# 813
Chapter 814: This "Night Watch" Squad Has Big Problems
A dozen seconds later, other recruits arrived upon hearing the shouts.
"What happened?"
"Did you spot the members of the [Night Watch] squad? Where are they?"
Qian Duodu sat on the ground in terror, frantically crawling backward, pointing a trembling finger at the bushes behind him, his face deathly pale!
"They're killing people… They're killing people!!"
Upon hearing these words, the other recruits' expressions changed. They walked directly to the bushes behind.
The next moment, their bodies shuddered violently.
"How could this happen…"
Someone walked to the corpse, bent down, and carefully confirmed, "He's definitely dead…"
"It's Instructor Li, I recognize him." The other recruits' expressions turned grim as they turned to Qian Duodu. "Did you see who did it?"
"It was the [Night Watch] squad! He was wearing a deep crimson cloak, and in his left hand he was holding a Sha Wujing mask!" Qian Duodu stammered as he spoke.
"Don't talk nonsense! [Night Watch] is Great Xia's fifth special squad—why would they kill… You must have seen wrong!" Someone among the recruits retorted.
"No, he didn't see wrong." Liu Yang, who had been silent on the side, spoke up. "I can vouch for him."
"…"
"I think we might as well assume that the two of them didn't missee." At this moment, a man slowly stepped out from the crowd. "Based on the information we have now, I've roughly thought of two possibilities.
The first possibility: the [Night Watch] squad has defected and killed the instructor of this training camp…"
"That's nonsense—why would they do that?" A recruit immediately retorted.
"That does seem illogical."
"I think it's impossible for a special squad to do something like this?"
This viewpoint sparked immediate opposition from many.
"If that's the case, then there's only the second possibility left." The man continued, "The second possibility… The [Night Watch] squad currently in this training camp isn't the real one…"
"What does that mean?"
"What I mean is, some of them… or perhaps all of them, have been replaced." The man spoke with certainty. "[Night Watch] squad members all wear masks, and they descended from the sky directly. There's no way to confirm their identities, right? Who can confirm that the people under those masks are actually [Night Watch] members and not some evil impostors wearing masks?"
"But Instructor Yuan said they were [Night Watch]!"
"Did Instructor Yuan actually see their faces after they landed?"
Everyone froze in place.
"But… if that's the case, then who on earth would impersonate the [Night Watch] squad? What's their purpose?"
"I don't know about their purpose, but…" The man paused, then lowered his voice. "Have any of you heard of the Church of the Ancient Gods?"
Upon hearing these four words, everyone's hearts skipped a beat.
The Church of the Ancient Gods…
"Excuse me, brother." One of the recruits stepped forward, looking curiously at the speaking man. "May I ask, what is your name?"
"Name?" The man shrugged.
"I'm Shen Qingzhu."
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"You what? A teacher's body was found?!"
In the dormitory area, nearly a hundred recruits gathered together, their faces simultaneously showing shock at these words.
"That's right." The recruit who had run all the way from the cafeteria to deliver the news first caught his breath for a long while before continuing, "According to informed sources, this is very likely the work of an organization called the Church of the Ancient Gods, disguised as the [Night Watch] squad, who have infiltrated the new recruits' training camp…"
The other recruits' expressions immediately soured.
"But why?" Someone among the recruits asked, puzzled. "Even if the Church of the Ancient Gods really sent someone in disguise, what's their purpose? This is just a new recruits' training camp—there aren't any valuable things here at all!"
"This… we're not sure yet. The informed sources are still analyzing the situation, and there should be results soon." The messenger recruit continued, "I'm here to warn all of you that while the situation is still unclear, try to avoid conflicts with the 'Night Watch' squad. Everyone should find a place to hide for now, and once we've figured out the situation, then we can decide what to do…"
Rustle, rustle—!
Before he could finish speaking, a faint sound came from above their heads.
Everyone was stunned and simultaneously looked up at the ceiling. They had just started searching the dormitory building, and they were currently on the first floor—the second floor and above hadn't been searched yet. The appearance of this strange sound immediately drew their attention.
"What's that sound?"
"I don't know… Sounds like something crawling, like an insect?"
"What kind of insect makes a sound loud enough to penetrate the floorboards?"
"Uh…"
"Let's go check it out."
"That doesn't seem like a good idea. Didn't we just say the situation seems off?"
"What's there to be afraid of? Even if there really are people from the Church of the Ancient Gods mixed in, with the Town-Exorcising Monument's effect, they'd only be at the 'Pond' realm. We have over a hundred people here—are we supposed to be afraid of them?"
"What you said does make sense!"
After discussing for a moment, the group mustered their alertness to the fullest and crept toward the second floor of the dormitory building…
They climbed the stairs to the second floor, but upon seeing the dormitory door standing at the top of the stairs, they all froze in confusion.
"Strange, why is this door here? Where's the hallway?"
"The layout of the dormitory building wasn't like this before, was it? What happened?"
Filled with doubt, they pushed open the dormitory door. Behind it was not the familiar dormitory they expected, but a vast cavernous area like a nest!
It was as if someone had scrambled and重组ed the structure of the dormitory building. Though the exterior remained unchanged, the internal space had been completely altered. The original rooms were arranged like a honeycomb, and in the central large hollow, enormous spider webs clung to every surface.
Webs covered the area, silk threads drifted in the air, and those pale yet sturdy spider threads hung down, suspending cocooned bodies wrapped in silk, swaying slowly in the dim hollow…
Upon seeing those bodies, every recruit's pupils constricted sharply!
Those… were all instructors.
At this moment, from within the dim spider's nest, a man-faced spider lurking in the center of the web opened its scarlet compound eyes, its grotesque mandibles exuded a cold gleam, striking fear into anyone who laid eyes on it!
"A m-monster!" Upon seeing this scene, one recruit collapsed onto the ground. "The monster killed them!"
Beside this man-faced spider, a figure wrapped in a deep crimson cloak slowly walked out. The Sun Wukong mask on their face was stained with some blood. In one hand, they gripped a silver Rubik's cube; with the other, they gently stroked the head of the grotesque man-faced spider.
He stared at the recruits frozen in fear behind the door, his eyes flickering with a chilling glint.
"Oh?" He whispered like a demon, "It seems we've been discovered…"