Chapter 114
During the following few days, students who were to be released were called to individual meetings by the student union.
The meetings were held to give the students some precautions but mainly it was to give them encouragement.
Cheng Yang was waiting outside the classroom the student union was using as a meeting room. He could heard Ou Ying’s voice coming from inside.
“The student union is not abandoning you. We will be sending patrol members to follow you into the Rule World.”
“Is that even true? Then where are they? Why don’t I see any of them here?”
Cheng Yang was listening outside. The guy who had gone in before him didn’t seem willing to submit.
But that’s to be expected. Cheng Yang hadn’t seen many honest types among this lot.
Cheng Yang’s phone rang and he took it out.
[Lin Yi]: Cheng Yang Xiong, how much longer do you think before you’re done?
Cheng Yang looked at the time and saw that it was almost time for lunch. He quickly typed back.
[Cheng Yang]: It will probably take a while longer. You can eat first. No need to wait for me.
[Lin Yi]: I can bring lunch back for you. What do you want to eat?
[Cheng Yang]: What’s available?
After a while, Lin Yi sent him a list of dishes. Cheng Yang looked through it. Inwardly, he couldn’t help sighing in admiration. As expected of Lin Yi Xiong. Such an honest guy.
Lin Yi sent him everything the cafeteria had prepared for lunch.
Cheng Yang replied.
[Cheng Yang]: Anything will do.
[Lin Yi]:? ? ?
[Cheng Yang]: Just kidding, I’ll have whatever you’re having.
[Lin Yi]: …I don’t see how that’s any different.
“Next student please.”
Ou Ying’s voice rang out and Cheng Yang quickly put down his cell phone and headed into the classroom. He hadn’t been paying attention and he bumped into the boy coming out.
The boy was already very pissed and he shouted angrily, “Watch where you’re going!”
Cheng Yang gave a ‘hey’ and said, sounding amused, “You’re gonna hit your grandad over a little bump like that?”
The boy shrank when he saw Cheng Yang’s size.
Cheng Yang pointed at his nose. “Why don’t you step aside for grandad?”
“Cheng Yang.” Ou Ying saw the ruckus at the door and called him by name to stop the two from actually coming to blows.
“Hey, Ou Ying Xue Jie.” Cheng Yang glanced into the classroom. His eyes once again fell on the boy opposite. He took back the hand pointing at his nose and said viciously, “For Xue Jie’s sake, grandad’s going to let you off this time.”
After the boy slunk away, Cheng Yang walked into the classroom.
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Ou Ying smiled. After Cheng Yang sat down, Ou Ying picked up the document at hand and said, “Are you going to 8-4 this time? I heard that you requested it yourself.”
“Yes, yes.” Cheng Yang nodded. “Lin…”
“Ahem.” Ou Ying coughed, interrupting the second half of Cheng Yang’s sentence as she shook her head slightly. After Cheng Yang stopped speaking, Ou Ying whispered, “The identities of patrol team members are kept confidential.”
“I understand.” Cheng Yang said quickly.
“Do you really understand or are you pretending to understand?” Ou Ying asked.
“I really understand.” Cheng Yang looked quite serious.
This wouldn’t be his first time entering a Rule World and he has also signed a confidentiality agreement with the student union. He knew that the Monster would be lurking among the participants and he also knew that the Monster could kill people at will before the Replay. After Ou Ying reminded him, he immediately realized. He didn’t know who the 8-4 Monster would possess but if everyone of the participants knew Lin Yi’s identity, the chance that Lin Yi would be targeted by the 8-4 Monster would be a 100%.
This was why, students to be released were met with alone; this way, the students wouldn’t know the other participants in advance. They would only know that there would be patrol members who would follow them into the Rule World. They wouldn’t know though that it was Lin Yi and Ren Li who would be the patrol members assigned to help them.
“Alright.” Ou Ying praised, “You’ve matured.”
“Yeah, that’s a, you know, ‘those who are close to cinnabar are stained red’ kind of thing.” Cheng Yang smiled sheepishly.
“Okay, go and grab lunch.” Ou Ying said.
Cheng Yang was surprised. “We’re done?”
The person who’d gone before him had been dilly-dallying in this classroom for a long time.
“Then as you wish, I’ll go through the entire thing with you.” Ou Ying stopped sorting out the documents and raised her head. “Once you enter the Rule World, it’s fine to be afraid. It’s fine to be fearful. You can find a thigh to hug but if you do, you must keep your eyes open.”
Cheng Yang was frightened by Ou Ying’s tone. Ou Ying repeated, “Go and grab lunch.”
“Okay… okay, goodbye, Ou Ying Xue Jie.”
“Bye.”
It took Cheng Yang a while after leaving the classroom to realize what Ou Ying was implying. Monsters have the ability to identify the strength of the participants. Just like how the 2-6 Monster accurately selected Qin Zhou, Lin Yi and Ren Li had a higher probability of being selected by the 8-4 Monster over the other participants.
Thinking of this, Cheng Yang stopped and had to tightly hug himself. It was sunny today but he suddenly felt a chill.
If Lin Yi was selected by the 8-4 Monster, what could he do?
Just surrender and beg.
Dorm room 304.
“I probably won’t be selected.”
Seeing Cheng Yang pacing back and forth in the room, Lin Yi couldn’t help speaking up.
Cheng Yang stopped and looked at Lin Yi.
Lin Yi knew he had made a slip and tried to quickly cover it up. “Once we enter the Rule World, we can do a self-declaration.”
Cheng Yang’s interest was piqued. “A self-declaration? How? Should we set a secret code?”
Lin Yi took a sip of water. “The Monster will just be able to get the secret code from peeking into the person’s memory.”
Cheng Yang agreed. “Then how are we suppose to do a self-declaration?” He thought of the self-declaration they’d done in the 2-6 Rule World. Seeing the bigshots all doing their self-declarations, Cheng Yang thought this was simply beyond the capability of his IQ.
And besides, it proved useless. Qin Zhou’s self-declaration sounded valid but he turned out to be the 2-6 Monster.
Lin Yi explained simply, “While in the Rule World, you can do something that you’ve never done in reality.”
Cheng Yang found the idea difficult to grasp but it didn’t stop him from asking a very crucial point. “Is that how you and President Qin did your self-declaration to each other?”
Lin Yi almost choked when he mentioned Qin Zhou.
For the past few days, Lin Yi hadn’t dared contact Qin Zhou. And whenever he knew where Qin Zhou would be, he made sure to avoid those places.
He had a feeling that Qin Zhou had already found something out.
Seeing Lin Yi’s reaction, Cheng Yang exclaimed, “Did you kiss President Qin?”
Lin Yi spat out his water. “!”
He looked at Cheng Yang in surprise, wondering why the gears in Cheng Yang’s head was suddenly spinning so fast.
“Aiya, aiya!” It was like Cheng Yang had discovered some grand secret from the heavens. He was instantly excited. “So, what’s your situation now? Are you together?”
Lin Yi quickly found a tissue to wipe his mouth, “No, don’t talk nonsense.”
“You’re not?” Cheng Yang was surprised: “We’ve already kissed, why aren’t you two together yet?”
Lin Yi asked back, “Why do we have to be together because we kissed?”
Cheng Yang didn’t understand. “Kissing is something that only lovers do.”
Lin Yi stressed, “It was a self-declaration. And keep your voice down!!”
“So the way you do your self-declaration is to kiss others?” Cheng Yang asked in a whisper.
Lin Yi shook his head.
Cheng Yang: “Is President Qin’s method of self-declaration to kiss others?”
Lin Yi shook his head again.
Cheng Yang clapped his hands. “Then that’s settles it, doesn’t it? It’s a self-declaration for just the two of you. What else can it be if it’s not the love between lovers?”
Lin Yi choked.
He lowered his head and tore the soaked toilet paper into strips. “Well…well, Senior didn’t say he wanted us to be together.”
Qin Zhou had confessed but he hadn’t said anything about what they should do next, let alone wanting to be together.
Cheng Yang understood. “Lin Yi Xiong, it turns out you also like President Qin.”
Lin Yi raised his head. How could Cheng Yang know when he himself didn’t even know it yet?
Cheng Yang said proudly, “I, Cheng Yang, am known as the ‘Little Prince of Love’ in Rong Province. To put it bluntly, when it comes to liking someone, you either like them or don’t like them. Don’t say you don’t know. People who ‘don’t know’ are just hooligans. Not unless you want to play a long game to catch the big fish. Don’t tell me you’re actually like that, Lin Yi Xiong.
Lin Yi felt aggrieved. “But I really don’t know.”
“Lin Yi Xiong, let me put it this way.” Cheng Yang acted like he was some sort of experienced expert. “If you didn’t like President Qin, you wouldn’t be talking to me about this topic now. Look into your heart. Tell me, do you feel at all contradictory about this topic? You’re the one who wants to figure out your own feelings more than anyone else, am I right?”
Lin Yi was stunned.
Cheng Yang was whispering in his ear. “If you want to figure out your own feelings, it’s so easy. And it’s even easier for you to get together with President Qin…”
‘But it seemed that now wasn’t the right time,’ Lin Yi lowered his head and thought.
He didn’t even know whether he was human or not.
Lin Yi reached out and showed Cheng Yang the information he had just received from Wang Feihang. “This is the list of people going to the 8-4 Rule World, including you, me and Ren Li Ge, there are 12 people in total…”
Cheng Yang was successfully distracted by Lin Yi. “There’s so many people!”
——
Time passed quickly, and the release period for the 8-4 Rule finally arrived.
Because the active Rules for this period weren’t as high as the 2-6 Rule or the 4-4 Rule, the student union didn’t ask the school for a suspension of classes.
As per Wang Feihang’s notification, the mission was set to start at 4pm on Tuesday.
Lin Yi made sure to arrive just in time.
Judging from the list, Qin Zhou wasn’t going to be joining this mission.
The number of people to be released into the 8-4 Rule World was 12. Lin Yi had seen the list and the students on site matched the number on the list.
This was the first time that Lin Yi would be going to a Rule World without Qin Zhou. Lin Yi kept feeling guilty, like he was giving Qin Zhou a green hat. He didn’t know if Qin Zhou was at the 8-4 Rule release site, so he didn’t dare glance around, lest he lock eyes with Qin Zhou and he be overcome with embarrassment.
Just think about it made him start digging out a castle with his toes.
As with the previous releases, Ou Ying was reminding everyone of the precautions.
When time was almost up, Ou Ying led the other student union members away from the site.
Off in the distance, Qin Zhou’s expression had turned extremely ugly.
Wang Feihang laughed. “Maybe Lin Yi didn’t see you.”
Seeing that Qin Zhou remained silent, Wang Feihang said, “The 8-4 Monster hasn’t appeared yet. Zhou Ge, if you want, you could still go.”
Qin Zhou made no move and stared at Lin Yi in the distance.
He had noticed that Lin Yi was avoiding him.
With his brows furrowed, he repeatedly thought about the reason why Lin Yi could be avoiding him. He finally settled on it being because of the question that day.
Yuan Yuan’s browsing history.
Qin Zhou turned around while Wang Feihang was still halfway through his spiel. “Hey, Zhou Ge, where are you going?”
Qin Zhou walked to the student union’s archives. He rummaged for a while and found what he was looking for – the 4-4 Rule World review meeting minutes.
At the release site —
A shrill meow pierced the air and Cheng Yang shivered. His legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground.
The faces of the people around suddenly turned pale. They couldn’t see a cat but only heard the cat meowing.
Lin Yi had the best view. He followed the sound and raised his hand. “The cat’s meow seems to be coming from inside.”
By ‘inside’, he meant inside a delivery package.
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Also lol at Lin Yi feeling bad for giving Qin Zhou a green hat 😭 and QIN ZHOU REALLY BEING THERE TOO.
The Schrödinger Cat .. meow ~