Chapter 134: Dormitory Friendship League.
"Yeah, you coward! Why do you have to gamble with other people's lives? Can't you do it to yourself?"
From everyone's perspective, the long-haired, aloof beauty who had been standing quietly beside the psychic master suddenly spoke, her tone fierce and cold.
A girl wearing glasses and a white shirt took over, rigorously analyzing:
"If you really want to win, jump from the building now. I guarantee no one can stop you. I'm sure your roommates will be grateful for your sacrifice after the game."
Zhang You emphasized the last two words, and even from three floors away, Yue Qiong's eyes twitched.
"That's right, that's right."
The slightly shorter girl with a bob-haired hairstyle at the back carefully grasped the beautiful woman's arm and nodded vigorously. "If you're truly capable, just attack yourself. Picking on innocent and weak people like us is nothing."
The students: "..."
Innocent and weak? Before you say that, could you please put away the bow and arrow hanging from your shoulder, the steel fist bigger than a pot in the hand of the beautiful woman next to you, and the brick-sized account book in the hands of the bespectacled woman?
And most importantly, how could you so calmly say "innocent and weak" in front of the girl with psychic powers?
Is there anyone in the good student camp more adventurous than you?!
606 couldn't hear the silent cries of the others, but they made sure Yue Qiong heard every word of their taunts.
Others didn't matter; they just wanted to take the time to disgust this psychopath.
Taunts aside, the possibility of the informer causing trouble had been eliminated. Time was running out for the capture. Tang Xinjue ignored Yue Qiong's grimace and quickly got back to the point:
"To all students present, if you are not sure you can guarantee your safety in the next capture, please return to your dormitories."
They were still only a hair's breadth away from defeat. The accidental death of any student would lead to the collapse of the entire competition.
The next round of elves would only be more ferocious and dangerous. Under the protection rules, hiding inside the dormitory was the only absolute safety.
After Tang Xinjue's voice fell, the dormitory building fell into a brief silence.
For a dormitory, the more people left outside, the safer it was. If even a few needed to hide, the danger to the remaining roommates would increase significantly. The only outcome was that the entire dormitory would retreat together.
Hiding was tantamount to voluntarily giving up the reward for capturing them.
A moment later, a female dormitory on the fifth floor of Building A took the lead, gathering their cloaks and weapons. The four dorm members simultaneously retreated inside.
Their movements were like the opening of a valve. One after another, some opened their balcony windows and retreated, while others discussed quietly and rapidly, their voices weaving a fine web in the air.
Yue Qiong suddenly scoffed, "Are you so willing to be someone else's wedding dress?"
A girl who was gathering her things paused and retorted, "If we go back now, at least we can guarantee our lives and the basic rewards. If we keep running wild outside, I'm afraid no one will even collect our ashes."
The others joined in sparsely, "That's not bad. At least we don't have a roommate who would try to force us to commit suicide. Good thing."
Yue Qiong: "..."
Tang Xinjue raised an eyebrow slightly. "Classmate Yue, if it weren't for what happened just now, your provocation might be more effective now."
Unfortunately, after having experienced the danger of nearly annihilating the entire group due to one person's death, most of the candidates had been psychologically scarred, and no one wanted to experience such excitement again.
Yue Qiong could never have imagined that his attempt had not only failed, but had actually increased the students' psychological pressure. As a result, almost no one was willing to stubbornly resist, and the situation became unusually harmonious and swift.
In less than half a minute, the balconies of the two buildings were almost half empty, with only a few dormitories standing in full gear, ready for the next round of capture.
Looking down from 606, the people still there were mostly familiar faces. As her gaze swept diagonally downward across the building, she spotted the boy on the balcony of dormitory 303.
The dark-haired healing student's glow lingered, even growing brighter, as if preparing a powerful attack.
Guo Guo suddenly remembered something and asked Tang Xinjue, "By the way, Jue Shen, how did you know he was a healing psychic?"
Yue Qiong had assumed the two psychics' combined attack was a spur-of-the-moment move, but in reality, everything had been planned.
Even before Yue Qiong began preparing for his attack, Tang Xinjue had already contacted dormitory 303—healing first, then mental power. This not only completely neutralized Yue Qiong's tactics and prevented him from causing trouble in the final moments, but also ensured the good students' ability to respond.
Tang Xinjue replied, "At the very beginning."
From the moment she noticed the first boy in dormitory 303, seemingly severely injured, rapidly recovering upon returning to his dorm, she realized that this seemingly hapless yet somewhat comical dormitory might be hiding a formidable healer.
This was reaffirmed when, after her mental energy had been overexerted for the first time, she suddenly received a surge of pure healing energy while resting. Using the energy's source, she located the other person: the black-haired boy from 303.
The boy, too, happened to glance up, nodded slightly, and gently pressed down a curl on his forehead.
"Go for it," he whispered.
His voice was quiet, but he knew 606 could hear.
Now, it was time for each to show their skills.
...
"Oh, by the way, Brother Bai, there's something I've been wanting to ask you for a while."
Guo Liang suddenly spoke from behind the boy, scratching his head and revealing a mouthful of white teeth. His voice was excited. "Just now, when you treated that roommate with the mask, you should have only restored his health, but you completely healed him. Why is that? Is it because you've awakened a new skill?"
He was convinced his suspicions were correct, even betting Zhang Chi a packet of spicy instant noodles. He asked eagerly before the elf appeared.
The boy's expression remained indifferent, his words as succinct as ever: "To show off."
Guo Liang: "..."
His instant noodles... spicy instant noodles!
Guo Liang's handsome features suddenly transformed into a mask of pain. He opened his mouth in grief and was about to say something when he saw that the three roommates across from him were looking at him with strange eyes.
No, they weren't looking at him, but...
Just as Zhang Chi pounced and grabbed his arm, Guo Liang reacted and turned his head, only to see a huge face appear in his field of vision.
It was a dark blue face, resembling both beast and bird, even with faintly human features.
But even more terrifying than the face's composition was its enormous size, spanning half the width of the balcony and the length of a whole floor!
For a moment, Guo Liang's legs, having hammered countless elves, went numb. An unsettling chill penetrated his bones, spreading from his head down to his limbs. Only the other three people forcibly pulled him back.
As a hand landed on his head, gently infusing his body with strength, Guo Liang took a deep breath and said, "Brother Bai, what the hell is this...?"
"It's an elf."
The black-haired boy's voice was as calm as ever, and even his facial expression didn't change. Only by looking closely could you see that a strand of curly hair on his head had stood up high, as if it had been pressed straight by each strand.
"This is the result of their fifth round of mutation."
"—Human-faced elf."
As Tang Xinjue uttered these words, the enormous human face clinging to the balcony's side railing grinned sinisterly.
As the saying goes, no matter how things change, they remain essentially the same. While the elves of the previous rounds of mutation had at least maintained their basic body structure, this one was truly extraordinary: it had no body at all!
Half of the massive face clung to the railing, the other half folded 90 degrees against the wall, leaving only a single eyeball twirling around. Its length stretched from the top of the balcony to the bottom, with no visible boundary. It could only be estimated to be well over a floor high.
As the corners of its mouth cracked, a thick black liquid dripped from its distinct mouthparts, like drool at the sight of a delicious meal.
The liquid dripped onto the railing, creating a sizzling, burning sound as the metal corroded, instantly creating a small crack.
The eyeball on the face suddenly rolled downward, staring maliciously at the gap. The smile on its face deepened, and its entire face began to slowly slide.
Tang Xinjue reacted instantly: "Block that gap! Don't let the guardrail crack!"
Though the human-faced elf appeared enormous, its thickness was flat. It didn't immediately attack the student, most likely due to some protective rule surrounding the dormitory balcony.
If the guardrail were breached, the human-faced elf could easily slip sideways onto the balcony!
Before he could finish his words, Tang Xinjue had already cast an ice spell. A stream of water, like a toilet plunger, spurted out at the crack, covering the guardrail before the human-faced elf, instantly freezing into an icicle.
The icicle's hardness was far inferior to the metal guardrail, but the moment it closed, it firmly blocked the human-faced elf from view. His features instantly turned furious, his eyes bulging with blood, nearly popping out.
Meanwhile, screams and shouts echoed from different directions outside. Guo Guo instinctively tried to look outside, but Zheng Wanqing grabbed her.
"Don't look,"
Zheng Wanqing said, her face turning pale. She gritted her teeth, "...Prepare yourself before you look."
Prepare yourself? Guo Guo shuddered, not daring to challenge her sanity again. She quickly forced herself to turn away.
"Hehehe..."
A faint, shrill laugh echoed from behind her. Guo Guo refused to turn back, clutching the burning pendant on her chest tightly, silently chanting a cleansing spell.
Had she turned her head at that moment, she would have seen a two-meter-tall blue face slithering down the balcony. Its red eyeballs tried to cling to the railing, but were deflected, and it slid downstairs with a giggle.
Following it were countless densely packed blue faces of varying sizes, wriggling like splayed worms, forming clusters and patches until they completely covered the exposed areas of the two dormitory buildings.
"What are they doing?"
The students hiding in their dormitories at that moment were more grateful for their choice than ever before. The thin windows gave them an unprecedented sense of security.
Even so, when they peeked outside, their sanity plummeted at the sight.
"Have you seen the video of the insect swarm attack?" Another student in the dormitory swallowed, his voice fragile. "One insect can't kill you, but a swarm of them, thousands or tens of thousands of them... can devour you completely!"
Just then, a human face slid down, startling them into silence. But they realized it wasn't looking at the students in the window, but rather concentrating on clinging to the railing. Where its blue "skin" was attached, the railing seemed to shrink.
The student gaped.
Was it really like he said, these faces...
gnawing at the dormitory building?
Outside dormitory 307, a long-haired girl controlled phantom shields. These phantoms circled around the human-faced elf, but she didn't attack without hesitation, as she usually did.
For some reason, her instinct told her that if she attacked first, something bad would happen.
Behind her, on another part of the shared balcony, Yue Qiong, with a cold expression, manipulated several strands of black mist to deal with another giant blue face.
He hadn't intended to attack, but as time passed, he saw something on the man's face, and his expression suddenly changed. Black mist streaked across the man's face uncontrollably, and dark red blood suddenly gushed out of his skin, pouring down on his head!
The shield girl heard a strange noise behind her and was about to turn around, but her gaze froze at a certain spot, and her movements stopped.
At that moment, she seemed to see Ma Xiaobo's face on the deformed giant face before her.
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