Chapter 220

Pei Ya: "Wait, come back here."

Exercising the fastest reaction ability that a logistics personnel could muster, the great and omnipotent intelligence officer pulled Jiang Yunu back.

After Jiang Yunu said "OK", he immediately stood up from the sofa, as if he was going to go out the next second and rush to the Trial Tower late at night.

Pei Ya had to hold her back, wanting Jiang Yunu to be more sober, or at least not be so impulsive.

"Do you know it's one in the morning?" Pei Ya said with a helpless and doubtful tone. After she finished speaking, she checked the time and found that it was a little later than she expected. "No, it's already past one-thirty in the morning. In another twenty minutes, it will be almost two o'clock."

Jiang Yunu glanced at the transparent time window that Pei Ya had specially magnified and brought before her eyes. She said, "I know, and it's so dark outside that it looks like something's haunted."

In order to allow the athletes from the eight schools living here to have a better rest, the public lights in the apartment area will be turned off after midnight every night.

Especially in the square courtyard between Building A and Building B, the landscape street lights and ground lights inside will be turned off.

Although the interior of the apartment was brightly lit, it was pitch black outside the glass windows, and the glass had become a mirror, faithfully reflecting the interior of the room.

Pei Ya finally got around to asking the question: "Why do you suddenly need an A-grade crystal core? And why do you seem so anxious?"

Jiang Yunu cut to the chase: "I received a call. There's... a very important person whose family needs this urgently."

She didn't mention Senior Zhou, nor did she mention an old friend from her hometown. The phrase "a very important person" better reflects the importance of the crystal core and the person who truly needs it.

Jiang Yunu completely trusts Pei Ya, and Pei Ya can feel it too.

Because she only said "Trial Tower", Jiang Yunu had no doubt at all and was about to head towards the Trial Tower.

"Is it urgent?" Pei Ya asked again.

Jiang Yunu nodded under the white light of the public living room. She looked serious and said, "It's urgent."

The great and almighty intelligence officer sighed and briefly informed the source, "I first searched my mother's basic system to see if there were any reasonably priced A-grade crystal cores for sale recently, but the prices I found were all sky-high. So I tried searching for 'free A-grade crystal cores'—and luckily, there were some."

Although the artificial intelligence that helped with the search thought that "free A-level crystal core" was a fantasy, in the advanced league camp where they were, as long as any contestant could challenge the full trial tower, he or she would be able to obtain a key.

"The key can open the mysterious treasure house provided by the official competition committee, and the prizes provided in the treasure house include a Beyond Grade A elemental crystal core."

Because the news sounded a bit too "perfect" at first glance, like a pillow just as you dozed off, it aroused suspicion. Pei Ya even made two phone calls to confirm whether the information was credible.

Super A-grade crystal cores contain higher energy, are stronger, and are more difficult to obtain than ordinary A-grade crystal cores.

Jiang Yunu recalled that during the first player gathering, the official representative of the competition committee mysteriously mentioned that there would be a "personal mysterious prize" after completing the trial tower.

It turns out that this "personal mystery prize" refers to this.

At that time, she thought that she was not interested in the mysterious grand prize and just wanted to pass the levels. Unexpectedly, she was accidentally proven wrong. Now, she cares more about the grand prize than passing the levels.

Jiang Yunu gave Pei Ya an unconditional hug.

"It's great to have you." Jiang Yunu said, "If I didn't have you, what would I do?"

Pei Ya is no longer the Pei Ya when they first met. She is now the Pei Ya who can naturally take the initiative to approach Jiang Yunu and stay close to him.

But she still felt that the hug was a little too tight, and at the same time she could feel the straightforward and passionate emotions coming from the white-haired girl.

"You'll find a way even without me," Pei Ya said. "When you want to do something, nothing can stop you."

Jiang Yunu hugged her helpful friend for another ten seconds, then she let go and said seriously, "You're right, so I'm going to head to the floating platform where the Trial Tower is located to see what its trial levels are all about overnight."

Pei Ya: “…”

——Haha, she just knew it!

Pei Ya's intuitive judgment of Jiang Yunu could not be wrong at all, and she really had no way to stop her a second time.

Pei Ya walked Jiang Yunu into the apartment elevator and asked, "Don't you want to rest for a while before going?"

Jiang Yunu gave her a spirited look in reply: "No, I can't fall asleep even if I lie down now, so I might as well just go."

The representative of the competition committee also said that from the moment the second rally ended, the Trial Tower would be fully open and accessible 24 hours a day.

This means that although the probability of traveling from the central platform to the floating platform where the trial tower is located in the early morning is small, it is not zero.

Jiang Yunu walked out of the apartment building, and her retina quickly adapted to the changes in light and dark from the bright lights inside the building to the dark courtyard outside. Then she quickly left the building area along the route she had already memorized and arrived at the outer square of the central platform.

In addition to the dedicated flying vehicles for each school when landing on the competition stage, there are also public flying cars from the league base on the center stage.

Jiang Yunu used her personal terminal to start the flying car. The artificial intelligence on board the flying car greeted her and asked her about her travel time in a humane manner.

"Good, late night, but based on my data, this isn't a typical travel time," the AI ​​said politely.

Jiang Yunu also politely said to the AI: "Good evening, my destination is the floating platform where the Trial Tower is located. Maybe the travel time is unconventional, but I think my destination should be within the time allowed."

The AI ​​replied: "Of course. Please take a seat. You will arrive at the Trial Tower in two minutes."

Two minutes is just a blink of an eye.

Jiang Yunu got off the floating platform where the trial tower was located. She stood in front of the seven-story trial tower, whose grandeur could only be appreciated when looking closer.

Each floor of this tower is at least 4.5 meters high, and the top floor looks like a small palace in the clouds.

Jiang Yunu didn't know if there was anyone in the tower at that time, nor did he know how many people had come here to try their hand since the representative of the competition committee announced that people could enter the tower.

She doesn't care.

Jiang Yunu just looked at it and thought: I'm going to try to conquer it.

After a moment, when she had reached the tower door, she mentally corrected her thoughts.

—she wasn't going to try to conquer it.

——She must conquer it.

Jiang Yunu's figure disappeared into the teleportation circle at the entrance of the tower.

Four hours later, daylight began to fall over the construction area of ​​the central station.

About an hour later, the sky became brighter. It was almost seven o'clock when Solok came out of the room and finished washing up. However, he was a little surprised not to see Jiang Yunu in the public living room.

The time spent in the league camp was enough for the members of the Golden Urie school team to quickly get to know each other's schedules.

Everyone in the team knew that Jiang Yunu was the team's top early riser.

No matter how early you think you get up, you will always find Jiang Yunu getting up before you - this is a consensus within the team.

Solok didn't find Jiang Yunu this morning, even though she should have gotten up earlier. He walked around the public area and was sure that the conspicuous white hair was nowhere to be found. This made him a little confused, and he muttered to himself, "It's so early, has she already gone to the cafeteria?"

Someone spoke from a place he least expected: "She's definitely not in the apartment."

Sorok was almost startled.

He turned around suddenly and found a rare figure sitting on the sofa in the corner: "You...Ole?"

Unlike Jiang Yunu who was always good at getting closer to others, Sorok always called Pei Ya by her last name.

Pei Ya's special skill of low presence took effect again. The captain of Golden Uriel had just walked around her and back from behind her sofa, but the other party didn't even notice her there.

Pei Ya took the initiative to speak and remind the other party that there was someone here.

"Yes, it's me." Pei Ya sat up on the sofa and stretched slowly, with a slight "crackling" sound from her joints.

"Why are you up so early today?" Solok confirmed the person and subconsciously began to show concern. "When did you get here? Did you get a good rest last night... Wait, did you go back to your room to rest last night?"

As Peiya sat up and then stood, Sorok could see the wrinkles in the clothing of this unassuming yet well-off classmate. Deep creases appeared on her back and under her ribs—the kind of wrinkles that come from leaning against something for a long time.

Looking at Pei Ya's face again, the girl was not wearing her signature thick-bottomed glasses today. Her face was a little swollen, with a hint of blue under her eyelids.

"Yes." Pei Ya yawned, "Maybe not."

Sorok: "..." Is this the statement a sober person should make?

Pei Ya didn't care whether her words were a bit confusing logically.

She did go back to her room briefly, but after sending Jiang Yunu out, she found it difficult to lie down and fall asleep, as she was worried about the progress of that energetic guy in the Trial Tower.

[If she doesn't fight well and the level is very difficult, she might come back soon...] This is what Pei Ya thought last night.

She thought about it for a long time, and finally got up from the bed in the room and sat on the sofa in the public living room outside.

"If Jiang Yunu comes back early, at least I'm here and I can comfort her." This thought made the great Ole Miss sit on the sofa in the outer room, abandoning the more comfortable bed, and doze off directly on the backrest when she felt sleepy.

As a result, she did not wait for Jiang Yunu who returned halfway, and took a nap until dawn, and waited for Sorok who was also accustomed to getting up early.

"Where is Jiang Yunu?" Sorok asked Pei Ya about Jiang Yunu's whereabouts.

In his opinion, he felt that the daily actions of these two girls were tied together more than 80% of the time.

Since Jiang Yunu is not in the public area of ​​the apartment and Pei Ya is here, the other party probably knows where Jiang Yunu is.

Pei Ya glanced at the sky and said, "She's having an extra meal."

Sorok didn't understand and simply thought that Jiang Yunu went to the cafeteria.

But as another two hours passed, the other members of the school team also got up one after another, but Jiang Yunu still did not return to the apartment. Jin Qing began to feel that something was wrong.

"Did Xiao Jiang really go to the cafeteria to eat?" Jin Qing asked with concern.

Pei Ya's eyes became brighter as Jiang Yunu's "loss of contact" time became longer.

She said, "Yes."

Another two hours passed and it was almost noon.

Just as Aoliang was complaining to Ye Li, "A snack lasts from early morning until midnight. What kind of 'snack' is this? Is he secretly doing some extreme training behind our backs?"

Pei Ya, who was listening: "..."

But before Pei Ya could figure out whether to create another cover for Jiang Yunu or just tell the truth, suddenly, through the thick floor, she could hear the noise made by other contestants and residents below.

Sorok's personal communication rang. He looked down and found that it was his "neighbor" Romfei, the captain of the school team.

"Congratulations!" Captain Romfei said immediately after the call was connected, "Your team has become the first person to complete the Trial Tower."