want to accept your opinion just now, but I really don't know how to do this alone."

Lin Yanming: "..."

You get the shit.

At the moment of distraction, Lin Yanming's feet suddenly stepped into the air.

He was startled, staggered a few steps before barely steadying himself, and managed not to fall directly to the ground again.

An alternate light source illuminates a small patch of land in front of you.

The soil is a thick and deep black, but there is no moisture at all, as if it has been scorched, and the irregular cracked lines spread on the ground until it is swallowed by the darkness.

Wait a moment……

Lin Yanming froze.

He suddenly realized that it seemed that he hadn't encountered trees or rocks for a long time. He didn't know when the surroundings became empty, as if walking on a plain without any shelter.

Lin Yanming felt that his brain was unable to turn like a rusty gear, making futile clucking noises.

He raised his head dully, illuminated the darkness in front of him with a spare light source, and carefully discerned the road shrouded in darkness in front of him.

Definitely not a rainforest area.

Not even a forest area.

Then there is only...

"Shi, Shi'an." Lin Yanming heard himself say in a trembling voice.

When Shi An heard this, he stopped, turned his head, and asked unconsciously, "What's the matter?"

"Are you...sure, do you know the way?"

Shi An: "Sure, what's wrong?"

"But, here, here, I don't think this is a forest area." Lin Yanming said dully.

Unexpectedly, Shi An seemed unaware of his strangeness, and nodded very naturally: "That's right."

Lin Yanming: "..."

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? ?

? ? ? ? ?

Lin Yanming was stunned and could hardly believe his ears.

He turned his head dumbfounded, and stared blankly at the boy beside him.

He just listened to the other party's innocent face, and continued to say as a matter of course:

"This is the easternmost area, don't worry, I'm sure I didn't lead the wrong way!"

The easternmost is...

S-level danger zone, scorched earth zone.

"..."

Lin Yanming felt that he had lost the ability to think.

Shi An came closer and waved his hand in front of his eyes: "What's the matter?"

--What's the matter? !What do you say? !

Looking at the other party's innocent expression, Lin Yanming felt that he urgently needed professional cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

He can't even speak smoothly:

"You... you... the east! I said I went to the forest area in the east, no, not this—"

"Eh?" Shi An showed a blank expression: "But I thought we were going along the way?"

So you fucking planned to come here from the beginning? !

——This is on the way, you big-headed ghost!

Lin Yanming almost collapsed.

After a long silence.

"...Then let's do it again," Lin Yanming said slowly and woodenly:

"The current situation is that I don't know what went wrong in the simulated actual combat. Now I can't contact the outside world at all, and I can't use the positioning function, so... what I want to go to now is the emergency exit in the middle of the forest area, you, you understand now Yet?"

Shi An blinked and whispered:

"understood."

His voice was softer: "But, I don't know how to get to the forest area."

"..."

Lin Yanming felt that he was approaching the brink of collapse again.

I just heard the other party continue: "Speaking of which, does every district have emergency exits?"

Lin Yanming: "...it should be available in every district."

Shi An: "How about the emergency exit to this district?"

Lin Yanming was taken aback.

But... is it not impossible?

He looked hesitantly at the young man in front of him, wondering if he wanted to get on the other party's boat again.

Shi An claimed to be lucky that time - not only did they meet the lion-headed beast, but they were also robbed by other freshmen.

And the time he claimed to have a good sense of direction - they came to the most dangerous scorched earth area.

However, Lin Yanming changed his mind.

The other party claims to be very good, but in fact it is hidden—maybe he really has a backhand?

And most importantly, he seems to have no other choice now.

Holding the last glimmer of hope, Lin Yanming seemed to have made up his mind, raised his hand and wiped his face, and said as if dying:

"……Fine."

Shi An narrowed his eyes and smiled happily: "Alright."

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and continued: "Oh, by the way, if you go any further, you should be entering an area with poisonous gas, so you'd better wrap yourself with magic power first, or you might be caught before you go out." It's poisoned."

"..."

Lin Yanming fell into silence again.

Is it too late for me to regret it now?

Inside the Authority's laboratory.

Zhuo Fu lowered his head, carefully handling a small sample of monster tissue in front of him.

He already knew about the Ability Academy.

It is of course a good thing that the location of the abyss crack has been confirmed, but within the school it also means that the spread of the abyss will cause considerable collateral damage.

But these are not the issues Zhuo Fu has to consider.

As the person in charge of the laboratory, what he needs to do is to figure out why the cracks in the abyss appear so frequently recently, and their power is far stronger than usual.

Although the spread of the rift in the academy is inseparable from the high fluctuations in magic power in the academy, it cannot be denied that this is the first time in hundreds of years that the rift in the abyss has developed to this extent.

This made Zhuo Fu feel a sense of crisis.

Suddenly, without warning, the high-precision magic monitoring watch on the table beeped.

Zhuo Fu was startled, and turned his head to look.

Strangely, in order to isolate the outside world from interference, the laboratory should have done strict protection and shielding. Why does the monitoring table react like this?

He reached for the monitoring watch, stood up, and looked for the magic leak.

The pointer on the watch shook unsteadily, and finally reached a peak at a certain moment.

Zhuo Fu raised his head——

Behind the protective layer of glass in front of him, a long sword tightly wrapped in cloth strips was quietly placed in the darkness.

An invisible hum spread, as if it was whispering in some ancient, unknown language.

Zhuo Fu was stunned: "..."

His jaw almost dropped in shock, and he froze in disbelief, as if he couldn't believe his eyes.

Grass……

What Mu Heng said was actually true.

The main control room of the college.

"Didi Didi—" Wen Yao's cell phone rang.

When she connected the phone, Zhuo Fu's noisy voice immediately came from the other side of the phone: "Where's your boss? I can't get through to Mu Heng! Get him back quickly—"

Wen Yao silently held the microphone away from her ear: "Are you in a hurry?"

"Nonsense!" Zhuo Fu said in a hurry.

Wen Yao replied: "The officer has already entered the quarantine area."

"..." The voice on the other end of the phone paused for half a second: "What?"

Wen Yao raised her head, looked at the emergency passage door that was closed just a few seconds ago not far away, and said:

"Just about... 1 minute before your call."

The scorched earth area has almost become a semi-alienated area, poisonous gas escapes from the cracks in the abyss, continuously changing the surrounding environment.

An ominous darkness hung over the barren ground, and there was an uneasy air everywhere.

As the space on the ground was alienated and transformed, more abyssal species crawled out.

Lin Yanming felt that he had never seen so many grotesque, ugly and terrifying monsters in his life.

At first, he was nervous and scared.

Lin Yanming's muscles were tense, and his heart was almost in his throat.

Monsters were coming from all directions, so he had to be vigilant all the time and be prepared for hand-to-hand combat, but later on, he found that he couldn't intervene at all.

Every time a monster came into sight, Shi An would ignite and blast it.

Simple and crude, amazingly efficient.

The fiery flames reflected Lin Yanming's cheeks red from time to time, and his expression changed from shock at the beginning to calm and numb now.

After walking together for so long, he now believes that Shi An is not modest.

——The opponent really only knows this spell.

but……

That's fucking enough.

Lin Yanming thought dumbly.

Not far away, a pitch-black lizard crawled out from a crack in the scorched earth, but it just showed its head, and a fireball rushed head-on. After a violent crackling sound, only a pile of ashes remained.

The boy's gaze was lightly withdrawn from the patch of ashes, his pale face was emotionless, as if he had just crushed an ant to death.

Under the long and dense eyelashes, a golden-red light quickly passed by.

The demon worm huddled in Shi'an's sleeve, tremblingly watching this one-sided ruthless crush.

Compared with massacre, it seems more appropriate to use the term general cleaning.

This is the first time that it is so clearly aware of how small and insignificant the other monsters are to the phantasmal species—they are far from being a threat, but some kind of dirty, mood-affecting low and other creatures.

The devil worm couldn't help but shiver.

It is only now that it understands how lucky it is to survive in Shi An's hands.

but……

The monster suddenly remembered that in the mock test before entering the school last time, Shi'an only burned three monsters, and there was already a very significant change, but why in the semi-alienated abyss area, countless monsters were burned to death. After the unknown monster, he hasn't changed much until now?

It cautiously asked:

"That... Lord Demon Dragon."

Shi An: "Huh?"

"How are you feeling now?"

Shi An lowered his head, twirled his fingertips, and suppressed the excitement in his voice: "Superb."

Really good.

Every time a monster is burned to death, he feels that his strength increases a little bit, like a river flowing into the long-dried sea little by little—as if he is using flames to absorb the energy from the body of the plundered monster, helping him restore his original strength appearance.

The monster didn't dare to make a sound.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but it feels... When Shi An answered his own question, there was a kind of fanaticism and joy in his voice that couldn't be ignored, as if he had fallen into a certain state of ecstasy.

It's like drinking high.

Or kill crazy.

They trekked across the dark plain.

Far in front of it was a strange crimson red, the color was extremely dark, almost blending with the darkness behind it, the winding and slender strip was like a wound on the ground, it was horrifying, and it was gurgling outwards Foul slime.

Lin Yanming was shocked.

He stopped subconsciously and swallowed hard: "Then, what is that?"

From time to time, he looked at that direction steadily, as if in a trance.

His eyes drooped slightly, and the pupils under the eyelashes had completely turned into a warm red gold, as if molten gold and flames were intertwined, with a narrow vertical pupil in the center, showing a sense of inhuman cruelty and alienation.

Even if he doesn't need to feel it carefully, he can feel it——

That gloomy, cold, and sinister smell quietly surrounded him, enveloping himself tightly in it.

At that moment, Shi An seemed to have returned to the time when he still maintained his majestic and beautiful dragon shape, sitting in a spacious and clean cave with a large number of treasures, sleeping whenever he wanted...

"Hello, are you okay?" Lin Yanming's voice came from his ear.

Shi An came back to his senses.The red-gold vertical pupils disappeared more slowly than usual, but they were eventually replaced by pitch blackness.

Looking down at his palm, his expression became visibly depressed.

--hateful!

Nothing!Gone!

"What's the matter?" Lin Yanming came over nervously.

"It's nothing."

Shi An sighed.

He raised his eyes, as if belatedly remembered the question asked by the other party just now, and said absent-mindedly:

"Oh, by the way, the one in front is the reason why these things are happening now."

Lin Yanming: "..."

He couldn't tell whether he was shocked by the content of the other party's words, or by the way the other party spoke lightly.

Shi An tugged at his sleeve: "Let's go, it's not far from the center of the whole area."

Lin Yanming nodded, and finally cheered up:

"it is good!"

Very good!Going out soon!

There are only a few steps left, what kind of moths can come out——

Rumbling--

A faint low roar came from the horizon not far away.

The ground began to shake without warning, as if thousands of troops were galloping across the plain, bringing a heavy and terrifying sense of oppression.

Lin Yanming was startled, and subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound.

Although the light was very dim, he could still see the dark, overwhelming, almost suffocating number of monsters - it was the tide of monsters.

I am grass.

Why is there a tide of monsters? ? ?

Lin Yanming officially collapsed.

Be sick!Why are you still such a joker! !Can't you let him breathe a sigh of relief! ! !

And... Those monsters are not those ugly and weird species that he has never seen before, but serious ground monsters, all of them have cold silver-white collars on their necks without exception, and all kinds of lights are shining on them. The colors of the game - blue, yellow, and red for the bosses of the area.

Shi An suddenly came back to his senses and exclaimed, "Oh!"

He seemed to suddenly think of something, and reached out to touch his pocket.

A small bag was pulled out, and it was stuffed full of unknown spices.

Shi An quietly said to the magic worm:

"That... I think the gap in the abyss seems to be able to sharpen the sense of smell of the monsters on the ground."

Demon worm: "...haha, yes."

Otherwise, what do you think! ! !

Lin Yanming noticed the small bag in Shi An's hand, combined with his previous experience, he suddenly had a very bad premonition in his heart.

His throat was tight, his voice trembling and erratic:

"The one you're holding, yes, what is it?"

"Oh, this one, it was stuffed into the backpack by the boy before."

Shi An scratched his head: "I don't know exactly what it is, but it seems to be able to attract monsters and make them mad."

Lin Yanming: "........."

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath slowly, and desperately restrained his strong urge to slam his head to the ground.

——If time can be turned back, he must go back to the moment when he formed a team with Shi'an, and then give himself a punch! ! !