Chapter 47: 7/7
Chapter 47: 7/7
Liu Muqing waved to everyone before gently floating up, taking Lin Jingxue’s hand in the sky.
The light faded away as the dormitory turned back to normal. The lights flickered on as the destroyed staircases and walls were restored as if nothing had ever happened.
Di Kuang and Wu Yu’s bodies were still there. Xing Ye and Cao Qian took out their phones and sweeped their cameras over the corpses, cleaning up the aftermath.
Aunty Yi and Zhang Feiming were both people who had seen the wider world. They had personally witnessed the battle and saw Liu Muqing ascend, so they weren’t too shocked when they saw the corpses suddenly disappear like that.
Xing Ye opened up the Loser’s Profile:
Player Name: Di Kuang
Camp: Opposing Fate Camp
Points: 10250 (Points from defeat already deducted)
Starting Abilities: Eight Armed Asura, Copper Skin Iron Bones (50 points are deducted for every half hour of use)
Special QR Codes: 12 (Specific details are not shown to the victor)
Worlds Experienced: 12
Players Killed: 37
12 special QR codes. It was a good thing that their tactics revolved around suppressing Di Kuang’s QR codes. Otherwise, with how poor Xing Ye and Cao Qian were, they would’ve been done for.
However, Di Kuang didn’t know what each QR code exactly did and could only guess relying on his experience. This should make it very easy to trick him and waste valuable time during the fight.
After getting 2000 points, Guan Ling carefully made his way over. “The mission isn’t over and we still haven’t left the world. The mission search degree is only 5/7. What are the remaining two?”
Xing Ye didn’t take the initiative to attack him and even gave him 2000 points, raising Guan Ling’s courage.
Xing Ye didn’t reply and instead asked back, “When you dug out the memory card I had Boy C hide behind in the garden behind the cafeteria, you didn’t immediately give it to Di Kuang?”
Guan Ling nodded honestly: “You also saw how overbearing Di Kuang can be. He doesn’t let us have QR codes and all the ones we find have to be left for him. He only gives us one or two at most. It’s easy for us following fate players to find QR codes, but he treats us like slaves, ordering us to search and give everything to him. My abilities are pretty good and can treat ailments, so he gave me two. For people like Wu Yu, all he does is curse and beat them.
“Then why do you guys still follow him?” The shameless traitor Mr. Deng saw everything was over and cautiously climbed down the stairs.
“He said he knew a very strong high level player and if we followed him, we would be able to become high level players. I don’t know how I got tricked like that…” Guan Ling shook his head. When he saw how miserably Di Kuang was beaten by two newbies like Xing Ye and Cao Qian, he suddenly felt Di Kuang was no longer that scary.
Xing Ye continued to speak, “It’s just basic psychology, using the carrot and stick to tame you guys until you guys can’t think on your own anymore. However, for you, that wouldn’t work. Mr. Deng was just born with a vile nature.”
The last sentence was meant for Mr. Deng. This whole time, he was just idling away. As soon as the battle started, he went to hide on the fourth floor. Being able to live through everything without a hitch really wasn’t an easy task.
The most amazing thing was Mr. Deng’s level of shamelessness: “Just now, Guan Ling said that 5/7 items were found, so there’s still two left. You gave Guan Ling one, so… you should also give me one. That way, I won’t get points deducted and can smoothly pass this world.”
Cao Qian: “...”
Guan Ling: “...”
Who knew somebody could be so shameless!
Xing Ye actually anticipated this and slowly drawled, “Then what can you give me?”
“If we run into each other in the next world, I won’t team up with you.” Mr. Deng gave Xing Ye a ‘you understand why’ look.
“That’s not enough,” Xing Ye said, “There’s no way I would team up with you again anyways. That’s a no deal.”
“Then how about this?” Mr. Deng rummaged through his clothes and pulled out a folded sheet of paper. He unfolded it and showed it to Xing Ye- it was a QR code. “I’ve been hiding this and didn’t tell Di Kuang. I couldn’t bear to scan it myself either, since it might be useful.”
Xing Ye: “...”
Having such shamelessness was also a type of talent.
Xing Ye didn’t hesitate for long and directly accepted it, “Deal. Give it to Cao Qian.”
“Me again?” Cao Qian didn’t expect that at all.
“You made great contributions in the battle earlier and you’re also the strongest. In future worlds, I’ll need you to charge in at vanguard, so you should take some more QR codes. It’s more useful in your hands than mine, and I’ve already memorized it anyway.”
Cao Qian knew Xing Ye was a very generous boss.
Mr. Deng directly gave Cao Qian the QR code without asking for the prop item. He was very confident and wasn’t afraid about Xing Ye going back on his word.
Guan Ling pointed at Mr. Deng, unable to speak. This guy… he was just too shameless.
The QR code’s description: The students love multimedia class the best, they can secretly screen movies there.
The ability wasn’t clear, but Mr. Deng should’ve found it in the multimedia room. Cao Qian scanned it onto her phone and no longer cared about its use. “I’m also very curious about the last two items.”
Xing Ye pointed at Bai Xu, who was fainted on the floor. “Look through her phone or personal belongings, there might be something there.”
With the dormitory nanny’s help, everyone plundered Bai Xu’s dormitory and found a suitcase under her bed.
The contents were shocking. It was filled with the corpses of cats and dogs. Somehow, Bai Xu had made it so their corpses didn’t rot and took away all their brains.
Because Liu Muqing had always been locked in the dormitory, every night, the girls dormitory would change into the mission space. The other girls fell asleep under Liu Muqing’s protection, while those who accidentally entered the mission space could be protected by Aunty Zhang.
As a result, the past two years, Bai Xu could only eat the brains of some poor cats and dogs. However, who knew what she did when she went home for vacation.
There was also a diary, which had first been started three years ago. It recorded the beginning when Bai Xu met Liu Muqing in her extracurricular classes and her feelings. The contents were extremely twisted, enough to make the readers shudder with fear.
She even wrote the entire process as she committed her crimes, proudly saying so what if those idiots Liu Muqing and Lin Jingxue had good marks, they still fell for my schemes.
“Why would she leave behind proof of her guilt in her diary?” Guan Ling asked, not understanding.
This diary, along with the video proof, the headmaster, and the testimony from the teacher of room 404 was enough to convict Bai Xu of instigating suicide and purposeful manslaughter.
“For her, this probably isn’t an admission of guilt, but something to be proud of.” Xing Ye sighed, “The most important thing is that this world cannot be seen inferred with common sense. Jealousy warped Bai Xu’s heart into a brain eating demon, but would such a thing happen in the real world? She was strong enough to hide this diary and at night, she probably took it out to admire her own achievements.”
Makes sense.
“Then with these things, which one is the mission prop?” Mr. Deng asked.
“Tomorrow, print a copy of this diary and post it on the school postboards. Then give the original diary to Lin Jingxue or Liu Muqing’s family members, returning ‘innocence’ to Liu Muqing and Lin Jingxue.”
The next day, Mr. Deng got up early to pin copies of the diary around the school before returning the original diary to Aunty Zhang. With that, he got the system’s notification that Campus Search had progressed to 6/7.
“What about the last one?” Guan Ling asked curiously.
Xing Ye led the three players to the headmaster’s office and told him everything was finished before sending him the video in Mr. Qi’s storage drive. “Everything is over, so the guilty must take responsibility.”
The headmaster was thankful. “Thank you for your help. I won’t admonish you for what happened on Monday, since everything you did was for this! After I saw the diary you guys pasted around the school, I went to see Bai Xu. She’s become dazed, and no matter how others scold her, she just nods and says ‘Yes, yes, yes, I hurt them’, almost as if she had turned dumb. How did you guys do that?”
“We didn’t do it, Liu Muqing did. I told you before, whoever hung the bell on the tiger’s neck must untie it.” Xing Ye said.
“So it’s actually like that,” The headmaster’s face turned heavy, “Liu Muqing and Lin Jingxue were both outstanding students. It’s a pity. I’ll hold a school meeting and punish Mr. Qi for peeping at the students. He’ll be expelled and with the posts around school, he should finally feel freed.”
The headmaster had just finished speaking when a notification sounded by Xing Ye’s ear. “Player Xing Ye has returned ‘punishment’ to Mr. Qi and is awarded with 2000 points. Campus Search completion degree has reached 7/7.
“The Campus Search mission is completed. Congratulations to players Xing Ye, Cao Qian, Guan Ling, and Ding Chengshuang for a perfect finish. Each player is awarded with 100 points.”