At this moment, Saya Takagi had no intention of continuing to solve the learning problems.
She suspected that once she completed the challenges, she would become useless and be silenced.
However, she couldn't really act like she was refusing to work - that man might shoot her with one pull of the trigger.
The solution was simple - just pretend to work from now on and drag out the time.
Since something like a terrorist attack had occurred at school, it would definitely alert the police, and her father would immediately send people to rescue her.
Yes, slowing down the work would be her strategy.
However, slowing down work didn't mean she couldn't think about the 'problems' in front of her. She could obtain the answers in her mind and just not input them, dragging out the time.
So after calculating in her brain for a while, the result should be like this. Then what came next would surely be even more interesting knowledge, right?
She really wanted to know, really wanted to.
Just one more step - it didn't look like she would pass the test immediately anyway.
With her heart itching with curiosity, Saya Takagi continued typing.
"Ah? 490"
Saya Takagi was stunned. After she entered the final section of content, the screen in front of her, which seemed to be all code, began displaying abnormal garbled text.
No, that wasn't right - it was reorganizing itself.
Suddenly, the screen went black. No, it looked like it was booting up.
That wasn't right either - computer startup screens didn't look like this.
It was more like something was playing - were these particles? Cells? Double helix something - DNA genes?
Ah, this was completely a human evolution animation.
Finally, the monkey evolved into a human, and this human's appearance was actually—
"No, that's not right! What is this!"
Saya Takagi blushed as she looked at the only computer in front of her that was still lit. The evolved human figure on screen was actually herself.
The problem was that it was completely naked, and it was a rotating 3D model.
Suddenly, text flashed on screen, confirming the subject as the logged-in user. Then her 3D human figure moved to a corner, and very sci-fi movie-like windows with a futuristic feel popped up.
This seemed like a bunch of file folders—
The next second, the screen instantly went dark. The black screen faintly reflected a terrifying face beside and behind her, staring at the screen with an extremely oppressive gaze, but it also felt like he was glaring fiercely at her.
"No, it's not like that, I didn't do anything!"
Saya Takagi explained in panic, because she could smell burning and see smoke - the computer's main unit had obviously broken down.
"What did you see? Was what was written about panacea production?"
"It, it hurts!"
This was Saya Takagi's response. It really hurt so much that tears were forming in her eyes, because the other party was gripping her shoulder with one hand, squeezing so hard it felt like her bones would shatter.
"Sorry, what you saw - was there panacea content inside?"
Ejie immediately released his grip and asked again.
Because of her panic, he had immediately walked over to look, just in time to see the computer suddenly shut down. But before the screen went dark, he barely glimpsed the characters for "elixir," which couldn't help but make him very excited.
Could this hard drive actually contain panacea production methods?
This would be quite an overpowered item.
"Well, I didn't see clearly either. It seemed like some kind of production method for something."
As she said, it really wasn't that Saya Takagi was retaliating because he had hurt her by squeezing, or deliberately concealing information - she truly hadn't seen clearly.
However, she roughly understood that inside was some kind of pharmaceutical manufacturing recipe.
"Your family has computers, right? More advanced ones?"
Ejie felt this might be a pointless question, and while asking this pointless question, he also put away the hard drive.
"Ah?"
"We're going to your house."
"Ah?"
Saya Takagi was stunned again. Was this walking into a trap?
"Let's go."
She was pulled by the other party and nearly fell over directly.
It wasn't that he had pulled too suddenly, but that she now felt extremely weak physically.
Ah, her whole body also felt sticky with sweat.
So the next second, she was directly carried at the waist by the other party, which made her very uncomfortable because his arm was hard as a rock, like metal.
Ah, this arm actually looked like a metal arm, because she could see the thick metal palm - was this a prosthetic?
At this time, Saya Takagi also noticed that Senior Saeko wasn't following.
When they left the computer room and came outside, Saya Takagi discovered that the school's chaos was beyond imagination - screams were everywhere.
Right then, several panicked students running past them included one who clumsily fell down and was pounced on by another strange student behind him. Opening his teeth to bite the face, he bit down hard and tore off half the facial skin.
At this moment, Saya Takagi was completely dumbfounded.
When she came to her senses—
"Wait, don't go over there!"
Coming back to her senses, she couldn't help but scream. No matter how stupid she was, she could see the problem - some students had gone mad, biting people randomly like they had rabies.
As a result, this guy was walking straight toward them. She saw the few who had been biting the already dead student swaying as they stood up, looking over with bloodless dead faces covered in white eyes.
The next instant, as if the two of them were delicious food, they roared and ran over.
Just as they were about to pounce and bite, she felt her vision blur, two heads flew up, and two corpses fell to the ground...
What had happened?
Coming back to her senses, Saya Takagi finally understood that the other party had cut off the heads of those two mad students using a dagger that had somehow been assembled onto his pistol.
Next, Saya Takagi's body felt weak the entire time - not that she had no strength at all, but from being frightened.
This person carrying her encountered attacks from these mad people all along the way, killing them all with single strikes. She had lost count of how many heads had fallen along the way.
However, Saya Takagi also understood one thing - those mad people definitely didn't have rabies, but were caused by some abnormal virus.
The school had suffered a terrifying biochemical attack. Anyone bitten by the infected would quickly become infected and go mad, attacking people.
Additionally, these mad people could probably only be killed by destroying their heads, because when going down the stairs, she personally witnessed a corpse that had fallen and was twisted beyond recognition - neck turned 180 degrees, limbs twisted like pretzels - yet it could still stagger to its feet to try to bite people.
If it were a normal person, they would have died long ago.
So what exactly had happened!
Was this related to seeing whatever medicine was in that hard drive?
Was this biochemical crisis also caused by that?
Various conspiracies floated through Saya Takagi's mind until she saw a familiar figure in her field of vision - Senior Saeko Busujima.
The senior was at the entrance of the infirmary, holding a real sword as if standing guard.
Around the entrance, many corpses had also fallen - had the senior killed these?
"Perhaps your world can be saved."
The guy carrying her said this to the senior, making her pause and then show a relieved expression.
This statement also made Saya Takagi think deeply, and she immediately felt somewhat horrified.
Wasn't this saying that this mad outbreak event could threaten the safety of the world?
It might not just be the school that was poisoned, but everywhere around the world?
When she was brought into the infirmary, she also noticed there was another person in the infirmary - Teacher Shizuka Marikawa, who was collecting medicines from the infirmary.
Senior Saeko also came in to help tidy up, because Teacher Shizuka originally had a sprained foot.
As for the person who had taken her hostage, he stood guard at the entrance.
After being dazed for a moment, Saya Takagi walked to a window from which she could see the playground and the city. What met her eyes was—
"How... how could this be..."
Her pupils were trembling, and her voice was trembling too.
The playground was also hell, and outside the school was chaos everywhere. She could see many places smoking, and she could even see helicopters falling from the sky.
This virus hadn't just broken out at school, but throughout the entire city?
No, possibly breaking out everywhere around the world.
This... this had to be a lie.
...
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