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Chapter 930 - 586: 20 Years Ago

Chapter 930: Chapter 586: 20 Years Ago

The girl grabbed Li Changhe’s arm and pulled hard upwards. Unfortunately, the path was scarcely traveled, and there was no one to help. The urgency turned her face red.

With one hand, Li Changhe exerted force and, without the girl noticing anything odd, he was "pulled" back onto the bridge.

Otherwise, given the girl’s position as she exerted force, Li Changhe could easily have been dragged into the water by her.

"I got carried away and fell down, which scared me to death," Li Changhe said, revealing an expression of having survived a disaster, while looking at the blushing, panting, delicate girl. He felt secretly delighted inside.

Great, time was on his side.

This young girl, who pulled Li Changhe up from the edge of the bridge, was indeed the main objective of his mission.

She was Yun Ting, who had not yet encountered disaster twenty-one years ago.

Yet the kind and beautiful her... eventually turned into that terrifying ghost.

’Perfect, the timeline is before the incident. Otherwise... where would I find those bastards.’ Li Changhe thought: ’And this time, I won’t let a single person escape.’

At this time, Yun Ting, who had caught her breath, finally reacted.

Looking at the ’frightened’ Li Changhe, she asked with confusion, "Do you... know me?"

"Yes, I’m also a student at Yanyun," Li Changhe replied, pointing to the old-style school uniform he was wearing. Although he was a Yanyun student from twenty years later.

In the nineties, the longstanding Yanyun High School still had a unified school uniform.

Since entering such a challenge mission would not allow one to bring any items of above-normal quality, the officials could only put some effort into the clothing.

Right before the mission started, officials quickly made the old-style Yanyun High School uniforms. Li Changhe and Qiu Wentian each got one.

As for weapons... for players of Li Changhe’s level, ordinary-quality weapons were not of much significance.

And without a player’s backpack, it would be easier to be discovered, so none were prepared.

"You do look rather unfamiliar," Yun Ting said, a bit puzzled since she hadn’t seen Li Changhe at school. But she didn’t think much of it and added, "Then how should I address you, classmate? What got into your head to put you in such a state?"

"My name is Li Changhe." Facing Yun Ting, Li Changhe had nothing to hide and continued, "I wasn’t having dark thoughts, senior. I’ve just been too tired lately. I wasn’t paying attention and twisted my ankle."

"I can understand you being anxious," Yun Ting, seeing that Li Changhe didn’t seem suicidal, felt relieved and took on the air of a concerned senior, earnestly advising, "But haste makes waste. To succeed, one must steadily take things step by step. You should cut down on things like pulling all-nighters. If you can’t concentrate in class, you’re getting your priorities wrong. If I hadn’t walked this way to school, you would have been in danger. Be more careful in the future, okay?"

"You’re absolutely right, senior," Li Changhe nodded repeatedly, taking the lesson to heart.

It must be said that after being used to Brother Ting’s tantrums and brawls, Li Changhe felt a bit unaccustomed to suddenly encountering this knowledgeable and sensible Yun Ting.

At that moment, on the shore next to the stone bridge, someone loudly called Yun Ting’s name—those were a few girls also wearing Yanyun uniforms.

Seeing Yun Ting and Li Changhe at the bridgehead, they whispered to each other conspiratorially.

Hearing them, Yun Ting waved, simultaneously creating some distance from Li Changhe, "Take care, I have to go; my friends are calling me."

She didn’t want her classmates to start rumors, as being seen coming to and leaving from school with a male student was prone to be misconstrued.

Even if there was nothing between them, gossip could twist the story beyond recognition.

"Sure," Li Changhe naturally understood this and smiled while nodding.

After Yun Ting and the other students left, Li Changhe’s expression gradually turned cold.

Those girls calling for Yun Ting were the culprits who caused the death of Yun Ting and that teacher.

"Good, I’ve finally found you," Li Changhe exhaled.

After seeing that there was no one around, he walked down the stone bridge and entered the small alley beside it.

Even though all his skills were sealed, with his attributes, Roof-Walking was not a difficult task for him.

He avoided the eyes of strangers while quietly following close to Yun Ting and her group.

Since he had already encountered Yun Ting, there was no rush to meet up with his teammates.

According to the original plan, Mr. All-known and the Pond Owner would meet at Pier Seven and start working on the Task event.

Li Changhe and Qiu Wentian would meet under Yanyun’s old clock tower, posing as Yanyun students to investigate the situation around Yun Ting.

Although, twenty years later, Yanyun had transformed from a village dense with waterways into a city. Skyscrapers had risen from the ground, yet the clock tower and Pier Seven remained.

"Qiu Wentian, there’s been a change of plans. I’ve already found my sister, so I won’t be coming to meet up," Li Changhe contacted Qiu Wentian through [Friends]. "How are things on your end?"

"I was directly teleported into an empty classroom within Yanyun School. Luckily, there are no guards at the school at this time," Qiu Wentian replied. "However, I have sensed the presence of an Abnormality."

"Indeed, there are, as I mentioned before, the drawing board in the art room and the two-segmented corpse underground," Li Changhe responded. "Currently, as the waterways haven’t been altered, the two-segmented corpse hasn’t awakened and poses no threat. But you should pay attention to the drawing board."

It seems that Yanyun Middle School already had an Abnormality before the incident with Yun Ting occurred.

The Ghost Eel was prevented from reviving the two-segmented corpse due to the blocking of the river’s water.

As for the painting, it was sealed at an unknown time, likely by a Transcendent.

So, Li Changhe had his suspicions that the person who sealed the Ghost Painting was the same person who saved Luo Qiao.

"Got it. I’ll go check if the painting at this time point is sealed," Qiu Wentian said.

"Good, be careful. Right now, I can’t support you from a long distance."

"Archer, don’t treat me like an ordinary girl. I have 13 points of strength," Qiu Wentian retorted.

Li Changhe thought about it and agreed that with 13 points of strength, one could even mimic Lu Zhishen in uprooting willows.

"I know, and I’m also aware that your Physical Attribute isn’t low," Li Changhe replied.

After all, one could even kill a black eagle with a direct hit.

"Hmph, color Archer!"

After communicating with Qiu Wentian, Li Changhe followed Yun Ting and the others from a distance, using his keen hearing to gather information.

....

"Yun Ting, what’s your relationship with that handsome guy just now?" a female student started the conversation.

The rest of the people also started asking.

Although Li Changhe didn’t have much appeal to women in the Real World school, his appearance was indeed quite good.

"Yeah, how come handsome guys always bump into you," another student said with a tinge of jealousy in her voice.

"It was just a first encounter. He wasn’t walking steadily and nearly fell into the river. I just pulled him back," Yun Ting didn’t seem to care much about the topic.

However, upon seeing a figure walking ahead, her face lit up with joy as she told her classmates, "I see Teacher Du ahead, I’ll go first."

"Go ahead, we know you’re close with Teacher Du," the female classmates responded with a smile.

Li Changhe saw her too, a woman around the age of twenty-five pushing a bicycle in the distance.

In her eyes flashed a look of nostalgia and affection as she saw Yun Ting.

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