104: Chapter 104 Rescue is not a substitute for injury - sign for receipt

[Second official item delivery]

[Event Name: Who takes the injury for whom]

[Scene: Low-Grade Training Hall rescue]

[Rule: If the Rule Maintenance Special Class participates in the rescue, one member must be designated to bear the pressure of opening the door]

[If designation is refused, the pressure will randomly fall on the trapped students]

[Countdown: Five minutes]

In the Medical Area, the words burned by the grey fire were more glaring line by line.

Chen Ye hadn't even sat steadily on the stretcher when he grabbed the shield by the bed.

The Medical Instructor's expression changed.

"You cannot bear any more pressure!"

Chen Ye's voice was extremely hoarse, but he still buckled the shield straps.

"There are seventeen first-years inside."

"Am I supposed to lie here and watch?"

Shen Tingxue blocked his path.

"It's not that you can't save them now."

"It's that you cannot be dragged into this by the White Tower using the term 'take the injury for them'."

Zhou Heng had already raised his Thunder Spear, his voice cold and hard.

"We must go."

"But we cannot do it according to its terms."

Lin Jin stared at the countdown.

Four minutes and thirty-two seconds.

The White Tower's bill knew how to pick its timing.

It deliberately placed the scene in the Low-Grade Training Hall.

It deliberately left them without enough time to argue.

It deliberately tied "designating a member to bear the door-opening pressure" with "randomly falling on trapped students".

As long as they were in a rush to save people, they might default to accepting this as a debt-for-injury.

Lin Jin raised his hand to press on the wound on his right hand.

It hurt.

But he could still hold the chalk.

He wrote on the doorframe of the Medical Area:

[Rescue Boundary]

Article 1.

[The door-opening pressure stems from a fault in the pressure field at the entrance of the Low-Grade Training Hall, not from existing injuries of the trapped students.]

Article 2.

[Designating a member to bear the door-opening pressure only signifies that the member acts as the main pressure-bearing anchor for the rescue operation, not that they are taking the injury for the trapped students.]

Article 3.

[The main pressure-bearing anchor may use equipment, formations, and teammate support to reduce pressure and shall not be forcibly required to bear injury with their physical body.]

Article 4.

[Teammates may lock down, break barriers, perform maintenance, or divert pressure channels without constituting taking the injury for the main pressure-bearing anchor.]

Article 5.

[Trapped students are not the payment subjects of the bill and shall not bear random pressure because the rescue party refuses the incorrect definition.]

Writing up to here, Lin Jin looked at Chen Ye.

"You want to go, fine."

"But you need to make the last point clear yourself."

Chen Ye held the shield and was silent for a second.

Then, he looked up at the mass of grey fire.

"Protection Role Chen Ye confirms."

"I can act as the main pressure-bearing anchor for the door-opening pressure."

"But I am not taking the injury for the seventeen students."

"I am executing a rescue."

"The pressure I receive will hit the shield first; if there is any injury, write it under my rescue action's name, not theirs."

The Mutual Verification Contract lit up.

Shen Tingxue immediately followed up:

"Lockdown Role Shen Tingxue confirms: If I lock down the pressure circuit, I only bear the load of the lockdown action, not the injury of Chen Ye or the students."

Zhou Heng said coldly:

"Barrier Breaker Position Zhou Heng confirms: If I break the feedback at the entrance, I only bear the barrier-breaking backflow, not the debt of taking the injury."

Lin Jin said last:

"Maintenance Position Lin Jin confirms: If I correct the rule lines randomly falling on students, I only bear the load of the maintenance action, not acknowledging the transfer of student injuries."

The grey fire surged violently.

[Rescue Boundary: Accepted]

[But the door-opening pressure still requires designating a main pressure-bearing member]

Chen Ye hoisted the shield onto his shoulder.

"Designate me."

Lin Jin looked at his status.

"The shield surface bears the pressure."

"Not the body bearing the injury."

Chen Ye nodded.

"Understood."

The countdown had three minutes and twenty seconds left.

Qin Shanhe waved his hand, and the passage from the academy Medical Area to the Low-Grade Training Hall opened directly.

"I will send you over."

Gu Changye's personnel from Processing Bureau followed, quickly setting up lockdown runes on both sides of the passage.

Inspector Han Su's surveillance projection also followed synchronously.

"Department of Education surveillance seat records: This rescue shall not be automatically interpreted by the White Tower's bill as a confirmation of taking the injury."

Chen Ye grinned.

"You're recording quite diligently today."

Inspector Han Su was expressionless.

"Because Lu Chengyuan is also watching."

With these words, everyone's pace quickened by a notch.

Outside the Low-Grade Training Hall, it was already in chaos.

The gray-white pressure field at the entrance was like a constantly contracting film, sealing the entire door shut.

Inside the door, seventeen first-year students could be seen huddled in the corner of the venue.

Some had minor injuries, some were pale with fear, but none had serious injuries yet.

Every time the pressure field contracted, the ground inside the door cracked another inch.

The grey fire countdown hung above the door.

[Time until random pressure application: 01:54]

[Please designate a member to bear the door-opening pressure]

Chen Ye walked to the door.

"Protection Role Chen Ye."

"Designated as the main pressure-bearing anchor for door-opening pressure."

A white light flashed on the door.

[Designation successful]

[Please have the pressure-bearing member abandon external support and bear the pressure independently to complete the injury-taking settlement]

Chen Ye's expression darkened.

"Take the injury for your grandpa."

Lin Jin immediately stepped forward, chalk tapping on the side of the door.

[Designating a main pressure-bearing anchor does not equal abandoning external support.]

[Independent pressure bearing is an additional requirement of the bill and was not declared in the original rules.]

Shen Tingxue raised her hand, ice lines sticking to the edge of the pressure field.

"Lockdown support retained."

Zhou Heng nailed his Thunder Spear to the left side of the doorframe.

"Barrier-breaking support retained."

Lin Jin pressed his left hand onto the door gap, the Old Path Identification Screw vibrating gently in his toolbox.

"Maintenance support retained."

The white text on the door struggled for a moment.

[External support may reduce the purity of the price]

Lin Jin said coldly:

"We are not here to pay the price."

"We are here to save people."

Chen Ye pressed the shield surface against the pressure field.

"Open!"

Boom!

The first wave of door-opening pressure smashed onto the shield surface.

Chen Ye slid back half a step, the old injury in his chest immediately aching from the impact.

He gritted his teeth and stabilized the corner of the shield.

All the judgments from last night and today's training were applied at this moment.

It wasn't just brute force.

It was reading the pressure.

"Top left is a fake!"

"The real impact is curling back from the bottom edge!"

Shen Tingxue's ice lines immediately sealed the bottom edge.

Zhou Heng's Thunder Spear pierced the inner side of the doorframe in an arc, the buffer nail splitting the curling pressure into two streams.

Lin Jin endured the pain in his right hand, using his left hand to hold down a gray line that was trying to pass through the door gap to fall onto a student.

The Hand of Rules popped up a prompt.

[Random student pressure line]

[Nature: Bill coercion channel]

[Maintenance suggestion: Rewrite as entrance pressure recovery line]

Lin Jin didn't use the wrench.

He wrote on the side of the door gap with chalk:

[No student designated, pressure cannot be applied.]

The gray line was forcibly twisted back into the pressure field.

Inside the door, a Short-haired Girl who had her ankle locked by the gray line suddenly fell to the ground, gasping for air.

Chen Ye roared:

"Don't just stand there!"

"Move back, stick to the east wall!"

The three-second delay was gone.

This time, his voice reached directly into the venue.

The students immediately followed suit.

The second wave of pressure was fiercer than the first.

The White Tower seemed to notice that the main pressure-bearing anchor wasn't taking the injury alone and began to concentrate the pressure on Chen Ye's old wound.

[Chest vibration detected in Protection Role]

[Suggestion: Transfer part of the pressure to the trapped students to alleviate the burden on the pressure-bearing member]

Chen Ye gritted his teeth, his eyes turning red.

"Refused!"

"My wound is not a reason for you to demand money from the students!"

The light fragments on the shield surface adjusted their angle, forcibly guiding that pressure toward the doorframe.

Zhou Heng caught the backflow from the doorframe, the muscles in his right arm tearing again, and the lightning clearly flickered.

Shen Tingxue immediately replenished the ice, helping him stabilize the outer edge of the barrier-breaking nail.

"Load on Zhou Heng's right arm increased."

"Recorded as damage from barrier-breaking action."

Lin Jin immediately followed up.

"Not taking the injury for Chen Ye."

Zhou Heng said coldly:

"I know that myself."

When the third wave of pressure fell, the door finally cracked open a seam.

The students inside saw the four people outside, hope lighting up in their eyes.

But the grey fire of the White Tower also suddenly deformed at this moment.

[If trapped students evacuate through the door-opening passage, they must confirm that the rescuer has borne the pressure for them]

[Those who do not confirm may not evacuate]

Chen Ye's expression changed abruptly.

"It wants the students to sign for it!"

Lin Jin's gaze turned completely cold.

This was the White Tower's second real killer move.

It wasn't to make them admit to taking the injury themselves.

It was to make the rescued ones admit in fear — the upperclassmen took the injury for us.

As long as a few of the seventeen students nodded in panic, the bill could obtain "confirmation from the rescued".

The rescue would turn into a debt settlement for injury.

Lin Jin immediately shouted into the door:

"Everyone listen clearly!"

"We are opening the door."

"We are not taking the injury for you!"

"When you evacuate, just say — I accept the rescue, I do not confirm taking the injury!"

Chen Ye also roared:

"Repeat after me!"

"Accept the rescue!"

The students inside followed along, panicking:

"Accept the rescue!"

Shen Tingxue followed up:

"Do not confirm taking the injury!"

"Do not confirm taking the injury!"

Seventeen voices went from chaotic to uniform.

The grey fire paused abruptly.

The door gap widened.

Chen Ye held his shield horizontally, bearing the last wave of pressure.

"Get out!"

The students rushed out one by one.

For every one that came out, Lin Jin wrote a record on the side of the door.

[1st student: Accept the rescue, do not confirm taking the injury.]

[2nd student: Accept the rescue, do not confirm taking the injury.]

[3rd student: Accept the rescue, do not confirm taking the injury.]

...

By the time the seventeenth student ran out, Chen Ye's shield surface was already covered in cracks.

He himself was half-kneeling on the ground, a little blood seeping from the corner of his mouth again.

But he was still holding the shield up.

After the last little boy rushed out, he turned back and shouted while crying:

"Senior Chen Ye, thank you for bearing it for us!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the grey fire surged violently.

Chen Ye's expression changed.

Lin Jin also looked up abruptly.

Inside and outside the door, the bill text that had just been suppressed was frantically reorganizing.

[Confirmation statement from rescued party detected]

[Keyword: Bear it for us]

[Conditions for the second item met, restoring]

[Collecting testimony from rescued party]

That little boy was so scared his face turned pale.

"I... I didn't mean it like that..."

But the grey fire had already begun to spread to the ears of other students following his voice.

Gray slips appeared in the palms of the seventeen students.

[Please confirm: Did the Rule Maintenance Special Class bear the door-opening pressure for you?]

[Rescue settlement can only be completed after confirmation.]