I Rely On Poverty To Sweep Through Survival GamesCh21 - That Year

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Seeing this brand new room, Xiao Lan had a conjecture.

While washing his face, he asked Luo, “Did anything strange happen last night?” itXVzJ

Luo: “No, sir. Or I should say, it wasn’t just last night; everything was normal right up to the laughter earlier.”

Which also meant that they had very suddenly appeared here, and this seemed to be ten years ago, during that graduation trip.

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After leaving the room, Xiao Lan discovered that the layout here wasn’t much different from when the players entered the game; only the exterior appearance was new, and some of the furniture was arranged differently.

The hotel’s business had evidently been much better ten years ago; not only were there students in the corridor, there were also a number of individual travellers who spoke in varying accents. This also made it easy for Xiao Lan to blend in with the crowd. After all, if there were only students here, they all knew each other, and the appearance of a stranger would be very sudden. icX7jd

Carrying his cat, Xiao Lan strolled around the hotel like a normal guest and was mindful of the student conversations around him.

Suddenly, he heard a name which caught his attention.

“This is Gu Mo’s bag, right? Whoa! What shitty brand is this tissue? The packaging is so crappy oh; only poor people use this. I don’t dare use this; it’ll definitely ruin my hands.”

The voice was a little familiar, and the sharp and unkind tone was hateful.

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“Du Yuhui, this isn’t good ba?”

“It’s nothing ah, am I not allowed to look when she dropped it herself? I’m just taking a look ah. A shitty wallet with just twenty bucks in it. Damn, someone actually dares to come on a graduation trip with just twenty bucks, I’m dying from laughter, hahaha!!!”

After that was a splash, as if something had been tossed into the water.

“Oh, my!! There’s also such a crappy handphone; she’s still using this even though the paint has peeled off.” rgPu4M

Another splash.

“What’s this ah? ‘A Girl’s Secret Thoughts’, fuck me!! That beggar actually has a crush; let me have a look!!”

“What are you people doing?!” Xiao Lan couldn’t help speaking up.

He originally wanted to hear what Gu Mo’s schoolmates thought of her, and perhaps understand a bit more about this level’s boss; unexpectedly, he had run into this sort of situation. It was obvious how much Gu Mo would be ridiculed if the diary’s contents were read out loud in public, especially given how unfriendly Du Yuhui was acting in particular. atd35x

Xiao Lan walked out from a corner and looked at Du Yuhui, who was standing next to the pond in the courtyard. She was still just as short, and slightly thinner than ten years later, but still couldn’t be considered slender. Her small eyes and thin eyebrows, and her face full of freckles, paired with her unkind expression, looked especially hateful.

Seeing that the person who had come out was a fair and cultured youth, the schoolgirls on the side couldn’t help sneaking looks.

Du Yuhui didn’t feel ashamed even when she saw someone coming over. She raised the bag, which was discoloured from washing, and lifted her chin to look at Xiao Lan challengingly. “What does it have to do with you?!”

Apart from her looks, her attitude was simply that of the typical malicious female side character; hopefully, she was just as unyielding when she received Gu Mo’s phone call ten years later. flwpsj

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Xiao Lan didn’t speak, but directly went up to snatch the bag from her hands. He was very strong, and Du Yuhui’s hands were empty before she could even react.

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In Du Yuhui’s mind, she was a girl, and it didn’t matter if she made a move against someone. In any case, as long as she was the first to cry, other people would always think that she was the one bullied in the end. wTSOks

Du Yuhui smugly waited to see Xiao Lan’s head cut and bleed, but unexpectedly, a shadow suddenly flashed out from somewhere. It was extremely quick, and pounced directly on her face.

“Ah —” Her face stung, and Du Yuhui couldn’t help crying out. She reached up to touch her neck; there were three scratches on it, and her hand came away with blood on it.

“A beating! Murder!!” She shrieked as she hopped in place, and in a moment of inattention, fell right into the pond.

Fortunately, the pond wasn’t deep, and the water only reached up to her waist. She struggled for a long while before she finally climbed out with sludge all over her and moss on the top of her head, and she plopped down on her butt on the grass, panting. It looked like she was usually too mean and had no friends; surprisingly, not one of the schoolgirls on the side went over to help. IR51AO

Du Yuhui glared fiercely at them. “What are you looking at?! You bunch of poor shits!!”

The schoolgirls looked at each other after being yelled at, and simply abandoned her and left.

Du Yuhui was stunned. “…”

None of you are coming to help me up? dTavxy

She then looked at the youth who was two heads taller than her. That person gazed at her expressionlessly; his height was very oppressive, and his unsmiling appearance was icy.

The black cat which had just attacked her silently appeared from the rock garden; it washed its paws next to the pond and looked very disdainful, its golden cat eyes staring coldly at her. It was clearly just a cat, but its gaze was like a ferocious beast watching its prey closely.

Du Yuhui was instantly terrified.

She fucked off dejectedly, not even daring to leave behind a single mean word. SLidE8

Xiao Lan also now understood why Du Yuhui had given him an impossibly terrified look when she saw him. Someone who had given her a psychological shadow ten years ago unexpectedly hadn’t changed one bit after ten years, and was still exactly the same.

Then, in the end, were you dreaming that year? Or, did you see a ghost then, or are you seeing ghosts now?

Looking at the bag in his hand, Xiao Lan didn’t know what to do for a while. It wasn’t like he could give it to the owner, since he might be recognised. He had no choice but to hang the bag in a tree, then go into the pond to pick up the handphone and wallet that had been thrown in.

Actually, picking them up wasn’t much use either; handphones were usually useless after water got into them, but the wallet could still be used after it was washed. C4jNvM

But Gu Mo was going to die on this graduation trip, so she wouldn’t be able to use them anyway.

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Xiao Lan and Luo continued to search for clues in the hotel.

Up ahead, there was the sound of a conversation from a room with a half-open door. 0avUiw

“Let me show you something good!”

“Whoa — this is, Gu Mo? How did you take this photograph?”

“Who told her to choose to shower near a window? Serves her right.”

Xiao Lan found an angle to look into the room. The person who had taken out the photo was Fu Wenbo; at this time he still had short hair and was clearly a little juvenile; unexpectedly, he was someone who would actually take a sneaky photo of his schoolmate showering. Md9kcX

Fu Wenbo said in high spirits, “Say, do you think she purposely showered there?”

A schoolboy beside him: “No way, why would she do that?”

Fu Wenbo lowered his voice. “To be seen bei. Don’t you guys know that there are people that have this type of hobby?”

Everyone showed shocked expressions. “Ah?! That’s not possible ba.” zLC3iq

“Heh.” Seeing that no one agreed, Fu Wenbo turned to a schoolgirl opposite him to say, “Zhang Jie, what do you think ne? Whatever our class beauty says must be right.”

If he hadn’t said the name Zhang Jie, Xiao Lan wouldn’t have recognised her at all.

This schoolgirl’s features were delicate and exquisite, and her face was in the shape of a goose egg; she could be considered above average in terms of looks. Coupled with how she was dressed far better than her peers, it was reasonable to call her the class beauty; it was completely different from her Internet celebrity face ten years later, with her snake essence features, high nose bridge, and western-style double eyelids.

But if one really had to compare, Gu Mo’s features were still a little more attractive. nCR7lm

Zhang Jie opened her mouth, her soft voice sounding very friendly. “I don’t really understand this, but I prefer to play with pure girls.”

Fu Wenbo raised his voice. “See? See? Our class beauty doesn’t even want to play with her, and doesn’t like how dirty she is.”

Du Yuhui, who had changed clothes, also agreed. “That disgusting slut, she’s only been here a few days and she’s already started seducing people. Just now she even found someone to beat me up!”

Fu Wenbo was excited. “What happened? Hurry up and tell us.” CbK6QG

Du Yuhui was pleased with becoming the centre of attention, and lifted her chin. “What else happened ah, I just touched Gu Mo’s bag, when some guy rushed over to beat me up. Take a look at my injury; this was from that time.”

She even reached up and pointed at the bandage wrapped around her neck.

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Fu Wenbo: “Oh ho, you can’t tell ah; usually she’s all quiet, yet she’s surprisingly quick to take action.”

Cheng Lang also echoed, “She’s just that type of person ah. She’s so poor, yet she still has the nerve to compete with Zhang Jie to be the class beauty. In what way can she be compared with Zhang Jie?” 7TH2BJ

After saying that, he gave Zhang Jie a fawning smile and shifted over to her side.

Zhang Jie’s face turned red and she smiled a little bashfully, but didn’t refute their words. That was right, how could such a broke person compare with her?

Seeing this, Fu Wenbo began to heckle. “Don’t our class beauty and class monitor look like the ideal couple ah?!”

The few students on the side began to call out as well, “Get together! Get together!” tncDFl

There was some anticipation in Cheng Lang’s eyes. Zhang Jie was beautiful and looked gentle, and her family was powerful and influential; she was simply the dream girlfriend. Cheng Lang especially wanted to take advantage of this period of time to court her; then, they could be a couple for four years during university and get married right after graduation. That way, he could become the Zhang family’s son-in-law.

Zhang Jie only gave a light smile, but didn’t say anything. Even though Cheng Lang’s appearance wasn’t bad, his family background was too so-so in her eyes; however, this didn’t impact her enjoyment of Cheng Lang’s pursuit of her.

The youngsters laughed and made a ruckus, and the room was full of merriment. No one cared whether the Gu Mo they were looking down on was wrong or not; what they wanted was nothing more than novel amusement.

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Suddenly, a figure flashed past not far away; that balding head clearly didn’t belong to a student.

Xiao Lan quietly followed him, and unexpectedly discovered that it was Yang Degao.

Yang Degao squatted in a corner that had no one around. Browsing through his phone, he revealed a vulgar expression and even chuckled; it was completely different from his usual virtuous and prestigious appearance.

What a pity that he was too far away and Xiao Lan couldn’t see anything. OLqgl5

As such, a black cat leapt lithely into the tree behind Yang Degao and stared loftily with a disdainful face as it watched the man get high all by himself.

The black cat waited until Yang Degao left before returning to Xiao Lan’s side.

Xiao Lan: “What’s up? What was he looking at?”

Luo picked his words carefully. “Some photo images of a female high schooler; the very irregular sort.” kCKOvD

Simply put, the photos — had been taken sneakily. Who would have guessed that Yang Degao, a form teacher who usually had an honourable and overly conservative appearance, had a private hobby of taking secret photos of students.

Xiao Lan had a bad feeling. He swiftly ran in the direction that Yang Degao had left.

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The sky had already turned dark by then, and the surroundings looked a little hazy in the gloom.

As he ran and ran, he unexpectedly spotted Gu Shengan. YFi wW

Gu Shengan waved at him. “Xiao Lan, it’s great that you’re alright. I didn’t see you today, and I thought that something happened to you.”

Xiao Lan surveyed his surroundings. The decorations were much older than what he had seen earlier. His surroundings were extremely quiet, and it didn’t look like there were many people around. This was — the hotel ten years later.

Perhaps, the game didn’t allow players to interfere too much with the plot.

Gu Mo was destined to die. NEAhpx

Translator's Note

same old recipe, same old taste. Usually when someone visits an old restaurant nostalgically

Translator's Note

class flower, as in the class’s prettiest girl. Male counterpart is class grass, most handsome boy

Translator's Note

in Chinese slang, it means white skin, red lips, large eyes, and a sharp chin15岁蛇精脸整容少女:宁愿扎死也不愿丑死_新浪教育_新浪网

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22 comments

  1. What a bunch of scum people, they’re so hateful

    So this is why that girl glared at XL!! Wait, what if now she thinks he’s a ghost because he hasn’t changed in 10 years??

    Thank you for the chapter!!! ❤️❤️

  2. Luckily I have an old phone so that snake featured cursed example photo specter can’t drag me into the nightmare world tonight

  3. No wonder why Gu Mo would become a resentful ghosts for revenge, those people are just straight up garbage. Just because she was poor, and all she was being treated like that.