Chapter 572: Chapter 9: Abduction & Counter-Abduction 2
Yiyi was convinced that the mustard gas should be beneficial to her. In fact, Zhang Yiyi also stumbled upon this by mistake. Aside from all the attributes of a reptilian lizard, the colorful gecko has one more special feature: it can absorb various kinds of gases, whether it’s Spiritual Energy or poisonous gas. Once digested by the colorful gecko, it all turns into its own energy.
Zhang Yiyi had become immune to all poisons.
"Mustard gas doesn’t affect you? I should’ve known someone as useless as you couldn’t be in the Reverse Genius Class unless you had an immune-to-all-poisons constitution. That’s somewhat useful," Wang Shuai was a bit shocked, but seeing Zhang Yiyi’s face puffed with pride like a bun and taking into account her height of over 1.7 meters with a baby face, he couldn’t help but want to tease her. "If I’m not mistaken, you must be a freshman, right?"
"Yeah, how did you know?" Zhang Yiyi was still reveling in her triumph, clearly unaware of the serious consequences that awaited her.
"And a particularly useless freshman at that. How much money do you have on your Heaven Card?" Wang Shuai asked, trying to hold back his laughter.
"Why should I tell you?" Zhang Yiyi walked over to the card reader, sneakily inserted her card, and shielded it with her hand like a thief, taking a quick glimpse.
Wang Shuai had already seen the pitiful "1" at the beginning of her Heaven-defying Value, his handsome and spirited face was turning red trying to suppress a laugh, "How do you plan to go back?"
"How I came is how I’ll go back, of course. It’s simple since I’m not afraid of the mustard gas layer," Zhang Yiyi said, doing warm-up exercises on the spot, preparing to climb back.
"Don’t say I didn’t warn you, this wall is much smarter than you." He picked up a stone from the ground and tossed it casually upwards.
The stone flew straight up the wall more than a dozen meters high, not deviating in the slightest, indicating Wang Shuai’s arm strength was quite remarkable. It cleared the campus wall without trouble.
Dozens of arrows flew from the cannon above the wall, shooting the stone, which was only the size of a finger, back. If it hadn’t been a stone but something else, by now, it would have been punctured like a hornet’s nest.
"Still sure you want to climb back?" Wang Shuai could no longer hold back and let out a deafening laugh.
Zhang Yiyi swallowed hard, wondering if, aside from being immune to poisons, the colorful gecko could also be immune to blades and firearms. She certainly didn’t have the guts to be a living target for an experiment.
"Well, take your time thinking about it. I’m off," Wang Shuai laughed enough and turned to leave.
"Hey, don’t go. Lend me 500 Heaven-defying Value so I can get back, my friend is still in there. I will definitely pay you back. I’m the new student from the Basic Class, Zhang Yiyi. I really will pay the Heaven-defying Value back to you." Zhang Yiyi stomped her foot, following Wang Shuai closely, but he ignored her and let her tag along.
Back in the dorm, Xiao Xian waited until sunset. The temperature outside suddenly dropped to around zero degrees, and thick clouds loomed ominously from the west, bearing down on them.
Worried, Xiao Xian took her Heaven Card and went out to find someone.
The desert night was unfamiliar to Xiao Xian but not hard to adapt to.
Desolation was something she was actually quite familiar with; her garbage space used to be a wasteland too.
At night, the North Campus Zone C had a different view—it was quiet, and one could gaze at the star-filled night sky. On the barren land where only cattail and cacti grew, traces of lizards unseen during the day crawled out, along with some birds fluttering about the desert, searching for dew and edible insects.
The desert was more alive at night.
Under the starlight, the sand seemed like a snowy field. Xiao Xian walked on the sand. If not for her concern for Zhang Yiyi, she might have enjoyed the unique allure of the desert night.
It was still summer. The temperature in the Zone C desert dropped to around 0 degrees Celsius at night, while daytime temperatures could reach forty or fifty degrees. The huge difference between day and night temperatures caused the surrounding rocks to fragment into various sizes of gravel due to the severe expansion from heat and contraction from the cold.
The gravel was weathered over the years, the fine sand piled into dunes, and the rocks turned into Gobi, making most of the Zone C’s ground covered by desert and a small portion by the Gobi.
"I have searched everywhere but still haven’t found Yiyi. I hope nothing bad has happened," Xiao Xian didn’t see any signs of people walking on the vast sand plain.
She thought about it and decided to head towards the Strategic Goods Center to inquire with Romeo One.
The robot Romeo One, like the first time Xiao Xian and the others came, heard a visitor approaching and glided across the ground to meet Xiao Xian.
"Romeo One, my friend Zhang Yiyi is missing. Can you help me locate her?" In the North Campus, the Heaven Card is the most important thing. Every student must carry their Heaven Card when going out.
The same was true for Xiao Xian. The Heaven Card should have an internal device to determine her location.
"Yes, according to North Campus management regulations, a search and rescue mission requires a payment of 100 Heaven-defying Value." Romeo’s response nearly made Xiao Xian choke, proving it to be a stuffy stickler of a robot.
She had worked hard all day just to earn ten Heaven-defying Value. Asking Romeo to find someone was going to cost that much. It really wasn’t cost-effective.
But considering it was getting too late and Zhang Yiyi was unreliable, she needed to find her quickly. Plus, she had an additional income of 10,000 Heaven-defying Value today, giving Xiao Xian the capital to splurge just this once.
"Xiao Xian student, your Heaven Card has reached the requirement for Basic VIP. Would you like to upgrade to Basic VIP? After upgrading, you can enjoy all the privileges of a Basic VIP, such as a 10% discount on shopping in this center, and buying and selling items," Romeo inquired after confirming the amount on her Heaven Card.
"If there’s a discount, of course, I’ll take it. A 10% discount is better than nothing," Xiao Xian didn’t expect such a privilege. Wait a minute, she seemed to have heard something else.
Behind the 10% discount—the buying and selling items. This means she could also sell things at the Strategic Goods Center?
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