Chapter 341: Chapter 339: Help

This no longer looked like a university.

It looked like a haunted ruin.

Just as Lana thought of calling Axel, her hands began to shake uncontrollably.

Suddenly, a girl stumbled and crashed down right in front of her.

At first, Lana froze, unable to react.

But then she saw the girl convulsing, dark red blood spilling from her mouth as though something inside her had ruptured.

Her eyes widened in horror.

For a brief moment, Lana thought, ’Was it the food? Did something go wrong with what she ate?’

But the girl did not respond.

There was no movement. No sound.

Lana slowly crouched, her fingers trembling as she placed them beneath the girl’s nose.

No breath.

The realization hit like a physical blow.

She staggered backward and fell onto the ground, her palms scraping harshly against the pavement.

As she looked around, dread filled her chest.

One by one, students began coughing up blood.

One by one, they collapsed.

And most of them were those who had looked especially radiant, those who had seemed unusually energetic and flawless over the past days.

Lana’s pupils shrank.

’It is the cream… The thing they have been using… It is taking effect now.’

Her heart tightened painfully as understanding dawned.

’They are dying.’

A suffocating sense of terror rose within her. She could not stay here. If she remained, she might end up the same.

Forcing herself to stand, Lana began walking again. Each step felt heavier than the last, but she pushed forward.

The university entrance was only two minutes away.

Just two minutes.

Hope flickered faintly inside her.

Then she saw him.

A cloaked man stood ahead, his figure unnaturally still.

His presence was like a dark stain in the air, difficult to look at directly. Lana instinctively lowered her gaze, praying he would not notice her.

But fate did not grant her that mercy.

The man turned.

He looked straight at her. And then he rushed toward her.

He did not move like a normal person. His body blurred, covering the distance with terrifying speed, as though space itself had shortened for him.

Before Lana could react, he was already in front of her.

His hand shot out toward her throat.

Lana’s instincts flared. She immediately channeled her mystic energy, grabbing his wrist mid-motion.

Power surged through her palm as she tried to counterattack, directing her energy to injure him.

But the man did not react.

It was as if her energy meant nothing.

Lana refused to believe it.

She focused harder, examining him carefully.

At first glance, he seemed unaffected, yet she noticed something subtle, his fingers twitched slightly, betraying a delayed reaction he tried to hide.

’It is working… but far too slowly.’

Encouraged, she continued channeling her energy.

The problem was her own strength was fading.

A dizzy heaviness crept into her limbs. Her vision began to blur at the edges.

’No… I cannot lose consciousness here…’

She realized she might not be able to hold on much longer.

As darkness threatened to overtake her, one stubborn thought burned in her mind.

’If I survive this… I will make sure this man pays for it.’

Just as Lana was thinking that, she suddenly felt a presence drawing closer, like a cold draft creeping across her skin.

For a moment, she assumed it was another enemy, and despair seeped into her bones like poison.

She had believed that, through sheer willpower alone, she might survive the cloaked man, yet who would have thought that another would appear to seal her fate?

’Who is this cloaked man…?’ she wondered, panic tightening in her chest.

An answer surfaced almost instantly in her mind.

’A GA member… It has to be one of them.’

Surely, he was among the masterminds controlling everything here.

The realization made her stomach churn.

This entire university was doomed to perish, yet she could not understand how it had survived in her previous life.

Had her presence interfered with something? Had she unknowingly altered events so drastically that history itself was beginning to fracture?

The thought horrified her.

’Did my actions cause this? Did I change something I shouldn’t have?’

Lana immediately rejected the idea of making any further changes.

If her interference had already caused hundreds of deaths, she would never forgive herself. It was not kindness that restrained her, but fear.

Fear of karma.

After being reborn, she had come to understand one undeniable truth.

’Karma exists.’

She refused to let the deaths of hundreds stain her soul.

Just as that thought crossed her mind, the cloaked man tightened his grip.

His hand clamped around her throat with brutal force, fingers digging into her flesh as though they intended to crush the life out of her.

Lana gasped, her nails clawing at his wrist as the pressure tightened. She could almost feel the tendons in her neck tearing apart.

’I am going to die here…’

Regret struck her like lightning.

She should have listened to Mr. Crow.

That very morning, he had warned her not to come. But she, along with her uncle, had dismissed the danger. She had insisted everything would be fine.

“If anything goes wrong, we will simply leave,” Lana had said so confidently.

The memory now felt like a cruel joke.

At the thought of Mr. Crow, Lana’s fading consciousness clung to a single question.

’Where… are you…?’

Darkness began swallowing her vision.

Just as she was about to lose consciousness, the crushing pressure around her neck vanished.

Air rushed back into her lungs violently as she collapsed, coughing uncontrollably.

Her body trembled, her throat burning as she struggled to breathe.

When she finally managed to lift her head, she saw Shelley locked in battle with the cloaked man.

A translucent barrier shimmered around Lana, humming faintly with protective energy.

Her gaze shifted to Mr. Crow, who stood nearby holding a jade bracelet.

Understanding dawned instantly.

Mr. Crow had disappeared earlier, and she had wondered where he had gone. He had taken several speed talismans with him, and now she realized the truth.

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