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Chapter 75: Guarding a Tree Stump*

(T/N: Guarding a Tree-Stump: the first half of the idiom "Guarding a tree-stump to wait for rabbits" meaning "to wait idly for opportunities" or "to trust to chance rather than show initiative")

Johnson lost two book transmigrators enduring the cold and looking for the trail of the teenager in the snowstorm.

The snow was swept over the road, but the storm is too big, the ground quickly piled up a thin layer of snow. They found that Johnson's footsteps disappeared on the trail of motorcycle tires. The pair of ghostly couple immediately concluded that "the protagonist was taken away by others".

They hurriedly followed the tire traces and continued to chase them forward.

Under too much snow, the traces are getting shallower and was finally buried in snow. The lawyer Charlie is not willing and bend down, sweeping the snowflakes with his sleeves, and trying to identify those blurred lines.

A pit suddenly appeared on the snow. Katie fell, and there's also a used shoddy animal trap in the bottom of the pit. After waiting for her to climb out, they found that the surroundings have changed. A big tree has fallen down, a mailbox was overturned, and the shop windows are broken, sounding the alarms.

"Abandoned World?"

Naturally, ability holders that enter the Abandoned World can come out again.

These ability holders are not necessarily nearby. Katie and Charlie don't have time to think about who the others are. They haven't been at the point of overlap, so they have nothing to do with this change, but their faces are hassled: The road is a mess, their only clue is gone.

During Christmas, various strange footprints appeared on the snow in two urban areas south of the Bangolo City*. Some people also found traces of monkeys climbing on the roof. The heavy snow left traces of these group of "ghosts". After TV shows reported it, many people went out of their house, took pictures and sent it to social networking sites.

(T/N: Finally decided to name the city Bangolo City.)

The topic of "Christmas Elves" quickly became popular on Twitter.

People took pictures of family pets making funny poses beside strange footprints, and a massive wave of images with stuffed toys disguised as monsters appeared. At night, this was even mentioned in a European talk show.

There are also some photos that tried to follow the trend. People living in other countries also took similar images, joining in this popular craze. But they don't have snow in the place where they live, so the traces are blurred. Plus, some bored people came up with fake pictures, and their statements didn't receive widespread recognition.

As for the problem of Bangolo City, everyone thinks that an animal from the zoo escaped, or successful performance of a circus for Christmas. People are laughing, but only the ability holders and book transmigrators are frightened.

"Monkeys, mole rats, toothed wild boar!"

Red Dragon's Leader Colonel Lu found the photos on the internet as some have spread out.

China and the rest of the world's network is separated by a wall. Although some accounts often carry foreign news and pictures, most people who are online don't know what happened outside.

The impact of the Abandoned World will be more severe in the future, and at that time, everyone will panic.

Colonel Lu has a headache, but he is in this position, so he must give confidence to those under him. When reporting to the leaders of the country, he must also show that the Red Dragon is actively responding. Sighs can't solve the problem.