pertwk Chapter 2 Kidnapping the Academy
Chapter 2 Kidnapping the Academy
Dark clouds covered the sky above the School of Biological Sciences.
The classroom was completely silent.
The man in the suit who was in the lead wore a metal mask that covered most of his face, and his voice came from inside, sounding extremely muffled.
"sit down!"
An armed man shouted, and the students were stunned for a moment before quickly sitting down.
However, Little Freckles, who was sitting in the third row, exclaimed in surprise and his body floated up uncontrollably.
Trapped in mid-air, Liu Baichuan struggled but couldn't move. He could only shout, "Don't touch my student! Let him go! What do you want? My research results, or money? As long as I have..."
"Professor Liu, I am not interested in your academic research."
Before the words were even finished, the freckled boy let out a scream. His tightly clenched right hand suddenly opened, and the phone that had slipped from his grasp flew into the suit-wearing man's hand.
"We have cut off all networks to the college and installed signal jammers."
The man in the suit opened his palm, and the freckled man's phone floated up from his palm, slowly rotating.
"Do you want to ask for help from the outside world?"
No one dared to answer; the classroom was deathly silent, so quiet you could almost hear your own heartbeat.
The man in the suit raised his hand and gently shook it.
The little sparrow, suspended in mid-air, immediately let out a heart-wrenching wail, its body twisting in the opposite direction as if being pulled by an invisible giant hand by its head and ankles.
In the blink of an eye, the freckled boy was twisted into a human-shaped braid and then fell to the ground, blood oozing from his eyes, ears, mouth and nose.
The stench of blood spread instantly.
"ah!!"
Several students instinctively screamed, and the next second, they were involuntarily lifted into the air.
"Stop! Stop right now!" Liu Baichuan roared, his eyes bloodshot.
The people who were held in mid-air struggled in terror, as if they were drowning.
Suddenly, a whirlwind arose in the classroom, and in a second, the whirlwind swelled up and blasted straight at the man in the suit.
A heavily armed man, over two meters tall and extremely burly, stepped forward and blocked the whirlwind.
Almost simultaneously, a figure bypassed the burly man and appeared behind the man in the suit.
Cao Yingchong's face hardened as he said, "Don't move!"
An invisible blade of air was aimed directly at the man in the suit's face. The seven armed men immediately raised their guns and aimed them at Cao Yingchong.
The man in the suit waved his hand, indicating to his subordinates that there was no need to be so tense: "Compressed air, forming wind blades, that's interesting."
"Wind type, C-rank."
After thinking for a moment, he shook his head and said, "To this extent, the manipulation of superpowers is already very close to Grade B."
"It's impossible to get this fast using only air propulsion. I never expected that this run-down school would have a dual-sequence ability user with elemental acceleration."
"You're great, would you like to consider joining my team...?"
Before the man in the suit could finish speaking, his short hair on his forehead was blown aside by the high-frequency airflow from the front of the blades.
"Let my classmate go!"
"As you wish"
After saying that, several students who had been suspended in mid-air fell to the ground. Some landed on the ground, while others slammed onto the desks, letting out soft cries of pain.
However, Cao Yingchong was lifted up by an invisible force.
The man in the suit swung away the wind blades that were aimed straight at his face, and looked at the young man in front of him with great interest, as if he had found interesting prey.
"What's your name?"
Cao Yingchong hovered in mid-air, trying to use his abilities to resist that force, but the man in the suit who possessed the ability to manipulate objects was obviously of a higher level than him, and their abilities were not on the same level either. No matter how much he struggled, it was all in vain.
"Release my student!"
Liu Baichuan, who was also being controlled, roared, "Who are you? What do you want?"
"Oh, it was my oversight, I forgot to introduce myself."
The man in the suit looked up slightly at Liu Baichuan: "You can call me Nanshan."
With synchronized global internet access, terrorist attacks and unrest occurring around the world can be searched online. Meanwhile, Dragon County, known for having the best public safety record in the entire federal government, has not experienced a conflict with more than 100 deaths in over two decades.
But this does not mean that the entire Long County is peaceful and tranquil.
Five years ago, a private plane hijacking killed all fourteen passengers and crew members. Three years ago, the Longdu Bank robbery, two years ago, the Jinggang City pharmaceutical factory bombing, and a year ago, the kidnapping of a wealthy man were all committed by this person.
Nanshan is not a name, but a code name.
Federal Samsung wanted criminal!
So, what exactly is the other party's purpose?
Since it wasn't aimed at Lao Liu's research results, it could only be a terrorist attack.
With this in mind, Zite frowned and racked his brains. He quickly came to a conclusion: there was no solution.
The opposing side was heavily armed, and Nanshan himself was a B-level, or even an A-level, telekinetic ability user. While the majority of the students were ability users, their levels were not high, and crucially, none of them had any practical combat experience.
Especially for someone like myself without superpowers, I'm practically cannon fodder who can be instantly killed.
Survival chance: zero.
The freckled, twisted corpse lay in the corridor. Cao Yingchong was suspended in mid-air. Thinking of how the other party had stepped forward to save his classmate in a moment of crisis, a surge of courage rose in Ji Chenyu's heart.
Just as Ji Chenyu was about to stand up, Qi Te grabbed his sleeve and shook his head, signaling him not to act impulsively.
A female militant, whose left eyeball was constantly flashing numbers and who was clearly wearing a prosthetic eye, scanned the area and reported to her superior: "Thirty-three people in total, nineteen men and fourteen women."
A slight vibration was heard, and Nanshan raised his left hand, his watch continuously transmitting reports from his subordinates.
"The first grade count is complete. There are 869 students in total, 13 are missing, and 7 are absent due to leave."
"Second-grade inventory complete..."
"Third grade...fourth grade..."
"Dormitory sweeping complete..."
"Search completed in other areas..."
The woman standing nearby immediately tallied the numbers: "The department has a total of 3876 students and faculty members, with 3529 currently enrolled."
"328 people went out, and 19 people are confirmed to be on campus."
Nanshan nodded: "Find those 19 people, notify all locations, and clear anyone who enters the campus afterward."
"yes!"
The woman relayed the leader's orders via walkie-talkie.
The classroom was deathly silent; most of the students were on the verge of a breakdown.
First- and second-year students have many classes and are mostly on campus. Third- and fourth-year students have relatively fewer classes, so some students will inevitably go off-campus. Those students who go off-campus have no idea what is happening on campus, and if they return to campus within the specified time, they will surely die a violent death.
Nanshan nodded, turned gracefully, and walked towards the door.
Liu Baichuan and Cao Yingchong, like two mummies, were controlled by the other party and floated away.
The tallest man among the seven armed men raised his submachine gun and brandished it.
"What, do I have to treat you guys?"
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Haicheng University's Xigang campus is currently in the process of relocation. The new campus is ten kilometers away, and the other four colleges have already moved there.
Because the experimental equipment at the new campus is not yet fully equipped, the relocation of the Department of Life Engineering has been postponed. We just received the notice a few days ago that the relocation will take place next Wednesday.
Therefore, at this time, the Sihanoukville campus only had faculty and students from the Department of Life Sciences and Engineering.
Under the menacing sight of gun barrels, the students, trembling like a flock of quails, were herded into the multi-functional complex.
The main building is one of the largest buildings on campus, with five floors. The first and second floors house the library and reading rooms, and the building is open-plan, forming a circular shape.
More than a dozen armed men set up their guns on the second floor, aiming them at the people below. Clearly, if anyone tried to escape or made any unusual moves, they would be riddled with bullets in no time.
The building's three entrances were also guarded.
With a wave of his hand, Nanshan sent Liu Baichuan and Cao Yingchong plummeting from a height of over two meters.
"Old Liu!"
Dean Zhang Qingping, who was over fifty years old, exclaimed in surprise and hurriedly tried to help Liu Baichuan up, but a gun was pointed at her head.
Dean Zhang trembled, his face flushed, and he said, "What...what exactly do you want to do?"
Nanshan slightly tilted his head, pointed his gun at the dean's subordinate, and immediately understood and stepped aside.
"test"
Dean Zhang looked surprised: "A test?"
Nanshan ignored the other person, walked to a reading table, pulled up a chair, grabbed Liu Baichuan by the collar, and forced him into the chair.
At the same time, several armed men carried three pieces of equipment into the hall.
Everyone present immediately recognized it as a supernatural ability detector.
So, the test the other party was referring to is this?
The faculty and students looked at each other, somewhat puzzled.
Those with supernatural abilities can go to their local municipal service center to have their ability level tested for free. Many ordinary people who haven't yet awakened their abilities also get tested, because some abilities are latent, such as immortality or healing powers.
"A test of supernatural abilities? What do you want?"
"They wouldn't kill him just because they detected his special abilities, would they?"
"It could also be aimed at those without superpowers..."
The students, gathered together, whispered in fear.
Class 1 of the second year was at the front of the line when an armed man randomly grabbed three students.
After the test results for the three people came out, Nanshan glanced at them and then ordered his men to move the three to the other end of the instrument.
Faculty and students took turns being tested, and even though some people were getting samples taken, everyone was still filled with fear.
The imagined gunshots did not ring out, but that doesn't mean they won't happen again.
Perhaps they were afraid that killing people at the beginning would trigger the survival instinct of all the superpowered individuals, causing them to fight back and the situation to get out of control.
Testing continues.
After each person was tested, a female armed woman sitting at the reading table would record the name, class, and test result in her laptop.
"What exactly are they trying to do?"
Ji Chenyu asked in a low voice, "More than half of the students in the class have already finished their tests, and it will be his turn soon."
Qi Te shook his head again. There was too little information available to analyze the other party's true intentions.
If all you want is the test reports of everyone in the Department of Life Sciences at Ocean University, you can just hack into the Haicheng Supernatural Abilities Management Bureau's network. A single hacker could handle that; why go to all this trouble?
Could it be that the other party is looking for a hidden superhuman who has not yet been entered into the federal database?
The reason for choosing this time period is clearly aimed at the Department of Life Sciences.
Qi Te raised an eyebrow, then turned to look to his left.
Yue Wanwan, who is tall and has her hair tied in a high ponytail, seemed to sense the gaze on her and turned her head to look.
The senior student's bright face was filled with seriousness; her eyebrows were furrowed, and her eyes were full of astonishment and worry...