Part 3 / Repeated midnight

"This is the Academy of the Grotesque."

"I know, you've told me so many times."

"Everyone who comes to the Academy of the Strange will be able to obtain a unique ability that belongs to him, for example, my ability is "sharing", as long as I can obtain a person's body information, I can obtain that person's ability in a short period of time."

Bai Li's hair was wrapped between Regina's fingers, and he leaned back hard, closing his eyes, and Regina's voice rang in his ears.

"After about eight minutes, Lan will summon me to open the confinement room, twelve minutes later, the gray organization "White Steps" inside the academy will attack the entire academy, and then fifteen minutes later, the student council and the "White Steps" will exchange fire in the playground, after twenty-one minutes, the floor of the academy will collapse and fall apart, only the bell tower is safe, and after twenty-seven minutes, a white light will destroy everything left in the academy, including you and me."

After saying everything in one go, Regina sat in her office chair and ate the potato chips in her hand without saying a word.

"What is my power?"

Although he vaguely guessed some, Bai Li still couldn't accept such an absurd reality.

"Have you played RPGs?"

Regina took her pocket watch out of her bosom and pinched the time.

"Your abilities are similar to those in RPGs, and the save point is undoubtedly here, but the premise seems to be that you must die."

"So I ask me for a hair every time I read a file, because the save point is before you get the ability to read, and you have to make sure that you can "share" the ability to read the file in this time, right?"

Bai Li guessed in his heart the reason why Regina followed him again and again to read the file, there was no doubt that his ability to defy the sky would be coveted, but if that person was Regina, he would definitely not have the ability to resist.

Bai Li didn't think that he was able to accept everything Regina said so quickly, maybe it was because the experience of those previous scenes had consumed his surprise, or maybe it was for some other reason.

"So, what is your purpose?"

"Of course, no one wants to die so inexplicably, that white light, I want to find its source!"

"Buzz!!"

As Regina was talking, the pocket watch in her hand shook, and suddenly the pointer jumped up, piercing the glass cover on the dial like poking a hole in a paper window, and then wrote in the air: "I have seen Vice Principal Regina, the student council has reported, Class C's sixth-level authority Chris, Tang Chi, Nora, attacked Class A's fourth-level authority Lan without authorization, and it has been confirmed that he has been caught, and the fourth-level authority Lan requests the temporary opening of the fourth-level confinement room permission, so that the student council can confinement the violating students, above."

"Confirm authorization, we have nineteen minutes left."

The handwriting in the air was blown away as Regina exhaled air, and she reopened her pocket watch, the hands back to their original shape.

"Is the white light related to the 'White Steps'?"

Recalling the one-eyed young man I met when I read the file for the first time, the scene of the Tang knife that flashed with cold light—or the Japanese knife—slashed in the air and snapped off the bullet, the shock that brought Bai Li was indescribable.

"I'll go to the confinement room to see if Lan has anything to do with this matter, you go to the playground to find the student council president and ask him about the "Bai Buzhong"."

"Hmm!"

Bai Li nodded heavily, took the pocket watch handed by Regina, and was about to push the door to leave, but suddenly Regina's anxious voice came from behind him.

"Wait a minute!!"

Bai Li turned around suspiciously, but saw Regina lightly touch her finger in the air, and a pale gray light quickly sank into Bai Li's collar, and a gray crescent moon was printed on his collar, but there was a star-shaped blank inside the crescent.

After doing all this, Regina breathed a sigh of relief, raised her hand at Bai Liyi, and said, "Nineteen... No, see you in seventeen minutes."

"Bang!"

Slam the door slammed.

As far as the eye can see, there is a vast gray snowfield.

When I turned around, it was a wall, and there was no door.

"Oh, Regina..."

Bai Li clenched the pocket watch in his hand, the pointer slid without sound.

"Boom !!"

The loud explosion quickly messed up the snowflakes in the air, but strangely, none of the gray snowflakes drifted under the eaves.

"Are you coming?"

Bai Li looked up at the night, his eyes constantly flashing everything that had happened since he first read the file, thinking...

Is that really the "first" time to read the file...

Countless white-robed figures fell from the sky, taking advantage of the night, like a "flourishing" heavy snow.

"Smack!"

With a crisp snap of his fingers, countless gray snowflakes in the entire playground suddenly rolled up, and then burst out with a raging blue fire, which spread rapidly along the gray snowflakes, and actually engulfed the entire playground in an instant!

At this moment, the playground of Nuoda was like... No, it's a sea of fire!!

"Hey! Over there! Withdraw quickly!! Who told you to step out of the cordon without permission!!

The one-eyed young man flung the Tang knife towards Bai Li—or possibly a Japanese sword—and then stepped on the blade, the distance of hundreds of meters was just the blink of an eye, and the long knife under the young man's feet had already been nailed into the wall behind Bai Li.

"You're also a student council... Level 3? … No matter! Grab my hand!!"

The one-eyed young man's gaze swept over Bai Li's uniform, paused slightly at his collar, and then lifted Bai Li with one hand, stepped on the wall out of thin air, and held the handle of the knife with the other hand, and threw it fiercely towards the raging sea of fire.

"Nora! Ready to land!!"

The scorching flames raged on the surface of Bai Li's skin, and Bai Li felt the heat wave in this high-speed flight, and his whole face hurt as if he had been forcibly pasted with a piece of red-hot iron skin.

The sight was also hidden by the flames, and I could only see in a daze that in the depths of the blue sea of fire, there was a small black dot, and the black dot was getting bigger and bigger, but I still couldn't see what it was.

"Okay! Guest officer, please come in~"

The slightly teasing voice recalled Bai Li's nerves that were still stuck in the sea of fire.

The body was completely wrapped in a mass of viscous liquid, and there was this feeling of being wrapped in the nasal cavity, mouth, and ears, but Bai Li did not feel the slightest discomfort, and his breathing was not hindered in the slightest.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a sea of blue fire.

Beside him, there was no one, but he could faintly hear a few crisp metal crashes from the raging sea of fire.

"Lyle?! Stop him!! He's Lyle!!!

The one-eyed young man's voice came, and Bai Li wanted to move his body, but suddenly found that he was fixed in the air by the transparent viscous liquid, unable to move.

The scorching heat from the flames penetrated the thick layer of viscous liquid, causing Bai Li to struggle, and he let go of the hand that was gripping his pocket watch.

"Twenty... Is there a minute left?"

looked weakly at the starry sky that was swallowed by the sea of fire.

"Boom!!"

A loud sound came from beneath him, and the earth cracked, opening the blue sea of fire into a winding path, but this path was also an abyss.

"Hold on!! I'm here to save you!!"

The one-eyed young man fended off the attack of the two white-robed men while rushing towards Bai Li, who was trapped by the viscous liquid.

"You're... Who?"

Bai Li watched the one-eyed young man being intercepted by the third white-robed man, and looked at the weapon in his hand that he didn't know if it was a Tang knife or a Japanese sword.

"Tang Chi!! The president is dead! Come on!! Stop fighting!!"

Nora frantically rushed towards the one-eyed youth who was besieged by the three white walkers—he was at the end of his crossbow at this point, but he was still stubbornly fighting.

"But there! It was we who put him in danger! We must save him!!

"Tang Chi..."

Bai Li saw Tang Chi's figure getting closer and closer, and he closed his eyes.

"What a familiar name..."

He opened his eyes.

…

"Bell-bell-"

Midnight, twelve o'clock.

"To be continued."