Chapter 77 We Have a Child
The registrar was in great pain, extremely miserable. If he had known earlier, he should have listened to the head teacher and memorized all the information instead of sitting here being insulted by Lin Xi behind him.
All eleven members of Linxi's group walked in, and it was almost eight o'clock. After the registration staff checked in a few more people, they heard the school bell ring.
Lin Xi didn’t know whether the anchors who went in had found their jobs or classrooms, but she was trying her best to help them.
After hearing the voice, the registrar put away the registration book in front of him and said, "Okay, this is the end of the registration for Binjiang City Central Primary School. Those who have not registered successfully, please come and register when school starts next year."
The people in the queue at the back were wailing: "How could this happen?! If I fail to register the child, my family will kill me!"
"Damn it! The elementary school won't accept me, where can I go?! The thick fog will swallow me up!"
"Ahhh, I applied for a job at an elementary school. You can't reject me like that!"
Suddenly, outside the school, there was a chorus of ghostly howling—real ghostly cries. Mixed in with the ghostly cries were the voices of the living. Lin Xi knew they were the anchors just by hearing their words: "You won't process it?! What should I do then?! The rules say it needs to be processed as soon as possible, and we only have fourteen days. Will I die if I can't get it done?"
Someone spotted Lin Xi, and three people came towards her. One of them staggered in front of her and reached out to grab her. Lin Xi dodged and frowned, saying, "Let's talk it over. Don't touch me."
Lin Xi is not a person who likes to contact with others. When Wang Xue tried to touch her for the first time, she took a defensive posture. God knows how she endured and did not push Wang Xue's hand away when Wang Xue grabbed her clothes just now.
After spending so much time in the world of rule-based ghost stories, Lin Xi even felt that ghosts were sometimes more polite than humans. At the very least, they wouldn't grab or touch anyone without reason. Because, as ghosts, they couldn't tell if the other party's rules involved touching. Even a glance could trigger that rule, so they would never get close to others, let alone touch them.
But humans are not like this. Perhaps it is because they know that they are harmless to each other that they can perform such actions.
After hearing Lin Xi's words, the man was stunned for a moment, and then he got a little angry. As a person with strong empathy, Lin Xi also knew the general reason for his anger. It was nothing more than: I am in this situation now, and I am about to be eliminated because of the rules, why are you still standing there watching the fun and making sarcastic remarks? !
But in reality, Lin Xi had no responsibility to protect them. Helping them was a favor, but not helping was also the norm. In this situation where everyone was in danger, it was good enough for him to protect himself. Why should he protect everyone else? Lin Xi had no intention of being a savior.
What's more, she had already sent in the small group of people who had come to her before and wanted to join forces with her, and also provided them with crucial information. She had done her best.
Lin Xi looked at the man in front of her with a cold look. He didn't notice Lin Xi's look, but the people next to him did, so she hurried out to smooth things over: "Lin Xi, he was just too impatient. I'm really sorry! I apologize to you on his behalf. Can you save us? We don't know what to do now!"
Although this person had a good attitude, Lin Xi keenly discovered the loopholes in their actions: "You are late not because of me, but because of you. I believe that there must be many anchors in front of me and Aaron Jones' team, and many have already entered. But you deliberately lined up at the back and wanted to wait for the people in front to cross the river by feeling the stones, so you must be prepared to be eliminated."
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Lin Xi wasn't being ridiculous; her words made sense. She and Alan Jones were two hosts who had already cleared the level. Most people would probably know them, so it was natural for them to seek their help. Her group was smaller, only eleven, while Alan Jones's group was much larger, over thirty. This comprised nearly half the dungeon's total. The remaining half likely didn't want to team up and were fighting on their own.
They didn't need to get to know the other team members like Lin Xi and Aaron Jones, nor did they need to rush from somewhere else for nearly an hour like Lin Xi did. They should have had plenty of time. Many streamers were probably already in the team, quite high up in the queue. Some made it through, while others were killed.
Of course, there are also "smart people" like the three people in front of me, who just cower at the bottom and want others to rush to the front. They are in the very back of the line, and they didn't realize that they didn't have enough time until the registration staff closed the registration book. They probably realized that they didn't have enough time. They could have chosen to challenge the rules and rush to the front to cut in line, but they didn't dare to.
Now he dares to come to Lin Xi and ask her for help.
Dream their big dreams.
Lin Xi couldn't help such "smart people": "Sorry, I can't help you." Lin Xi left after saying this. She returned to the bus platform and waited for the bus to arrive. Not long after she left, the few people who were still wailing were killed by the primary school security guards because they were "unrelated people wandering around the primary school gate for too long."
In Lin Xi's live broadcast room, the comments were divided into two camps, engaging in a verbal battle:
[No, Lin Xi clearly has a way to save them, right?]
How to save her? I didn't come before, but only came to Sister Lin when there was really no other way. Sister Lin would save her with her own head?
[We can let Ningning eat these security guards, maybe it can save their lives.]
[Don't be too naive in the previous part. Save their lives? Even if Ning Ning is exposed here and really saves them, what about the next fourteen days? They have been announced out by the rules. Can Lin Xi still protect them for fourteen days? ]
Cai Hua contacted her colleagues in the Intelligence Bureau and asked them to monitor the situation in Lin Xi's live broadcast room. She also asked about He Sitong's situation. She was mainly curious about He Sitong's current status. The answer she got was: He Sitong was still in the bye state and would probably be in the next round.
The Rules of the Weird Live App are not just arbitrary, they always come up with something special that makes them overwhelmed. Just when they thought they had figured out the rules of the live broadcast room, they were severely slapped in the face. Cai Hua sighed, fortunately it was He Sitong who was left out instead of Lin Xi, otherwise Lin Xi would be so anxious that her entire mental state would collapse.
In the live broadcast room, Lin Xi sat on the bus platform and waited for a long time before he saw the No. 14 bus coming from afar. Lin Xi did not hesitate and stood in a relatively forward position and waited.
After a while, the No. 14 bus slowly stopped in front of her. When the door opened, she saw the familiar driver with a speechless look on his face.
Lin Xi stepped onto the bus, and before she even sat down, she heard the bus driver ask, "Why are you here again?" The driver felt as frustrated as if he had not checked the almanac before going out today. How could a driver be so unlucky?
Lin Xi laughed when she heard this. She had just thought that she would have to wait until the evening to pick up her "child" from school to see the driver and tell him that she had to change her daily school schedule. She didn't expect to meet him now. She didn't answer the driver, but asked: "What is your bus schedule?"
Are there so few employees in the company? I don’t see many people here except you.”
"...There aren't many employees who can match up with the bus." The driver stepped on the accelerator and started. Lin Xi said "Oh", thinking about it, it made sense.
It is not easy to gain recognition from your “home”, and although the bus has a small space, it looks more impressive. After all, the bus can run everywhere, so it must not be easy to gain recognition from the bus.
Lin Xi told the bus driver the time she would pick up her child. The bus driver's eyes widened: "You, pick up the child?"
"Yes." Lin Xi was silent for a moment. She didn't know how to explain why a child suddenly showed up when she just went out to check in. Shen Sangning saw that Lin Xi was chatting with the driver, so she suddenly appeared and sat next to Lin Xi.
Lin Xi was not too surprised to see Shen Sang Ning, she just stretched out her hand and held Shen Sang Ning's hand: "We have a child, we just had it today."
Facing Lin Xi's words, the driver looked at Shen Sangning in the rearview mirror and didn't know how to respond. He could only smile and say, "Congratulations to you guys."
They stopped chatting after that, and the passengers on the bus became snacks. After arriving at the community, Lin Xi took Shen Sang Ning off the bus. She saw the convenience store at the entrance of the community, hesitated for a moment, and turned inside. The saleswoman inside the convenience store, as always, greeted someone enthusiastically, "Welcome..." When she saw Lin Xi and Shen Sang Ning, her temper fell silent.
She stood trembling behind the receiving counter, watching Lin Xi and Shen Sangning enter the container and start looking for food.
Lin Xi was carrying a small basket at the door. She was mainly looking for some junk food. Home was nice. The refrigerator was filled with fresh ingredients every day. Although I didn't know where they came from, I didn't even have to go out to buy groceries every day. Of course, this also meant that Shen Sang Ning missed out on a snack.
Even though there were fresh fruits, vegetables, and meat, and even a thoughtfully prepared bottle of happy water, Lin Xi's family wouldn't provide him with junk food. For example, spicy noodles, braised chicken feet, or soft candy. Perhaps the family's motto was "junk food doesn't bring happiness."
Lin Xi had seen junk food when she came to the convenience store before, and she really wanted to eat it. Today, she happened to be free, so Lin Xi brought Shen Sang Ning here.
"Do you want to eat Maltesers?"
Facing Lin Xi's question, Shen Sangning tilted her head: "Eat."
"Where are the spicy noodles?"
"eat."
"Take some braised chicken feet too."
"good."
Lin Xi chuckled a few times. If Shen Sangning were still alive, she probably wouldn't agree so readily. Of course, she also liked to eat these, but Shen Sangning was afraid of getting fat.
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