Chapter 115: Group Borrowing Race
Meng Qi woke up at noon. As soon as he sat up, he saw Gong Yongyuan lying on the bed next to him, looking up at the ceiling with a dull look in his eyes.
"I……"
Meng Qi touched his face and asked,
"I didn't break my face, did I?"
His memory stopped at the moment when he was grabbed by the ghost hand and thrown into the well.
"With your looks, it doesn't matter whether you're disfigured or not."
Gong Yongyuan turned sideways, facing away from Meng Qi, waved his hand, and said,
"It's like you. You can't compete with Cangou in fighting ability, you can't compete with Lin Zhuyue in talent, and your brain can't work. There's no hope for you."
Meng Qi was silent for a moment.
"Are you possessed by Shi Chan?"
Meng Qi asked in confusion,
"Why are you so mean-spirited?"
Gong Yongyuan sighed: "Maybe."
Meng Qi didn't have time to dwell on why Gong Yongyuan had become so strange. He was more concerned about the unfinished mission he hadn't completed before he lost consciousness. He asked:
"Is the matter resolved? How is the victim?"
"Everyone was saved."
Gong Yongyuan reminded,
"Look at my phone. After I woke up, I sent a message to ask about Shican's situation. I forwarded the chat history to you a long time ago."
Meng Qi picked up the phone, unlocked it, and entered the chat interface.
After reading the chat log forwarded to him by Gong Yongyuan, he was silent for a long time and asked:
"Our mission bonus..."
"Of course it belongs to Lin Zhuyue. Do you have the nerve to take it?"
“…Alright.”
Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi got up one after another, washed, packed their things, met up with Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can, and checked out of the hot spring resort.
When checking out, the boss was at the front desk. He had not charged Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi for accommodation, and now he insisted on refunding the room fee and deposit paid by Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can.
"The fees that should be collected will be collected normally, and I will ask our superiors to reimburse them."
Lin Zhuyue took out the bank card from her wallet and asked,
"How is your mother?"
The boss took Lin Zhuyue's bank card, swiped it on the POS machine, and said:
"She was hungry as soon as she woke up, and she's in good condition. But she's been in a coma for so long, we didn't dare feed her anything hastily, for fear of causing any problems. My wife, my brother, and his wife have taken her to the hospital to see a doctor, and she may need rehabilitation."
"fine."
Gong Yongyuan took out a confidentiality agreement from behind.
"Here, sign this."
After the boss signed the confidentiality agreement, the mission of the hot spring resort hotel was completely completed.
Shi Can drove the car, with Lin Zhuyue in the passenger seat and Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi in the back seat, back to the neighborhood where Lin Zhuyue lived. He had borrowed the car from Lin Lang, so he had to return it properly.
After seeing Lin Zhuyue's villa, Meng Qi exclaimed:
"Wow, Miss? Sister, I don't want to try hard anymore. Look, I still have some looks..."
Gong Yongyuan said disdainfully:
"...Can you please stop embarrassing yourself?"
Shi Chan parked the car.
After getting off the car, Lin Zhuyue walked across the courtyard and opened the front door of his house.
Just as she was about to invite Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi in, a white dog shot out from inside like a cannonball and pounced straight towards Gong Yongyuan.
Lin Zhuyue scolded: "Milk shellfish——!"
Gong Yongyuan caught the Samoyed named Naibei:
"It's okay. I like dogs. I like all kinds of dogs except Beagles..."
Lin Zhuyue: "..."
What kind of life are you living?
Gong Yongyuan was busy playing with the dog.
After parking the car, Shi Can washed his hands and made tea with the tea set displayed in the living room of Lin Zhuyue's house.
Meng Qi was looking at the wine displayed in the cabinet in the living room.
Unlike the Shi family, which is still powerful today, and the Gong family, which still maintained its family fortune in the flood, Meng Qi's family had already declined severely. It was not until his father went against the wishes of his ancestors and turned to the opposite side that the family's fortunes finally began to improve.
It wasn't until last year that we had such a glass cabinet at home.
However, there wasn't much wine in the cabinet, and unlike Shi Chan, he didn't have a collection of glasses with jaw-dropping prices.
“These wines are all displayed here for viewing.”
Lin Zhuyue said to Meng Qi,
"If you want some, I'll get some from the cellar. I don't know much about wine, but can I just open a large Lafite? Or maybe a botrytis cider? When I was in junior high, I was at a classmate's house and we secretly drank botrytis cider. We only drank a little bit... but I thought it was pretty good. I have that wine at home."
Meng Qi said: "All is fine..."
Lin Zhuyue actually found a large bottle of Lafite, opened it, and poured it into a decanter to let it wake up. The meal she ordered was almost home, so she could drink while eating.
"Woo woo... Samoyeds are so nice..."
Gong Yongyuan's eyes were filled with tears, and he said,
"Unlike my big-eared, squealing donkey..."
At this moment, Shican's phone rang——
"Sweeper, start!"
Lin Zhuyue took a breath and said angrily:
"When are you going to change this beep?!"
"I won't change it in my next life."
Shi Can took out his cell phone, took a look at it, and said,
"I received a text message from the Spiritual Master's Mansion saying I've been selected as a seeded player and won't have to participate in the preliminaries... It's all expected. There's another text message about the preliminaries. I think you guys received it too?"
Lin Zhuyue, Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi's phones all rang with text message alerts at the same time.
"To all apprentice spiritualists who have registered for this year's four-school league:
This year's Four Schools League features a total of 224 participants from our headquarters, including eight seeded players who were directly admitted. The remaining 216 will participate in the preliminaries. The preliminaries are a group-based points system, with participants divided into four groups. Each group will compete in a round-robin format, with the winners earning points. At the end of the preliminaries, the top two players from each group will advance to the subsequent events along with the seeded players.
Lin Zhuyue frowned: "There are so few places..."
Shi Can asked, "What's going on at the branch school?"
"There are sixteen places for three branches."
Gong Yongyuan held the dog in one hand and flipped through the messages on his phone with the other.
"If we can't divide it equally, I guess there will be some disputes."
Meng Qi had the same feeling as Lin Zhuyue: "There are so few places available."
“There weren’t many students at the branch campus to begin with.”
Shi Can placed the teacup in front of Lin Zhuyue and said,
"Sometimes, we can't even fill a class with all the freshmen in a year, especially at the Hong Kong branch. If it weren't for the international students who bolster the class size, the second and third grades would probably have to be merged."
The meal Lin Zhuyue ordered was delivered.
She had lunch and some drinks with her classmates.
After lunch, she and her classmates put the dishes into the dishwasher, then got on the car they had arranged in advance, headed from home to the airport, and started their journey back to Tiancheng.
Gong Yongyuan was very reluctant and wanted to take Lin Zhuyue's dog away with him.
There are still seven days until the qualifiers begin.
Lin Zhuyue originally wanted to train in the training hall, but there were many apprentice spiritual masters who had the same idea. The training hall, which was not very busy at ordinary times, was crowded with people every day. Lin Zhuyue could not find a venue and could only train on the beach.
After being tired from training, Lin Zhuyue lay on the swimming ring and floated on the sea under the setting sun.
Wen Miyan popped her head out from beside Lin Zhuyue and said:
"Everyone pays great attention to close combat training."
"Because there's a big devil this year."
Ye Yangjia looked at Shi Can who was walking the cat on the beach and said,
"If you meet someone like this, getting close to him means death, but no one can distance themselves from him... His two broken knives can cut anything, even bullets. It's so annoying."
"However, if you focus too much on close combat, you'll easily lose."
Lin Zhuyue asked: "How do you say that?"
Wen Miyan pushed Lin Zhuyue's swimming ring and swam towards the deep end, saying as she swam:
"Because the strength of a spiritual master doesn't just lie in close combat ability, it also includes spiritual martial arts, mysterious spells, and powerful ancestors... Moreover, some spiritual masters may not be good at dealing with ghosts, but they are very good at dealing with people."
Lin Zhuyue fell into deep thought: "Huh...?"
The three of them drifted in the sea for a while before swimming towards the shore.
Wen Miyan said: "Ah, old vixen——"
Tushan Yunlin was walking towards Shican from not far away.
He greeted the two cats Shi Chan was holding:
"Hello, kittens."
Baguette came closer to him, stood on its hind legs, and its two round front paws were on Tushan Yunlin's legs, and it opened and closed its paws to step on the milk.
Tushan Yunlin cried out in pain:
"It hurts! It hurts! This is leg hair, not wool pants!"
Shi Can picked up the baguette and said:
"My kitten's IQ is not very high, please be tolerant."
Lin Zhuyue walked out of the sea holding a swimming ring.
Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia followed behind.
The three of them took a shower, changed their clothes, and returned to the beach. They lit the charcoal stove, set up the grill, and started grilling meat by the sea.
Tushan Yunlin has been a human for twenty years, but he still has a fox nature and loves meat. In his words, even humans are pure carnivores, so isn't it normal for him, a fox spirit, to love meat?
He reached for the delicious grilled skewers.
Shi Chan took the skewers away first.
Tushan Yunlin: “Eh——”
Shi Can asked, “Give me some advice?”
Tushan Yunlin said seriously, "It will be more fragrant if it is roasted a little, but I still like to eat it tender. If this body does not allow it, I will eat it raw directly."
Shi Chan: “…Who asked you for barbecue advice?”
"Oh, if you're not good at close combat, then why not just not engage in close combat? There's no such thing as a perfect person in this world. Everyone has to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses."
Tushan Yunlin finally got to the point and said,
"The Ukiyo-e scroll isn't a close combat spiritual weapon. If you're so obsessed with close combat, the Ling family's ancestor will cry."
As the night deepened, the trainee spiritual masters said goodbye to Tushan Yunlin, dragged the cart loaded with barbecue equipment, and led their cats as they walked home from the beach.
Two days later, the qualifying groups were decided.
"Hmm... I found it. I'm in Group C."
Lin Zhuyue handed the phone to Shi Can and said,
"There are people from our class in the same group..."
"Most of the people in our class have signed up for the competition. There are only four groups in the preliminaries, so it's normal to be grouped together."
Shi Can took the phone and said,
"But we can work out how to play the preliminaries... I'm going to run a race this afternoon, can you cheer me on?"
Lin Zhuyue agreed: "Okay."
That afternoon, Lin Zhuyue arrived at the audience seats on time.
Shican was stretching his legs beside the track, and when the time was almost up, he stood at the starting line with a relaxed posture and got ready.
After a gunshot, the runners on the track scattered.
Lin Zhuyue: “Huh?”
Shi Can did not run forward along the track, but went straight to the audience. Amid the exclamations of his classmates, he directly carried Lin Zhuyue on his shoulders, jumped off the audience in two steps, and returned to the track.
"Wait, wait—"
Shi Can held Lin Zhuyue in his arms and ran away, saying:
"I forgot to tell you, it's a borrowing race. You have to borrow something weighing more than three kilograms—"
“I’m a person weighing over 50 kilograms!!”
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