Chapter 287: Wearing the Door Helmet (Happy New Year, Everyone!)

The appearance of the girl at the classroom door instantly silenced the classmates in Class Nine who had been making noise and horsing around.

In Holy Water Middle School, if you had to name the most famous person right now, it would be none other than Qiao Sang.

Yesterday Qiao Sang had just joined the Gao San school team, and that very evening every boarding student had already received the news.

The sudden appearance of such a center-of-attention figure at the classroom door genuinely stunned everyone for a moment.

"You know the great Qiao?" a boy beside Liu Qijia asked nosily. "How come I've never heard you mention it?"

Liu Qijia glanced at him. "Not really acquainted. We just both took part in the bare-handed tile-splitting at the sports meet last time."

"I don't buy it. If you didn't know each other, would she come looking for you?" The boy wore an expression that said 'do you take me for a fool.' "Like Dai Shushu keeps saying she knows the great Qiao, but I've never seen the great Qiao specifically come to our class to find her."

"Believe it or not." Liu Qijia dropped that line and walked toward the classroom door.

The classmates still in the room all looked over in unison.

Liu Qijia walked with a swagger.

Don't be fooled by how calm he looked — he still felt a little thrill inside, but that thrill quickly wilted away.

"Is the gold glove ready?" Qiao Sang asked.

Liu Qijia said weakly, "I went and asked, but I don't have enough money."

Qiao Sang looked at him in silence.

In the silence, Liu Qijia felt utterly煎熬.

He couldn't help but explain, "I just bought several big tubs of energy powder to prepare for the sports meet a while back. I really don't have much money left."

Qiao Sang could understand that to some extent.

Although gold was no longer the mainstream investment in today's society, it was still the universally recognized circulating metal currency, and its price wasn't much different from her previous life.

Although after becoming a beast tamer, the pocket money his family gave him basically multiplied several times over, most of that money had to be spent on his pet beast, leaving very little.

The other party was just a Gao Zhongsheng — asking him to buy a gold glove as big as her hand was indeed a bit difficult.

Qiao Sang thought for a moment and decided to be a good person.

She was just about to open her mouth and have Little Xunbao show itself to display its short little claws, so Liu Qijia could buy the gold glove according to that size.

Just then, Liu Qijia spoke up: "I told my parents about this too, but my dad doesn't believe me at all. He thinks I'm just trying to swindle money out of him."

At this point, he suddenly got worked up: "How about you come home with me and prove it to him!"

Qiao Sang asked, "Prove what?"

"Prove that Xunbao Yao really can split tiles!" Liu Qijia said. "My dad said that if I really lost to a tile-splitting Xunbao Yao, he won't hit me again in this lifetime, the next, or the one after that."

Qiao Sang: "..."

"And your gold glove! He'll pay for it!" Liu Qijia added.

It didn't seem like a bad deal — go once and get a bigger-sized gold glove in return, that was a good bargain... Qiao Sang thought for a moment and said, "You're a boarder, right? How about we go this weekend then?"

Boarders at Holy Water Middle School were normally allowed to leave on weekends, as long as they returned by the designated time at night.

Liu Qijia chuckled twice and said, "Why wait until the weekend? Let's go today."

Qiao Sang was taken aback. "Aren't you a boarder?"

"I am." Liu Qijia said meaningfully, "But that doesn't stop me from going out."

Qiao Sang: "???"

"Hold on." Liu Qijia finished speaking and called out toward a certain direction in the classroom: "Xiang Chengfei, come out!"

A brisk male voice answered, "Coming!"

Qiao Sang followed the direction of the voice and saw a boy whose skin was fairer than most girls', and beside him sat a familiar face.

Qiao Sang wasn't surprised that Dai Shushu was in Class Nine.

Originally, with Dai Shushu's grades, she could have stayed in the taming burden class, but ever since the vice principal came to Holy Water Middle School to take over the school team, every year one or two more specially-recruited students were selected into the taming burden class.

This gave the teachers of Class Nine something to object to.

Although Class Nine wasn't the taming burden class, thanks to its specially-recruited students, its college admission rate was still pretty good every year.

If they got some outstanding specially-recruited students, getting into a top-tier institution wasn't impossible.

But now, with only a few specially-recruited students each year, some of them were being assigned to the taming burden class. This meant the admission rate was no longer guaranteed, so naturally the teachers of Class Nine weren't happy.

As a result, in recent years there had been cases of recommended-admission students or students whose middle-school exam scores ranked among the top few in the whole school being assigned to Class Nine.

Qiao Sang had been attending classes at Holy Water Middle School for over a month, so she naturally knew about this.

Dai Shushu was holding a book in her hands.

She appeared to be reading, but if anyone looked closely, they'd notice that since she saw Qiao Sang appear at the classroom door, the book hadn't been turned a single page.

Qiao Sang naturally didn't know that Dai Shushu couldn't even read because of her. She only glanced once and looked away.

Although her academic scores might not even match Dai Shushu's, she now had zero impulse to treat Dai Shushu as a rival.

People with different horizons naturally have different goals.

Qiao Sang now only wanted to win first place in the Gao San division of the National Campus Beast Taming League and secure a spot as an interstellar exchange student.

At this moment, the boy named Xiang Chengfei ran out and asked Liu Qijia, "What did you call me for?"

Liu Qijia threw an arm around his shoulder and lowered his voice: "I'm going out tonight. Same old price, how about it?"

Qiao Sang, listening on the side, raised her eyebrows.

So he was planning to use special channels to get out.

"You're going out with the great Qiao?" Xiang Chengfei stole a glance at Qiao Sang as he spoke. Seeing her looking at him, he quickly looked away.

"Yeah." Liu Qijia said, "Just say yes or no."

Xiang Chengfei answered quickly, "Sure, why not."

7:33 PM.

As soon as Gao San's school team training ended, Qiao Sang arrived at the agreed spot.

The wall behind the school warehouse.

Liu Qijia and Xiang Chengfei had already been waiting there for about ten minutes.

Seeing Qiao Sang come over, Liu Qijia couldn't wait and said, "Let's go right now."

"Okay." Qiao Sang nodded.

"Hurry up and summon your Door God!" Liu Qijia turned to Xiang Chengfei and said, "I still have to get back before dorm check!"

"What's the rush." Though Xiang Chengfei said he wasn't in a hurry, his hands didn't slow down.

Beneath the white star array, a pet beast appeared inside — about 30 centimeters in size, with a brown hemispherical shell and four small claws.

Qiao Sang was no stranger to this pet beast.

Door-Piercing Helmet, a Ground-type pet beast, possessing the Door-Opening trait. As long as it presses itself against any object, it can turn that object into a door, allowing people to move through freely.

Once the Door-Piercing Helmet leaves the object, the opened portion returns to its original state, leaving no trace whatsoever.

It's for thieves — pfft!

It's the kind of pet beast locksmiths prefer to contract. In daily life, she'd seen it a few times.

"Door God, stick on." Xiang Chengfei looked down at the Door-Piercing Helmet and said.

"Door door."

The Door-Piercing Helmet nodded, trotted over to the wall on its four small claws, then very skillfully raised its front paws and pressed itself against it.

"Hurry up, I still need to get back for evening self-study." As Xiang Chengfei spoke, he gave the Door-Piercing Helmet, which was pressed against the wall, a push.

The once-solid wall instantly opened like a door, and the door's shape was exactly the outer outline of the Door-Piercing Helmet.

"Don't worry, I'll be back soon." Liu Qijia said as he lay flat on the ground and wriggled through the Door-Piercing Helmet-shaped door.

His movements were no different from crawling through a dog hole.

After Liu Qijia got out, he poked his head through the door, which was only about 30 centimeters tall, and called out, "Qiao Sang, you come out too, quick."

Qiao Sang was silent for a long moment, then said, "No need, I'll use the front gate."

Liu Qijia: "???"