“Everyone, quiet down!”
A booming voice rang out from the stage.
The dean of students stood there with a microphone in hand.
Beside him sat the principal, along with the senior-year homeroom teachers and other faculty members.
The auditorium gradually fell silent as all the students turned their attention toward the stage.
“Students…”
What followed was the principal’s formal speech.
Unlike in previous years, the students listened patiently instead of showing impatience.
Memories from the past three years of high school replayed in their minds, filling them with reluctance and sadness at the thought of parting.
Twenty minutes later, the speech ended, and the award ceremony began.
Lu Yun stood up and said to Lu Yu, “I’m going to the restroom.”
Lu Yu immediately replied, “I’ll go with you, Brother.”
Lu Yun laughed helplessly and lightly tapped her on the head.
“What are you talking about?”
Embarrassed, Lu Yu stuck out her tongue playfully.
The boys nearby who had secretly been watching her were completely stunned.
Their hearts raced—they had never seen the school’s beauty act like this before.
Her usual cold and distant demeanor was nowhere to be found.
In a secluded corner of the auditorium, Lu Yun finally found the restroom.
The moment he rushed inside, he froze.
A young woman had just stepped out of one of the stalls and was adjusting her clothes.
Hearing the noise, she looked up and immediately cried out in surprise.
She stared at Lu Yun in panic, clearly flustered.
She was quite beautiful, with long hair reaching her waist and a white dress embroidered with elegant floral patterns.
She gave off an air of grace and innocence.
“Sorry,” Lu Yun said awkwardly.
“You went into the wrong restroom. This is the men’s room.”
“I—I… I’m sorry. I wasn’t paying attention.”
The woman hurried out.
Watching her slender figure disappear, Lu Yun shook his head with amusement.
It was the first time he had ever seen someone accidentally walk into the wrong restroom.
A few minutes later, Lu Yun finished up and was about to leave.
Bang!
Bang!
He froze for a moment before his expression changed drastically.
“Gunshots?”
Having handled firearms before, Lu Yun instantly recognized the sound.
“Ahhh!”
“Help!”
Terrified screams echoed through the building.
Without another thought, Lu Yun rushed out of the restroom, only to find that the woman from earlier was still standing in the hallway, frozen in shock.
“W-What’s happening outside?” she asked fearfully.
“I don’t know. I’ll go check.”
Lu Yun sprinted toward the source of the commotion.
Following the screams, he reached the main auditorium and hurried up to the second floor.
Finding a hidden spot, he carefully peeked down.
Three gunmen dressed in black and wearing masks were herding the students together.
“Shut up!”
One of the gunmen, speaking broken Chinese, raised his weapon and shot a male student in the stomach.
The student let out a scream before collapsing into a pool of blood, unconscious.
The entire hall instantly fell silent.
The students trembled as tears streamed down their faces, but no one dared to scream anymore.
Under the gunmen’s orders, more than two hundred students gathered in front of the stage, crouching on the ground with their heads lowered while the three armed men guarded them from different directions.
Lu Yun spotted Lu Yu among the crowd.
For the moment, she was unharmed.
His heart tightened with anxiety.
He had never imagined that something like this would happen.
“Boss, it’s done.”
One of the gunmen took out a walkie-talkie and spoke in English before aiming his weapon back at the hostages.
Clearly, they were waiting for further instructions.
Lu Yun’s face darkened, his brows knitted together in worry for Lu Yu’s safety.
“This is bad.”
He didn’t dare act recklessly.
From the situation, he was certain that there were more than three gunmen—at least one more was hiding somewhere, and there were probably accomplices waiting outside the school as well.
Faced with such a dangerous situation, even Lu Yun felt powerless.
Although he possessed the system, he was still far from being an elite soldier.
Even if Ye Cunxin, An Ran, and He Lu were here, taking on several armed criminals bare-handed would be nearly impossible.
“If only I had a weapon, I could at least risk it.”
Lu Yun clenched his fists in frustration, regretting that he hadn’t brought a handgun with him.
Just then, a loud voice suddenly echoed from outside.
“Listen carefully! You are surrounded! Release the hostages immediately, drop your weapons, and surrender!”
Lu Yun was stunned.
He couldn’t understand how the police had responded so quickly.
Only a short time had passed since the hostage situation began—even if the police had received the report immediately, it should have taken them longer to arrive.
What Lu Yun didn’t know was that the news had spread far beyond the police.
The entire city of Jiangnan had already learned about the incident.
On television screens across the city, Jiangnan TV was broadcasting live footage from Mingri High School’s auditorium.
The station’s network had been hacked by the terrorists, making it impossible to stop the broadcast.
Panic spread throughout the city.
“This is outrageous!”
“They have to be foreign terrorists. It reminds me of 9/11.”
“We’re finished. What if this is a terrorist attack and they’re only here to kill people?”
Citizens all over Jiangnan turned on their televisions, anxiously watching the situation unfold.
On the screen, more than two hundred students could be seen being held hostage by the three armed men.
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