Chapter 124 "We Have No Other Choice"
After the two returned to the car, Pei Hening took out the model from her backpack: "How do we use this spatial artifact?"
"Just stick the prop where you want to install it."
Pei Hening chose a good spot, stuck the prop on, and a crisp click sounded. The prop disappeared and turned into a dot. The dot expanded and opened up to become a door that looked perfectly natural.
The crescent-white square door is clean and gentle, with a doorknob shaped like a twining rose.
"That's it?"
Chu Xuange smiled and said, "Let's go in and take a look."
Pei Hening gripped the doorknob, opened the door, and went inside.
The study area largely replicates the original appearance of her study before she survived the highway ordeal. Although the storage and display area and the reception area have been removed, the space is still quite large.
A floor-to-ceiling black walnut solid wood bookcase covers the entire wall, with the solid wood shelves and motion-sensor lights placed perfectly.
The bookshelf was still empty and she needed to fill it up again.
The room features an extra-wide, hand-carved solid wood desk with a lamp beside it. The leather chair with subtle patterns and stitching has a substantial feel, and a large cashmere rug covers the dark brown solid wood floor.
Chu Xuange walked in and asked her, "How is it?"
Pei Hening touched the solid wood desk and nodded: "I'm very satisfied."
After a brief tour of the study, she turned to look at the alchemy room.
Compared to the empty study, the alchemy room was much more cluttered and full of things.
Chu Xuange put a lot of materials for making medicine inside.
Pei Hening noticed a transparent bottle containing a pink liquid: "What is this?"
"The Devil's Tears, a free gift from Chiya."
Chu Xuange noticed her confusion and added, "Demon's tears can be used to make some special potions."
"Are these Chiya's tears?"
"I don't know."
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School, floating island.
After Pei Hening came up, he subconsciously looked for Xixia or the bald little doll.
But all that could be seen were seven exquisitely dressed dolls.
Especially 823786, it specially wore a white magic robe with the highway school logo embroidered on it, which looked very formal.
They gathered together to communicate, but only 823786 had its language system activated, and occasionally you could hear it say a word or two.
"Teacher 823786, where is the teacher?"
823786 only noticed Pei Hening's arrival at this moment and said, "The welcome party isn't over yet, I'll still be teaching you today."
If this were a typical welcome party, it would have ended long ago.
But this time, Xia Zhi, that crazy lunatic, came along and immediately submitted an application to rearrange the strength rankings, managing to recall all the teachers who were traveling around and start the strength rankings ahead of schedule.
West Asia will also participate.
Unsurprisingly, the past week has been filled with instruction on puppets, golems, projections, and clones.
Pei Hening remarked, "That school is quite warm-hearted; they held a welcome party for so long."
After analyzing her words, 823786 fell silent.
"Teacher 823786, what are we learning today?"
"It's still about the principles of magic; let's expand on that today."
Pei Hening had no objection to the arrangement. She ignored the puppets who were watching the spectacle, sat down, took out her notebook, and began to listen attentively to the lesson.
Thanks to the guidance of these teachers, she was able to take notes much faster.
Although she couldn't match professional shorthand, she was generally satisfied.
"The student is so well-behaved, yet you spread rumors that she's annoying. How is she annoying?"
"Didn't you watch the last live stream by user 823786?"
"823786 is still live streaming? I was surveying the burial site on Khe Island before."
"Are you prejudiced against her?"
"823786 went for treatments three times because of her."
"...That might be a really bad situation."
Why hasn't 822222 come to watch the students' classes?
"It got ripped off by 199999 once, and now it's making trouble for 199999."
"I was saying that last time the two of them couldn't decide a winner, so why was it 199,999 who came to teach the students?"
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Pei Hening finished her class and came out of the lounge, heading towards the parking lot.
She noticed someone looking at her and looked up.
It's that female player with short, black, shoulder-length hair and almond-shaped eyes.
She was wearing a black coat with the collar turned up high and a belt casually tied around her waist. She looked even worse than Shuxiao, with bloodshot eyes and dark circles under her eyes.
Seeing her turn around sharply, Li Pangui nodded to her in a friendly manner and quickly walked to her side.
"Shall we chat?"
Pei Hening had a sudden realization; she seemed to have guessed the identity of the person in front of her. She must be [Invincible Ice Cola], as she exuded a unique quality that belonged to a soldier.
Pei Hening nodded: "Okay."
The two entered an empty lounge.
Li Pangui: "Drip drip drip, I'm Invincible Ice Cola, Li Pangui, it's nice to meet you."
Pei Hening cut to the chase: "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Li Pangui said, "We have made a new discovery regarding the message you relayed to Falcon."
Pei Hening thought for a moment and asked, "The Magic Forest has already been destroyed?"
Li Pangui placed his hands on the table and nodded: "Yes, we have received definite information that the Magic Forest was destroyed once, but the Elf race rebuilt the Magic Forest two hundred years ago, and this matter is also related to Titian."
Pei Hening looked at her calmly and questioned, "Why are you telling me all this?"
She wasn't an official member and had only known Li Pangui for a short time, so why would she tell her all this?
Li Pangui understood her concerns and chuckled, "It seems the anti-fraud app is quite popular. Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"
She even had the mood to joke, "Let's all listen?"
Li Pangui's eyebrows curved slightly: "Besides becoming stronger, the strong of the human race and China also need to understand what happens in the road survival game, and try to know themselves and their enemies."
In the future she envisioned, there was a war that was destined to happen, and humanity would be drawn into it, with no choice but to prepare for war early.
Pei Hening was very sensitive to words. She looked at Li Pangui and suddenly said, "I thought you would try to recruit me into the government, Commander Li."
Li Pangui took out a bottle of fatigue-relieving medicine and drank it down. Her sluggish brain started working again, and she said, "We will not restrict or force the strong to develop. If you want to join the official team, we welcome you. If you don't want to join, we respect your choice."
"Commander Li, is this your idea? Or the official one? Can you really represent the official position?"
"With so many divisions, how do you maintain communication?"
Li Pangui laughed and said, "It's a secret. I'll tell you once you join us."