âPlease stop arguing.â Captain Fan was getting a headache from all the quarreling. He didnât know how to talk the girls down and could only scold them. âRest while you have the chance. It wonât be easy escaping the school.â
The female student felt wronged. However, she couldnât find anyone that could speak up for her in this situation and could only kneel down and cry.
The guy beside her immediately came and comforted her.
Ming Shu sneered and continued tapping her knee with her fingers.
Captain Fan remained silent for a while before walking over to Ming Shu. âThanks for your help just now.â
âYouâre welcome.â Ming Shu tilted her head. âYou came to find me, after all. Once we escape, we wonât owe each other anything and can go our separate ways. â
If they werenât here to find her, she wouldnât even have bothered to come in.
[âŠ] Are you sure it isnât because Zheng Ye gave you snacks?
Well, it was a bit of both.
Captain Fan was slightly surprised. He didnât think that Ming Shu would say such words. After a while, he said, âLet me bring you back to the capital.â
âThere is no need to trouble yourself, I can go on my own.â
In the dark, Captain Fan couldnât see the girlâs expression. However, he could infer from her relaxed tone that she was not afraid nor hateful of Doomsday. To her, there was no difference between Doomsday and the normal world.
Are all the students so calm and composed?
Captain Fan would soon realize that some students were afraid too. Not everyone was composed like Ming Shu.
âThis is my mission,â Captain Fan insisted. As a soldier, it was his job to follow through with a mission as long as he was alive.
Ming Shu couldnât deny his words.
Half an hour later, Ning Le and the other captain returned and they started strategizing.
âI cannot leave. I have to go to this place. Captain Zhao, please bring the students out first.â Captain Fan rejected Captain Zhaoâs plan.
âYour mission was the laboratory in the basement too?â Captain Zhao decided not to conceal his intentions anymore. âWeâve been there. The entrance is blocked unless you have explosives.â
Captain Zhaoâs mission was to go to the laboratory and retrieve some reports. If there were survivors in the laboratory, they could rescue them along the way too.
As for Captain Fan, his mission was just the survivors.
âI still have to take a look,â Captain Fan insisted.
âLetâs move together, then. We donât have much ammunition left. If we split up, there is a higher chance of us dying.â Captain Zhao had already suffered many losses and had no ammunition left. If they split, he had no confidence that he would succeed in escaping.
âThatâŠâ A male student with a fringe slowly raised his hand. âThere is another way into that laboratory.â
âReally?â Captain Fan and Captain Zhao said simultaneously.
The student nodded his head and looked around, asking the student beside him, âThis is the North Section right?â
The other student scanned the surroundings and nodded. âThis is the North Section. We should be at the Music Department now.â
The male student with a fringe then continued, âThe entrance is at the Medicine Department in the North Section. Iâve been there with my teacher twice.â
âHow far is the Medicine Department?â Captain Fan asked.
âAround ten minutesâŠâ Tengjiang University was a big university and each department was quite a distance away from the next.
âŠ
Finally, they decided to enter the laboratory from the entrance of the Medicine Department at dawn.
After distributing the night shifts, everyone went to get some rest.
Ning Le sat on one side and kept glancing toward Ming Shu. After a while, she got up and sat down beside her.
âYou donât like me?â
Ming Shu looked up from her bag of cream puffs and started guarding her snack. âWhy must I like you? I donât like girls.â
Do I have to share my snacks with you if I like you? Donât even think about it.
âI donât think I provoked you before,â Ning Le continued. âI just want to be your friend. Youâre powerful.â
âDo you only make friends with powerful people?â
âI donât mean it that way.â Ning Le felt that this human was harder to understand than the rest. She couldnât guess her thoughts. âIn these times, itâs better to be in a group, donât you think?â
âI am afraid that youâll backstab me.â This fake female protagonist would kill anyone who disobeyed her. I am quite scared.
Ning Le frowned and replied, âI will welcome you into my team if you ever change your mind.â
If this girl werenât powerful, she wouldnât even bother talking to her.
âDonât worry, I definitely wonât change my mind.â Ming Shuâs tone was resolute.
If I made friends with you, what would happen to my snacks? Ah, no, I mean my Hatred Points?
Ning Le: ââŠâ
Ning Le controlled her emotions and left with the thought that she would be able to convince Ming Shu one day.
[Do you want to throw Ning Le out now and receive some Hatred Points first?] The Harmony System felt the difficulty of the mission this time and came up with a bad idea.
Ming Shu chomped down on two cream puffs. Do you have a worse idea?
[Fight with her?]
Shut up! Ming Shu scolded.
[âŠ] Was it a bad idea? Looking at the situation now, even if it did have a better idea, there would be no way to execute it. Couldnât the guest just make do with the first idea?
âŠ
The next day at dawn, Captain Fan and Captain Zhao woke the students up and prepared to leave.
Ming Shu was already leaning against the table and eating. In front of her lay many bags of snacks.
The female student woke up with swollen eyes. She was very hungry. She didnât eat much yesterday as she was in a bad mood after her friend had died and her quarrel with Ming Shu.
The most important thing was, they did not have many food supplies with them now.
The female student walked straight to Ming Shu and grabbed a bag of snacks.
Ming Shu saw someone taking her food and immediately threw the female student over her shoulder.
âYouâŠâ The female student was in a daze from the throw. âYouâre crazy!â
âWho allowed you to touch my food?â Ming Shu looked down on the student and sneered at her.
No one can touch my food!
âYours?â The female student held herself up and replied furiously, âWhy didnât I see you carrying these snacks yesterday? Are you trying to take everyoneâs food and claim it as yours?â
Even though the room was dark yesterday, she wouldnât be able to hide so many snacks, right?
âJust because I didnât have food yesterday doesnât mean that I donât have food today.â Ming Shu poured the snacks into her bag.
âChen Wei, she went to find snacks last night.â The male student with the fringe pulled the girl back.
He went to use the restroom last night and saw Ming Shu coming back with the snacks.
The female student turned pale. However, she was unwilling to lose face and argued, âEven if itâs yours, weâre a team now. Shouldnât you share with everyone?â
Ming Shu threw her bag over her shoulder and gave the female student a huge smile. âIf youâre hungry, you can search for food yourself.â
Anything could be discussed.
Anything except food.
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