Chapter 51

Estimated time, from entering the game to successfully killing the first wind elemental beast, it took Jiang Yunu about 40 minutes.

This was the slowest time she had ever killed an elemental beast in a single shot in the holographic game.

It was even slower than the first time she killed the earth elemental beast.

I thought about the number of wind elemental beasts that the game system would probably refresh later, and then I thought about the goal I had originally set for this week - [Try to kill all 32 elemental beasts].

Jiang Yunu sighed because she felt more and more deeply that she might have set her weekly goals too high.

Without long-range weapons and no other effective way to pull the flying elemental beast down from the sky, the only tactic Jiang Yunu can use at the moment is to continue using himself as bait to "trick" the wind elemental beast down and attack it.

Her attack flow was a simple copy-paste of the one she had just successfully executed—first, she'd dart under the nose of the newly reappearing "Big Bird," deliberately darting to the open ground at the edge of the cliff to attract its attention. Then, once the "Big Bird" had successfully noticed her, the simpler, lower-level Wind Elemental Beasts would begin their attacks. Jiang Yunu would then need to carefully angle herself to allow the "Big Bird" to snatch her up with minimal injury. Then, having successfully "lured the enemy," she could begin utilizing her golden five minutes in the sky, delivering high-damage, heavy blows to the Wind Elemental Beasts during their attack buffer, dragging the battlefield back to the ground and continuing to drain their stamina.

This operating procedure has been verified to be effective.

The system quickly refreshed the second wind elemental beast. The wind created by the flapping of the "big bird"'s wings swept across the open space at the cliff mouth, and the melodious chirping of birds was carried into the woods by the wind.

Jiang Yunu used the same tactics to kill the second wind elemental beast and obtained the second amber wind elemental crystal core.

Next is the third one...

During the two hours of simulation cabin time on Saturday night, Jiang Yunu was only able to defeat the three wind elemental beasts.

The third wind element crystal core was even harder to come by, and she almost missed it.

Because when Jiang Yunu finally exhausted the physical strength of the third wind elemental beast, and firmly pressed down the other's back feathers in the broken branches and ruins of the woods, and took the elemental crystal core from the other's neck, she looked up and found that the countdown reminder pop-up window was floating in front of her again - the remaining time shown on it was less than two minutes.

If Jiang Yunu had been a little slower in any of the previous steps, and the "Big Bird" had struggled a little longer, she might have been stuck at the step of successfully killing it. She was about to take the crystal core within reach, but was forced to log off and was forced to exit the game with a feeling of unwillingness and anxiety.

Fortunately, her "extreme stepping" was quite successful.

After exiting the simulation cabin, Jiang Yunu was on her way back to the dormitory. She was enjoying the evening breeze in the Engel campus shrouded in darkness, letting the cool evening breeze physically cool down her brain that was still hot from the holographic battle.

Following this pace, Jiang Yunu thought as she slowly calmed down. As long as she could defeat a total of eight wind elemental beasts during her four hours of computer time tomorrow, and finally unlock a fire elemental beast she hadn't seen yet, she would be considered doing a great job and making the most of her computer time this week.

The next morning, during the early morning computer time on Sunday, Jiang Yunu, as expected, only killed three wind elemental beasts in two hours.

Joyson still had one more computer session this weekend, but the red-haired boy didn't get up early with Jiang Yunu this morning. Instead, he successfully slept in, which was a well-deserved weekend sleep.

Joyson's two flights overlapped with Jiang Yunuo's on Saturday morning and on Sunday night respectively.

Jiang Yunu finished defeating three wind elemental beasts early on Sunday morning. When he set out from the multi-purpose building to return to the dormitory area, Qiao Yisen guessed that they were still sleeping in and had not gotten up yet.

Jiang Yunu made reasonable guesses and suspicions about this, and she also had important evidence in her hand - Aunt Daisy called her on video at 9:15 in the morning.

Jiang Yunu had just walked to the dormitory building when she received Qiao Daisi's video call request. She was thinking about whether to turn right at the fork in the road in front of the girls' dormitory area and go to the nearby 24-hour self-service supermarket to get herself a morning snack.

Suddenly, a communication request reminder rang on the personal terminal. Jiang Yunu was stunned when he heard the prompt tone.

The truth is that she seldom receives such video calls. Usually when she contacts Qiao Yisen and Zhou Jinxue at school, she mostly uses text chats.

Jiang Yunu took two seconds to react to the prompt tone before realizing that someone was requesting a video call with her. She quickly pulled out the terminal screen and saw Aunt Daisy's name in the dynamic contact window.

Jiang Yunu picked up the call as soon as he saw the name: "Aunt Daisy?"

Qiao Daisi's figure appeared behind the video window: "Xiao Nu? Are you up yet?"

The red-haired woman hadn't seen Jiang Yunu in person for two weeks. During the video call, her expression when she looked at him seemed a little softer than before, and she had a smile on her face when she answered the call.

Jiang Yunu looked around at his surroundings and moved the camera around him in a small circle.

"Take a look," she said, smiling as she showed me around. "Do you think I look like I'm up, or am I still up?"

Qiao Daisi saw Jiang Yunu clearly and could clearly see that the little girl was standing on a street.

"I'm up," Jodaisi said firmly. "You're obviously much more studious and up than that brat Joeyson. I just tried to call Joeyson, but both times the call was automatically disconnected because no one answered."

When Aunt Daisy talked about the treatment she received during the video call with Joyson, the smile on her lips briefly turned into a sneer, and she was obviously quite disappointed with someone's behavior of sleeping in.

In a blink of an eye, facing Jiang Yunu, Qiao Daisi changed her face like in Sichuan Opera, and the sneer on the corner of her mouth was replaced by a truly gentle smile.

"I didn't want to disturb you. I thought I'd tell Joyson again so he'd remember to remind you when the time comes." Aunt Daisy frankly explained the purpose of the video call. She looked at Jiang Yunu gently from the other end of the video window, "--You two must remember to go home next week."

The holiday system of Enge Primary School for Special Abilities is "half-month holiday", which Jiang Yunu and Qiao Yisen knew when school started.

Normally, this week is the second weekend of school, and the school has a half-month holiday this week so that students can go home on weekends.

It’s just that Jiang Yunu and Qiao Yisen made a “change of the fake”.

Changing leave means that Engel students have the privilege once a month to submit an application in the school system before the mid-month or end-month holiday, requesting to "postpone going home" this week.

As long as the school approves the postponement of this week's holiday, the student can stay on campus during the originally scheduled holiday period.

The postponed opportunity to go home will not disappear, but can be used freely on other weekends within the month.

When Jiang Yunu first heard that the school could "adjust the holiday" on top of the "half-month holiday", her first reaction was: It really sounds like a kind of "adjusted holiday" for students.

Enge has many rules, which seem to be fixed in name. However, after actually coming to the school to study and live, you will find that there are rules beneath the rules. Some of the regulations that seem rigid are surprisingly flexible.

The reason why Jiang Yunu and Qiao Yisen changed their leave this week... was, of course, to get on the simulator.

Last Sunday, Jiang Yunu and Qiao Yisen enthusiastically grabbed all the computer spots. Less than half an hour later, Aunt Daisy called Qiao Yisen and asked about the two of them going home for the two-week holiday this weekend.

At that time, Joyce's expression looked as if the sky was about to fall. Joyce stammered on the phone and couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time. Jiang Yunu suddenly realized that she and Joyce had forgotten about the holiday. She plucked up the courage, pulled the terminal screen from Joyce's hand, and then explained to Aunt Daisy that the two of them might not go back this weekend.

There was also a video window like this at that time. Qiao Daisi's figure was standing behind the video window. Although her expression was calm, her slightly raised slender eyebrows made the two children think of only one word for no reason - [intimidating without anger].

"...Oh." Aunt Daisy, after what felt like half a lifetime, sighed and said, "It seems school is still the most alluring, huh? You all acted so reluctant when you left home, but after only a week at school, you don't even plan to go home the following weekend."

Joyson had looked as if the sky was falling before, but after hearing what his mother said, he felt like kneeling down to his mother across the star region in front of the video.

Fortunately, what Joe Daisy said at the time did not stop the two from wanting to postpone returning home this week.

Aunt Daisy finally said, "Forget it, just do as you wish."

Jiang Yunu thought of the phone call last week, and also thought that if she and Qiao Yisen had not chosen to change their vacation, they would probably have finished breakfast at Qiao's house by now. She couldn't help but touch her nose.

"Aunt Daisy," Jiang Yunu asked during this week's video call, "Are you angry about what happened last week?"

The red-haired woman raised her long eyebrows again: "Auntie is so stingy in your eyes?"

Qiao Daisi asked Jiang Yunu a rhetorical question.

Of course Jiang Yunu didn't dare to acknowledge this rhetorical question. She immediately showed an even sweeter and more harmless smile, and flattered Qiao Daisi like honey on her lips.

"How could that be?" she said. "Auntie Daisy is the most tolerant, broad-minded, charming lady I have ever met. She is a perfect combination of democracy, beauty, wisdom and ability!"

Qiao Daisi's rhetorical question was met with a long string of compliments. Her eyebrows were still raised, but the corners of her mouth were obviously raised higher than before.

"Ah." Aunt Daisy sighed, "I haven't heard your sweet words for a while. When I heard them again, I found that I missed them quite a bit."

Jiang Yunu immediately said, "Then I'll add this to my schedule and remind myself to praise Aunt Daisy every day."

This made Joe Daisy roll her eyes.

"Little girl, are you sure you want to let this kind of thing take up your precious study time every day?" Qiao Daisi waved her hand on the other side of the video, telling Jiang Yunu not to exaggerate and start talking nonsense.

No matter whether Jiang Yunu was affirming her or gently "criticizing" her, she listened with a smile.

There was no trace of the ferocity that had been shown when he killed the elemental beast in the holographic world not long ago.