Chapter 3: Monsters Rampage
If time resets itself fifteen minutes back, most of the people here would have either been attending classes normally, each sitting in their respective classroom, or wandering aimlessly around the campus holding hands with their beloved sweethearts, enjoying some beautiful music with the warm sunshine—an ordinary and peaceful life.
This horrific disaster just occurred far too quickly; any human being, no matter how strong his mental state is, will still struggle to adjust in a short period of time, thus becoming entangled in a vortex of dark thoughts. Xiao Yu experienced it once, and he understood everybody’s feelings. But precisely because he had been through it before, he understood better than anybody that now was not the time to be fearful. And what can you do really? Call the police? Impossible, they were no longer on earth. Nobody even knows for sure if earth itself still exists. And even if it does, there aren’t many human beings on it anymore.
“Ji-gu, ji-gu!”
Accompanied by some strange screams were hundreds of small monsters who emerged from the forest on the edge that separates it from the campus. They stood around 1.3 meters tall, had gray skin, looked withered and emaciated, and had few hairs on their heads, with pointed ears, bulging eyes, and a mouth of full sharp teeth with some yellow-colored saliva constantly oozing from the corners of their mouths. They possessed more skin layers than usual, like a wrinkled old man in his eighties or nineties. A pair of rusty shackles were attached to their feet, barely wearing anything as they held a broken wooden club in their hands.
More than two hundred of these creatures came from all directions and steadily approached the campus. As they walked, the shackles on both their legs produced a sharp, rather pleasant contact with the ground. But in the ears of the surviving teachers and students, it was tantamount to the sound of hell.
“Ah, those really are monsters!”
Jiang Xiaowen’s pretty face turned pale with fright, and she hurriedly hid beside Xiao Yu, clutching his clothes tightly, her slender white legs trembling. The others all screamed in terror and fled. Some of them responded even worse than Jiang Xiaowen, immediately falling to the ground, already losing control as urine soaked their lower body. Yet nobody had the time to laugh at their embarrassing behavior; after all, dozens of hideous monsters they’d never seen before emerged in front of them, and this kind of scene was terrifying for ordinary people.
Han Kexin was the calmest one in the crowd. Although she also looked pale, at least she didn’t lose her ability to think and slowly retreated behind Xiao Yu; her senses told her that being at his side was most certainly the safest choice.
“This is different from my previous life. There shouldn’t be this many… Could the reason be that after I altered past events, many individuals who should have died in the earthquake survived?” Xiao Yu clenched his sharpened wooden spear tightly. His eyes flashed a glimmer of light, “no problem, although their number is slightly higher, they are just a bunch of low-level goblin slaves.”