Xia Chujian peered out at the open space below.
A man in a strange green robe was waving a handgun, running towards the teaching building.
Behind him were many campus security guards, holding batons, some even with small handguns that could fire anesthetic bullets.
But they couldn't catch up with the man in front.
He ran like a sprinter, so fast that he left afterimages on the retina.
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
She immediately turned and rushed back to her classroom.
She had a special plastic material handgun that could be assembled in her schoolbag. As long as she returned to her seat, she would be safe!
Xia Chujian's heart pounded as she rushed into the classroom, closed the door behind her, and shouted, "There's a gunman outside! Everyone, quickly block the door!"
The students in the classroom were still immersed in the tense atmosphere of studying.
Xia Chujian's shout caught them off guard. They just stared blankly at Xia Chujian, who was standing at the classroom door, closing it behind her.
Yu Wangyou was the first to come back to her senses.
She frowned in confusion and said, "Chujian, you can't say things like that. Our school strictly prohibits bringing guns onto campus. How could there be a gunman?"
"There really is! I saw him! He's running towards this teaching building! The campus security guards are chasing him!" Xia Chujian said anxiously, hurrying back to her seat.
Class beauty Xi Danyu had been sitting in Xia Chujian's seat to ask Yu Wangyou about exam points.
She stood up quickly, holding her lunch box and electronic notebook, and said in confusion, "...But, we have an exam this afternoon!"
Xia Chujian thought, gunmen don't care if you have an exam or not, they just need to find their target.
She sat down, reached under her desk into her schoolbag, and began to assemble the gun.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
The audio-visual equipment in the classroom suddenly sounded an alarm.
"Attention, students, attention, students, a mentally ill patient has broken into the school, armed with a weapon. The school has called the police. Personnel from the Punishment Department are on their way. Please close the classroom doors and do not come out to watch."
As soon as this alarm was issued, everyone believed Xia Chujian's words.
Like a drop of water falling into a hot oil pan, the classroom suddenly boiled over.
Almost all the students were in action.
Some moved desks to block the classroom door.
Others hid directly under their desks.
Xia Chujian took advantage of the chaos to assemble the gun in her schoolbag.
But she couldn't load the bullets without being seen.
Because Yu Wangyou next to her was watching her without blinking, her lips moving as if she wanted to apologize for her earlier words.
Xia Chujian had to stop. If Yu Wangyou saw her, she wouldn't be able to explain.
If the school found out, she would be even more unlucky.
Mulan City No. 1 High School had zero tolerance for bringing guns to school.
Once discovered, the lightest punishment would be expulsion, and the heaviest would be the loss of her student status.
Then what university would she be able to attend?!
Xia Chujian felt nervous, conflicted, and a little complicated.
She could only pray that the campus security guards could quickly subdue the mentally ill gunman, or that the fully armed Disciplinary Officers from the Punishment Department would arrive quickly after the police were called.
In this situation, the Punishment Department would definitely send out a sniper, whose equipment was much better than the campus security guards' small handguns.
In Xia Chujian's opinion, no matter how powerful a mentally ill person was, there was nothing a Sniper Bullet couldn't solve.
If one wasn't enough, then two would do. There was always a combination that would suit him.
But she was too optimistic.
Five minutes later, the gunfire intensified, and the chaotic sounds from downstairs grew louder and more distinct.
Listening to the direction of the sounds, Xia Chujian turned to Yu Wangyou and said, "That psychopath gunman seems to have entered this teaching building."
Although the Beichen Empire boasts countless buildings hundreds of stories high, teaching buildings are not allowed to be tall, with a maximum of three stories.
This is supposedly to prevent students from jumping off the building.
Therefore, schools tend to occupy large areas, making it easier to construct large, single-story classrooms.
And this teaching building of theirs is only three stories high.
The first and second floors are for first- and second-year high school students.
The third floor is for third-year high school students.
But because today is the third-year mock exam, the first- and second-year students are not at school, but taking online classes at home.
Yu Wangyou said, "Luckily, the younger students in the first and second years aren't at school..."
Xia Chujian smiled and said, "Yeah, so this psychopath gunman came straight to the third floor."
As she spoke, a loud crash echoed through the hallway on the third floor.
It sounded like someone had closed the hallway door on the third floor.
Then came the sound of frantic pounding.
"Open the door! Open the door quickly! Students! Is there anyone who can open the door! This psychopath has locked the hallway door on the third floor!" It was the voice of the school security guard chasing after him.
Yu Wangyou was taken aback. "...This psychopath gunman ran up here so quickly?! He even closed the hallway door on the third floor?! Does that mean we can't go downstairs?"
Xia Chujian nodded with a hint of sadness. "I guess so."
She was thinking that she shouldn't have run straight back to the classroom just now, but should have closed the hallway door on the third floor first.
But how could she have known at the time that the school security guards would be so useless, and the Punishment Department personnel would be so slow? They have Duty Vehicles; it should only take a few minutes to get here! Xia Chujian's heart was pounding.
"We... we'll be okay, right? Our classroom door is closed tightly!" A student in the front row turned around and said nervously.
Xia Chujian looked at the window and didn't say anything.
The classroom door was closed, but the glass could be shattered with a single shot. What good was closing the door and windows?
It would really be better to let everyone go downstairs and scatter, rather than being "cornered like dogs" by this psychopath.
Her hand went into the desk again, one hand gripping the gun, the other gripping the box of bullets.
She thought, if she was really that unlucky and needed to fire the gun, would the school make an exception for her because she saved a class of students? They could expel her, but not revoke her student status, so she could still study at home for the last two months and then take the National Higher Education Entrance Examination.
She was lost in thought, but her hands didn't slow down.
While everyone's attention was drawn to the commotion in the hallway, Xia Chujian quickly loaded the bullets into the handgun.
In the hallway, the psychopath gunman in the strange green robe had begun to shout.
"Saintess! Saintess! I am your Guardian! Saintess! Come out! We can't live without you!"
"Where have you hidden the Saintess?! I want to find my Saintess!"
He shouted frantically in the hallway, then kicked open the door of the classroom at the very end of the hallway with a bang.
It was a regular third-year class, filled with the students with the worst grades and the most ordinary family backgrounds in the entire third grade.
The man kicked open the classroom door, raised his handgun, pointed it at the students inside, and shouted with red eyes, "Speak! Where is the Saintess?! If you don't speak, this is what will happen!"
With that, he raised his hand and shot a female student sitting in the front row closest to the podium, killing her instantly.
After a moment of stunned silence, all the students in the regular class screamed.
To be able to study at Mulan City No. 1 High School, even in the regular class, even with the worst family background, meant living in the orderly North District. Almost no one had lived in the most chaotic South District of Mulan City like Xia Chujian.
Therefore, they never dreamed that this bloody scene, which could only be seen in Star Network blockbusters, would appear before their very eyes! The gunman in the green robe had an abnormally flushed face.
Killing a student seemed to excite him even more.
He pointed the handgun at the boy sitting next to the girl who had been shot and roared, "Tell me, where is the Saintess?!"
The boy's lips trembled, wanting to say he didn't know, wanting to ask who the Saintess he was looking for was, but when he faced the dark muzzle of the gun, all his courage vanished.
His eyes rolled back, and he fainted from fright.
But even his fainting didn't save him from the Qingpao gunman.
*Bang!* Another gunshot, and the fainted boy died under the Qingpao psychopath's gun.
At this moment, the school's Academic Affairs Director's trembling voice came from the ordinary class's audio-visual equipment: "This gentleman, have you come to the wrong place? This is a school, a high school, there are no Saintesses here..."
The gunman in the strange Qingpao raised his hand and shot through the device that was emitting the sound, sneering, "I am a Guardian! Do you think I don't know where the Saintess is?!"
"You won't hand her over, huh? Then I'll do it myself!"
Saying that, he suddenly threw away the pistol, lifted the Qingpao that reached his knees, and directly took out a brand-new submachine gun from inside his robe, and began shooting at the trembling, unarmed students in the classroom! *Rat-tat-tat! Rat-tat-tat!* Five minutes later, most of the three hundred students in the classroom had fallen in pools of blood.
The gunman grinned hideously, raised the submachine gun in one hand, and shouted at the hellish scene, "Now! Can you tell me now?! Where is the Saintess?!"
In the ordinary class's classroom, the few students who had not been shot were almost collapsing from fright.
They finally couldn't help but say, desperately, "If you want to find the Saintess, you have to have a name, right?! You don't even say the name, how is anyone supposed to know who you're looking for?!"
The man in Qingpao tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said, "You have a point. The Saintess I'm looking for, her name is Yu Wangyou, she used to be from Wind Sea City, do you know her? Where is she?"
It was actually Yu Wangyou?! That name was too famous in their third year of high school, she was the top scorer in the entire Guiyuan Star's National Higher Education Entrance Examination!
These poor students secretly worshiped her like a god, hoping that she could help them guess more correctly during the exam.
But now, because of this Qingpao psychopath, how could they have suffered this unwarranted disaster if it weren't for her?! The few surviving students in the ordinary class hated Yu Wangyou at this moment, and directly pointed to the direction across the corridor outside the window, saying, "Our school has a Yu Wangyou, she's in the intermediate class in front!"
The Qingpao psychopath immediately laughed loudly, then raised the submachine gun and said violently to the students who pointed the way, "Betraying the Saintess! A dead end!"
*Da-da-da-da! Da-da-da-da!* Another burst of submachine gun fire swept through, and the remaining students also fell in pools of blood.
This is the first update, the second update will be at one o'clock in the afternoon.
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