Chapter 66
Two students were squatting at the door of the computer classroom.
One asked, "Not yet?"
Another replied: "It's still early. The last round of boarding will end in 20 minutes."
Then the two of them turned their heads and looked to the other side of the corridor.
On the other side of the corridor, there was a student sitting on a bench against the wall diagonally opposite the door of the computer classroom.
It was the leader of the Crystal Core Group.
The crystal core group's time slots are swapped with others, which does not fit in with their usual habit of working on the computer for four hours or more at a time. However, they are still used to arriving at the door of the computer classroom early and waiting for the machine to change positions, without wasting a single second.
...In the end, I accidentally arrived a little too early.
The three of them had been waiting at the classroom door for a while.
"Jiang will be here in about ten minutes," said the team leader sitting on the bench. "She sent me a message five minutes ago saying she'd already left the dormitory."
The two squatting figures were familiar faces to Jiang Yunu - one was the male student who "couldn't talk properly when looking directly at the opposite sex"; the other was his friend who "always explained why his companions refused to look people in the eye when talking."
When the boy, who was suspected of having heterosexual phobia, heard Jiang Yunu being mentioned by the team leader, his body language immediately became tense.
"You... you really think..." He said as his body tensed and his voice began to tighten, "Jiang, about that junior schoolmate, do you think she has really passed the novice trial?"
Although the time slot was changed specifically for the purpose of playing online with Jiang Yunu, this team member was obviously still skeptical about the fact that "Jiang Yunu could speed through the entire Novice Trial Battle map".
"He must have passed, right?" said his friend, who was always explaining things for him. "Look, he took the initiative to message the team leader and immediately agreed to join today's game."
If she hadn't actually passed, who would have rushed into such a self-defeating undertaking? It was no wonder some team members were still skeptical of Jiang Yunu. The main reason was that Jiang Yunu's speedrunning skills weren't particularly impressive. She had no idea how fast she'd actually cleared the levels, and she had no one to serve as a benchmark.
Jiang Yunu's speed in clearing the level has already broken the regional record and topped the district data list - however, these data are not public.
To be more precise, the 19th District has not opened the "District Game Ranking Data Disclosure" service at all.
Activating this service costs Star Coins, as does maintaining the long-term data updates. While the number of Star Coins isn't huge, it's hardly a significant expense for the entire region. But comparing it to the world Jiang Yunu once inhabited—it's like the platform's programming is so unappealing, and all the content released is lackluster, which makes people reluctant to subscribe.
Even if the price is not high, who would pay for something that is boring all year round? It is not like the top star regions, where even the game rankings of each region are full of hidden talents, breaking records and refreshing combat data. You can also enter the overall leaderboard and compete with all the players in the star game to win the first place in the game world.
Who would pay to see their own sector not only have boring game stats but also rank last?
No, no one wants to pay for a coward.
...But then again, if District 19 had not directly given up on subscribing to public area data, Jiang Yunu would not have needed to arrange such an online connection and rely on online connection to prove his novice performance.
The student, suspected of being heterophobic, scratched his head and squatted on the ground, pulling his hair, which already had no hairstyle, into a bird-like pattern. "It's not that I completely don't believe her, but you know, if she really did it, she passed the test too quickly, so quickly that I can't help but feel it's fake."
The last time Jiang Yunu met with the other three members of her group, she had said, "I'll pass this week or next." "Next week" was already fast enough, but she passed the next night after she said that, which was even faster.
It sounds so unreal and unreal.
It's especially unlike the results that their 19th District could produce.
The team leader on the bench glanced at his terminal and said, "Whether it's true or not, we'll know after Jiang Xuemei comes over and we get on the plane."
The team leader trusts Jiang Yunu more, and he has had relatively more contact with Jiang Yunu these days.
Jiang Yunu inexplicably has a quality that can win the trust of others. The more you get to know her, the easier it is to feel that she is young but reliable.
Jiang Yunu arrived five minutes before the end of the last round of boarding.
As she approached the computer classroom, she lowered her head and tapped the small, primitive screen on her terminal wristband, sighing, "Everyone still in the game should have seen that five-minute countdown 'death pop-up window'."
Jiang Yunu is often ejected from the game at unexpected moments. It is not an exaggeration for her to call the countdown window the "death pop-up window."
The Crystal Core Team leader was quite serious and stood up from the bench to greet her. "Those who have seamlessly booked the next time slot won't see the pop-up window and can continue playing for two hours."
Jiang Yunu nodded, then greeted the two people at the door in an optimistic and cheerful manner.
When Jiang Yunu appeared, the two students who were squatting by the door stood up straight like bamboos rising from the ground overnight.
The one who is not good at talking to the opposite sex is a particularly straight bamboo pole.
After a few random chats, the door to the lab opened automatically, and those who had already left the simulators filed out. Following the "first in, first out" rule, once most of the people inside had emerged, the last batch of students for the night began to file in.
Because it was a temporary change of seats, the three members of the Crystal Core Team were not in the same simulation cabin seat number as Jiang Yunu, and the four of them boarded the plane in separate positions. However, the team leader had already asked Jiang Yunu for his game ID in advance. When he heard Jiang Yunu report a string of numbers, the other party had a subtle expression, and seemed to want to ask Jiang Yunu why he didn't give himself a proper and cool ID in the game world. However, he probably changed his mind and realized that even Jiang Yunu's terminal user name in reality was such a "water army zombie account", so the team leader stopped persuading him to change his name and said nothing extra.
The team leader only took Jiang Yunu's ID and told her, "Wait for a moment after you log in. We will send you a connection invitation after we enter the game."
Jiang Yunu said, "Okay."
This was Jiang Yunu's first time to experience the online interactive function. She logged into the game first and reloaded into the lush grassland where she had logged off last time.
While waiting for someone to send him an invitation on the grass, Jiang Yunu's mind wandered for a few seconds, and he thought of the past - he thought for a moment about the small team he met in the woods at the foot of the mountain last time.
Did that team finally defeat that Western dragon-like elemental beast?
Jiang Yunu felt that she should have won the battle. She just accidentally entered the battlefield and watched their fighting for a while, but she could see that they had the ability to kill the elemental beast directly, but they deliberately did not attack directly, but used the opponent for some tactical practice.
Engel had never given her a practical lesson, but Jiang Yunu seemed to have an innate sense of combat in her bones. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, she could estimate the opponent's combat effectiveness by intuition.
[You received a new online invitation——]
The system pop-up window suddenly jumped in front of me.
Seeing this, Jiang Yunu leaned back subconsciously.
"...That scared me." Little Jiang, a student with a natural talent for combat, muttered, "I've only ever seen a countdown pop-up window in this game."
I almost thought I had just entered the game, but I was about to be ejected from the game in the blink of an eye!
"Time flies so fast, but it's not so outrageous." Jiang Yunu muttered and pressed the "Confirm" button below the invitation window.
The surrounding scenery briefly turned pure white, and after two seconds of white light effect, as the white light dissipated, Jiang Yunu found himself in a completely new map.
This seemed to be a river valley next to a village. There was the sound of water not far away, and the wind was damp. If you took two steps to the side, you could step on a stone shallowly soaked in water.
The three classmates who had been seen outside the game had all changed their outfits, and at first glance they looked like "elemental beast hunters", which was particularly in line with the image of adventurers in fantasy works.
When Jiang Yunu saw her classmates clearly, her classmates also saw her clearly.
——Then he was shocked!
The team leader jumped up and said, "Jiang Xuemei! Why are you wearing this outfit?!"
Jiang Yunu was confused at first, then realized - sorry, she appeared again in the image of the one who had fought against the lava stone giant before.
"I've been looking like this since I came out of the Novice Trial map," she said honestly.
Students with heterosexual phobia felt their eyes were glued to the ground.
"Why don't you change your appearance?" he said.
"I don't have any." Jiang Yunu answered every question and stared at the shocked classmates.
The third member's eyes darted back and forth, his mind working most shrewdly. He clapped his hands and said, "Wait a minute. I'm going to the town first. Wait a few minutes!"
Before he could finish his words, the man disappeared in a flash, heading straight for the village next to the valley.
Then a few minutes later, the man turned back and continued running, with the thing in his arms fluttering in the wind like a small flag.
——The other party ran to the village and exchanged clothes with the villager NPC using ordinary items that can be collected in the game.
Because it is a piece of clothing without any attribute bonus, it can be exchanged with NPCs using ordinary collection items in the game.
Jiang Yunu didn't know that he would meet NPCs in this game, nor did he know that there was the most traditional form of bartering here.
"If you want clothes with attribute bonuses, you have to bring crystal cores to the workshop for refining, or buy them directly at the trading house." The team leader explained considerately.
Jiang Yunu accepted the ordinary outfit with gratitude and found a place to change into it behind the rocks that were everywhere around the valley.
The ordinary appearance is cheap and easy to obtain, which is very suitable for people like Jiang Yunu who wear out their clothes a lot when playing games.
After putting it on, she looked more like a local villager NPC, which miraculously fits the misunderstanding of her by the person she met last time.
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