Chapter 37: Club Recruitment (XIV)
Lu Zhongnian instantly held his hand back, his eyes turning dark.
It didn't actually take Mu Yu too much time to figure this out.
At that time, he noticed that Lu Chongnian greeted Ye Sui and Fu Xiaoju. The latter two had inquiring or confused expressions, but Lu Chongnian was not surprised.
So Mu Yu understood instantly.
He also thought of the time when the last instance happened, when Lu Chongnian sent him a WeChat message asking if he was at the freshman welcome party.
The reason Lu Zhongnian asked this was obviously because he had not discussed it with "him" beforehand.
Why didn't they agree on it? Because Lu Chongnian couldn't contact him before - Lu Chongnian came directly to the University of Science and Technology after losing contact with him!
The world they were in was all missing each other, but they had no idea before.
Why the two of them?
have no idea.
But what is certain is that it is definitely related to what happened on the morning of August 21st, and this will probably be the most difficult problem they will ever face.
Mu Yu lowered his eyes and said to Lu Zhongnian slowly: "Anyway, if you care about me a little bit..."
His face was gently lifted up, and the pleasant voice close at hand was low and gentle: "Do you really think it's just 'a little'?"
Mu Yu paused.
His ears suddenly felt hot.
What I said...
...More than, than "a little bit", he didn't dare to think about it and was embarrassed to say it!
Mu Yu found that his thick skin was of no use at all when it came to love.
His cheeks were burning and he was at a loss for words for a moment. Then he heard Lu Zhongnian smile softly and helplessly.
The boy approached him and said in a voice close to a whisper: "I was originally going to say that I'm really not as world-weary as you think, but since the class monitor has said so, then——"
"Okay, I'll remember to think of you."
"!" Mu Yu jumped up and his whole body suddenly started to burn.
He raised his eyes to look at Lu Zhongnian, and saw a magnified picture of Lu Zhongnian's beautiful face, which was still smiling at him quietly.
Ah, the world is glowing!
With a bang, the door of classroom 204 in front of him suddenly opened. Fu Xiaoju strode out and glanced over here subconsciously. Then his whole body froze for a second -
"You-you-you-what are you doing!" he asked in horror and shock.
Mu Yu instantly jumped away, his face turned even redder, his eyes rolled around, and he coughed guiltily, "What are you doing? Don't look at me, kid!"
Lu Zhongnian paused, the curve of his lips deepened, and he slowly withdrew his hand.
Fu Xiaoju: “?!”
Fu Xiaoju: "Mu Yu, I treat you as my mother but I don't really want you to be my mother!"
Mu Yu: "? Who wants to be your mother?"
Fu Xiaoju: "You're going to be my mother, so why did Brother Lu touch your face? Wait, by the way, what did you mean when you said Brother Lu was your 'new husband'?!"
Mu Yu:? Why are you bringing up that?
He sweated a little and turned around, pretending he heard nothing: "Let's go, let's go." He took a walk.
"Brother Lu!" Fu Xiaoju's desperate shout came from behind him.
Compared to when he entered the copy, Fu Xiaoju's three perspectives of the world collapsed at this moment.
What responded to him was Lu Chongnian's calm and nonchalant words.
“The first step to reading comprehension is to understand the literal meaning.”
"ah?!!"
Mu Yu almost sprained his leg.
*
8:30
Mu Yu, Niao Ge and Yu Hui are doing their final makeup in the classroom.
The makeup supplies in classroom 201 were very simple, but sufficient. After all, they were not really going to participate in any cosplay competition.
Mu Yu felt that no matter what kind of club assessment they were about to face, as long as the three of them looked like they were cosplaying Calabash Brothers, it should be enough.
Once they have finished putting on their makeup and are ready to go upstairs, Niao Ge and Yu Hui will put on their clothes and accessories.
In classroom 204, Li Ke regained some energy and began to check their classroom again.
Fu Xiaoju ran around in circles in the lobby on the first floor, trying to dispel the scene that had just shocked him while trying to find clues.
In classroom 205, Lu Chongnian and Jiang Shuyue were discussing what the passing criteria for their group would be, and what kind of poetry they should replace with to be safer.
The stairs leading from the second floor to the third floor were quiet.
I don’t know how Ye Sui, Hao Jia and Qi Shan, who went upstairs for the test, are going.
…
Mu Yu looked at the time.
8:38
Eleven minutes had passed since Ye Sui and his group went upstairs, which was longer than the time it took Fu Xiaoju and his group.
He waited for another two minutes, and he had a bad feeling in his heart. He said to Bird Brother and Yu Hui, "I want to go upstairs and take a look."
"Why don't we go together? Maybe they will come out after we go up, and then we can catch up with them." Brother Bird said.
"Yes, I, I'm almost ready!" Yu Hui took a deep breath and exhaled.
Since they both said so, Mu Yu had no objection. Niao Ge and Yu Hui immediately changed their costumes. Yu Hui cosplayed as Grandpa and Niao Ge cosplayed as Big Baby.
At this time, Mu Yu thought of something and said to them, "Oh, by the way, please help me put on a few more pieces of jewelry."
Niao Ge and Yu Hui were puzzled.
"I'll explain it to you later. Also, if I lose consciousness later, you two will clamp me. If I don't regain consciousness after three minutes, you can take off my clothes or jewelry according to your judgment. In any case, you must force me to wake up before entering the club office!"
"……good!"
After the three of them finished, they ran out and told the others. Lu Chongnian grabbed Mu Yu's hand and said, "Be careful," and Mu Yu nodded seriously.
They went upstairs.
*
Ye Sui dragged a bloody leg into a room and quickly closed the door.
The next second, something heavy hit the door with a bang, which almost made him fall to the side.
The strong smell of blood mixed with the unique animal stench makes people want to vomit.
Ye Sui held his breath and pressed his body against the door. He waited vigilantly for a while, making sure that the thing did not hit the door again. Then he raised his hand to adjust his glasses and scanned the room carefully.
This is a storage room with dim light, and there are all kinds of messy things piled around. The air and the ground are full of dust.
It was dirty, but fortunately there were no signs of animal presence.
He breathed a sigh of relief, leaned his head back and leaned against the door, then turned his head and looked silently toward the window beside him.
Outside the window I could hear the footsteps of wandering animals, tap-tat-tat, tap-tat-tat.
There is also a sniffing sound.
Ye Sui opened his mouth slightly and adjusted his disordered breathing, his fangs faintly visible in his mouth.
The next second, with a clang, something hit the window sill.
A shadow covered the glass window, growing larger and clearer.
Until a face came up.
A face of a canine creature, with a dog-like mouth protruding forward, ears erected high like a dog, and sniffing like a dog, tongue lolling out, observing the room with cold eyes.
It also has smooth human skin, human eyebrows, human hair, and wears human clothes.
This creature that looked neither human nor dog was peeking into the room from the window grimly. Ye Sui stood silently in the shadow of the corner where it could not see, without moving a single movement.
One second, two seconds, three seconds passed...
Ye Sui stared quietly, waiting with his whole body tense. He saw the creature retreat a bit, as if it had not found its prey and was finally about to give up and leave.
His heart fell to the ground silently, and he slowly relaxed his body.
The next second——
With a bang, the creature slammed back against the glass window, even tighter than before!
Its eyes rolled and its gaze met Ye Sui's!
Ye Sui froze.
The creature twitched its ears and opened its mouth, as if laughing, mocking his naivety.
There was no longer any trace of the human Qi Shan in those eyes.
*
Mu Yu's vision was shaking.
The snow-white ceiling and walls tilted downward at an angle, and he was moving upwards, swaying from side to side - moving passively.
"H-Hoo...Is he awake?"
"Not yet, Senior..."
On the stairs, Niao Ge and Yu Hui were holding Mu Yu in the middle and climbing up.
——What he feared was exactly what happened. Just as they turned the corner of the stairs, Mu Yu suddenly fell backwards.
Niao Ge and Yu Hui knew that his soul had been replaced, and they hurriedly caught him, and finally managed to prevent him from rolling down the stairs and breaking his head.
But carrying a person up the stairs is much more troublesome than moving them on flat ground, and more tiring than they imagined!
Bird brother doesn't usually exercise, and at this moment he was exhausted and panting: "Three, three minutes are up?"
"W-How can it be so fast, Senior!"
Brother Bird gritted his teeth, held Mu Yu's arm, and continued to lead him up the stairs.
Suddenly he heard Yu Hui taking a deep breath. He looked forward sensitively and was so scared that he almost fell backwards with Mu Yu.
——An arm lay at the entrance of the stairs on the third floor, motionless.
It's so scary.
Fortunately, they soon remembered Fu Xiaoju's advice: the ghost teacher would appear on the third floor, and as long as they said hello and bowed, they could pass safely.
Their hearts were pounding, and they prepared themselves mentally before continuing to climb.
But this time he climbed more carefully and didn't dare to speak.
They didn't dare to look in the direction of the hand, and only whispered: "...Hello, teacher..."
Then he bowed hastily.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but it seemed that a sinister gaze was falling on them.
Brother Bird couldn't help but glance over there.
This sight made the blood in his body flow backwards instantly.
A headless body lay there, on its back.
That bloody back was like a piece of soil, nourishing the only huge human head growing vertically above it.
The head turned around, stared at them and asked, "Are you all ready to clear the level?"
The next second, the body suddenly bounced up and pounced towards them!
——
When Mu Yu's consciousness returned to his body, he had already fallen out of the stairs and was falling down.
His expression changed, and he immediately reached out and grabbed the stair railing!
The next second, his snake tail was grabbed, and the added weight made him fall down again!
He gritted his teeth, decisively stretched out his left hand, and tried to hook the handrail with both hands. He lowered his head and looked down, shouting, "Brother Bird, hold on tight!"
Below him, Bird Brother, who was pushed down by Jin Sheng, was holding his legs and hanging, shivering, "Ayu, is this okay?"
"It has to be done no matter how hard it is. Just wait for a while!" Mu Yu began to exert force, trying to climb up.
Yu Hui's screams were heard from the top of the stairs, and she and Jin Sheng were wrestling with each other.
Jin Sheng yelled, "Even if I die, you can't leave! You all have to stay here with me!"
Yu Hui pulled the wig on her head and threw it at Jin Sheng, slapping him several times: "Go away! Go away!"
Mu Yu pulled himself up with all his strength while trying to hook his legs so that Bird Brother could touch the stairs first.
The next second, his eyes became unfocused and his hands showed signs of loosening.
When Bird Brother saw him like this, he felt a chill in his heart.
——It’s over, both of them are finished now.
However, immediately afterwards, Mu Yu decisively loosened his left hand, took off the earring from his left ear and threw it away!
His eyes immediately regained clarity.
Bird brother was stunned: "Ayu, you?!"
Mu Yu gritted his teeth and said, "Brother Bird, don't worry, I won't let us die here!"
At the moment of soul transformation, he used his own perspective to determine the prop that was transforming with him, and decisively removed the prop with the last bit of consciousness remaining in his brain!
His soul successfully returned to his body - of course, part of his soul was missing.
But Mu Yu had estimated based on his own condition that as long as the damage to his soul did not reach more than half, this damage would most likely not affect his thinking and actions!
This is also the reason why he asked Yu Hui and Niao Ge to add a few more pieces of jewelry for him before leaving - he wanted to try to make his soul more fragmented and fragment the risks.
As long as not all the props come up to exchange souls with him at once, he won't run into irreversible consequences if he throws away a few more props!
And everything that happened after that was purely a test of Mu Yu's concentration.
He climbed up, his elbows on the banister.
His consciousness became blurred again, and this time he decisively took off the earring on his right ear!
He gathered all his strength and climbed onto the handrail with both hands, and his feet were able to step onto the stairs through the snake tail fabric.
He blinked, roughly took off the necklace from his neck and threw it away!
As soon as Bird Brother's hand was able to touch the stairs, he quickly climbed up. He wanted to reduce Mu Yu's burden as much as possible.
He watched in fear as the jewelry was thrown down from his head one by one. Mu Yu's movements became more and more violent. The jewelry was torn off, and some of them were stained with blood. Bird brother panicked and shouted, "Don't take it off, Ayu, don't take it off!"
The next second, Mu Yu groaned and took him up the stairs.
The moment his body touched the ground, Mu Yu felt as if he was floating upwards.
He seemed to have completely separated from his body and was floating up into the air. All the sounds around him seemed vague and distant as if separated by a layer of fog.
"Ayu!" Brother Bird pounced on him and slapped his face anxiously.
Mu Yu's eyes were out of focus. After being shaken twice, he suddenly bit the tip of his tongue. The pain and the smell of blood brought him back to life instantly.
At the staircase on the third floor, Yu Hui was pushed heavily to the ground by Jin Sheng!
Just as the back of her head was about to hit the corner of the wall, a hand reached out and placed behind her head to block the impact.
Then the hand was pulled away, and Brother Niao and Yu Hui saw Mu Yu tear off a piece of cloth from the semi-closed snake tail that they had sewed with great difficulty. A leg stretched out from it and kicked Jin Sheng hard, knocking him to the ground!
Jin Sheng fell face up, his head squeezed between his back and the ground, making loud noises. He was like a tortoise carrying a heavy shell, unable to turn over.
So Mu Yu kicked him again and turned him over.
He stepped on Jin Sheng's back, and the latter could no longer move.
When the head came to its senses, its "neck" had been wrapped by a circle of cloth.
It was stunned for a moment, then looked up. Mu Yu was pulling the two ends of the cloth rope, looking down at him expressionlessly.
"We should have cut you off from the beginning, right?"
The head was horrified: "I'm still alive! Even if the copy judges that I'm dead, I'm still Jin Sheng. I have his memories. You are killing people!"
"I'm tired of hearing that. And who was that person who just killed so many people happily?"
"Also, let me make it clear that what I do is called 'crushing someone else's tumor'. If someone crushes someone else's tumor, that's called murder. Don't be so ridiculous."
Before the head could say a word, the cloth rope wrapped around its "neck" suddenly tightened!
It could no longer make any sound, and could only stare with its eyes wide open and its mouth wide open. Its entire head was swollen and swollen with blood, and its limbs were struggling hard.
However, the rope never loosened at all. It was tightly tied and was getting tighter and tighter.
Until the head rolled its eyes, the flesh connecting it to the back was severed, and the entire head fell off the back, rolled twice, and came to rest on the ground beside it.
The headless corpse finally fell into eternal sleep.
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