Chapter 79

Chapter 80: Can someone who can’t even read people still be a Security Guard?

That morning, while washing up, Qian Qi answered a call from Classmate Wang: “Boss, I heard you made a bet with Xu Jing. Are you okay? Want me to get payback for you?”

Spitting a mouthful of toothpaste foam into the sink, Qian Qi said with a grin, “No need. I’ve always convinced people with virtue. I don’t like fighting.” Then she added, still smiling, “It’s not just Xu Jing. There’s also Cheng Qi and Lu He Xin, and a few others… what were their names again?”

Classmate Wang jumped in: “Lin Zheng, Chu Xi, Cai Wen Fei…”

“Right, add them too,” said Qian Qi, eyes crinkling. “Tonight, find a sack. Wait for a dark, windy hour, then give them a beating so they can’t get out of bed for three months.”

[Huh???] thought Classmate Wang. [Didn’t you just say you don’t like fighting? You mean you don’t like fighting yourself, you like having other people do it for you!]

Aloud he said with spirit: “Got it, leave it to me!” Then he could not help asking, testing the waters: “But, Boss, are you really sure about that bet?”

To be honest, he was dying of curiosity. Just what method would Qian Qi use to make Magiplant students win against Awakeners? He had reason to suspect she had cooked up another amazing potion, which was why she dared to make such a bet. [And it is definitely not because I want to be the first customer, absolutely not.]

Qian Qi rinsed her mouth and flashed her little white teeth at the mirror: “To be honest, I’m not sure. But it’s no big deal. If I spend a bit of money, I can make it happen.”

“You mean you’ll buy them defensive gear and weapons?” said Classmate Wang, suddenly realizing.

“What are you thinking? Do you know how much that would cost? I’m very poor,” said Qian Qi, shaking her head hard. “Anyway, I’m going out today. In a while I might have a new potion. I’ll sell you the first bottle.”

“Boss, you’re too kind. I’ll wait for your good news,” said Classmate Wang, thrilled. He had heard that when Qian Qi auctioned Defense Fruit, each one went for more than 120,000. Thinking about the Defense Fruit he bought earlier for 30,000, he was now even more sure he needed to hold tight to Qian Qi’s thigh.

After hanging up, Qian Qi glanced at a roommate’s already empty bed and smiled: “Cute little bed, starting today you’ll be all alone.”

Humming a tune, she left the school.

It was a bright, cloudless day, perfect for slacking off at work. The Security Guard at the Magiplant Research Institute stared at his Light-Brain and secretly subscribed to a brand new rags-to-riches, dog-blood web novel.

Right now he was in the middle of a classic scene. The main character had been invited to the Beast Tamer Association. He was just about to go in when the gate Security Guard blocked him. Seeing the main character’s plain, old clothes and his chest without a Beast Taming rank badge, the guard stopped him and told him to get lost, even mocking him for being too poor to step into such a noble place. At that moment, a D-rank Beast Tamer walked by. The guard saw the D-rank badge and rushed over to greet him with a fawning smile. The main character watched in disgust.

The Security Guard at the institute was disgusted too. He looked down on those colleagues who judged by appearances, serving different people different “dishes.”

Just as he was about to read the face-slapping part, someone knocked on the Security Guard room window. He hurriedly put away the Light-Brain and looked out.

A pretty young girl stood there. She looked like a student. She glanced inside the Magiplant Research Institute, then turned and asked, “I have a pass. Can I go in?”

“Let me see your pass,” said the Security Guard with relief, happy she wasn’t the head guard checking attendance. He held out his hand.

The girl was Chen Miao Miao. She carefully took a pass out of her backpack and placed it in his hand.

The Security Guard scanned it on a machine. When the screen showed “approved,” he told her, “This pass only lets you into some areas. A guard will lead you in later…”

He stopped mid-sentence. In the distance, he saw Qian Qi clacking along in flip-flops, swaying one step forward and two steps back.

[Ah, the main character!] the Security Guard thought. [The main character is here, walking with that ‘I owe no one’ strut!]

He instantly put Chen Miao Miao aside and rushed toward Qian Qi: “Hey there, little brother! What brings you here today? Our Dean mentions you every day! By the way, can you leave me a contact? If I’m on leave and some short-sighted guard doesn’t open the door for you, send me a message and I’ll get it opened right away!”

He rubbed his hands, smiling with great eagerness. He despised the guard in the novel not because the guy judged by appearances, but because the guy could not even tell who the real main character was. [With eyesight like that, you call yourself a Security Guard?]

Qian Qi eyed him, puzzled. In just a few days, why was this guard acting so eager? [Did he secretly evolve the “eager to please” skill?]

“I’m here to see the Dean,” said Qian Qi, reaching the gate. As she passed Chen Miao Miao, her gaze fell on the girl with playful interest: “Oh, we have another guest today?”

“Yeah,” said the Security Guard, nodding.

Chen Miao Miao stared at Qian Qi, gripping the pass tight. Looking down on her, she said, “What are you doing here? Without a pass, you can’t go in.”

She was not afraid of being exposed. The pass had no name on it. She could say it was hers. Even if Qian Qi complained to Dean Li, she could claim she found it somewhere else and only came to return it.

“Wow, really?” said Qian Qi in surprise. She turned to the guard: “Brother Guard, I don’t have a pass. Can I go in?”

The Security Guard’s eyes lit up. He was thrilled. [It’s here, it’s here, the classic scene is here!]

“Of course,” he said, crisp and loud. “Do you know who you are? Even without a pass, you can go in.”

The Dean himself had come to receive this one. How could that compare to Chen Miao Miao?

Chen Miao Miao watched, wide-eyed, as Qian Qi hopped back and forth across the institute’s threshold like a little gremlin. Then Qian Qi stuck out her butt, let out a fart at her, and trotted inside with a grin.

Chen Miao Miao ground her teeth so hard they almost cracked. [This awful Qian Qi! In what way is she like a proper woman? She’s a complete lunatic!]

[You’re just letting her go?] said the System, glancing back at Chen Miao Miao’s furious face. [She stole your pass.]

“Sigh, System, we should be kind,” said Qian Qi, opening her Light-Brain with a sunny smile. “We should forgive when we can. She only stole my pass. It’s not like she tried to kill me.”

The System went silent: […]

[How about you put the Light-Brain down before you say that?] it thought, watching as the “forgiving” Qian Qi typed a message to Dean Li: “Dean! I am filing a real-name report. Someone stole a pass to sneak into the Magiplant Research Institute! I suspect she plans to harm the institute, like stealing the six-million-credit Fire Qilin Lotus cultivation secrets! Please send guards at once to arrest her and torture and interrogate her for three months!!!”

Dean Li read the message and shot to his feet in shock. Who? Which brat wanted to freeload off his six million?