CHAPTER 1605: CHAPTER 349: FACING THE BELL CALAMITY

A little female demon, holding her head, curled up, seemingly intending to play dead.

A big female demon, stretching out her arms, widened her eyes and looked into the distance, spreading her fingers as if trying to grab something.

There was also a warlock, holding a classic Remington Symbol Gun with both hands, his eyes bloodshot, his face pale, his expression somewhat panic-stricken.

...

"Zheng Qing?" In the pavilion, Deng Xiaojian touched his bare chin and said suspiciously, "He doesn’t look like he’s been kidnapped... and why are his eyes red again?"

"I think he’s planning to shoot somewhere." The chairman of the Starry Sky Academy student council added objectively.

"Wow," Sepulano, who had once personally experienced the power of Zheng Qing’s Symbol Gun, whistled, reached into his arms with his left hand, pulled out a small monument-shaped Mount Tai Stone, and with his right hand opened a law book while commenting shortly, "...it’s going to end."

Unlike their subordinates, Lei Zhe and Augustus were more concerned about the changes in the School Guardian Array.

"Why did the array suddenly fail?" Lei Zhe looked up, frowning at the space above Lin Zhong Lake, which was completely empty. The golden ’Sun’ and the waterfall-like rain of golden Talismans disappeared in an instant, as if all the sights before were just an illusion.

"No, it hasn’t failed." Augustus raised his head, looking at the clear, transparent air, gently touching the law book in his hand, and said in a low voice, "...it’s just that we can’t see it. Like the old saying goes, ’the invisible guardian is the strongest guardian’."

...

On a hill not far from the pavilion.

Forty-one took a step forward, his face filled with irrepressible astonishment.

In his hand, the needle on a bronze compass of ancient design was spinning wildly, and the Bronze Listener perched on the needle was screaming shrilly:

"Warning! Warning!"

"Detected massive dimensional collapse fluctuations! Detected massive dimensional collapse fluctuations!"

"Energy accumulation has reached the critical value!"

"Energy is being released!"

"Extremely dangerous! Extremely dangerous!"

"Permission granted to abandon the recovery plan! Staff are allowed to prioritize evacua..."

The little Listener’s last sentence was cut off because a black handkerchief was thrown over and covered its head, completely muffling its voice.

"Noisy little thing." Master Baoyangzi clapped his hands, as if he had done something trivial, and said with a cheerful smile, "When you need them, they play dead all day long; when you don’t need them, they’re more lively than anyone else... Don’t learn from these lazy things."

The young warlock in a green robe and Daoist topknot slowly turned his head to look at the senior advisor beside him.

"You knew all along?" He had already reined in the astonishment on his face, his tone calmed back down. There was no questioning or doubt, just a hint of confusion in his eyes.

If Master Baoyangzi, as a senior advisor to the relevant department, truly discovered a highly suspected trace of a Forbidden Curse, he shouldn’t have brought only an ordinary staff member like himself. But if he had no clues at all, then Master Baoyangzi’s behavior seemed very contradictory.

"I just got a little hint." The elder wizard’s answer was impeccable, as he merely stretched out a leg, nudging with the toe of his shoe the black cat crouched at his feet, saying with a smile, "...so I brought it along."

The black cat impatiently flicked its tail.

"Mind your own business!" it replied rudely, looking angrily at the silhouette of the warlock above the lake.

...

"Cousin! Cousin! What are you doing here? Who is she?"

Li Meng, with a stream of light, rushed forward in front of Jiang Yu and Zhu Si, shouting, chattering just like those sparrows in the morning forest.

Jiang Yu, holding Zhu Si, looked at the little witch rushing toward them, stunned for a few seconds, her expression suddenly changed dramatically, and retorted, "What are you doing here?!"

Li Meng was momentarily frozen in place.

She then remembered that this time of the morning was supposed to be her study period. However, without her cousin supervising today, she got so carried away.

"I...I went to the Cat Fruit Tree to help you feed the cats," the little witch answered in a low voice, racking her brain on how to describe her fear of being alone last night, trying to evoke her cousin’s guilt.

But Jiang Yu had no intention of criticizing Li Meng at all.

She turned around in a panic, just in time to see the School Guardian Array withdrawing the golden light covering the lake, revealing Zheng Qing and the two female demons.

The warlock’s final warning echoed in her ears:

"I’m going to blow it up!"

"Run!"

"Run!!" Jiang Yu, holding Zhu Si with one hand, grabbing Li Meng’s shoulder with the other, shouted aloud in all directions, "Danger!! Get out of here quickly!"

The staff and student council cadres gathering toward her slowed their steps, unsure and anxious.

...

Equally unsure and uneasy was Zheng Qing, in midair.

The ’Amber’ set in the Symbol Gun shattered, leaving the warlock with mixed feelings. On the one hand, he was relieved to have a way to release the excess magic power drawn from his heart lake; on the other hand, the choice of direction to fire the gun was limited, as he was within the campus.

Of course, this wasn’t the only problem bothering him.

After the ’Amber’ shattered, Zheng Qing instantly felt like a heavy stone was hanging from the barrel of the Symbol Gun, swaying and making it difficult for him to aim. This was the result of the magic power accumulating in the Symbol Gun losing its binding and gushing towards the muzzle.

He gritted his teeth, struggling to control the barrel and not allow it to point anywhere around the lake—he could vividly remember the consequences of shooting in the Dreamland. If he didn’t want to destroy half the school with one shot and spend the rest of his life in Dan Hag Special Prison, his only option was to shoot upwards.

One centimeter, two centimeters.

The warlock carefully moved the barrel upward bit by bit.

Finally, when the barrel rose above the last trace of building in his line of sight and pointed to a patch of open sky, Zheng Qing’s finger, which had been poised on the trigger, could no longer restrain itself and pulled.

Whoosh!

The pale green Fu Bullet, accompanied by a breeze, skimmed across the lake and disappeared into the blue sky. All the wizards gathered by the lakeside of Bell Lake felt a slight tremor internally, with their hairs standing on end as if enveloped in static electricity.

The air was no exception.

Everyone clearly saw the clear, transparent air becoming particularly blurry at the moment of that tremor. At the same time, the light golden Heaven Luo Ground Net of the School Guardian Array slowly reappeared, spreading open to face the Fu Bullet.

The speed of the Fu Bullet visibly slowed down.

Like a tightly stretched velvet cloth being poked hard with a feather pen, everyone clearly saw an exceptionally sharp protrusion appear at the place where the Fu Bullet hit the large net.

Bang!

A sound like a string breaking rang in everyone’s hearts.

At first, it was slow, with the ’threads’ on the golden net snapping one by one; then, suddenly, like the torrential summer rain, the pitter-patter of bursting sounds merged into a continuous clamor, echoing through the entire sky.

The School Guardian Array began to collapse slowly under everyone’s watchful eyes.