Chapter 152: Someone Outside

To be honest, an ordinary high school student couldn't possibly have much backbone; without Wei Dalei's suggested tiger bench chili water, even just casually cutting them twice would probably get them to talk.

Although Qiming's students, who rarely even fight, would find it hard to wield a knife, but if it were truly needed, Chen Mu himself believes he could grit his teeth and do it.

However, Tang Jing rejected this option from the start.

This also relieved Chen Mu, because if extreme measures were really needed, the executioner would certainly be him.

However, after getting their names, Tang Jing went a long time without asking any substantive questions, as if she didn't really care about them.

She merely forbade anyone else from contacting the two of them alone.

June day

Lunar May 28

Night

The moon is only a thin crescent.

The room has almost no light.

Kong Qi has gradually become accustomed to his current life.

What he is most curious about now is how his good brother Wu Xing is doing; according to that decent-looking girl, Wu Xing has already fainted twice from hunger strikes, each time being revived by them forcing tomato juice.

Sometimes I think, why does he bother?

Hunger strikes are utterly meaningless. Eat well, drink well, keep your life — isn't that enough?

Imprisoned here, I estimate it's been about ten-odd days.

These people are obviously from Ziwei High School, but they don't seem to be allied with Qingbei.

Who cares!

Ziwei High School has no good people!

This idea is deeply rooted in Kong Qi's mind.

Originally I thought these people, even if they didn't kill the two, would at least interrogate them, but so far it seems they have no intention of learning about their situation.

Why is that?

Do they know our Yi Zhong very well?

Or perhaps they are just a bunch of people who dislike conflict, live in seclusion, and have no interest in others' affairs?

But why would they come to seize our vehicle?

And it just so happens to be during the fight with Qingbei.

This timing is too coincidental.

Anyway, Ziwei High School has no good people, so just hold out to the end…… However, that girl is really pretty, maybe surnamed Tang? She always smiles, talking to her is comfortable, although she only chats a bit when delivering meals, and she seems to admire Wu Xing; if I had also thrown away my food at the start…… would she think more highly of me? Too bad it's too late now; even pretending to be tough is just picking up others' scraps……

I really want to eat!

Kong Qi was lost in thought when he suddenly heard some movement outside.

Because he's locked up every day with nowhere to go, his biological clock is completely messed up; he often sleeps soundly during the day and is energetic at night.

Although he is far from the door, in the quiet night even the slightest sound is amplified countless times.

Kong Qi indeed heard the sound.

His heart pounded thump-thump.

Could it be that our own people have come to rescue them?

He thought he would be happy, but then he was shocked to find that his heart only held a feeling of anxiety over gains and losses.

He both wants to be rescued and fears never seeing that Tang-surnamed girl again; if he could be rescued while also capturing her…… no…… the Qi Troops are not to be trifled with…… otherwise just stay? But his companions aren't taking this risk for nothing…… However, if he goes back, will he be looked down upon, after all Wu Xing……

Kong Qi was caught in that endless wavering; he even at one point somewhat hoped this rescue would fail……

……

In Qiming's five rooms, aside from Wei Dalei's single room, the boys and girls each have two rooms.

Chen Mu lives in Room 1 male dorm, sharing with Sun Yuan, Qian Fei, Xue Xu.

One can imagine, nobody really wants to share a room with Xue Xu.

Cao Cao had the bad habit of killing in his dreams; if this guy had the hobby of farting in his dreams, wouldn't that be deadly?

Moreover, people farting in their sleep is quite common.

For this reason, Chen Mu didn't dare sleep too soundly the first night, fearing he'd be poisoned to death by chemical weapons in the room; fortunately, after a few nights passed, all was quiet.

In that case, this guy either doesn't fart in his sleep, or if he does unconsciously, it's just ordinary gas.

Even so, Xue Xu remains the least welcome roommate, but with everyone total, living in two four-person rooms, there must always be three people with him; Chen Mu naturally couldn't just build a separate room for him, throw him into Old Wei's room, and that wouldn't be very humane.

In the end, Chen Mu could only lead by example, sharing a room with him, while the other two took turns switching.

……

Chen Mu was sleeping soundly when someone pushed him awake.

The person pushing him didn't dare use too much force, but Chen Mu is a light sleeper, so he wakes easily.

When he got up and looked, the person pushing him was none other than his roommate Sun Yuan.

"Sun Yuan, what's up?"

"Senior Chen, it sounds like someone's outside." Sun Yuan's voice clearly showed fear.

"Are you sure?" Chen Mu sat up with a swish.

"Sure, I just woke up in the middle of the night; I was about to go to the bathroom, but being a little scared alone, I idly listened for sounds, and indeed I heard someone moving outside the main gate." Sun Yuan explained.

"How many people can you hear?" By now Chen Mu had gotten out of bed and put on his shoes.

"Sounds like five or six, but with our plastic room blocking, it's not very clear."

"Then let's go out."

Sun Yuan was already fully dressed; as he followed Chen Mu out of the male dorm, the two sneaked toward the main gate.

Chen Mu was hesitating whether to immediately call Dong Junwei and the others to get up, when he heard Sun Yuan say: "There are five people, two of them carrying something very heavy."

Since being encouraged by Tang Jing last time, Sun Yuan's training has become arduous, and his improvement is quite evident.

As before, he could at most tell how many people there were, and the number couldn't be too large; what's more, now he can even hear the burden.

Chen Mu roughly understood; perhaps the footsteps of those carrying a load are a bit heavier.

But this isn't the key.

Since they are carrying a load, they don't look like survivors who happened to pass by.

He no longer hesitated at this moment and immediately knocked on the door of the girls' dormitory.

Soon.

Dong Junwei and the others were fully dressed and ready.

The emergency plan that had been drilled before now seems necessary.

In less than a minute, everyone had already put on their clothes and had been handed grenades.

"If there are five of them, they probably aren't that strong; let's go up and grab them!" Wei Dalei, who hadn't engaged in hand-to-hand combat for a long time, felt a bit excited now.

"Don't rush; we don't know whether these people are friends or foes, and even if they are enemies, if they happen to have some extraordinary abilities, we could be caught off guard."

"What should we do then?"

"Let's wait a bit, see… listen to what they actually intend to do."

"By the way, there's someone outside; why didn't the person on duty say anything? Could they have fallen asleep again?"

"This isn't his fault." Chen Mu sighed: "Outside is pitch black, nothing can be seen; currently, night duty is just to cultivate everyone's habit..."

His words hadn't finished.

Only heard something strike the gate with a bang.

Then, a bright light shone in from beneath the door crack.