章 257: On This Very Day Last Year, Between These Very Doors

The moment they exited the Energy Tunnels. 

Many students in the team were sobbing quietly.

The Vice-chancellor had died in battle!

Many other instructors had died in the Catacombs too, as well as some of their classmates and comrades.

There were originally more than 20 students at ranks higher than Upper-stage Rank-3. All it took was one mission, one battle where they defended the city, and now there were only 15 left.

…

Outside the alloy house.

Only one guard remained out of the original two. The fellow with the scar on his face was not there.

The man who had promised to come with Fang Ping to demolish the alloy guardhouse after the Catacombs were defeated was now gone.

Fang Ping had an epiphany. He looked at the other guard whose mind seemed to be elsewhere, and prompted softly, "The scar-faced uncle…"

"He said he was going to capture a Catacombs lass."