——"Boom!"
Ever since that Evil Spirit had charged up the floors, the enormous booming sound had not appeared for just a moment.
Wei Reporter initially thought it was thunder, but it was soon followed by the dull roar of real thunder, rolling in from deep in the sky, faintly discernible. The thunderous noise happening right above their heads at that moment, however, was not even on the same level.
It was more like... something had exploded!
Earthquake? Bomb? Aerial attack? His head could not make sense of it anymore; all he could do was watch the cement dust trickle down from the ceiling, as if at any second the entire building might collapse, creating a suffocating sense of oppression.
When the journalist snapped out of it, he realized that the male high school student had already disappeared.
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Xu Xiangyang chose to take the elevator upstairs.