Chapter 280: Live Streaming Mishap
The civilians who entered the livestream room, however, had no idea how difficult the situation was for the Action Department right now; instead, they were abnormally excited and crazily spamming the screen.
“First!”
“Where is it? Where is the anomaly?”
“Wow, this is Master Lu, so young.”
“This is really handsome, looks like the demeanor of an expert at first glance.”
“This is Keshan Art University, right? Just a few streets from where I live. No wonder the roads over there have been closed these past two days.”
“No, haven’t you guys noticed, something seems a bit off?”
After the initial novelty faded, civilians gradually began to notice that something was wrong.
Wasn’t this supposed to be the follow-up handling of an anomaly incident?
Why does the screen in the livestream room now look like it’s not the case?
Especially Captain Mao walking beside Lu Bai, his tense and heavy expression didn’t seem feigned at all.
“This isn’t right, is it? This is cleanup work?”
“Why do I feel like the atmosphere is weird?”
“This is livestreaming the handling of an anomaly, right?”
“A bit scary…”
“Safety first.”
“Must be safe.”
The so-called livestream of cleanup work had now turned into a livestream of dealing with an anomaly.
The mood of the civilians in the livestream room, besides novelty, had mostly turned heavy.
It was probably also because Captain Mao’s displayed emotions had too strong infectiousness, full realism; even through the screen, they could feel how enormous the fear of being there in person was.
……
In the Action Department’s Council Hall.
Minister Zhang looked at the screen in the center, his complexion also somewhat heavy.
The livestream was his decision; now that an accident had occurred, if there was any bad result in the end, he would have to take responsibility.
“Minister Zhang?”
The Bald Director of Lu Bao Bureau tentatively suggested: “The situation has changed, what do you think… how about?”
Minister Zhang silently shook his head: “Cannot interrupt.”
He turned back and scanned the many people in the hall, saying in a heavy voice: “Continue the livestream, now we can only believe in Master Lu.”
……
The school’s buildings, including the corridors, were generally very spacious.
During the day, they could provide enough space for students, but at night, especially when no one was around, this open environment was really easy to cause unease.
The corridors and classrooms were all deathly silent, the stairwells pitch black, as if scary things could lunge out from the shadows at any time.
Lu Bai put his index finger to his lips, signaling them not to make a sound.
He originally thought there was only the death fighter in this teaching building, but unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the teaching building, he felt a bone-chilling cold, like entering an air-conditioned room in the height of summer, surrounded by coolness.
This change clearly meant there was an anomaly presence.
Yet Lu Bai didn’t see any yin energy, unable to judge where the anomaly was through this method.
He was silent for a moment, then continued up the steps to the second floor where he had previously seen the death fighter.
Just as he came up, before reaching the classroom entrance, he heard an extremely faint cry for help.
Looking in the direction the sound came from.
He determined the sound source was not the classroom where the death fighter had been before, but the office at the end of the corridor.
Captain Mao following behind Lu Bai heard this sound and couldn’t help shivering.
The school had long stopped classes, and faculty and staff certainly wouldn’t come to school at this time.
So he could only think this was movement made by the anomaly; he didn’t rush over to check or rescue anyone, but first confirmed the communication equipment’s situation.
Incidentally, the appearance of anomalies does cause electronic equipment to malfunction, that’s true.
However, the scope of this malfunction varies, and some anomalies only cause equipment malfunction when within three or four meters of them.
“Zizi~ Captain Mao, have you found anything else over there?”
Captain Mao pressed the intercom button.
“Have you investigated the second floor office in Huixin Building? Send over the floor plan of Huixin Building as soon as possible…”
Lu Bai thought for a moment and didn’t stop him, stepping toward the office.
But before he could get close.
There was a bang of a huge explosion.
The office door at the end of the corridor shattered violently, and a powerful cyan-blue airwave surged out, the airwave sweeping through and raging crazily in the corridor.
“Holy shit!”
“It came out.”
Captain Mao and Observer Chen decisively hid behind Lu Bai.
The classroom windows along the way shattered explosively, and even some famous portraits hanging in the corridor were shattered by the airwave.
Amid the surging airwave, a man dressed as a construction worker retreated violently from that office.
He adjusted the bright yellow safety helmet on his head, his complexion extremely ugly.
All of this was faithfully recorded by Observer Chen’s recording equipment.
The livestream room’s popularity exploded.
“!!!”
“No, what’s going on?!”
“The anomaly came out!”
“Why do I see it’s a man?”
“Quick, someone explain, which sequence’s anomaly looks like this?”
Netizens’ comments crazily spammed the screen.
After all, in the oppressive life where anomalies could appear beside them at any time, just seeing an anomaly through the screen was enough to make everyone feel heart-pounding fear.
The livestream room’s commentator braced himself and said: “Everyone, citizens, please don’t worry, Master Lu has the ability to handle the anomaly… Even if any accident occurs, our Action Department will protect everyone at all costs…”
The Council Hall was in deathly silence, you could hear a pin drop.
“Minister Zhang, with such a big commotion, Master Lu, he, can he handle it?” a high-level official from the Action Department asked.
Minister Zhang’s face was expressionless, striving to maintain surface calm.
No way around it, things had come to this point, there was no choice but to pray that Lu Bai could really deal with the anomaly.
……
At the teaching building site.
Observer Chen hid behind Lu Bai, his hand holding the portable camera trembling nonstop.
Even though he had seen the drowned ghost once before, thinking of having to face the anomaly directly still made him uncontrollably afraid.
Lu Bai, however, had none of their complex emotional fluctuations.
He just tilted his head slightly, looking with interest at the construction worker who had appeared in the corridor.
The title on the other’s head proclaimed his identity as a death fighter, but for now, he seemed to have run into considerable trouble.
“Save… Big Brother, save me…”
The cry for help from the office sounded especially hoarse, like his throat had been crushed by a stone mill.
The construction worker’s peripheral vision naturally also noticed Lu Bai and the other two at the other end of the corridor, but he had no mind to pay attention to Lu Bai right now, his whole body nerves taut, body stiff like a sculpture.
They had seen the news that Lu Bai was dealing with an anomaly at this university and decided to come watch the fun.
Because this teaching building had a view of the security room, they had all sneaked into this teaching building.
Little did they expect that before they could even trip up Lu Bai, their accomplices scattered throughout this teaching building had successively met with accidents…
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