100: Chapter 100 Hagiwara, you bastard!

Ever since Bai Lan was captured and brought here by that formidable old man decades ago, she had been told that as long as she stayed obediently in this "house" and didn't go out to scare people, she would have food, drink, and WiFi!

She had always considered herself a law-abiding, good homebody fox.

So, Bai Lan blinked and shook her head with an earnest expression: "A big monster?"

"I haven't seen one."

"I usually live here alone, and occasionally an uncle courier comes to deliver snacks."

"Did you guys find the wrong place?"

Hearing this, Plum Blossom Three and Diamond Five were completely convinced.

This was definitely not the sealing ground!

This was just a paradise arranged by the school for some well-connected person!

"Bad luck!"

Plum Blossom Three spat, looking annoyed: "Five, let's go!"

"It must be deeper in the swamp! That kind of gloomy and terrifying place is what befits the status of a Tier 5 Great Demon!"

"Don't waste any more time on this sweet airhead!"

Diamond Five nodded and turned to leave.

But after taking two steps, he suddenly turned back, staring at Bai Lan and the small wooden house behind her with an extremely suspicious and scrutinizing gaze.

He pointed at Bai Lan and issued a soul-searching interrogation: "Hey! You there!"

"This place is a school restricted area; how could a little girl like you just live here?"

"Look at you, acting all sneaky, closing the door in broad daylight to eat snacks…"

"You wouldn't happen to be a thief who snuck in from outside, would you? Squatting here?"

Bai Lan: "???"

The potato chips in her hand dropped in fright.

She looked at these two people who were digging at the corner of her house, trampling her radishes, and were covered in mud.

Then she pointed at her own clean pajamas.

I'm a thief?

You guys are digging holes at my doorstep, and you're turning around to accuse me of being a thief?

Although Bai Lan had a good temper, she felt a bit wronged.

She pouted, just about to defend herself.

"Alright, alright! Stop making excuses!"

However, before she could explain, Plum Blossom Three impatiently interrupted her and pulled Diamond Five away: "Why waste words on a thief!"

"We are people doing big things! Hurry up and find that truly terrifying existence!"

"Leave a place like this, which only has cabbages, for the school security team to handle!"

The two of them, as if afraid of getting bad luck on themselves, shouldered their shovels and rushed hurriedly toward the darker, more sinister-looking parts of the swamp.

They had no idea that they had just brushed past the ultimate goal of their trip, the Tier 5 Great Demon.

And they had even scolded her, mistaking her for a thief.

Leaving only Bai Lan, a demon, standing at the door, wearing bunny slippers, feeling completely bewildered in the wind.

"What… what rude people."

Bai Lan picked up the potato chips from the ground and blew on them. Although she couldn't eat them anymore, she still felt a bit heartbroken.

"Are they really here to fix the water pipes?"

"But my water pipes aren't broken."

"And… they look even more like bad guys than I do."

Bai Lan sighed, that lazy feeling quite similar to a certain boy who wore pajamas.

"Forget it, whatever."

"As long as they don't steal my snacks, they can go wherever they want."

"Yawn—"

She let out a big yawn and turned back into the house.

"Might as well go back and catch up on sleep."

"These days, it's really not easy being a homebody fox."

"Click."

She closed that broken iron door again and continued her strife-free, slothful life.

…Deep in the Mist Swamp, the morning light was just beginning to show.

Jiang You hummed an off-key tune, his mood extremely pleasant.

"Just bury the box there, no one will ever be able to find you…"

He clapped the mud off his hands and, relying on his IQ of 250 and excellent sense of direction, walked confidently toward the camp.

"Hmm, I remember walking with my back to the sun… wait, no, there's no sun here, just fog."

"How do you determine direction in the wild again? Top is North, bottom is South, left is West, right is East?"

Jiang You scratched his head, looking at the identical withered trees and mud pits all around, and fell into a brief contemplation.

[Internal Chat Group]

[Brain (See through but don't speak)]: "Is this the confidence of a person with no sense of direction?"

"According to geomagnetic sensing, he is currently heading away from the camp, toward the very core of the swamp."

"And in that direction ahead… there seems to be something extraordinary."

[Legs (Indifferent)]: "Who cares! As long as he's moving, it's fine!"

"Walking the wrong path is also a form of cultivation! Maybe there's even better food ahead?"

Jiang You didn't hear the complaints from within his body. He locked onto a super-large footprint that looked like someone had stepped in, and strode over: "That's right! It's this way!"

"I remember this crooked-neck tree! It looks exactly like that constipated expression of Old Lu's!"

Thus, on this wrong path, Jiang You walked further and further, his figure gradually disappearing into the even thicker mist.

…Meanwhile, at the F Class camp.

The atmosphere here didn't become relaxed because of the arrival of morning; instead, it was filled with an eerie heaviness, even carrying a hint of "tragic" air.

Everyone sat around the extinguished campfire, staring blankly at that empty spot.

After the thick fog dispersed last night, Jiang You had vanished!

He had been missing for a full two hours now, and according to the testimonies of Teacher Shen and Gou Fugui, the Faceless Man had come last night and even taken away Jiang You's box!

Lu Xingye leaned against a withered tree, still maintaining that melancholic pose of looking up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle. He gripped the alloy dagger tightly in his hand, and a long blade was strapped to his waist; he was already fully armed.

His eyes were slightly red, his bangs covering one eye, and his whole body exuded a sense of brokenness known as "late-stage chuunibyou."

"Heh…"

Lu Xingye let out a cold laugh, his voice hoarse and full of magnetism: "Jiang You… you idiot."

He waved his hand violently, the leather jacket draped over him flapping: "We clearly agreed to become stronger together, to carve a bloody path out of this hell called F Class!"

"We clearly agreed to decide the winner in this special training!"

"Hagi-You! You guy! How could you just fall before dawn like this!"

Lu Xingye gritted his teeth and accused the air in an extremely tsundere tone: "Although you are lazy and greedy, have ugly sleeping habits, always steal my spotlight, and even tried to use those clumsy methods to compete with me for Senior Sister Yunan…"

"But!"

Lu Xingye turned around abruptly and punched the tree trunk, shaking down a few withered leaves: "You are my roommate after all!"

"I haven't even had the chance to humiliate you with my sword technique, how could you be taken out by that damn Faceless Man!"

"Unforgivable! This is absolutely unforgivable!"

"My arch-nemesis! You died so miserably!"

Nearby, Gou Fugui and Xiang Batian, who were gnawing on compressed biscuits, exchanged a look and huddled together, starting to whisper.

Xiang Batian was doing bicep curls while shedding tears, trying to numb his grief with pain: "Fugui, I don't understand."

"From a scientific perspective, hasn't the Faceless Man already stolen from Brother Jiang once?"

"The essence blood and source crystals are all gone, that box is empty!"

"This is a typical case of repeat offense, and the profit is zero!"

Xiang Batian slapped his thigh in grief and indignation: "Isn't this just bullying an honest person!"

"Brother Jiang is so pure, he even drools when he sleeps, how could that pervert bring himself to do it!"

Gou Fugui pushed up the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a wise light flashed across the lenses.

He rubbed his chin and analyzed in a Sherlock Holmes-like tone: "Batian, you don't understand."

"This is game theory."

"Think about it, why would Brother Jiang carry an empty box around everywhere? And act so nervous?"

Xiang Batian: "Because he's stupid?"

"Wrong!"

Gou Fugui looked unfathomably deep: "Have you forgotten what he told us when we were on the car?"