Chapter 6 Despair

The black wooden horse's left eye blinked. When it opened again, the statues hadn't moved or split again.

"Phew, that's great."

He sighed in relief, blinking his dry, unbearable right eye.

As long as his eyes blinked alternately, he wouldn't trigger the statues' "switch."

So, the question became, how could he get rid of these statues that couldn't be killed or destroyed?

The black wooden horse checked his backpack, but didn't find any suitable props or equipment inside.

To make matters worse, he discovered that the walkie-talkie he used to contact his two teammates had fallen at the foot of a statue and had been smashed into two pieces.

It was probably broken when he fired the rocket launcher and was attacked by the enemy just now.

Mission Objective: Resolve seven supernatural events, currently completed 5/7

A system prompt suddenly sounded in his ear. The black wooden horse immediately realized that his teammate, Li Risheng, had probably resolved the supernatural event in the swimming pool.

The black wooden horse was overjoyed, but immediately sank into despair.

Putting himself in Li Risheng's shoes, that teammate was probably dialing the walkie-talkie, trying to contact his teammates.

After discovering that he couldn't contact the black wooden horse, Li Risheng most likely wouldn't come to the art building to rescue him, but would instead go to the last unsearched club activity building in Ibaraki Middle School.

Because now there were only ten minutes left until the final deadline of sunset, and there was still a distance between the art building and the swimming pool.

Instead of spending precious time coming to the rescue, it would be better to trust that the black wooden horse had a chance to independently resolve the sixth supernatural event, while he himself went to the location of the seventh supernatural event, letting the Plague Doctor come over to help.

In this way, the mission squad could complete the mission with maximum efficiency—which was also the safest and most reliable way to clear the level.

This was the black wooden horse's prediction of Li Risheng's actions.

As for that Plague Doctor... he had already suffered heavy damage in the school infirmary, and even if he managed to rush over, he wouldn't be able to climb the walls of the building to provide support.

Without the means to contact his teammates, and unable to leave this corridor, watching the sun about to set, the black wooden horse felt deeply overwhelmed by despair.

He had no other options.

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On the other side of Ibaraki Middle School, Li Ang ran out of the swimming pool, hanging up the walkie-talkie as he ran.

There were only about ten minutes left before the sun completely sank below the horizon. This was probably the implicit time limit set by the system.

As the black wooden horse had predicted, after discovering that only he and the Plague Doctor were on the communication channel, Li Ang decisively asked the Plague Doctor to come over and help.

He himself would continue to carry out the mission, resolving the seventh supernatural event before the deadline arrived.

He was willing to trust the black wooden horse and the Plague Doctor to a certain extent.

If the black wooden horse still hadn't completed the mission after the seventh supernatural event was resolved, then he would turn back and go to the art building to provide support... or clean up.

Li Ang ran against the strong wind towards the club activity building.

Arriving at the building, Li Ang kicked open the gate that was sealed and locked with iron chains, carrying the iron rod and rushing into the building.

This two-story club activity building could be said to be the most dilapidated and old building in the entire Ibaraki Middle School. It was converted from an old teaching building decades ago.

According to the map at the school gate, the school would build a new building in the northeast corner of the school in the future to serve as a new club activity center.

This old club activity building would probably be demolished before long.

Squeak————

The sound of the iron rod dragging across the wooden floor was extremely harsh. Li Ang relied on the spider claws extending from his spine to walk through the corridor.

"Is anyone there?"

Li Ang's friendly voice echoed in the club activity building. He smashed open one wooden door after another with the steel rod, throwing away pieces of the floor, and breaking down walls.

He said gently, "Come out and let's have a good talk, okay?"

His current appearance was comparable to a bizarre monster in a B-grade horror movie. Combined with the steel rod in his hand, which was as thick as a bowl, he didn't look like he would "have a good talk" with anyone.

Li Ang didn't expect to be able to find the source of the supernatural event and resolve it properly in such a short time.

Since there wasn't enough time, it would be better to take a more direct approach...

After tearing down a few walls, he took out several packages tied with black tape from his backpack. Each package had a half-disassembled Casio f-91w digital watch attached to it.

These packages were simple IED explosive devices that Li Ang had made himself. They had a large amount of explosives and considerable power. They could not only be triggered automatically, but also be set to a timed mode.

Li Ang originally used these IEDs for building assaults and laying mines in the wild, but they could also be used now.

"Unlike other buildings in Ibaraki Middle School, this club activity building is quite old. The load-bearing walls will collapse as soon as they're bombed. As long as the placement is appropriate, a dozen IEDs are enough to collapse the entire building."

As an ordinary netizen who likes to surf the Internet, it's normal for Li Ang to master engineering explosive skills.

He used the Casio f-91w digital watch to set the time for all the IEDs and placed them under the load-bearing walls on the first floor.

After preparing, he walked out of the building and silently began to count down.

Ten, nine, ... three, two, one.

Boom————

A series of explosions resounded through the sky. A flash of fire swept through the building. The explosive shock wave directly shattered all the glass, and glass shards scattered everywhere.

Li Ang stood outside the building, silently watching the dilapidated club activity building collapse in place.

The billowing smoke and dust were quickly blown away by the howling wind. With the help of the cat eye's detection function, Li Ang saw a two-story-high wall standing alone in the collapsed ruins.

That wall was unremarkable, except that at the height of the second floor, there was a tiny, almost imperceptible green spot, as if it had been parasitized and corroded by mold.

Li Ang walked over with the steel rod and swept off the lower half of the wall with a single blow.

The wall collapsed in response. Li Ang raised the rod and smashed the reinforced concrete structure around the green spot, one blow after another.

As the rubble fell away, the internal structure of the wall gradually became clear.

The green spot, which was originally just a small spot on the surface of the wall, became larger and larger inside the wall, like a washbasin.

It was even possible to distinguish from the details of the green spot that it was a hideous, desperate, and terrified human face.

Li Ang remained silent and continued to smash.

A small piece of gray cloth scrap was revealed from the concrete. Then, there was a piece of clothing, an arm, and a head.

Buried in a wall on the second floor of the Ibaraki Middle School club activity building was a person, a person who had been dead for decades.