It was five minutes past eight, and Gu Qianqian had just finished her last job for the day of unloading the dishes.
“Uncle Zhao, let me help with the vegetables!” she smiled. “Remember to hand me this month’s wages tomorrow!”
Uncle Zhao Wu was in charge of unloading the items; he was bald and of average height, stepping on a pair of cheap, plastic slippers.
He looked a bit sloppy, but his eyes were extraordinarily energetic, like a hardworking mouse.
“This month’s wages? D-do you think I pay too little? Listen-“
School canteens are tricky.
Although Huacheng’s cafeteria wasn’t unpopular, they needed to cut corners to save costs, which is why they could only unload their deliveries at night.
However, ever since the nights became long, it has always been difficult to hire workers at night, and here comes Gu Qianqian!
Gu Qianqian’s salary was three times that of ordinary part-time workers, but she could easily do the job of five to eight people with her strength!
Hence, Uncle Zhao panicked upon hearing her request. Where would he find a worker who is willing to work at night and be underpaid?
“Oh, I have done many part-time jobs, and you pay me the most, but I’m going on a long trip the day after tomorrow, so I don’t know when I’ll be home! I’ll definitely come back here, though,” she promised, patting her chest.
Hearing what Gu Qianqian said, he heaved a sigh of relief and said, “Good, good, I’ll keep your job for you. By the way, I reserved the biggest portion of chicken rice for you today.”
“Really? Thanks a lot!” She beamed and left happily.
Walking through the empty campus, her system waited until it was completely quiet before whispering in her ear, “You’re that happy over a meal? Don’t you feel that it is out of character for a protagonist?”
“You’re right. Next time, I’ll have him make me a feast! Fit for a heroine like me!”
“Tsk, eat your meal. We still have to look for the bamboo scrolls. Never mind, I can’t feel it on campus anymore, but that can’t be…”
“By the way, I have something to ask,” Gu Qianqian murmured, furrowing her brows. “Where did those two people come from? They just barged into campus and started beating that poor headless ghost. We’ve been looking for her for so long, and I feel that someone stole our victory!”
While talking, Gu Qianqian found a bench by the side of the road, sat down, unwrapped her bento, and smiled as she looked at the fat portion of chicken inside.
“They’re from the Eclipse Society…”
“Are they better than the student council?” Gu Qianqian munched.
In the past few days, Gu Qianqian has snuck into campus multiple times to find the bamboo scrolls. However, she was caught one day by the student council, and she still retains psychological trauma from the encounter.
“A group of brats pretending to be adults versus a terrorist organisation that harbours dangerous urban legends, so you tell me!”
“And,” the system continued. “Don’t you know you’re being played like a fiddle?”
This is because a rumour started to brew on campus: pay Gu Qianqian ten bucks, and she’ll do anything for you.
“Aha! Jokes on them!” Gu Qianqian boasted. “I know their tricks, so as long as I keep working for them, I can get money! Ha ha ha!”
The system was speechless.
“Forget it, but the Eclipse Society is still on campus. We need to be careful; they want to sneak underground to find something, and we’ll pretend we see nothing. If we meddle, we’ll end up like that ghost just now.”
Gu Qianqian was terrified. “Y-you mean that they’ll blow us away fifty feet into the air?”
“Yes! So we’ll leave them alone for somebody else to take care of.”
“Who?”
“Why are you asking this? Don’t ask, just eat!”
“Come on, you have to tell me! Or I won’t be able to sleep at night!”
“The Witch. Are you satisfied now?”
Destroying the Eclipse Society may be the most correct thing she will do, but that doesn’t offset the crimes that she will commit!
“System.”
“What is it?”
“Why are you so sure that she will destroy the Eclipse Society? I found that your recent predictions are getting more and more inaccurate.”
“Damn it, woman! You’re asking too many questions! I can guarantee that my predictions are all accurate! Just shut up and eat your food!”
“But I already finished!” she said, rubbing her belly, which had barely changed after eating two portions of chicken rice.
“What the… Are you still in puberty?”
After all, it takes a lot of energy to transform a body embedded with runes, but it will get better when it is fully developed in the future, right? Well, probably.
“By the way, system…”
“What is it?”
“I can sense the bamboo scrolls,” she said, pointing towards a lantern-shaped mark on her arm. Under her skin, a faint scarlet light could be seen, which is proof that the bamboo scrolls are within one kilometre.
“Strange, why did it come back all of a sudden?” The system murmured to itself in a low voice and pondered for a few seconds: “Gu Qianqian, follow me.”
“System, aren’t you going to issue a mission?” Gu Qianqian asked.
“Nonsense. I have no missions for you; plus, you’re going to waste it all on cash to buy useless items, like shoes for the dance! I know who you are! I could simply enchant the cheapest shoes for you, and yet…”
Gu Qianqian felt a little wrong. She pursed her lips and said, “But I still want…”
“No, you don’t!”
“Listen to me! I want to use the points to buy glass slippers!”
“And Cinderella wore fake shoes the day she met the prince, correct?” The system improvised. “It transformed into a pair of glass slippers.”
“I guess you’re right.”
Meanwhile, on the path of Gate No. 4.
“Agh…”
After burying the last of her charms to make a trap, Lu Yibei breathed a sigh of relief.
Half an hour ago, she realised there was no way to take the headless girl to safety, so she thought of setting up defensive traps to protect her.
She learnt these traps to target the old man with the colourful shawl, so she didn’t know if they would work well in the current situation.
It’s better to try—even better if it works.
As long as an urban legend touches the mechanism, they will be knocked down by the statue and then be showered with more than 70 charms.
And it will be a glorious, beautiful explosion.
It was five minutes past eight, and Gu Qianqian had just finished her last job for the day of unloading the dishes.
“Uncle Zhao, let me help with the vegetables!” she smiled. “Remember to hand me this month’s wages tomorrow!”
Uncle Zhao Wu was in charge of unloading the items; he was bald and of average height, stepping on a pair of cheap, plastic slippers.
He looked a bit sloppy, but his eyes were extraordinarily energetic, like a hardworking mouse.
“This month’s wages? D-do you think I pay too little? Listen-“
School canteens are tricky.
Although Huacheng’s cafeteria wasn’t unpopular, they needed to cut corners to save costs, which is why they could only unload their deliveries at night.
However, ever since the nights became long, it has always been difficult to hire workers at night, and here comes Gu Qianqian!
Gu Qianqian’s salary was three times that of ordinary part-time workers, but she could easily do the job of five to eight people with her strength!
Hence, Uncle Zhao panicked upon hearing her request. Where would he find a worker who is willing to work at night and be underpaid?
“Oh, I have done many part-time jobs, and you pay me the most, but I’m going on a long trip the day after tomorrow, so I don’t know when I’ll be home! I’ll definitely come back here, though,” she promised, patting her chest.
Hearing what Gu Qianqian said, he heaved a sigh of relief and said, “Good, good, I’ll keep your job for you. By the way, I reserved the biggest portion of chicken rice for you today.”
“Really? Thanks a lot!” She beamed and left happily.
Walking through the empty campus, her system waited until it was completely quiet before whispering in her ear, “You’re that happy over a meal? Don’t you feel that it is out of character for a protagonist?”
“You’re right. Next time, I’ll have him make me a feast! Fit for a heroine like me!”
“Tsk, eat your meal. We still have to look for the bamboo scrolls. Never mind, I can’t feel it on campus anymore, but that can’t be…”
“By the way, I have something to ask,” Gu Qianqian murmured, furrowing her brows. “Where did those two people come from? They just barged into campus and started beating that poor headless ghost. We’ve been looking for her for so long, and I feel that someone stole our victory!”
While talking, Gu Qianqian found a bench by the side of the road, sat down, unwrapped her bento, and smiled as she looked at the fat portion of chicken inside.
“They’re from the Eclipse Society…”
“Are they better than the student council?” Gu Qianqian munched.
In the past few days, Gu Qianqian has snuck into campus multiple times to find the bamboo scrolls. However, she was caught one day by the student council, and she still retains psychological trauma from the encounter.
“A group of brats pretending to be adults versus a terrorist organisation that harbours dangerous urban legends, so you tell me!”
“And,” the system continued. “Don’t you know you’re being played like a fiddle?”
This is because a rumour started to brew on campus: pay Gu Qianqian ten bucks, and she’ll do anything for you.
“Aha! Jokes on them!” Gu Qianqian boasted. “I know their tricks, so as long as I keep working for them, I can get money! Ha ha ha!”
The system was speechless.
“Forget it, but the Eclipse Society is still on campus. We need to be careful; they want to sneak underground to find something, and we’ll pretend we see nothing. If we meddle, we’ll end up like that ghost just now.”
Gu Qianqian was terrified. “Y-you mean that they’ll blow us away fifty feet into the air?”
“Yes! So we’ll leave them alone for somebody else to take care of.”
“Who?”
“Why are you asking this? Don’t ask, just eat!”
“Come on, you have to tell me! Or I won’t be able to sleep at night!”
“The Witch. Are you satisfied now?”
Destroying the Eclipse Society may be the most correct thing she will do, but that doesn’t offset the crimes that she will commit!
“System.”
“What is it?”
“Why are you so sure that she will destroy the Eclipse Society? I found that your recent predictions are getting more and more inaccurate.”
“Damn it, woman! You’re asking too many questions! I can guarantee that my predictions are all accurate! Just shut up and eat your food!”
“But I already finished!” she said, rubbing her belly, which had barely changed after eating two portions of chicken rice.
“What the… Are you still in puberty?”
After all, it takes a lot of energy to transform a body embedded with runes, but it will get better when it is fully developed in the future, right? Well, probably.
“By the way, system…”
“What is it?”
“I can sense the bamboo scrolls,” she said, pointing towards a lantern-shaped mark on her arm. Under her skin, a faint scarlet light could be seen, which is proof that the bamboo scrolls are within one kilometre.
“Strange, why did it come back all of a sudden?” The system murmured to itself in a low voice and pondered for a few seconds: “Gu Qianqian, follow me.”
“System, aren’t you going to issue a mission?” Gu Qianqian asked.
“Nonsense. I have no missions for you; plus, you’re going to waste it all on cash to buy useless items, like shoes for the dance! I know who you are! I could simply enchant the cheapest shoes for you, and yet…”
Gu Qianqian felt a little wrong. She pursed her lips and said, “But I still want…”
“No, you don’t!”
“Listen to me! I want to use the points to buy glass slippers!”
“And Cinderella wore fake shoes the day she met the prince, correct?” The system improvised. “It transformed into a pair of glass slippers.”
“I guess you’re right.”
Meanwhile, on the path of Gate No. 4.
“Agh…”
After burying the last of her charms to make a trap, Lu Yibei breathed a sigh of relief.
Half an hour ago, she realised there was no way to take the headless girl to safety, so she thought of setting up defensive traps to protect her.
She learnt these traps to target the old man with the colourful shawl, so she didn’t know if they would work well in the current situation.
It’s better to try—even better if it works.
As long as an urban legend touches the mechanism, they will be knocked down by the statue and then be showered with more than 70 charms.
And it will be a glorious, beautiful explosion.
