Chapter 16: Simple? My Foot!

‘Simple?!’

‘Simple, my foot!’

When she heard the female lead’s request, Gu Qianqian went numb.

On the supply trucks, besides the supplies for the students and teachers this time, there were quite a few things for guards and security.

What did they include?

Magic crystals, magic crystal guns, herbs, potions, soft armor…

The post-apocalyptic world actually had plenty of resources, but they all came with danger.

Gu Qianqian already knew this from the original owner’s memories.

If you killed a hundred monsters, you could at least get some magic crystals and a large amount of materials, then bring them back to trade for money.

Or use them yourself.

Many industries built on magic crystals and monster materials were extremely profitable.

But abundant resources didn’t mean they were easy to obtain.

A hundred monsters. Some adventure squads might never reach that number in a lifetime.

If you faced a hundred at once, you could only pray their digestion was weak and they would shit out a few bones for you.

Otherwise nothing would be left, not even a whole corpse. When family members came to identify the dead, they wouldn’t know which pile of shit was their relative.

So resources were precious.

If it were just stealing tissues or tableware, she might give it a try.

But the female lead wouldn’t want that kind of thing. She had her eyes on strategic supplies like magic crystals.

Anyone with talent could absorb magic crystals to strengthen themselves.

Though everyone’s talent differed. Absorption speed, conversion rate, retention rate, output rate, and upper limit were all very different.

But even ordinary people who couldn’t absorb them could load them into magic crystal guns and use them as weapons.

Wind City wasn’t the only place that guarded these things closely. Other human cities did too.

Gu Qianqian had read this plot before. She knew that in the previous life, the off-campus practice had a monster attack because the night guards were negligent. The female lead spent a lot of magic crystals from the supply trucks to save people.

That was also where she began to stand out, gradually becoming the white moonlight and goddess in people’s eyes.

But the problem was, after being reborn, the female lead definitely wouldn’t sacrifice herself to save people again…

But having used magic crystals, she wouldn’t let this opportunity go.

“Steal? Steal what?” Gu Qianqian asked carefully.

‘Not magic crystals. Not magic crystals…’

“Magic crystals.” Lin Feiyu said softly. “Also, there’s an exquisite little wooden box on one of the trucks. Bring that too.”

The wooden box contained Golden Embryo Lingzhi. The school prepared it every year to prevent accidents. No one had ever used it.

With some auxiliary materials, Golden Embryo Lingzhi could save a dying person.

The premise was that the injury couldn’t be a large open wound like a disembowelment, or that the body didn’t contain a poison that blocked the medicine’s effects.

It was sponsored by the Zu family and several other shareholders. Its purpose was naturally not for ordinary students like Gu Qianqian.

Over the years, the off-campus practice claimed to be safe. In truth, there were always a few attention seekers who didn’t believe it. They ignored the teachers’ warnings, sneaked out of the practice area, and ran into accidents.

None of these people deserved to have the academy use Golden Embryo Lingzhi on them. If they died, they died.

This thing was left for young masters and young ladies like Zu Xingyu, just in case.

Lin Feiyu had only learned about this later in her previous life. But now she absolutely wouldn’t let this chance go. She had to get that thing.

Gu Qianqian didn’t know what was in the box, but just hearing “magic crystals” was scary enough.

After all, stealing ten thousand gold coins or a hundred thousand from the academy had the same outcome: death penalty. There was no difference.

The female lead was trying to kill her with a borrowed knife? She wanted her dead?!

“I, I-I-I… can I refuse?” Gu Qianqian really cried.

“Do you have a choice?” Lin Feiyu sneered. Seeing the little shortie’s pained, conflicted expression, she felt very pleased.

She wasn’t actually trying to kill her with a borrowed knife, though.

“And don’t think about snitching, Gu Qianqian. Do you think the teachers would believe me or you?”

Fine. Gu Qianqian admitted that the thought had crossed her mind for a moment, but the female lead wasn’t wrong.

She had a bad reputation, while Lin Feiyu was an innocent little flower deeply liked by the teachers. “They’d believe you.”

Besides, the female lead had ten thousand ways to escape responsibility. Even if she did succeed in snitching, the other party could rely on her protagonist halo to turn danger into safety.

And afterward, she would be the one to suffer.

“But, but this is illegal… If, if I get caught, I’m dead.”

The post-apocalyptic civilization wouldn’t argue with you. Even if you were a student, stealing such important supplies would cost you a layer of skin, if not your life.

You might be sent to dig black mines for fifty years. That would truly be the end of your life.

Gu Qianqian didn’t want this life to be worse than her last.

“Relax. I’ve already found you a scapegoat.”

Lin Feiyu gestured with her eyes.

Gu Qianqian followed her gaze and saw Yu Ni and Quan Anrong staring hard at them from not far away.

Seeing that their former plastic sister was chatting and laughing with the girl they bullied, Gu Qianqian didn’t need to guess. She would become their new bullying target too.

And the scapegoats Lin Feiyu mentioned were those two.

“After it’s done, I’ll give you an enhancement potion and a few magic crystals.”

“You don’t need to worry about not having a chance. Tonight, something will happen. You’re small, no one will notice you. Take the chance to grab the stuff.”

If the little shortie refused, Lin Feiyu would find her own way to get those things, though it would be riskier.

Anyway, there would be a monster attack tonight. Many supplies on the trucks would be destroyed or lost. She might as well take them.

But in that case, a little shortie who knew her secret and disobeyed her orders had no need to live.

She would die in tonight’s monster attack!

Having been reborn, Lin Feiyu needed to use everything she knew from her previous life to cultivate as quickly as possible.

And magic crystals were an extremely important resource.

Right now she was still a student. The channels to obtain magic crystals were very few. This was an opportunity.

Only by growing stronger could she trample her enemies one by one beneath her feet!

Gu Qianqian also saw it. If she didn’t agree, the female lead planned to take her life.

Now that she knew the female lead was targeting the supply trucks, she definitely wouldn’t be left alive.

No promise would work. Only dead people kept secrets.

But you really think highly of me, ma’am. With these tiny arms and legs, can I even steal things?

As for the female lead saying something would happen, Gu Qianqian wisely didn’t ask, ‘How do you know?’

If she pushed the female lead too far, whether the female lead admitted she was reborn or not, Gu Qianqian would suffer, or even be killed.

People were better off a little dumb.

“O-okay… I’ll try my best…”

Although she agreed, at the thought of risking decades as a prisoner or even the death penalty to steal for the female lead, Gu Qianqian felt her future go pitch black.

“B-but can I make one request?”

Lin Feiyu frowned when she heard that, but didn’t refuse.

This was indeed very risky. Her current strength wasn’t enough. It was hard to get magic crystals from the black market or other channels, so she had set her sights on the school’s resources.

But this girl really knew how to reach out at the right time.

“Go on. I won’t necessarily agree.”

“I-it’s not a hard thing…” Gu Qianqian stammered, looking at her, her face even reddening. “It’s just… just…”

Lin Feiyu suddenly had a bad feeling and urged coldly: “You’re dithering like a woman. Hurry up. I’ll give you three more seconds. If you don’t say it, I’m leaving.”

‘I am a woman!’

‘Uh…’

‘Wait, no, I only transmigrated today!’

‘Why would I think that?’

Gu Qianqian hurriedly corrected her mindset and quickly said, “It’s just… can you kiss me?”

Under Lin Feiyu’s gaze as it shifted from calm to shock and anger, Gu Qianqian explained, “I like you, but I can’t take such a big risk for you for no reason, classmate Lin Feiyu.”

“Just one kiss as encouragement. That’s not too much, right?”

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