Chapter 295 University Town Civility Code (15)
" As for our specific stance... who says you can only be a good student or a bad student?"
Tang Xinjue changed the subject and shrugged.
They don't belong to any camp, and camps have no meaning to them.
Of course, if you're clearly labeled a "good student," you might see a different picture in places like the Ministry of Education. But "neutralists" are not unique to the university town. Whether following the rules or breaking them, their sole goal is to complete the game and return to reality. With their exceptional progress, choosing a side naturally becomes irrelevant.
Zhang You: "I think there must be many dormitories that haven't reached the first level yet, so the ghosts are taking this matter so seriously."
Five or ten candidates might not have much of an impact, but what about 50, 500, or even 550,000? As most of the survivors progress into the later stages of the game, the confrontation between the factions is bound to become increasingly fierce.
That's how it is when the night gets long and dreams abound; the longer you delay, the more uncertainties you'll face. That's why they're desperately pushing this graduation exam to a quick finish, even if it's just to gain that crucial time advantage. It's worth a try.
After a few words of conversation, the road's deviation gradually returned to normal. The distant scenery came into view, and it was the familiar dormitory gate again.
"We got lucky this time."
Zhang You checked the map and smiled.
By accident, they ended up back where they were.
At the registration desk inside the main gate, Gray Eyeball still stood solemnly. After the previous PTSD incident, the few people repeatedly confirmed that it was not a ghost student in disguise, but a genuine registration teacher, before cautiously approaching. As expected, they were met with a roll of the eyes:
"The sun is about to set, and you're still hesitating?"
Guo Guo chuckled: "We got our student ID cards!"
Gray Eyeball snorted coldly: "Don't be too happy too soon, I can only try to speed up your registration."
Despite his harsh tone, Gray Eyeball's movements were decisive. Four student ID cards flew in front of him, and he began stamping them among the documents that had descended from nowhere.
"...almost done, your new students registration will be...wait."
The gray eyeball suddenly paused. Although it was just a big, bare eyeball, several people seemed to be able to feel that it was frowning.
"how?"
The four of them felt a sinking feeling in their hearts.
Gray Eyeball looked somewhere in the void and shook his eyes: "The rules have changed."
"Just now, the updated registration regulations revealed that new students will need to include a small two-inch photo in addition to their student ID and basic documents."
…
Sure enough, the pits dug in the copy may be late, but they will never be absent.
"The photos are in the dormitory. I can go back and get them." Zhang You added immediately.
As a contemporary college student who often needs to fill out various forms, having an ID number engraved in DNA and a bag of small two-inch photos prepared in the drawer has become commonplace and is not a difficult requirement.
Gray Eyeball rejected it:
"Only materials specially certified by the university town can have a notarized effect. This kind of photo can only be obtained through the university town's special photo printer. Let me think about where to store it..."
……photo?
A familiar scene flooded his mind, and a guess emerged. Tang Xinjue raised his eyes and asked, "You mean the projection room in the university library?"
Gray Eyeball, who was thinking hard, suddenly woke up and nodded:
"Yes, that's right, it's right there!"
Here comes the problem.
They had just come out of the teaching building and had finally found their way back to the dormitory area - now they had to go back into the teaching building, try to find the library inside again, then find the projection room, take and print photos, and then come out again to repeat the journey?
How long until the sun sets? Can you withstand this kind of torture?
Gray Eyeball answered seriously, "There are no clocks in the university town. If you want to check the time, you can go back to the dormitory."
606: "...Thank you, but forget it."
There was no time to waste. After getting the specific requirements for the photos and the location of the machine from Gray Eyeball, they immediately set off again and rushed towards the teaching building.
Before leaving, Gray Eyeball hesitated for a moment, but still said to them:
"The process may be difficult and troublesome, but don't give up. When you achieve success, you will find that you have gained much more than you imagined."
"Really?" Tang Xinjue turned and looked at it: "Thank you, teacher."
Gray Eyeball turned his head away: "Humph, I hate freshmen the most, let's go!"
“Chiu!”
While on the way, Bai Tuanzi lay on the strap of Tang Xinjue's schoolbag with high spirits, just like a little captain directing the direction.
Guo Guo looked at it with displeasure: "So you're not the one working so hard, and you're so happy? You can't be a mount, you can't fight, and you eat more than anyone else, you little loser!"
Tang Xin Jue agreed: "You are right. It has gone too far. Take it away and punish it."
The white ball raised its plump body and said, "Chirp!"
"..." Guo Guo glanced at the spherical elf that weighed more than ten pounds and said seriously, "But it looks very polite. How can I bear to make such a cute little creature sad? You should carry it on your back, Jue Shen."
As they spoke, the four of them had already stepped into the teaching area again. As soon as they entered, they keenly noticed something was wrong—compared to their first visit, the teaching area was now clearly covered in a layer of white mist, which greatly reduced visibility and also carried a strong sense of danger and coldness.
Zheng Wanqing: [There are at least three people nearby who are as strong as me.]
Guo Guo breathed a sigh of relief: "Only three, that's not bad, no worries."
Zheng Wanqing: [Four, six, nine... ]
Guo Guo: [……]
Excuse me, it turns out to be instant counting.
Tang Xin Jue: [These are the ghost students who have been summoned. Let's go into the teaching building first.]
Even with psychic vision, fighting against an unknown number of ghosts in the fog was still a disadvantage. They rushed towards the skyscraper in the center of the fog, but suddenly a familiar voice came from the front:
"Long time no see, why are you leaving in such a hurry?"
The more you don't want to see something, the easier it is to see it.
This is probably what happens when things that should come don’t come, while things that shouldn’t come keep coming.
The moment they heard the voice, 606 and the others recognized the other party's identity.
Li Xiaoyu!
In the middle of the teaching building's gate, a short-haired girl in a school uniform sat on the ground, her blood-stained legs dangling in the air as if she were conscientiously counting the pebbles on the ground. Although her face and eyes were lowered to the ground, her neck was strangely twisted to face the direction of 606, and she smiled endlessly:
"Are you happy to see me? Don't people say it's nice to see friends? Why aren't you smiling?"
They could clearly sense that if Li Xiaoyu in the exam instance was considered normal, then the level of weirdness now had suddenly increased tenfold. Although he had a human body and face, he no longer looked human at all.
Seeing that the four people did not answer, Li Xiaoyu did not change his body movements, but his voice became higher and higher.
"Why aren't you laughing? Do you look down on me? Are you secretly saying bad things about me? Aren't we classmates? Why?!"
Along with the sound, a strong smell of burning hit him. Guo Guo felt a pain on his face and subconsciously dodged, but found that there was nowhere to hide.
The air seemed to have turned into countless transparent, sharp knives. Even though the protective shield had been triggered, the traces left by the airflow still caused the body to bleed.
Two strange laughs were heard from the front, and Li Xiaoyu's twisted figure suddenly disappeared. Then, the laughter echoed around her, as if countless Li Xiaoyu were surrounding her, but no one could be seen in the air.
Guo Guo opened his Yin-Yang eyes without hesitation, and his vision showed clearly that there were indeed many "Li Xiaoyu" standing around.
Some of them tilted their heads nervously and sneered, some were covered in whipping blood, some carried potion bottles and sharp knives, and some were so charred that they looked unrecognizable as human beings, slowly crawling towards her feet. As if responding to Guo Guo's gaze, the charred bodies raised their heads and grinned at her, pieces of flesh falling from their apple cheeks.
Guo Guo : Thank you, it’s better not to watch it.
By the time she recovered from the chills, the purification skill had already enveloped the four people in 606 like a silkworm cocoon. Taking advantage of the moment when the white light caused Li Xiaoyu's clone to stop moving, the four of them rushed into the teaching building together.
The breath was only a momentary one, and the sense of danger still lingered. As a local ghost in the university town, the outside world was naturally not subject to any constraints. Tang Xinjue closed the door of the teaching building with her backhand and was about to lock it with a prop, but another hand was faster than her:
"I'll do it."
As soon as he finished speaking, the hands took out a brass lock and locked the two doors together tightly. Then he clapped his hands in satisfaction and said in a slightly strange tone, "It will last at least five minutes. Follow me."
After saying that, the hands floated towards the stairs. After two steps, they found that the four people from 606 had not followed. "Why aren't you moving? Don't I look like a good person?"
Zhang You said politely, "It's not that I'm not a good person."
But he doesn't look like a person at all.
"If it's convenient, could you please reveal yourself?"
After all, it's a bit too weird to have only a pair of hands floating in the air.
