Chapter 10: Heading to Gaoshan High School

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sky brightened slightly as the first sun rose in the east.

Accompanying the knocking was a voice filled with weariness: "I'm coming in. You have ten seconds to hide your dirty magazines; don't let me see anything I shouldn't."

Click—

The moment the words fell, the bedroom door was pushed open.

Those ten seconds were purely a ruse.

Wu Xiaoyou burst in with high spirits, her gaze quickly sweeping under the bed, the trash can, and the tissue box on the nightstand.

If Wu Wang's appearance was of the clean and enduringly handsome level, belonging to the relatively neat mud splatters flung out by Goddess Nuwa,

then her facial features were simply a work of art meticulously carved by God.

Her round oval face paired with the rabbit pajamas she wore appeared exceptionally sweet, while the messy, loose, large golden waves of hair draped carelessly over her shoulders revealed a touch of lazy charm.

Pity, such a delicate face was marred by a mouth.

"Tsk, cleaned up so fast? Couldn't there be a scene where you're caught red-handed doing your private business, left in an embarrassing and desperate state? Then I'd use that as leverage to force you to take over the housework." Wu Xiaoyou sighed to express her regret.

Wu Wang remained seated, staring fixedly at the computer screen, retorting without turning his head: "First, in the internet age, who uses physical books to watch smut? Second, old woman, stop wearing such pink and tender clothes to pretend to be young, okay? Finally, I'm already doing the housework anyway!"

Having said that, he nonchalantly hid the fruit knife on the table, which he used for suicide, into the drawer.

But he did not expect Wu Xiaoyou to step forward in an arrow-like stride.

She reached out and grabbed Wu Wang's left hand, which was making a small move.

Snatching the fruit knife away, her tone became serious.

"You tried to kill yourself again? Didn't we agree to sleep well at night? You lied to me?"

Watching her eyes gradually turn red, crystal-clear tears began to swirl.

Wu Wang immediately acted stubborn and argued: "No! I was peeling fruit to eat!"

Having said that, he immediately took two leftover fruit cores out of the drawer.

These were things the cats had dug up from somewhere in anger last night and used to smash the door.

Seeing the fruit cores, Wu Xiaoyou finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She carefully placed the fruit knife on the table.

Two weak, boneless Bai Xi arms draped over Wu Wang's shoulders from behind; she bent down and said softly and gently: "Little brother, Second Sister will definitely find a better psychiatrist to help you control that desire. Please stop doing things that hurt yourself, okay?"

"Mm, I'll try my best."

Wu Wang also changed his usual cheeky demeanor.

He knew the other person was just worried.

Wu Xiaoyou understood the strange tendency deep in his heart, one without any reason, that desperately craved death.

She believed this was a psychological illness, and for these years she had been contacting famous psychiatrists in the country to help relieve and guide her.

Every morning she would rush into his bedroom with various excuses, also afraid that one day he might really die in the room.

Second Sister was the only person in the world who would treat him unconditionally well; even though they were not biological siblings, they cared for each other more than most blood-related relatives.

This was also an important reason why Wu Xiaoyou knew he possessed the 【Undying】 ability.

There were no secrets between them.

Of course, now there was one.

Wu Wang did not intend to tell her about the 【Spirit Disaster Game】.

He was equally worried about Wu Xiaoyou's safety.

"Okay, pinky swear, hang up, one hundred years, no changes!" Wu Xiaoyou returned to the appearance she had when she first entered.

After pinky swearing, she walked out of the room with a smile.

A voice came from outside—

"Come out quickly to eat breakfast! I prepared a lavish braised beef for you!"

The corner of Wu Wang's mouth twitched.

Standing up, he said helplessly: "You're missing the character 'noodles', right? Next time buy the pickled pepper beef flavor; I prefer eating that."

There were still 19 hours left until the mission deadline.

He would not let Second Sister come to harm!

…………

The daytime flashed by in an instant.

Night fell as scheduled.

After Second Sister went to work, Wu Wang spent the entire day preparing the wonderful tools he might need that night.

Only when about two hours remained until the mission deadline did he set off for a relatively remote abandoned school site in the suburbs.

The condition given by the 【Blood-Stained School Uniform】 was 【Any Campus Environment】.

It did not accurately specify a normally operating school, which meant an abandoned school would also do.

All it needed was a "campus environment".

"Buddy, are you going to a costume party?" the taxi driver asked after a moment of silence.

Wu Wang glanced at his own attire and said with great seriousness: "I'm going to exorcise ghosts and protect the safety of the people."

"Hehe, are there really ghosts? Then why have I never seen one?" the driver joked.

"Isn't this proof that my protection quality is up to standard? Here, transfer me 50 as a protection fee to show your sincerity."

"..."

The driver stopped speaking.

He suddenly felt this guy was a bit mentally unstable; what if he got angry and stabbed him twice?

And Wu Wang was sitting in the back row, adjusting where his peachwood sword hung.

It was pinching his balls a little.

At this moment he was wearing a bulletproof vest, a custom-made steel helmet on his head, and tactical gloves — every inch the military enthusiast.

But hanging from his waist were a peachwood sword, garlic, a silver cross, and even a black donkey hoof — all sorts of evil-warding gear — and on his back he carried a huge backpack taller than he was.

The overall look was as bizarre as bizarre could get.

No wonder the taxi driver had to ask.

Anyone would be curious what this lunatic was planning, hailing a cab late at night to an abandoned school.

After arriving at the destination, the moment Wu Wang finished paying the fare, the driver floored it with the launch acceleration of a Formula race car.

As if fleeing something unclean, he whipped around and vanished from Wu Wang's line of sight.

"Is this driver mentally unstable? I'm genuinely afraid he'll kill a pedestrian driving like that." Wu Wang sighed.

With that, he turned to study the school before him.

It was a private high school called Hope Middle School, which had gone bankrupt five years ago for reasons unknown.

By now it had become just another abandoned building in the city, with weeds growing wild everywhere, nearly swallowing the front gate.

Not a single pane of glass remained intact in the security booth's window, and the cheap snack wrappers scattered across the floor proved the place had long served as a makeshift shelter for vagrants.

The originally pristine white-tiled exterior walls of the teaching building had taken on a wild, natural dark-green hue, completely overrun by untended ivy and moss.

A desolate, ruined atmosphere rushed to meet him.

"Tsk, it's been ages since I've been to school — really miss those warm, fuzzy days when the principal and my female homeroom teacher were wrestling in the office, and I quietly swiped the clothes they'd dropped on the floor, then called the TV station claiming a major education news story and a press conference, which got reporters swarming the office."

A hint of nostalgia surfaced in Wu Wang's eyes.

That's right — this was his old high school!

The school went bankrupt the very year he graduated.

Even though he felt the matter probably had nothing to do with him, every teacher and student in the school could guess the reason for its closure.

That bastard was the culprit!

Because he was the only one who'd do something like that!

Crack—

An abrupt set of footsteps came from afar.

Wu Wang, who had been relaxed and at ease, froze; frowning, he looked toward the base of the abandoned school's teaching building.

Four figures stood there, pacing.

Each of them wore a tattered school uniform.

The faded lettering on the back of the uniform read —

【Gaoshan Middle School】!