Chapter 110: Dormitory Friendship League
Guo Guo: “...You're the one who wants to switch professions!”
She turned the small red bow around, and the screen displayed the properties of the prop:
[Lucky Bow and Arrow (Consumable): everything in the world can be converted into power, and luck is certainly the same! When you draw this bow, you have a fifty percent chance of automatically aiming at your target, and the damage value comes from your luck at the moment~ The European Emperor* is fearless!
*lucky person
[Currently available: 0/10]
“Attack props that require skill and strength are definitely out of my league. Luckily, I found this automatic prop in the mall.” Guo Guo carefully put it away, while not without grumbling, “It's just too expensive.”
A consumable prop with a full 15 points, and it was still a type that depended on luck whether it would work or not. If it wasn't for the fear that the competition would be too difficult, Guo Guo wouldn't have made up her mind to exchange it.
Even as a support, she realized that she was a bit “biased”. Whether it's Yin Yang Eyes, Magic Pendant or Exorcism, they are basically only effective when facing ghosts and monsters.
What if the opponent was also a candidate, or the attack was a physical attack?
She didn't want to hide behind her roommates all the time, especially since Zheng Wanqing used her only intact arm to hold her back every time. Even though Guo Guo didn't say it, she couldn't help but feel uncomfortable in her heart.
These thoughts, of course, she wouldn't say out loud. Zheng Wanqing thought that her silence was because she didn't have a suitable weapon and immediately put on a straight face and cheered her up:
“It's okay, isn't it just that the weapon is too ugly? Don't be sad, we just don't have any money for the time being. When I evolve into Iron Man in the future with one punch through a dungeon, I'll buy you the coolest automatic weapon!”
Guo Guo: “...Although I didn't find this bow that ugly, thank you anyway.”
While their side was talking, Tang Xinjue and Zhang You's side also made plans. Zhang You drew the lottery five times and got two 10% discount coupons, so she immediately borrowed a few points towards Tang Xinjue and dumped her money in the mall to buy two group attack skill cards.
At first, Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing didn't quite understand. They had researched before, skill cards can be said to be the lowest cost-effective props in the mall. A single card can't be used more than 3 times at the most, which is both costly and inconvenient.
Zhang You, however, had other plans. She and Tang Xinjue exchanged a glance, “I thought the same thing at first, until Xinjue and I discovered something else—”
Zhang You opened the brick ledger and tapped the skill card upwards. The face of the card was actually embedded directly within the paper, and the cover of the ledger flashed with a strange light.
“—Perhaps there are no useless skills in the mall. It's just that they're like dorm rooms, they need to be combined with each other.”
Zhang You re-closed the ledger, only to see that the names of the skill cards had already surfaced on the cover: [Blossom Flying Snow 0/2], [Ice Stream Riptide 0/3], Usage method: single draw/combination.
In this way, the ledger, which was originally only used as a brick, had an additional layer of enchantment properties, and the skill cards seemed to have a new element.
Guo Guo suddenly realized, “Could this be a kind of upgrade route?”
“That will have to be verified next time.”
Tang Xinjue spun around her phone. There was another thing they had just discovered, and this time it was related to the lottery.
Tang Xinjue had taken a full 9 valid scores in the last exam, which meant that it represented 9 chances in the lottery. And just now, when she was drawing, she was suddenly reminded by the mall that a full round of 10 consecutive draws would have a “guaranteed” chance, which could guarantee that the props would come out.
The mall enthusiastically promoted: [Only one chance missing? It doesn't matter! As long as you buy one of the following items for a limited time, you will be given an extra chance to draw!]
A row of inexpensive, but seemingly useless, limited-time items popped up below, with a huge 10-minute countdown attached.
Tang Xinjue: “......”
Others: “......”
Why does this operation look so familiar... did the game mall went to Pinduoduo* for further study?
*a Chinese online agricultural retailer, sister company to Temu
Tang Xinjue silently chose a bag of spicy chicken feet worth 2 points, and then dj* ten in a row, and it really popped out a prop.
*can't find what it means. I can only assume that it alludes to rotating the lottery wheel
[Black Saturday Fireworks: this is a firework that only works on Saturdays, and the design comes from a crazy capitalist who doesn't want his employees to get off work. Let everyone become unlucky on Saturdays! Only weekdays are forever for everyone!]
[Effect: Causes all life forms that witness the fireworks to be plagued by bad luck for 1 hour.]
[Additional Effect: Hide Evil (Only the purchaser can see the true properties of the item. In the eyes of others, it's just an ordinary firework)]
The roommates looked at a bunch of lucky draw gifts for a few moments and quickly locked onto the object, “This firework doesn't look ordinary, it must be a prop, right?”
Tang Xinjue stared at the properties of the prop for two seconds, “Doesn't this firework look like an ordinary item in a normal dorm room?”
Roommates: “...You wake up a little, how can there be fireworks in a normal dorm room! This look is not normal, okay!”
“......”
Anyway, after collecting the fireworks, Tang Xinjue transferred the remaining points to Zheng Wanqing to continue upgrading her fists.
“You're not going to buy skills?” Zheng Wanqing was a bit hesitant.
“No, the directions I want to strengthen are expensive. I can't save up enough without going through two more dungeons, so I might as well give them to you guys first.”
Tang Xinjue shook the potion she had just bought in her hand, “I'll just buy this.”
She applied the potion to the toilet plunger with a wet wipe, and the broken and dirty marks from the dungeon battle were instantly restored as the toilet plunger happily spat out a mouthful of water.
The repair store lived up to its name, and the toilet plunger managed to advance the moment it was fixed... it now went from [Toilet Plunger Minion Level 3] to [Toilet Plunger Knight Level 1], and the entire leather plunger glowed with a renewed luster.
As for what exactly the previous problem was...Tang Xinjue hadn't forgotten the repairman's sorrowful answer, “The level wasn't high enough to eat that much, it's accumulating food!”
...This also gave her a wake up call. The toilet plunger's devouring ability was not a bottomless pit, and the only way to eat more ghostly objects was to level up first.
The countdown had gone down to 5 minutes.
Zheng Wanqing had already exchanged a skill and was waiting for it to be upgraded. She excitedly raised her hand, and a huge steel silhouette gradually coalesced at her empty little arm.
—A fist as big as an iron window!
“It seems like it also has a probability trigger skill called something like Iron Window Tears...“ Zheng Wanqing didn't understand the specifics, but it was too late to continue exploring, as the competition was about to start.
Right now, there was still the last minute before the competition started.
[Are you sure to enter the competition?]
The system inquiry sound appeared, the group that had been busy half a day finally stopped their hands.
The air in the dormitory was incredibly quiet, even the mouth of the anchor in the TV screen, which was opening and closing, was silent.
The world seemed to begin to slowly change under some kind of low-frequency vibration, unveiling a fuzzy curtain as the options fell into place…
“We're sure.”
Tang Xinjue said softly.
“Bang bang!”
The glass window suddenly exploded with two loud bangs, the four were startled and immediately turned their heads, but they saw two clusters of bloody objects smashed against the window. Thick blood slowly dripped down two traces, which were particularly blinding in a blanket of white mist.
They pressed close to the front to be able to see. The two things that crashed up were sparrows, now red and white splattered as a mess, obviously dead through and through.
“What is this situation? The dungeon has started?”
Guo Guo hurriedly looked around, the dormitory was still the dormitory, and their position hadn't changed. Everything was as usual.
“In many cultures, a sparrow crashing to death on the glass is an unsettling sign, signifying evil and death.”
Tang Xinjue observed for a moment and gently knocked on the window, and the sparrow's corpse slid down, leaving behind only two clusters of bloodstains.
Zhang You frowned: “How does this trace… look like two symbols?”
“Thirteen.”
Tang Xinjue wrote the two numbers down on a piece of paper and then switched to the light. From the perspective of the window, what was presented was this number.
“It's 13, it could also be 1 and 3, and if the scope is widened a bit, there's also the possibility that it's a split [B].”
Guo Guo began to make the connection, thinking how it was but still puzzled.
Sparrow crashed to death outside the window, the body left a number “13”, what is this foreshadowing?
Suddenly, Tang Xinjue spoke out, “The fog is lifting.”
In their line of sight, the white fog that had covered the entire window was slowly receding outwards… This had only happened once before, and the last time was on [Crazy Wednesday], when they first encountered the other students in the game.
Everyone tensed up.
They carefully felt the movement outside, and after about half a minute or so, the pace of the fog dispersing stopped, just enough to reveal the location of a balcony, vaguely shrouded outside.
Guo Guo blurted out, “It can't be the second Crazy Wednesday, can it?”
But the next second, they noticed something else—the originally empty balcony drying rack had a black cloak on it at some point.
The cloak was motionless at first, and then it seemed to sway from side to side as if the wind was blowing. Soon, the cloak's swaying amplitude is getting bigger and bigger, being rolled up and down by the wind, seemingly about to be blown away at any time—
[Ding! Mission Update]
[It's a heavy rainy day, but you have found a very important piece of clothing left on the balcony, please retrieve it before it blows away, or you will surely regret it.]
A new quest message popped up on her phone unexpectedly, and almost at the same time, countless raindrops fell from the air, crackling on the balcony floor and drenching the black cloak.
Tang Xinjue didn't have half a second to react, “Is there an umbrella or raincoat?”
The remaining three people also reacted quickly, Zhang You took out the umbrella that was always ready in her tool bag, “I'll go out with you.”
Guo Guo also fumbled around and rummaged out a transparent raincoat from her school bag, “This is what Jiang tongxue and the girls gave me last dungeon...”
Tang Xinjue glanced at the two, but rejected Zhang You, “I'll just go out alone, I won't bring my umbrella for now.”
She suspected that the game was deceitful, so she only took Guo Guo's raincoat, which had a few hints of ghostly power on it, making it a bit safer than ordinary protection.
After getting ready, Tang Xinjue pushed open the closed balcony window. The room was instantly windy, the raging storm that was blocked outside poured in!
The three people standing behind were forced back a step, and when they looked up again, Tang Xinjue had deftly grabbed the railing on the balcony and began to pull the cloak downwards.
Just as she touched the cloak, Tang Xinjue felt a piercing coldness run up her arm. The rain blocked her vision and she couldn't see what was inside the cloak. She decisively pulled out the toilet plunger, rolled up the edge of the cloak and stuffed it into the rubber head, and yanked it downward with the toilet plunger instead of her arm.
The effect of the toilet plunger was immediate, the entire drying rack made a shaking friction sound, and the cloak was successfully hooked down by half. Tang Xinjue did not slacken off, still vigilantly observing the situation of the clothes, and saw that there was a blue round object flashed in the cloak.
Tang Xinjue did not hesitate to increase the strength of the hand. The cloak pulled to the left and right, the inside of the blue object could not hold up to slide down, then suddenly spit out two blue bubbles. They fell on the rubber head and quickly formed a layer of ice.
It turns out that the coldness that covered her hand just now came from here!
However, the toilet plunger was not afraid of this. It sucked and ate the bubbles, and even wanted to continue to eat. The blue creature seemed to be scared, and while the cloak hadn't come down completely, it flew out, disappearing into the white mist.
Tang Xinjue was held back by the cloak and couldn't reach out to grab it, only capturing the creature's appearance:
Its main body is a palm-sized blue oval ball, four suction-cup limbs sticking out of the ball, the top of the ball seems to have a very small ugly “head”, pitch-black eyeballs occupy a large part of the head, and Tang Xinjue a moment to look at the eyes are filled with a thick resentment.
As the blue monster disappeared into the white mist, Tang Xinjue also grasped the cloak completely in her hands. The air currents blowing across the balcony were instantly several times stronger, and she could only stick to the edge to get back to the door, being grabbed by her roommates as she made her way back inside the dormitory.
The balcony window closed shut, and the typhoon-like downpour was shut out again. Tang Xinjue wiped her face and threw her cloak on the floor.
The black cloak did not have any characteristics other than being exceptionally large, and there were two long straps underneath the cloak, and you could vaguely see the ice residue involved in the straps.
At that moment, the phone dinged again, and the quest was updated once more:
[It's clearing up and you're holding important clothes and wondering if you should go out to dry it again. It's a good thing that other students have the same trouble, so you might want to refer to the opinions from other dormitories.]
Seeing the words in the quest message, the four looked up at each other, then turned their heads at the same time—
The white fog outside the balcony had completely dispersed at some point along with the wind and rain closing in.
Outside was blue sky and white clouds, grass and green trees… and an adjacent dormitory building, countless dormitory balconies arranged in a staggered manner, with countless student figures looming through the windows.
Just like when the game had not descended, it looked like an everyday ordinary dormitory area.
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