Walking out of the cafeteria, Meng Chen looked at the skipping Xiao Wu, and a trace of doubt inevitably welled up in his eyes.
No matter how he looked at it, the intelligence Xiao Wu displayed didn’t seem like a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast at all.
Could it be that after a Soul Beast transforms into human form, its intelligence is automatically reorganized?
Or was it that the intelligence of Soul Beasts grew slowly, and even though Xiao Wu’s cultivation reached a Breakthrough of a hundred thousand years, her intelligence was still just that of a child.
“Damn San Gou, you fucking wrote the settings well, a bunch of damn loopholes.”
Meng Chen cursed inwardly.
The biggest setting loophole in Douluo was the Soul Beasts.
Clearly, as long as the age and cultivation of Soul Beasts were distinguished, setting it so that a Soul Beast’s real age and cultivation were different would have been fine.
But San Gou just had to make it so that however many years a Soul Beast lived, its cultivation was however many years.
It was a purely retarded setting.
Meng Chen followed Xiao Wu to the work-study students’ dormitory.
Calling it a dormitory, it was actually just a large shared bed.
All the work-study students were piled together to sleep, without any partitions in between.
Seeing Meng Chen follow her inside, Xiao Wu tilted her little head and asked in confusion: “Hey, A-Chen, aren’t you going back to your dorm to take a nap?”
“Xiao Wu, are there any other girls in your work-study dormitory?” Meng Chen asked in turn.
Xiao Wu shook her head: “There’s only me, a girl.”
Hearing this, Meng Chen frowned slightly, reached out to grab Xiao Wu’s tender arm, and pulled her out of the work-study dormitory.
“Come with me.”
“Ah, where are we going?”
Xiao Wu was a bit dazed, but feeling the hand of Meng Chen tightly gripping her arm, her heart trembled slightly, and her rabbit ears softened a bit again.
Meng Chen pulled Xiao Wu all the way to the Academic Affairs Office and found Director Su, who was drinking tea.
“Teacher Su, I want a dormitory!”
Director Su put down his teacup, looked somewhat surprised at Meng Chen and Xiao Wu, whom he was pulling, and asked aloud.
“What’s wrong, Student Meng?
Why suddenly want to change dormitories?”
“It’s not me changing, it’s Xiao Wu changing.
She, a young girl, lives in a work-study dormitory full of boys and sleeps on a shared bed without partitions.
That’s not appropriate, right?”
“Hmm, it really is a bit inappropriate.”
Director Su nodded, but then said in a dilemma: “But Student Xiao Wu is a work-study student and can only sleep in the work-study dormitory.
This is the rule, unless she, like you, pays out of her own pocket to live in other dormitories.”
Hearing that changing dormitories cost money, Xiao Wu shook her head repeatedly.
“A-Chen, I think the work-study dormitory is quite good.
There’s no need to spend money to change dormitories again, right?
Besides, besides, I don’t have money either…”
“I do.”
As soon as the words fell, Meng Chen directly took out a small cloth pouch from the bone dragon ring and pulled out two silver coins from it.
“Director Su, please help Xiao Wu change to a girls’ dormitory.”
Director Su’s gaze fell on the bone dragon ring, and a flash of sharp light crossed the depths of his eyes.
A storage spirit tool?
Where did this child get it?
He clearly didn’t have it yesterday.
Who gave it to him?
Seeing Meng Chen suddenly pull out two silver coins, Xiao Wu’s little mouth instantly formed an “O”.
Two silver coins were twenty bronze coins, which could buy quite a few carrots!
Director Su withdrew his gaze from the bone dragon ring and thought to himself: “Anyone who can pull out a storage spirit tool is not an ordinary Soul Master.
Presumably, this child’s talent attracted the attention of a powerful Soul Master who gave it to him.”
Immediately afterwards, Director Su accepted the two silver coins and processed the dormitory transfer application for Xiao Wu.
“There are not many female students in the academy.
Although the dormitory assigned to Student Xiao Wu is a four-person room, only one girl lives there.
It’s right upstairs from you…”
Director Su handed the slip to Meng Chen and told him the location of Xiao Wu’s dormitory.
Meng Chen took the slip: “Thank you, Teacher Su.”
Director Su smiled and watched Meng Chen and Xiao Wu leave.
On the tree-lined path, Xiao Wu looked at Meng Chen holding her hand.
Her rabbit ears trembled slightly, her little mouth moved slightly, and her voice was as soft as a mosquito’s buzz.
“A-Chen, I actually don’t need to change dormitories.”
Meng Chen stopped, turned his head to look at Xiao Wu, and said seriously:
“We must change.
Men and women should keep their distance; at three years old they don’t share a mat, and at seven years old they don’t share a bed.
You, a young girl, sleeping together with a bunch of boys can easily cause misunderstandings.
In case there are pedophiles among those boys, it’ll be even more dangerous.”
Although Xiao Wu didn’t understand what three years old or seven years old meant, she could feel Meng Chen’s care for her and nodded obediently.
“Is that so?
I understand.
I will return those two silver coins to you.”
Meng Chen didn’t refuse either: “Mhm, once you become a Soul Master, you can go to the Spirit Hall to collect the Soul Master subsidy.
There’s one gold coin a month.”
“One gold coin, that’s so much!” Xiao Wu was surprised.
Just becoming a Soul Master gives one gold coin.
It seemed she needed to become a Soul Master sooner.
Arriving at the dormitory, holding the slip approved by Director Su, Meng Chen quickly helped Xiao Wu change her dormitory and bought a brand-new set of bedding.
“Wow, new bedding!
So soft and comfortable!”
In the new dormitory, Xiao Wu lay on the new bedding Meng Chen had made for her, tossing and turning while hugging a pink pillow, humming contentedly.
Seeing Xiao Wu’s cheerful appearance, the corners of Meng Chen’s mouth curled up slightly, revealing a faint smile.
“The dormitory is also changed.
Xiao Wu, you take a nap first, and I’ll go down to rest too.
As for your other luggage, we can go get it after school in the afternoon.”
“Mhm mhm!” Xiao Wu buried her head into the new pillow and grunted twice.
Until Meng Chen left, she raised her head, looking at the closed dormitory door, and a faint sorrow welled up in her pink eyes.
Ever since her mother died, she hadn’t been cared for like this by someone for a long time.
“Mother…” Xiao Wu buried her head in the pillow again, whispering and murmuring, tears faintly flashing at the corners of her eyes.
She missed her mother.
If only Mother were still here…
“Little fellow, you are so good to that little rabbit, are you trying to trick her into a sacrifice?”
Ye Xishui’s voice rang in Meng Chen’s ear.
Meng Chen shook his head slightly without giving too much explanation.
As the nap time ended, Meng Chen had just opened his dormitory door when Xiao Wu was already waiting at the entrance.
“A-Chen, how come you got up even later than me?
If you slept a little longer, I would have knocked on the door.”
Xiao Wu put her hands on her hips, complaining about Meng Chen getting up late, her rabbit ears trembling.
Meng Chen reached out to touch Xiao Wu’s rabbit ears, comforting her: “Alright, alright, let’s hurry to class.”
Xiao Wu gave a soft hum, turned around, and skipped away.
Meng Chen followed behind her, and they came to the classroom together.
Inside the classroom, seeing Meng Chen and Xiao Wu walk in, a trace of gloom flashed across the depths of Tang San’s eyes.
As the afternoon classes ended and the after-school bell rang, Xiao Wu swoished out of the classroom in a flurry, heading straight for the second cafeteria.
Seeing this, Meng Chen closely followed behind.
“This, this, and this!”
On the second floor of the cafeteria, looking at the dazzling array of dishes, Xiao Wu didn’t wait for Meng Chen to speak and ordered three dishes in a row.
Meng Chen glanced at those three dishes.
Stir-fried shredded carrots, plain stir-fried baby cabbage, and a steamed egg.
He felt a bit helpless, knowing that Xiao Wu wanted to save money for him.
Regarding this, Meng Chen didn’t say much else, just asking the chef to add two large chicken drumsticks.
When Xiao Wu saw the large chicken drumsticks, she was slightly stunned.
She hadn’t ordered them.
“I ordered them.
We are both growing bodies.
What’s the use of just eating these vegetarian things?
We need to eat more meat.”
Meng Chen handed a large chicken drumstick to Xiao Wu and explained.
Looking at the large chicken drumstick, Xiao Wu’s little mouth opened slightly, but in the end she didn’t say anything, and just picked up the large chicken drumstick and started gnawing on it.
After finishing dinner, Meng Chen said he needed to relieve himself and asked Xiao Wu to go down first to wait for him.
After Xiao Wu went down, Meng Chen walked back to the kitchen, asked for a few tender carrots, and put them into the bone dragon ring.