Yet this mysticism still did not directly take the convenience store boy’s life.
When he woke up, he found himself inside the infirmary of the comprehensive school.
The convenience store boy first felt surprised, then his expression sank as fiercely as a venomous snake lying in wait upon the ground.
Yet what he failed to notice was that he was not the only one inside the infirmary—
There was also a physician remaining, as well as the convenience store boy’s homeroom teacher.
The teacher’s face likewise looked quite unsightly, yet he only kept staring at the convenience store boy without opening his mouth to speak.
The doctor stepped forward, unwrapped the bandages around the convenience store boy’s abdomen, and examined them.
The originally ravine-like, deep-crimson, ferocious wound had already nearly disappeared.
This was not because the convenience store boy’s physical constitution was particularly outstanding.
The comprehensive school, filled mostly with the descendants of the powerful and wealthy, was naturally equipped with various resources of a level that ranked among the very best in Qiufeng City, or at least within the western district.
The attending physician was even a Transcendent from the mysterious side.
The current doctor was precisely such a person.
“The wound has already healed for the most part. Take this medicine. Take it once a day from now on, pouring five milliliters with the measuring cup on top before sleep.”
The doctor stretched out a hand and offered the small glass bottle of medicine.
The potion of unknown materials presented a turbid dark-gray color, and through the clear glass walls it gave off a nauseating sense of strangeness.
“I don’t want this. It’s already mostly healed.”
Yet the convenience store boy ungratefully pushed the doctor’s hand away, got out of bed as though no one else existed, and prepared to leave the infirmary directly.
“Don’t go too far!”
At this moment the teacher who had remained silent beside them suddenly erupted, speaking word by word:
“Provoking trouble, fighting and brawling—this single charge alone is enough for you to receive in-school observation or even lose your student qualification at the comprehensive school! Not to mention last time.”
There were no outsiders here, so the teacher paid no attention whatsoever to the convenience store boy’s temperament and criticized him so directly.
After all, the other party had always acted willfully and indeed brought the teacher a great deal of trouble.
He was a problem student through and through.
The previous time the convenience store boy’s bullying had even directly left a student paralyzed, with injuries severe enough to reach a vegetative state.
They had originally thought that after calling the parents there would be some improvement, yet looking at this fellow’s appearance, how did it seem as though he had never reflected at all?
The teacher tightly clenched his fists, the long-suppressed fury nearly surging forth, yet he had no way of doing anything threatening toward the convenience store boy.
This was all because there was someone behind the other party.
“Teacher, if you feel what I’m doing is wrong, then come fight me and see whose fists are bigger—we’ll listen to whoever wins. We’ll have a ‘fair duel’ according to the school’s rules and regulations.”
The convenience store boy looked at the teacher who was much taller than himself, yet showed not the slightest appearance of fear.
With the thin man not present this time, if he directly took down the teacher, the other party would not only be unable to point fingers at him, but would also allow the convenience store boy to become widely known throughout the comprehensive school.
The greatest difference between the comprehensive school and ordinary schools, or rather the schools of stereotype, was precisely this.
Students with talent and willingness, after advancing to the higher grades, would be assigned to corresponding special classes, thereafter completely disappearing from the vision of ordinary students and developing with full force toward the mysterious side.
This “fair duel” was a popular practice within those special classes, and the rule applied whether to teachers or students.
The teacher briefly hesitated for a moment, then reined in his emotions and instead began to ponder very solemnly.
“You are certain you wish to issue a ‘fair duel’ toward me?”
“Of course. Teacher, you wouldn’t be afraid, would you?”
The convenience store boy declared arrogantly.
He seemed to have already forgotten how he had entered the infirmary, only feeling that he himself had issued a duel toward the teacher in order to establish the authority he did not even know where it existed.
The teacher paid no attention to the convenience store boy and instead looked toward the doctor beside him, his gaze as though confirming something.
The doctor silently nodded.
The convenience store boy did not know what had happened, yet when he saw the aggressive look in the teacher’s eyes, he knew his opportunity had come again.
Thus he rubbed his fists and itched to move.
“Come on, you…”
Before the words finished, another heavy punch smashed into his face.
A long while later.
The thin man waiting at the doorway of the infirmary finally saw the convenience store boy come out.
He saw the other party holding two small glass bottles, and even that previously arrogant and domineering appearance had become listless and dejected.
The thin man found it inexplicable and impressive.
Before he could even open his mouth to ask, the convenience store boy spoke listlessly:
“From now on the training won’t be carried out inside the school. Help me find people outside the school.”
“That’s no problem, but the gang requires me to go contact Weirdness after school later. Do you want to come along?”
Hearing this, that arrogant and self-important feeling returned to the convenience store boy.
“Sure. With me following, you’ll definitely be fine.”
……
……
Luo Xiaoyu held in her hand an exquisitely carved “Moon Card.”
She observed the card’s reaction while trying to judge exactly how far the mysticism was from herself.
In order not to be discovered by others, she had specially chosen a deserted abandoned district—
Qiufeng City itself already lay at the edge of the Human Federation’s territory, and the western district where she and Bai Mu lived was the place with the fewest people in Qiufeng City.
Even with the people of the Moon Church helping to construct basic public facilities, the still dilapidated buildings remained the vast majority.
And according to the pattern the girl had figured out, it seemed that places particularly far from the urban area would not produce Weirdness at all?
Luo Xiaoyu stroked the card with her slender, crystalline jade-like fingers, sensing the changes in touch.
It was a little like scalding boiling water and cold ice.
If one had never seen an ice cube before, then arbitrarily interpreting the tactile sensation of “cold” as “so hot” would also be understandable.
The sensation transmitted from the card was the same.
Yet the black-haired girl possessed this concept, and with the system’s assistance, completely figuring out the operating method of the Moon Card was not a particularly difficult matter either.
It was only that if she were to replicate one in the same manner, the necessary materials noted by the system seemed to be something called “spiritual materials”…
Yet now was not the time to dwell on this—
Luo Xiaoyu’s movements were swift.
In the blink of an eye she had searched another area once more, and the Moon Card in her hand immediately grew hot.
It was Weirdness again.
From afar the girl could already see the vague, hazy thin mist.
She silently took out from the inventory the candle she had previously obtained by defeating a Fog Person.
The half-length, burning, dim blue light seemed as though it would never extinguish, and the dull white wax pillar that carried the flame appeared as though it would never melt.
Something obtained from a Fog Person was also the key to seeing through the mist the Fog Person used to disguise itself.
Luo Xiaoyu took out the firelock, skillfully found that withered, translucent creature through the mist, then neatly aimed the firelock and pulled the trigger.
After a sharp howl, it dragged its broken body and struggled a few times before helplessly shattering into smoke and dissipating away.
[Contact with Weirdness +1. Allocatable Points +2]
[Remaining Allocatable Points: 10]
This was already the fourth, or perhaps the fifth, Fog Person she had contacted.
Logically speaking, Weirdness ought to come in all varieties, yet the Weirdness Luo Xiaoyu had encountered was uniformly Fog Persons.
Repeatedly contacting them inevitably brought a bit of fatigue as well.
The black-haired girl took several deep breaths, suppressed the shrinking and fear that surfaced in her heart, yet discovered that the hand gripping the firelock was still trembling slightly.
Before going out she had indirectly asked her older sister about some matters.
Bai Mu’s reaction clearly showed that she knew something of matters on the mysterious side.
Although she had responded to most of Luo Xiaoyu’s questions, she still appeared to carry a worried look of wanting to keep as far away as possible.
The gang “Poison Snake” that ran rampant in the western district of Qiufeng City seemed to have connections to the mysterious side.
Yet as long as they did not stir up particularly large trouble, the local authorities still maintained an ambiguous attitude of turning a blind eye toward them, so her older sister had specially told her to keep some distance from these people.
This extremely common knowledge was something Luo Xiaoyu also knew.
It was not as though she had never seen those gang members of Poison Snake.
They had come to the convenience store before.
They fit the fierce and vicious style of the underworld quite well, yet even in a place like a convenience store they did not dare cause trouble.
They only ran their mouths a few extra times when buying things.
Collecting her thoughts, Luo Xiaoyu refocused her attention on the present.
After eradicating one more Fog Person, she would return home to rest.
The girl once again stepped forward.