Chapter 24 Taking it personally: Can you teach me?

Deep inside the No. 2 storage workshop.

The red dot is still flashing.

Very fine.

It was very dark.

It was stuck in the innermost mezzanine of the floor plan, bouncing back and forth.

On the main screen, the settlement information from earlier has not yet been removed.

[Zone 3: Xu Du, 50 seconds.]

[Section 1: Lin Xue, 90 seconds.]

[Second Zone: Deng Qi, 120 seconds.]

But the next line of red text had already appeared.

[Warning: Residual Yin energy activity detected in the mezzanine of Zone 2.]

[The target was not included in the initial clearance count.]

[Event Level: To be determined.]

Deng Qi stood at the entrance of the No. 2 storage workshop.

The silver halberd in his hand still gleamed with silver patterns.

He just came out from here.

He personally cleaned up Zone Two.

The main screen also marked the completion.

But now, the red dot has lit up in Zone 2 again.

No one spoke from Jing Gui's side.

No one spoke on Jiang Gui's side either.

Only Song Lin stared at the recording screen, his face darkening.

"Inside the interlayer."

"There's something else."

Deng Qi said coldly, "I saw it."

He turned around and was about to rush back in.

On the other side, the side door of the old die-casting workshop No. 3 had already been opened.

Xu Du carried the white paper soul-guiding lamp and walked towards Zone Two.

Behind him, dozens of blank sheets of paper floated up again.

They didn't fly around randomly.

It didn't explode.

Those white sheets of paper, clinging to the shadows of the factory, crept into the No. 2 storage workshop first, through the side windows, exhaust pipes, and the edges of wall cracks.

Like a silent white shadow.

Deng Qi saw this and his face darkened.

"This is my district."

Xu Du didn't look at him.

"Get out of the way."

Two words.

not tall.

But it's very hard.

Deng Qi gripped the Demon-Slaying Silver Halberd tightly.

The evil-breaking pattern on the halberd blade shone brighter.

Lin Xue walked from the direction of Assembly Workshop No. 1.

The Nine-Section Frost Bone Whip had already been retracted into his wrist.

She glanced at the main screen, then at the red dot in zone two.

He didn't speak.

Teacher Chen magnified the data from the mezzanine in Zone 2.

[Interlayer anomaly: Not fully visible.]

Risk of pollution backflow: 41%.

[Estimated spillover time: 90 seconds.]

90 seconds.

When this number appeared, Deng Qi's expression turned even colder.

He just finished clearing Zone 2, which took him 120 seconds.

The target in the mezzanine that he didn't detect could potentially spill out in 90 seconds.

On the other side of the Jinggui, someone lowered their voice.

"—Targets in the middle are the most troublesome, bro."

"The Silver Halberd of Shattering Evil is not easy to enter."

"Forcibly removing the shelves will cause a massive contamination explosion."

'

""

"Did he finish calculating just now?"

No one answered.

Because the screen already explains it.

Deng Qiqing's target was the one that was obvious.

The interlayer is not closed yet.

Xu Du walked into the No. 2 storage workshop.

Deng Qi followed him inside.

He paused for a moment as soon as he entered the room.

The No. 2 storage workshop has changed.

The shelves, walls, ceilings, and drain openings that he had just chopped up were all covered with white paper.

Not just one or two.

It's layer by layer.

On the back of the shelf, a dozen or so sealed paper orders covered the gaps.

There was a crack in the ceiling, and several sheets of paper with the word "protect" on them were pasted on the outer edge.

Along the gray lines on the wall, one sheet of paper with the character "镇" (zhen, meaning "town") was pressed inwards.

At the innermost compartment, a dozen or so paper orders with the character "灭" (extermination) were already hanging there.

Four types of characters.

Four layers of white paper.

Extinction.

seal up.

护。

town.

There was no flame.

There was no sound of halberds.

There are no frost patterns.

But the entire wall looked like it had been taken over by a blank sheet of paper.

Deng Qi's expression changed.

Before he came in, the white paper was still behind Xu Du.

When he came in, Section Two was already covered with posters.

The students at the Kyoto Ghost University fell silent when they saw this scene on the surveillance camera.

"—When was it posted?"

"Wasn't he just in Zone 3 a moment ago?"

"—Did the paper get in through the side window?"

Holy crap.

"Four types of characters."

"—Is this a rune array?"

"The rune array won't be that fast, bro."

Teacher Chen lowered his head to take notes.

On the right side of the main screen, the data begins to refresh.

[The mezzanine in Zone 2 is becoming visible.]

[Residual Yin Energy: 18.]

[Medium-risk disease core: 1.]

[Risk of pollution backflow: 41% → 26%]

Deng Qi's expression darkened further as he looked at the line "medium-risk disease core".

Really.

This is not a false alarm from the system.

It wasn't Xu Du who stole his district.

He really did leak it just now.

Deep within the interlayer, grayish-green pollution slowly swells up.

A lump of flesh-like disease-causing core squeezed out of the wall, with more than a dozen black lines extending from its surface, connected to eighteen Yin-causing entities that had not yet fully manifested.

As soon as it appeared, it shrank back into the wall.

Deng Qi raised the Demon-Slaying Silver Halberd.

"I'll do it."

Xu Du only said two words.

"It will explode."

Deng started to make a move.

The next second, a new warning popped up on the main screen.

[A forceful attack on the pathogenic nucleus increases the risk of a backflow of pollution.]

[Forecasted leakage rate: 32% to 49%]

Deng Qi's hand froze in mid-air.

The silver patterns on the Demon-Slaying Silver Halberd lit up, then gradually dimmed.

No one speaks.

Xu Du didn't look at him again.

The white paper guiding lamp lights up by itself without fire.

The stark white light fell on that grotesque mass of disease.

The paper order with the character "镇" (zhen, meaning "town") on the wall was pressed inwards at the same time.

The black lines began to tighten.

The "seal" order was used to lock the outer edge of the interlayer.

The order to "protect" the workshop's main entrance and the external recording point was placed on a piece of paper.

Finally, one by one, the paper with the character "灭" (extinguish) was pasted with gray lines.

The numbers on the main screen start to jump.

[Residual Yin Energy in the Interlayer Removed: 5/18.]

[Residual Yin Energy in the Interlayer Removed: 11/18.]

[Activity of the Disease Core: 63% → 27%]

[Risk of pollution backflow: 26% → 9%]

On the other side of Jinggui, a student's throat moved slightly.

"—He wasn't finishing off the enemy."

"He is blocking the counter-current."

No one responded.

A few seconds later.

The last piece of paper with the character "镇" (zhen, meaning "town") was pasted on the wall.

The disease-causing core suddenly trembled.

All eighteen black lines snapped simultaneously.

The order to "annihilate" was suppressed.

A flash of deathly white light.

The gray-green pollution inside the wall collapsed silently.

[Residual Yin Energy in the Interlayer Removed: 18/18.]

[Medium-risk pathogen clearance: 1/1.]

Risk of pollution backflow: 0%.

[Zone 2 is now fully closed.]

[Time taken to complete closure: 31 seconds.]

31 seconds.

The No. 2 storage workshop fell silent.

Deng Qi stood there, his face gradually turning pale.

Xu Du came from Zone 3.

It only took 31 seconds.

They closed the interlayer that he hadn't noticed.

Moreover, the backflow of pollution is 0%.

Xu Du did not look at Deng Qi.

He carried a white paper lantern and shone it around the No. 2 storage workshop.

After confirming that the red dot had disappeared, I turned around and walked out.

Deng Qi suddenly spoke.

"etc."

Xu Du stopped.

Deng Qi stared at the wall covered with white paper.

The voice was harsh.

"When did you cover it all up?"

Xu Du did not reply.

Lin Xue stood at the side entrance of the workshop.

She looked at the four characters on the wall.

Open up.

"When I came in."

It paused for a moment.

"It's already like this."

The report channel fell completely silent.

This statement carries more weight than any explanation.

When Lin Xue arrived, the walls were already covered with posters.

In other words, when Deng Qigang raised his halberd to return to the district, Xu Du's blank paper had already taken over the mezzanine of the second district.

Deng Qi's face turned even paler.

He suddenly turned around, picked up the Broken Silver Halberd, and walked towards the No. 3 old die-casting workshop.

Song Lin was taken aback.

"Where are you going?"

Deng Qi did not answer.

He walked very fast.

He rushed into the old die-casting workshop No. 3.

Then stop.

The entire workshop was cleaner than Zone 2.

Next to the old die-casting machine, several sheets of burnt black paper were pasted on the base of the equipment.

A paper order with the character "封" (seal) was hanging on the crossbeam.

The word "town" is pressed down at the entrance of the ditch.

There were several grayed-out paper orders with the character "灭" (extinguish) on them inside the exhaust pipe.

Deep inside the workshop, the original hiding places of the twelve medium-risk pathogens had all been nailed together with white paper.

No residual red spots.

There was no backflow of pollution.

There was no abnormality in the interlayer.

The main screen will simultaneously display the verification data.

[The review of the three zones has been completed.]

[Residual Yin Energy: 0.]

[Residual pathogenic factors: 0.]

[Pollution diffusion rate: 0%]

[Pollution leakage: 0.4%]

[Risk of secondary backflow: 0%]

Deng Qi stood at the workshop entrance.

The Demon-Slaying Silver Halberd drooped down.

The students in Beijing watched the few lines of data through the monitor, and no one spoke.

In the seats of the Beijing guerrillas, after holding back for a long time, someone muttered something under their breath.

"—Didn't he just say not to get the paper wet?"

""

The person next to him didn't answer.

The main screen begins final calculations.

[Joint Training Task: The Evil Spirit Cluster of an Abandoned Factory in the Suburbs of Jiangcheng.]

[Task Rating: C]

[Head of District One: Lin Xue]

[Completion time: 90 seconds.]

[Pollution leakage: Low.]

[Second District Head: Deng Qi]

Initial cleanup time: 120 seconds.

[Interlayer anomaly: Xu Du supplemented the closure.]

[Time taken to complete closure: 31 seconds.]

[Head of the Third District: Xu Du.]

[Completion time: 50 seconds.]

[Pollution diffusion rate: 0%]

[Pollution leakage: 0.4%]

The screen pauses for one second.

The last three lines will pop up.

[The overall contribution rate calculation is complete.]

[Xu Du: 67%]

[Lin Xue: 22%]

[Deng Qi: 11%.]

Outside the factory area, it was completely quiet.

67%.

22%.

11%.

This number is too glaring.

Lin Xue is an A+ Nine-Section Frost Bone Whip.

Deng Qi possesses an A-grade Shattering Silver Halberd.

Xu Du brought a box of blank talisman paper.

However, in terms of final contribution, Xu Du alone surpassed the combined contribution of the two others.

No one laughed anymore on Jing Gui's side.

No one looked down on that white supply crate anymore.

On the main screen, below Xu Du's section, new reviews are being generated.

[Practical Evaluation: Cross-regional lockdown.]

[Practical evaluation: Layer closure.]

[Practical Evaluation: Mass Elimination.]

Standard consumable: Blank talisman paper.

[Actual consumption: Registering.]

Teacher Chen adjusted his glasses and saved all the data synchronously.

Zhao Heng looked at the screen and said only one sentence: "Record it."

The members of the third action team immediately lowered their heads and began operating.

Lin Qingzhu stood beside the command vehicle, her expression calm.

But Jinggui's expression had changed.

He looked at the line "Standard Consumables: Blank Symbol Paper".

Looked for a long time.

Deng Qi walked out of Zone 3.

His face had turned pale.

He looked at Xu Du.

Xu Du was squatting at the entrance of the No. 2 storage workshop, collecting paper.

Set the charred pieces aside.

It's still usable, so flatten it and put it back in your hand.

The white paper lantern, meant to guide the soul, burned quietly.

It was as if nothing had happened.

Deng Qi stared at the few blank sheets of paper for a long time before finally managing to squeeze out a sentence.

"This is not a ghost-suppressing ritual."

He paused for a moment.

"That's cheating."

Xu Du ignored him.

He folded the last few usable sheets of paper and put them back on the edge of the supply box.

The movements were very steady.

Zhou Cheng stood in the center of the factory area.

He glanced at the main screen.

67%.

Then, he gripped the thunder-patterned peach wood sword tightly, turned around, and left.

No congratulations.

There was no mockery.

He didn't even look at Xu Du.

Song Lin saw it.

I didn't pursue it.

Lin Xue walked into the No. 2 storage workshop.

She didn't look at the contribution rate.

She was looking at the white paper on the wall.

Extinction.

seal up.

护。

town.

Four different characters, posted in the same area.

Each layer was not randomly pasted.

Extinction within.

Suppressing nuclear weapons.

Seal the seam.

Protect the border.

She stared at it for a long time.

All the students in Beijing were watching her.

No one spoke on Jiang Gui's side either.

Lin Xue finally looked up at Xu Du.

Xu Du had already picked up the white paper soul-guiding lamp.

A black cloth covered half of the lamp paper.

Only a sliver of pale light peeked out.

Lin Xue spoke.

"Your handwriting."

Xu Du looked at her.

Lin Xue paused for a moment.

Then ask, "Can you teach me?"

The factory area fell silent once again.

Deng Qi suddenly looked up.

All the students in the Beijing Gui Academy looked at Lin Xue.

No one spoke on Jiang Gui's side either.

This statement carries more weight than the contribution rate.

The white paper-drawn soul-guiding lamp lit up without flame under the black cloth.

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