137: Chapter 137 The Strange Man?

"Third Hope Middle School... isn't that our school?!"

"Then... doesn't that mean the Monster is right here?!"

Screams, shouting, and weeping rose one after another, weaving together into chaos. The crowd descended into complete disarray, everyone acting like headless flies, scrambling desperately toward the exit.

In the pushing and shoving, many people stumbled and fell heavily to the ground.

It looked as if they were about to be trampled by the surging crowd behind them.

"Everyone, stay calm, stay calm!"

A teacher leading the group still maintained their usual professional composure.

He suppressed the panic in his heart, steeled himself, and stood up, shouting at the top of his lungs in an attempt to maintain order.

But clearly, in this situation, the only response he would get was a violent roar:

"Get lost!"

A man with a buzz cut, his face twisted in a ferocious expression, viciously kicked the teacher, knocking him to the ground.

He quickly rushed to the front of the crowd and was the first to run into the exit passage.

Following closely behind, the crowd slammed into the narrow exit passage like a burst dam.

The exit passage was instantly filled with people, their panicked footsteps crushing any semblance of order.

The man with the buzz cut, just about to rush out of the air-raid shelter, suddenly noticed a few figures at the exit, standing there as if completely detached from the chaos.

Because they were standing in the backlight, he couldn't see their faces clearly from his current position.

However, these few people had almost completely blocked the narrow passage.

"Damn it, why are there idiots here?"

"Get out of the way!"

The man with the buzz cut hadn't had time to read the event details yet, but regardless of what those event points could do, one needed their life to earn them and spend them.

Right now, almost all the teachers and students of Third Hope Middle School had come to this air-raid shelter to take refuge, so there was a high probability that the Monster, who appeared to be a student at the same school, was also here.

If the Transcendent was a symbol of hope in the education they had received since childhood, then the Monster was synonymous with despair.

There were no shortage of accounts where they liked to blend into crowds and, after being exposed, slaughter all the innocent people around them.

Not long ago, the news reported an incident where an entire class at a school was slaughtered by a Monster, with only one student surviving.

Regardless of whether that Monster was here or not, running out first was better than staying inside.

"Are you deaf?!"

Seeing that he was about to collide with those few people, the man with the buzz cut knew that in this situation, whether he stopped or got knocked down, he would be engulfed by the torrent of the crowd behind him.

His eyes hardened. He pulled a switchblade from his waist and threatened them loudly:

"If you don't move, I'll kill you!"

Seeing that those people remained unmoved, the man with the buzz cut immediately stabbed toward the waist of the person standing at the very front.

However, the sensation of the blade piercing flesh that he had imagined didn't come. Without turning around, the person gripped his right hand tightly, rendering him unable to move.

The man with the buzz cut was stunned. Looking up at close range, he saw the faces of the few people clearly, and his expression changed drastically.

They were blocking the backlit exit. He hadn't seen clearly before, but now he realized there were six people in total.

One of them was burly, sitting cross-legged in the middle, and there was another person who looked very frail sitting to the side.

Standing around them were four students with distinct styles, clearly dressed as delinquents.

He didn't have much of an impression of the first two, but he knew these four very well.

This man with the buzz cut was a member of the White Group, one of the organizations established by the Four Heavenly Kings of Evil High School.

And the person he was attacking right now was his boss.

"White... Boss White, it's a misunderstanding."

The man in white looked at the face of the man with the buzz cut, recalled carefully, and realized:

"Oh, you're Ah Ping, where are you rushing to?"

"Boss, I'll explain to you later. Let's run quickly now, there's a Monster inside!"

"A Monster?" the man in white asked, puzzled.

They had also followed the regulations, coming to the air-raid shelter with the main school group after the Monster alarm sounded.

However, their original boss, Zhang Hu, by nature, did not like staying in crowded places.

So they had been guarding here at the exit of the air-raid shelter.

The group hadn't caught up for a long time, and now with a new boss and a fifth Heavenly King, they were incredibly happy.

They had just been sitting there chatting about the past and their plans to dominate the entire delinquent circle of District G in the future, never checking their phones the whole time.

So naturally, they hadn't received the notification for the Continental Carnival.

Soon, the vibration of rapid footsteps converging came from nearby.

Seeing that the main group, which had originally been behind them, was about to come crashing in, the man with the buzz cut hurriedly shouted:

"Boss, don't block the way here! Let's get out quickly. The Hero Association just issued a notification that among our school's students, there is a Monster named Chen Moxuan!"

"What did you say his name was?"

Hearing the words of the man with the buzz cut, the expressions of the people around all changed.

Especially the man sitting cross-legged in the middle; he suddenly stood up.

The man with the buzz cut realized at this moment that this man, who had already looked burly, now standing up, was more like a moving small mountain, exuding an intense sense of oppression that sent chills down one's spine.

"Make yourself clear: who is the Monster?"

Zhang Hu's hand, like an iron pincer, lifted the man with the buzz cut directly off the ground, as if picking up a helpless little chick.

At this moment, the main group behind had arrived like a shadow.

"Hey, you guys in front! Get out of the way!"

A student rushing in the very front screamed at the top of his lungs.

Seeing that the tall, robust figure in front had no intention of moving aside, the few students in front gritted their teeth and decided to knock the other person out of the way.

They sped up again, their bodies arched like a full moon, and slammed fiercely toward that figure.

"Bang!"

A dull, loud sound rang out, as if they had hit an indestructible stone wall.

These few students felt as if all the bones in their bodies were about to fall apart, and they were violently bounced back by the immense reaction force.

They collided with the crowd surging up from behind, instantly descending into chaos.

Zhang Hu's figure remained motionless, staring intently at the man with the buzz cut he was holding:

"Slandering my boss is not something that can be settled with just a beating."

"You... are you an accomplice of the Monster?!"

The man with the buzz cut's collar was tightly gripped by Zhang Hu's iron-pincer-like hand, making it extremely difficult for him to breathe.

Terrified by Zhang Hu's fierce gaze and the conclusion he had imagined, his vision went black, and he fainted on the spot.

And the words he had screamed at the top of his lungs before fainting were clearly heard by the others.

"An accomplice of the Monster?"

"Could he be a Monster too!"

If he was an accomplice of the Monster, then perhaps he was also a Monster.

Looking at Zhang Hu's physique, which was too burly to be a normal human, he could easily lift a male student nearly 1.8 meters tall with one hand.

Even while constantly being rammed by the surging crowd behind him, he remained as steady as Mount Tai, completely unmoved.

How could a normal person do this? He was undoubtedly a Monster!

Those students who had been knocked to the ground were terrified. They desperately pushed against the ground with their hands, struggling to get up, and then ran backward without looking back.

It was still unclear where that Monster named Chen Moxuan was, but this terrifying man who looked like a bear-Monster was right there in front of them.

But the crowd surging up from behind didn't understand the situation at all, and just kept rushing forward.

Their rush directly pushed those students who wanted to escape backward back to the front, putting them in a dilemma.

"Stop running forward! The Monster is at the exit!"

These students screamed at the top of their lungs, trying to get the people behind to change direction and escape.

For a moment, these two streams of people were like two stubborn bulls, deadlocked, blocking the already narrow passage completely.

It was like a drain being blocked; the crowd, which had been running wild like unbridled horses, could no longer move forward even a single inch.

The stampede incidents that had been constantly occurring inside the air-raid shelter also came to an abrupt halt.

"What's going on?"

"Why isn't it moving in front?"

As the crowd stopped moving, the people who had been overwhelmed by fear and panic gradually calmed down and began to whisper to each other to ask about the situation.

"Look, there's an extra app on our phones!"

A student suddenly discovered that an app called 'project absolute extinction' had appeared on their phone.