Dragon Clan: Avoid the College Entrance Examination to Slay the Dragon

Chapter 14 Mysterious Man

Gu Yi's knees sank deep into the ground, gravel piercing his trouser legs and digging into his flesh. An invisible weight, like a collapsing mountain, pressed down on his shoulders, and a sweet, rusty taste rose in his throat. He could hear his bones creaking under the weight, but he still used his trembling right arm to support himself, refusing to kneel completely.

"Does this really have to happen for you to talk properly?" The man sighed softly, raising his fingertips slightly. The oppressive feeling on Gu Yi suddenly subsided a little. The force was calculated with extreme precision, just enough for him to breathe, but not enough for him to get up.

"Time is running out. The 'raven' outside will be in soon." The man shook his head. "Gu Yi, your anger is completely unnecessary. Chu Zihang is not dead. Not only has he awakened his Word Spirit, he also tricked that idiot. He's hiding nearby and wants to sneak up on him and kill him."

"He's not dead?" The cold pond in Gu Yi's eyes suddenly rippled. "What is a Word Spirit?"

From the distant playground came the hissing sound of melting asphalt. Six streams of molten golden light were carving hideous furrows into the grass. The man glanced at the gradually forming runes.

"Let Raven explain all this later. Gu Yi, because of your awakening, many forces will begin to take action, either actively or passively. You are like a variable that suddenly appears on the chessboard, disrupting the existing balance and even changing the entire situation."

"Are you going to threaten me in this way?" Gu Yi's joints made crisp sounds under the pressure of gravity, but he still held his head high and spoke in a cold voice.

"Threat?" The man smiled. "No, I never use force. I simply want to remind you that your choice of side determines your future destiny. Consider this early awakening of your bloodline as a gesture of goodwill on my part."

"You let monsters attack my family and scum attack my friends. Is this what you call kindness?" Gu Yi's knuckles were cracked and bleeding. He stabbed the dagger into the ground inch by inch to prop himself up. "How about I cut two bloody holes in your face as a return gift?"

"Ah, you care about that." The man waved his hand, "It's okay. I'll leave this person to you later. The 'Ravens' are about to come in. Ryan, it's time for you to end it."

His figure suddenly rippled like water ripples, and then disappeared suddenly like an erased charcoal drawing.

The air suddenly cracked like a spiderweb, and the blond man was ejected like a squeezed fruit core. He crossed his arms over his chest, his wrists ringed with centipede-like suture scars. The two severed hands that should have been lying in a pool of blood were now forcibly glued together at the joints by dark purple granulation tissue.

When his dilated pupils caught sight of Gu Yi's figure, he let out a drowning gasp in his throat, "Can we reconcile?"

The moment Gu Yi leaped forward, the dagger ripped through the air with a trembling sound like a dragon's roar. Ryan hastily blocked the blow with his broken bone blade. As metal clashed, he saw a golden storm erupting from the depths of the boy's pupils. That was not a look a human should have.

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The sirens pierced the tranquility of the campus. Chen Wenwen's knuckles turned white as she clutched the roster. The two names at the end, their ink still wet, seemed to burn her vision—Gu Yi and Lu Mingfei.

She looked around for the third time at the students lined up on the east side of the playground. The wind blew scattered test papers across the empty gaps in the queue.

Our homeroom teacher, Teacher Zhang, rushed over clutching a megaphone, his uniform collar crookedly stuck at his neck. "Xiao Chen, take the students to bus number three first!"

“But they.”

"I know," Teacher Zhang interrupted Chen Wenwen, "I'll go look for them. Take the students on the bus first, and then we'll do a headcount once we're on board!"

Chen Wenwen instinctively turned her head and suddenly saw three people approaching the school gate against the morning light. The young man leading the group was handsome, with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, and his black hair cascading down his forehead. His slim black uniform wrapped around his slender figure, at first glance, he looked like a newly graduated trainee teacher. "Hello, are you the homeroom teacher of Class 2-3?" The young man stopped five steps away, his voice as clear as an icy spring.

The head teacher clenched the roll call book in his hand, and the paper made a slight rustling sound. "Yes, what can I do for you? I am a student..."

"Excuse me, where is Gu Yi from your class?" Li Chengze asked, his eyes scanning the name tag on the head teacher's chest.

"He suddenly disappeared!" Chen Wenwen took a half step forward before the head teacher could speak. "And our classmate Lu Mingfei is missing too. We searched everywhere, including the gymnasium and the laboratory building."

Li Chengze tilted his head slightly, his eyes falling on the girl's cheeks that were flushed with anxiety, "Thank you."

As he turned to face his homeroom teacher, he suddenly heard the sound of orderly footsteps in the distance. A burly man in police combat boots strode toward him, the national emblem overhead casting a reassuring glow in the sunlight.

"Comrade, I'm Chen Jianguo, captain of the Binhai City Criminal Investigation Detachment." The middle-aged officer flashed his ID. "Please trust the police. We promise to bring the children back safely. Now, evacuate the children first, okay?"

Chen Wenwen wanted to say something, but Teacher Zhang firmly held her trembling shoulders and said, "Trust the police."

At the moment the bus engine roared, Chen Wenwen saw Li Chengze say something into the headset, and then a large number of people in black rushed into the campus and began to assemble something on the playground.

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Li Chengze's brow furrowed into a cold frown. He was uneasy about the news that the advance team had just reported that they had been blocked.

A gilded vortex emitted a humming sound like boiling lava on the playground. However, every time the commandos tried to break in, fine energy ripples would appear on the surface of the passage. Those blue-gray light films swallowed and spit out dark gold spells like living things, repelling all the fully armed special agents.

Seeing this, Li Chengze ordered the simultaneous opening of six passages. Six golden vortices blossomed across the playground, while the same cyan film of light appeared alongside them. This was clearly a deliberate delaying tactic. The seventy-plus commandos exchanged bewilderment. Someone was deliberately trying to slow them down, and it was clear they had succeeded.

The golden light emanating from the passageway illuminated Li Chengze's eyes to a platinum hue. He gazed at the rippling barrier's surface, the fine patterns of light gradually dimming as he cracked it. How could a half-blood be capable of such a spatial restriction? There must be a mastermind behind all this happening in Binhai, and the battlefield they were about to enter would likely bring them into direct confrontation with this mysterious mastermind.

"Report, ready to break through." A man in black reported.

"Open the passage."

The young commander's pupils were ignited by the surging golden light. The collapsing tunnel erupted with a burst of intense light at its critical point, and his black hair danced wildly like a banner in the turbulent energy. "Assault team, follow me in."

He pulled off the communicator that was blown away by the air wave and said, "Remember, try to catch them alive."

Li Chengze's command was like a scalpel cutting through the stagnant air. The entire assault team cut into the vortex of light from different directions.

(End of this chapter)