Chapter 5 Unruled Airspace

The moon and stars are rare.

When the bell rings for the end of study hall, students walk out of the classroom, laughing and walking in the night, which may be the most relaxing time for them after a long day.

There is no homework, no teacher, and there are two or three friends around you. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to climb into bed and rest comfortably after taking a shower at home?

And among the scattered crowd, a large team of more than a dozen people rushed out of the school and walked towards the outside of the school neatly and steadily.

In the centre of them, a young man wrapped in black satin was like the stuffing of dumplings, tightly wrapped.

Such a huge team immediately attracted the attention of all the surrounding students.

“Actually… I can walk back on my own.” The corners of Lin Qiye’s mouth twitched slightly, and he said helplessly, “I can see, but my eyes can’t see the light very well…”

“Student Lin Qiye needless to say!” Jiang Qian interrupted Lin Qiye, and said sternly, “We promised your aunt that we will take good care of you, and we will definitely do it!”

“Yeah, Qiye, it just so happens that our home is in the same direction, and it is all along the way.”

“I’m on my way too.”

Lin Qiye: …

Seriously, now he wishes he was the one who was isolated, in the dark for a long time, as he wasn’t used to the feeling of being cared for by too many people, which made him awkward.

Of course, Aunt and Yang Jin don’t count because they are his family.

But people are kind after all, and he can’t say anything, so he can only helplessly follow the crowd forward.

“I’m going to turn right at that intersection in front of me, but I can go with you a little longer.”

“I’m about to turn a corner here, go first, see you tomorrow.”

“See you tomorrow.”

“…”

As they got farther and farther away from the school, the students who gathered around Lin Qiye bid farewell and left one after another and a few minutes later, there were only five people left around Lin Qiye.

The originally noisy atmosphere gradually quieted down, and the space suddenly became more abundant. Lin Qiye let out a long sigh of relief.

“You guys said… will the fog revive again and swallow Daxia?” Li Yifei asked curiously while carrying his bag.

“Didn’t you listen to those experts? The probability of the fog recovering is very small. Maybe there will be no change in the next hundred years. As for what will happen in a hundred years… Anyway, we will not be there at that time, so why worry so much?” Jiang Qian Rolled his eyes.

“Hmm, it’s not like you don’t know. What those experts say is the most unreliable, in case we finally get into college and before we enjoy life properly, the fog swallows the entire Daxia, wouldn’t it be a loss?”

“So that’s why you’re just dawdling around and not concentrating on your studies?” Jiang Qian walked up to Li Yifei and said seriously, “I have to remind you that Teacher Wang has already said that if you get the last exam this time, you will move the table to the edge of the podium.”

“I know, I know.” Li Yifei said with a sneer.

“However, I don’t think the fog can be revived again.” Wang Shao, who was walking in the front, said suddenly, “In the final analysis, the fog is just a natural phenomenon and it will gradually fade away after reaching a certain critical level. Just like the Ice Age, when glaciers covered the land, as the temperature rises it will slowly subside and a new era will follow.”

“I know what you’re talking about. It seems to be called the theory of natural disasters, right? It’s quite well recognized now.” Jiang Qian nodded.

“But what if… this fog is not a natural phenomenon?” At this moment, Lin Qiye who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke.

Wang Shao was taken aback, then smiled and said, “Qiye, you don’t believe what those so-called theologians say, thinking that this fog is related to supernatural power, right?”

“It’s the 21st century. We have to believe in science. There are not so many magical things in the world.” A classmate named Liu Yuan interjected.

Lin Qiye didn’t answer. He knew best in his heart whether there was anything beyond science in this world or not. But there was no need to tell outsiders about these things.

Li Yifei muttered in a low voice, “I think that if those things existed, the world would be more interesting.”

“Why are you talking so much? These things are not what we should care about. Rather than worrying about whether the fog will recover here, it is better to wait until the three-day holiday of Survivor Day and sleep in more to realize the reality.” Jiang Qian said with a smile.

“Yes, the holiday is the real thing!”

…

At this moment, the old town of Cangnan City.

A man was carrying a signboard, walking calmly on the lonely and dim street. The old street lamp cast a dim light, stretching his back continuously…

He glanced at his phone, walked to the entrance of a narrow street, and stopped.

“This is it…”

He muttered, put down the signboard on his shoulder, and straightened it.

Under the flickering street lights, the shadow of the signboard flickered, and on the black background, the bright red characters were extremely eye-catching!

——Forbidden ahead!

The man leaned against the street lamp, lit a cigarette for himself, took a deep puff, and turned on the headset.

“Captain, the third sign is in place.”

“Got it, let’s get started.”

“Hmm.”

With a cigarette in his mouth, the man walked up to the signboard, put his thumb on the tip of his teeth, and bit hard!

A drop of blood spilt from the wound, and the man squatted down and drew a long horizontal line with his blood-stained thumb on the four big words “Forbidden ahead”!

His eyes froze, and an inexplicable aura erupted centred on him!

He looked up at the black night sky, whispering in a voice only he could hear…

“Forbidden Ruins [Unruled airspace].”

The next moment, the bright red blood stains on the signboard in front of him quickly faded, as if it had been absorbed, and immediately after, the four big characters “Forbidden ahead” flashed red!

Then gradually return to the original state.

The man sat down on the ground, let out a long sigh of relief, and complained a little.

“Damn, it was hollowed out again…”

At this moment, if someone looks down at Cangnan City from the sky, they will find three points of light flashing near the old city, and then with these three points of light as the vertices, a dark red equilateral triangle is quickly outlined!

At the moment when the triangle was formed, the covered half of the old city seemed to be wiped off the map, gradually disappearing…

However, from the ground, the old city is still the same old city.

At the same time, in the centre of the triangle, six black and red cloaks streaked across the sky like lightning!

The man in the lead looked up at the dark red sky, stretched out his hand to hold the handle of the knife behind him, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

“The ghost-faced man clean-up operation, start.”