Chapter 180: The Fifth Scene (Inverted V) Dog stuff, good stuff, Lao Dong...
"I don't want to be the first one to go!! If I have to go, you should go first, otherwise I'll be discovered too easily!!"
"Ban hasn't finished his breakfast yet, so he can't be the first to go!"
“I, I…”
"Xiao Shu, be good. Let's see who dares to let you go first!?"
"How about I go?"
"That's not right, Miss He. You're too strong. If we go first to register, we might be looked down upon and fail to pass, which would force us to part ways with you."
He Yuezhe: Hmm? Is there still a question of whether or not to apply?
"Yuan Yang, what do you mean? We are not that weak, right?" Tang Xiqin frowned.
"Actually, there is..." Ban Weile scratched his head and said in a low voice.
"Sister Tang is very powerful. Brother Ban, you are weak, so don't drag Sister Tang into this!" Chen Shuo glared at Ban Weile.
"Well, Miss Tang is indeed better than me." Ban Wei Le lowered his head in disappointment.
"'Some'?! Humph, if you're ever in danger again, don't ask me, someone only slightly more powerful than you, to save you!"
"Okay, stop arguing. It's almost time. Yuan will go ahead and register first. Remember to follow the plan: one of our people, then a few others."
Yuan Yang stood up from the bushes, calmly brushed off the leaves and dust on his clothes, coughed lightly, and walked out.
Perhaps because they arrived at the registration office too early, they waited in the hidden bushes for more than two quarters of an hour, but still no one came to register.
Seeing this situation, several people had no choice but to nominate a brave man who had signed up earlier, and the nomination process lasted about a quarter of an hour.
So by the time Yuan Yang arrived at the registration point, the people in charge of admissions had already slumped over in their chairs and were fast asleep.
"Hey, Brother Yuan, why are you standing there motionless?" Ban Weile lay in the bushes and stretched out his eyes.
"Aren't those people asleep? He probably didn't want to disturb them." Tang Xiqin curled her lips, "How stupid."
"Given Brother Yuan's personality, will he just stand there and wait until they wake up before signing up?" Chen Shu was a little worried.
"..." He Yuezhe thought about it and suddenly realized that there was a 99.999% chance that what Chen Shuo said would happen.
"It's very likely," Tang Xiqin laughed, "Then it seems we can only go to the sect next door that is often wiped out."
"The whole family is often wiped out?! Doesn't that mean...!! Forget it, let's just help Brother Yuan?" Ban Weile was horrified.
"Oh, that sounds scary." Chen Shu shivered.
"bite!"
"Ohhhh, look, those guys seem to be awake!!! Great, we don't have to wipe out the whole family!!!!!!"
"Really, that's great."
"He woke up just in time."
He Yuezhe shook his wrists, which were so sore and weak as soon as he moved. They had not been exercised for a long time, and red marks were left on his fingertips.
Fortunately, her accuracy was not much worse than before, and each stone found the person it was supposed to hit.
Seeing that Yuan Yang had started talking to those people and began to write, the four of them breathed a sigh of relief.
"Miss He, what happened to your hand? Are you okay? Do you want some medicine?" Chen Shu suddenly came over and looked at He Yuezhe with concern.
"It's okay." He Yuezhe shook his head.
Chen Shuo took her hand, and his fingers, which were not slender but rather thick, gently stroked the red marks on her fingertips.
"Miss He, it's so serious, how can it not be a problem? I'd better apply some medicine on you." Chen Shuo said seriously, "Sister Tang, do you have any ointment to reduce the swelling?"
It's just a small mark, there's no swelling and the skin isn't broken, so why would I need to apply medicine?
"Yes, here, take this jar. I have plenty more anyway, so you don't have to return it to me." Tang Xiqin threw over a small porcelain jar that exuded a faint herbal scent.
"Thank you, Sister Tang."
"..." He Yuezhe watched in silence as Chen Shu held her hand and applied medicine to her. She lowered her eyes, raised her other hand, and grabbed Chen Shu's wrist.
"Miss He!?"
"Um, can I call you Xiao Shu like them?"
"...We're friends, of course!"
"We are friends, so the care between friends must be sincere, right?"
He Yuezhe raised his eyes and looked at Chen Shu with a smile: "Xiao Shu, you really care about me, right?"
Unfortunately, there is only one answer to this question. Regardless of whether the statement is correct or not, she will only answer herself.
"Of course I mean it! He girls, I truly consider you my friends, so my concern is naturally genuine!"
"Um……"
All right then. Let her walk into this trap and see what lies at the very bottom.
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"Brother Yuan, you're finally back. How's it going? What information do I need to fill out for registration?"
"Name, age, where you live, what your family situation is like, the rest are optional, you can fill it out as you see fit."
"Oh oh oh, then who will go next?" Ban Weile asked.
"Didn't we say that we should wait for others to arrive before the rest of us can go?" Yuan Yang wiped the ink off his fingers and squatted down.
"Look around and see if there's anyone else here." Tang Xiqin glared at him, unable to bear it any longer. "I don't know what you've been doing writing there for so long..."
"So, when we entered Lotus City that day, didn't we see many people who also came to participate in the assessment? Why is there no one here today?" Yuan Yang wondered.
"Registration lasts until the evening, so maybe they came later?" Ban Weile guessed.
"Then let's go report together. It's so tiring to squat here!" Tang Xiqin stood up, walked around the bushes with stiff legs straight.
"ah."
"What? Let's go! Are you planning to stay here until night? Are you going to eat or not?!"
"Miss He and I will be with you, Sister Tang."
"Good. Is her hand okay?"
“I can write.”
"Um."
“…”
“…”
"Uh, that..."
"Brother Ban, hurry up and go. After we register we can go shopping around the city. There are still many shops we didn't visit yesterday."
"Exactly, Master Ban is so slow. Is he a coward?"
"O-Okay, here I come!!!"
"Hahahahahahahahahaha, Ban Weile, your handwriting is so ugly, even uglier than what I wrote with my hair!"
"Tang Xiqin, you, please stop talking. Not everyone can write as beautifully as you do!!"
"Hey, you're praising me? Fine, I won't—"
"'She once captured a black bear with a bowstring. After returning from the mountain, she was sought after by everyone and was known as the 'Lotus Mountain Black Bear Killer.' She even became the subject of the story 'Masters Among the People: The Brave Female Hero of Lotus Mountain Captures a Black Bear'—"
"Ban Wei Le!!! Who allowed you to read what I wrote!!!! Turn around and write your own stuff!!!!"
"Oh, I know, I know, stop scolding me!!"
"Hmph, be sensible. Xiaoshu, how's your writing going?"
"I, I added 'I am weak and ill, and cannot bear the heavy responsibility. Please do not entrust me with the heavy responsibility.' How about that, is that okay?"
“…”
“…”
"Well, Xiaoshu, why don't you just keep this sentence and remove the others?"
"Uh, Xiaoshu, this isn't quite right. But if that's how you want to write it, it's okay, right?"
"Ah, yes, yes, yes."
"It's okay. Actually, I've been hiding something from you. My mother still hopes that I can go back and inherit the family business. So if I don't pass the exam, I'll go back and open the store here so that I can be with you guys."
"What?!"
"What a fuss! This is Xiaoshu's own choice. She can do whatever she wants. Even if she's not with us, she can live a good life!"
"Oh, I get it. I was just trying to liven up the atmosphere!"
"Who asked you to liven up the atmosphere?!"
"Hey, hey, hey, everyone, please stop arguing. How come you're arguing while writing? It really hurts the harmony!"
"Hey, the new students who signed up this year are pretty smart, but their personalities are just too weird. They signed up just now, and they even started a huge fight. I wonder if the sect will be in chaos from now on."
"It's good to have a chaotic atmosphere. Otherwise, it would be so dull and lifeless. How boring would that be?"
"You're saying—"
"That doesn't make sense!! This is totally unreasonable!! How could you be so, so, so?! What do you think of this assessment?! You're making such a fuss every day, are you trying to piss me off to death?!!"
"I just asked if I could treat you to a meal, what's the big deal?! You old man, you have a weird temper!!!"
The old man with white beard, white eyebrows and white hair had trembling eyelids, his hands rested on his cane, and he exhaled a few times with his eyes crooked and his mouth tilted.
"No, there are no rules! That's totally unruly! Treating the examiner to a meal is a bribe! A bribe!!"
"How can it be considered a bribe? There are only five of us among the candidates, and we are all friends. If you have a meal with us, who will report you?" Tang Xiqin crossed her arms, turned her head away and patted the old man's back.
“Ahem, ahem, ahem, that won’t do either!!” The old man was so angry that veins popped out on his hand holding the cane.
"Grandpa, please don't be angry. We won't treat you to a meal, okay? But yesterday, the bone-testing device broke down, and we weren't released until this morning. We haven't eaten anything, and we're all starving. I'm afraid we need to replenish our energy before participating in the next assessment..."
Ban Weile supported the old man and helped him sit on the stone pier at the entrance of the Lotus Sect.
"You, you still dare to ask that! If your qualifications weren't so poor, and we could only use the most basic equipment to test you, how could that immortal talisman that had been inside for hundreds of years suddenly explode?!!"
Ah, yes, He Yuezhe had not expected that the qualifications of these five people would be so poor that they were said to be worse than the sweeping disciples in the Lotus Sect.
So one after another, older and older instruments were placed in front of them, but they still could not detect their bone structure.
Then, just as the old man said, although the oldest instrument successfully detected it, it could not withstand the explosion in the end, causing the five people to be trapped there until just now.
As for why there were only five of them who signed up for this session, it was said that it was because people from another sect came here to recruit students, causing others to mistakenly believe that they were from the Lotus Sect and were taken away.
"That's obviously because your equipment is too old!" Tang Xiqin retorted.
"That's right!" Chen Shu nodded and agreed softly.
"If possible, could you please give me the wreckage of the instrument? I would like to study it." Yuan Yang suggested.
"No way! Oh, and you, kid, that thing exploded, exploded! And you still rushed over and hugged it, you're really killing yourself! What a freak, a freak!!"
Seeing the old man crackling like a firecracker, He Yuezhe, who hadn't slept all night, had a headache, so he simply held the old man's shoulders and moved his right index and middle fingers in the air.
"Old man, you're too noisy. Be quiet." He Yuezhe looked at the old man's wide-open eyes and activated the "Silent" formation. "I have a way to repair that house. If you believe in me, or are willing to let me give it a try, then just come with us to dinner and lead the way."
The old man's body trembled under the palm, he nodded vigorously, and then stared at He Yuezhe as if he had seen some treasure.
"Okay, I've untied it. You'd better be quiet, otherwise my temper will be much worse than theirs." He Yuezhe waved his hand tiredly.
"Oh my god!" the old man exclaimed, "You can actually draw a formation! I thought someone with such poor aptitude couldn't learn this kind of thing..."
"Who are you scolding?!" Tang Xiqin grabbed the old man's arm and supported him, but she was still unforgiving. "Come with us to dinner. If you dare to say these things again on the way, you're done!!!"
"Mmmmm, how can you be so strong?! Oh my god, it hurts so much, can't you just let go a little?!"
"No!! Who told you to scold us?"
"Grandpa, how about I help you?"
"Okay, okay!"
"Well, when I'm at home, I like to help my old man take a walk."
"Ouch, it hurts, it hurts! Little girl over there, do you want to help me?"
"Me, me?"
"Old man, forget it. She's seriously ill. It's clearly written in black and white on the registration paper. Aren't you afraid of crushing her?"
"Uh! So, that boy...?"
"I'm sick too."
"Well, what if I agree to give you the device?"
"Grandpa, let me help you."
"Oh, good boy, good boy."
"Do you need a massage?"
"No, no, no."
"Are you tired from walking?"
“Yes, a little… ahh ...
Standing on the street, the four of them looked at each other in surprise as they watched Yuan Yang pick up the old man and run into a store.
"Brother Yuan, I haven't exercised for a long time, but I'm still like this, like this..."
"hehe."
"I, I'll go order the food and keep an eye on them. You guys take your time!" Chen Shu also ran away.
"Ah, eat, yes, eat. I'm hungry too, so I'll leave first!!" Ban Weile also ran away.
“…”
Leaving behind He Yuezhe and Tang Xiqin, who was trembling all over with anger and clenched fists.
"Ah, Tang Xiao..."
"Shut up! Follow me, I want to see what the hell this bastard Yuan Yang means by leaving that good thing behind and running here to be obsessed with this old thing!!!"
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