# 1552
Chapter 1548: Storm Rising
Under Lin Qiye's soul control, the students and teachers at Shangjing University quickly and orderly evacuated to the air-raid shelters. Chen Han took Xu Liao and went directly to mobilize the Night Watch headquarters' personnel in Shangjing, setting up the [Unbounded Sky Domain] around the university.
After finishing all this, Lin Qiye waved his hand, and several summoning arrays bloomed across the earth. Thunder Beast, Grey Sparrow, Snow Woman, Wangcai, and several other "Klein"-level nurses were summoned, racing off in different directions around Shangjing University.
After a moment of hesitation, Lin Qiye also summoned A Zhu, asking him to warn Li Yifei to take cover. Li Yifei's strength wasn't great, and if he encountered a Migo head-on, he had virtually no chance of winning.
"Laifu, guard Miss Qingyu well. Don't let any Migo touch her, understand?"
Lin Qiye gripped the [White Slash] in his hand and solemnly instructed Thunder Beast Laifu. The latter crackled with electrical arcs around him and meowed in acknowledgment.
"Jiang Er, you stay here too. If anything unexpected happens, contact me immediately."
"Okay!" Jiang Er nodded vigorously.
After settling the teachers, students, and An Qingyu, Lin Qiye's figure turned into a shadow and vanished on the spot.
At the same time, inside the tent controlling the stage.
"Cao Yuan junior... what's happening outside?" Lu Menglei removed her noise-canceling headphones, asking in confusion.
Cao Yuan's expression was grave. He had already heard Lin Qiye's words through the communicator. He immediately led Lu Menglei out of the tent and toward where An Qingyu and the others were.
"Senior, from now on, stay here. No matter what happens, don't leave their side, understand?"
Cao Yuan's expression was stern and serious.
Most of the teachers and students at Shangjing University had already been controlled by Lin Qiye to evacuate to underground and other civil defense facilities. It was too late to send Lu Menglei there now. An Qingyu and Jiang Er had Thunder Beast protecting them, making it relatively safer than other places.
"...Alright." Lu Menglei didn't know what was happening, but she had long noticed that Cao Yuan's identity was unusual. Now that Cao Yuan had spoken, she naturally wouldn't refuse.
Cao Yuan exchanged a glance with Jiang Er, gave a slight nod, then turned and rapidly ran in another direction.
All sixteen Migos were targeting An Qingyu. If they all gathered here, even if Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan fought together, they couldn't guarantee An Qingyu's safety. They had to thin their numbers by picking them off one by one before all the Migos arrived!
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"Have you contacted Instructor Lin?"
Near the Shangjing University Gymnasium, several figures raced swiftly along the road. Li Zhenzhen's gaze swept across the empty buildings around her as she asked:
"Contacted him." Su Zhe put down his phone. "He told us to retreat."
"Retreat?"
"Yeah, he said we can't help with this situation. He told us to go to the underground air-raid shelter and watch over those unconscious students."
"What about the remaining two residual souls?"
"He said we'll continue the mission after the storm passes..."
Fang Mo pondered thoughtfully.
Their squad had originally been catching the remaining three residual souls inside the Gymnasium. They had just caught one and were about to take it to Classroom 609 when they heard the bizarre singing from the broadcast by Lin Qiye... Then the surrounding students seemed to be under a spell, quickly running toward nearby underground air-raid shelters.
Perhaps Lin Qiye never intended to control them, so besides finding the singing somewhat unpleasant, they felt nothing unusual. Walking through the empty campus in confusion, they finally managed to contact Lin Qiye.
"Controlling this many students temporarily and having them evacuate to underground... there must be something incredibly dangerous about to descend here." Su Yuan said gravely. "Captain, what do we do next?"
Just as Fang Mo was about to speak, Lu Baoyou's eyes flashed with brilliance, and he suddenly said: "Perhaps this is our chance to earn merit and achieve an over-level kill."
"No!" Fang Mo果断摇头，"七夜大人让我们撤退，一定是觉得敌人的实力已经超过了我们的能力范围，几乎没有越级击杀的可能……贸然动手，可能不仅会造成伤亡，还会给七夜大人他们造成麻烦。
We follow orders and go directly to the air-raid shelter."
Fang Mo was the acting captain after all. Once he spoke, no one would dare challenge him. Even Lu Baoyou, who usually liked to argue with him, didn't say anything this time and quickly ran toward the nearby air-raid shelter.
"Where is everyone? Where did everyone go?"
Just as they were about to leave, a window on a dormitory building suddenly opened. A shirtless male student was holding a bath towel, looking around in bewilderment through the window. Droplets of water still hung from the tips of his hair.
"What's going on? I was just taking a shower, and everyone's gone... Hey, don't scare me!"
His panicked shouts echoed through the silent road. In the distance, Fang Mo suddenly stopped, turned back, and a pair of ears twitched slightly, seemingly capturing something.
"What's wrong?" Su Zhe asked, puzzled.
"There's still someone in the dormitory building! It must be that he was showering when Instructor Qiye was singing and didn't hear it... so he was left behind."
"What do we do about it?"
Fang Mo barely hesitated before speaking: "Go back and bring him along. Our mission is to take care of these students. We can't leave him alone here."
The group turned and raced toward the dormitory building.
The male student standing by the window looked around in bewilderment. His eyes lit up when he saw Fang Mo and the others running toward him from a distance:
"Classmate! Classmate, do you know where everyone..."
BOOM—!!
Before he could finish, a thunderous explosion rang out from the top floor of the dormitory building. A corner of the roof was shattered by something flying at high speed, debris and dust flying everywhere.
The shirtless male student was startled by this sudden attack and shrunk back behind the window. Just as he carefully poked his head out again, a pink monster with a fleshy, tumor-covered tentacled head slowly flew to the window, its membranous wings vibrating.
Seeing this诡异 monster, the male student was completely stunned, even forgetting to scream. He froze like a stone statue, his pupils dilating in horror.
Just as the monster's fleshy tumor head was about to pass through the open window, the wall suddenly twisted, transforming into a rock demon with ferocious fangs that bit down hard on the Migo's head, pinning its body in mid-air!
BANG—!!
A shadow exploded through the neighboring dormitory window, moving like an agile white cat, instantly crossing the hallway to appear behind the male student. A hand grabbed him and threw him over their shoulder, then turned and ran toward the opposite window. With a light push off the ground, they leaped from the fifth floor.