My eyebrows twitched. Okay… I would just pretend I didn’t ask or hear his answer.
“You can do it!” Qing Ming held out his fist toward me, and I raised mine with a sigh, bumping it with him.
“I… I’ll see you off…” Si Yinuo stood up, hugging the white snake in his arms. He looked rather young, I smiled at him. “Are you joining the freshman test?”
His cheeks turned red, blushing. Then, he hid behind the white snake and whispered, “I… I repeated the year…”
“…..” I shouldn’t have asked.
“Me too…” Mao Mao interrupted, raising her hand. Then, Qing Ming and Jiang Yan raised their hands, too.
The corners of my lips twitched as I smiled. I thought that I probably wouldn’t be able to repeat the grade because, well, I wasn’t sure if I could get in!
When I reached the door, I thanked Si Yinuo and said, “Don’t come out with me, lest you lose face.”
Si Yinuo stared at me, and Qing Ming suddenly said, “Be persistent.”
Glancing at Qing Ming’s stoic look, I thought he was right. Even if I was an ordinary person, even if they looked down on me, I should persist.
“Okay! Si Yinuo, let’s go!” I accepted his advice, then, I flipped my hair. I decided to fly, too!
“En!” Si Yinuo agreed, then, the white snake turned into a very large white python. I rode on its back, and, immediately, we were flying in the air. Mao Mao, Jiang Yan, and Qing Ming were all standing by the door to see us off. Although it was only our first day together, I already liked them a lot.
No one was allowed to watch the freshman’s test in person, but there would be a live broadcast on the campus network, so the students could watch the whole thing from their houses.
Feeling like I was on TV, I had to perform well! I could only run away at the last minute, so I wouldn’t disgrace my dorm, but also for myself, and for all mortals!
But… what if… I couldn’t make it to the last minute?
Aigo, my ghost, ah! I had never seen even one in my life, let alone catch one. Even if I practiced catching chicken, I still wouldn’t be able to catch one.
As I sat on the big python, I couldn’t admit how nervous I was. Humming, “Oh… ah hey! Oh… yeah! Ah~~~ cough, cough, cough!” Damn, we were so high, but it made me relax. The source of this chapter is novelping(.)com.
Just then, a large white open-air hall emerged into my eyes, and beneath the great white python was a huge palace like an ancient Greek temple!
There was a white square roof, supported by thick stone pillars one after another! The four-sided, milky white, slightly transparent floor tiles were neatly arranged in a magnificent manner!
White sent me to the bottom of the steps, and Si Yinuo looked at me timidly from behind his long bangs. “Go for it, sister.” With that, he rode off on his white snake.
I stored the talisman Jiang Yan gave me, and ran up the same milky white, slightly transparents stairs which were as beautiful as a fairy’s palace.
Suddenly, the zombie girl appeared, but she didn’t even look at me as she ‘whooshed!’. The girl jumped up and her zombie appeared after her. It jumped past me, but then, it looked back. “Uhhhh…”
Well, I took that as him saying hello to me, because, well, he was the only one who said hello to me. I smiled back at him and waved, “Go on.”
He blinked. “Uhhh….” Then, he jumped away.
Next, I saw the people from the waiting room earlier. They all jumped to the top like they were in anime. I was already panting from the exhaustion.
It was deadly to climb these steep stairs, and I was deservedly the last one with no one after me. I thought, “Can you consider the feelings of a mere moral like me? Try putting a lift or an escalator.”
When I lifted my face, I saw everyone standing in those huge square tiles, neatly organized, looking as if they were all so experienced.
I saw that the last one was still empty and I stood in, gasping with exhaustion as I crossed my arms, “Hoo… hooo… hooo….”
“Congratulations to all of you who have been promoted to the university division of the academy to begin your new studies…” A clear woman’s voice came from the sky, and when I looked up, I saw streamers floating above us. “In order to better grasp each new student’s situation and ability for class placement, there will be an entrance test. Upon entering the magic space, you will have fifteen minutes to prepare, when the time limit is over, we’ll start to release the ghosts and you will need to subdue them. Good luck to everyone and get good grades on the test.”
A magic space? What magic space?
As I looked around, I felt that the tiles under my feet became hollow and my whole body was covered with a white light, so the magic space was underneath me.
“Aah….” I screamed instinctively like a normal human would when falling, and a moment later, I realized my feet were on the ground, so I stood rooted on the spot for a moment. “Oh…” The white light that engulfed me slowly disappeared, and a living room gradually appeared before me. It looked like I was in a villa. Visit NovelPing for the full chapter.
“Preparation time starts now.” Out of thin air, words appeared above me, I looked up and holy shit A floating holographic timer was presented before me.
“Tac, tac, tac…” It moved, second by second, making the atmosphere tense.
I hugged my head, breathing deeply before patting myself on the face. “Xia Xiaolan, you have to calm down, calm down! Inhale-exhale-inhale-exhale…” I calmed down and glanced around the living room, then to the front door behind me, and the stairs. This was really a villa!
In fifteen minutes, ghosts would appear. Everyone said that I shouldn’t be afraid of the ghosts, so their power wouldn’t increase, but it was still a ghost, so I just couldn’t sit here.
I stood still, observing the place. I was a mortal, so running around wouldn’t help me! In ten ghost movies I watched, when you ran around, even if you were the leading actor, you would die ten times!
Glancing toward the door again, I thought I couldn’t run away anyway. It would be too shameful! Besides, if I ran away, I would fail, right?
I touched the talisman in my pocket, time was ticking away by the second, I couldn’t run away from here, so I had to find a place to defend myself.
I took action, stepping to the right side of the hall, and I saw the kitchen. My mind spun at high speed as if I was in a game, thinking minute by minute, not wasting any time.
The kitchen was open with elegant cabinets, and marble stoves. In the center of the marble worktop, was the built-in burner, very upscale. As I entered, the first thing I did was open all the drawers and cupboards, rummaging around.
It was awesome that I found a toolbox~
Then there were knives, forks, and spoons. I wasn’t Jet Li, and I wouldn’t be able to dodge flying knives and forks, let alone perform special effects to slow them down, so I threw them away. Besides, they didn’t work on ghosts, at least not in Chinese or foreign ghost movies.
I had never seen anyone slashed a ghost to death with a knife and fork! Instead, if you threw the knife at the ghost, it would turn back to you and hack you to death.
I wrapped all these dangerous items in cling film, when I tried to open the kitchen window, it was locked. The area didn’t let you out at all!