Lu Zhao pondered... Those two over there, they looked rather ordinary. If they had really been with the "Angel Sculpture" just now, how could they still be alive?
But for the sake of being thorough, he still looked at Jin Jiuyao: "Go and ask them. No, your appearance will scare them. Little Xue, you go and ask."
Chen Xue stood up decisively.
"Mind your manners..." Lu Zhao quickly reminded, "It’s their freedom to read whatever they want, don’t cause any chaos, rember we still have tasks."
"Got it!" Chen Xue replied coldly.
Lu Zhao glanced at Lin Yi and Wei Liang, then mused, "Little Jin, you rest for now. Little Bing, take care of him."
Chen Bing nodded.
"I’m fine, you go ahead..." Jin Jiuyao naturally knew what Lu Zhao was going to do.
Lu Zhao didn’t waste any ti, hoisted his backpack, and walked towards the bookshelf area.
He couldn’t feel at ease without looking at the dead "Angel Sculpture" himself.
A mont later, he returned to his seat with a darkened face.
Chen Xue had already returned from Lin Yi’s side and was waiting for him there.
"How did it go?" Lu Zhao asked with concern. After Chen Xue returned, her face was dark, which was the first ti he’d seen her looking worse than himself.
Chen Xue pursed her lips: "He asked how old I am... if I have a boyfriend... and other things..."
Jin Jiuyao: "..."
Chen Bing: "..."
Lu Zhao: "..."
"Ahem..." Lu Zhao cleared his throat and paused, "Though asking a girl her age is indeed a bit presumptuous..."
Chen Xue gritted her teeth: "He asked about my asurents..."
"Damn it! I’ve put up with him for too long!" Jin Jiuyao cursed and slapped the ground, his stance like a blade drawn from a sheath.
Then he was pushed back by Lu Zhao.
"Calm down..." Lu Zhao continued asking, "After you went over, why were you the one getting questioned? Did you get anything out of him first?"
Chen Xue took a deep breath, then said: "I asked, but they know nothing about it... My perception tells they weren’t lying."
Lu Zhao thought for a mont, his brow relaxing as though he had realized sothing: "That makes sense!"
He explained: "Only by knowing nothing can one avoid the gaze of the Angel Sculpture..."
"According to the data, the Angel Sculpture needs to establish contact with its prey to begin hunting."
"But how could they have no reaction at all?" Jin Jiuyao didn’t understand, "Is there really soone so obtuse?"
"Correction, it’s thick-skinned," Chen Xue said. "In that person’s eyes, there’s only flesh, but in an era like this, there can’t be such... pure hooligans."
"Unless he overwrites his cognition." Lu Zhao said, "Do you know their nas? When we get back, we’ll have soone check their backgrounds. If they’re ’special’ enough, maybe we can try to bring them in, since we have two girls anyway, and they... are two perverts."
Chen Bing shot Lu Zhao a cold look but said nothing.
Chen Xue snorted, then nodded: "Those two, one is called ’Xiao Zi’, the other ’William’."
She gritted her teeth: "The pervert is ’William.’
"’William’, doesn’t sound like a Huaxia na?" Lu Zhao frowned.
Jin Jiuyao angrily said: "Adoring foreign things, there are always such dogs, I really want to kill him!"
He again sprang up, and Lu Zhao pressed him down again.
"Your impulsive recklessness really doesn’t suit being a ’scout,’ being so rash can get us killed at critical tis." Lu Zhao glanced at him, then looked at Chen Bing and Chen Xue, shaking his head slightly, "Mostly an alias, but it doesn’t matter, once we have the information we’ll know what’s going on with them."
"These two people have reached a normal level that is abnormal here, surely there’s a big problem, but right now we have to prioritize our tasks, as long as they don’t affect our work, let’s not bother with them."
Lu Zhao’s attitude towards Lin Yi mirrored Lin Yi’s previous attitude towards Mountain Man.
In the campus, everyone acted on the principle of ’avoiding more trouble is better than causing trouble, trying not to provoke problems if possible.’
"Understood." Jin Jiuyao and the others nodded.
Chen Xue glanced at ’William’ again, and her jaw muscles twitched.
Over there, Wei Liang seed to notice sothing, looked over and raised his eyebrows, almost whistling.
"Shaless!" Chen Xue’s face was frosty.
"What about Xiao Zi, is there any problem?" Lu Zhao asked.
Chen Xue’s expression was grave: "His problem is the biggest!"
"When he entered the classroom, I ’aid’ at him, but in my Vision, he was surrounded by a dense mist... That kind of mist was like being covered by abnormal weather."
"But, when I looked at him closely, that vague and blurry feeling disappeared..."
"What do you an? It doesn’t feel right when not looking closely, but it’s fine when you do?" Lu Zhao asked puzzledly.
Jin Jiuyao hesitated: "In terms of perception, it’s called ’reverse traction’, to put it plainly, it ans feeling uneasy or uncomfortable... Once you know he’s over there, the less you notice, the more you notice him, and your whole body feels unwell."
"’Reverse traction’?" Lu Zhao frowned, "Why does it sound so familiar?"
Jin Jiuyao pursed his lips, his expression strange: "Of course, it’s odd, because this kind of ’reverse traction’ chanism usually exists on the Angel Sculpture... It’s used by the Angel Sculpture to induce prey to perceive it and establish a connection."
"How can humans have such ’passive skills’, inducing us to perceive him and then making us feel uneasy? He’s clearly a living person!"
Lu Zhao frowned: "I don’t know, but let’s not worry about it... These two, leave it to the organization to investigate later, don’t lose focus on the task because of unknown factors."
"Especially you, Little Jin." He glanced at Jin Jiuyao, "Your actions just now were very dangerous, next ti you ’scout’, at least ensure Little Bing and Little Xue have established domains, don’t observe on your own."
Jin Jiuyao impatiently picked at his ear, agreeing reluctantly: "I know, I know, task one, confirm Yuan Lijian’s task execution progress; task two, determine and excavate..."
"Alright, I’m not reciting your task content to you, just keep it in mind." Lu Zhao cut him off, then ended the topic related to Lin Yi, and continued, "The dead Angel Sculpture over there... I went to observe just now."
Jin Jiuyao imdiately perked up, hurriedly asking, "What’s the situation over there?"
Lu Zhao’s expression was grave, he said solemnly: "How to say it, out of deduction, I’ve only co to one conclusion."
"The Angel Sculpture failed to descend for so reason, you also know, the descent of the Sneering Angel itself is a kind of interference phenonon, and its traverse of layers also isn’t a stable traversal act, they can traverse because they’re rather ’good’ at it, but if they encounter layer-level fluctuations, they’re prone to get stuck in the layer’s fissures where they die, like..."
"Like getting stuck halfway through a wall and dying..." Jin Jiuyao muttered but was quickly glared at by Chen Xue, making him shut up imdiately.
Lu Zhao said: "That’s right, one situation is where the Angel was swallowed by layer fissures during descent, causing their souls not to descend, and the bodies that have interfered in reality turn into sculptures..."
"However, the likelihood of this is very low, just like a person choking to death while drinking water, theoretically existing only in theory."
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