Salted Fish Zombie

Ch. 124.1.2.3

(Part 1)

Several players who had been lying on the dining table, sleeping, all lifted their heads.

Lu Yue said helplessly, "Why are you shouting so loudly?"

Zhou Xiang rubbed his head and walked over to sit across from Lu Yue. "I'm going to take a nap."

He lay down on the table, facing Lu Yue, and stared at him with his eyes open.

Lu Yue laughed and said, "Why are you looking at me? Go to sleep."

Zhou Xiang smiled, half of his face buried in his arms, and slowly closed his eyes while looking at him.

At that moment, the dining hall was particularly quiet, with specks of dust drifting slowly in the light and shadows.

"Thunk—"

Ning Su was startled.

He looked up to see that Shi Tianzhu's pen had suddenly stopped, creating a point on the white draft paper. The "x" she had intended to write came out as only a "y."

Ning Su gripped his pen tightly.

Shi Tianzhu calmly finished solving the problem and pushed it over to Ning Su. "Look, is this correct?"

Ning Su pressed his lips together, took her problem set, and said, "Yes, this is correct. Let's stop here for now. I'll tutor you again after class tonight."

He lowered his head to review Shi Tianzhu's problem set, the feeling of unwillingness growing stronger.

Before entering the game, Shi Tianzhu's math skills were only at a middle school level. But in just two days, she had grasped at least the content from the first semester of high school.

She could leap from being in the bottom 100 of the grade within just a week.

It would only take a week...

Shi Tianzhu glanced at him and said, "Okay."

She then turned her head to look out the dining hall window and said, "I'll give it a try. After evening self-study, we players should gather."

On the way back, Ning Changfeng pulled Ning Su under a tree beside the teaching building and asked him, "Is Shi Tianzhu... like them?"

He had figured it out, so Ning Su didn't hide it. He nodded slightly.

The two of them stood silently under the sycamore tree.

Afternoon classes were about to start, and many students were rushing toward their classrooms.

The last burst of noise before class on campus didn't reach their ears.

Ning Su said, "Will she end up like those other players?"

High-level players receive special treatment at the base; this was well-known throughout the base.

Ning Su still remembered that Ning Changfeng had said in the <Flower Servant> instance that he wouldn't die so easily.

And what about Shi Tianzhu?

Ning Changfeng said, "I suspect her amnesia process will be slower than that of regular players. You can see it as the system's care, or you can consider it as high-level players having better physical attributes than regular players."

Ning Changfeng patted his shoulder and said, "Don't worry, there will definitely be a way."

"In the <Flower Servant> instance, at first, we also thought that a player's appearance determined their life or death, that their fate was sealed from the moment they entered the instance. But later, Fang Qi opened up another path, proving that players with strong physical attributes and resilient blood vessels could also survive. This instance must have another way out, too."