CHAPTER 218: CHAPTER 204: NOT FOR FREE

As the favorite of the Sword Team, Lan Tianshou always received special treatment from Head Coach Lu.

Lu Xiuying’s attitude towards him was also vastly different from her attitude towards other students.

This differential treatment made Lan Tianshou accustomed to his special status.

As a result, Lan Tianshou now felt somewhat abandoned.

Lan Tiange was also displeased with Lu Xiuying’s demeanor. "Why does Head Coach Lu look so obsequious, is it necessary?"

"Don’t talk nonsense."

Lan Tianshou was startled and covered Lan Tiange’s mouth. "You know how sensitive Sword Heroes are to such things."

"I-I didn’t mean it."

Lan Tiange was somewhat afraid of Lu Xiuying as well. That old woman, with her stern face and sharp demeanor, was truly terrifying.

"Forget it, let’s go back and change clothes."

Looking at the bloodstains on the ground, Lan Tianshou’s expression was rather grim.

It was the first time in his life that he had witnessed someone being killed. Honestly, the scene was very impactful. It scared him so much that his heart was pounding.

Fortunately, his cultivation as a Swordsman was strong, allowing him to barely control his qi and blood, preventing an immediate loss of composure.

Despite this, seeing the fragmented corpse still made him feel uneasy.

Lan Tianshou was very afraid of being laughed at, so he concealed his discomfort and quickly left with his sister.

Most of the other over a thousand training students also looked pale.

Witnessing a living person explode into countless pieces like a burst balloon was truly terrifying.

If not seen with their own eyes, they couldn’t believe the pure and charming Yun Qingshang could be so ruthless.

Especially since Yun Qingshang’s calm demeanor after the killing, seemingly unaffected by the act.

"This woman is terrifying!"

"A beautiful demon..."

"Like a cold-blooded assassin, with no emotions!"

"I’ve developed a phobia of women now..."

A group of people gossiped, each visibly shaken. The graceful Yun Qingshang had made an extremely deep impression on everyone on the first day, even becoming a shadow for many.

Unaware of this, Yun Qingshang didn’t care how others viewed her.

After taking off her armor, Yun Qingshang quietly followed behind Gao Xuan.

She simply nodded or shook her head at Lu Xiuying’s enthusiastic inquiries. If she really couldn’t give a simple response, she would look at Gao Xuan, letting him answer for her.

Lu Xiuying quickly realized that chatting with Yun Qingshang was less effective than directly asking Gao Xuan.

It was obvious that Yun Qingshang was exceptionally dependent on Gao Xuan, even needing him for external communication.

Could this be some kind of psychological disorder? Or just a habit?

Lu Xiuying couldn’t say for sure; she could only sense the unusually close relationship between Gao Xuan and Yun Qingshang.

This wasn’t the intimacy between a man and a woman; it was more like siblings, yet more tightly bonded. This relationship seemed indivisible.

Lu Xiuying suppressed her curiosity, realizing everyone has their stories and secrets, unrelated to her, so there’s no need to delve into them.

She assisted Gao Xuan and Yun Qingshang with their enrollment paperwork, obtaining their electronic student cards for Golden Bull University and creating their student profiles.

From this moment, Gao Xuan and Yun Qingshang became students of the class of 3018.

For convenience, the Alliance’s administrative system used the standard time of the mother planet as the unit of time, and so did the university.

Of course, the standard time of the mother planet differed significantly from that of each major planet.

For example, Taurus has over thirty hours in a day and over five hundred days in a year. This cannot be unified with the mother planet’s time and must rely on two different time systems.

Gold Source Star, located deep under the sea, has no so-called seasons or day-night alternations. Everything is controlled by the Master Light Computer.

The endless seawater is separated into hydrogen and oxygen, providing the city with virtually endless energy.

To unify with the Central Star Realm and to showcase Gold Source’s uniqueness, Golden Source City adopted the mother planet’s standard time.

In fact, this was quite convenient because Gold Source also needed to communicate with other cities on Taurus and needed the Taurus seasons for activities like sea field planting.

To curry favor with Gao Xuan, Lu Xiuying explained the timekeeping system of Golden Source City;

She was quite proud of it: "In Golden Source City, we can enjoy the same environment as the mother planet, the same seasonal changes..."

She smiled and said, "We even simulated the starry sky environment of the mother planet under the dome, including the sun, moon, Jupiter, and more..."

"Wow, that’s amazing."

Gao Xuan responded somewhat exaggeratedly. The natural environment of Pegasus Star was similar to that of the mother planet, but only similar. There were significant actual differences.

A place like Golden Source City, which fully simulated the environment of the mother planet, was the only one in the Twelve Star Domain.

In the Central Star Realm, however, there were many such fully enclosed cities. The security of such cities was excellent.

Some important cities in the Central Star Realm were essentially super spacecraft, capable of leaving the planet for interstellar travel if necessary.

Gao Xuan wasn’t particularly fond of such fully enclosed cities. This meant a high degree of control by the city administrators.

Doing anything here could leave traces, and it was more troublesome due to the many Silver Sword Heroes present. Even when acting incognito, he could be discovered.

Just like yesterday when he trailed Xiao Wan, yet found nothing. Xiao Wan didn’t head to the Xiao Family’s Treasure Vault but went online instead...

Gao Xuan couldn’t figure out what Xiao Wan was up to, and he could only wait passively.

After bidding farewell to the enthusiastic Lu Xiuying, Gao Xuan, and Yun Qingshang found Xiao Wan.

"Let’s go, we’re buying a house."

Gao Xuan had already spotted a house online yesterday, located in the campus commercial area, not far from the Sword Dao Academy, only a ten-minute bus ride within the campus. Very convenient.