Human Genius? Sorry, I’m a Deviant-Chapter 243: No Way Out

The teachers at the shelter entrance also noticed Wang Mingyuan and the other two encountering powerful enemies.
Several people immediately wanted to rush over to provide support.
But suddenly, several Aberrants with considerable strength appeared, blocking their path.
Both sides immediately erupted into intense combat, and the teachers at the entrance were tightly entangled, completely unable to break free and come to assist.
Meanwhile, the battle situation for Wang Mingyuan's trio took a sharp turn for the worse.
The three Special-risk level Aberrants discovered Su Zhan being tightly protected at the center, realizing his importance to the three powerful humans before them.
They immediately changed their strategy, bypassing the frontal defenses with their attacks, aiming directly for Su Zhan who was shielded in the middle.
"Watch out!"
Wang Mingyuan shouted loudly, white spiritual energy surging wildly as he instantly condensed several light shields in front of Su Zhan, blocking several attacks.
Kong Wu also roared as he fell back to defend, using his formidable body to forcefully deflect a blade aimed at Su Zhan.
Qin Bai also took action to help block attacks targeting Su Zhan.
Wang Mingyuan and Kong Wu protected Su Zhan out of pure protection.
But Qin Bai was afraid that if Su Zhan died, there would be no evidence left.
The originally evenly matched situation was broken because they had to split their attention to protect Su Zhan.
The three immediately fell into a disadvantageous position of passive defense.
Danger lurked at every turn.
Wang Mingyuan saw this clearly and felt anxious in his heart, knowing that if this continued, all four of them would perish here.
He suddenly gritted his teeth and shouted to Su Zhan, "Su Zhan! Don't worry about us! Run! Run toward the shelter!"
"No way!"
Qin Bai immediately objected sharply, nearly getting hit by a mist tentacle due to his distraction, "He must stay with us, we absolutely cannot let him leave our sight!"
"Qin Bai, do you fucking want to live or not!?"
Kong Wu punched back an enemy in front of him, cursing angrily, "He's just a living target staying here! A burden to all of us!"
"But what if he escapes? Who will take responsibility!?"
Qin Bai insisted while struggling to block attacks.
Wang Mingyuan deflected another attack aimed at Su Zhan, "Where could he possibly run to? The entire academy is currently enveloped in this Mist incident, isolated from the outside world—he can't possibly escape.
Moreover, this Mist incident here must have already been noticed by those outside. If he runs out now, do you really think he could evade everyone's attention?"
These words seemed to be directed at Qin Bai.
But Su Zhan felt they were also meant for him.
Teacher Wang was telling him that while an escape opportunity seemed to present itself, it was actually still fraught with difficulties and enormous risks.
"Ugh!"
Qin Bai, distracted, was found vulnerable by an Aberrant. A sharp blade energy grazed his arm, sending a spray of blood flying.
The intense pain made him grunt, his movements faltering.
The perilous situation before him forced Qin Bai to compromise.
His expression extremely unpleasant, he roared viciously at Su Zhan, "Fine! Get lost! Get lost immediately! But if you dare take this chance to actually escape, I swear I'll chase you to the ends of the earth, capture you, and tear you to pieces!"
Opportunity!
Su Zhan's heart pounded wildly, without any hesitation.
In the brief gap that Wang Mingyuan and Kong Wu desperately created for him.
He suddenly turned, channeling all his strength into his legs, and shot out like an arrow from a bow, madly charging toward a side direction.
Instantly disappearing from sight.
"Dammit!"
Qin Bai looked in the direction where Su Zhan disappeared, cursing under his breath, but had to refocus his attention to fight alongside Wang Mingyuan and Kong Wu.
...
Su Zhan didn't dare look back at Wang Mingyuan and the others' situation, nor did he dare run toward the seemingly safe shelter entrance direction.
The fighting there was equally intense, and his current goal wasn't to find a safe place, but to leave this area.
Wang Mingyuan's words echoed repeatedly in his mind.
Yes, with this Mist incident occurring at Vermilion Bird Academy, people outside must have already noticed. So even if he could get outside Vermilion Bird Academy, he would still be noticed, making true escape impossible.
Especially now that they were enveloped in mist.
Wanting to leave was impossible anyway.
When Mist incidents occur, people outside the Mist incident have the capability to enter.
But people inside the Mist incident cannot get out.
Stepping out of the mist means entering the mist world.
There, even Ocean Realm experts wouldn't dare claim they could protect themselves, let alone a rookie like him.
But at this moment, he had no other choice.
Stay here and wait for the Mist incident to end?
Judging from the battle situation, whether Vermilion Bird Academy could withstand this was questionable.
Even if they held out, once the Mist incident ended, escaping would be impossible—by then, high-level combatants near the Mist incident would likely have already rushed over.
So now he could only rely on the mist itself.
According to what Su Zhan had learned, Awakened individuals below Tide Realm couldn't even enter the mist—they would be completely corroded by the mist without any Mist Creatures needing to intervene.
But Su Zhan was different.
He was an Aberrant, and his realm had already reached Medium-risk fifth stage.
When Aberrants reach Medium-risk, they can control partial Mist Energy.
Correspondingly, they can enter the mist.
Even if entering the mist meant almost certain death.
Su Zhan now had only this one path to take.
He would rather be killed by Mist Creatures than be captured and interrogated by Qin Bai.
Only by reaching the edge of the academy's barrier might he find a sliver of opportunity to escape this enormous prison.
The instinct for survival drove him.
Following the direction of the academy's edge from his memory of the campus map, he ran with all his might.
The road beneath his feet was scattered with rubble and debris, burning with flames.
The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder smoke.
His ears were filled with explosions and roars coming from all directions.
He couldn't possibly discern where dangers were coming from.
Su Zhan activated his Future Vision.
The 5-second future prediction ability could foresee 99% of dangers.
Predict!
Evade!
Predict again!
Evade again!
Su Zhan weaved through the hail of bullets and attacks.
Always at the critical moment, with minimal movement and the most precise routes, he avoided one deadly danger after another.
The edge of the academy was becoming increasingly clear and palpable!
Almost there! Almost there!
With the assistance of his heaven-defying Time Abyss Pupil ability, he was madly approaching Vermilion Bird Academy's boundary along what was almost the optimal path.
But when he saw the fog wall blocking his way, extending beyond sight from below.
Su Zhan's heart still filled with fear.
Beyond this wall lay another world.
During his one year of study at Vermilion Bird Academy, he had taken many courses about the mist.
But none of the courses clearly explained what was inside the mist, only saying it was full of Mist Creatures.
Wasn't that stating the obvious?
If it wasn't Mist Creatures in the mist, what else could it be?
This was a domain that even Ocean Realm experts didn't dare enter recklessly.
What made him, a mere rookie, think he could survive?
But he had no retreat left.
His only option now was to gamble everything on that slim chance of a miracle.
Su Zhan's eyes filled with determination as he channeled his final strength into his legs and violently crashed into the mist.
He felt as if he had crashed into a layer of cold, sticky gelatin.
The pressure around him suddenly intensified.
Followed by a violent sensation of the world spinning.
As if thrown into a high-speed rotating drum, his internal organs felt like they were being thrown out of their original positions.
The intense weightlessness and nausea from spatial travel instantly overwhelmed him!
He didn't know how much time had passed.
The extremely uncomfortable spinning sensation abruptly disappeared.
Su Zhan crashed heavily onto the ground, his stomach churning violently, almost causing him to vomit immediately.