When Wang Ao saw that Wu Huihui had really left, his expression turned uncertain.
As soon as Xu Lang's thirty seconds were up, he had Cao Yaxuan loot the corpse while he continued confronting Wang Ao.
"Let's go!" Wang Ao snorted coldly and turned to leave.
The other onlookers exchanged knowing glances. They did not leave right away, but quietly moved farther away.
Xu Lang ignored them and simply moved back against the wall, standing firmly in place.
Before long, Cao Yaxuan ran over and said, "Xu Lang, look what this is!"
Cao Yaxuan held a crossbow in her arms, its arrowhead gleaming with a chilling light.
Tong Qi covered her mouth, her face full of lingering fear. "Lang Ge, he wanted to use this to sneak attack you just now!"
No wonder Wang Ao had run off so quickly. He could not win in the first place, and now even his divine weapon had fallen into someone else's hands.
Xu Lang took the crossbow and checked its information.
[Handmade Crossbow] [Type: Mechanism] [Level: 2] [Damage: 45] [Crossbow Bolts: 1/1] [Durability: 9/9] [Can be dismantled for: Crossbow Bolt x1, Wood x8, Wooden Trigger Mechanism x1] [Upgrade requirement: 170 Nightmare Coins] [Description: I only have one shot, boo-hoo-hoo...]
"Although it's only Level 2, its damage is just four points lower than the poisonous snake's!"
If Wang Ao had used this thing against the Big Zombie earlier, he might have blown its head off and killed it in one shot.
Unfortunately, Xu Lang did not know whether Wang Ao had been waiting for an opportunity or saving it as a trump card. He had not used it even at the very end, and now it had benefited Xu Lang.
Pah!
This was not Xu Lang getting a bargain. He had earned it through real skill!
"This dorm survival game is dangerous at every turn. Without Super Intuition, I would've been in danger just now... I'd better stay in the dorm from now on and not come out so easily."
Xu Lang silently made up his mind.
Then he said to Cao Yaxuan, "Use this crossbow to protect yourself. I can't operate everything by myself."
"Really?" Cao Yaxuan blinked, finding it hard to believe.
Xu Lang nodded. He turned to comfort Tong Qi, only to see delight on her face as she celebrated for her friend, so he said nothing.
Both girls had kind hearts. Xu Lang was the only one with a somewhat dirty mind...
"Thank you, Xu Lang!" Cao Yaxuan excitedly kissed Xu Lang.
The sight nearly made the onlookers grind their teeth to pieces.
Snatching treasure and winning the favor of a beauty—how many male protagonists got treatment like that?
Xu Lang said nothing, cautiously watching his surroundings from the corner of his eye.
Cao Yaxuan held the handmade crossbow and could not put it down, gesturing with it now and then like a little boy who had just gotten a toy.
Xu Lang had no idea when he had turned this campus belle Cao into this, though perhaps this had always been her true nature.
Before long, a ray of dawn broke through the Blood Mist at the horizon and fell over the campus.
A metal crate hanging beneath a parachute slowly descended from the sky before landing steadily on the ground!
Everyone stared at the airdrop, seemingly eager to make a move.
Just then, Cao Yaxuan anxiously tugged Xu Lang's sleeve and whispered, "Someone messaged me privately and said people upstairs are holding rocks, planning to smash us!"
Xu Lang froze. "Who told you?"
"A simp."
Xu Lang: "..."
Even without Cao Yaxuan's warning, Xu Lang had not planned to walk straight out like that. He had been wary of precisely this kind of situation.
At once, he led Cao Yaxuan and Tong Qi in a sideways sprint for more than ten meters before leaving the shelter of the eaves.
The moment they stepped out, Xu Lang looked back and indeed saw several people poking their heads out from the Eighth Floor, holding rocks and bricks.
They were all Wang Ao's people.
When they saw Xu Lang looking over, they hurriedly ducked back inside.
Without a word, Xu Lang led the two girls straight to the airdrop.
"Those people are awful!" Tong Qi cutely furrowed her brows.
Xu Lang said indifferently, "That was inevitable."
Cao Yaxuan secretly glanced at Xu Lang.
If someone was so unconcerned with others' malice, it meant he was either used to it or naturally thick-skinned and extremely self-centered.
The three of them reached the airdrop crate. Xu Lang discovered that it could not be placed in his backpack, so he frowned and had Tong Qi open it while he and Cao Yaxuan stood guard.
Seeing Xu Lang act so cautiously, the others immediately abandoned some thoughts they should and should not have had.
The deterrence of two ranged weapons was no joke.
Tong Qi did not need much effort to open the airdrop crate. From within, she took out a black sculpture shaped like a child.
"Just this one?" Not wanting to split his attention, Xu Lang did not inspect its information. He instinctively glanced into the crate instead.
It was completely empty.
"Mm." Tong Qi nodded.
She was also a little surprised. Such a huge airdrop crate contained only this tiny thing.
The child sculpture was about the size of a human head. It sat cross-legged on a lotus pedestal, its fangs exposed, resembling a vicious ghost.
"Alright, let's go." Xu Lang nodded. After putting away the child sculpture, he lifted the airdrop crate one-handed and headed back to the dormitory.
The airdrop crate seemed to be made of steel. Dismantling it would yield some useful raw materials, and the steel door's durability would inevitably decrease someday.
The watching crowd was dumbfounded. The airdrop crate was at least a meter wide on each side, yet Xu Lang lifted it so effortlessly.
Just how great was his strength?
They returned unobstructed to the dormitory on the Tenth Floor. Xu Lang took out the black child.
It felt neither like wood nor jade. Staring into its pitch-black little face, he could even feel a chill.
This thing was somewhat eerie.
[Ghost Child] [Type: Guardian Spirit] [Level: 3] [Vitality: 70] [Skills: House-Calming Evil-Repelling, Ghost Eating, Witness] [Upgrade requirement: 500 Nightmare Coins] [Description: Ultimate evil gives birth to ultimate protection...] [Bind to current dormitory? Yes/No]
Xu Lang stared at the Vitality section and quickly received detailed feedback.
Guardian Spirits had no durability. Once their Vitality was depleted, they would die, though they would slowly revive afterward. Their skills had no cooldowns either, but using them also consumed Vitality.
[House-Calming Evil-Repelling: The Ghost Child will protect your room, investigate sinister ghosts and evil entities within its field of vision, and exert a deterrent effect on Spirit Forms such as hostile ghosts.] [Ghost Eating: The Ghost Child will devour Spirit Forms to restore Vitality. After eating enough, it has a chance to level up.] [Witness: Forcibly controls an enemy for 1 second.]
"What a treasure." Xu Lang's eyes lit up.
With this Guardian Spirit around, he would not need to fear ghostly attacks, even though he had not encountered any ghosts yet.
But given how sinister this game was, he would definitely encounter them someday.
Humans had an innate fear of such invisible beings.
"So cute." Tong Qi looked at the Ghost Child's dark little face and could not help smiling.
Perhaps it was because both she and the Ghost Child had the same baby fat.
Suddenly, the Ghost Child turned its face and smiled at Tong Qi.
Tong Qi shrank her neck in fright. She was one of those people who loved dragons in paintings but feared real dragons.
"Hiss—Xu Lang, it can move!" Cao Yaxuan cried out.
Xu Lang nodded and chose to bind it.
The next second, the Ghost Child vanished directly from his hand.
Xu Lang felt a connection unique to the dorm owner. He hurriedly ran outside to check and found the Ghost Child hanging beside the door number, enshrined within a small shrine.
"Move a little higher." Xu Lang felt that it was blocking the Monitor's view, so he spoke instinctively.
The small shrine immediately shifted.
Xu Lang found it astonishing. He adjusted the shrine's position a few more times, only stopping once he was satisfied.
He continued studying the Ghost Child, unwilling to go back inside.
I really want a ghost to show up right now so I can test what the Ghost Child is made of.
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