Chapter 040 New Life
"Chen Xiao'er, do you need me to help you out?"
Zero stood outside the bathroom, knocking gently on the door with his knuckles.
"No, no need, I'm done, my legs are fine!"
Chen Xiao'er hurriedly hung up the phone and washed her face at the sink. When she opened the door, her sunny smile returned. "Shall we go?"
Ling raised his hand, and even the movement of raising his hand was standard and beautiful.
She wrapped her arm around Chen Xiao'er and leaned against her side in a comfortable position. "It's getting late today. Let's visit the campus together later. Let's go back to the dormitory first."
"Okay~"
The two walked all the way to the elevator and went down.
Xiao'er noticed the snacks in Ling's hand, and her thoughts wandered: the snacks in school are very ordinary, maybe the senior sister would know some special shops?
It’s not that these snacks taste bad, but they are more like staple food than snacks.
To use Blue Star snacks as an example, there are no beautifully packaged shrimp crackers, potato chips, or cookies in the bag, only small round cakes pressed from corn, wheat flour, and sugar.
The elevator door opened, and Chen Xiao'er leaned towards Ling. "Senior, what do you usually eat? Have you had dinner yet? If not, let's go eat together."
"have eaten."
Zero nodded calmly.
After a few seconds of silence, she fished out something that looked like a jelly bar from her pocket and handed it to me. "Want to try it? It's delicious."
"Thank you~"
Chen Xiao'er took the jelly bar and found that there was no flavor marked on the packaging, and there was not even a picture of fruit. She thought it was a specially customized delicious snack.
She tore it open and took a sip. A soft substance mixed with sugar water slid into her mouth, with a crunchy texture.
"Uh, it's fine. Senpai...what did you have for lunch today?"
"Just eat this," Ling explained calmly. "This is an energy bar specially developed by the school. One small bar can provide an adult with three hours of calories. It's rich in fiber and very good for your health."
Is it true that my senior sister’s life is so simple?
Chen Xiao'er threw the packaging into the trash can and licked the sweet sugar juice in her mouth.
The taste is very similar to the snacks sent by classmates, even the degree of "not bad" is exactly the same.
No one at school complained about the food. Maybe bland flavors are the norm in United City? But bland food can be made into something with many different flavors. At least add more eggs and milk.
Xiao Ai followed her senior out of the corridor, and suddenly her vision darkened.
"Who turned off the light again?" She flipped on the switch, and the light above her head flickered and came on again.
Zero wasn't surprised and continued walking calmly. "This place is too far from the ground, and many of the pipes and wires are aging and prone to problems."
"This place is too close to the abyss, making it very easy for anomalies to infiltrate, so we need to take real-time precautions."
“Why doesn’t the school build a new dormitory building?”
“It’s a matter of cost. The facilities in the dormitory are very complete.”
“The rules are changing so quickly that many building materials and methods can no longer be reproduced.”
“I see.”
Chen Xiao'er suddenly became excited. Could it be that the school spent all the money on interior decoration and household appliances?
However, if the circuit is aging, can I use the induction cooker in the dormitory?
When she thought of the induction cooker, she quickly associated it with a small hot pot, as well as meat rolls, fish balls, and fried dough sticks rolling in the hot soup.
Slurp~
Xiao'er swallowed her saliva. Hot pot does not require any cooking skills and can retain the original flavor of the food.
My senior usually eats sugary energy bars for every meal, so she definitely can’t resist the original taste of high-quality ingredients.
She cleared her mind and seemed to see Senior Sister Ling pick up a piece of beef with chopsticks and put it in her mouth, then let out a "Zi Ling~" sound and widened her eyes. Then, tears filled her eyes as the sky was filled with fireworks, and she shouted "It's delicious~".
"Chen Xiao'er?"
Zero dragged it twice without dragging it, then stopped and looked at her.
"Here I come~" Chen Xiao'er took two quick steps and was suddenly attracted by the crowd on the road.
The school looks like a Rubik's Cube building from the outside, but the internal corridors are crisscrossed, and you can see people in the front and back corridors at the same point.
She looked to her right and back, where the elevator from the main building should be. As the elevator door opened, countless students rushed down.
They all looked like freshmen, and each of their faces was filled with childish excitement.
Although the school provides most daily necessities, freshmen still come to report carrying large and small bags.
Their luggage included not only common shoulder bags, suitcases, and snakeskin bags, but some also carried cold weapons such as long swords and long sticks on their backs.
Everyone had a gun, and even a petite girl was loading her mini pistol while walking, while talking to her best friend with her head tilted.
Xiao'er and her senior were standing in the upper corridor and happened to hear them discussing the dormitory building.
"Great, there are new dorms this year!"
"Yeah, I thought I would have to share a building with the seniors..."
“…It’s getting less and less.”
Uh, you call this the new dormitory?
Chen Xiao'er glanced at the wall in embarrassment: it was washed very clean, only the fluorescent light tubes had not been replaced yet.
Does she still remember the special quality of this place when she first came here? The brown patina on it was all rubbed clean by her classmates with laundry detergent, right?
"Oh."
Suddenly, a sneer echoed from the side. A classmate who looked vaguely familiar shouted downstairs, "I didn't see you during the cleaning, and you're here so quickly now. Let me tell you, those who didn't participate in the general cleaning will be assigned dormitories last! Lazy fellow!"
"You didn't even attend the excavation ceremony, and now you're running away after digging something out. I despise you. Why should I save you, you cowards? Just wait for the church's charity! Ha!"
“…”
There was a sudden silence below, and someone who wanted to say something was stopped by his companion next to him.
Chen Xiao'er lowered her head: To be fair, she also felt that this group of newly arrived students was a bit exaggerated.
If you didn't report in advance, you might not know that there would be a big cleaning.
But as soon as we finished cleaning here, they rushed over to stay... You know, there were only about a hundred students who reported in advance, and here I saw dozens of people as soon as I got off the elevator, and there must be more behind.
No wonder the students who arrived early were so angry: "Can't you just come a few days early? It seems like you're just here to take advantage of what's already provided?" If I were assigned to a dorm with such a lazy person, I'd be in trouble later.
However, in a sense, the gap between me and this group of freshmen is not that big.
He said he had reported in early and participated in the general cleaning, but he was beaten into the infirmary by outsiders for turning on a light, and half of the table was not even wiped.
It can’t be said that he didn’t wipe it at all. At least he wiped half a meter of the floor with the clothes?
Chen Xiao'er lowered her eyes a little gloomily, and the senior student took her hand and walked forward two steps.
"Don't worry, we are all companions, and things will get better as we get along with each other."
"Um……"
There is no need to worry about this. The professors even let a good senior like Zero to guide me. I think there must be similar situations in other dormitories, right?
They quickly walked around the corridor, pushed open the hidden door from the other side, and entered the dormitory.
The interior decoration reminded Chen Xiao'er of Blue Star's office buildings in the 1980s and 1990s. Perhaps many Blue Star students still live there now.
She saw creepers creeping in along the window, revealing a few lush green leaves. The water pipes and the air conditioner were so close together that she could almost hear the rustling sound of dripping water on a summer night.
Xiao'ai noticed that the dormitories here were sparsely distributed, with a door every 10 meters, and half of the doors had no house numbers.
"Senior, aren't these rooms dormitories?" she asked, pointing to a door without a number plate.
Ling nodded. "Yes, this is the tool room corresponding to the dormitory, which is used to store students' important personal belongings. Those red doors are not behind dormitories, but public storage rooms. You need to apply for a key to use them."
Good - humanized design.
Chen Xiao'er nodded in conviction. After all, the students did bring a lot of personal belongings with them. If they were all piled up in the dormitory, it would easily cause disputes, right?
Just the debate of "Who stuck the knife next to the pillow?" is enough to make people noisy.
Xiao Ai continued to walk in, but was stopped by a senior student: "This is it."
"here?"
Chen Xiao'er raised her head and a huge red door appeared in front of her.
Isn't this a public storage room?
"Look to the left." The senior student smiled and held her neck, moving it to the side. Xiao Ai then saw a relatively smaller blue door next to the eye-catching red door.
This blue door is said to be relatively small, but it is only a circle smaller than the double-opening red door. It is much larger than other dormitories more than ten meters away. It feels like a garage door.
More importantly, there was no number on it, just a blank metal plate stuck in the middle of the door.
The senior student took out her ID card and swiped it, and the door opened with a beep.
Ling stood in front of the door and smiled slightly. "This is close to the corridor and the elevator, and it's 20 square meters larger than the other dormitories. It's a room specially requested for us by the Student Union. Please give us your guidance in the future."
"This place is close to the sealing room, making it convenient for takeoff at any time. The activity space is also 20 square meters larger than the other dormitories. It was specially requested by the planning team. Please provide us with guidance on future missions."
Chen Xiao'er's nose felt sore and she grinned a silly smile.
“…Okay, Senpai!”
"You can call my name."
"You can call my number."
"Okay~ Ling." Xiao Ai blinked as she pushed the door open: "You can just call me Xiao Ai too."
"Okay, Xiao'er."
There was a bright light behind the door, and Lin Lang could vaguely be seen tying his shoelaces with his back to the door.
The suitcase was placed in front of the bed, the trash can was clean, and the air was filled with the clean smell of greenery and sunshine.
The next four years will surely be filled with color.
It is so beautiful that even after graduation, working, and gray hair... you will still be very, very happy when you think about it.
"Lin Lang——" Xiao Ai ran a few steps, pounced on her, and spun in her friend's embrace.
…
As the night deepened, deep purple flames rose and fell in the moonlight, shrouding the vast plain in a layer of mysterious mist.
"Hmph, that [compatriot] is really cunning. But it doesn't matter. Our goals are different anyway."
Most of Xinaya's body was immersed in the light, drawing strands of energy from the abyss to repair her core. But even more energy gathered between a pair of humanoid palms, condensing into tiny dots of silver light.
Some abyss creatures are called "lords" by humans mainly because abyss creatures also have preferred hunting areas and patrol their "territory" regularly like lions and tigers.
At the same time, they are very powerful and may possess the terrifying talent of "domain rules".
Furthermore, Abyssal Creatures capable of manipulating multiple anomalies or even controlling a specific anomaly area are naturally Lords. Their high degree of anthropomorphism and their elaborate traps are enough to become a nightmare for elite anti-anomaly teams.
Xinnaya looked at the silver star in her hand and chuckled. "I reached an agreement with my own people and learned your future whereabouts. But this doesn't mean I will let you go today, tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow."
She stroked the remaining marks on her cheek, threw the starlight into the field, and watched it fly towards the human stronghold and sink into the deep well.
Chen Xiao'er, I will always remember the pain and humiliation you brought me.
"This is today's return gift, do you like it?"
The devil didn't care whether her tone was as affectionate as that of a lover. She only cared about one thing - with Chen Xiao'er's special abilities and cunning personality, this return gift would have no effect at all, right?
Maybe even her desire to perform cannot be aroused, and it will be over after just moving her feet.
That won't do. Luckily I was well prepared.
Click.
The fingers floating in the flames bent and snapped.
Several figures walked out from the depths of the fog.
Their joints were a little shaky at first, but quickly became flexible as they gained strength. Some walked like living people, while others used all four limbs to crawl like spiders.
The monsters made of stitched corpses were not afraid of radiation. They ignored the safe and long wellhead passage and jumped down with a plop.
"You're not afraid of pure anomalies, so what about this?"
The devil muttered to himself in the thick fog, "If I were hit by something that looks like a human, I would bleed and get scared..."
"Will you die? Chen.Xiao.Er."
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