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Chapter 60 - 60 56 The Teacher and the Container

60: Chapter 56: The Teacher and the Container 60: Chapter 56: The Teacher and the Container As a national key middle school,

Jupiter City Fourth Middle School has not had any accidents in its more than twenty years since its founding.

Even without incidents, the school still invested heavily in security management.

Ensuring no Physical Corners are formed and suppressing Pseudo-People as soon as they appear.

The entire school’s security team can be divided into two categories,

1.

[Security Team]: A market-second-level security team, though it doesn’t quite match up to first-level teams or higher-level investigators.

But each member has relatively rich combat experience and is equipped with suppression Combat Uniforms purchased from “the company,” similar to the mobile police seen in some movies.

They are often equipped with high-voltage electric batons, electric shock guns, tactical knives, etc.

Team leaders and above are allowed to carry 9mm caliber handguns (trigger blood test*).

*When the user pulls the trigger for the first time, a needle on the trigger will take some blood for testing, and only open the firearm safety after ruling out the identity of a Pseudo-Person.

*Since a large number of Pseudo-People are lurking within the country and their numbers are increasing daily, firearms are under extremely strict control.

2.

[Physical Education Teachers]

Often represent the school’s highest level; each physical education teacher is an undeniable force.

Aside from their own capabilities, physical education teachers typically possess a “Cornered Tool” or other Corner-related enhancements.

This is also why, despite numerous anomalies nationwide, schools always manage to maintain stability.

Nowadays,

The school, considered a safe zone, now faces dangers far beyond ordinary anomalies.

…

[Teaching Building Area]

Due to the nighttime physical tests, all students were gathered at the Sports Center.

Only teachers responsible for organizing cultural courses and logical thinking papers were still working overtime in the entire teaching building.

The moment the Seam formed,

A patrol team led by the head of the Security Team happened to pass by the teaching building, and the detection equipment in their hands immediately lit up red, indicating a strong anomaly reaction inside the building.

Considering the presence of physical education teachers at the track and field, the team leader decisively arranged for the patrol team to enter the teaching building for a comprehensive search.

Upon discovering any suspicious Pseudo-Persons, they would be immediately eliminated.

On the other side,

Toilets deep on the fifth floor of the teaching building.

Director of Academic Affairs – Dong Lan, who had stomach trouble, finally came out from the inside.

With a look of disgust on her face, she planned to pay a serious visit to the food supplier the next day.

She also had a task tonight,

She needed to go to the high school senior classroom office to check the organization of the school’s papers and, after the physical test ends, send the sealed papers to the transport vehicle.

But when Director Dong returned to the office, the teachers who should have been working there had disappeared, and some papers were even scattered on the floor.

“I was only gone for half an hour; where did these guys run off to?”

She became angry, ready to call and reprimand these teachers one by one, suddenly discovered that due to the new testing method, the school’s signal was blocked, and she couldn’t make any calls.

Having worked in Fourth Middle School for twenty years, she didn’t think of any worst-case scenarios, merely regarding the current situation as a “collective rebellion.”

Director Dong wouldn’t sort these papers herself; she immediately put on her high heels and headed towards the Security Room, using her authority to make the security pull out all these “disappeared” teachers.

Just as she hadn’t walked far from the office, she felt something was off.

The corridor on this floor seemed longer than usual; she couldn’t reach the corner no matter how far she walked, though she remembered it didn’t use to take this long from the office to the teaching area.

The sharp sound of her high heels was exceptionally piercing in the teaching building,

The lights in the corridors gradually dimmed, some even no longer illuminated.

Passing by the corner,

When she finally reached the classroom area where she was usually most confident, she couldn’t wear any serious or confident expression on her face.

The security she was looking for was right in front of her,

A row of fully-armed security personnel, standing in a line over the corridor’s handrails, took off their helmets.

Before Director Dong could speak, the security personnel one by one leaned forward and fell.

Thump!

Thump!

Thump!

Loud crashes and the sound of bones shattering came from below,

Director Dong was seriously frightened but still poked her head out to glance downstairs.

Below were not only the security personnel who had just jumped off, but more than a dozen security personnel had jumped earlier, all landing head first, shattered to pieces.

However, nothing but the bodies of the security personnel was downstairs; no teachers were there.

Director Dong wanted to run, but her legs were trembling uncontrollably.

Having immigrated here as a school administrator, she had never received any training.

Twenty years of peaceful campus life further flattened anything related to fear.

Just then,

Footsteps were heard coming from behind,

Director Dong turned around and saw, to her dismay, her least favorite humanities teacher, Guo Wendian.

But under the current circumstances, she couldn’t afford to be concerned with likes or dislikes; seeing any living person here was a blessing.

“Mr.

Guo, come help me quickly, we need to leave the school right now!

Hurry!

Call the investigator over!”

Even in a state of fear, Director Dong still communicated in a commanding manner,

Mr.

Guo, however, was not the least bit panicked.

His movements were as unhurried as usual, but he still walked over and extended his right hand.

However, the hand that reached out wasn’t offering support but instead lifted his right index finger, gently touching Director Dong’s forehead.

Ten seconds later,

Thump!

A body fell from the upper floor, landing headfirst into the ground, with an old-fashioned pair of black high heels hanging in the air, motionless.

Mr.

Guo looked at the scene with satisfaction, then headed toward the staircase.

He didn’t go downstairs; instead, he followed the stairs to the top floor of the teaching building, stepped onto the edge of the rooftop, and looked towards the direction of the Sports Center, as if confirming something.

He stood there for a few minutes until a knocking sound from behind interrupted him.

Turning around,

The source of the sound was a metal container placed on the rooftop, which housed the “Derivative” scheduled for this physical examination.

According to the school, a Derivative is just a corpse injected with a small amount of anomaly cells, equivalent in strength to a Pseudo-Person of less than half a year, and not a threat.

But Mr.

Guo approached the container with great caution,

After inspecting it all around, he placed his hand on the container’s hatch.

Click-click-click~

The alloy lock was completely distorted and destroyed by a force, revealing the “Derivative” inside,

a standing corpse.

However, a sheen flowed over the surface of the corpse, visible even in the darkness.

The corpse, like a newly resurrected scientific monster, stiffly walked out of the container and stood in front of Mr.

Guo, less than half a meter away.

Plop~ the eyeball slipped out.

The dark eye socket also radiated a strange luster, as if something was inside it.

Creep-creep~

A life-like, iridescent tentacle emerged from the eye socket, swaying in the air.

The seemingly slow and harmless tentacle suddenly sped up and stabbed towards Mr.

Guo.

Instead of stabbing directly, the tentacle deviated mid-way, brushing past the ear and missing its target.

The failed tentacle did not give up; it immediately turned around and launched an attack towards the back of Mr.

Guo’s head.

Buzz!

But the situation remained the same, each strike twisted by an invisible force just before hitting.

After five consecutive failed attacks, the tentacle ultimately gave up and remained suspended in front of Mr.

Guo,

the tip of the tentacle glowing green, as if conducting an observation through some special Perception, or perhaps the two were engaging in a non-verbal communication.

Approximately two minutes later,

The corpse reinserted its eyeball and no longer targeted Mr.

Guo.

Mr.

Guo seemed to have a new purpose, different from the original goal of the interstice screening, a rare smile appearing on his face.

…

[Capital – Earth City]

In the depths of a fortress-like gigantic metal building,

A middle-aged man with tidy parted hair was reading books in his own room, occasionally using a laptop for literary creation.

Ding-dong~ the doorbell rang

“Come in.”

At the man’s permission, a group of people clad in the highest level of protective gear opened the door but did not step one foot inside, the leader holding an object resembling a recording pen.

“Mr.

Kraft, could you please tell us how the current examinations in all schools are going?

Are your Derivatives still stable?”

“100% stable.

No anomalies.”

“Thank you for your cooperation.”