Kapitel 22: "Kira, Break the Wall for Me."

Li Mo's bold assumption made Shigure Kira's eyes widen.

"!!! We need to go back! We need to go back now! We can't let the ghost mix in with our team!" Shigure Kira turned around and was about to run back, but Li Mo grabbed her arm.

What strength.

Shigure Kira was somewhat surprised. She was about to be promoted to S-rank Valkyrie next month. She had already completed her running wind-up and had just rushed out when she was grabbed.

And the strength needed to stop an accelerating S-rank Valkyrie was not that different than stopping a speeding car.

Li Mo, who had died twice, was, in a sense, more difficult to deal with than an S-rank Valkyrie, because Li Mo was difficult to kill in the physical sense, unless he was killed with a single strike.

"What's the point of you going back now? Do you remember what I said when I left? We can only go back before 7 PM tonight. Going back now is practically telling the ghosts that we know they're coming, right?"

"It's only a little after 8 AM now. We stopped the first wave. There will be a second wave. Unless you plan on killing every single survivor."

"Also, if we go back and find nothing, and we get discovered by the ghosts on the road, it would be like alarming the snake in the grass."

"Calm down, Shigure Kira. I understand how you feel. You're just inexperienced, but I'm here. I'll handle everything."

Li Mo tried to soothe Shigure Kira's mood, but he was unable to say anything nice because he lacked emotions.

He could only bluntly tell her that he would solve everything.

Li Mo understood that although he was the leader of the twenty or so people in name, Shigure Kira was actually the spiritual symbol of the Valkyrie squad.

If Shigure Kira started to panic and made the Valkyrie squad a hindrance, or if they were possessed by head-eating ghosts because of some mistakes...

For the current situation, it would be like adding frost to snow.

When facing ghosts, numbers were never an advantage.

Shigure Kira bit her lip, thought for half a minute, and silently nodded.

"I'm sorry. I was impulsive."

"It's good that you can realize your mistake. What we need to do now is to collect as many supplies as possible." Li Mo turned around and ignored the heads on the fence.

Li Mo: "We can't go to the convenience store because there's a door there… and we can't go through doors. Going through a door means certain death."

Shigure Kira retorted, "Wait, are you saying that we have to look for food and water in the teaching building by checking one drawer after another and one schoolbag after another?"

Li Mo: "Yes. That's the safest way."

Shigure Kira: "Can't I just tear off the ceiling of the convenience store? Can't we just go in to collect supplies that way?"

Li Mo: "…You, you can do that?"

Shigure Kira: "It's difficult to kill ghosts, but it's very easy to tear off a roof."

Without hesitation, Li Mo immediately grabbed Shigure Kira's hand and walked toward the convenience store. "Let's go now. Grab some more cola. I want to drink some."

"Huh? Let's go. Why are you standing there?"

Li Mo urged. Even after dying twice, he still couldn't get enough of cola. He hadn't eaten for a whole day. Although this body had surpassed the normal human category, it still retained its original habits.

The more he fell into depravity, the more he felt that the purest things were the most precious.

"U-uhm... Yeah, let's go!" Shigure Kira replied vaguely and evasively.

Li Mo noticed the change in Shigure Kira. He thought that she was worried that there were ghosts in the convenience store, so he patted his chest and said frankly, "Don't worry. As long as we don't go through the door, we won't have any problems. If a ghost appears, I'll find a way to send you away. You can leave it to me."

Only the doors were problematic. It didn't matter if the building was destroyed. Even if something happened, there was a backup plan.

Shigure Kira: "...%@#￥"

Instantly, her slightly red face faded away, and Shigure Kira became expressionless. Her gaze toward Li Mo even contained a hint of disdain and speechlessness.

She knew she shouldn't have expected anything from this guy!

When they arrived at the convenience store, Shigure Kira stood in place, with a lifeless look on her face as she watched Li Mo fill the school bag with cola.

Yes, he was only picking out the things he liked, like a child.

This behavior was very childish, and when combined with Li Mo's gloomy dead-fish face, the contrast was too obvious.

It was like a stern-faced college student riding a kid's toy car, drifting and swerving everywhere.

There was also another vivid analogy. Shigure Kira had seen in a novel: the Crimson Saint, who had leveled demons and suppressed an era in Shenzhou, suddenly had the whimsical idea of going to a brothel. In the midst of the song and dance and the hustle and bustle, she shouted, "Keep the music going, keep dancing."

That image was simply too beautiful to imagine.

It wasn't good to drink too many sugary drinks. That was for ordinary people. People like Shigure Kira and Li Mo could drink pure sugar without any problems, let alone sugary drinks.

"{I took a bit too much}." Li Mo looked at the book bag full of cola and pondered. He finally discarded half of it and replaced them with "Chitosan".

He had to consider it for the others.

After that, Li Mo also grabbed a lot of bread and snacks, but instant noodles were not on Li Mo's list of items.

Because there wasn't any hot water, eating bread would be more filling than eating dry instant noodles.

In this way, he filled several school bags completely and handed them all to Shigure Kira, as she was able to withstand the weight.

"So... why aren't you carrying any? Where's your gentlemanly manners?" Shigure Kira's face was filled with black lines. No wonder this guy wanted to bring her along.

It was because she was the strongest and could carry these heavy things all day.

Li Mo: "The capable should work harder."

Shigure Kira stared at Li Mo intently, saying each word clearly, "But you're not weak."

Li Mo frankly said, "My power comes from those things. You wouldn't want to see them. If I use them too much, I have to pay the price. Look."

Li Mo lifted his collar, revealing a corpse spot on his neck.

Shigure Kira was stunned and remembered what Li Mo had said earlier to comfort her, saying that she was inexperienced...

Shigure Kira suddenly understood why Li Mo could be so calm and why his thinking was different from normal people's. He had few human desires.

Shigure Kira: "So you've been dealing with these things all the time? Alone? If you need any help in the future, I can..."

Li Mo: "I'm not alone. I have teammates. But after I've dealt with this matter, you and I will probably never cross paths again. You're too young. You're not suitable to deal with these things."

"But even if you're experienced, I won't bring you along. I respect the lives you all live in this world. You have the right to choose your own paths."

"And my arrival is only to deal with this matter. If the anomalies aren't contained, they will soon spread to the entire world."

Shigure Kira fell silent. She had roughly guessed that Li Mo came from another world. No wonder he was so certain about parallel worlds.

Li Mo talked freely. His three teammates, Hua, Elysia, and MEI, had all been taken from the same world.

Because that world was about to collapse, there was no meaning in staying there.

Li Mo gave them a choice. They were willing to follow him home, so he brought them along.

Of course, a more important point was that they had sufficient abilities.

Li Mo led Shigure Kira step by step up the teaching building.

Shigure Kira didn't know why she had to come here, but she trusted Li Mo's decisions.

"We're here."

Li Mo stopped and looked at the tightly closed door in front of him. Memories flooded in, and he fell into deep thought.

The broadcasting room, the room where Ekri should have been imprisoned.

Ekri's head was still outside the auditorium, which meant that shortly after Li Mo led the students away, Ekri's self-awareness had been completely killed by the ghost.

And the battle of consciousness wasn't something that could be decided in an instant. Even if a life was very weak, there would be fierce resistance when one's consciousness was being taken away.

Li Mo wanted to know the details of what had happened then and whether or not Ekri had left any key information before her consciousness had faded.

Of course, what was even more important was to see if the broadcasting equipment had been destroyed. If it hadn't, then things would become even worse.

Because the ghost was very likely using the broadcasting to find other survivors, planning to mix in with the people in the auditorium.

"Kira, break the wall for me," Li Mo ordered.

The real world wasn't like a horror game where buildings couldn't be destroyed. Li Mo, who had only died once, couldn't do it, but Shigure Kira, a quasi-S-rank Valkyrie, could do it easily.