I'm only three years old, how could it be a world-ending catastrophe?

When Chen Xue arrived outside Li Zheng's ward, she saw Zhao Haidong and Li Zheng chatting and laughing inside.

team leader……

He is not dead!

That Nightmare in the Mirror just now wasn't the captain!

This is really...wonderful!

Chen Xue finally felt relieved.

She didn't go in, but waited quietly outside the ward.

A few minutes later, the ward door was opened, and Zhao Haidong came out and walked in one direction. Chen Xue quickly followed him.

"Chief, is the captain here?"

Zhao Haidong knew what she was worried about.

He didn't stop walking and explained calmly, "Li Zheng is fine. As soon as I returned from Yanbei No. 1 Middle School, I had someone re-examine him with sophisticated instruments."

"The level of infection from the calamity power within him is still extremely low, and there are no signs of it spreading."

Upon hearing this, Chen Xue finally breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good..."

"but……"

Zhao Haidong changed the subject, his brows furrowing again. "What I don't understand is, if that Nightmare in the Mirror isn't Li Zheng, then why would it use Li Zheng's techniques?"

"Also, these two Mirror Nightmares are both in Dongzhou, so they must know each other, right? Then they should also know that Jiang Luo killed the Super S-rank Mirror Nightmares yesterday, and they should understand how powerful Jiang Luo is."

"If that's the case..."

"Why would it, with only an A-level rating, actively attack Jiang Luo?"

"How is this any different from sending someone to their death?"

A series of questions completely baffled Chen Xue.

She simply couldn't understand why she had so many doubts!

Zhao Haidong wasn't trying to get answers from the other person; he was just using the conversation to clarify his thoughts, so he didn't look that disappointed.

"In short, this matter must be thoroughly investigated!"

Zhao Haidong had a vague feeling that the sudden attack of this Nightmare in the Mirror was not as simple as it seemed on the surface!

There must be something important hidden behind this that he doesn't know about!

Chen Xue nodded, indicating that she understood.

At this time.

Zhao Haidong's cell phone rang.

When Zhao Haidong answered the call, his expression changed drastically.

"What did you say?!"

"Okay, I understand..."

After Zhao Haidong hung up the phone, Chen Xue couldn't help but ask, "Director... has some kind of disaster happened again?"

"no……"

Zhao Haidong shook his head, his tone grave, "It's the Jiang family; they're probably in great danger..."

……

Meanwhile, in Li Zheng's hospital room.

Watching Zhao Haidong and Chen Xue's figures disappear at the end of the corridor, the smile on Li Zheng's face gradually faded, finally turning into indifference.

Those once clear eyes had, without anyone noticing, been covered by a thick layer of scarlet.

He stretched out his hand and made a light sweeping motion in the air in front of him.

The next second, a portal appeared in the air in front of them.

Li Zheng put his hand inside.

A moment later, he took something out of it.

That was a...

Human leg!

Without any hesitation, Li Zheng opened his mouth and took a bite.

The sounds of flesh being torn apart and bones being chewed were particularly jarring in the quiet hospital room.

On his face was a deep-seated satisfaction.

Behind him.

A lens the size of a fingernail is floating in mid-air.

Through the lens, a bloodshot eyeball silently observes this scene...

……

"little things……"

"You are truly... the perfect bait!!!"

The whisper, seemingly from the depths of hell, rang close to Jiang Luo's ear, startling him so much that he abruptly opened his eyes.

He found himself still lying on the small bed in the room, with the sunlight streaming in through the window, warming the blankets.

Everything in the room was exactly the same as it had been before he went to sleep.

Jiang Luo frowned.

Was that sound just now a hallucination?

Do not!

wrong!

Jiang Luo quickly noticed something was wrong.

It's too quiet.

It was unusually quiet.

There was no noise of traffic outside the window, no sound of neighboring children running around upstairs, and even the sparrows that usually chirped on the windowsill were nowhere to be seen.

The whole world seemed to have been muted.

Jiang Luo immediately jumped off the bed and ran out of the room barefoot without even putting on shoes.

The living room was empty.

"Old Deng?"

"mom?"

"sister?"

He called out tentatively a few times, his voice echoing in the empty living room, but there was no response.

He then ran to the kitchen, the bathroom, Lu Yao's bedroom, his parents' bedroom...

I looked through all the rooms.

There was still no one there.

This made Jiang Luo frown even more deeply.

It's alright that Mom and Lu Yao are gone.

The key issue is that the whole world seems to be dead.

He wasn't standing on a wide, empty road; there wasn't a single car or pedestrian.

just like……

It was as if everyone in the world had vanished into thin air during the short time he was asleep.

Jiang Luo thought for a moment, then rushed to the door and opened it.

The door to Xu Niannian's house across the street was tightly closed.

He ran over and pounded on the door, then rang the doorbell several times, but there was no response from inside.

He then ran up and down the stairs, knocking on doors from house to house.

The result is the same.

The entire building, and even the entire neighborhood, has become a ghost town.

Not only his family, but also his little family, as well as the uncles, aunts, grandpas and grandmas who usually gathered downstairs to chat, all disappeared.

"no……"

"I only took a quick nap, how did it turn out like this?"

"What the hell is going on?!"

Jiang Luo scratched her hair in a state of near collapse and plopped down on the cold stairs.

Just then, a light laugh with a hint of mockery suddenly rang out behind him.

"That's because... I wanted to have a proper talk with you, so I made everyone else in this world completely, utterly disappear, my perfect little one!"

Jiang Luo was startled.

"Who?!"

He turned around abruptly.

There was no one behind.

He looked around warily, but there was no other living thing in the corridor besides himself.

But the instant Jiang Luo lowered his head...

He saw it!

The shadow cast on the ground...

It actually stood up on its own!

The dark shadow seemed to be alive, twisting and stretching on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, like a snake shedding its skin, the darkness on the surface of the shadow began to peel away, revealing what was inside.

It was a human figure that was taller and thinner than a normal person.

It has no facial features; its head is a smooth, slightly concave curved surface.

Its hands hung down at its sides, its fingers were disproportionately long, and its fingertips were black, like charred charcoal.

It turned its head to the side, and its faceless head tilted slightly towards Jiang Luo, as if it were scrutinizing him, or perhaps smiling silently.

Jiang Luo was stunned.

"Are you...my shadow?"

"No……"

The thing shook its head, its voice resounding directly in Jiang Luo's mind, carrying an ancient and vast quality, "You can call me the [Lord of Nothingness]! Of course, you can also call me, the Cataclysmic Calamity!"