Chapter 42: I’m a Vibe of Delicate Weakness (11)
At 7:30, the leader finally walked in with his assistant and bodyguards. He looked to be around forty, with an upright appearance and a friendly smile, and he was warmly welcomed by everyone. Whether it was genuine or just flattery was unknown.
This was the person in charge of personnel changes at the base, named Shao Fanghui. There weren’t many descriptions of him in the book, only mentioned twice.
Once was when he talked to Si Xu, and the other was when he tried to persuade Yu Wenyu not to leave the base.
He seemed alright, but Jiang Zhiyan instinctively felt that he wasn’t a good person.
Shao Fanghui gave a brief report on the supply search situation for the past week, praising the top three teams and encouraging the last-place team, which Yu Wenyu belonged to.
Jiang Zhiyan took a sip of water: “It seems like he doesn’t want us to join Yu Wenyu’s team, otherwise there’s no need to mention it specifically.”
She glanced back at Yu Wenyu. He and the people around him clearly looked very unhappy. Someone in the audience couldn’t help but snicker.
At the end of the meeting, Shao Fanghui formally introduced the twelve newcomers. Although three of them weren’t present, it didn’t lessen their significance.
Standing on the stage, Jiang Zhiyan felt the gazes from all directions. Her expression remained neutral, but she felt very uncomfortable: “That feeling of being treated like a piece of meat is back again.”
“Host, there’s someone winking at you below.” The system said.
“Can you pay attention to something more positive?” Jiang Zhiyan paused. “Forget it, there’s nothing positive here.”
When Shao Fanghui mentioned that Jiang Zhiyan was the least injured among the twelve, even more people paid attention to her, speculating about her ability.
Jiang Zhiyan let out a breath.
“Interested teams can extend invitations to them.” Shao Fanghui paused and continued, “Of course, you can also form your own teams, but the team leader’s level must be above five, and a team needs ten people to be formed. It’s best to finalize within five days. If you don’t, you’ll be assigned forcibly. Think carefully.”
Jiang Zhiyan looked at Si Xu. In the original text, Si Xu, impressed by the male lead’s performance, joined his team. Now that the male lead didn’t have any impressive performance, she didn’t know what Si Xu would choose.
Si Xu frowned. Jiang Zhiyan guessed that Si Xu’s original intention was to form her own team but didn’t expect the level requirement of five.
Feeling Jiang Zhiyan’s gaze, Si Xu looked over. After just a glance, Jiang Zhiyan looked away.
Si Xu frowned.
After the meeting, the people from A University went to Si Xu’s place for a small meeting. Each of the nine held at least five invitations, sitting in a circle, trying to gauge each other’s thoughts.
“I still want to form my own team.” Si Xu said.
“But you need to be level five.”
“There are still five days.” Si Xu tapped the table twice. “I can try. If I can’t make it, I’ll join Yu Wenyu’s team. If you have other ideas, you can choose your own teams.”
“Judging from the situation here, if we form our own team, it will be very difficult. We understand the rules on the surface, but we’re not familiar with the unspoken rules yet.” One person said carefully, looking at Si Xu. “It might be better to join a team temporarily.”
“Isn’t Yu Wenyu’s team too weak?”
“It’s not easy to stand out in a strong team, and it would be troublesome to leave later.” Xue Lin shook his head. “Joining a large team definitely comes with a high price.”
“You have a point, this is really troublesome. I want to go back and write my paper, I’ve never felt so happy about writing a paper before.”
“Thanks for reminding me, now I’m doubly miserable.”
Everyone chuckled wryly.
Jiang Zhiyan leaned against the sofa, seemingly spacing out.
“Junior, any thoughts?” Xue Lin looked at Jiang Zhiyan.
Jiang Zhiyan looked away, stared at Xue Lin for a second, then shook her head: “I’ll follow Senior.” What was wrong with this person, why suddenly call her out?
Si Xu looked at Jiang Zhiyan and breathed a sigh of relief.
The meeting didn’t reach a conclusion, not surprisingly, after all, choosing a team was a major decision affecting their future lives.
After sending everyone off, Si Xu stopped Jiang Zhiyan, who was about to return to her room: “You…”
Qian Rongrong, still in the living room, fake yawned and went back to her room.
“What’s wrong, Senior?”
“Are you angry?” Si Xu rarely felt guilty or uneasy, but now these emotions filled her heart, although she felt she hadn’t done anything wrong.
Jiang Zhiyan looked at Si Xu blankly, then shook her head: “Why would you say that?”
“You…” Si Xu opened her mouth, all her preparations gone.
What should she say?
She had never encountered this situation before.
“You’re very quiet.” Si Xu finally managed to say.
“Oh.” Jiang Zhiyan looked down at her shoes. “I thought Senior found me annoying, so I tried to be quiet.”
Si Xu frowned again: “Why would you think that?”
“Intuition, I also think I’m too annoying. Senior has always liked quiet.” Jiang Zhiyan bit her lip, took a deep breath, and spoke quickly, “Senior, you go rest first, I’m going to rest too, I have to wake up early tomorrow morning, I’m afraid I won’t be able to get up, I heard they make you run three kilometers if you don’t.”
She quickly ran into her room, closed the door, and locked it.
Si Xu looked at the closed door, pursed her lips, stood in the living room for a while, then returned to her room.
Jiang Zhiyan stood by the window: “How’s the situation at A University?”
“That cockroach-fly monster laid a lot of eggs.”
“Do you think it’s better if I take care of it, or should I leave it alone?” The lights in the room suddenly went out, and several screams rang out from outside. Jiang Zhiyan glanced at her watch, 9 pm, this was the time when the power to the evolved humans’ building was cut off every day.
“Better to take care of it.” The system was surprised, Jiang Zhiyan rarely asked for its opinion. It was so moved it almost cried. “The male and female leads are too weak right now, if they die at its hands, it’ll be over. Besides, it has already laid eggs, the…roach-fly might go back, but the eggs probably won’t.”
“I hate insects.” Jiang Zhiyan took out her fan, fanned herself, and opened the window. “I don’t know how we’re going to survive the summer without AC, it’s so hot… Who’s paying for the teleportation?”
The system paused: “I’ll file a request, you go first. If we wait a few more days until they hatch, it’ll be over. This base hasn’t dealt with the ground situation.”
Jiang Zhiyan returned to A University. It had only been about a day, but the place had completely turned into ruins. Thinking about the supplies they had gathered, she felt a pang of heartache.
She went straight to the auditorium, which had completely collapsed. A roach-fly was nesting where the auditorium used to be, looking even bigger than before.
The scattered corpses on the ground were gone, probably eaten.
Jiang Zhiyan stared at the roach-fly for a while, then flicked her fan. The system watched as the fan transformed into a Tang Dynasty sword.
“So disgusting, file a request for a free shower for me.” Under the moonlight, Jiang Zhiyan saw clusters of white eggs around the roach-fly, covering the grass next to the auditorium. The eggs were the size of stools, and she could vaguely see something moving inside.
“I’ll try my best.” The system replied.
Jiang Zhiyan used a skill card, enveloping her entire body. The sword pierced the roach-fly’s head, green fluid splattering several stories high, the stench overwhelming. The roach-fly struggled violently, its two antennae spinning like windmills. The larvae inside the eggs, sensing the female’s distress, started struggling, trying to emerge early.
“I don’t even want this sword anymore.” Jiang Zhiyan complained, cutting off the flailing antennae and slicing off two wings, then stabbing the head again. She gripped the hilt and forcefully sliced the creature open from head to tail, sparks flying as the blade scraped against its shell.
The roach-fly shrieked before dying, countless multi-legged insects swarming towards them, larvae crawling out of the eggs, densely packed.
Jiang Zhiyan stood on the roach-fly’s corpse, twirling her sword: “This is insane.”
She split the sword into two and plunged into the swarm of insects, one slash per insect. If Xue Lin were here, he would have noticed that every slash landed precisely on their weak spots, not a single one missed.
However, her focus wasn’t on the multi-legged insects, but on the eggs on the ground. She slashed through them, a string of eggs with each swing. Although it wasn’t difficult to deal with them, because she also had to deal with the multi-legged insects, her speed wasn’t very fast. “Scan the school and see how many eggs there are in total.”
“Yes!” After scanning, the system fell silent. “Ah… Host, you see for yourself, the red dots are all eggs.”
After seeing the scan results, Jiang Zhiyan stopped. The red dots covered the entire school, most of them underground, extending fifty meters deep. No wonder this thing came up, there was no more room to lay eggs below.
She suddenly lost all motivation. Even if she split herself into a hundred, she couldn’t possibly deal with all of them.
“Let’s just destroy it, remember to reimburse me.” Jiang Zhiyan bought a skill card worth 5,000 points, set the timer, walked out of the school gate, and said rather sentimentally, “Goodbye, my dear alma mater.”
System: …
A violent explosion erupted, centered on the skill card, but it was silent and without flames, so it didn’t attract any attention. All the insects instantly evaporated. Because the ground below was hollowed out, the ground caved in. In just a minute, A University disappeared, unrecognizable.
Jiang Zhiyan exhaled, cleaned the Tang Dynasty sword three times before putting it away, returned to the base, and collapsed onto the bed, exhausted: “The first thing we do in the future is scan, you, as a system, should have this awareness.”
“Okay…” The system, seeing Jiang Zhiyan’s exhausted state, felt a bit embarrassed.
Jiang Zhiyan continued: “Also, you asked me to do this, so if any problems arise later, you take the blame.”
System: ???
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