The blood moon hid behind the clouds, unwilling to witness the human tragedy below.

Only the white snow on the ground provided faint light, casting the world in a pale, deathly pallor.

The incessant heavy snowfall had finally stopped.

Around the school—no, throughout the entire Rong City—the Anomalies seemed to have received some kind of signal at this moment.

Whether near the school or elsewhere, all those bizarre, misshapen existences simultaneously raised their heads to look toward Rong City Second Elementary School.

Some hid in residential buildings, others in deserted hotels, and still others in government office buildings.

Some humanoid, some bestial, they all began moving toward the Second Elementary School.

If viewed from above, one could see that the Second Elementary School was already surrounded by a dense ring of Anomalies.

Countless Anomalies were converging from all directions.

For a moment, other areas of Rong City actually formed a brief vacuum safety zone.

Chu Che sensed these abnormal movements among the Anomalies, and for the first time, this usually composed captain turned pale.

"Yezi, this time... I'm afraid we're... finished!"

"Yezi..."

Chu Che turned his head, only to discover that Chen Ye had already vanished.

"Damn it..."

"Captain! Don't worry, even if I die, I'll die before you!"

Just as Chu Che was panicking, a strong figure stepped in front of him.

Iron Lion—or rather, the Mad Lion personality—had awakened.

The massive physique and ferocious aura gave Chu Che some sense of security.

"Mad Lion, you're the one I can count on. That bastard Chen Ye..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he saw Mad Lion's large face twist into a ferocious grin: "Hehe... this time, I can finally have some real fun, awooo... here I come..."

As soon as these words were spoken, Mad Lion charged toward the classroom door like a tank, creating a hurricane-like gust.

The classroom door was completely smashed off its hinges by this brute.

Along with the cardboard and plastic sheets sealing the balcony, everything was torn open by the massive body.

Cold wind instantly poured in...

Leaving Chu Che standing bewildered in the icy blast.

Damn you, didn't you say you were going to protect me?

"Grandsons, your granddaddy is here!"

Mad Lion leaped directly from the fourth floor, descending like an iron tower from the sky, stirring up a cloud of snow upon impact and smashing a large crater into the hardened ground.

The campus was now filled with countless white Crawlers, spreading toward the teaching building.

Iron Lion laughed heartily, punching one grotesque face after another, sending them flying.

But in the next second, countless more grotesque faces swarmed over him.

"You fucking..."

Chu Che had just managed to curse three words when he saw the convoy assistant Xiao Wang appear anxiously at the classroom door.

Not just Xiao Wang alone, but also Xue Nan, Xu Lina, Zhou Xiaoxiao...

"Captain, there are... Anomalies, so many Anomalies, what should we do?"

"What else can we do? Grab Old Bao and run!"

"Did you prepare the things I told you to get ready earlier?"

"Yes, Captain..."

Chu Che's thinking aligned with Chen Ye's—fighting the Anomalies now would be the stupidest move.

Forget about the Anomalies' superhuman vitality, just their numbers alone made them impossible to eliminate completely.

These Crawlers in the school were merely the lowest combat force among Rong City's Anomalies.

Those terrifying auras hadn't even appeared yet.

Even though Chen Ye had now reached Sequence 2 Mist Barrier Master, he still didn't consider himself a match for so many Anomalies.

Moreover, the surrounding Anomalies would only keep increasing.

At this moment, Chen Ye stood in the shadows of the teaching building, his Smoke Breath having completely filled this corner, burying his own form within it.

This smoke mist was quite different from previous versions.

This was the ability of Smoke Apostle Sequence 2 Mist Barrier Master—an absolute aura concealment upgraded from the basic smoke mist. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Previous smoke mists could only block the vision of Anomalies or people.

Anomalies came in countless varieties, and against some with keen perception abilities, the smoke mist might not be very effective.

Or against Anomalies with superhuman smell or hearing, the smoke mist would seem somewhat weak.

After advancing to Mist Barrier Master, the concealing ability of the smoke mist had been enhanced.

Whether vision, smell, hearing, or perception—as long as within the smoke mist's range, all would be blocked.

Anyone entering the smoke mist area would experience blindness, deafness, loss of smell, and perceptual confusion.

Unless it was Chen Ye himself.

Otherwise, no one could locate Chen Ye's position under the current absolute aura concealment.

Several Crawlers had just passed by the smoke mist area but completely failed to detect the living person hidden in the darkness nearby.

Of course, no ability was perfect.

This ability had both advantages and disadvantages—the drawback being it couldn't move with him.

Otherwise, this ability would definitely surpass Captain Chu Che's Concealment Barrier.

Chen Ye's current position happened to be the closest to the Apocalyptic Pickup Truck.

Chen Ye had already decided that as soon as an opportunity appeared, he would dash toward the Apocalyptic Pickup Truck without hesitation.

However, what made Chen Ye extremely wary were the several massive aura presences standing around the school's perimeter.

Among them were clearly the Octopus Anomaly floating in the air, the snow-white Snow Woman, and several other bizarre-shaped shadows.

One massive figure with a wolf head kept sniffing the air with its nose.

Before Chen Ye had time to deploy his absolute aura barrier mist, this giant wolf had been sniffing in this direction for quite a while.

Fortunately, Chen Ye reacted quickly, rapidly covering his own aura with the absolute aura barrier mist.

Each of these shadows made Chen Ye feel deeply apprehensive.

Even though confident in his absolute aura barrier mist, Chen Ye still didn't dare move recklessly.

Who knew what abilities these Anomalies possessed!

While Chen Ye was slacking off in his corner of the battlefield.

The Crawlers had already approached the teaching building.

The teaching building's stairways were packed with white Crawlers.

Some Crawlers were even climbing up the building's exterior walls, using hands and feet to search for signs of living beings.

Screams began emerging from within the teaching building, and some could even see Crawlers violently smashing classroom windows.

"It's... it's Anomalies!"

"There are Anomalies, quickly inform the Bishop!"

"Superhumans, we need Superhumans, only they can deal with Anomalies!"

"Oh my god..."

"Blood Tears of Compassion, Bones Paving the Divine Path! Our Lord above, witness the end times!"

Instantly, the entire Second Elementary School teaching building descended into complete chaos.

Suddenly! Brilliant flames erupted from the third floor.

A Fire Dragon surged out from a classroom, accompanied by dragon-like roars.

The plastic sheets and cardboard sealing the third-floor corridor instantly caught fire, with sparks spreading to the sealing materials on the second and fourth floors, beginning to blaze fiercely.

As soon as the Fire Dragon appeared, it coiled around the entire teaching building, and the Crawlers that had just climbed up turned into puffs of black ash before they could even scream.

A young girl stood on the third-floor corridor railing, her pink hair flying in the night wind.

She wore a white down jacket on top, while below showed long, pale, slender, straight legs, with high-top sneakers on her feet.

If an ordinary person dressed like this in such freezing temperatures, they'd probably be called insane.

But on this girl, it didn't seem strange at all.

Especially in this environment.

The Fire Dragon coiled around the girl, accentuating her current appearance, making her resemble a goddess.

The survivors who saw her all had starlight shining in their eyes!

The girl's current image formed a stark contrast with Chen Ye's slacking-off demeanor.