Chapter 7 Reward: Green Feather! (3k)
Luko’s eyes narrowed slightly upon seeing the figure that appeared beside Su Jiu. This was one of Zhiyuan High School’s top students, a mountain that always stood in her way.
But this was her dormitory, so Luko, sticking out her neck, snorted coldly, “Bai Qianyu, this is our dorm’s internal matter. Why are you sticking your nose in?”
“Let’s go.”
Upon hearing this, Bai Qianyu glanced up at Luko, her face as cold as ever. She ignored Luko, took Su Jiu’s hand, and prepared to walk out the door.
“Oh… oh okay.” Su Jiu, suddenly having her hand held, felt the warmth of the palm and was a little slow to react, but she still nodded gently, retracting the frost from her fingertips.
However, neither of them noticed Luko’s darkening face. They only heard her angry voice, “Bai Qianyu, you can help her for a while, but can you help her for life? Next month is the school’s practical combat assessment. Let’s see if she’ll be the first to be eliminated.”
“Heh heh…”
As soon as her words fell, Bai Qianyu paused for a moment, then turned and smiled. Her smile was so cold and captivating that the other girls in the dorm were smitten, but Luko sensed a hint of disdain in it…
Or rather, the contempt of the strong for the weak.
Then, she turned around, leading Su Jiu, who was half a head shorter than her, out of the dorm, leaving only some popcorn-eating bystanders clicking their tongues.
“…”
Looking at the backs of the two, one tall and one short, Luko found it inexplicably amusing. She couldn’t understand why they were so confident, but she was glad they had left.
For a sense of peace.
After leaving Su Jiu’s dorm, the two walked in silence, just like they had in the evening. Su Jiu lowered her head to look at her feet in flip-flops, her big toe continuously rubbing against her index toe.
What should high school girls talk about? Who the hell knows! And this was the Male Protagonist’s Sister…
Su Jiu had never imagined being linked arm-in-arm and walking side-by-side with Bai Qianyu. The warmth between them made her feel a little uneasy.
She was afraid that once the other party knew her identity, she would be killed.
“Don’t think about it. We commoners shouldn’t expect to get our way.”
Bai Qianyu seemed to misunderstand something. She stopped, gently patted Su Jiu on the back, and then continued, “That’s just how the world is. If we were Battle Kings or even War Gods, they would be bowing to us.”
“Mhm.”
Su Jiu snapped back to attention and responded. The image of Bai Qianyu in the middle of the novel involuntarily flashed in her mind: with wings on her back, wielding a long spear to defend a city, fighting hundreds of War General Level Ancient God Sect members without defeat…
Thinking of the Ancient God Sect, the cult in the novel, Su Jiu’s thoughts began to wander again.
The Ancient God Sect, a sect that preached rapid strength enhancement for mortals. They would do anything to improve themselves. It seemed that not long from now, Huayang City would be ruined by the Ancient God Sect.
As for when and what, Su Jiu had no idea. She only gathered from snippets in the novel that Huayang City was once used as a bargaining chip by the Ancient God Sect to exchange for a certain Big Shot who was captured by the highest Law Enforcement Hall.
“We’re here.”
Bai Qianyu’s voice interrupted Su Jiu’s thoughts. She looked up slightly and realized that this was the dorm building above hers. No wonder the other party could come down so quickly.
Looking at the environment inside from the outside, under the pale yellow light, there were only one or two girls. They seemed to be sitting on their beds, cultivating separately.
As expected, dorms without cliques were much more comfortable.
“Do you need to go back to get your toiletries?” Bai Qianyu looked at the girl who often zoned out, unable to associate her with a genius with over ninety Coagulated Blood.
“No, I’ve already washed.”
Su Jiu gently shook her head. Just as she stepped into the dorm room, the girls inside looked over. There was no hostility as she had imagined, only an exclamation: “What a cute junior schoolmate.” Then they turned back to their own business.
Seeing Su Jiu frozen in place, Bai Qianyu thought she was too shy. She took her arm and pointed to one of the beds, smiling, “This is my bunk. You go up first. I just got back from class and haven’t showered yet.”
“Mhm mhm.”
Su Jiu acted very obediently and went to the bed pointed to by Bai Qianyu. When she reached the bed, she was a little surprised. It was a very cute Doraemon duvet cover. She carefully lay down on the bed.
The sweet scent of gardenia from Bai Qianyu reached her nose. Of course, Su Jiu didn’t think it was body odor or anything. After all, her laundry detergent was lavender-scented, and she herself would have a faint lavender scent.
She poked her head out and glanced at Bai Qianyu, who was still in the restroom. Turning back, she covered herself slightly with the thin quilt, just past her chest, and closed her heavy eyelids.
The next day, morning sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating floating dust particles and falling on the faces of everyone who no longer had to wake up early.
When Su Jiu opened her eyes again, the scene before her was pure white. It wasn’t snowing, but rather…
She stared with dead fish eyes, tilting her head helplessly. She was being hugged like a large doll by the Male Protagonist’s Sister, their skin pressed tightly together through their clothes. Due to the air conditioning in the scholar dorms, it didn’t feel warm.
Su Jiu swallowed slightly. She tried to pull her arm out of the other’s embrace, but she couldn’t. And whenever she moved, her arm would always brush against that much larger part of her body… compared to her own flat chest, it was so soft and made one want to commit a crime.
Although it felt quite good… Humph, what was good about it? She, Su Jiu, was a gentleman.
“Mmm… I caught you.” Bai Qianyu suddenly spoke, startling Su Jiu. However, seeing that she was talking in her sleep, Su Jiu felt a sense of relief as if she had gotten away with something.
“You must have stayed up very late, right? In the novel, she was even more diligent than the Male Protagonist.”
Then, she saw the other party’s complete sleeping face and couldn’t bear to disturb her. She could only blush and secretly enjoy… enduring something that one shouldn’t be exposed to at this age.
…
In the afternoon, Su Jiu told Lu Nan about what happened last night and, as per his instructions, moved all her luggage to Bai Qianyu’s dorm. There was an empty bunk; in his words, it was to “influence” her with a different person.
“Influence my ass. Old Lu is just a coward and doesn’t dare to provoke Luko’s dad.”
After Su Jiu had prepared everything, she looked at the empty dorm, couldn’t help but lie on her bed and complain. She bit her finger and smeared her blood on the ring.
As usual, her soul arrived in that dark, empty space. However, this time it was different from before. She wasn’t immediately teleported to some battlefield or forest, but stayed within the space.
Su Jiu’s gaze fell on the countdown. It had turned into an infinity symbol. Just as she thought there was a bug, a green feather slowly descended from opposite her.
Su Jiu could feel the immense energy contained within the feather. It was something she couldn’t possibly touch.
Above the feather, there were several crimson mists that slowly transformed into red characters: “Fight against heaven, fight against people, fight against yourself.”
Then, as the feather descended, the red characters flickered, and finally, only the words “Fight against yourself” remained. At this moment, something strange happened. The feather, at an unnoticeable speed, strangely lunged towards Su Jiu.
Su Jiu had no time to dodge and could only watch as the feather entered her forehead. She froze in place. After an unknown amount of time…
There was no pain as expected. Her consciousness seemed to turn into a small blue worm, sinking into a warm, emerald-green ocean, becoming more and more hazy, as if about to melt…
From above the green ocean, a green fish with a cunning face emerged. Slowly, it transformed into a large green bird and began to peck at Su Jiu, who had become a small blue worm.
Su Jiu dazedly looked at the greed in the bird’s face. Is it going to eat me? So sleepy…
“Chirp chirp!”
Suddenly, a massive shadow flashed over Su Jiu’s head. The green bird was fiercely grabbed by some existence and carried away.
Immediately, a chilling sensation spread throughout Su Jiu’s body, and her consciousness began to slowly recover…
All of this felt like a fleeting dream. When she opened her eyes again, she was still in the posture of dodging the feather. Just as she was confused, an incredibly grand voice echoed in her ears: “Passed the death trial – Bloodline, obtained Wood Attribute Conversion! Next activation: Warrior Class.”
“What does ‘death trial’ mean? What does ‘Wood Attribute Conversion’ mean?”
Su Jiu asked with a solemn expression. This was the first time she had heard a voice in this space. Did the death trial she mentioned mean she might die?
The voice did not answer her. The next moment, she was forcibly sent out of the space. The scene before her was already late at night. She stared blankly at the ring on her hand, lost in thought.
That must have been some kind of illusion. Did I turn into an Ice Cicada?
But what was that giant shadow in the sky? The green giant bird that even the Ice Cicada feared appeared so weak under its gaze.
