Zuo Lin'an was stunned for a moment upon hearing this.
This person must have asked other student NPCs or the school staff.
If you ask enough of them, you're bound to get the right answer eventually.
He looked at Gu Hedao, who had just rushed over, and then raised his hand to tap his own head lightly.
“Oh, right, right! It is six o'clock!”
“Look at my memory, I actually got the time for evening self-study wrong.”
“But it's no big deal.”
He spoke at a normal volume, so many people nearby heard him.
After all, the veteran players who had survived until now were basically all martial artists.
“What? Six o'clock? Evening self-study?”
Zuo Lin'an didn't want to argue with them too much for now, so he waved his hand dismissively.
“Alright, I'm in a hurry, so I won't chat with you any longer. I still have to go to the classroom after I finish eating.”
Saying this, he suddenly revealed a smile tinged with a bit of malice and provocation.
“I wonder how many people won't make it in time or will go to the wrong class.”
Xu Youyou leaned in, his voice sounding even more mischievous.
“There should be quite a few. We'll have a good show to watch tonight.”
Zuo Lin'an chimed in, “What are you talking about? Teachers wouldn't punish students!”
The two of them smiled at each other and continued walking toward the cafeteria.
Xuan Jingyuan and Gu Hedao fell deep in thought, while the two standing behind Xuan Jingyuan frowned one after another, though it wasn't their place to speak here.
Xuan Jingyuan looked at Gu Hedao. “Old Master Gu, what do you think of these two?”
Gu Hedao subconsciously raised his hand to stroke his beard, but his fingers met empty air.
Only then did he realize that he had become younger, and his beard was gone.
“The farce at the school gate earlier was led by these two... or rather, led by one of them, who is the very person who just spoke to us.”
Xuan Jingyuan asked, “What is his name?”
Gu Hedao replied, “The person beside him just called him Brother An. As for his full name, I don't know, but we will find out eventually.”
Xuan Jingyuan looked at the two walking further away. “Should we follow them now?”
Gu Hedao said, “Didn't the two of them say they were going to the cafeteria to eat? Let's follow them and see.”
“Alright.”
All four of them were martial artists.
Xuan Jingyuan was only at the First-Rate Rank, but his two bodyguards and Gu Hedao were at the Xiantian Rank, so their speed was extremely fast.
Although Zuo Lin'an and Xu Youyou had walked quite a distance, they were quickly caught up.
There was no conversation among them as they made their way to the cafeteria.
After entering the cafeteria, Zuo Lin'an and Xu Youyou acted as if they didn't see the people following behind them, heading straight for a window near the entrance.
Xuan Jingyuan and the others first sized up the cafeteria.
On the right side were many windows fitted with transparent glass. Through each open window, various dishes could be seen neatly arranged inside.
On the left side were dense rows of tables and chairs.
It was currently mealtime, and the aroma of food wafted through the cafeteria.
“Master, look at them.”
Xuan Jingyuan immediately shifted his gaze toward Zuo Lin'an and Xu Youyou.
He saw them take out a palm-sized wallet from their backpacks, retrieve a few red square pieces of paper and a card, and hand them inside.
The woman inside accepted the items.
It was unclear what she did, but she kept the pieces of paper and returned the card to them.
Zuo Lin'an glanced at the campus card in his hand. He knew the NPCs' task was to make the players violate the school rules, but today, barring any accidents, all the players had already violated them.
Therefore, there was no need for him to hide this detail of topping up the card.
They couldn't just avoid topping up and eating forever just because players were following them, right?
Even if they didn't do it, once the other NPC students arrived later, they would also come here to top up their cards. The players would see it anyway, so the result would be the same.
Just as Xuan Jingyuan was about to step forward to ask, he noticed that Gu Hedao had beaten him to it.
“You two young... Classmates, what is this?”
Zuo Lin'an turned around.
At this moment, he had once again transformed into a friendly, helpful student.
He held up the card in his hand and shook it.
“This is a campus card. The school cafeteria and campus shop don't accept cash, so you must top up money into the card first.”
He pointed to the window.
“Right here.”
After saying that, they didn't say anything more and walked over to a distant window to get food.
Once the two had walked away, the expressions of Xuan Jingyuan and the others grew somewhat serious.
Earlier, they had all handed their suitcases to the others. Now, if they wanted to get the so-called campus cards and money, they had to go back and find them.
“Master, your subordinate will go right away!”
Xuan Jingyuan nodded. “Go. Bring Old Master Gu's as well.”
“Yes.”
After the bodyguard left, the remaining Gu Hedao, along with the master and servant, stood there waiting.
Meanwhile, Zuo Lin'an and Xu Youyou had already gotten their food and sat down in the distance to eat, observing them from time to time.
Before long, other NPCs entered the cafeteria one after another, preparing to eat.
They all topped up their cards at that window right in front of Xuan Jingyuan and the others.
Having watched this process over and over, they became familiar with it.
As Xu Youyou was eating, he suddenly caught sight of an electronic screen hanging on a wall of the cafeteria.
“It's five fifty-five.”
Zuo Lin'an turned his head to look. “So fast?”
Xu Youyou exclaimed, “Huh? They didn't top up their cards or eat, they just left!”
Zuo Lin'an instinctively turned his head, only to see several figures flash past as they left the cafeteria and ran toward the academic building in the distance.
“It seems they couldn't sit still after learning that evening self-study starts at six.”
Xu Youyou said with a meaningful look, “They didn't even eat. How pitiful.”
Zuo Lin'an agreed, “Yeah.”
His gaze drifted to the slogans inside the cafeteria.
One of them was about not wasting food.
There was also a requirement for every meal: 【Staple food is a must, with a balance of meat and vegetables.】
The players didn't realize that they had to eat three meals a day, and there were even requirements for what to eat for each meal.
This was great.
Over the next few days, they probably wouldn't even need to cause trouble on purpose; these players would manage to get themselves killed.
The two of them didn't care if they were late, so they stayed and ate until five past six before leaving the cafeteria.
“We're in Class One, right?”
“Yeah, let's go.”
“Should we just find a random classroom to sit in? Class One is on the top floor, and climbing the stairs is too much trouble.”
Zuo Lin'an said, “At least it's our homeroom teacher's class.”
Remembering that the one in charge of Class One in this dungeon was indeed their homeroom teacher, Xu Youyou stopped talking.
As he spoke, he turned to look behind him. Many players were rushing over. Some had nothing on them, probably having left everything in the dorms.
Others were carrying bags and dragging suitcases, huffing and puffing as they walked toward the academic building. It looked like they hadn't found their dorms yet?
Xu Youyou stared curiously for a long time at the figures flying past through the greenery using qinggong.
Then, he asked with some excitement.
“Brother An, do you think using qinggong to fly down the hallways of the academic building counts as chasing and roughhousing?”
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