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The female journalist had an expression that was probably like she had just seen an Abyss Creature dancing in front of her.

Even, she felt that the way the young man's gaze fell on her was as if an Abyss Creature was sizing up some object, accompanied by a chilling crisis that made one's bones go cold and hair stand on end.

However, this feeling came quickly and left just as rapidly.

Because the next moment, the young man revealed a very warm and refined smile, his demeanor as refreshing as a spring breeze. If one didn't look at the bloodstains splattered on his white lab coat, he seemed like a very pleasant person indeed!

The female journalist: I trust you, my ass!

Xu Shuo spoke gently, "Be careful, some unexpected situations have arisen, and the things that may happen soon could be somewhat troublesome."

The female journalist stared blankly at him, "You're not worried anymore that SOA-09 will notice you like this?"

Although the young man's current appearance had some differences from the dean she had initially met, his features were still very similar, to the extent that one would recognize him after a few glances.

But it seemed the reason he had disguised himself as a female social worker before was to divert SOA-09's attention, allowing him to investigate the altered rules.

So now, he no longer needed to disguise himself?

Xu Shuo turned his head toward the office's direction, "That's not it, but his attention shouldn't be on me right now."

As his voice fell, there seemed to be a faint cracking sound coming from the void.

The female journalist followed his gaze, faintly hearing the sound coming from over there.

Thus, she glanced at Xu Shuo and then towards the direction of the stairwell entrance, eventually choosing to cautiously head that way, intending to find out what had happened that kept him constantly looking in that direction.

As she approached the dean's office, she saw several cracks spread on the door panel of the brown lacquered door.
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But these cracks didn't look like they were splits in the door panel; they were more like attached on the surface, fissures from the void.

The female journalist looked at these cracks, puzzled, when she suddenly noticed movement beside her. Turning her head, she saw the young man in the blood-stained white lab coat had also reached her side.

Xu Shuo nodded towards her, "Do you want to open the door and take a look? The office is actually supposed to be a safe point."

Upon hearing this, the female journalist chuckled.

Although sometimes her mind couldn't make the complete turn, she could still quickly grasp the concept when it came to avoiding death.

While the two were talking, the crackling sounds became clearer and clearer. The cracks on the door panel were dense and numerous, and they were unsettling to look at.

Suddenly, the door handle was pressed down.

The door was opened from the inside, and a figure rushed out quickly, the very same female social worker that the two of them had just forced back in!

...

Initially on her guard against the anomaly in the office, the moment the female social worker came out, she was faced with the female journalist she had followed as a fake ally and a strange man wearing a blood-stained white lab coat standing beside her.

She staggered a step, immediately adopting a defensive posture against the wall.

Seeing her reaction, the female journalist comforted her, "Well... don't worry, I won't do anything to you for now."

For now? Temporarily?!

The female social worker immediately became even more wary upon hearing these words!

But the spine-chilling sound of cracking continued behind her, and the female social worker had no choice but to back up against the wall, vigilantly watching the people in front, while paying attention to the anomaly behind her, as she carefully moved to a relatively safe distance away.

During this time, the two of them merely looked at her actions with typical caution. Their attention was more focused on the half-open door of the office.

Seeing this reassured the female social worker somewhat.

They had no ill intentions, at least she wasn't about to face another battle after coming out, or else she would have been caught between a rock and a hard place.

The female journalist curiously asked her, "What happened inside?"

The female social worker stood three or four meters away, shook her head upon hearing this, "I don't know, but it seems like the space barrier inside has all cracked open, and on the other side is darkness."

If she hadn't felt the breath of the Abyss, she wouldn't have rashly run out of the office, which was a safe point.

What's more, she hadn't even located her mission target yet!

The female journalist was pondering the matter of the space barrier.

The space barriers referred to here definitely aren't the spatial walls of this script.

Because the lunatic next to her said during their conversation earlier, it seems that there are multiple Rule Spaces in the orphanage.

With this thought, she whispered to Xu Shuo, "You noticed just now, right? There's an issue with the Rule Space here, isn't there? Is it possible that someone's space is about to connect with ours?"

Xu Shuo looked at her with a slightly surprised expression.

The female reporter felt uncomfortable under his gaze, "What do you mean by that look? I'm fully capable of thinking for myself, you know!"

"Uh-huh," Xu Shuo responded noncommittally, before adding, "A connection between spaces won't lead to anything good, you'd better be mentally prepared."

"No good outcomes...?" The female reporter was momentarily stunned.

As she pondered what the outcome could be, a sudden crash of shattering glass rang out from the office, a loud disturbance accompanied by a dark aura sweeping in from the gap under the door!

The surrounding view turned exceedingly dim; even the moonlight from above seemed unable to provide any brightness.

The orphanage darkened by an entire degree!

The female reporter, wearing a staff uniform, saw even more; in her view, the corridor in front of her displayed different colored afterimages, with everything in her line of sight interlacing between illusion and reality.

It felt as if she were watching a 3D movie without having put on the glasses.

Right after, a piercing scream emanated from the void, sounding like a mix of ghostly wails and howling wolves, extremely unsettling.

The female reporter suddenly became hypersensitive, like a startled bird; she frantically and fearfully looked around, her body unconsciously tensing up.

She felt something was approaching her.

But besides the spreading fog of darkness, she couldn't see anything that could pose a threat to her.

Then she also felt she was forgetting something.

But apart from remembering she needed to clean, she couldn't think of anything else she was supposed to do.

Suddenly, a hand landed on her shoulder.

The female reporter yelped sharply and turned around quickly, only to see a young man smiling gently and warmly in her line of vision.

"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell, or ill?" he asked with concern.

"..."

The female reporter didn't speak; she just stared blankly at him. After a while, her thoughts returned, and she remembered who he was and what she had been about to do.

The female reporter's face turned pale, "Can I take off this uniform now, please?"

Xu Shuo paused, then with downcast eyes, he sighed, "Not yet, even if the Rule Space has overlapped unexpectedly, you did violate the cat's rule, so it has already remembered you."

The female reporter looked at him suspiciously.

Was it her imagination, or did the young man's expression just now seem filled with regret and gloom?

What was he regretting??

But now the female reporter had no time to ponder further, because numerous noisy voices arose; they sounded like children's playful sounds, laughter, and crying.

Countless figures of children flickered in and out of visibility on the corridor; they seemed to be running about merrily, or conversing and chatting.

Or perhaps, they were shrieking with sharp teeth and mouths, lunging forward!

The female reporter just stared blankly at all this; she seemed to begin understanding the consequences of the space connection.

But the next moment, two more silhouettes burst out from the office!

"Freaking exhilarating!"

Old Wang, with a dirt-smudged face, flashed his eight gleaming white teeth. Although his body was covered in cuts and gashes, his face still bore a hearty smile.

That smile lasted until he unexpectedly locked eyes with the three people in the corridor staring at him.

The atmosphere turned slightly silent,

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