Brother-in-law, be normal!

Chapter 5 The Suffocating Rules

"Oh? What do we say now? Are you going to call someone else?" the female teacher asked.

"Isn't that necessary?" Fifth Fish remained confident.

"This is already a C-level area. I, a B-level ability user, can handle it with ease, let alone you, who is also a B-level ability user."

"Even my superiors only sent me here."

The other police officers are just ordinary people; calling them wouldn't have helped.

"Then... shall we go straight up?" The female teacher was also eager to try.

I'm a little worried if she's taking care of four students all by herself.

Now that there are officers from the miscellaneous affairs department around, she has absolutely no worries.

And so, the group of seven stepped into the Loheng Building.

Xu Qianyan followed them nervously through the automatic glass door on the first floor.

The power had been cut off inside the Loheng Building, making it very dark.

The five teachers and students from Nanjing University were clearly prepared, all carrying flashlights, including Fifth Fish.

Only Xu Qianyan was completely unprepared.

"Heh, a half-baked guy trying to get credit?" the red-haired girl mocked.

Knowing he was in the wrong, Xu Qianyan didn't dare to talk back and could only walk with his head down.

The dark stairwell was only illuminated by the green indicator lights, which was far more frightening than the darkness itself.

Ding!

A sudden noise startled the girl.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound.

It turned out that the elevator had suddenly dropped to the first floor and opened its doors to them.

It's unclear whether it's powered by an independent source, but the lights inside the elevator are extremely bright.

Fifth Fish and the female teacher were very bold and went straight in.

Xu Qianyan was a little worried, but didn't know what to say.

The red-haired girl gave her a defiant look as she hesitated, then slowly walked toward the elevator.

Helpless, Xu Qianyan had no choice but to follow.

In the ascending elevator, no one spoke.

Xu Qianyan hid in a corner.

The cramped and crowded space made her very uncomfortable.

The wall was like a mirror, allowing her to see her own reflection.

...Just like Wuxin, when she looked at her own face... she could also think of her sister, which would trigger memories.

This makes her reluctant to see her own face.

Soon, the elevator reached its destination.

The Loheng Building is too tall, so for safety reasons, the elevators are divided into three sections. The elevators on the first floor can only reach the thirtieth floor.

The group then exited the elevator.

Through the glass wall, one can clearly see the sparsely lit night view outside the Xicheng District.

A hundred meters in the air is less beautiful and more unsettling.

As soon as they turned the corner, everyone stopped in their tracks.

Because, in front of the broken glass, stood a man in a white coat.

"They're from the pharmaceutical company," Fifth Fish said.

Suddenly, the man turned to look at them; his face was one of utter despair.

The next second, he jumped down.

The fifth fish, the female teacher immediately ran to the broken glass to check.

Even in the dim moonlight, they could still clearly see the man's falling figure.

Xu Qianyan pressed her face against the glass, looking down with terror.

The moment the red splattered, she immediately closed her eyes.

"What's going on? He doesn't seem to be being controlled by something strange." The female teacher was puzzled.

"I just made eye contact with him... his expression seemed more like he couldn't figure things out..." Fifth Fish couldn't understand it either.

...It's getting weirder and weirder.

In order to find out the reason, the group continued onward.

Soon, after finding no one else on this floor, the group boarded the second elevator.

"What do you think it felt like when that person jumped?" the two male students discussed.

"Don't talk about this kind of thing, it's terrifying!" The red-haired girl unconsciously touched her arm and stopped them.

Xu Qianyan could tell that although she was arrogant in front of him, she was also very scared now...

Suddenly I don't dislike her as much anymore.

thump——

Suddenly, the lights in the elevator went out.

But the sense of upward mobility remains.

In the sudden darkness, Xu Qianyan felt a moment of disorientation.

She inexplicably recalled a rather unpleasant memory.

That was the scene of my sister sitting on the hospital bed, her face pale.

Because of her serious illness, she became so thin that her collarbones and ribs were almost protruding.

And... at the bedside, there was a look of utter despair on Wuxin's face.

His face wasn't unkempt with a full beard like it is now; it was a handsome and clean-cut face... He was almost crying his eyes out.

That look... Xu Qianyan will never forget it.

"Aaaaaah!!!"

A sudden scream brought the girl back to her senses.

Because it was pitch black inside the elevator, she couldn't tell who was screaming.

Ding!

Suddenly, the elevator reached its destination.

The moment the door opened, a girl rushed out.

"Li Man! What are you doing?!" the female teacher exclaimed anxiously.

Everyone followed her and ran out.

This is on the 60th floor, where there is an open-air balcony with many chairs.

The girl was already standing on the fence, still screaming.

"Aaaaaah!!! This isn't my fault! It's not my fault!!!"

The moment the female teacher lunged at her, she had already jumped down.

The female teacher didn't have time to catch her.

Everyone was stunned by this scene.

The people who jumped off the building before were all strangers, so they didn't feel anything. But when it was their classmate who committed suicide, they felt... extreme fear.

"What's going on... Why did Li Man suddenly...?" The red-haired girl's lips trembled.

Everyone fell silent.

"When I got on the elevator just now, I inexplicably remembered things from the past... Have any of you ever experienced this?" Xu Qianyan suddenly said.

Everyone else was taken aback; they hadn't thought of that question.

Although they all had memories, they didn't care.

After all, it's perfectly normal to be reminded of the past when you see a familiar scene.

But this is not normal for Xu Qianyan.

After all, she was trying to forget these things every moment... She felt it was impossible for her to think of them for no reason.

"Li Man's condition just now... seems to be because she remembered something unbearable to recall..." the female teacher analyzed.

"I was just thinking about breaking up with my ex-boyfriend... If Li Man hadn't suddenly screamed, I probably wouldn't have been able to handle it either..."

The fifth fish clapped its hands.

"So, this strange phenomenon causes people to commit suicide by influencing their minds? No wonder we couldn't see any strange power in the deceased; it turns out it's a mental interference type."

"Now... everyone needs to be alert. If you find yourself having a problem, speak up. Remind each other and don't let yourselves be affected."

And so, everyone continued their search for that strange creature.

"Damn it... I must avenge Li Man..." The red-haired girl was both angry and scared, almost to the point of tears.

The group walked back inside the Loheng Building.

But at this moment, the once pitch-black Loheng Building was now filled with red light.

This wasn't due to the lights, but rather because the air was filled with a strong, eerie atmosphere.

"The strange power has increased? It wasn't like this just now... What's going on?" Fifth Fish was terrified.

"Aaaaaah!!!"

Suddenly, a boy screamed.

"I want to leave here! I want to leave here!!!"

He screamed and ran away at top speed.

The group hurriedly chased after them.

But for some reason, the group couldn't catch up with an E-level ability user at all.

When they finally found him, he had already pried open the elevator door and was grinning foolishly.

"Hehehe... The feeling of falling must be amazing, right?"

"Zhang Kai, calm down!!!" the red-haired girl roared.

But the boy's eyes were already bloodshot, and he looked like he was going crazy.

"Guo Na, stop barking like a dog! You're nowhere near as good as Xu Qianyan and Ouyang Qing! Your personality and appearance are both hideous!"

The red-haired girl froze, her pupils contracted sharply, and a surge of intense emotion welled up inside her.

At the same time, the boy jumped into the elevator shaft before the female teacher could rush over.

After failing to save the person, the female teacher angrily punched the elevator door.

At that moment, the red-haired girl suddenly muttered to herself.

"Hehehe..."

"I'm not as good as Xu Qianyan and Ouyang Qing...?"

"How could I possibly be inferior to a gloomy, withdrawn woman like you?!"

"Why is it that no matter how hard I try, everyone still prefers you, you idiot?!"

The red-haired girl suddenly pounced on Xu Qianyan, drew her longsword, and tried to stab him to death.

but.

Before she could even swing her sword, Xu Qianyan grabbed it with one hand, and even pinched her neck.

This disparity in strength made Guo Na instantly understand.

"You... you're already D-rank?" The red-haired girl's face was filled with despair.

"Why... so fast? I'm really not as good as him? Why...?"

Snapped!

Xu Qianyan slapped her unconscious.

He pushed her away because of her thin figure.

"Well done! In that state, she would definitely have tried to commit suicide!" the female teacher shouted as she ran back.

At that moment, the eerie atmosphere around them suddenly intensified.

What was originally meant to subtly influence someone's mind now seems to have taken on a coercive aspect.

Fifth Fish slapped himself to force himself to wake up.

But it seems that the eerie power inside the building grows stronger because of the dead people.

The fifth fish suddenly understood something.

"I understand... I understand!"

"I finally understand why this bizarre realm upgraded!"

"This is the strange thing that's causing it. It manipulates the minds of ability users, driving them to suicide, thus creating a 'ritual'! This ritual uses the power of suicidal ability users to raise the level of the domain! That's why the eerie atmosphere within the Luoheng Building intensifies with each additional suicide!"

Another boy was so frightened that he crouched on the ground, trembling, "I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."

The female teacher exclaimed in horror, "Then... if this suicide continues, as the number of people increases, will this eerie area rise to Level B?"

"With such capabilities, is this bizarre level... still within our capabilities to handle?"

Fifth Fish paused for a moment, then realized the problem.

...Where would a normal, bizarre creature get such an ability?

Suddenly, the female teacher also started crying for no apparent reason.

"I'm not fit to be a teacher..."

"If I hadn't been so stubborn and self-willed, how could I have caused the students to commit suicide..."

"Ugh... I'm such a loser. My boyfriend hates my personality, my parents scold me for being ungrateful, and I'm not even a good teacher..."

Seeing this, Fifth Fish was about to knock her unconscious when a series of memories flooded into his mind.

"I...I'm not a good person either...I got into the miscellaneous affairs department through connections. With my abilities and grades, I wouldn't have been able to pass the exam at all...I don't deserve to be a policeman..."

The two B-level ability users inexplicably went mad and staggered toward the balcony.

"What should we do? If those two commit suicide, we won't be able to escape either!" the boy cried out.

Xu Qianyan thought so too.

But she had no idea what to do.

At that moment, she remembered what Lu Wuxin had said earlier that day.

"You're already a D-rank, so why are you still using an E-rank ability? Your D-rank [Weakness Vision] should be able to see the mystical side."

Although she didn't understand what Lu Wuxin was talking about, it was the only thing the girl could do right now.

Following the method taught at school, she concentrated all the spiritual points she gained after advancing to D-level onto her eyes.

Driven by extreme terror and adrenaline, the girl successfully activated her D-level superpower.

She suddenly opened her eyes, and her pupils became multicolored.

At that moment, she saw the weaknesses of Fifth Fish and the female teacher, as well as... a strange power entwined around them.

Wuxin is right, he really can see things from the mystical side!

It was a red line connecting the back of their heads, influencing their minds.

However, even along this red line, there are weaknesses!

Xu Qianyan accelerated, swung his dagger, and slashed at the weak point.

Although it was like cutting thin air, in her eyes, the fifth fish's red thread had indeed been severed by her.

The female teacher had already stepped onto the balcony.

The girl slashed with a throwing knife, severing the female teacher's red thread from a distance.

Fifth Fish and the female teacher fell into a coma as a result.

"I did it! I did it!"

The girl was overjoyed because she had successfully rescued the person.

But suddenly, several red lines pierced the back of her head.

She had no control over her body and couldn't cut the red thread behind her.

"Aaaaaah!" The boy was so frightened that he ran away immediately.

This feeling of being abandoned reminded Xu Qianyan of the feeling of being isolated at school.

In that instant.

A flood of unbearable memories rushed into her mind.

The girl burst into tears without realizing it.

Her mental state was severely affected.

"I... deserve to die... I'm the one who killed my sister..."

She staggered into the elevator and headed towards the rooftop.

……

at this time.

An opaque ghost lingered on the top floor.

"Hehehe, I originally wanted to use those two B-level ability users as the final sacrifice for the domain upgrade."

"I didn't expect to be interrupted by this girl."

"However, I didn't expect her to have an S-quality ability that can see the mystical side. She's an even better sacrifice!"

"Once she jumps off the rooftop, this area will definitely be upgraded to Rank B!"

……

Clang! Clang!

Xu Qianyan's dagger fell to the ground from a height of two hundred meters and bounced more than ten meters.

Lu Wuxin looked down at the dagger.

That was the [Diamond]-level weapon he gave Xu Qianyan when she was admitted to Nanjing University, so of course he recognized it.

A man with a full beard was smoking.

He glanced at his sister-in-law's location on his phone, then looked up at the towering Luoheng Building.

"Honey, our date is over. I've already confessed my love for the 5101st time. Let's go find Qianyan now."

Xu Yiyan patted him on the back.

"Run faster! My sister's in trouble!"

"Okay..."

Lu Wuxin threw the cigarette butt on the ground.

With a leap, he quickly climbed up the numerous water pipes and air conditioners outside the Luoheng Building.