CHAPTER 345: CHAPTER 345: BEATING UP THE MEAT BUN

"They knocked you down at my feet?" Xiao Jinsheng inquired.

"Li called Shi Xie to attack you together." Xiao Jinsheng nodded affirmatively, "I saw it on the Star System Map."

However, the two against one assault ended quickly.

And she herself was on the twenty-fifth floor and couldn’t stop it even if she wanted to.

But Mo Jiao, falling off the Cloud Platform, surprisingly went straight to the twenty-fifth floor through a black hole, something Xiao Jinsheng didn’t foresee.

Yet what the Star System Map showed were Li’s various reactions and behaviors.

Obviously, Li knew that Mo Jiao falling off the Cloud Platform would not only not ’die’ and waste a resurrection chance,

but also effectively act like taking a Teleportation Array.

"Now on the twenty-fifth floor, it’s only the four of us." Xiao Jinsheng’s gaze swept over Que Zelian, Mo Jiao, and Chen Yunji in turn: "Just enough for the twenty-fifth-floor competition needing four participants."

Que Zelian was the first one Li arranged to come up.

Afterwards, she too was urged by Li to come up with Chen Yunji.

Mo Jiao, the most miserable, was called to be attacked by the group by Li and Shi Xie, leading to his fall up here.

Xiao Jinsheng proactively took Mo Jiao’s hand, bringing him into the small three-person meeting area just now.

"You came just in time, the four of us can start the competition now." Xiao Jinsheng gestured for Mo Jiao to sit, pressing both hands on his shoulders.

"What is the competition on this floor?" Mo Jiao inquired.

Seeing Xiao Jinsheng, the anger from being attacked dissipated immediately.

Of course, grudges come first.

Li is professional at breaking others apart.

But Mo Jiao, he’s just as professional at holding grudges!

"Since it’s just the four of us, aren’t we each other’s opponents?" Mo Jiao realized and asked nervously.

"This time the competition is different, the four of us are not opponents but teammates." Xiao Jinsheng explained.

With that, Xiao Jinsheng revealed the black chess piece in his palm.

At the same time, Que Zelian and Chen Yunji extended their hands, showing Mo Jiao their pieces, which were white.

"You’re the only one left." Que Zelian signaled for Mo Jiao to blindly pick from the chess box.

No one was certain whether it would be white or black.

Similarly, what white and black represent was also unknown.

Mo Jiao reached out without hesitation and quickly took out a piece.

Spreading it out in his palm, it was also white.

"Do these chess pieces correspond to gender?" Xiao Jinsheng wondered.

With these words, the long-silent system voice of the Cloud World spoke: [Congratulations to the four of you for unlocking the hidden competition mechanism]

[You are the first team to initiate the Star Rotation]

[Heading to the competition location, teleporting...]

As the black and white chess pieces spun, Xiao Jinsheng watched as the three of Mo Jiao turned directly into a white shadow and disappeared from her sight.

She herself was also forcibly pulled away by a black suction force.

Countless densely packed colorful signal blocks receded rapidly around her.

Just watching made Xiao Jinsheng dizzy and nauseous.

Once she calmed her mind, the familiar surroundings only puzzled her.

A whistle blew, and several figures beside her dashed forward quickly.

Only Xiao Jinsheng was still standing there dumbfounded.

Until a familiar figure walked by and looked at her in shock, "Run, Xiao Jinsheng, what are you standing there for?"

"Instructor...?" Xiao Jinsheng was more shocked than the person.

And realized why everything around her felt so familiar.

Wasn’t this the eight hundred meters she failed before?

No time to think carefully, Xiao Jinsheng charged ahead.

Failing the eight hundred meters before was one thing.

There’s no reason she couldn’t pass it now, even with superpowers.

Otherwise, she might as well be devoured by a Fog Corpse.

At eight hundred meters, Xiao Jinsheng wanted to become a blur.

Taking into account that if she ran too fast, her classmates and teachers as normal humans wouldn’t see her at all.

Xiao Jinsheng decided to finish right at the passing time.

Upon receiving the result that she passed the eight hundred meters, Xiao Jinsheng’s face broke into a satisfied smile.

Looking again at that familiar campus, those familiar faces, she smiled full of nostalgia.

But her happiness didn’t last long before she found her figure back at the starting line of the eight hundred meters.

The people on both sides had already run ahead.

Leaving only her, standing stupidly in place, with the familiar face of the instructor looking over like an NPC, "Run, Xiao Jinsheng, what are you standing there for?"

"Again?" Xiao Jinsheng was overwhelmed, "I passed!"

Just after yelling, she realized something was off.

Perhaps the problem lay in her passing.

This Illusion Realm wanted her to fail.

With this hypothesis, this time Xiao Jinsheng leisurely ran at the back.

Using her true abilities, without any deceit, she successfully failed.

As expected, this time Xiao Jinsheng dejectedly left, and the Illusion Realm didn’t have her start over at the line again.

And Xiao Jinsheng, reminiscing about her school route.

She failed the eight hundred, then lethargically went to the school cafeteria for breakfast.

Finally, she choked to death on a bun...

Alright, are they expecting her to choke on a bun again?

Xiao Jinsheng was curious about what this Illusion Realm wanted and sauntered into the cafeteria, ordering her enemy bun.

Settling into her favorite window seat, Xiao Jinsheng glared unkindly at the meat bun on her plate.

"It’s all your fault! Stupid bun!" No matter what, Xiao Jinsheng decided to scold it first.

She poked at the bun with her chopsticks, watching it roll left and right on the plate.

"I’m a small millionaire with ten million, if you choke me to death, at least let me spend all my money first!"

Grumbling aside.

But to figure out the Illusion Realm, Xiao Jinsheng begrudgingly picked up the meat bun after tormenting it.

Intending to take a few bites and choke herself again.

But as soon as she opened her mouth to bite the bun, something cold coiled around her ankle.

Simultaneously, a voice urgently shouted, "Don’t eat it! It’s poisonous!"

The sudden call of poison not only startled Xiao Jinsheng but also the diners around her.

Some still had a mouthful of noodles, others slurping on oil-soaked dough sticks soaking in soy milk, eating all kinds of breakfast.

And Xiao Jinsheng, bun in mouth.

Seated on the bench, she smoothly leaned back, looking down at her ankle.

Seeing a black snake, with scales shiny as obsidian, tightly coiled around her ankle, its purple eyes looked at her nervously.

"Mo Jiao." Xiao Jinsheng called out joyfully, about to greet Mo Jiao.

Then noticed that due to Mo Jiao’s earlier shout, the classmates around were looking at her oddly.

Xiao Jinsheng smiled awkwardly and quickly excused, "Sorry, I was watching videos, forgot to lower the volume."

Hearing this, everyone went back to their meals relieved.

They figured, how could a good breakfast be poisonous?

Especially since they were already halfway through theirs.

In fact, the breakfast wasn’t poisonous at all.

Mo Jiao remembered Xiao Jinsheng herself once said she choked on a bun to death.

Hence on the Mist Continent, Xiao Jinsheng always held a grudge against buns.