Chapter 109: Dormitory Friendship League
To participate or to give up, that was the question.
After a long battle and a night of brainstorming, the four of them were in desperate need of a good rest, both physically and mentally.
But the competition wan't always available - as the TV program shows, students needed to pay for credits to participate without an invitation. The game wasn't so perverted as to make students pay for their own deaths, but if there was a price to pay, there had to be a benefit.
Now they had a free ticket in their hands.
“From 1 credit to 3 credits, I tend to favor both the difference in difficulty and the difference in rewards.” Tang Xinjue rubbed her brow and raised the black and gold invitation in her hand. Through the shimmering light coming through the white mist outside the window, the words on it seemed to reflect a weird red light.
The game had already hinted to them that this invitation led to The Dormitory Friendship League.
It looked very harmonious from the name, without any semblance of killing. However, wherever after a few exams of poisonous beatings, the candidates would know that according to the virtues of this pitiful game, every name looked safe and normal, but the kernel was one more outrageous than the other.
Zheng Wanqing burning eyes clenched her left fist: “If you haven't been to the Great Wall, you are not a hero. As long as you don't die, you are still alive!”
Guo Guo was greatly shocked: “Da xiaojie, where did you learn that phrase?”
Although the other party's face was still as gorgeous as ever, she felt that this school flower roommate who had already evolved towards a violent tank was becoming more and more unfamiliar: “...Wait, isn't this a line from that hot-blooded novel on my desk?”
Zheng Wanqing's old face blushed, “Ahem, I originally only wanted to draw on the fighting methods in it, but I didn't realize that the plot was quite good.”
Guo Guo: “Didn't you used to say that reading novels was the most unprofessional!”
Zheng Wanqing: “That's because you can't balance your work and rest properly!”
Seeing that the two were about to start bickering again, Zhang You threw one hand straight to the back and continued to discuss with Tang Xinjue.
“I think that since the competition is limited to weekends, it should be no longer than two days at the longest.” Zhang You said politely.
They temporarily lost a weekend, and if they were too tired, they could choose to rest on Monday to make up for it.
In short, under the risk of “if you miss this village, you will miss this shop*”, they were more inclined to take a gamble rather than give up.
*the proverb means that opportunities are rare and should not be missed.
After listening to their conversation, Guo Guo let out a long sigh, “Emotionality makes me want to sleep, but rationality tells me that I still have to continue on, so the decision still has to be made by you guys, and I'll cooperate with all of you.”
Tang Xinjue rubbed the top of Guo Guo's slightly thin head, “You’ve worked hard.”
“What's hard work, there's the game’s Chosen Player to lead me, there's nothing to be afraid of at all.” Guo Guo spat out her tongue.
Tang Xinjue, however, froze: “Chosen player?”
“Right.” Guo Guo explained in a serious manner, “Like you and Zhang You can resist the game high intensity destruction, and Wanqing who can still be alive and well after such injuries. Put in the ordinary game, you are simply the kings of operation. With an adaptability to the game that’s better than 99% of the players, you are definitely chosen by heaven."
Tang Xinjue's eyes moved slightly, turning this sentence around in her mind, and then heard Zhang You laugh, “Then your yin and yang eyes and psychic physique, aren’t you considered to be a pay-to-win player before the server launch?”
Guo Guo blushed bitterly, “Then I should be considered the type that was robbed of my wallet and forced to make an account.”
After talking about it and making a scene, the few people bantered with each other for a few moments to sober up, and then quickly cut the topic back to the main topic.
The competition would start at 8:00 sharp, and if they were sure they wanted to participate, then there was only about twenty minutes of preparation time left now.
Tang Xinjue summarized with a straight face, “Everything about the competition is still completely unknown to us right now. Its process, the mechanism of winning and losing and rewards and punishments, and whether or not the mall can be opened during the match to purchase enhancements... Without knowing anything, we have to prepare for the worst.”
The worst case scenario was that they might enter a completely unfamiliar dungeon just like the exam, and then even if their pockets were full of money, they would have nowhere to spend it.
There was no turning back, so just in case, they had to strengthen as much as possible before the competition started to increase their leverage!
“The usual rules. First we draw the lottery and then redeem the achievement points, then take the rest of the points to the mall to strengthen ourselves.”
Zhang You sharply opened the Survival APP, and suddenly thought of another thing: “Right Xinjue, the three props you took out from the Hygiene Inspection dungeon, can you identify the properties now?”
The ones Tang Xinjue had grabbed earlier were a fountain pen, a bundle of red thread and a piece of yellow paper. The latter two items had been obtained initially, and the fountain pen had been snatched from Shi An's side of the male dormitory at the end.
The reason why she grabbed the red thread and yellow paper first was because these two props instantly reminded Tang Xinjue of something from the Headless Strange Tales dungeon.
Now that she had placed all three props on the case at the same time, the other three also felt that something was vaguely wrong. Guo Guo was the first to identify the problem: “I'm not mistaken, right, how come this yellow paper is so similar to the yellow paper used for the practice in Wei Xian Jin Wen and their dormitory in the Headless dungeon?”
Zhang You looked grave: “It's more than similar, it's practically identical.”
Tang Xinjue: “There is still a bit of difference. Those papers used by Jin Wen and the others were just ordinary yellow paper at first glance, and only became evil with the addition of hair and spells. But this paper, just by looking at it, I can feel the power inside.”
The same was true for the other two. Initially, the bunch of them couldn't figure out the connection between the red thread and the yellow paper until Tang Xinjue tied the red thread in a circular knot, “Putting this thread around your neck, does it look like the incision on the headless ghost’s neck?”
Guo Guo instantly blanched and felt goosebumps all over her body, “...So it's like that. Why didn't I think of this in the exam!”
“Time is tight and dangerous in the exam, I didn't think so much initially.” Tang Xinjue unplugged the fountain pen cap, pulled a piece of paper from the notebook and scratched it twice, the paper was blank.
“The fountain pen needs ink... is that bottle of blood?”
Zhang You's heart fluttered and she blurted out.
The yellow paper needed a fountain pen to write, and the fountain pen needed blood for ink. Except for the red thread which had unclear purpose, these several props seemed to be closely connected and complementary.
But with the blood in Shi An's hands, they had lost the final link to verifying this speculation.
Tang Xinjue nodded and put the props into the storage mirror, “We can't be sure of their attributes and usefulness yet. We have limited time, so let's not act rashly for now to avoid hurting ourselves. When the competition is over, I'll go to the mall to continue upgrading my appraisal skills, and the truth might come out by then.”
There were still 15 minutes left until the start of the match.
The dormitory quieted down. Everyone was browsing the mall at a rapid pace, and the clanking sound of the lucky draw rang out from time to time, like some kind of mysterious and grand secret trading scene.
Guo Guo quickly hung a protective bracelet on her wrist from the mall exchange counter. She had a discount card dropped on Crazy Wednesday, and with the lottery and achievement exchange, she had accumulated a total of 15 points. She searched through the dazzling array of mall props, and finally, a white light flashed in her hand, and a small red bow appeared.
“A bow?”
The three roommates stopped their movements at the same time and looked at Guo Guo, who was exchanging offensive props for the first time, in wonder.
Zheng Wanqing searched her head for terms, “...You got tired of the auxiliary support position and decided to change your profession to become a shooter?”
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