"Ah—!"
As a scream tore through the night from the student dormitory, Ming Dailan burst out of the bathroom without even putting on her clothes. She had only wrapped herself in a bath towel. Her entire body was dripping wet, her long hair still damp, and her face was filled with terror. Everyone in the dorm was startled. Ming Yueyan, who had been writing, asked, "What happened?"
"R-r-r-r-r-r—" Ming Dailan stammered as if she were singing. Pointing at the bathroom, she said in disgust, "There's a rat!"
"Why do you look like you've never seen one before?" Ming Yueyan asked.
"I really haven't! It's furry and disgusting!"
"Then you're pretty lucky. This dorm is so old that I've already killed several cockroaches." Ming Yueyan stopped writing and thought for a moment. "Don't you know the Myriad Forms Combat Arts? Just use Mountain Collapse and Earth Shatter to slap the rat into paste."
"I'm not touching it! If I killed it, I'd have nightmares for ages!" Ming Dailan gritted her teeth. "Tomorrow, I'm having Mietangya exterminate every rat and cockroach in this place!"
Ming Qingyun, who was reviewing her books, couldn't help laughing. "You don't dare kill one, but you dare exterminate the entire species... Sister Dailan, those words of yours truly show the Imperial Demeanor!"
"If martial artists could exterminate all the rats and cockroaches, the principal would have done it long ago." Ming Taolang jumped straight down from the bunk bed and went over to peek into the bathroom. "There's no rat."
"How could there not be?"
"It probably crawled into the pipes and escaped."
"Then could it crawl back out?" Ming Dailan asked in horror.
Ming Yueyan laughed. "Where do you think it crawled out from in the first place?"
Ming Dailan's face instantly went deathly pale. Ming