Chapter 16 (1/2)
The moment Zhou Bai headed toward death, the gem hanging on Christina’s neck released a brilliant radiance.
In an instant, Zhou Bai felt everything around him stop. Then, as if a video being rewound, his body reassembled, recovered, and the blood on the ground returned to his body.
Bando, Alice, Elsa, and the rest– their blood all flowed backward, and they stood back up.
That snake-shaped Mara also slithered backward, turning into a cloud of black smoke, and withdrew into the vent duct.
All of this, the entire world rewound quickly, back to what it was five minutes ago.
When Zhou Bai felt time flow normally again, he saw before him an unscathed Bando. Behind him, Alice said, “No, it’s already Doomsday out there. We’ll die if we go out.”
“Lies! It’s all lies!” Bando said with agitation, “Teacher is lying! The humans outside have already found a way to resist Doomsday! Keeping us here is just for his personal desires.”
Watching the two of them talk, Zhou Bai came to a realization. He screamed in his mind, “What’s going on? Christina! What just happened?”
Christina screamed back, “We went back in time? Or did we foresee the future? I told you, this gem is very important. I told you it’s important!”
Zhou Bai looked at the gem that hung on Christina’s neck. The rhombus-shaped gem was now grey, and it even had tiny cracks creeping on its surface. It looks like it has exhausted its powers.
Christina almost broke into tears, “Ah! My gem! My gem is broken!”
Zhou Bai: “There’s no time.”
Recalling the future he saw before, Zhou Bai’s expression changed. He used his primordial spirit power to lift Bando up against his resistance.
“Everyone, follow me, hurry!” Zhou Bai saw those who were still hesitating and said, “Teacher set up a secret room in here. Everyone come over.”
Zhou Bai rapidly contemplated what he could do right now.
‘If that future is real, the main door hasn’t broken nor been opened. That means that the monster will come in through the vent duct. Neither Bando nor I am that monster’s match…crap.’
Then, in Bando’s shocked gaze, Zhou Bai brought everyone into the laboratory and opened the secret door with familiarity.
‘There’s no other option. Level 5 underground is a dead end. If we escape through the vent duct, we’ll run into that monster. The main door requires Professor Zhuang’s fingerprint to open…d*mn it.’
When the children saw the rows of corpses in the secret room, they all looked astonished.
Alice crouched on the ground, tears streaming down her face. She asked, “What…what is all of this?”
Elsa: “What’s going on? Am I dreaming?”
Bando scoffed and wanted to say something, but Zhou Bai didn’t want him to make the crowd that was already terrified even more shaken, so he used primordial spirit power to shut Bando’s mouth.
Zhou Bai thought to himself, “Everything in the secret room is real, which means that Mara is real too….’ As he thought this, he quickly lay on the ground. He needs to raise some Laziness first.
Zhou Bai, who was lying on the ground, looked at the children and said, “The enemy might attack us soon, everyone hide in the secret room…and mix yourself in with these corpses.”
As he said this, he ignored the children who were still opposed to the idea and used his primordial spirit power to sweep everyone up into the secret room. Then he closed the secret door.
Currently, Zhou Bai’s primordial spirit power was at 30 points. Although it still only had a 10-meter transmission range, it equated the strength of a few dozen adults, enough to control the children before him.
Yet how could these teenage children stay calm when they looked at the rows of corpses in the secret room? Especially those who looked exactly the same as themselves?
No matter what Zhou Bai said, most of them were lost in despair, fear, and hysteria.
Christina: “This won’t work, Zhou Bai. Their view of the world that has been shaped over so many years just got broken. How can they stay calm? You should knock them out.”
Zhou Bai sighed. He used his primordial spirit power to knock out all the children, including Bando.