Chapter 150: Wutong High School 9
Starting with a slight chill in her back, it quickly spread throughout her entire body.
Chu Yian followed behind the volunteer in the blue uniform, her limbs as cold and stiff as if she were in the dead of winter. Even her hand, clutching the student handbook, was frozen red, and a thin layer of frost covered the handbook rolled into a cylinder.
More crucially, with every breath she took, a fraction of her body heat seemed to be carried away.
It wasn’t until the volunteer in the blue uniform led her onto the correct path and then disappeared into the distance.
Her body finally stopped cooling down, but her fingers were already so frozen she couldn’t curl them.
Even so, she didn’t dare to put her hands in her pockets for warmth, still holding up the student handbook and walking slowly forward, until a monkey’s cry came from behind her.
Rule 5, latter half: During this period, you cannot put down the cylinder until you hear a monkey’s cry.
It finally cried!
Chu Yian immediately breathed a sigh of relief, lowering her already cold and numb fingers.
In the blink of an eye, the surrounding white mist had dissipated, and her body began to regain its temperature. She cautiously looked around and, finding no volunteers in black uniforms, put away her student handbook and vigorously rubbed her arms.
She was freezing to death!
She moved around in place for a while, and only after her limbs recovered did she move towards the dormitory building. The silhouettes of two buildings appeared not far ahead, and seeing the dorm building, she actually slowed down.
She carefully looked around in front and behind, then stopped at a green belt by the roadside.
There was no one around now; she needed to draw from her treasure box. This round of the game was a life-threatening one, and Chu Yian desperately wanted to draw something useful, preferably a weapon.
However, she was ultimately disappointed, as she drew a square, soft object.
A nearly expired Memory Bread.
Note: To be reclaimed after this round of the game.
Item’s Inner Voice: Place the Memory Bread on the text you want to remember, eat the bread, and you will be able to recall all the content of the text. However, this is a nearly expired Memory Bread, who knows if it will cause an upset stomach.
Chu Yian looked at the description in silence, but the bread wasn’t entirely useless.
She opened the student handbook and then covered it page by page with the bread. A piece of originally white bread, after being placed on the pages, developed a large amount of black text, looking a bit disgusting.
What if it was disgusting? She just closed her eyes and ate it in two bites.
With the complete content of the student handbook now in her mind, she prepared to put the handbook in a safer place.
The treasure box was, of course, the safest place on her entire body, but taking things in and out was a bit troublesome.
There would be many instances where the handbook was needed later, but the strange NPCs in the game might not be willing to wait for her to summon her treasure box and then retrieve the student handbook from it. This thing was a bit like a magical girl’s transformation; any sensible being wouldn’t just stand there waiting for you to finish transforming.
Thinking of this, she directly gave up on putting the handbook into the treasure box and instead tucked it into her waistband.
Chu Yian’s clothes were convenient workwear. Half of the handbook was tucked into her waistband, tightly cinched by her belt, with the other half exposed. She pulled out her inner T-shirt so the handbook was pressed against her stomach, then zipped up her jacket, completely concealing the handbook.
Having done all this, she continued walking forward.
As she approached the dormitory building’s caretaker center, she was called out to.
A woman darted out from the roadside, flashing her an enthusiastic smile, “Little sister, wait a moment!”
This overly familiar demeanor made Chu Yian pause. Did she know her?
“My name is Zhang Ying. I just entered the school, the girl who sat with you,” the woman introduced herself, her gaze quickly sweeping over Chu Yian’s backpack.
“Oh.”
Chu Yian responded indifferently, then hurried towards the caretaker center.
Zhang Ying realized that Chu Yian didn’t want to talk to her, but she shamelessly approached her, “I saw many of you forming teams, why are you the only one left? Did you get separated? I got separated too, do you want to go together?”
“No need.”
Chu Yian swung her backpack to the front, placing it on her chest, and walked past her.
Zhang Ying didn’t expect the lone girl she had been waiting for half the day to ignore her at this moment. She dropped the act and directly called out her two companions, blocking Chu Yian’s path.
“Hand over the student handbook!”
Chu Yian looked at them blocking her path, and even with her knees, she could guess their objective.
“I don’t have it.”
She said coldly, but Zhang Ying’s gaze fell on her backpack. “She’s lying, the item is in her schoolbag.”
The two men naturally believed their companion’s words. Their target instantly shifted to Chu Yian’s backpack, reaching out to snatch it.
How could Chu Yian, a “weak” woman, possibly out-wrestle them?
The straps of her backpack were torn, the zipper was broken, and the books and admission letter inside scattered across the ground. Only the student handbook was nowhere to be seen.
“Ah—!”
Chu Yian shrieked, rushing in front of the two men as if she had unleashed primordial power.
In that moment, she seemed to gain immense strength from her anger, executing an over-the-shoulder throw to take down one of the men, then pinning him to the ground and beating him furiously.
“I told you, I don’t have it, I don’t have it, I don’t have it!”
“My student handbook was tricked away by Bai Sinian!”
“That scumbag! You men, not a single one of you is any good!”
Who?
Who is Bai Sinian?
The man being beaten on the ground was stunned, and the other man also stood dumbfounded. Seeing that the time was right, Chu Yian quickly gathered her belongings from the ground, stuffed them into her now broken backpack, and rushed into the caretaker center.
Only after she had run off was the man on the ground helped up.
The man seemed fine, but he grimaced in pain, “What a feisty girl, she hits so hard. Old Wang, why didn’t you help me just now?”
“A young lady beat you up, how was I supposed to help you?”
The man called Old Wang glanced at him. “You got off easy and you’re still complaining, huh? I’ve been single for over twenty years, I’d love to have a girl pin me down and beat me.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the beaten man looked at Zhang Ying.
“I want one like that just now!”
Old Wang withdrew his gaze from the caretaker center and got back to business, “And who is that Bai Sinian? He has two student handbooks on him, we must get one.”
“He seems to be that girl’s boyfriend.”
Zhang Ying’s expression was a bit off due to Old Wang’s earlier words, but she held back from reacting. “I remember they were having an argument; that Bai Sinian should still be behind us.”
“Alright, prepare for an ambush.”
Old Wang nodded at the remark.
The three of them, having arrived late, hadn’t obtained a single handbook. They had stumbled here by accident and truly didn’t dare to proceed further. They at least needed to find one to see what was written inside the student handbook.
