The heavily armored man was a man of action, not words. He immediately attacked Dr. Feng, smashing him into the teaching building with a single axe blow.
Giant, grotesque plant branches, resembling tentacles, grew vigorously within the teaching building, bursting it apart. In front of these plant roots, the sturdy teaching building was like foam.
However, these terrifying plant branches were nothing to the armored man. With a single, furious swing of his axe, he could sever them. Each time a massive vine fell to the ground, the earth itself trembled.
"This strength... is beyond our involvement."
Yan Xiu compared the scene to the powerful beings he had encountered during past disasters, realizing that both combatants possessed at least Disaster-level or higher strength.
The four of them didn't stop to spectate. Instead, they immediately fled the campus. Regardless of who won, their safety was not guaranteed.
As long as they spread the news of Dr. Feng being there, Dr. Feng would have no reason to hunt them. It would be Dr. Feng who would have to flee Furonghe City.
Watching Green Source Middle School gradually turn into ruins amidst the roaring explosions, Li Dazhuang scratched his head and said, "When I was in school, I could never finish my winter holiday homework. So, every year around this time, my wish was for the school to disappear... These Green Source Middle School students are really lucky."
Li Dazhuang intended to lighten the mood, but the other three simultaneously rolled their eyes. Lin Lu and You Han had both been good students, and Yan Xiu had never attended a normal middle school.
After a brief moment of awkwardness, the four of them laughed together. They felt a sense of having narrowly escaped death. When they had been targeted by Dr. Feng, even the most optimistic Lin Lu had been filled with despair.
Subsequently, Yan Xiu, You Han, and Li Dazhuang exchanged peculiar glances, each seeing something in the other's eyes. Then, in tacit understanding, they fell silent.
Lin Lu looked suspiciously at the three people acting in sync, feeling that they were hiding a secret from her. Could Yan Xiu be involved with You Han behind her back?
...
Wen Wen took a shower and emerged from the bathroom wearing a bathrobe, carrying a cage. Tao Qingqing, dressed in hamster pajamas, was lying on the sofa. Upon seeing Wen Wen, she groggily turned her head.
The two of them were still sleeping in the same guest room. It wasn't that Wen Wen was stingy and didn't want to book her a separate room, but her status as an undocumented person meant she couldn't stay alone.
Tao Qingqing's fake identity was being arranged and would likely take some time to be ready.
Tao Qingqing didn't see any issue with this arrangement. She even offered to warm Wen Wen's bed, but Wen Wen contemptuously refused.
"You're a vampire, like a corpse. If we sleep together, who is warming whose bed?"
Yes...
That was precisely what Wen Wen had said at the time.
In the cage was a fierce little monster, with red skin and a tail. It had black wings and small horns, and its weapon was a half-meter long pitchfork.
It was a lesser imp, one of the lowest-ranking demon species. An ordinary man with a bit of courage could easily overpower it. This little guy had been hiding in the dark corners of the streets, secretly preying on stray cats and dogs. Wen Wen had seen it and casually caught it.
Below the cage was a drawer-like structure. Wen Wen took a circular steel plate and inserted it into the small drawer.
Wen Wen had captured this little imp to test the effects of various runes. Otherwise, he would have killed it long ago.
After inserting a new rune, the little imp's eyes turned glazed. It lay on the ground, repeatedly muttering, "I am a tardigrade. I want to help you lick the toilet clean..."
"Heh, this rune is interesting... Let's try another one?"
After changing it, the little imp started doing breakdancing...
After obtaining the Blood River Sword, Wen Wen's swordsmanship had progressed by leaps and bounds, and it was difficult to achieve significant improvements in a short period. Therefore, besides practicing swordplay for two hours daily, Wen Wen now focused more of his energy on rune research.
The more he delved into the advanced rune analysis he had bought along with the Xun-style swordsmanship, the more Wen Wen realized that the various runes he mastered bore a strong resemblance to the Yuta script recorded in the Book of Lightning.
It was just that the runes had some additional decorations on certain special Yuta characters, giving them peculiar powers. The runes used by psychics were likely variations of the Yuta script.
There must be a great secret hidden within this. If he could unravel the relationship between the two, Wen Wen was sure to gain significant rewards.
As he was researching, Wen Wen noticed Li Dazhuang entering the containment facility, seemingly with something to tell him. He then put down the pitiable little imp and entered the containment facility, transforming into the Disaster Warden to meet Li Dazhuang.
Li Dazhuang described in detail how he received the mission and then escaped Dr. Feng's control with the help of the armored man.
"You're saying that the mysterious person asked you if you had heard of the Disaster Containment Facility?"
"Yes, he said he was entrusted by someone," Li Dazhuang replied.
Wen Wen, his expression unreadable, told Li Dazhuang, "I already know all of this. You can go back now."
After Li Dazhuang left, Wen Wen stroked his chin and pondered. He was looking for fugitives from the containment facility, and those fugitives were likely looking for him as well. So, was the mysterious Dr. Feng one of the containment facility fugitives? And who was that mysterious armored man?
If he were a fugitive from the containment facility, wouldn't Wen Wen be able to advance to Disaster-level Intermediate by capturing him?
Unfortunately, Li Dazhuang had reported the events after they had transpired. It was too late to rush back to Furonghe City now. The association would undoubtedly be apprehending this Dr. Feng, and he should no longer be in Furonghe City.
On a whim, Wen Wen opened the Hunter Terminal and entered the name "Feng Rao," which carried a strong sense of harvest. To his surprise, information about Feng Rao actually appeared. White tailcoat, green top hat – it should be the person Li Dazhuang and the others had seen.
Feng Rao, like Wu Wang, was also a wanted criminal by the Hunter Association, codenamed 'Plant Doctor.' He first appeared in a small city in the Golden Eagle region and liked to use ordinary people for human experiments.
The reason he was listed as a key wanted criminal by the association was that he had once orchestrated a genuine zombie crisis in the Golden Eagle region!
However, these zombies were different from those in movies. They were plant zombies, with greenish skin and chloroplasts flowing through their veins, but in all other aspects, they were identical to zombies. They lacked thought and pain, relentlessly pursuing living beings without fatigue. Those bitten by them would also turn into similar zombies.
But this zombie crisis, compared to the zombies in movies, was more like a farce. Three days after its outbreak, it was resolved by the local residents.
That's right, it was resolved by ordinary residents wielding shovels and baseball bats.
These zombies were more terrifying than movie zombies during the day, moving with incredible agility, but they had a fatal weakness.
That is, these zombies were driven by photosynthesis, which allowed them to move tirelessly. But because of this, they could only operate in sunlight. Once humans hid in the dark, they were helpless.
At night, they became targets for human attacks. The fact that they lasted for three days was solely due to the timidity of the small city's residents...
Even though it was a farce, Feng Rao was placed on the Hunter Association's wanted list due to his immense dangerousness.
Based on Li Dazhuang's description, Wen Wen guessed that the man was likely researching version 2.0 of the plant zombies, and this version could operate at night!