20demayo Chapter 55 Gu Yue: Am I... not pretty?
Chapter 55 Gu Yue: Am I... not pretty?
Chapter 56 Gu Yue: Am I... not pretty?
Early in the morning, the five teachers and students of Class Zero gathered at the academy gate, then boarded a medium-sized soul-guided bus and headed towards the outskirts of the city.
Inside the car, Tang Wulin and Xie Xie sat side by side, while Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue sat in front of them.
The vehicle moved smoothly forward. Xie Xie leaned close to Tang Wulin's ear, lowered his voice, and spoke with a hint of the mischievousness typical of young people.
"Wu Lin, have you noticed?"
"Ever since Yuhao came, Gu Yue and you—aren't as 'close' as before."
Tang Wulin turned his head and glanced at him: "Gu Yue and I weren't exactly close before."
Xie Xie snorted, looking as if he knew everything: "I call it an outsider's perspective!"
"Gu Yue—while she may not be the most beautiful, her talent and strength are undeniable."
"I originally thought you two could—"
He squinted, his unspoken meaning quite clear, as he finished speaking.
Tang Wulin looked at him in surprise, his face clearly saying, "You're overthinking it: We're still students, we're still young."
"What do you mean 'too young'!" Xie Xie retorted confidently, "You don't know, the academy secretly—"
The conversation ended abruptly there.
Because a shadow fell over.
Xie Xie's neck stiffened, and he slowly raised his head.
He saw that Gu Yue in the front row had turned around at some point, and her dark eyes were coldly looking down at him, her face seemingly covered with a thin layer of frost.
Xie Xie's Adam's apple bobbed as he suddenly remembered that the mental strength of the two people in front of him far exceeded that of ordinary people. His "whisper" would probably sound to them as if he were shouting to their faces.
He chuckled dryly twice, then quickly cupped his hands in a gesture of begging for forgiveness and wisely shut his mouth.
Gu Yue then looked away and sat up straight again.
She initially approached Tang Wulin because she sensed the same Golden Dragon King aura emanating from him.
As for spending more time with Huo Yuhao now, it's because in her eyes, this suddenly appearing senior brother is shrouded in deeper mysteries and is more unfathomable.
She had already secretly contacted Di Tian, and judging by the time, he should be able to arrive in Donghai City in a few days.
After settling down, Gu Yue suddenly turned her head to look at Huo Yuhao beside her and asked softly, "Am I... not pretty?"
Huo Yuhao was taken aback by her sudden question.
He thought for a moment before carefully speaking: "Well—everyone has a different definition of 'beautiful'."
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"You're not pretty in the conventional sense —"
Whether it was ten thousand years ago or ten thousand years later, Huo Yuhao had seen a number of women with outstanding appearances, though not many.
To be fair, Gu Yue is now pretty and clean-cut, with a unique temperament, but by worldly standards, she is not exactly stunning.
His tactful approach was clearly because he didn't want to hurt his junior sister's feelings.
However, before she could finish speaking, Gu Yue interrupted her calmly, "Alright, I understand."
Huo Yuhao promptly shut up; he didn't want to say too much about this matter, as it was indeed not his forte.
Gu Yue turned her gaze to the street scene rushing past the car window, but a thought quietly rose in her mind: Should she show her true appearance to others?
Her current appearance is a disguise she deliberately maintains in order to conceal her identity and blend into the human world.
If the Silver Dragon King were to revert to his true form, he would be considered beautiful by human standards.
As the Soul Guidance Bus drove out of the city, the buildings outside the window gradually thinned out, and the view became increasingly open.
When everyone got off the bus, they were already in the countryside.
Wu Changkong led them on a walk for a while, and they finally arrived at a large complex of buildings.
The nameplate of "Donghai Soul Guide Technology Park" gleamed with a cold metallic luster in the sunlight.
The park has a complex network of roads and futuristic architectural styles.
After walking for about half an hour, a small building, entirely dark blue with a smooth, mirror-like exterior, came into view.
It stands silently, refracting ever-changing streams of light as the angle of the light changes.
Wu Changkong walked to the entrance, placed his right hand on the glass wall, and a beam of dark blue light swept across his palm.
Immediately afterwards, a semi-transparent humanoid projection appeared on the wall, looking at Wu Changkong with a hint of mockery in its tone.
"Hey, isn't this Donghai Xiaochangkong? What a rare guest! Long time no see!"
The nickname "Little Changkong of the East China Sea" startled the people behind him.
Xie Xie was the first to burst out laughing, but quickly suppressed it when Wu Changkong's cold gaze swept over him.
Wu Changkong remained unfazed, coldly uttering only two words: "Open the door."
"Ugh, you're still as cold and aloof as ever, so boring."
The projector shrugged helplessly. As soon as he finished speaking, the glass door in front of him slid open silently to both sides, revealing the internal passage.
The building's pure white floors were spotless, and the deep blue walls had a matte finish, giving it a simple and tidy appearance.
A silver circular platform quietly rose from the ground in front of Wu Changkong, on which four metal bracelets were neatly arranged.
He took the bracelets and distributed them to the four people, saying succinctly, "Wear these bracelets. They're for identification purposes; otherwise, you'll be treated as an enemy!"
The four quickly put the bracelets on their wrists. The metal rings automatically contracted and fit together, and a very faint green light shone on their surfaces.
The four then followed Wu Changkong as they moved through the passage. After passing through a sensor-activated glass door, Wu Changkong suddenly vanished into thin air.
"Space teleportation technology?!"
Xie Xie paused, letting out a soft exclamation. Coming from a prominent family, he had heard about this before.
Tang Wulin looked completely bewildered, clearly having never encountered this kind of concept before.
While he was still in a daze, Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue took a step forward with normal expressions, and their figures disappeared from the spot in an instant.
As Leng Yaozhu's personal disciples, they were naturally familiar with this kind of cutting-edge soul guidance technology.
Tang Wulin and Xie Xie dared not delay and followed closely behind.
As soon as I stepped across that invisible boundary, a strange feeling of weightlessness and pulling swept over my entire body.
The next moment, the two found themselves in a completely new space.
This is a closed space that is entirely deep blue, with smooth, mirror-like deep blue crystals overhead and underfoot, emitting a faint, cold light.
Wu Changkong had walked to the wall on one side, and his finger quickly traced several specific lines on a seemingly seamless part of the wall.
The wall slid open silently, revealing a dazzling soul-guided screen with a finely crafted physical keyboard below it.
His hands flew across the keyboard, leaving a trail of afterimages.
At the same time, a monotone electronic voice echoed throughout the space.
"Identity confirmed: Donghai Xiaochangkong".
"Test difficulty: Medium".
Number of test participants: three.
"Ten-second countdown begins."
"Ten, nine, eight, seven —"
The countdown sounded like a hammer blow to their hearts, and Tang Wulin and the others instinctively tensed up.
As the final countdown ended, three condensed blue beams of light shot down from the dome without warning, precisely enveloping Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue!
With a flash of blue light, the three figures vanished into thin air.
At this moment, only Wu Changkong and Huo Yuhao remained standing facing each other in the space.
Wu Changkong turned to Huo Yuhao and said, "Medium difficulty is not very meaningful to you, therefore, your assessment will be set at high difficulty."
Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao showed no fear whatsoever; instead, a burning fighting spirit ignited in his eyes.
A smile played on his lips as he said directly, "Teacher, let's begin!"
Wu Changkong nodded slightly, turned around, and quickly completed the settings on the control screen.
The cold countdown began again.
"————Three, two, one, zero."
A dazzling blue beam of light descended with a deafening roar, completely engulfing him.
As the pillar of light dissipated, only Wu Changkong's still figure remained in the deep blue space, reflected on the smooth, mirror-like ground and walls.