Chapter 234
Zhou Jinxue said, "Nonsense."
Although Zhou Jinxue and his family were trapped in the core area of the seventh district, he was not completely ignorant of the news from the outside world.
As someone from District Seven, Jiang Yunu, far ahead of his peers, was admitted to Golden Uriel Academy in the Upper Three Districts. While Golden Uriel Academy's status among the Upper Three Districts schools was somewhat awkward, often being shunned by other schools as the "Golden Poor Man's Academy," it was a truly prestigious school for supernatural powers in a region outside of the Upper Three Districts, its signboard shimmering with gold.
A child who had left District 7 had been admitted to a school in the Upper Three Districts and was performing well there, competing in the Challenge Cup intramural and district tournaments. Then, he joined a team at a university in the Upper Three Districts and was able to compete in the senior inter-school competition. When this news reached District 7, it was like news; people would actively follow it and spread the latest news about Jiang Yunu in the Upper Three Districts.
While Zhou Jinxue and her family were cooped up in their safe house in the core area, her father suddenly asked his daughter one morning, "That girl you used to be so close to—Jiang Yunu, right? Has she joined the Golden Uriel Academy team and is heading off with the other members of the team to the Senior League camp in District 3?"
Zhou Jinxue was concerned about his mother's health at the time, and was not as well-informed about "Jiang Yunu's real-time news" as his father.
"Thank you, uncle, for paying so much attention to me." Jiang Yunu heard this on the video call and thanked him very sweetly. "Senior, please say hello to uncle for me later."
Zhou Jinxue showed a faint smile on his face.
Senior Zhou's eyes were still slightly red, but under the influence of Jiang Yunu's nonsense, "If you cry again, I will go to the Trial Tower twice more overnight," she quickly calmed down, fearing that this little girl who often did whatever she wanted would act impulsively.
When Jiang Yunu saw Zhou Jinxue smile, he immediately smiled too.
Then she changed the subject and asked, "Senior, what happened to Auntie before?"
Jiang Yunu tilted her head at the other end of the video window. Her movements were somewhat obedient. Her gaze fell directly on Zhou Jinxue's face and she continued to ask, "What's wrong with Auntie?"
Zhou Jinxue's face suddenly became tense again.
The senior student, who had become thin and slender, did not reply immediately. Instead, she looked around, as if she could not speak freely about this topic even at home.
After confirming that her surroundings were safe, the senior student looked at Jiang Yunu again.
"Xiao Jiang," Zhou Jinxue said softly, "Is it 'convenient' to talk to you now?"
Jiang Yunu was in the common living room of the Golden Uriel Academy apartment. Previously, this was a very convenient place to make cross-district calls with senior students from his hometown, and no one else stayed in the living room during lunch break.
But after the senior student said this, the public living room no longer seemed "convenient".
"Wait a moment." Jiang Yunu asked the senior student to delay the topic for five minutes.
She moved from the common living room to the team meeting room.
After thinking for a moment, she opened the door of the separate bathroom in the team meeting room and carefully locked herself in the bathroom.
"It's convenient now." Jiang Yunu said with satisfaction to Zhou Jinxue who was waiting on the other side of the video window.
Zhou Jinxue: “…”
Zhou Jinxue had been waiting silently on the other end of the video. She participated in Jiang Yunu's location selection from a remote perspective.
But after seeing the junior finally take her into the bathroom and hearing a "click" sound which was obviously the sound of the bathroom door being locked, the senior always felt that this "convenient" place for conversation was a bit strange.
It seems a little too convenient.
"There definitely won't be any surveillance here." Jiang Yunu continued with satisfaction, "No one would want to install any eavesdropping equipment in the bathroom unless they are a super pervert."
“…” Zhou Jinxue accepted this explanation and felt that this convenient place was indeed convenient.
The senior student took a deep breath through the video window. Her voice was still low, as if she was worried about what she was about to say, even in a relatively safe environment. "...My mother was forcibly injected with a small amount of superpower-boosting potion."
The leisurely expression on Jiang Yunu's face disappeared in an instant.
She was using the toilet lid as a stool, and her sitting posture was not very straight. When she heard the words, her waist straightened up.
"Auntie..." the white-haired girl asked.
"It's all right now." Zhou Jinxue understood exactly what Jiang Yunu was about to ask, and immediately answered to reassure him. She looked at Jiang Yunu with genuine gratitude, "It was all thanks to you for finding a way to get the A-grade crystal core into the core area of the seventh district."
Jiang Yunu closed his mouth again.
Next is Zhou Jinxue’s private explanation time.
Zhou Jinxue told Jiang Yunu that the group who had attempted to use the Zhou family's channels to divert a batch of unidentified goods for public transport had initially been very friendly and approached her family, even trying to establish a friendly relationship with her father. However, after repeatedly failing to persuade Zhou's father, and realizing that he refused to give in, the group bared their fangs.
"They kidnapped my mother," Zhou Jinxue said. "But the time was so short, so short that even the old-model police robots in District 7 didn't have time to react."
When Zhou's mother was just released home, no one in the Zhou family even realized that she had been briefly kidnapped, because she looked normal, the decent suit she was wearing when she went out was not damaged at all, and the ground vehicle she drove out of the city had no emergency alarm.
Zhou's mother herself felt that she was fine. The group only sent two people. When she finished her business and was about to get in the car, they suddenly came out from behind the column in the blind spot, stopped her, and talked trash to her for a few minutes. One of them reached out and tapped her shoulder and arm twice. She felt the other person's nails were a bit sharp and a little prickly through the fabric of the suit.
But "a little bit prickly" is nothing compared to other potential possibilities.
Zhou's mother did not tell her family about the accident in time.
"She started to have a low fever four days later," said Zhou Jinxue.
Low fever, which lasts for a long time and is not treated with ordinary medicine.
After careful examination in the home medical cabin, it was discovered that the readings near the energy core were abnormal.
"It's all thanks to my mother not being a combatant," Zhou Jinxue whispered. "She's been a civilian since graduating from school. She rarely needs to draw on her superpowers, let alone use them in combat."
Therefore, the tiny amount of supernatural power amplification potion did not circulate very quickly inside Zhou's mother's energy core, and did not cause any "alienation-level" effects on her.
But it would make her weak, constantly weak.
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