Chapter 11: This Works Too??
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Bai Lu recognized Qin Fan.
After all, every year at the exchange competition, Qin Fan was the only genius at that trash school who could put even the slightest pressure on her and force her to take the competition seriously.
Had that scammer drugged her opponent because she was afraid she could not compete with a genius?
How utterly despicable!
The scammer really did have a rotten heart!
She had to send this video to Lu Jingtian and let him see the scammer’s true colors!
No, wait. Once Qin Fan came out of the restroom, she would definitely go after that scammer.
Bai Lu would record the whole thing. That would make it far more convincing!
With that in mind, Bai Lu waited patiently until Qin Fan appeared in the library again.
She immediately resumed recording.
Meanwhile, Chu Qiao hurriedly stood up as well and looked at Qin Fan with concern and anxiety.
“Qin Fan, are you all right?”
“That laxative—I didn’t mean to…”
Qin Fan patted Chu Qiao on the shoulder soothingly.
“Don’t say anything, Qiao Qiao. I understand.”
She looked moved and entirely at ease.
“So you already knew I’d been constipated for several days and had been worrying about it lately.”
“You secretly found this medicine and gave it to me because you wanted to surprise me, right?”
“Let me tell you, it works wonderfully!”
“Not only did it clear me out completely, but it’s also much more comfortable than the constipation medicine I bought before!”
Chu Qiao: …
It could actually be interpreted that way?!
Although this turn of events had caught her completely off guard, Qin Fan clearly did not want to know the truth right now.
Chu Qiao smiled and nodded repeatedly.
“As long as it helped, then all my effort was worth it.”
Qin Fan asked, “Where did you buy this medicine? I’ll get some more.”
Chu Qiao replied, “No need. I bought plenty. You can take all of it.”
As long as the laxative could help Qin Fan, Chu Qiao would have no problem making a hundred packets by hand every day.
Qin Fan was instantly touched.
“Qiao Qiao, you’re the best!”
[Ding! Congratulations, host, on completing the side quest: Poison one person.]
[Reward: 50 experience points in Poison Mastery.]
[Current Beginner Poison Mastery skill experience: 12%.]
[Keep working hard, host. Unlock more ways to harm people with poison as soon as possible.]
Fifty experience points had raised her progress by two percent.
In other words, twenty-five experience points increased her progress by one percent.
She was still eighty-eight percent away from advancing to Intermediate Poison Mastery.
That meant she still needed 2,200 experience points!
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At fifty experience points per quest, she would have to complete forty-four side quests!
Chu Qiao made a quick calculation in her head. Then inspiration struck, and she suddenly understood.
She had always thought she had awakened a World-Destroying Demonic Cultivator System. That had clearly been a misunderstanding.
What she had actually awakened was a Beast-of-Burden System!
A beginner skill required forty-four quests just to advance from beginner to intermediate!
Who could possibly finish that except a born workhorse?
[The system has detected that the host is slacking off. Electric-shock motivation: ten, nine…]
The system’s voice rang out, inexplicably frantic.
Chu Qiao hurriedly sat down and began studying the key points Qin Fan had marked for her.
In a corner not far away, Bai Lu watched everything that had just happened, utterly stunned.
Chu Qiao had actually helped her rival solve her greatest problem, enabling her rival to focus on her studies and prepare for the exchange competition!
Bai Lu asked herself honestly:
Under normal circumstances, if she saw her rival struggling, she would certainly lend a hand.
But with a competitive match about to begin, she could never have been so magnanimous as to help her opponent to such an extent.
Was Chu Qiao’s character really that admirable?
Or was it that her true ability was genuinely formidable, and she simply did not think Qin Fan was capable of competing with her?
Was this confidence born from strength?
Bai Lu’s thoughts churned restlessly.
Just then, Chu Qiao suddenly picked up her textbook and pointed to a somewhat difficult problem.
“Could you explain this one to me, Qin Fan?”
Qin Fan frowned.
“This problem is only slightly difficult. Why don’t you try thinking about it yourself first?”
Chu Qiao sighed.
“If I could figure it out on my own, I wouldn’t be asking you.”
“I don’t understand the underlying logic used to solve this type of problem. Even if I manage this one, I still won’t know what to do the next time I encounter something similar.”
Qin Fan took the textbook and began explaining the underlying logic of the problem to Chu Qiao.
Chu Qiao listened with extraordinary attentiveness, occasionally asking about the things she did not understand.
Bai Lu: ?
This did not look like the behavior of someone with overwhelming ability!
Before long, Chu Qiao had finished studying that page and turned to the next.
Bai Lu looked at the problems there.
They were even more difficult than the previous one. Chu Qiao should be even less capable of solving them, right?
Yet this time, Chu Qiao solved the problem with ease, without stumbling even once.
Bai Lu grew increasingly confused.
Chu Qiao could not even understand the previous problem, so how could she understand one that was more difficult?
Could it be that she actually understood it all along and had merely been pretending?
And whom was she pretending for?
Bai Lu’s thoughts became more and more turbulent as all kinds of conjectures about Chu Qiao continued to arise in her mind.
At last!
Unable to endure it any longer, she abruptly rose and walked over to Chu Qiao.
“Hello. You’re Chu Qiao, right?”
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Chu Qiao lifted her eyes and glanced at the girl who was storming toward her and glaring down at her from above. Confusion appeared on her face.
Who was this?
Qin Fan had already recognized Bai Lu, and her expression returned to the icy coldness she reserved for outsiders.
“Bai Lu?”
“What do you want with Chu Qiao?”
So this was Bai Lu?
Chu Qiao looked at the girl before her, dressed in a low-key yet bizarre manner and skulking around like some kind of stalker. She could not help thinking that society had truly declined.
These days, even reputations came with false advertising.
Where was the proud, rational, diligent female prodigy everyone had described? There was not the slightest trace of her in this girl before them.
“Chu Qiao, you should know why I’m here, shouldn’t you?”
Bai Lu ignored Qin Fan and lowered her head to say another sentence to Chu Qiao.
She had decided to stop making pointless guesses and directly challenge Chu Qiao!
She would defeat Chu Qiao fair and square and prove that she was truly stronger!
Sensing Bai Lu’s hostile intentions, Chu Qiao’s heart tightened.
She turned toward the librarian not far away.
“Miss, someone is making a lot of noise in the library and disturbing everyone’s studies. Could you please do something about it?”
The librarian immediately came over and drove Bai Lu, Chu Qiao, and Qin Fan out.
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Outside the library, Chu Qiao spread both hands, looking aggrieved.
“Bai Lu, because of you, I can’t study anymore. Think about how you’re going to compensate me!”
“You wouldn’t want people at your school to find out that you secretly came to Xintai University just to deliberately disrupt your rival’s studies, would you?”
Qin Fan held out her hand as well.
“I’m even more innocent.”
“Bai Lu, please pay compensation for emotional distress and lost work.”
Bai Lu: ?
She could not be bothered with these two idiots pretending to be crazy and playing dumb.
Bai Lu fixed her sharp gaze on Chu Qiao.
“Chu Qiao, you’d better defeat me at the exchange competition and make me acknowledge your ability wholeheartedly.”
“Otherwise, I will pursue your impersonation of me to the very end. I’ll ruin your reputation and make sure you spend the rest of your life behind bars!”
Chu Qiao understood.
Her expression shifted slightly.
Bai Lu was actually the student of the Divine Physician Lin whom she had impersonated?
But rather than panic at being challenged by the person she had wronged, Chu Qiao felt a surge of excitement and anticipation.
If Bai Lu had come to demand an apology or make her pay a price, Chu Qiao would not have refused. She was the one in the wrong, after all.
But Bai Lu had come to challenge her!
How could that fail to excite her?
Chu Qiao desperately wanted to know exactly how great the gap was between her and the Divine Physician Lin’s student.
She was determined to see whether, with the system’s help, she could bridge that gap—or even overtake her!
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