Chapter 934: Deep in the Mist and Rain (Part 7)

The moment the tip of Schiller's umbrella touched Pamela's forehead, the rain outside the window came to a sudden halt. When the flash of lightning illuminated Schiller's face, the fury in his eyes was clearly visible.

The surface of the curved raindrops blurred the refracted light. Amidst the surging ripples, countless tiny droplets, just like them, rose from the ground back into the sky. Vines and plants retreated. Catwoman had just picked the lock of the pickup truck's door and sat in the driver's seat.

The passenger door opened, and Schiller stepped out. He strode into Cat Getan University. At this moment, there were no strict security measures here; the students and teachers in this sanctuary of Cat Getan seemed completely unaware of the terrifying events unfolding outside.

His leather boots made crisp sounds on the stairs. When the old office door was pushed open, it let out a "creak."

Anna and Victor turned to look at the travel-worn Schiller. Before either of them could speak, Schiller frowned and asked, "Did you not go out today?... I mean, leave Cat Getan University."

"The outside world is already in chaos. We should prepare ourselves."

"What happened again?" Anna stood up, smoothed her hair, and frowned at Schiller. "Could it be that a tsunami is about to break out, judging by that expression on your face?"

"Forget it, a tsunami wouldn't make him look like that." Victor curled his lip. "If a tsunami were really coming, he'd be calling me from the cryogenics lab, asking for a freeze-bomb capable of freezing the Pacific Ocean."

Anna seemed to hear something. She walked to the window, pulled back the curtain, and saw chaos erupting outside the campus walls. Her expression turned grave as she turned her head. Just as she was about to say something, "Bang!" the door was pushed open.

"Professor! It's bad! Something happened at the Vocational Education College. They're fighting..."

The three of them paused. Victor rushed forward first and asked, "What did you say! How could the Vocational Education College be fighting?"

Schiller immediately pulled up the hood of his raincoat, grabbed his umbrella, and said to the student, "Take us there."

"But..." The student looked hesitant. "Professors, maybe you should take a gun. The situation there is a bit chaotic... someone has already started shooting. I'm afraid you..."

Before he could finish, Anna pulled a large gun from under the table. The student swallowed the rest of his words. They turned and ran, and he said to them, "Follow me! If we're late, people might die!"

The three of them ran down the stairs at full speed, sprinting to the back gate of the Vocational Education College. Hearing the crackle of gunfire from inside, Victor had a bad premonition. He asked while running, "Schiller, is this the chaos you were talking about? How dare these little brats have a shootout on campus?!"

As he spoke, he pulled a freeze-gun from the inner pocket of his trench coat, his face dark. "Don't let me find out who started it. I'll make them and their families thoroughly... cool down."

"Haven't you realized it yet? This isn't a campus shootout case."

The three of them stopped at the back gate of the Vocational Education College. Looking inside, they saw the students divided into two factions, both sides armed with guns, currently in a standoff.

Victor rushed in first and shouted angrily, "What are you doing?! It's class time, why are you here?!"

"Professor, you're finally here!" A tall boy ran over, pointing at the opposite side, indignant. "They shot and wounded Luo Er! They even tried to kill him! We all know guns aren't allowed on campus, but we have to protect Luo Er!"

"Can't you see? That guy Luo Er has gone crazy!" A black girl on the opposite side cursed. "He scratched my sister with his fingernails! We, the Fenny sisters, are not to be trifled with!"

"You still couldn't shoot him in the leg! He's the most famous fast-runner in the college; he wants to be a professional sprinter. You've ruined his career!"

Both sides started arguing again. Fortunately, with the professors standing in the middle, no one dared to fire. Anna raised her gun, pointed it at the sky, and "Bang!"—everyone went silent.

Schiller raised his voice. "Everyone shut up! Put your guns down! Where are the ones called Luo Er and Fenny now?"

"Luo Er is in the first-floor lounge, and Fenny is in the classroom next to him. They're both wounded, and someone is bandaging them..."

The three professors walked into the teaching building. Just as they entered, they heard a scream. A girl clutching a bleeding arm rushed out of a classroom. The younger sister of the Fenny sisters stepped out of the crowd and said, "Tracy, what happened? Where is my sister?"

Schiller narrowed his eyes and looked closely. He saw that the girl who rushed out was Miss Ge De, who had come here to study. Her arm had a deep wound and was bleeding profusely. She hadn't experienced anything like this before and seemed scared out of her wits.

After a moment of daze, she began to wail, saying intermittently, "She's crazy! Fenny is crazy, she wants to kill me!"

"Impossible! How could my sister..." The black girl rushed toward the classroom, but Schiller grabbed her. The black girl bared her teeth and waved her arms to break free, but the next second, she saw a dark shadow pounce on her.

"Bang!"

Schiller raised his umbrella and knocked the shadow away. Victor held his freeze-gun, aimed, and "Whoosh!"—an icicle flew past, hitting the shadow in the abdomen and freezing it solid.

The black girl rushed up, but this time, she also realized something was wrong. She said, "How could my sister... why are her eyes gray??? The Fenny family has never had gray eyes!"

"And my sister is a very gentle person who loves taking care of others. How could she attack me?!"

Anna looked at Miss Ge De, who was crying nearby, and asked, "What exactly happened? Why did she attack you, and why did she go crazy?"

"I don't know." Miss Ge De sobbed continuously. Through her fragmented description, the few of them finally understood what was going on.

Ever since Miss Ge De entered the Vocational Education College, she hadn't adapted to anything. Especially after learning of Mrs. Ge De's death, she had been heartbroken and ill for a while. It was the older Fenny sister who had been taking care of her.

She had become a helpless orphan, and her marriage prospects had naturally fallen through. Miss Ge De didn't dare live alone in the empty, eerie old mansion, so she resigned herself to staying at the Vocational Education College.

Although Miss Ge De had been raised too delicately, vain and arrogant, she was still young and malleable. After a period of collective living, she had barely adapted to the rhythm here and had made a few friends, one of whom was Fenny, who had been taking care of her.

"Fenny... Fenny and Luo Er were a couple. Before she left today, she said she was going on a date with her boyfriend, but not long after, she ran back crying, with a big cut on her arm..."

"I had never seen so much blood, so I was scared and started crying. It just so happened that her younger sister heard me. She grabbed a gun and went to find Luo Er. She shot that bastard, but Luo Er's brothers thought she had gone crazy, and the two sides started fighting..."

"My shooting skills aren't good, and I hadn't participated in a shootout, so I stayed behind to look after Fenny. I used the first-aid kit that had been handed out to disinfect her wound, but her wound was swelling too badly, and no matter how I cleaned it, I couldn't get it clean..."

"Just as I was about to bandage her, she suddenly screamed. I thought I had hurt her, so I lightened my touch, but the next second, she attacked me..."

Miss Ge De cried continuously. She stretched out her arm, which had a long wound, and said, "I don't know, her fingernails were so sharp..."

"People in Cat Getan are constantly going crazy. Sure enough, students at Cat Getan University would encounter this too." Schiller turned to look at the tall boy who had spoken first and asked, "Has Luo Er left the school recently?"

The tall boy scratched his head. "That's right. Luo Er joined the track team at Cat Getan University. His results are especially good. He even represented Cat Getan in a multi-school league in Metropolis. I heard his results were pretty good. It seems he only just returned to school yesterday..."

"He was likely infected," Schiller said in a low voice. But just then, he heard a low, painful whimper from the lounge next door, followed by the sound of a pistol firing.

Schiller walked quickly to the door and pushed it open. He saw a figure lying in the center of the classroom. It was a fit-looking boy, still wearing his track team uniform.

At this moment, he had been shot in the abdomen and was screaming in pain. He kept roaring, "Get out! Get out of my body! Get out..."

Victor didn't even think about it; he fired a shot from his freeze-gun, freezing him solid. Time froze within the ice, and his struggling and pain ceased. But at this moment, Miss Ge De, who had been scratched, started screaming again.

There was chaos in the corridor again. As Anna walked out with her gun, she looked at Schiller and said, "I'll handle things here. You and Victor go arrange the defense. I imagine you'll make the people who invaded this place pay the price, right?"

Schiller rubbed his wrists, revealing a cold sneer. He then grabbed his umbrella and walked out of the teaching building. He turned to Victor and said, "Wake everyone up. Give them freeze-guns. If you find any target that has gone crazy, freeze them..."

"What exactly is going on?" Victor asked, following behind him, puzzled. "Why did they go crazy?"

He then wore a somewhat sorrowful expression and said, "I know that Luo Er. Just two days ago, the track coach was bragging to me, saying he had discovered a very talented sprinter who might be able to win the state league..."

"But now..." Victor shook his head. "Shot in the leg and abdomen—it'll be a miracle if he keeps his life. The requirements for physical function in sprinting are too high. This kind of injury marks the end of his professional career..."

Schiller gripped his umbrella and said nothing. Hearing the screams rising and falling outside the campus walls, he said, "I don't care if someone is using some kind of conspiracy to invade Cat Getan and destroy it, nor will I make any extra effort to defend Cat Getan."

"Because I know that this place doesn't need defending at all. Those who reach out toward Cat Getan will soon understand what they are doing. I don't know how stupid they must be to want to use a madness virus to attack madness itself."

"But they shouldn't have invaded Cat Getan University, especially not by hurting that student named Luo Er. They will pay the price for this."

"Why especially Luo Er?" Victor looked at Schiller's expression. He could already feel that Schiller had a surging rage with nowhere to release it. He heard Schiller answer in an indifferent tone:

"Because the Ivy League is an athletic conference."