Chapter 7 District-wide Blockade
That afternoon, the screams on Frost Street hardly stopped.
But Chen Ling, the instigator of all this, quietly sat under the tree with his head propped up, eating melon with the surrounding onlookers...while paying attention to the changes in [audience expectations].
At first, when Uncle Zhao spanked Zhao Yi, the audience's expectations increased slightly, but after a few spanks, the growth stagnated, and finally settled at 48%.
After watching it for a long time, the expectation dropped by 1% to 47%...
It seems that the audience is also feeling a little tired of it.
"The audiences in my mind are not all fun-loving people, are they?"
Chen Ling couldn't help but think to herself.
Through this experiment, Chen Ling has been able to determine that the audience's expectations change according to their own actions. If the event they are experiencing is exciting enough, the expectations will rise. Once there is no fun for a long time, the expectations will rise. It will go down over time...
Doesn't that mean that if he wants to keep his expectations above 20%, he has to continue to create "exciting plots"?
It was Zhao Yi who provoked him first today, and the other party was a Frost Street bully, so it was understandable to teach him a lesson... But this kind of thing couldn't be done every day, right?
If this continues, won't he be destined to become a big demon causing trouble in the world? ?
Thinking of this, Chen Ling felt a little tired...
Now Chen Ling's only life-saving straw is the Aurora City [doctor] Dr. Lin mentioned. Maybe he can remove some disaster pollution from his body and save himself from the life trajectory of a "passive person".
Just as Chen Ling was deep in thought, a low bell sounded from afar!
Dang-dang-dang! !
The three bells sounded as if they could penetrate the space and echo in every corner of the world.
The moment they heard the sound of the bell, the expressions of the people around them changed. Even Uncle Zhao, who was chasing Zhao Yi, stopped and looked into the distance in astonishment.
"Three disaster bells?!" An old man looked extremely ugly, "How is this possible?"
"The sound of the disaster bell is an early warning signal from the law enforcers, indicating that they have found traces of the intersection of gray realms in the area, and that a disaster has invaded..."
"Didn't it mean that the Aurora Realm is protected by the Aurora and rarely intersects with the Gray Realm? In the past ten years, disasters have only appeared three times..."
"Where is that Calamity now?"
"I don't know... Anyway, go home quickly! Don't come out if you have nothing to do!"
Hearing the three tolls of the disaster bell, everyone's faces turned pale. Zhao Yi, who had just been whipped and howled, his legs went weak and he knelt down on the ground.
The ground beneath his feet trembled slightly. Chen Ling turned around and saw more than ten fast horses galloping from a distance.
On each fast horse is a figure wearing a black and red uniform. They have pistol holsters slung around their waists, and their faces are equally solemn.
"A suspected high-risk disaster has occurred! All three districts are sealed off! No one is allowed to enter or exit!!"
"Pay attention to any suspicious signs around you, such as roads or buildings appearing out of thin air, strange-looking mysterious creatures, or even humans behaving abnormally!!"
"If you find anything unusual, report it to law enforcement immediately!!"
“Everyone please cooperate with the investigation!!”
The voices of the law enforcers echoed in Frost Street and every corner of the third district. Along with the reverberation of the disaster bell in the air, an inexplicable sense of tension enveloped the world.
At this moment, no one was in the mood to eat melon anymore. Everyone hurried home. Even Zhao Yi was dragged into the house by his father after he ate a big mouthful.
Chen Ling stood alone under the tree and was about to walk home. At this moment, two lines of characters flashed among the fallen leaves——
[Audience expectation value +18]
[Current expected value: 65%]
Seeing the audience's skyrocketing expectations, Chen Ling was stunned.
The next moment, a horrifying thought suddenly popped into his mind...
"They...are not coming for me?!"
…
District Three.
Enforcer Headquarters.
Dim sunlight passes through the hemispherical glass dome, refracting the colorful shimmer to illuminate the interior.
A flag more than ten meters long was hung high in the center by a rope. On a dark background, two cyan six-pointed stars overlapped each other, like the shining stars in the Arctic night sky.
At this moment, under the flag, a dozen law enforcement officers wearing black and red uniforms looked serious. They stood in a straight line, facing the direction of the headquarters gate, as if waiting for something.
As the door opened, five law enforcement officers wearing black trench coats walked side by side.
Among the five people, Han Meng walked in the center, with four silver lines engraved on the hem of his windbreaker. The other four people only had three lines. With their arrival, all the law enforcers present stood at attention at the same time.
"How is the situation?" Han Meng asked in a deep voice.
"The disaster bell has sounded. The three districts are currently under complete lockdown, but there is no trace of the disaster yet..." A law enforcer hesitated for a moment and couldn't help but ask, "Brother Meng, the disaster pointer self-destructed... …what does it mean?”
"There are only two situations when the disaster pointer self-destructs." Han Meng said calmly,
"The first one is that there is a special disaster coming around. The ability of this special disaster will just make the disaster pointer invalid... However, this explanation only exists in theory. So far, no such disaster has been found. "
"The second type is surrounded by level nine... which is collectively referred to as the 'world-destroying' level disaster invasion. Its residual energy fluctuation exceeds the limit of the pointer and automatically explodes."
"Destroy...world-destroying level??" Everyone's faces turned pale.
"Don't be so nervous... You don't really think that 'annihilation' will come, do you?" The law enforcement officer beside Han Meng chuckled.
"'World-destroying' level disaster can wipe out an entire human realm, and there are only a few of them in the entire gray world... If 'world-destroying' really comes, not to mention the third area, even Aurora City will probably be there. The moment it came, it vanished into ashes.”
After hearing this, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief...
"So, it should be just a special 'disaster'?"
"This is the only explanation at the moment."
"But the disaster indicator is broken, how should we rate it?"
"Unable to rate." Han Meng shook his head, "Unless it appears again, and then we fight with it... The most important thing now is to use all the manpower to search for it, and find it before it actively hurts people."
"A blanket search...but we may not have enough manpower."
"Then let's temporarily call the law enforcers from the reserve bench. Didn't the literary test end a few days ago? Gather the qualified people and tell them that this is the martial arts test."
"yes!"