Chapter 66 Black Book
"According to our reporter, a methane explosion occurred in a public toilet west of People's Park in the early hours of last night. No casualties were reported, and the surrounding area has been cordoned off..."
I turned off the TV with a snap.
I don't want to recall what happened last night.
Yi Yun’s words are really useful, but I still feel that I am not clean.
It’s hard to describe what it felt like for Yi Yun and I to walk on all kinds of indescribable grounds with a golden spherical shield.
From now on, I can’t look directly at any product with the words “feeling like stepping in shit” on it. Who was the first to use this in their marketing? Did they actually step on it?!
Yesterday, Yi Yun and I didn’t go back to the Administration. We both came home in a mess as if we were being chased by ghosts - I don’t know about him, but I had already taken three showers.
"Aying."
Zhou Tianqi is here.
Zhou Tianqi's room and mine are next to each other, separated by a door. When I came back yesterday, he was still waiting for me. I only had time to throw the file bag to him and then rushed into the bathroom.
He probably knew everything after watching the news this morning.
"It's okay, it just...blew up..." He looked like he wanted to comfort me.
"It exploded..."
"manure……"
He spoke with difficulty and then covered his face.
"Okay, stop talking. I know I blew up the public toilet last night! Don't remind me--" My voice has never been so desperate.
My family, I broke down, I broke down really hard. Even Zhou Tianqi, as a pervert, couldn't even say the three words "blow up the manure pit", but I actually did it!
Perhaps because my expression was too ferocious, he struggled to change the subject, "Be my partner."
"There happens to be a mission in western Hunan, and I want to do it with Aying."
I looked at him. This person was clearly asking questions, but he used affirmative words.
"But looking at the schedule, the branch office will send someone to the headquarters in two weeks. It must be my brother, right?" I calculated the time. Every year in late September, the headquarters of the Administration Bureau holds a performance review meeting, and the branch office will send someone to the headquarters.
It lasts for a week, with the first three days being work reports, the next three days being fighting, and the last day being a meal.
Zhou Tianqi was taken to the General Administration just after joining the Administration two years ago. Then, at the tender age of eight, he taught a lesson to people from other branches and won the championship.
The trophy I got back is now on my desk.
There are now two.
"We have to go to Xiangxi and back in two weeks. Is it still possible?" I asked him.
"There's still time," he said without hesitation.
"But I can't. You must have traveled all night without any rest, killing one after another, right?" I said with a dull face. "I've looked through your file. You see, you're not even as tall as me now. It must be because you didn't get enough rest."
...The latter sentence is nonsense.
After all, if I could copy his physical fitness, I would only be as tall as him. He would not be taller or shorter than me.
But he doesn't know!
Isn’t this just a loss due to information asymmetry?
"I'm the eldest lady. A eldest lady should go to bed early and get up early. She can't sleep in the open air." Now that I've said this, he should give up the idea of taking me with him, right?
Then I looked at him with visibly confused eyes.
"...Will Ah Ying feel this tiring? But aren't you even more simple and crude than me?"
"I remember when you were little, you learned swordsmanship from your uncle. He asked you to cut down a hundred bamboos from the mountain behind you. In order to finish the class early, you practiced ten swords in one night..."
"You just don't want to go!"
I:……
I stiffened my neck and refused to admit it.
"...You want to go to the performance review meeting of the General Administration?" He finally reacted.
"Yes, I want that trophy!" Seeing that this guy guessed it right away, I stopped pretending.
Yes, I want to go to the performance review meeting.
He touched his chin and said, "That's fine, but this performance review meeting might be... forget it. If Ying wants to go, I'll make sure you have fun."
I:……
No, you make me feel a little panicked when you say that.
Did this happen in episode one?!
Anyway, this matter has been settled. Zhou Tianqi postponed the trip to Xiangxi and will discuss it after the performance review meeting.
When I arrived at the Administration to hand in the task at the end of the three-day deadline, I received the same treatment as Zhou Tianqi, and everyone walked around us.
There was also some whispering.
“…” I pulled Zhou Tianqi’s hand a little harder, feeling extremely sad and angry.
Zhou Tianqi stared at him calmly all the way.
Then he successfully scared a group of people to death.
Okay, I feel good, and he’s my real brother.
It feels good to be able to bully others with your power.
No, I think it's called collusion.
You can shut up at this time.
After completing the task, I didn't even have time to check my actual rating and was ready to leave. This task has since become my black history, and I want to pretend that everything related to it never happened.
Then grandma called us.
I thought that sooner or later I would avenge my previous humiliation, but I didn't expect that the opportunity would come so soon.
Bai Zhi and Liu Ke are missing.
It was just a yellow-level mission, but unexpectedly they disappeared as soon as they entered the school.
Bai Zhi is a newcomer and her rating is C, but Liu Ke's rating is B-1, which is just one step away from A.
It has been three days now, and there is still no news about these two people. It is estimated that they were involved in some incident. Since it is an anomaly that has not been fully investigated, there is no information available.
To be on the safe side, this task was classified as heavenly level.
So currently, only Zhou Tianqi and I in the branch can take on this task - but because I just joined the branch, basically no one trusts me to do the task alone.
...given that I had just blown up the toilet.
The way my uncle looked at me seemed a little strange.
So Zhou Tianqi and I stood at the gate of the school.
The principal came to pick us up in person.
"It's the Heavenly Master... right?" He looked at the two of us and asked uncertainly.
Zhou Tianqi didn't even look at him, but I smiled and nodded at him.
Today, Zhou Tianqi and I wore the same Taoist robes, and my second aunt tied my hair into a bun.
Okay, okay, I think I’m getting more and more used to being a little girl. I actually think this bun is super cute.
If Zhou Tianqi didn't have that cold face, we would be a pair of extremely friendly metaphysical twins.
[Look at what you said, is this still what a reliable adult would say? ]
Thank you for the invitation. I am ten years old this year and am a young lady.
"The things left by the two heavenly masters are still with me. I will take you to the building where the accident happened tonight," the principal led us forward. This is a private full-time boarding school, so even though it is already evening, there are still many students in the school.
There were a lot of people looking at us.
There is nothing we can do about it. For the safety of the school, our car cannot be driven in casually.
After walking for about ten minutes, they arrived at the principal's office. He took out a yellow cloth bag from the drawer and handed it to Zhou Tianqi, who opened it.
"It's Liu Ke's certificate of good fortune." He took out three jade pieces tied together with a red rope.
"Why didn't he bring it in?" I asked.
"He did it on purpose. His Creation Certificate has six pieces, and he left half of them outside."
I saw Zhou Tianqi put his two fingers together, and a blue flame ignited from his fingertips, and touched the jade piece. I saw a word appear on the jade piece.
"escape."
I read it out loud.
Then Zhou Tianqi smiled.
"Interesting. Liu Ke spent half his life to send this message. It seems to be something interesting."
I saw his smile and knew he was excited.
It's hard not to suspect that Liu Ke did it on purpose.
After all, for someone like Zhou Tianqi, if you write "help", he might just try to save the person, but if you write "escape", he will definitely go and see what kind of dangerous thing can be.
"Aying, let's go."
He took my hand with a mysterious smile, and then I pulled him back to the sofa in the principal's office.
"Brother, it's 6:30 pm now." I looked at the clock in the office. "The mission is at midnight. Do you want to go there now and squat for five and a half hours?"
I don't really understand you battle freaks.
"This little Taoist priest is right." The principal also chimed in. He had just watched Zhou Tianqi's fantastical operation and didn't dare to say anything. "You guys rest here for a while. When the lights go out in the dormitory at 11 o'clock in the evening, I'll take you there."
"You haven't eaten yet, right? I'll have someone send over two meals."
The principal exudes a kind of amiability.
He also treated us to a meal.
My brother sat down.
Sure enough, he couldn't resist the temptation of eating.
[…Host, is your brain not working well in this world? ]
[I feel like Xiaoyu has the same feeling as I did back then...]
I:……
No, you are scolding me, right?
Is it possible that I copied Zhou Tianqi's brain—is it just that his brain isn't working well?!
No, no, no…
[…Wait a minute, I need to check.]
Um? ?
Tong, do you still remember the last time you asked me to check it out and what shocking news it brought me?
[…I’m back. My brain is fine. The protagonist Chunchun is just too strong, so it’s okay if I don’t use my brain.]
[In other words, the reason you, the protagonist, appear mentally retarded right now is entirely because...]
...I'm too strong, so I don't need to use my brain anymore, right?!
[Now let's see that your brain is still working very quickly.]
…
"What's wrong with Aying?" Zhou Tianqi sensed my depressed mood in an instant and looked over at me.
"Brother, I think we still have to go to school." I said with a complicated expression.
Zhou Tianqi:?
"Even though my job is to save the world, I still need to use my brain more!"
Zhou Tianqi: My sister doesn’t seem to be very smart.
"Okay," he said then.
"When do you want to go to school?"
He even looked at the principal who was sitting across from us.
"Huh?" I turned to look at him. "Then... the sooner the better?" I said uncertainly.
The pressure is on the principal.
"Then why don't you come to our school? We offer elementary, middle, and high school programs all under one roof..." the principal said reluctantly, "But transfer students may need to take an entrance exam..."
Zhou Tianqi thought for a moment and said, "Then let's wait until we return from Xiangxi?"
Eh?
Um? ?
I'm just saying -
I'm going to start primary school again???
[Congratulations, host, your third elementary school life~]
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“Master…”
Black vines wrapped around the purple-haired girl's body. She made a sound of pain, and in front of her were people hanging upside down with no end in sight.
Long-haired corpses floated in front of her.
They stared at Bai Zhi with their eyes wide open, moving forward inch by inch, and then being bounced back.
Next to her was Liu Ke, whose limbs were nailed to the tree. Liu Ke's face was pale and his breathing was weak. Three jade plates were floating in front of his chest, and the light on them barely maintained a simple shield. Blood was oozing from all his orifices, and the torn wrists were constantly healing, and the dried blood was covered by new blood.
His white shirt had lost its original color.
One of Baizhi's legs was torn off and fell to the ground along with her knife.
This is their 132nd cycle.
——It was also the most tragic time, both of them almost lost the ability to move.
They "died" again.
Then the cycle starts again, and they may not be able to hold on.
Liu Ke closed his eyes. This was not an ordinary abnormality, and it would greatly weaken his ability. It would be best if no one came in again. If they did, they would be seeking death.
This is not an abnormality that ordinary people can deal with.
This is the anomaly in The Black Book.
The Administration's special book, "The Black Book", consists of ten pages, which record ten anomalies that have been impossible for humans to eliminate from ancient times to the present.
Judging from the performance here, this should be the fifth one - the upside-down view.
Liu Ke looked at the upside-down corpse in front of him.
These are all people who died in this anomaly. Judging from their clothes, this anomaly has existed for at least hundreds of years. Why did it reappear recently?
And why are you in this school?
…
"Aying, don't get separated from your brother." Zhou Tianqi held my hand and looked at a door that appeared at the end of the corridor in front of us.
It was an antique carved wooden door, and it was strange to see it in this school dormitory building.
"Brother, are you happy?"
I looked at him. He had been smiling since he saw the door. This was completely different from his previous serious expression. It was a bit perverted.
"...Aying, are you unhappy?" He pulled my face.
"You're smiling even happier than me."
I silently controlled my expression.
I didn't want to either, but because the door looked very unusual, I immediately knew that what was inside was very dangerous.
So, I laughed.
[…Host, you've been assimilated, huh?!]
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