Quick Travel to the Clouds

Chapter 805 Challenge Dungeon 60

Yun Chu reached out and gently tapped the back of the girl's chair at the table in front of her with her fingertips.

The girl turned around, her slightly chubby face framed by round-framed glasses, her ponytail neatly tied, and her name tag reading "Gu Tian, ​​Class 7, Grade 11".

"Excuse me, is there something you need?" Gu Tian's voice was soft and gentle, with the programmed politeness typical of NPCs.

Yun Chu didn't answer immediately. She just looked at the other person quietly, her gray eyes appearing particularly pale in the afternoon classroom, like frost-covered glass.

A few seconds of silence.

Gu Tian's expression changed from confusion to unease. She subconsciously shrank back, and the chair legs scraped against the ground with a slight screeching sound.

"I have a few questions for you." Yun Chu's voice was low, only the two of them could hear, devoid of any emotion. "Answer them obediently, or else—"

Yun Chu silently took out a sharp knife and slowly approached.

Gu Tian's face turned pale.

She quickly glanced around the classroom, making sure no teacher or other students were paying attention, then bit her lower lip and practically forced out the words, "What...what do you want to know..."

"How can I leave school?"

"...Sports meet." Gu Tian's voice was barely audible. "The school sports meet is on Friday. Those who receive the Bright Badge can leave school early."

Yun Chu's eyelids twitched slightly.

How do I get the Badge of Light?

“The top three in each event will receive a badge.” Gu Tian lowered her eyes and spoke quickly. “Sprints, long-distance running, high jump, long jump, relays… any event is fine. The badges are given out on the spot, and once you wear them, the school gate will let you through.”

How can I participate in the sports meet?

Gu Tian's eyelashes trembled, and her voice lowered even further: "You...you haven't registered yet."

As she spoke, she quickly raised her eyelids to glance at Yun Chu, then quickly lowered them again, as if afraid of being watched by something: "Registration for the sports meet ended last week, and all the registration forms have been collected and are with the head of the teaching department... If you haven't filled them out, then... then you can't participate..."

She didn't finish her sentence. But the meaning was clear—if you can't participate in the sports meet, you won't get the Badge of Light; and if you don't get the Badge of Light, what will happen in three days is obvious to anyone.

Yun Chu did not ask further, "Are there any other ways to leave?"

Rule-based copies usually don't have only one path to survival, but when information is insufficient, it's always right to grasp the clearest one first.

"The application form," she said. "Where is it?"

"I don't know," Gu Tian said in a low voice. "The teacher gave it to us to fill out."

Yun Chu nodded slightly.

Then she looked away and opened her textbook on the table again, as if the brief conversation just now was just an ordinary exchange during break time.

Gu Tian froze for two seconds, as if suddenly freed from some invisible pressure, and turned around abruptly, her shoulders still trembling slightly.

She didn't turn around.

Yun Chu did not speak again.

She lowered her eyes, her gaze fixed on the pages of the book, but her fingertips unconsciously traced the edges of the paper.

Sports meet registration form.

Friday, the Badge of Light.

And most importantly: after the registration deadline, players must "fill in" their own forms from the pile of already submitted forms.

She needs that form.

The school bell rang sharply again after the short break between classes.

The scattered students in the corridor quickened their pace, some jogging into the classroom, their backpacks hitting the backs of chairs with a dull thud.

Xia Wanqi and his two companions rushed into the room just as the bell rang.

Tai Lele's forehead was covered in fine sweat, and her breathing was slightly rapid; Zhou Muyang's expression was tense, and he quickly stuffed a piece of paper folded into a small square into his school uniform pocket; Xia Wanqi walked at the front, with his usual calm and proper smile on his face.

A male teacher appeared on the podium; he was in his forties, with a stern face and thick-rimmed black glasses perched on his nose.

He opened his lesson plan and began to teach a physics problem, his voice as flat as chanting.

Most of the NPC students in the classroom had their heads down, mechanically copying the notes on the blackboard.

Yun Chu also lowered her head, her pen tip moving slowly across the draft paper.

But what she wrote was not a formula.

—The fire ant slipped silently from the cuff, flapped its wings without a sound, and flew out the window, skimming the shadows along the edge of the ceiling.

One of them went to the third floor of the administration building to find out the exact location and security situation of the director of education's office.

The other one...

She paused, then set aside a wisp of her thought and let it linger near Xia Wanqi's seat.

To complete her mission, she needed to know Xia Wanqi's whereabouts. However, now was not the time to act; the best time to use a sack or something similar was in the dead of night.

The morning's classes passed in a dull atmosphere.

During this time, three more NPCs were taken away for minor violations: one answered a question irrelevantly when the teacher asked him a question, another dropped his pen on the ground while spinning it and made a sound, and the third simply couldn't help but laugh out loud when the teacher told a lame joke.

The crimson rules on the walls of the punishment room did not add any new entries after they devoured these people.

Yun Chu noted this down.

When the lunch break bell rang, the entire teaching building seemed to have been switched on.

The NPC students stood up one after another and flocked to the corridor in twos and threes, with the smell of cooking oil from the cafeteria wafting in the air.

Yun Chu wasn't in a hurry. She slowly put her textbooks into the drawer, and as she stood up, her gaze met that of Gu Tian, ​​who had just stood up in front of her.

Gu Tian, ​​like a startled rabbit, immediately turned her face away, swung her ponytail over her shoulder, and hurried towards the door.

Yun Chu followed at a leisurely pace.

The corridor was bustling with people. Yun Chu kept a distance of two or three steps, neither getting too close nor falling behind.

Gu Tian's pace quickened, and she almost ran into the cafeteria.

The cafeteria is typical of a middle school campus – long stainless steel tables and chairs, greasy floors, long queues in front of the windows, and the air is filled with the aroma of braised pork and stir-fried cabbage.

Gu Tian got her food, buried her head in a corner at a four-person table, hunched her shoulders, and wished she could squeeze herself into a crack in the wall.

Yun Chu sat down opposite her, carrying her tray.

Gu Tian nearly lost her grip on her chopsticks.

“I don’t eat people,” Yun Chu said.

She picked up her chopsticks, took a bite of rice, and her movements were as natural as any student eating in the cafeteria.

Gu Tian lowered her head and mechanically shoveled rice into her mouth, her chewing rhythm clearly disordered.

Yun Chu didn't look at her again.

She focused on eating her lunch, and her taste buds told her that the school's cook was decent; the braised pork was a good balance of lean and fat, but the rice was a bit hard.

The surrounding noise of people, the clinking of cutlery, and the cheerful campus songs playing on the radio together create a very normal, even heartwarming, midday scene on campus.

If you hadn't seen the writhing mass of flesh in the disciplinary room with your own eyes, you would believe this was just an ordinary high school.

Yun Chu finished the last bite of her meal and put down her chopsticks.

Gu Tian still had more than half of the food left on her plate. She couldn't eat anymore. She clasped her hands together on her knees, her knuckles turning white from the effort.

Yun Chu didn't say much, got up, picked up her plate and walked towards the recycling area.

The tense gaze behind her didn't disappear until she walked out of the cafeteria.

There is one hour and twenty minutes left in the lunch break.