Outside Shrek City

After getting his schedule, Song Mu looked it over carefully.

When he had been at the City Lord's Mansion, Chen Yunlin had also arranged a training program for him.

His physical fitness was no match for a Battle Soul Master, but it was far better than that of an auxiliary-type Soul Master.

The schedule was almost the same as Chen Yunlin's. Mu Jin truly was a teacher at the continent's number-one academy.

The Training Zone was a place specifically for Shrek's students to work out or hone their Soul Skills. It was near the Beast Fighting Zone, though it covered much less ground.

To Song Mu, the Training Zone was like the gym from his previous life, except all the equipment here was much heavier.

Song Mu spent the whole afternoon in the training room. His classes didn't end until five thirty.

After working up a sweat, Song Mu returned to the dormitory, ready to wash up properly.

The moment he took off his shirt, Song Mu felt his communication with Wang Dong'er cut off. She had ended the connection herself.

Only then did Song Mu remember that he was still sharing his view with Wang Dong'er. He normally disconnected before taking a shower, but he had been so tired after training that he had forgotten.

Song Mu awkwardly touched his nose, then continued undressing and got in the shower.

He had to admit, having a single room with its own bathroom was great!

As he remembered it, in the original story, Wang Dong had no bathroom in his dormitory, so he carried water from the shared bathrooms on either side of the corridor back to his room to bathe. He wondered what Wang Dong did when he needed to use the toilet.

Inside the King Ball, Wang Dong'er had buried herself under the covers, her cheeks faintly red.

The moment she closed her eyes, an image appeared in her mind: Song Mu looking at himself in the mirror, his upper body bare, his physique sculpted by years of training.

"That jerk did that on purpose, didn't he?"

Song Mu, enjoying his shower, didn't stop to wonder how Wang Dong'er might have reacted. He just felt that taking a shower after working up a sweat was wonderful.

He turned off the tap, dried himself, got dressed, and reconnected his consciousness to Wang Dong'er.

"How about we go to the Beast Fighting Zone after dinner?" Song Mu asked.

Wang Dong'er replied softly, "I want to go out and look around outside Shrek City."

"Sure," Song Mu said.

Then he shared his view with Wang Dong'er and started toward the door.

Seeing this, Wang Dong'er hurriedly said, "Wait!"

Song Mu stopped and deliberately asked, "What is it?"

Where Wang Dong'er couldn't see him, the corners of Song Mu's mouth had already curled upward.

Wang Dong'er hesitated, but finally summoned her courage and said, "I mean, I want to go out and look around outside Shrek City."

Hearing this, Song Mu felt a strange sense of relief. Wang Dong'er wasn't staying cooped up in her room and was willing to go outside. That was a good thing.

He took out the King Ball and tossed it onto the floor in front of him. A flash of white light passed, and Wang Dong'er appeared before him.

Wang Dong'er wore a white dress trimmed with lace and a pair of little white shoes.

What caught Song Mu's attention most was her hair.

Song Mu walked around to Wang Dong'er's side and studied her hair closely.

Her long, light-blue hair fell over her shoulders. On either side, two sections had been braided into pigtails, which met in the middle and continued as a single braid hanging down her back. A light-blue elastic tied off the end.

The hairstyle made Wang Dong'er look even cuter.

"What are you looking at?" Wang Dong'er asked, puzzled.

"Your hairstyle looks great. It must have taken a lot of effort."

Wang Dong'er avoided his gaze and said casually, "I wear my hair like this in my room, too."

Song Mu didn't call her out. Just from looking at the hairstyle, he couldn't tell how someone had done it, but it must have taken a lot of work.

"All right, let's go."

Song Mu opened the door and headed out first.

Seeing that Song Mu didn't ask any more questions, Wang Dong'er breathed a sigh of relief and followed him out.

Mu En and his reclining chair were long gone from in front of the dormitory building.

The two of them passed through the teaching buildings, went around Shrek Plaza, and left the academy through the main gate.

Shrek City had four gates. The north, south, and west gates were for residents, while the east gate belonged exclusively to Shrek Academy.

Outside the east gate, plenty of vendors had set up stalls to sell to Shrek's students, and most of them sold food.

Before coming to Shrek, Song Mu had often wandered around the city where he lived and sampled plenty of delicious food.

The food sold outside Shrek City was much like what he'd eaten in Anyang City, just as tourist attractions in his previous life always had snacks like grilled cold noodles.

Wang Dong'er, though, was fascinated by all the food. It seemed that when she'd been at the Clear Sky Sect, she had spent most of her time there and rarely gone out.

Since Wang Dong'er had been cooped up in her room for days, she'd felt a little nervous about going out at first.

But after eating a bunch of delicious food, she forgot all about those feelings. Now, all she could think about was eating.

Still, Wang Dong'er had eaten far too much along the way, nearly making her way through the entire street.

Sitting on a roadside bench, Song Mu looked at Wang Dong'er beside him, her cheeks puffed out with food, and said, "Are you sure you don't need to eat? You look like you haven't eaten in days."

Wang Dong'er swallowed her food and realized she'd eaten a little too much. She said awkwardly,

"It's because I don't need to eat. When I put food in my stomach, I don't feel full, so I lost track and ate a bit too much. Hehe."

Song Mu understood, though he still thought Wang Dong'er was a little silly.

"It's fine. Eat as much as you like. I was just asking."

When Wang Dong'er saw Song Mu turn his gaze away, she lowered her head and quietly continued eating.

Song Mu looked over the nearby stalls, hoping to find a snack he wanted. He wasn't quite full yet.

Instead, he spotted someone who surprised him.

Fifty meters away, Huo Yuhao had set up a barbecue grill and lit the charcoal. He took out fish that he'd already skewered and laid them on the grill.

Song Mu thought, Wasn't it on the first day of school that Tang Ya found Huo Yuhao a job selling grilled fish outside the academy?

In the original story, everyone who tried Huo Yuhao's grilled fish praised it to the skies.

All right, grilled fish it is.

After making up his mind, Song Mu told Wang Dong'er, "Wait here a moment. I'm going to buy two skewers of grilled fish." Then he stood and walked over to Huo Yuhao's stall.

Wang Dong'er nodded in response.

Song Mu stopped at the grilled fish stall and said, "Hey, two skewers of grilled fish, please."

The fish had only just gone on the grill. Huo Yuhao hadn't expected a customer to show up so soon, and he looked a little flustered. "Oh, sure. Two skewers are ten Copper Soul Coins in total."

Song Mu took the coins out of his Storage Soul Guidance Device and set them beside the grill.

The grilled fish was ready before long. Song Mu took it and returned to the bench where he and Wang Dong'er had been sitting.