sinovels #794 - Dead Silence
#794 - Dead Silence
With the help of the numerous treasures that Lu Jing had spent a fortune to acquire, Dongmen Weilan's cultivation advanced at a frightening pace.
The time it took her to absorb toxins into her body decreased from five days to three, and the amount she absorbed each time doubled.
Seeing this, Lu Jing simply stopped running around and settled down in Mirror Lake Valley.
He spent his time studying the martial arts in the *Martial Arts Canon* while protecting Dongmen Weilan.
To be honest, although this place was a bit deserted and lacked human presence, it was still quite nice to live in occasionally.
Appearing right in front of him.
After seeing who it was, Lu Jing's hand trembled, and he almost dropped his fishing rod into the lake.
“Xia, Xia Huai… what are you doing here?”
“I came to find you.”
“Find me, for what?” Lu Jing felt a little guilty, like a husband caught cheating by his wife.
But Xia Huai had already grabbed his arm, “Actually, Supervisor Huang sent me to find you.”
“Supervisor Huang?”
Lu Jing then realized that something was wrong. Mirror Lake Valley had always been a forbidden area for the academy disciples.
Even Lu Jing had only been able to enter before under the guise of helping Wu Han deliver vegetables.
But now Xia Huai had emerged from the lake just like that.
Thinking of this, Lu Jing quickly put down his fishing rod and asked Xia Huai, “What happened outside?”
“The people who went to the secret realm have returned.” Xia Huai said solemnly.
“How did it go? Was it successful?”
“Out of the one hundred and twenty supervisors, only twenty-four returned. This was because two teams were originally substitutes, in case someone in the main team couldn't go due to an accident. These twenty people didn't even enter the secret realm, so in the end, only four people returned.” Xia Huai said, “Vice Supervisor Guo is also missing, and there are rumors that…”
“Saying what?”
The girl hesitated, but finally shook her head, “Supervisor Huang has just summoned all the disciples of the academy to announce something, let's go over there quickly.”
“Okay.”
Hearing this news, Lu Jing was naturally in no mood to continue his vacation, and hurriedly returned to the academy with Xia Huai.
The two hurried to the outside of the school building, where many people had already gathered, including academy disciples and instructors. However, most of the instructors were relatively young, with only Second Palace cultivation.
Guo Shouhuai had drawn manpower to go deep into the secret realm, and many powerful professors in the academy had volunteered to join.
As a result, almost all ten secret realm teams were wiped out, and those professors naturally could not return.
It was as if someone had opened the cage that imprisoned wild beasts.
Panic was constantly spreading among the crowd, and every face was filled with worry and confusion about the future.
Unlike previous times when something happened, this time the crowd was eerily quiet, without even the sound of whispering.
This oppressive silence continued until Supervisor Huang's figure appeared.
Since Director Su was placed under house arrest by the Department of Celestial Observation for colluding with strange objects, Supervisor Huang was undoubtedly the number one person in the academy.
And now that Vice Supervisor Guo was also gone, even within the entire Department of Celestial Observation, Supervisor Huang was still the biggest.
So, seeing him finally appear, the academy's teachers and students seemed to have found their backbone again, and cheered up a little.
Eyes full of expectation gathered on Supervisor Huang.
Supervisor Huang's square face was as serious as ever, showing no joy or sorrow.
He looked around, his gaze paused slightly on Lu Jing, but quickly moved away, and then he said, “Very good, it seems everyone is here.”
“The reason why I suddenly summoned everyone, I believe most of you already know on the way here. That's right, Vice Supervisor Guo's previous plan failed.” Supervisor Huang admitted very simply, “We don't know what happened in the secret realm yet. In short, of the supervisors who entered the secret realm, only four walked out alive in the end.”
Lu Jing raised his hand weakly and said, “Can I ask who the four people are?”
“Supervisor Wu Mu, Supervisor Jiang Yuenü, Supervisor Li Xin, and… Supervisor Kui.” Supervisor Huang said.
Hearing the last name, Lu Jing secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the haze in his heart dissipated slightly.
Supervisor Huang continued, “In short, the Department of Celestial Observation now has less than seventy supervisors left, and most of these seventy supervisors are first-order and second-order, and most of them are very young, having been supervisors for no more than five years. Together with you, that is all the cultivators that the Department of Celestial Observation now possesses.”
Hearing this, everyone's heart sank.
Although they had already heard those disturbing rumors, many people still held a glimmer of hope, hoping to get a different result from Supervisor Huang.
However, the reality was extremely cruel.
Thinking that those professors who had taught and enlightened them had also passed away, many people's eyes turned red.
But Supervisor Huang did not give everyone time to mourn their predecessors, and soon continued, “I have sent people to invite those old supervisors who are at home, including the dozen or so seniors living in the academy, but… even if they are willing to come back, with our current manpower, it is still not enough to deal with the strange objects in the world.”
“But the good news is that the intelligence network painstakingly established by the Department of Celestial Observation is still there, because those responsible for gathering intelligence are basically ordinary people, so they have not been affected much, so we can still grasp the movements of those strange objects.
“But from now on, we need to selectively abandon the handling of some strange objects.”
“For example?” Yan Yun asked.
“For example, some strange objects that do not cause so much harm, we can temporarily leave them alone.” Supervisor Huang said.
However, someone soon said, “But the professor in class said that the more people a strange object harms, the stronger it will become. If we leave them alone, wouldn't those strange objects become more and more difficult to deal with?”
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