【Wuxia World】 Cards

Gu Hedao subconsciously reached for his chin, only to stroke empty air again.

He thought for a moment and rested his hand on the desk.

“Then, Classmate Zuo, why did you do such a thing?”

He still chose to press the matter.

He had no other motive than to see if this native in front of him would become angry from his questioning and reveal some sort of slip-up.

However, Zuo Lin'an was incredibly casual, and there was even a trace of a smile in his eyes.

“It's just the start of school, and I was merely greeting my new classmates. What's the big deal? Isn't this just a minor matter? Why do you keep pestering me with questions?”

“So what if we were a little late? Even the teacher didn't say anything. Don't tell me you've never been late for school before?”

This...

Gu Hedao and the others fell silent one after another.

How could they have never been late?

Some of them had even skipped classes entirely, though the price they paid afterward had been rather steep.

However...

Given the current situation...

Gu Hedao pondered silently. Considering the current situation, to these natives, this indeed seemed like nothing more than a prank. Although it had affected most of the students, it didn't seem too malicious in nature.

If he kept pressing like this, it would make him look unreasonable instead.

After all, Zuo Lin'an was absolutely right—even the teacher hadn't said anything.

Believing he had figured it out, Gu Hedao stopped questioning him and instead admitted his mistake quite magnanimously.

“It seems I was being too petty. Let us speak no more of this.”

Zuo Lin'an nodded with a smile, thinking to himself how gullible this old guy was. Although he was of the Xiantian Rank, he had probably spent the last several decades solely focusing on practicing martial arts.

“Exactly! It's just a small matter. Why be so serious?”

Seeing that he seemed quite easygoing, Gu Hedao asked, “Your classmate behind you, Classmate Xu, just went out. Do you know what he went to do?”

Zuo Lin'an certainly knew he had gone out, but as for what Xu Youyou was up to, he had no idea either.

“I don't know. If you want to know, why not just ask him when he gets back?”

Gu Hedao asked, “You two seem to have a very good relationship?”

Zuo Lin'an didn't deny it.

“Yes, we are good brothers.”

As he answered, he pondered carefully whether there was any need to communicate with the players right now.

He carefully recalled the information their homeroom teacher had sent to all the NPC students earlier, much of which was related to Lingyang First High School.

As he thought, Zuo Lin'an suddenly recalled some information regarding the Scarlet Dream.

When faced with the massive amount of information earlier, he had mostly skimmed through it without memorizing much.

But now, as the time drew closer to ten o'clock in the evening, his memory of the information related to the Scarlet Dream became clearer and clearer.

He had previously thought these players would enter the Scarlet Dream every single night, but only now did he remember that the information didn't state that.

Players could not enter the Scarlet Dream every day.

First, he thought of the players' main quest.

【Survive for Six Days】

【Find the Path of Survival】

There was nothing much to say about these two.

What was important were the other two.

【Regain Student Status】

【Repel a Specter Once】

Zuo Lin'an knew that violating the school rules in the dungeon was equivalent to losing one's student status. As a punishment, they would be dragged into the Scarlet Dream at ten o'clock in the evening.

And the dream would end at twelve o'clock.

In other words, as long as a player could hold out in the dream for two hours and leave alive, they could regain their student status.

Counting the time from Sunday to Saturday, there were six nights in total.

However, each player could enter the Scarlet Dream a maximum of three times.

As long as they could survive three times in the Scarlet Dream, the player would lock in their student status. No matter how they violated the school rules after that, they would never enter the Scarlet Dream again.

This was a good thing for the players.

But for an NPC like him, it wasn't good news at all.

On the flip side, when players entered the Scarlet Dream, they could only use their own talents and specter items.

Those talent creations that did not belong to them, such as the 【Death Doll】 and the 【Life-Buying Coin】 he knew of, could not be brought into the dream.

After all, it was a dream. How could things that did not belong to the players themselves be brought inside?

This could be considered good news.

However, this would make things difficult for NPC students like them. They still had to find a way to kill these players before they exhausted their three chances to enter the dream.

“Classmate?”

Zuo Lin'an snapped out of his thoughts. “What?”

Gu Hedao said, “I wanted to ask you about the contents of the textbook.”

Zuo Lin'an saw him open the Science textbook. The content inside was extremely simple to him.

“Oh? Let me see.”

Just as he looked at the textbook, a sudden flash of inspiration struck him. He thought of the most critical link for the players to clear the dungeon.

The final and most crucial step of the players' main quest.

【Find the Path of Survival】

As long as they found the path of survival, they could clear the dungeon and leave.

And he also knew the location of the path of survival—it was right outside the school gate.

However, if players wanted to leave the school, they had to possess a certain item.

【School Gate Pass】

And in the dungeon, this pass would be split vertically into two halves.

They were 【School Pass】 and 【Gate Permit】 respectively.

The method to obtain the 【School Pass】 was to score at least eighty percent of the total marks in every subject during Saturday's exam as a reward.

This was still somewhat difficult for players with ancient backgrounds.

Especially the subject of English.

Meanwhile, the other half, the 【Gate Permit】, required them to repel the specters inside the Scarlet Dream.

After repelling a specter, this type of card would drop.

It was just like playing a game where defeating monsters dropped equipment.

Of course, the specters mentioned here did not refer to temporary guest-starring NPCs like Zuo Lin'an, but rather the specters that originally existed in the school.

Such as the teachers.

Furthermore, only a portion of the specters would drop the 【Gate Permit】 card.

There were only three places in the Scarlet Dream where such specters would appear.

Namely, the dormitory, the cafeteria, and the academic building.

In the dormitory, there was a dorm auntie and seven staff members who assisted with management. The dorm auntie was equivalent to an elite monster, while the other seven were like common mobs.

And players had to repel the specters transformed from those seven assistant staff members to obtain the card.

As for the cafeteria, there was a head chef and seven cooks.

Similarly, they could only obtain it by repelling the cooks.

Finally, there was the academic building.

The situation in the academic building was slightly different.

Because there were twenty classes in total, and the six floors of Building No. 5 only housed eighteen classes, the two classes in Building No. 3 in front also counted as one floor.

There would be one specter on each floor, making a total of seven as well.

But because not all classes were in the same building, the elite monster responsible for the academic building—the grade director—would not stay inside the academic building without leaving. Instead, he would patrol outside the building.

Of course, he could also enter the interior of the academic building.

As for repelling the specters transformed from the dorm auntie, the head chef, and the grade director, they would obtain a special shard. Only two shards were needed to fuse into a special item.