Chapter 139
Conference Room 101.
The review meeting for the 8-4 Rule World began.
The participants included core members of the student union, Lin Yi, Ren Li, and Cheng Yang, who had signed a confidentiality agreement.
Before the review meeting started, Ou Ying looked at the information at hand and said, “The mortality rate for the 8-4 Rule World was estimated to be 40%, the actual mortality rate is 12% and the fact that the Monster had been hiding among the participants also hasn’t been leaked to many people. I am very grateful to the two patrol team members, Lin Yi and Ren, Li for their efforts.”
Qin Zhou added, “And with the 8-4 Monster killed, the 8-4 Rule won’t appear again.”
“Oh yes, that’s good.” Ou Ying said with a smile and then took the lead in applauding.
The conference room burst into applause. Lin Yi stood up and bowed to everyone in embarrassment. Cheng Yang kept winking crazily at Lin Yi.
Ren Li stood up and said, “I was selected by the 8-4 Monster and I deserve no credit.”
Ou Ying said, “It’s to your credit that you asked for the mission.”
While Ren Li and Ou Ying were talking, Lin Yi sat down again. Next to him, Cheng Yang whispered, “Lin Yi Ge, did you go confess you love to President Qin as soon as you got back?”
Lin Yi and Qin Zhou have come into the conference room together.
Lin Yi: “!”
He subconsciously glanced at Qin Zhou and was relived to find Qin Zhou with his head lowered, looking at the information at hand. He then quickly pulled Cheng Yang. “Not yet, please keep your voice down!”
Cheng Yang: “Oh, oh, then where have you been?”
Lin Yi took out his phone and showed it to Cheng Yang, and whispered, “My phone was broken.”
Cheng Yang asked, “Did President Qin buy this one for you?”
Lin Yi was surprised, “How did you know?”
“Xiongdi, it’s because I know you.” Cheng Yang smiled: “You’d never willingly buy such an expensive mobile phone.”
Lin Yi: “…”
Cheng Yang wanted to say something else, but Ou Ying looked over and said, “Except for during the Q&A session after the meeting starts, I request that everyone keep quiet.”
Cheng Yang nodded hurriedly and made a gesture of zipping up his mouth.
Ou Ying continued to preside over the review meeting. She looked at Ren Li and said, “Ren Li, can you speak first?”
Everyone sitting in the conference room knew very well that being selected by a Monster leaves one with no memory but everyone was still curious about the after effects of being selected by a Monster.
Ren Li lowered his eyes and said, “I have nothing to say.”
Ou Ying asked, “Do you feel any discomfort anywhere?”
Ren Li said, “No.”
Ou Ying paused for a moment. “If you feel unwell, you must tell me.”
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Ou Ying looked at Ren Li again. “Is that so?”
Ren Li glanced at Cheng Yang and said impatiently, “No.”
Cheng Yang: “It’s true. I saw him going up the steps. He had to hold the wall for support.”
Lin Yi pulled at Cheng Yang. He saw the cold glint in Ren Li’s eyes and was worried that Cheng Yang might get beaten up.
Wang Feihang spoke up, “Ren Li, if you’re worried we’re going to put your on sick leave and not allow you to take on tasks, you’re wrong. There are still so many Rules in the campus code waiting for their countermeasures. But being irresponsible towards your health is also being irresponsible towards your partner.”
Ren Li’s Adam’s apple twitched and Qin Zhou said in a deep voice, “Are you not feeling well? Then go to the infirmary and ask the school doctor to issue a health certificate for you. Go now.”
Ou Ying smoothed things over and said, “Ren Li, go back and rest first.”
Ren Li: “I feel a little unwell but I want to participate in this meeting. I want to know…how the 8-4 Rule was solved.”
Before anyone else could say anything else, Ren Li promised, “I will rest after the meeting.”
Cheng Yang looked at Ren Li and then asked Lin Yi in a low voice, “Did I say something wrong?”
Lin Yi shook his head. “You’re also looking out for Ren Li Ge.”
Cheng Yang said, “That’s not entirely true. Maybe it’s because we’ve shared a kiss, seeing him like this triggers a feeling of compassion.”
Lin Yi: “…”
The others said nothing, looking back and forth between Ren Li and Qin Zhou.
Qin Zhou had just spoken and the others didn’t dare contradict Qin Zhou.
Ou Ying thought for a while and said to Qin Zhou, “The 8-4 Rule World was concluded quite quickly so the review meeting shouldn’t be too long. It would make little difference if Ren Li goes to the infirmary after the review meeting.”
Seeing Ou Ying step up, Wang Feihang added, “Yes, yes, that’s right. When Zhou Ge came out of the 2-6 Rule World, you also participated in the review meeting. If Zhou Ge can go into battle despite being feeling sick, then Ren Li could surely hold on for a while, right? ”
Saying so, he frantically began signaling Ren Li with his eyes. Ren Li said, “President, I can endure.”
Wang Feihang immediately said to Qin Zhou, “Zhou Ge, Ren Li said he can endure.”
Wang Feihang was feeling sorry for his patrol member. He’d told Qin Zhou about the reason why Ren Li wanted to take the Rule 8-4 mission. Perhaps it was to get revenge for his brother but things hadn’t gone as expected and Ren Li wound up being selected by the Monster. It would simply be too inhumane to drive him away from even the review meeting after all that.
Qin Zhou lowered his head and resumed reading the information. “Continue.”
Ou Ying also glanced at Ren Li and motioned for Ren Li to sit down. After Ren Li sat down, Ou Ying looked at Lin Yi, “Lin Yi, please give us your account of the mission.”
“Yes, Ou Ying Xue Jie.”
Lin Yi stood up and began telling them what he’d experienced in the 8-4 Rule World. “When we arrived, it was around five o’clock in the afternoon in the 8-4 Rule World.”
During the participant’s narration, if you have any question you need to ask the participant, you need to raise your hand.
The person with a question was Zhou Chi, who is in charge of the campus rulebook, “Was there a clock in the 8-4 Rule World?”
Lin Yi shook his head. “No.”
Zhou Chi: “Then how do you know it was five o’clock in the afternoon?”
Lin Yi said, “Based on the color of the sky.”
Zhou Chi was a little surprised. But mainly because Lin Yi had stated the time with such certainly, the ‘based on the color of the sky’ answer he gave seemed somewhat perfucntory. “Oh, thank you, no more questions.”
Qin Zhou stopped reading the document he had and looked up at Lin Yi.
Lin Yi had a strong sense of time.
Lin Yi continued, “The place where Cheng Yang and I first arrived in the 8-4 Rule World was a rural secondary school. The rest of the participants had yet to appear so the school was not yet open. While the rest were still missing, we decided to go around to take a look. We found something strange.”
Everyone listened carefully. Lin Yi said, “There were bricks falling off the wall, there was also graffiti on it. The weeds at the foot of the wall were also very clear. But when we looked towards the campus, we couldn’tt see much and what we could see looked blurred, as though underwater. I was about to discuss this discovery with Cheng Yang but found that Cheng Yang was behaving strangely. He had been silent and unwilling to talk to me. ”
When Lin Yi said this, someone raised their hand. It was Yan Yao who was responsible for liasing with the school. Her work meant that she didn’t know much about the Rule Worlds. “The 8-4 monster chose Ren Li. Why was it Cheng Yang who was behaving strangely?”
Lin Yi replied, “Because he wanted to make his self-declaration.”
Cheng Yang nodded.
Yan Yao knew about self-declarations, saying or doing things that a Monster cannot say or do.
She still didn’t understand though why Cheng Yang’s self-declaration would be to remain silent.
Lin Yi explained, “He was waiting for someone.”
Yan Yao: “Waiting for someone?”
Lin Yi was silent for a moment and said, “…He was waiting for Ren Li Ge.”
When Ren Li heard this, he looked towards Cheng Yang. He could not imagine what he could possibly do with Cheng Yang’s self-declaration.
Yan Yao showed a surprised expression. “Did Cheng Yang find out from the beginning that Ren Li had been selected by the 8-4 Monster?”
Lin Yi’s face suddenly colored. “No, at the time we hadn’t yet discovered that Ren Li Ge had been selected by the 8-4 Monster. Cheng Yang was just waiting for Ren Li Ge to complete his own self-declaration.”
Lin Yi knew that Yan Yao would continue to ask and sure enough, Yan Yao asked, “And?”
Lin Yi scratched his nose. This action caused his hand to cover his lips slightly, which relieved some of Lin Yi’s secondhand embarassment. “As soon as Ren Li Ge appeared, Cheng Yang… rushed over and hugged Ren Li Ge……”
Everyone looked up at Lin Yi, waiting for Lin Yi to continue.
After a slight pause, Lin Yi caught a glimpse of Ren Li’s gaze from the corner of his eye and it made his next words even more difficult to say. But this was part of the job and no matter how difficult it was to say, Lin Yi had to tell the truth. “Cheng Yang… forcefully kissed Ren Li Ge.”
Ren Li: “…………………………………………”
Other people:”……”
Everyone here was the elite of the student union. As for why Cheng Yang would forcefully kiss him, Lin Yi didn’t need to explain in depth; everyone understood.
Monsters are Monsters. They are good at imitating but do not understand human emotions. Cheng Yang has never kissed a boy so he then kissed Ren Li in the 8-4 Rule World.
This proved that he wasn’t the Monster.
Wang Feihang said, “That’s pretty good, Cheng Yang, that you were able to think of this method.”
Cheng Yang said, “Well, isn’t that how Lin Yi…”
Lin Yi’s heart trembled and he quickly interrupted Cheng Yang, speaking quickly, “We then found that Ren Li Ge’s reaction was wrong and from that we were realized that Ren Li Ge was the 8-4 monster. After that, all the participants had gathered and we entered the school. Most classroom doors in the school cannot be opened. The classroom we went to was the Class 1 High School 2 of Baoxiang Secondary School. Inside the classroom, there was a female teacher standing on the podium counting people…”
Lin Yi secretly scanned the expressions of the others. Seeing that he had successfully passed this hurdle, he breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to continue his narraction, he caught a glimpse of Qin Zhou from out the corner of his eye.
Qin Zhou had his head down, once again reading the document in hand. This time though, he had a smile on his face.
Lin Yi: “…”
“The black cat bred evil and used Sun Jingwen’s method to take revenge on everyone.”
Lin Yi told everyone about the entire 8-4 Rule World. He then hesitated for a while and said, “The mailroom auntie had been the one to write ‘If you want to live, pass it on’ as the second line of the curse letter. Without that mechanic for sending and receiving revealed by the mailroom auntie, it would have been very difficult to discover the second Rule of Death. It is difficult to believe that a Monster would reveal a Rule of Death to the participants. I am more apt to think that the mailroom auntie has always been a good existence in the black cat’s memory, so after becoming a Monster, it still remembered this and did not completely vilify the mailroom auntie in the 8-4 Rule World. Through this, I feel that Monsters are not necessarily completely controlled by evil negative emotions and may also retain some of their will when they were alive.”
Everyone listened to Lin Yi’s closing words. Ou Ying looked at Qin Zhou and asked, “Zhou Ge, I have some ideas.”
Qin Zhou said, “En.”
Ou Ying said, “We’ve had the 4-4 Monster who took the initiative to narrate the main plot and now, here is the 8-4 Monster, who revealed a Rule of Death. These, coupled with Senior Lu’s 0-1 rule theory, can we consider that Rule 0-1 overrides other Rules? That the other Rules become Rule 0-1’s slaves and are repressed by it?
Lin Yi squeezed his palms. It’s because he’d thought of the black cat rolling around and exposing its belly at the end that he’d added that last conclusion.
But it seemed that there’d been no need to say it.
Qin Zhou said, “There’s too little basis. The second line of the curse letter could have also caused more people to be cursed. This was only an mid-level Rule. It’s normal for a mid-level Monster to make mistakes when making its Rule World.”
What Qin Zhou said was not unreasonable. There was still no actual evidence to prove the existence of Rule 0-1. Talking about Rule 0-1 now will only make people panic.
Ou Ying dropped the topic and looked at Cheng Yang, “Cheng Yang, tell us what yuo experienced.”
Cheng Yang couldn’t hold it in any longer and he immediately said, “While at the release site, I was already thinking about what to do for my self-declaration…”
Ren Li stood up and said, “President, I’m not feeling well. I’ll be leaving first.”
Qin Zhou: “En.”
After Ren Li left, Ou Ying turned to look at Cheng Yang. “Why did you choose Ren Li?”
Cheng Yang said, “I didn’t choose Ren Li Ge. Ren Li Ge just happened to be the one who appeared at that time. Had it been some other guy, I would have kissed that other guy. There was no other way. The situation was urgent, it was a matter of survival!”
Ou Ying smiled and said, “Go on.”
“Okay.” Cheng Yang said, “I also didn’t expect that it would be Ren Li Ge’s first time being kissed by a man. I was supposed to test Lin Yi Xiong’s reaction too by doing my self-declaration. I didn’t expect that my test would out the 8-4 Monster immediately. Actually, I didn’t plan to kiss him on the lips the first time. I kissed Ren Li Ge on the forehead first…” Cheng Yang pointed to his own forehead and said, “Ren Li Ge’s reaction was wrong. He should have pushed me away when he was forcefully kissed. But he didn’t. But I also didn’t dare to directly conclude that Ren Li Ge was being possessed by the 8-4 Monster, so I kissed him a second time… Damn it, the second time almost scared me to death…”
Outside the door, Ren Li leaned against the wall and listening to the narration going on inside.
He didn’t have much strength but he still wiped his lower lip fiercely.
Then, he turned and left.
In the conference room, Cheng Yang said with great sincerity, “I also know that I had behaved like a hooligan. I will definitely go and apologize to Ren Li Ge some other day…”
Is a second ship sailing? 😭🤣🤣
Thanks for the chapter!!!
Thank you! I’m so hooked on this. I’m glad Ren Li got some answers
Now we wait for the confession!
Ren li x Cheng yang?🤨👀
I’m boarding this ship😂
A side couple ??? Hoooh ~
LMFAO my gaydar was already going off when Ren Li woke up with a hairy leg on top of him but this just takes the cake
HAHAHAHA CHENG YANG ARE YOU VERY SURE YOU’RE AS STRAIGHT AS A LAMP POST?