Chapter 294 University Town Civility Code (XIV)
A small action can cause so much damage.
Fortunately, the ghosts and monsters realized this immediately, and the one who looked the "weakest" in front of them actually had several tricky auxiliary abilities protecting him, so he was not so easy to catch.
After a brief hesitation, they immediately split into four groups and chased after the four people in 606.
"Don't be fooled! Even if they are separated, one person is as hard to beat as four people working together." Yue Qiong's cold shout suddenly sounded from a distance.
"Just catch one of them. They will definitely come back to help that person and won't abandon their companions and go away on their own."
The reminder had an immediate effect.
The ghost sisters reacted immediately, so they gathered together again and chased after the person they thought was the most important - Tang Xinjue.
Yue Qiong: “?”
"Your last name is Tang, right? We've heard of you... Your ability is auxiliary, right? I wonder how much strength your roommates will have left after they capture you?"
Behind them, Xu Meng had an expectant smile on his face.
Yue Qiong: “…”
I asked you to capture someone, not to choose the most difficult one.
His face twitched beneath the mask, and he could only continue to remind: "Tang Xin Jue is not an auxiliary ability user."
"Oh." Xu Meng suddenly realized and said to Tang Xin Jue, "Are you the famous healer?"
Yue Qiong: "The healer's last name is Bai!"
Seeing 606 and the other three running further and further away, a dark aura rose above his head. "She's a psychic, and she also has an extremely difficult object-related ability. That thing looks like a toilet plunger... Don't reach out to take it!!"
Faced with Tang Xinjue's sudden turn and counterattack, the ghost sisters thought that the opponent would throw out some bombs or skill auras, but they didn't expect it was just a plastic toilet plunger. After a full and non-aggressive arc, it was caught steadily in the sister's hand.
Xu Meng ignored the reminder and raised it to her face curiously: "Hmm?"
At the same second, a huge suction force suddenly came from the toilet plunger, like a mouth that had been hungry for a long time and finally wanted to eat, and it bit Xu Meng's face!
Although the toilet plunger had a fast attack speed, the ghost's reaction speed was also difficult for ordinary people to see clearly. Xu Meng easily turned his head and replaced his face with Xu Zhen's. He said confidently: "You dare to use such a trivial trick on me?"
Oh, no harm at all.
Xu Zhen: "..."
Caught off guard, the toilet plunger swallowed half her face, interrupting her attempts to block 606's spellcasting and bringing with it a strong sense of discomfort and danger. She angrily seized control of her hands and tried to pull the weapon off her face, but the plunger, which seemed to have a strong suction force, fell off at the first touch, easily separating from her grasp.
Her head was also easily separated.
"Sister, I'm light!"
"Because your sister is gone."
"Um??"
The distance in front was widened again, and the annoying thing behind was chirping again. The ghost sisters seemed to realize the seriousness of the situation and began to take the chase seriously.
It was unknown what ability they used, but the candidates who were shredded by the priest were pieced together again from the black fog, and with stiff faces they floated towards the four people, and helped Xu Zhen pull the toilet plunger by using their bodies to be swallowed instead of Xu Zhen's head.
The sound of gnashing teeth came from the back: "That is my puppet, you can't use it without me."
"Really? From the moment you used them to summon us, these people no longer belong to you."
Xu Meng chuckled, casually waved his hand, crushed a candidate's stiff neck, and stuffed it into his own cracked jaw, and his speed suddenly increased a bit.
"It seems that they are not united internally."
The ghosts' conversation was also overheard by 606 and the others. Although Yue Qiong had transformed into a ghost, he still didn't possess the strength to rival Li Xiaoyu and the other ghosts. Furthermore, there was little trust or mutual assistance between the ghosts. The only thing that could bind them together was a great benefit.
As expected, as the pursuit faltered, internal strife erupted among the ghosts. But compared to Yue Qiong's exasperation, the Xu Meng sisters were more relaxed: "It's okay. Once this summoning begins, it won't stop. The best is yet to come."
Just as they said, at least at this moment, they had no expectation of annihilating 606 in one fell swoop, but they could undoubtedly successfully disrupt the progress of the four people's mission.
After tremendous effort, Xu Zhen finally managed to pull the remaining half of his head free before it was completely swallowed by the toilet plunger. He rubbed his face slowly, "The speed at which your strength is evolving is indeed surprising, but strength isn't everything in the exam; completing the mission and passing it is the only criterion. It's a shame that those student ID cards you worked so hard to obtain are now useless."
The toilet plunger, which kept spitting out water and was very reluctant to eat the examinee's food, suddenly stopped struggling with the ghost. Just when Xu Zhenteng was about to destroy it, the toilet plunger turned its head lightly and was summoned back by Tang Xinjue.
"Not necessarily. The student ID isn't just useful at the registration desk. I think it's still necessary to show it to the teachers at the Ministry of Education as well."
When the words fell, they saw the ghost sisters' expressions change for the first time.
—Wait, how long have they been chasing me?
The ghosts then realized that although they had led 606 away from the original dormitory area during the pursuit, they had also embarked on a completely different spatial route.
And now, right in front of where 606 was running, a tall building appeared vaguely.
Whether it is a candidate or a ghost, the first time they see it, they have to face an oppressive aura of indiscriminate attack, as if a pair of serious eyes are scrutinizing everyone.
——Ministry of Education!
Xu Meng reacted immediately: "Are you using your supernatural powers to deceive us?"
Xu Zhen was also shocked and laughed: "Using the Ministry of Education to kill someone with a borrowed knife, you are really brave enough."
Although mental power cannot control a ghost, it is more than enough to slightly influence the other party's perception.
Tang Xin Jue smiled and said, "You are in your own university, and you are going to blame us if you get lost?"
The moment the mental shield was removed, revealing the Ministry of Education, even Yue Qiong, who was several feet away, came to a screeching halt, his expression gloomy and uncertain: "...What is that?"
"A place that might not be very friendly to the bad student camp."
Seeing the expressions and reactions of the ghosts, Tang Xinjue knew that he had guessed right.
With the map and mental shielding in hand, they initially dispersed not only to hold off the ghosts, but also to try to move in the direction of the Ministry of Education.
[But the Ministry of Education...] Guo Guo was also worried for a moment.
[If, as a rule, we should be afraid of the Ministry of Education, they must be more afraid than we are.]
Tang Xinjue answered.
From all the information, it was clear that the Ministry of Education was the highest-ranking department in the entire university town. Compared to its management of specific students and copy affairs, they could vaguely sense that the Ministry of Education's control over the university town was more macro and core.
In other words, the position of the Ministry of Education is the position of the university town.
The "bad student" camp, which repeatedly violates the copy rules and even dares to kill a few candidates secretly, is obviously not in line with the interests of the university town, no matter what their purpose is.
Tang Xinjue was gambling. She was betting that these ghosts didn't dare to confront the Ministry of Education directly.
——And, the other party didn’t know that this also worked on 606.
Zhang You was the first to understand the intricacies of her plan. Time was limited, so she only asked implicitly:
We're not good students, are we?
Guo Guo: [? ? ]
If she remembered correctly, Bai Zhi had asked the same question before. But if they weren't "good students," then what were they? Were they in the same bad student camp as Yue Qiong?
If this is the case, then why do the other side keep trying to win us over or even hunt us down?
[That depends on how they judge.]
Tang Xinjue stopped.
There is still some way to go before the Ministry of Education, but her plan has been achieved.
The Goblin Sisters, embodying the principle of flexibility to the extreme, confirmed the Ministry of Education was just ahead and turned and left without hesitation. Yue Qiong, seeing the situation was dire, tried to follow suit, but the black mist surrounding him suddenly surged back, pinning him to the spot!
Yue Qiong was startled, then reacted in an instant, his temples bulging with veins. "Xu Meng, Xu Zhen! Are you guys going to destroy the bridge after crossing it?!"
"Don't be so harsh. Is this your first day in the university town?"
Xu Meng put her sister's head back on her neck and ran away, not forgetting to throw Yue Qiong towards the Ministry of Education: "The teachers there are difficult to deal with. Instead of everyone getting arrested, why don't you take the blame?"
"Oh, I forgot to mention that." She laughed wildly in mid-air. "Welcome to University City. Congratulations on entering the eternal and painful post-life era, our dear new classmates!"
The 606 people no longer heard the noise coming from behind the ghosts, because another indescribable feeling of oppression had descended and gripped their hearts.
——If you meet a teacher from the Ministry of Education, turn around and run away.
Guo Guo thought, fortunately the four of them were facing away from the Ministry of Education building at the moment, and wondered if it would be too late to run away now.
But before they could make a decision, the invisible force shifted: the four of them felt a sudden lightening, as if the main force of that gaze had shifted to one single location. Immediately, Yue Qiong's eyes widened, and he roared in shock and anger, struggling with all his might.
"No, you don't have the right to do this. I'm a student in the university town! You are just a tool to maintain the rules of the university town. You can't..."
As his voice and body were gradually dissipated by an invisible force, Tang Xinjue made a quick decision:
[Right now!]
run!
While the Ministry of Education's attention was focused on dealing with Yueqiong, the four members quickly retreated in the opposite direction. The overwhelming gaze followed them, and no one paused. An unknown amount of time passed, until no sound could be heard and the surroundings became empty again. Only then did the oppressive feeling completely dissipate.
Guo Guo panted and held his knees. "Huh, did we manage to escape?"
"We were too close. If they had chased me like they did to Yue Qiong, I wouldn't have been able to escape." Zheng Wanqing calmly analyzed her own strength: "They haven't made up their minds to deal with us."
At least, the priority and necessity of this judgment were not that strong, so they were able to successfully leave twice in a row.
"really……"
Zhang You was also certain of something. She looked at Tang Xinjue, and their eyes met, reaching a consensus: "So, we are also [bad students]."
This time, she used a firm tone.
"What do you mean?" Zheng Wanqing frowned. "We are in the same camp as those ghosts?"
"Of course not, that's not what Zhang You is referring to."
Tang Xinjue shook his head slightly.
"So-called good students and bad students are simply judged by others according to their own standards. Is it possible that these standards are not actually unified?"
"In the true rules of the university town, there are only levels, no good or evil, and no so-called factions. The ghost students in the university town think we are "good students" because we have never accepted their recruitment; but similarly, the teachers in the university town can also think we are "bad students", right?"
After all, from the perspective of the teachers of each course, Tang Xinjue and his team had done absolutely nothing wrong. If there were reports against the students themselves, the letters of complaint regarding the 606 group would likely fill up a cabinet at the entrance of the Education Department. Perhaps the only person who firmly believed that these four were good, well-behaved, and weak students was the counselor.
Considering their performance in exams, they are still able to move around the university town with impunity, probably thanks to the support of their peers.
