Chapter 571: Chapter 9: Kidnapping & Counter-Kidnapping
Zhang Yiyi walked around Area C again and again, from the designated main activity areas to the sandy areas on both sides of the road, she had searched everything possible.
"Why make the campus so huge for no reason," Zhang Yiyi had no sense of direction, so she dared not venture deeper into the desert and, feeling bored but not wanting to disturb Xiao Xian during his class, she could only walk along the city wall.
Zhang Yiyi’s pre-class assessment was so poor that she did not even meet the passing grade, and she was too embarrassed to tell Xiao Xian.
The morning lessons only covered the basic knowledge about geckos and had not yet moved on to the mimicry scenario switching learning mode.
"Geckos... geckos, shouldn’t I find them by following the walls?" Zhang Yiyi had half a day of theory lesson, and she was not good at learning theoretical stuff. She forgot quite soon what was taught and returned it to the central computer, thus she missed the point: there are no geckos in Area C.
Geckos live in temperate zones, and her Area C is fully covered with desert; even if there were ever any geckos, they would have dried up in the heat.
"Ah, can’t find geckos, let’s just practice some climbing skills so I don’t return empty-handed," Zhang Yiyi said dejectedly, finding a relatively smooth part of the wall.
Although there was a school regulation stating that new students are not allowed to leave the school by climbing the walls a second time, Zhang Yiyi still didn’t believe it.
Using her hands and feet together, she clung onto the wall. The adhesion of geckos comes from the accumulation of "Van der Waals force" between the numerous fine hairs beneath the "feet" of geckos and the surface molecules of objects.
Zhang Yiyi wasn’t very good at using this force yet, so she wanted to practice more often, hoping that diligence could make up for her lack of skill.
The second attempt to climb such a high wall was a bit easier than the first. Finally reaching near the wall, she hadn’t even gotten close to the cannons when a stream of gas sprayed out with a strange fragrance. Zhang Yiyi, unprepared, panicked and rolled back down the wall, seemingly about to fall from the tens of meters high school wall, "I’m dead," she murmured as she closed her eyes.
Unexpectedly, she did not "kiss" the sandy ground, but was grabbed and brought down from the wall by someone.
"Are you trying to kill yourself?" Wang Shuai had never seen such a foolish freshman. He was just about to leave when he saw this freshman and her unflattering posture climbing the city wall.
Seeing that she was a female student still neglecting her image, Wang Shuai watched with amusement from below, only to find the foolish freshman attempting to climb over the school wall, almost falling victim to the mustard gas.
"Thank you... thank you," Zhang Yiyi opened her eyes and saw the distinctively masculine face.
Without any courtesy, the man threw her harshly onto the ground, "I haven’t seen such a foolish freshman before, if it were a second later, you’d definitely be dead." Wang Shuai took a clear look at Zhang Yiyi’s face; her round baozi face with big eyes looked naive and youthful, showing no signs of spiritual energy, probably a Superpower User.
However, after being thrown so rudely onto the ground by him, her face wasn’t red, she wasn’t out of breath, nor did she show any overly frightened expression, suggesting her psychological quality wasn’t too bad.
"Silly... hey, why do you speak so rudely, where am I foolish? Even without your help, I could still climb out energetically," Zhang Yiyi, provoked by his words, used her hands and feet to climb up again at twice the speed.
"Never seen someone so crazy," Wang Shuai, not being a particularly kind-hearted person, let her go when she went off to get herself killed again. Being hit by mustard gas wasn’t necessarily fatal; at worst, she could be carried away by Romeo One responsible for that area and undergo a gut wash to detoxify.
He casually swiped his card to leave the school gate and had just pulled out the Heaven Card when he heard a thud beside him. "You are the foolish one, your whole family is foolish, I came out just fine."
Actually, before she fell to the ground and was rescued by Wang Shuai, she had already inhaled some mustard gas. With Zhang Yiyi’s intellect, she wasn’t clear about what mustard gas was, only threatened by Xiao Xian that it was a stinky gas that turns one’s stomach. However, after the so-called mustard gas sprayed out, she didn’t feel any discomfort, so she climbed again.
Not only did the mustard gas have no effect on her, but it also seemed to energize her sore arms from climbing.