Volume 88: The Awakening of the Ancient Scroll

Campus Taboos My name is Lin Wan. 1463 words 2026-04-13 22:39:18

Midnight cried out in pain as a streak of light shot from his pocket; both his clothing and the skin it touched were burned.

Before long, the torn fragments of the ancient scroll were in our hands. Using Lin Wan's speed, we managed to get more than half the people out, including Jiang Linlin, Li Ergou's roommate, Han Xue, and the girl we had saved.

But I quickly gave up that thought; perhaps they were only pretending. Yet Li Yuan vanished into the crowd in an instant, and I never saw him again.

The fragments of the ancient scroll reassembled in midair into a new, timeworn painting, blazing with dazzling light as a primordial aura crashed down over everything.

Only I, Chen Hao, Lin Wan, the blond man, and two others whose names I did not know remained.

But I could see that Sun Cheng had no intention of escaping either; instead, he was chatting quite happily with Wu Mingran and Pang Dongqiang.

The more I thought about it, the less I understood why the Thirteen Fiends had to be sealed away. Their contractors were strange and aloof, but they were not truly so unreasonable.

Fortunately, the abilities of the few of us were enough to deal with the ghosts. With the last fragment of the ancient scroll in hand, we finally managed to leave the library.

"Isn't that a fragment of the ancient scroll?"

"Ancient artifacts cannot be controlled by any contractor other than him, which is why the Ghost Cards want to destroy the artifact and weaken us."

Before long, the torn fragments of the ancient scroll were in our hands. Using Lin Wan's speed, we managed to get more than half the people out, including Jiang Linlin, Li Ergou's roommate, Han Xue, and the girl we had saved.

The more I thought about it, the less I understood why the Thirteen Fiends had to be sealed away. Their contractors were strange and aloof, but they were not truly so unreasonable.

"Ancient artifacts cannot be controlled by any contractor other than him, which is why the Ghost Cards want to destroy the artifact and weaken us."

Not long after, a streak of light shot out from the crowd, and someone cried out in pain, drawing the attention of those around them.

Once we had escaped, I found that we were standing at the very center of the sports field, and the people who had gotten out earlier all seemed to be here too.

Then more than ten blood-soaked figures walked in. There was no doubt that they were all contractors. After this chaotic battle, ordinary people had completely vanished from D University.

The blond man possessed the ability to devour objects, but each time he used it, he would take from his pocket some bloody thing and gnaw on it; it seemed to be the corpse of someone from the corridor just now.

The woman in leather pants had just summoned a long blade and slain quite a few ghosts, though I could not tell from which lineage she came.

At last someone could not hold back and leapt into the air toward the ancient scroll, only for a fierce protective light to burst from it.

I asked in return, and only then did I realize that Jiang Linlin was actually standing together with Zheng Wei and the others. What was going on? And there was the blond man too.

Then I heard that familiar scream again. It was from Midnight. Two more objects broke through the air and soared into the sky. There were already three masses of light spinning overhead.

But wherever the man touched the ghosts, wisps of pale smoke rose at once, and they corroded away until only a pool of unknown liquid remained. His price seemed to be vomiting; after the fight, he bent over at the side and retched for a long while.

Jiang Linlin very naturally stepped over to our side, and when Lin Wan saw that I did not react with any particular resistance, she said nothing either.

"Isn't that a fragment of the ancient scroll?" The broken pieces of the scroll reassembled in midair into a new, ancient painting, bursting with brilliant light as a boundless primordial aura came crashing down.

The blond man possessed the ability to devour objects, but each time he used it, he would take from his pocket some bloody thing and gnaw on it; it seemed to be the corpse of someone from the corridor just now.

The more I thought about it, the less I understood why the Thirteen Fiends had to be sealed away. Their contractors were strange and aloof, but they were not truly so unreasonable.

"Then aren't you afraid that Zhou Zitong and Zheng Wei will move against the artifact?"

Could she be a contractor too? I truly could not imagine how she had managed to survive.

Then more than ten blood-soaked figures walked in. There was no doubt that they were all contractors. After this chaotic battle, ordinary people had completely vanished from D University.

Could she be a contractor too? I truly could not imagine how she had managed to survive.