I write obituaries for the gods.

Chapter 35 Advancement

Lucy was still somewhat shocked as she looked at Lin Chen. She vividly remembered how green and inexperienced he was when he first joined the company, not to mention his pathetic demeanor when he received the operational funding...

When it came time to actually do it, this is how he played it?

Lucy was still complaining that Jiang Zhengge had assigned another new recruit to her. She was also thinking that the number of bullets she needed to claim today would definitely exceed the budget again, and she would have to ask Jiang Zhengge for some extra credit.

Who would have thought that this newcomer didn't seem to need much guidance?

He simply lacks common sense; he's purely a military man.

"Where did you get that shotgun?" Lucy asked. "It looks like a new special weapon that just arrived."

"I borrowed it from Section Chief Jiang," Lin Chen replied dismissively.

"But I didn't see you bring it before..." Lucy frowned.

"Oh dear, didn't you notice?" Li Zhanyi said with a smile, trying to smooth things over. "Never mind that, is the subspace lens ready yet?"

"Hmm... all done."

Lucy felt a little slow on the uptake. She took out the subspace lens that she had been warming up, thought for a moment, and handed it to Lin Chen:

"Here, try using this."

Lin Chen took the small instrument Lucy handed him: This thing looks like a shortened version of a pirate telescope, with scales all over its cylindrical body.

He held this thing called a "subspace lens" in front of his eyes, and the world instantly turned gray.

"A subspace lens allows you to observe the world through dimensions," Lucy explained to Lin Chen. "After adjusting the frequency, you can observe whatever you want to observe. Abnormal entities are usually gray, while normal organisms are white."

Lin Chen turned his head and looked at Li Zhanyi through the lens, and found that she was gray.

"You are an abnormal entity..." Lin Chen said thoughtfully.

"Abnormal my foot," Li Zhanyi lightly patted Lin Chen's shoulder. "Awakened psychics also cast shadows in the subspace, so they appear gray under the lens."

"So that's how it is."

Lin Chen put down the projector and asked a question:

"Why didn't we observe it with the lens before we came in?"

"It's simple, because the depth difference is too great," Lucy explained. "The interior of the teaching building has already begun to become subspatial. Only by deploying stable anchors can the space become more stable and better results be obtained."

"Understood." Lin Chen nodded.

This knowledge is not complicated; you'll understand it after trying it once.

"Now, scan the school building and look for survivors," Lucy said.

Lin Chen then began operating the lens, scanning from the first layer to the second.

Soon, he saw a faint white light above his head.

"Is the target...on the second or third floor? I can't tell the floor; it seems like the second floor or the third floor."

"There's a rangefinder on the side; just press it to calculate."

Lin Chen could clearly feel that Lucy's attitude had softened considerably; before, he always felt that she harbored some resentment.

Of course, this resentment might stem from treating people like children as soon as they entered the house.

It seems like only he and Li Zhanyi are at the table with the kids from Class One...

Lin Chen pressed the rangefinder button, and after looking at the distance scale, he said softly:

"The hostages are on the third floor."

"receive."

After listening, Lucy pressed the button on her headset:

"Louis, the first floor is safe. Have Section Two advance and prepare to receive the hostages."

"We are preparing to move to the third floor."

After saying that, she picked up her light machine gun and took the lead in walking towards the stairs.

"Same old formation," Li Zhanyi patted Lin Chen on the shoulder, "You bring up the rear, I'll go in the middle."

"learn."

Lin Chen checked the pistol magazine, slung the shotgun over his shoulder, and then followed behind Li Zhanyi.

The three of them made their way to the second floor, and from the stairs to the corridor, they encountered three more battles.

Lin Chen carefully observed the entities he encountered in the skirmish and concluded that none of them were the same.

He saw a pencil that could run...

A dark figure screaming and wielding a ruler...

The scariest one is the electric fan that lurks on the ceiling and spins down as soon as someone gets close.

Most of these things were avoided by Li Zhanyi's prophetic abilities. When Lin Chen saw the electric fan spinning at high speed and crashing to the ground, he could imagine what would happen to an ordinary person if they entered such a place.

This "prophecy" is truly outrageous...

"Bang!"

As Lin Chen pulled the trigger, a monster wielding a mop and with two cockroach antennae on its head fell to the ground.

At this point, the path to the third floor was finally cleared.

Lin Chen glanced at the mop that had fallen to the ground: it was covered with an unidentified brown substance. The entity had been swinging this thing like a halberd. Luckily, the three of them fired quickly, or they would have been splattered with it.

Tsk... Lü Bu... even you've become my enemy...

Lin Chen couldn't help but recall a martial arts manual that often circulated when he was a child: "If you dip a mop in a stone, Lu Bu will be reborn."

He had actually seen someone fight using this method when he was a kid. He vaguely remembered that the school bully had gathered a group of people to block the toilet door, and then Lu Bu came out with his halberd.

The horrific scene in the corridor after the war still haunts Lin Chen to this day.

Wait, a shadow?

Lin Chen frowned, recalling the description given by the Second Division investigator before the operation began:

"He first collapsed to the ground, convulsing, and then something crawled out of his shadow..."

These anomalous entities are born from human shadows, and their appearance... seems to represent some kind of "fear"?

From the reincarnation of Lü Bu to the "suddenly falling electric fan," these seem to be terrifying scenarios imagined by school children.

So, if there's a major anomaly behind these anomalous entities, then its capabilities...

Is it about extracting fear and creating its sub-entities?

"..."

At this moment, the group arrived on the third floor, where Lucy, who was leading the way, was using a subspace lens to observe the surroundings.

"There's no physical form..." she murmured. "It's quite empty here..."

Just as Lin Chen was about to reveal his discovery, Li Zhanyi suddenly spoke up:

"Get out of the way!"

Lucy jerked back, and the next second, a door opened out of thin air in the corridor, from which a piece of chalk flew out—

"boom!"

A gust of wind swept through, and moments later, an explosion was heard at the end of the corridor.

Lin Chen looked up at the person who walked out from behind the door: it was a man in a formal suit with an upright posture... if only his head wasn't a blackboard.

On the blackboard, Lin Chen saw lines of names gradually being written:

Lin Chen, Li Zhanyi, and Lucy Verne are placed on probation.

"Stay...stay..."

With a flick of his wrist, the blackboard head caught five pieces of chalk between his five fingers.

"Step back!"

Lucy yelled and raised the machine gun to fire at the object:

"Da da da da da da!"

"boom!"

Then Lucy was blasted away right in front of Lin Chen.

"dew..."

Lin Chen raised his gun, just about to fire, when he saw Li Zhanyi dart out.

The girl nimbly crouched down, gliding across the ground, and aimed her gun at the solid torso with a tricky angle—

There was a gap that Lucy had blasted out, right in front of the arm joint.

weakness.

"Bang bang bang!"

Three bullets shattered the physical arm holding the chalk, causing it to fall to the ground.

Just as Li Zhanyi was about to retreat, he saw the other, solid arm already slashing down—

He was clutching a ruler on that arm, the blade stained with blood!

......