Love Cycle (VI) Hellish way of showing good will add another battle...
Shi Cunjin sat on a bench on the leisure trail on the west bank of the lake. He leaned on Valentine and sat up with difficulty. He briefly explained the current situation to the students of the West School.
"... This way, you won't lose too many points... You don't have to worry about being scared anymore." The silver-haired NPC said weakly, and patted the back of the brown-haired freshman's hand that was grabbing his arm - Valentine was very nervous, and his fingers almost dug into the flesh of Shi Cunjin's arm - the silver-haired NPC said softly: "It hurts a little... Grab it down... Grab the sleeve."
Valentine hissed and whispered a series of apologies.
"No problem, I agree with your suggestion." After listening to Senior Fate's explanation, Steven Michaux understood the origin of this Oolong competition; East School student Jane Ning and North School student Cash were competing for a special NPC-designated mission issued by Senior Fate.
The campus guidance NPC issues special tasks, and students receive a special achievement reward when they accept and complete the task. Valentine von once jokingly called this school rule the special achievement version of "Students are idiots, and the school office is picky."
However, the special missions issued by the campus NPCs are very difficult. Some students who receive such special missions may not succeed even after four years of work until graduation. Senior Fate's current weak debuff status comes from the dispute between the East School and the North School. The two groups fought fiercely, affecting the guiding NPC who was observing nearby - just like the unlucky ones who accidentally entered the cross-campus competition circle.
"I have no problem with that. I agree to surrender...or rather, I can't wait any longer." Valentine let out a long sigh and said without surprise, "I said that the inter-campus competition can be started as long as two campuses are detected. This competition has absolutely nothing to do with us. Fran...I mean Jane Ning from the East School. His personality, emm——"
Valentine made two teeth-grinding sounds, "--When he gets angry, he wants to uproot the things he hates. At this time, whoever gets in his way, he will bear a grudge unconditionally. If it is convenient, he will make trouble for them on the spot, and if it is not convenient, he will save it for trouble in the future..." Valentine rolled his eyes.
Fisher Green paced back and forth with his arms folded, and quickly said, "Valentine and I will go and surrender." Fisher looked at Steven, "You stay here with Senior Fate. The possibility of us being attacked is lower if we go there."
Steven frowned and asked, "Are you sure your brothers at the East School won't attack you?"
In the competition, as long as you successfully defeat the competitor - defeating naturally means damaging - the winner will receive 50-100 credits. Credits can be used to purchase flower gifts to promote special achievements. Special achievements can be realized in reality and become letters of recommendation with great value, which can promote fresh graduates to directly enter the Union Council for internship/directly get the last seat.
Some families promote one heir, and the heir often steps on his brothers to gain credits. After all, the holographic school cannot die, and it is normal for the heir to use his brothers as tools to gain credits. Gaining credits means that the students who are being used as tools will be attacked.
"They are already in their fourth year and will graduate this year, but you are only a freshman... You still have a lot of time to earn credits." Steven Michaux frowned, worried that freshman Fisher would be used as a tool to earn credits by his two fourth-year brothers.
The four regions of East, West, South and North divide the continent. Each region has distinct cultural traditions, but intermarriage is not absolute. Green and Michaux are typical surnames of marriage between the East and West. If there are many children in a generation, they are sometimes divided into two regions to live, each inheriting the family of one of their parents. Fisher Green and his third brother live in the West Region for a long time. They only see their eldest and second brothers who live in the East Region during the New Year holidays. They are not very familiar with each other. Steven Michaux's concerns are very reasonable. He himself does not have a good relationship with his brothers in the East Region.
"It's OK. After I came here, they were very..."
"Fisher——!" A loud shout came from the shadows of the landscape forest on the east bank of Lotus Lake.
Fisher Green: "...caring about me."
Steven Michaux's expression suddenly tensed up. His special achievement was the one-on-one type, and now he was locking up a North School student and couldn't demonstrate again.
Valentine's body was shocked. "They are catching up with us!" He whispered quickly to Fisher, "Quick, quick, quick! Let's activate the special achievement Fisher Green!!"
Fisher Green: "..."
After Valentine's treatment, Fisher was also a little nervous. He took the initiative to stand at the front of the team and looked towards the landscape forest on the east coast.
His second brother, Grid Green, walked out from the thick, dark shadows of the trees, followed closely by his eldest brother. The two red-haired fourth-year students had cold expressions and stood ten meters in front of Fisher Green.
Fisher took the initiative to greet them: "Big brother, second brother."
Fisher took a deep breath, thinking about the safety plan he had just agreed upon with Senior Fate - provoke the East School students, let the school affairs AI detect and determine that the West School students are in an attacking state, then, the West School students quickly surrender, the school affairs AI determines that the East School students won the first round of competition, and the North School students who had agreed on a plan with Senior Fate will admit defeat at the same time - "I..." "Fisher, let's be peaceful." The second brother, Grid Green interrupted.
"This team competition has nothing to do with you. The East School and the North School are fighting for the Fate NPC. Push Fate over to us. Once Jane gets that NPC, she won't care who gets involved in the West School. Until the end of the game, you can sit in the rest pavilion and chat and do homework. No one will force you to participate in the attack project..." Grid Green finished his request in one breath. "Jane used a special attack command that is more dangerous... Once the attack is launched, it will definitely cause injuries... Push that NPC over to me... I don't want to see you being trapped in the attack range of Jane... Fisher, listen." As soon as he finished his request, his younger brother's expression became very ugly, and Grid Green had to hesitate to add another explanation.
Fisher Green frowned at his second brother's words, thinking of the ambiguous tooth marks he had just accidentally discovered on Senior Fate's neck.
The strange description of the brother and the suspicious and dangerous marks on the NPC senior... these two things made Fisher Green temporarily suppress the idea of actively provoking, and asked uncertainly: "You said Jane Ning wanted to get the NPC senior? Got it?"
"..." Grid Green looked to the left, looking at his eldest brother. The eldest brother, Grody Green coughed and said to Fisher: "It means standing in line."
Fisher Green frowned and said, "What kind of team would use such a term? What kind of debuff did Senior Fate have?"
"..."Grodie Green looked to the right, at his second brother. Grid Green gritted his teeth and replied to his brother: "...We don't know about this. Jane rarely shares his core plans with us...We don't ask about what belongs to him - what he wants - his goals -" Grid Green kept changing the wording to explain, and for a moment his momentum froze, and his tone became dry and stuttering.
Finally, Grid Green raised his hands. "Well, I can't explain any more. It was my elder brother who told me to say this. My elder brother has a closer relationship with Jane Ning. Ask my elder brother!"
Fisher glanced sensitively at Grody Green.
"First of all, my relationship with Jane Ning is not close enough to share the same goal... No, what I mean is..." Grody Green, who had been glaring at his second brother fiercely, also began to stumble.
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"The atmosphere is getting weird." Valentine, who was holding the seniors from behind, whispered to Steven, "The original plan was for us to surrender to the East School? Why do I feel that Senior Green from the East School is going to surrender just because Fisher is standing there... Is the shiny thing on their foreheads sweat?" Valentine suddenly exclaimed excitedly, "If those two Green seniors don't retreat...! We can get 50-100 credits as trophies! An excellent course only gives 5 credits!"
Steven said with a strange expression: "Shut up."
"Ah." Valentine cried out again, "Steven, Senior Fate's skin is hot...Senior? Senior?" Valentine gently pushed the silver-haired NPC's arm.
The silver-haired NPC quietly lowered his head, closed his eyes, and did not move. At some point, sweat began to seep out from the silver-haired NPC's forehead, leaving sparkling traces of water on his pale face.
Steven bit his lip and pushed the senior's hand. The senior didn't respond. He immediately whispered to Fisher, "Senior Fit's body temperature is abnormal. It's especially hot, and he can't hear us talking. Did East School Jane use some... some dirty attack program on the senior? Hurry up and scold them, or go up and slap them," Steven said anxiously in a whisper, "and then we surrender!"
A wave of shame burned Fisher's ears. He had previously told his friends that his brother was an upright man who did not associate with conspiracies and was a trustworthy senior... Fisher took a light breath, unbuttoned his cuffs and rolled up his sleeves, and was about to walk towards his brothers.
——"North School freshman Evans Eamon is seriously injured and out."——The announcement from the school affairs AI suddenly rang out in the dark night.
The Green twins' expressions changed: Janeen regained the competitive advantage! ?
This is too fast! Once Jian Ning finishes dealing with the second North School student, he will rush here immediately!
Jane Ning, who lost the home advantage once, will definitely directly select the freshmen of the West School to join the team. As long as they join Jane Ning's team... whether they get injured, seriously injured, or score points, it all depends on Jane Ning's decision!
Grody Green's speech became fluent and powerful in an instant, "Fisher, I don't want to attack you, push that NPC over to me immediately!"
At the same moment, a second school affairs AI announcement came from the sky: - "Frankimir Janning, a fourth-year student at East School, is seriously injured and out of the game" -
All of a sudden, all the students on the west bank of Lotus Lake subconsciously looked up at the holographic night sky. The dark, starless night sky was cold and hollow, presenting a sense of solidified fluidity. As if the school affairs AI broadcast was wrong, the expressions of the students from the west and east campuses who looked up were colorful.
Valentine murmured, "Jane was eliminated? He has so many special achievements... and he's still eliminated?"
Grody Grimm subconsciously listened, and several seconds passed, but there was still no third notification from the dark night sky announcing who was seriously injured and offline. "Unbelievable..." The Grimm brothers murmured at the same time.
Grid Green sighed softly: "Jane Ning was eliminated by the freshman. In this case..."
Grid Green reacted immediately, took a few steps forward, and shouted directly at Fisher: "Grid Green, a fourth-year student from the East Campus, surrenders to Fisher Green, a student from the West Campus!!" - At the same second, the cold announcement of the school affairs AI came down from the dark sky again:
——"Grede Green, a fourth-year student from the East Campus, surrendered to Fisher Green, a student from the West Campus. It was detected that a member of the East Campus team had been offline. The referee ruled that the East Campus team surrendered for the second time in a row. The result of the first round of the inter-campus competition: the East Campus was eliminated, and the West Campus entered the second round of the competition, and will face the North Campus in the next round."——
"Fisher!" Grid Green shouted, "Hurry up and tell your classmates to cancel the attack order on the North School students. Surrender to them immediately! The North School student who seriously injured Jane Ning was a Chimera Rider..."
"Boom boom" Suddenly, a strange and ominous sound of wind came again in the dark night sky.
Grid Green subconsciously turned his head to look at the sky. When he raised his head, others also subconsciously looked up at the sky.
A rapidly moving black dot suddenly appeared in the frozen black night sky. Every time the students on the ground blinked, the moving black dot was like a draw, rapidly closing a large distance. In just three blinks, the Grimm brothers saw the familiar pure black chimera rushing towards them.
But this time, the Grimm brothers did not see the blond rider on the back of the fluttering pure black chimera.
A pitch-black monster descended from the sky and swooped down towards the benches where the West School students were gathered.
“Ahhhhhh!!!!” After only blinking three times, the three young students from the West School were instantly awakened from their semi-dazed state by the sharp shouts of a three-meter-long giant beast flying towards them.
"Activate special development for Anushka Kash, a freshman from the North Campus—" Grid Green on the other side of the long corridor hadn't finished screaming yet.
The pure black chimera beast that threw the frisbee above the bench swung its tail, and the thick, long and powerful tail wrapped around the shoulders of the silver-haired NPC. As the tail lifted, the black wings shook and directly rose up. The giant beast kidnapped the silver-haired NPC on the spot and flew to another direction of the middle boundary area.
Students on the west bank of Lotus Lake: “?”
"What?" Valentine said blankly after a moment, "Next we are going to fight the North School students riding that monster...?"
"There's no way I can catch up..." Fisher Greene looked up at the dark night sky, and in the blink of an eye, he could no longer see the black beast.
"No! I'm still in a dilemma..." Steven Michaux came to his senses and turned to look at the Lotus Lake, shouting in shock: "Wait! That fox is going to fly away!!"
The fox-snake beast, which had been lying still for a long time, floated flat on the lake, as stiff as a raft. With the rippling water waves in the night wind, it was slowly drifting into the deep lotus leaf forest of the Lotus Lake. The purple-haired North School student was half-lying on the back of the chimera beast, face down, motionless like a corpse.
"Hey." Grid Green, who was standing on the other side of the trail, made a noise to attract his brother's attention. "I can go into the water and help you pull the fox back." Under the gazes of his brother and the other two West School students, Grid Green straightened his tie and said with a smile: "It's just compensation for scaring you just now, free work--Ah!"
Grody Greene punched his second brother in the back with an expressionless face, "East School lost the battle. If we don't log off now, Jane will come to trouble Greene when she recovers. There is no time to waste. You should log off immediately and explain to Jane." Grody Greene operated a key on his intelligent brain ring and forced his second brother, who was full of anger and scorn, to log off. He took off his school uniform jacket, rolled up his sleeves, and approached his younger brother Fisher. "What is your next plan? Go down to the lake and drag back the rider of the Chimera. What's next?"
"That's why I never thought of introducing Jane to you." Valentine, who was still in shock on the bench at the back, whispered to Steven, "People in the East Side are all like this. When they are getting along well or arguing, they will inexplicably use their dictatorial attitude to pierce you."
"I know." Steven said calmly under Valentine's slightly surprised gaze, "I have four brothers in the East District who have experienced this kind of disgust."
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A strong wind whistled past Shi Cunjin's ears. It seemed as if in the blink of an eye, he was carried by the Chimera beast across half of the Central Boundary Garden and finally landed on the lawn in the Central Boundary closest to the North Campus.
Five minutes and thirty seconds.
Anushka Kashi returns to Shi Cunjin.
but.
"Kash?" Shi Cunjin called uncertainly. He lay on his back on the soft grass, covered by a shadow.
The pitch-black beast that should have had a knight crouched on top of his body, spreading its nearly three-meter-long black wings on its back and folding them on both sides of its body. Then, the Chimaera beast slowly pressed down, gently pressing Shi Cunjin with its rough and warm belly, covering him, hiding him, and hugging him.
The pure black Chimera slowly lowered its head, and Shi Cunjin saw that the pair of beast eyes that were supposed to be a pair of scarlet pupils turned into one red and one gold.
Shi Cunjin had a bad feeling in his heart.
Why did the pure black Chimera's pupils change color when she returned alone? What about Kashi, the chimera rider?
The pure black chimera kept its head down until its wet nose touched Shi Cunjin's chin. It rubbed Shi Cunjin's face carefully with its nose, and suddenly opened its mouth. Something fell out of its mouth and hit Shi Cunjin's chest lightly.
Shi Cunjin smelled a faint smell of fresh rusty blood.
He glanced downward and froze for a few seconds.
On his chest, there were two bloody severed fingers and a badge of the president of the East Campus Student Union. The severed fingers were the index finger and the thumb, and the president's badge was incomplete.
Shi Cunjin's expression remained unchanged, and his lips were slightly pursed.
"Hehe-Gugu-"
Shi Cunjin's pupils dilated slightly, and he instinctively stretched out his hand defensively, bent his elbow, and blocked the attack between his own body and the Chimaera's belly.
The pure black Chimera that was crouching above his body felt its throat and abdomen vibrate, and suddenly it let out a strange laugh that sounded like a variation of a human giggle, not human or beast.
"Hehe-Gugu-"
The mutated golden-red eyes of the pure black chimera were needle-shaped, like the eyes of an excited animal. It stared at Shi Cun Jin intently, opened its fang-filled beak, and stretched out its forked tongue like a snake's, but thicker than a normal snake's.
The fat, scarlet snake tongue was curled around something and slowly swam to ten centimeters in front of Shi Cunjin's eyes, as if displaying, showing off, and showing goodwill - the pure black chimera stretched out its tongue and revealed the small gift hidden in the tip of its tongue to Shi Cunjin.
A bloody ring engraved with the Janening family crest.
"Heh--ha..." The chimera beast with heterochromia hummed in its throat and abdomen, almost like a human laughing.