Chapter 106

After coming out of the game, it wasn't even two minutes before Mu Chen sent a message: [I'm downstairs.]

Still immersed in the tearing pain from overusing her abilities in the game, Mingmei saw the message and, unusually, ignored Mu Chen, falling asleep directly in the game pod.

When she woke up again, the sunset outside the window had turned into a sky full of stars.

Refreshed, Mingmei glanced at her optical brain and saw that Mu Chen had sent another message five minutes earlier: [I'm still downstairs.]

"Oh dear, it's been hours?"

Seeing this, Mingmei hurriedly crawled out of the game pod, quickly changed her clothes, and went downstairs. As soon as she stepped out of the dormitory building, her vision blurred, and she was enveloped in Mu Chen's embrace.

This position lasted for about five minutes, during which neither of them spoke.

"Do you know how devastated I was when I went back and saw your dead body?"

Mu Chen's low voice made Mingmei realize that she might have really scared him this time. She quickly explained, "I... I calculated it so I could live until the mission ended..."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"The mission ended, so you could do that? Then... did you think about me?"

"I did," Mingmei replied without hesitation, meeting Mu Chen's eyes. She said seriously, "I was waiting for your news, knowing that you were safe, knowing that everyone had successfully survived this disaster... Only then could I relax."

As she finished speaking, Mingmei subconsciously avoided Mu Chen's gaze. She hadn't been entirely truthful with that last sentence.

She wasn't relieved; she was in real pain.

She couldn't handle that kind of conscious suffering.

"In the future... don't do that again."

He had seen too many partings and deaths in the outer city; he hadn't expected to be "stabbed" like that just before leaving the game.

"I'm afraid I'll go crazy next time..."

Mu Chen's embrace tightened, his body trembling slightly as he uttered these words with difficulty. Mingmei's heart softened, remembering how she had endured a year of survival in pain and still persisted.

She persisted in waiting until someone told her that the battle in the outer city had been successful.

She persisted in holding her breath until she heard news of Mu Chen's safety.

Mu Chen must have come to find her with a heart full of joy back then, right?

"I'm a little hungry; I want some late-night snacks."

After a while of sweet nothings between the young couple, Mingmei didn't want to go back to the dormitory building just yet. She looked at Mu Chen, remembering that he had been waiting downstairs since evening, and said she wanted something to eat.

Mu Chen naturally agreed.

The two went to the cafeteria together, but unexpectedly, there were quite a few people there, even late at night.

Although the cafeteria could accommodate up to 10,000 people, there were only thirty or forty people scattered around, but Mingmei realized this was still a quarter of those participating in the Eight Schools Exchange.

Mingmei was very surprised. She had come to eat only after sleeping since exiting the game. What about these people?

"Good evening."

Less than two minutes after Mingmei and Mu Chen entered, Lu Xiaoyao silently appeared from behind them, startling Mingmei.

She glanced at Lu Gui, who was standing next to Lu Xiaoyao. The atmosphere between the siblings was tense.

Holding her late-night snack, Mingmei nudged Mu Chen with her elbow and gestured with her chin that she wanted to go to Lu Xiaoyao. Mu Chen smiled helplessly, nodded, and consciously sat down next to Lu Gui.

Lu Gui felt someone approaching, looked up, and saw that it was Mu Chen. He calmly accepted it.

If it weren't for that year in the game, he might still have been able to exchange sarcastic remarks with Mu Chen.

"What's going on?"

Mu Chen looked in the direction of Mingmei and Lu Xiaoyao, who were sitting not far from them. Lu Gui knew what he was asking.

"She's just afraid of pain. She almost made it to the end of the game and wanted to die. I wouldn't let her die, so she suffered a lot when they took her back for treatment."

"Then what?"

Knowing Lu Xiaoyao, Mu Chen knew she wouldn't stay mad at Lu Gui for so long just because of that.

Sure enough, the next second, Lu Gui said, "Later, the year-long game mission ended. I happened to be injured and in the medical room for treatment. Anyway, her mission was over, and she looked like she was in a lot of pain, so I just pulled off her oxygen mask and sent her out of the game."

Mu Chen: "..."

He couldn't comment on that operation.

Over there, Mingmei was speechless after hearing Lu Xiaoyao's description.

After a long while, she thought about it and said, "He was considering your mission first, and then after the mission ended, he saw you were in too much pain, so he didn't want you to suffer, right?"

"Sob sob sob~ That shadow was huge! If I had ended it myself or been mentally prepared, it wouldn't have been like that qaq! I bravely endured so much pain, but he just said, 'That's enough,' and pulled off my oxygen mask!"

The more she talked, the angrier Lu Xiaoyao became.

"So what are you going to do?"

"I'm breaking up with him for one night! He's not my brother today!"

Lu Gui, who had already planned to take Lu Xiaoyao out for all kinds of eating and shopping sprees to make amends after returning home at the end of the Eight Schools Exchange, turned around silently upon hearing this and took his finished plate to the cleaning robot.

The next morning, the students from each school put on their combat suits and met in the combat classroom.

From early in the morning, Lu Xiaoyao had been beside Mingmei, chattering about, "It's here, it's here! The moment for fighting is finally here!" However, in the end, Lu Xiaoyao sighed sadly, "But I have no desire."

Mingmei: ??

"I've been killing zombies for a year; I'm going to throw up. I don't want to fight anymore."

As soon as she finished speaking, students from other schools happened to pass by and heard her words. Their straight backs suddenly slumped.

Mingmei: 0.0??

Lu Xiaoyao: 0.0??

"I was bitten to death by a zombie at the beginning."

Mingmei & Lu Xiaoyao: ...

There were many people in this combat exchange class, and the classroom was equally large.

Before the class officially started, everyone watched as a lottery-like box rose from the ground next to the teacher standing in the center.

"Well, the next exchange class is very simple. Students who draw the same number will be in a group for an hour of combat exchange. The following three hours will be free exchange.

Everyone can choose at least three students they want to exchange with, but they can't be from their own school. The exchange time must be at least three hours~"

The enormous and terrifying information hidden in the gentle tone of this teacher, who was presumably the leader from one of the schools in Europe, made the students participating in this exchange wary.

This teacher's words can be translated as follows:

1. You have to fight at least four people this morning.

2. You will be hitting or getting hit for four hours this morning.

"I'd rather chop zombies for four hours."

No one knew who said this among the many people present.

Immediately afterward, there were two or three more voices of agreement.

Zombies were so much better.

Either they were very weak and could be chopped unilaterally for four hours, or they were very strong, leaving no room for resistance, and you would be bitten to death by zombies in a moment.

Either it was easy and simple, or it saved time.

But this exchange class, although called an exchange, if you really lost, hehe, never mind, don't think too much.