With both roommates saying so, Gu Qing could hardly refuse again and could only reluctantly agree:
"All right, then. I'll go check it out."
"That's the spirit."
Gao Fei wore a sleazy grin. "There's a younger girl in my girlfriend's department who's ridiculously cute. She's petite, with a bit of baby fat on her cheeks and twin ponytails. Put her in a clean pair of white stockings, and she looks especially young. You'll definitely like her when you see her. You'll want to be her white knight every night."
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Chapter 39: An outrageous tag
Once Gu Qing agreed to attend the mixer, Chen Zijie and Qian Duole immediately started getting ready.
The two took quick showers, then hurriedly dug out their best-looking clothes and took turns grooming themselves in front of the full-length mirror on the wall.
Gao Fei, who normally loved dressing up, stood beside them as their temporary stylist, doing their hair.
As for Gu Qing...
Gao Fei glanced at him and waved with a laugh.
"Never mind you. Even if you showed up with bedhead like a bird's nest, you'd still be the best-looking guy there. You don't need to dress up at all."
Gu Qing, who was playing on his phone, raised his eyebrows without arguing.
There was no helping it. He really was handsome. He had to admit that.
"Who says he doesn't need it? We absolutely have to give Gu a proper makeover!"
Chen Zijie abruptly turned around and said with a solemn expression, "We've got to make him uglier. Otherwise, what chance do Duole and I have?"
Qian Duole raised both hands in support. "Exactly! We have to give Gu Qing a hideous look, or the girls won't have eyes for anyone else!"
With that said.
The two exchanged a grin.
Then they suddenly turned into zombies and lunged at Gu Qing.
They attacked his hair like mad.
Yet after all their efforts, although Gu Qing's hair was a mess, it didn't look bad at all. He exuded a wild, tousled beauty, handsome in a different style.
"Holy shit, are you kidding me? His hair's this much of a mess, and he still looks good?"
"Fuck, being handsome really is great!"
Chen Zijie and Qian Duole were exhausted. They sincerely felt that the designers of Earth Online could go fuck themselves.
They were all human players, so why did some people get such perfect character models?
Was this game even playable anymore?
After nearly half an hour of this nonsense, the four finally finished getting ready and headed out.
According to their division of labor.
Gu Qing, Chen Zijie, and Qian Duole would first go to the supermarket in the Living Area to buy snacks and drinks.
Gao Fei would go find his girlfriend and pick up picnic blankets, string lights, and other supplies for setting up the venue.
This mixer would be held on the school's athletic field.
They were all students without much money and didn't plan on spending a fortune off campus.
The field was spacious and quiet, and the evening breeze felt quite pleasant. It was perfect for a relaxed mixer like this.
They entered the supermarket.
Gu Qing and the other two headed straight for the snack aisle.
Chen Zijie and Qian Duole frantically stuffed things into the shopping cart, grabbing chips, cookies, and drinks nonstop.
Considering that they were meeting younger girls, they mostly chose flavors that girls tended to like.
Gu Qing didn't put as much thought into it as those two. He only took things he liked eating.
Before long, the shopping cart was piled high.
At checkout, everything filled three large bags to the brim.
They walked out through the supermarket doors.
They passed a cake shop.
Chen Zijie gritted his teeth and paid out of his own pocket for an outrageously expensive chocolate cake that was popular online.
The cake was only palm-sized, but it cost fifty yuan.
Seeing it, Qian Duole couldn't help complaining:
"You spent fifty yuan on practically nothing. That's not even a mouthful for me."
"What do you know?"
Chen Zijie cradled the cake carefully and said dismissively, "This is my ultimate move. If I take a fancy to one of the girls, I'll give her this cake. Guaranteed to win her heart."
Gu Qing merely smiled without speaking.
The campus at dusk.
There weren't many people around.
The evening breeze carried the faint scent of vegetation.
Streetlights came on one after another, stretching the three men's shadows long.
As they neared the entrance to the athletic field.
Gu Qing suddenly stopped.
Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a fat rat hiding in the roadside landscaping.
The rat was a size larger than an ordinary one.
Its fur was long and black.
It was huddled in the grass, squeaking away.
The instant he heard it, translucent text appeared before Gu Qing's eyes.
[Meat, meat, meat...] [No meat, no meat, no meat...] [Hungry, hungry, hungry...]
Gu Qing raised his eyebrows.
Was this fat rat starving because those two security guards had been taken into custody, leaving no one to feed the school's rats raw meat?
But... didn't rats eat any kind of garbage?
How could it let itself go hungry?
Was it addicted to that chemically doctored meat?
Unable to eat anything else?
Gu Qing only gave it a little thought and didn't dwell on it.
Soon, he caught up with Chen Zijie and Qian Duole and entered the athletic field ahead.
As for the fat rat in the landscaping, he didn't kill it.
The school's rats were all his informants.
He still needed to keep them around to gather clues later.
The athletic field was very quiet.
None of the girls had arrived yet.
Only Gao Fei was there, busily setting things up on the soccer field.
Holding a string of colored lights, he stood on tiptoe, trying to hang it on the goal's crossbar.
"You're finally here! Come help!"
Seeing that the three had finally arrived, Gao Fei immediately stopped what he was doing and waved at them as he called out.
Gu Qing put down the snacks he was carrying and walked over.
Chen Zijie carefully set down his cake and followed to help.
Qian Duole couldn't resist snacking. He stood there eating a bag of chips before finally dragging his feet over to lend a hand.
With the four dividing up the work, setting up went much faster.
The picnic blankets were spread out.
The snacks and drinks were arranged.
The string lights were hung on the goal as well.
Gao Fei pressed the switch, and the multicolored lights instantly lit up.
They twinkled away.
The atmosphere was perfect.
Just then.
Cheerful chatter and laughter drifted over from the distance.
The voices were clear and pleasant.
They were unmistakably girls' voices.
Gao Fei looked toward the voices and said with a smile, "Here they come! My girlfriend's here with the younger girls from her department."
Gu Qing, Chen Zijie, and Qian Duole also hurriedly turned to look.
At the entrance to the athletic field, Gao Fei's girlfriend was walking at the front.
She wore a sexy black dress with a very short hem that looked close to exposing the tops of her thighs.
Behind her followed five fresh-faced younger girls.
They were all this year's freshmen, each youthful and pretty, radiating an innocent vitality, with shy, curious smiles on their faces.
The first girl was tall and slender, wearing a simple white T-shirt and blue jeans. Her ponytail swung as she walked, brimming with energy.
The second girl wore a demure pair of thin-framed glasses and plain, casual sportswear, giving off a studious air.
The remaining three girls each had their own distinguishing features, too, and were very easy on the eyes.
Chen Zijie and Qian Duole stared transfixed and couldn't help swallowing. They hadn't expected the girls attending the mixer to be so attractive.
Gu Qing wasn't as much of a loser as those two. His expression didn't change as his gaze leisurely swept over the girls.
He had no expectations of these girls and was only giving them a casual look.
But soon, his gaze stopped, fixing firmly on the girl at the very back.
That girl wore a little white dress. She was petite, with twin ponytails and a fresh, soft face with a little baby fat. She looked soft and sweet, like a young girl who had just started high school, and exuded a childish air.
However.
It wasn't her cuteness that had caught Gu Qing's attention.
Rather, he was floored by the tag floating above her head.
Above that cute younger girl's head floated the most outrageous tag he had ever seen:
-[Feces]
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