The gun's function is not only for killing. It also serves as a deterrent.
When the suddenly appearing monsters bring chaotic fear to people, only another kind of fear can momentarily calm them down.
"Who are you? Why do you have a gun?"
"Are you a cop?"
"Help! There are monsters in the school!"
"Help!!"
"..."
After a brief moment of hesitation, the students erupted again, crowding toward Lin QiYe. The sounds of shouting echoed through the entire school gate.
Lin QiYe frowned slightly, not retreating but advancing!
He pressed his finger lightly on the handle of the black box, and the side of the box opened rapidly. A sheathed straight sword shot out!
Lin QiYe swiftly gripped the hilt.
Clang—!
The straight sword was unsheathed!
The blade, glowing faintly blue, cut through the air with a slight buzzing sound, swiftly slashing toward the student at the front!
The student's pupils shrank sharply, and his entire head seemed to swell as though something was about to burst out of it!
However, Lin QiYe's sword struck first, severing his head!
A grotesque monster's head, full of blood and fangs, was thrown high into the air, and its sticky blood splattered all over the surrounding students. They stood there, staring at the scene, frozen like statues.
From their irrational rush toward Lin QiYe to the moment Lin QiYe unsheathed the sword, swung it, and decapitated the student, it all happened in the blink of an eye. The students couldn't recover from the intense visual shock of reality.
A few seconds later, piercing screams rang out.
The monster... had been hiding among them all along?
"Quiet!" Lin QiYe shouted. A flash of golden light flickered in his eyes!
The chaotic crowd immediately fell silent!
The moment Lin QiYe spoke, an unprecedented pressure, like a tidal wave, hit their hearts, leaving them stunned.
"Now, there are no more monsters hidden among you. You can leave the school. Someone will open the gate for you!" Lin QiYe sheathed his sword and spoke calmly.
"However, leave in order, don't push. If I see anyone breaking the rules..."
Lin QiYe slowly raised his gun and waved it in front of them.
Upon hearing this, the students immediately turned and ran toward the school gate. Though they appeared somewhat frantic, they were still somewhat orderly. A few girls, too weak to walk, were supported by boys toward the gate.
At this time, the "Zone of No Fear" at the school gate was slightly opened, revealing a path leading outside.
Beyond the "Zone of No Fear," there would be people to erase their memories, so Lin QiYe didn't need to worry about that.
There were about four hundred students in this batch, and many more were rushing toward the gate from the teaching buildings. They were all first-year and third-year students.
There were few infected students among the first-year and third-year groups, and the teaching buildings were close to the gate. After the monsters appeared, escaping from the buildings wasn't difficult. The problem was that some infected students had not been exposed but were hiding among the panicked crowd.
They were like unstable bombs—no one knew when they might explode, but it was certain that the moment they did, it would become the last straw that broke the students' fragile mental state.
It was like a group of students who had finally escaped the monsters and found safety, only for a classmate beside them to suddenly have their head split open...
Although the monsters' killing power was limited, the absurd things humans did due to fear were boundless.
Fortunately, with Lin QiYe, a human detector, he could easily identify the monsters hidden among the crowd and eliminate them. Those identified as harmless students could pass through the "Zone of No Fear" and leave the area.
With so many students, if they were forced to stay at the school, the situation would become even more complicated. Lin QiYe couldn't send every student away, but he could send some.
Fortunately, the high school students' physical condition was still decent. In just a few minutes, about 1,300 to 1,400 students had reached the gate. After being identified by Lin QiYe, they left the school. The first-year and third-year buildings were almost empty by now.
"The passage can be closed. I need to go in and rescue people." Lin QiYe spoke into his earpiece to Leng Xuan.
Leng Xuan responded with a sound, and the next moment, the "Zone of No Fear" slowly closed, once again isolating the entire school from the outside world.
Just as Lin QiYe was preparing to set off, the sky suddenly flickered, like an old TV with a bad connection, dimming.
"What's going on?"
"I'm not too familiar with the 'Zone of No Fear' yet. It seems like I encountered something strange..." Leng Xuan's voice came from the earpiece, "Will it affect you? I'll research it further..."
Lin QiYe looked up at the blood-red sky and sighed.
"I feel like the emerald green is more friendly. After all, this scene... doesn't it look just like the apocalypse?"
Under the blood-red heavens, the entire campus exuded an eerie and mysterious atmosphere. The screams from the second-year teaching building, mixed with the monsters' growls, echoed in the sky. The faint smell of blood filled the air, causing Lin QiYe to frown slightly.
Shaking his head to dismiss the chaotic thoughts in his mind, he quickly drew his sword and began searching through the first and third-year buildings.
**Inside the Building**
"Alan... I'm so scared!"
"Shh!" Alan peered out from a bathroom stall, glanced outside, then slowly withdrew. "Keep your voice down, don't attract those monsters."
"But why aren't we running out with everyone else? Why are we hiding here?" another girl asked.
In this narrow and dark bathroom stall, three girls were crowded together, their faces pale, lips trembling.
Alan lowered her voice, her eyes gleaming with excitement, "Didn't you see in those disaster movies? When the apocalypse comes, those who blindly rush outside usually die!"
"Based on my years of watching films, the smartest thing to do now is to separate from the main group and hide in a safe place, waiting for rescue!"
"But... this isn't a movie!" the girl beside her said with a sob, "And are you sure the bathroom is a safe place?"
"I also wanted to find another place, but this huge building, apart from classrooms, it's just the bathroom. Where else could we go?" Alan sighed helplessly. "But don't worry, we're safe here."
Creak—!
Before Alan could finish her sentence, the bathroom stall door was suddenly pulled open.
The three girls hiding in the stall screamed in unison!
When they saw that the one opening the door wasn't a monster but a young man holding a sword, they immediately covered their mouths and fell silent.
"Safe? It's hardly safe." Lin QiYe spoke.
In an instant, his straight sword was drawn, and with a swift motion, he decapitated one of the girls in front of their terrified eyes.
A huge, grotesque, bloody head fell to the ground.