At this moment Liuli had one hand clamping her head, the other gripping the knife, desperately trying not to let the wind blow her wig off.
Her mental state completely collapsed.
Damn it all!
What kind of demonic slippers did Jiang Nan give her?
Why won’t they stop?
How long is she supposed to keep running like this?
Liuli was so anxious she nearly cried.
“Woo woo~ mmph mmph woo woo~”
Hearing the sobbing behind him, Xiao Chuohuo’s scalp went numb, every hair standing on end.
He was scared witless.
Sobbing, he shouted, “If you have any grievances from when you were alive, just tell me! Stop chasing me, please?”
This is already my top speed!”
Liuli: !!!
My only grievance is that I believed in love!
[Resentment from Liuli +1000!]
That’s Dean Xiao on the wheelchair?
How is he going so fast?
Does he think I’m a ghost?
No no no! It’s not what you think!
I have to catch up and explain!
Xiao Chuohuo in front, pedalling the wheelchair for dear life.
Liuli behind, knife in hand, chasing with all her might.
The two burst out of the little woods and arrived on the empty sports ground.
On the rooftop of the Medical Science and Technology Building, Li Bing was leaning against the railing, dark circles under her eyes, gazing at the stars while holding a glass of red wine.
Beside her stood a bucket of braised beef instant noodles with a fork sticking out.
Then she saw an old man in a wheelchair rocket onto the running track at 120 km/h.
“Mmph, I really must stop staying up late. I’m having hallucinations now?”
By this time Liuli had caught up.
“Aaaaaah! Don’t come any closer! Somebody! Save me! Somebody bloody save me!”
Liuli’s pretty face was full of panic. She reached out and called, “Dean Xiao…”
The moment she let go to gesture, there was no hand holding the wig.
The strong wind instantly blew it off, exposing her shiny bald head.
The flying wig smacked straight onto Xiao Chuohuo’s face.
“Mmph!!! Mmph!”
Vision blocked, Xiao Chuohuo’s wheelchair swerved, did a perfect drift, and flipped over.
Wheelchair and man rolled into a ball.
Amid screams, the wheelchair was smashed to pieces and Xiao Chuohuo plunged head-first into a snowdrift.
Liuli: …
Maybe I shouldn’t explain after all. Let’s just call it a beautiful misunderstanding.
Otherwise I might never graduate.
Having lost her wig, Liuli felt she could never show her face again.
So she lifted her nightdress, stuffed her head inside the collar, pulled the drawstring tight, and sprinted across the sports ground at terrifying speed before diving back into the woods…
Li Bing rubbed her eyes. “Dean Xiao? This… this defies science!”
In a panic she rushed downstairs to rescue him.
Thirty seconds later she ran back up, grabbed her noodles, hurriedly slurped three big mouthfuls.
“Slurp slurp slurp~”
Downed a mouthful of soup.
“Hoo hoo~ slurp~”
Knocked back the red wine in one go.
Then dashed down again.
She yanked Xiao Chuohuo out of the snowdrift. “Dean? Are you alright? Just now you…”
Xiao Chuohuo: !!!
“Little Bing! Don’t worry about me! Quick! Wake every tutor in the academy-wide! Ghost hunt!”
“I’m telling you! There’s… there’s something unclean in our academy! It might even be an Unknown! It was… it was horrifying!”
Li Bing: ???
I’m not interested in unclean things.
I’m far more interested in how you hit 120 km/h in a wheelchair.
Every tutor was roused from bed.
This night was destined to be sleepless.
Jiang Nan teleported back to Maple Villa. The house had been cleaned spotless by Zhong Yingxue and Xia Yao.
It was extremely quiet; clearly both girls were already asleep.
Jiang Nan grinned like an idiot.
Tonight’s stall had earned him a whopping 62.4 million!
Although the system had taken most of it as a pitch fee, he had still converted more than 600,000 skill points, plus what he had left before.
His skill points now stood at over 627,000!
Even Jiang Nan himself hadn’t expected foot massages to be this popular.
He was seriously considering expanding into a full-service package.
Maybe learn ear cleaning, back scraping, bath scrubbing, cupping, the lot.
Business would definitely boom!
Back in his room he found a plate of cling-film-wrapped sandwiches on the bedside table.
A little note stood beside them: “Remember to eat!”
Next to it was a cup of pearl milk tea still slightly warm, with a handwritten “ෆ” on the cup.
Jiang Nan rubbed his nose, his gaze turning soft.
He teleported to Zhong Yingxue’s room. She was sleeping deeply.
(ღ˘⌣˘ღ)
He gently brushed the stray hairs from her forehead, grinned, and slipped a White Rabbit creamy candy into her palm.
Another teleport took him to Xia Yao’s room.
The big bad wolf was sprawled in a “大” shape, riding her quilt, mouth open, silver hair a complete bird’s nest.
He rolled his eyes. “Exposing her belly again!”
He pulled the corner of the quilt over her, popped a Beauty Pill into her mouth, then teleported away.
Xia Yao: (´˃̶ᴗ◔`)
“Hee hee~ mmm~ so sweet!”
Back in bed, Jiang Nan heard some commotion outside.
Lots of people with torches seemed to be searching for something.
Not sleeping in the middle of the night?
How odd!
Just then a voice rang inside his mind.
“Yo~ little rascal? Fancy a chat?”
Jiang Nan leapt off the bed in fright, face full of terror!
No one around, so where was the voice coming from?
“Don’t be scared~ It’s Han Menglu, talking to you via brainwaves! If you want to say something, just think it. Don’t resist~”
Jiang Nan: !!!
“Brainwaves? You… you come with voice-call function? Do you have to be this overpowered?”
“Hee hee hee~ I’m a psychic ability user! I can do much more. For example, I can sense everything around me at any time. Your foot-massage skills are pretty impressive!”
Jiang Nan’s old face flushed red.
Bloody hell! She can even detect that? That scary?
“Sister Menglu… do you want to fly to heaven too?”
[Resentment from Han Menglu +333!]
“Hee hee~ We can try it sometime!”
“But don’t think any weird thoughts, okay? In this state I can read…”
“Kyaa!!! Ptooey~”
[Resentment from Han Menglu +666!]
Jiang Nan’s face grew even redder. Sinful! Sinful!
“Ahem~ Sister Menglu, did you need me for something?”
It took Han Menglu a while to calm down from the images she had glimpsed; her cheeks were still pink.
“I wanted to talk about the Unknowns. You’ve seen what one looks like, right?”
Jiang Nan couldn’t help recalling the girl with two jade-like horns.
“Sister Menglu, what exactly are the Unknowns?”
Han Menglu sensed the image sent back from Jiang Nan’s mind and was stunned for a long time.
Then she replied, “We know very little about them. It’s like an ant can never comprehend the existence of humans.”
“And in this hierarchy, we are the ants!”
“But one thing is certain: the very existence of the Unknowns is deeply connected to the appearance of the Spirit Ruins!”
Jiang Nan was shocked. “How does this involve the Spirit Ruins again?”
Han Menglu countered, “Why do you think the Spirit Ruins suddenly appeared all over the world more than twenty years ago, directly ushering in the era of spiritual energy resurgence?”
“Is this really the first spiritual energy resurgence in history?”
“Twenty-one years ago the Spirit Ruins appeared worldwide! Spiritual energy revived! The Unknowns were extremely active!”
“But as time passed, humans figured out cultivation methods, adapted to the changes, and the initial chaos settled.”
“The Unknowns gradually vanished; it even became hard to encounter them again! Don’t you find that strange?”
“What is the truth of this era?”
Jiang Nan swallowed. “What is it?”
“Hee hee hee~ Big sis doesn’t know either!”
“Everything is just speculation. We’re all on the same road, searching for the truth of this era!”
