Free Web Novel“Student... student... wake up...”
Amidst a gentle call, Lu Yibei suddenly woke up, sat up straight, and looked blankly in the direction the sound came from; a familiar face entered her view.
This seems... to be the girl who was scared away just now? Why is she back?
Wait, I need to quickly put away the ancestral cleaver, it wouldn't be good if I scared someone.
Lu Yibei thought as she frantically searched for the cleaver, then froze for a moment after seeing the empty desktop, her peripheral vision unconsciously drifting towards the corner of the wall beside her.
The guitar bag was still there quietly, just as it was when she arrived, not even the laptop and headphones had been taken out, as if it had never been opened.
Everything she had just experienced was like a nightmare, vanishing like a bubble the moment she woke up, disappearing without a trace when touched by sunlight.
She didn't know when she had been affected, but from the current situation, it seemed she had already been affected before entering this study room.
As Lu Yibei was thinking, a slender, fair hand suddenly waved in front of her eyes, interrupting her thoughts.
“Student? Are you okay? Since you came into this classroom, you've been sleeping there, and you kept making strange noises, it was quite scary.”
“I personally suggest if you feel unwell anywhere, you should quickly go see the infirmary. Although today is the school anniversary, the infirmary is still open.”
School anniversary! Lu Yibei's pupils slightly contracted. She suddenly turned to the girl in front of her and asked expressionlessly, “Student, do you know what time it is now?”
The girl was startled by Lu Yibei's slightly agitated reaction and shrank back, weakly saying, “It, it should be past five o'clock already, right?”
Lu Yibei, “...”
It's already 5:30 PM? I've been here for almost four hours? Doesn't that mean the speech is almost over?
Thinking of this, she bent down, grabbed the guitar bag beside her, left the study room, and rushed through the corridor like a gust of wind, disappearing at the stairwell.
On the other side of the corridor, Lin Yiqi, hidden by the corner, watched Lu Yibei's retreating figure and slightly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the dormant urban legend within her did not awaken and cause any malicious incidents.
This time, I can be considered to have successfully resolved a crisis. As long as I am careful in the future, I probably won't have any interaction with her. Lin Yiqi thought.
...
On the other side.
Inside the auditorium of Huacheng Institute of Technology, a student's speech was about to end, and the student replacing Lu Yibei was waiting backstage to go on.
“...
Dickens said, 【What I reap is what I sow.】
...”
In the corridor backstage of the auditorium, Zhang Yijing stood by the window, watching the sun sinking below the horizon, gradually dyeing the clouds into the shape of flames, his eyes vacant, like a salted fish that had lost his dream.
“Tap-tap—tap-tap—!”
A series of hurried footsteps suddenly came from the other end of the corridor. He numbly turned his head, looking in the direction the sound came from.
A familiar figure ran wildly towards him, the fiery red glow of the sunset falling on her, like a colorful cape fluttering behind her.
For some reason, seeing Lu Yibei rushing over, Zhang Yijing felt a strange surge of emotion, his nose tingled, and he cried out with a tearful voice, “Why are you only just arriving! Do you know how long I've waited and how much I've suffered for you?” freёwebnovel.com
“I've stalled for you for so long, and this is still the result. After this is over, I'm probably going to get a good scolding from the Teacher! Woo woo woo—!”
Seeing Zhang Yijing looking like he had been abandoned by a scumbag and had waited bitterly for many years, Lu Yibei suddenly felt a sense of fear. She stopped abruptly two or three meters away from him.
“Something came up and caused a delay. Now... is it still in time?”
“It's too late, it's too late! There's no time to coordinate the lighting, background music, or anything else. I don't have time to explain the rhythm of the speech script either. If you had come twenty minutes earlier...”
“That's right, it's too late for you, it'll be my turn soon!” A boy who popped out from nowhere said smugly, “Speaking of which, you should really thank me for helping you out, otherwise both of you would be finished!”
Seeing this, Zhang Yijing leaned closer to Lu Yibei and quietly explained, “He's the person replacing you for the speech...”
Lu Yibei glanced at the boy °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° and quickly withdrew her gaze.
“But don't worry, I can try to negotiate for you, just wait.” After Zhang Yijing finished speaking, he scurried away.
Watching Zhang Yijing's retreating figure, the boy rolled his eyes and shouted angrily, “You sissy, he believes him just because he said so! If something goes wrong, can the two of you take responsibility?”
Lu Yibei had originally planned to give up on this speech when she heard someone was replacing her, but upon hearing the boy's words, she suddenly changed her mind.
She looked at the boy and said, “Student, may I ask, what is the title of your speech?”
The boy looked suspiciously at the expressionless youth in front of him, “Why are you asking this?”
“Oh, I've heard of your great name for a long time. Now that I've finally met you, of course, I want to admire your literary attainments and spiritual demeanor.”
I was originally in the wrong about this. What if what he prepared is really good? Letting him go on is better than my stale chicken soup for the soul. Lu Yibei thought.
“Heh, you have taste. I'm not afraid to tell you, the title of my speech is 'How College Students Should Start Businesses'! How about that? It's particularly impressive, right?”
“Impressive, especially impressive!” Lu Yibei said perfunctorily.
“Then tell me, what's impressive about it?”
Lu Yibei, “???”
I didn't even listen, how would I know what's impressive about it?
“Its impressiveness lies in its particularly retro feel, and it has high uncertainty, like a curse with strange power.”
“May I ask, have you succeeded in starting a business?”
The boy glanced at Lu Yibei and said, “Almost. It's a P2P project. The planning stage is over. As soon as it enters the market, it can be listed on the ChiNext board within a year!”
Lu Yibei, “...”
P2P? So you haven't even managed to pull off a scam project, and you're here trying to fool people? Are you trying to harm many young people who are moving forward with passion?
Lu Yibei suddenly felt that this unreliable guy absolutely couldn't go on stage. Not only could she not let him go on, but also...
How should I put it?
Fighting urban legend might not be my strong suit, but annoying people, I'm quite good at that. Lu Yibei thought.
“Oh, right, then do you know what the title of my speech is?”
The boy looked Lu Yibei up and down, and said with a raised eyebrow, “Although I'm not very interested, since I have nothing to do, it wouldn't hurt to waste a minute listening.”
“Not a delay, not a delay.” Lu Yibei said twice in succession, “You just need to wait here obediently for a while, and you'll hear it soon...”
Hearing this, the boy was stunned for a moment. He widened his eyes and looked at Lu Yibei, saying, “You, what do you mean?”
“What I mean is...”
Just as Lu Yibei was about to say something, she heard Zhang Yijing's call from a distance, “Lu Yibei! Come quickly! They said if you are sufficiently prepared, they can let you go on.”
“Sufficient, extremely sufficient. Just put on any background music, the lighting doesn't matter. I can even speak without a script!”
She had written the speech script once, and she still had the memories of four people in her mind. Patching things together and temporarily creating a “Frankenstein's monster” wasn't a particularly difficult task.
Lu Yibei shouted at Zhang Yijing, turned around, and patted the boy's shoulder, “Little brother, I'm going on stage. Now, I suggest you quickly go around to the auditorium, you can hear better there.”
“You... come back! Do you know how many people you are causing invisible losses to by doing this! You are harming people!”
Listening to the furious shouts from behind, Lu Yibei didn't turn her head. With her back to the boy, she silently raised her right hand and gave him the middle finger.
During this time, dealing with various urban legend and being on edge all day, it felt really good to finally provoke someone! If only I could provoke urban legend like this. Lu Yibei thought secretly.
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(There will be another update later, well, probably...)
