Chapter 109 Scene 23 There is a secret room inside
"Then... do you want to reconsider the action I told you about before?" Ming Jiao asked somewhat embarrassedly.
He Yuezhe then remembered the secret Ming Jiao had told her before she sneaked away to the dance party in her dream.
It is said that the sculpture she and Tang Xiqin saw in the city at that time had a secret room inside?
"But I'm so tired, cousin," He Yuezhe pretended to yawn, then lay back on the bed and began blinking. "How about you guys go first..."
"Host! This is the main plot, the main plot!!! Didn't you vow to participate in it back then?! Why are you tired of it now?!!!"
"I'm sorry, Minglin. I wasn't thoughtful enough."
"..." He Yuezhe chuckled twice, "I don't know who insisted on me completing this side quest."
"Then you should have a good rest. I won't leave until you fall asleep. That way you won't be scared, right?"
"Ahem! Host, I was thinking you could take this opportunity to rest up, but who knew this stupid [deformation] would suddenly show up..."
Hey, who has the worse brain?!
He Yuezhe ignored the system, which didn't even recognize the label of a [Special] branch line. He covered his head with the quilt and replied to Ming Jiao in a sullen voice, "Cousin, I'm not afraid."
"Huh? Hey, yes, our Minglin isn't afraid at all," Ming Jiao finally couldn't help laughing. "She's a [magician] who's going to become a [heroine], how could she be afraid of the dark?"
"Cousin!!" He Yuezhe angrily emerged from under the quilt, frowning and retorting, "I'm really not afraid of the dark!!!"
She is just a little night blind and needs someone to accompany her, otherwise she will fall!
"Okay, then cousin, let's go?" Although Ming Jiao said this, he did not move at all.
"no!"
He Yuezhe reached out and gently grabbed Ming Jiao's arm.
Only then did she realize how slender and fragile the girl's seemingly healthy body actually was.
Minglin's forearms and upper arms could be completely grasped with one hand, her slightly sunken cheeks, her shoulders with particularly distinct bones, and her eyes that were always smiling and bright since she knew Minglin was her cousin.
He Yuezhe suddenly felt that she looked a bit like someone he knew.
That's it, why does it seem weirder the more I look at it...?
"Cousin..." Minglin took control of her body while she was stunned, and said in a trembling voice, "I, I'm still scared. Otherwise, you should wait until I fall asleep before leaving!!!"
Then, both of them felt a pain in the back of their neck.
"Damn it! Ming Jiao, your words are too disgusting!!!" Tang Xiqin's roar came from the side, "You are deliberately trying to disgust your cousin, right?!!"
"No, is it disgusting?" In front of the two of them, Ming Jiao, who was hugging Ming Lin's body, touched her own face and asked in confusion.
"What's with all that talk of a heroic woman and fear of the dark? Of course it's disgusting! Also, Ming Jiao, I advise you not to do anything █ █ █ █ █ █ █, or you'll be in trouble!"
"But……"
"Oh my god! Wait a minute, she's not fainted yet!!!"
Then there was another pain at the back of the neck. He Yuezhe and Minglin, who were watching the show with relish while holding two boxes of expired instant noodles, suddenly saw darkness in front of their eyes.
“Aa ...
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When He Yuezhe escaped from Minglin's horrifying screams and opened his eyes, he saw...
Well, it's pitch black again.
Minglin had fainted due to lack of oxygen.
"Hey, are you awake?" The girl's voice came from... outside.
He Yuezhe struggled to poke her head out from under the quilt, speechless. She looked at Tang Xiqin, who was holding her with her right hand, and said, "Captain, aren't you afraid that you'll suffocate me to death?"
"Hmph, it's strange that you can die," Tang Xiqin sneered a few times, "Minglin, you've been in the [Academy] for so long, how come you don't even know your own uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh——"
He Yuezhe:?
"Ahem, have you even forgotten your own identity?"
"Um?"
"This, this—" Minglin's voice was like a screaming chicken, "Didn't you guess it a long time ago—"
Oh, that’s true. He Yuezhe had guessed it a long time ago. After all, there seemed to be no purebred humans outside the city.
"I'm a [Deformed Species], uh, a [Deformed Species Alien]—"
Yes, Minglin's body is a [deformed alien].
"【Deformed species】, won't it die?" He Yuezhe asked with some curiosity, tilting his head.
Tang Xiqin looked at her in confusion, then reached out and pushed her back into the quilt.
"My goodness, Minglin, if you insist on asking this kind of question in the [city], I'll send you to the door of the [police department] in a moment."
"Then you and your...little pet will be locked up together for [experiments]."
Come to think of it, it has been several days since she secretly put that [freak] into the pocket of "someone who thought they were [stowaways]", and she hasn't heard any news about them during this time.
"Hmm, has it already started the experiment?" He Yuezhe immediately became interested upon hearing this and asked, "Will there be results soon?"
"Those old guys won't give your things back to you. As for the outcome, I suggest you forget about it," Tang Xiqin said. "They'll tear it up and swallow it."
“…literally.”
"Captain, they are not [human]."
"Humph, why do you think humans can't get jobs in these so-called departments? It's because—"
"Never mind, you don't need to know that yet. Let's get ready for landing."
“Land?!!!!!!!!!!——”
He Yuezhe suddenly felt her body suspended in mid-air, and an extremely strong sense of weightlessness instantly swept over her!!!
"Captain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He Yuezhe shouted in horror.
She used the force to get out of the quilt, then rolled over and lay on top. Suddenly, houses with flashing lights of various colors came into her sight, approaching at an extremely fast speed!
Not far away, a small golden dot was floating in the air.
It seems to be Tang Xiqin.
She was holding a bow, aiming at the sculpture beneath them.
He Yuezhe saw that her hair was emitting strands of golden light, and the dazzling light like stars blinded He Yuezhe for a short time.
“Whoosh!”
The arrow grazed her cheek and went straight down!
"squeak--!!"
A piercing sound that echoed through the sky sounded below!
"Have a good grip!"
The quilt was grabbed by a force, and He Yuezhe was dragged down with the quilt at a vertical angle!
“Beep!”
"Bang--!!"
“Whoosh!!!”
…
"Damn it, Minglin, could you please stop hanging from the ceiling and dangling like that?!"
“???”
Because of his fear of heights, He Yuezhe started crying when he was about to land. He was then forcibly tied to the quilt by magic and hung on the ceiling boredly, watching Tang Xiqin and others searching for things.
Tang Xiqin suddenly turned around and threw an arrow, directly shooting the quilt that He Yuezhe was holding.
She reached out to recall the arrow and walked over quickly with a piece of paper that looked very old in her hand.
"Take it and decipher all of it before midnight, otherwise you will stay here with your quilt for the rest of your life." Tang Xiqin slapped the paper on He Yuezhe's hand and said.
He Yuezhe had just recovered from the weightlessness when the feeling of rejection from the paper made his hands numb again.
"Captain, what is this?" She resisted the urge to twitch her hands and looked up to ask Tang Xiqin, who was still looking at her with a worried look on her face.
"Tang Xiqin, do you really think she can understand the French you used to speak?"
Shan Honeysuckle walked out from the darkness where Minglin's body was completely invisible. She was holding a retro-style robe in her hand, with large and small tears on it that almost ate away at it.
"Besides, there's no need for her to get involved in this."
"Damn it! Honeysuckle, go find your things and don't tempt her here!!"
"Temptation? Captain!——"
Inside the sculpture, the two men suddenly started arguing about whether He Yuezhe should be allowed to participate.
Outside the sculpture, He Yuezhe keenly heard what seemed to be the uniform shouts of a crowd constantly appearing near the center of the city.
...Is it Yu Yuanxiang?
"Okay, Minglin, just tell me whether you can understand it or not. It's just French from seven years ago, not from the last century. It should be easy for you, right?"
He Yuezhe was pulled up by Tang Xiqin.
“Crack.”
She widened her eyes and looked at her right arm in disbelief.
Because blood is dripping there!
From the perfectly neat cross-section, blood with a slightly strange smell suddenly spurted out!
He Yuezhe turned around and looked at Tang Xiqin and Shan Rendong with wide eyes, and saw that they were staring at her broken arm in surprise with the same expression as her.
Inside the extremely quiet dusty sculpture, something very magical happened.
Although He Yuezhe's broken arm was bandaged by the two men with great effort, as soon as even a drop of blood dripped out, the two men would throw things at her, then come out of the utility room and re-bandage her while arguing.
He Yuezhe looked at his right arm which seemed to have grown a new one, and was about to show it off to Minglin, but suddenly he remembered.
——Oh, didn’t I ask the system to knock her out early in the morning!
“???????”
"Captain, we found it!!"
^
"Principal Zhang, are you really not in a hurry? But—"
"It's okay, Yuanxiang. It's more important for you to help them expose the true identities of those Deformed Species than to deal with a Deformed Species that can only create illusions."
"But Principal," Yu Yuanxiang tucked her fallen hair behind her ear and said, "There are still so many [Humans] and [Magicians] trapped there! I can't abandon them..."
Yu Yuanxiang leaned on Principal Zhang's desk, looking at the three words "Zhang Wanbai" written on the triangular prism made of old paper, and the sporadic night lights outside the tall floor-to-ceiling glass window.
All of this, all of this pollution, made her █ █ hurt so much.
"Yuanxiang, I know. I know everything." Principal Zhang held Yu Yuanxiang's hands with her overly old hands, her voice soft but firm, "So I will go and save them."
"You've always believed in me, right, Motoka?"
"So……"
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