Chapter 273 - 164: Crisis at the TCM Room! Ning Yu Can’t Hold On Alone! Is Xu Jun’s Trio Targeted?

Chapter 273: Chapter 164: Crisis at the TCM Room! Ning Yu Can’t Hold On Alone! Is Xu Jun’s Trio Targeted?

But Ning Feng was too restless. Thinking there might be some commotion to watch outside, he immediately stood up.

"I’m going to go take a look."

He went to the door, and just as he opened it and poked his head out, he froze instantly...

Bloodstains littered the first-floor corridor, and the sheer amount was far from normal.

An ordinary fight might leave a few drops or a small puddle at most, but this...

It completely covered an area of one or two square meters!

’Even slaughtering a pig wouldn’t produce this much blood!’

Realizing something was wrong, Ning Feng immediately drew the rapier from his waist and cautiously began searching for any other abnormalities.

Although Ning Yu hadn’t followed him out, she kept a close watch on his movements.

Seeing him draw his sword, she immediately sensed that something was wrong.

Her brow furrowed. She drew the Seven-Section Bone Sword Whip from her waist and followed him into the corridor.

When she saw the large pool of blood on the ground, her expression turned even uglier.

Just then, five security guards and teachers infested by Bloodthirsty Vines stepped into the corridor.

Before Ning Feng could react, he was about to ask them if they knew where all this blood had come from.

Ning Yu’s pupils contracted sharply, however, as a sense of crisis surged through her.

As a Transcendent, she didn’t have Chen Chong’s beast-like intuition or Xu Jun’s scent-tracking ability.

But after numerous encounters with the Bloodthirsty Vines, her unique Perception as a Transcendent allowed her to instantly detect the dangerous aura emanating from these people.

She had moved into the faculty apartments at the same time as Chen Chong, so she knew these guards and teachers well. They were all completely ordinary people.

Yet, right now, they...

...were emitting an aura so dangerous that even she, a Transcendent, felt threatened.

She recalled Chen Chong’s earlier warning: the Parasites in the school had not been completely eliminated. The culling operation was only to control their numbers, not to eradicate them.

To solve the problem completely, they had to find the source. Therefore, team members had to be extremely careful when operating in the school. They had to guard against surprise attacks from Parasites and also screen people regularly. If any were found, they were to be killed on sight, without hesitation.

Putting that together with the constant wails and screams from outside, and the abnormal bloodstains on the floor...

Ning Yu understood instantly.

The ones that got away, the ones Chen Chong had mentioned, had been hiding right under their noses. They were these very teachers and guards.

"Get back!"

Ning Yu yanked Ning Feng back into the Chinese medicine room and charged toward the five Parasites.

At the same time, the five Parasites also recognized Ning Yu.

She was one of the Transcendents who had killed their offshoots back in the plaza.

The group opened their mouths wide.

Countless vines erupted from their mouths, rapidly expanding into dozens of barbed, deadly appendages that shot toward her.

Although Ning Yu was a Transcendent, she was only B-Level—even a sliver weaker than Xu Jun.

She could handle one or two Parasites with ease, but she was outmatched against five at once.

But she knew that, at this moment, she was the only one who could protect everyone in the Chinese medicine room.

Despite the injury to her foot, she instinctively activated her ability...

Frenzy State, instantly activated!

Blood-red markings spread across her body and her eyes became bloodshot. Visible clouds of steam rose from her, as if she were in a sauna.

At the same time, her physical functions and strength skyrocketed.

She activated Haste as well. Empowered by both abilities, Ning Yu shot toward the five Parasites like a bolt of lightning.

In the blink of an eye, two of the Parasites fell to the ground.

The remaining three were staggered and forced to retreat.

As a member of Chen Chong’s team, she had personally experienced the purge in the plaza. She knew that normal attacks were useless against these monsters. The only way to kill them was to pierce their Vine Cores.

That was why both her strikes had aimed straight for their heads, instantly finishing off two of the Parasites.

’Three left.’

Ning Yu quickly calculated her next move. Just as she was about to strike again and finish off the remaining Parasites,

before she could launch her attack, a sight in her peripheral vision made her freeze in place.

In the open area downstairs, more than twenty Parasites were scattered about.

Vines writhed madly from their bodies in a visually shocking display.

On the ground, dozens more people were crawling, struggling, and wailing.

At the same time, four or five recently infested students got back to their feet and joined the ranks of the Parasites.

’How could this be...’

Ning Yu was profoundly shaken. Even she, who was always so calm and composed, was now in a full-blown panic.

’How could there be so many Parasites?’

’Over twenty of them?’

’With such horrifying numbers, I wouldn’t stand a chance even if I pushed Frenzy and Haste to their absolute limits.’ 𝑓𝑟ℯℴ𝓂

’More importantly, I know these Parasites have a final resort—merging into a more powerful, mutated vine.’

’Chen Chong and the others are all out, leaving me as the only Transcendent here at the school.’

’The people at the gym are all ordinary, and most of them have probably gone out to find resources by now.’

’Even if they are still on campus, there’s no time to call for their help.’

’Besides, even if they came, they probably wouldn’t be much help.’

’Is it possible that none of us will make it out of this alive today?’

...

「Meanwhile, at the bottom of the abyss.」

Relying on the barrier from his Green Crystal Bracelet, Chen Chong completed a full circle around the main body of the Bloodthirsty Vine King and the nearby Stone Claw Eagle.

He committed the approximate sizes of the two Extraordinary Creatures and the layout of the cavern to memory.

Unfortunately, aside from the initial information from his Identification Skill, his scouting hadn’t yielded much else.

Feeling his Spiritual Power draining rapidly, Chen Chong knew he couldn’t stay any longer.

The barrier from the Green Crystal Bracelet was terrifyingly effective, but it also consumed Spiritual Power much faster than most other Extraordinary Artifacts.