Chapter 178: Chapter 178
Parasitism, physical transformation, and the formation of the complete body took only two minutes.
The released threat level had Yi Chen’s whole body covered in goosebumps, and the plants within him surged crazily, wanting to deal with such a creature in the absence of weapons and with weakened abilities, the odds of winning were very low.
One rule, Yi Chen silently noted in his heart.
He did not turn around, nor did he make any defensive gestures, but continued to focus on eating, perfectly slicing off the sticky eggshell and putting it in his mouth.
Velvety, silky, accompanied by the splashing of juices, the biological fishiness was indeed strong, but if one could endure it, one would feel a surging energy throughout the body.
Just as the alien’s tear-like abdominal eye was about to bite and crush Yi Chen’s body from behind,
A disproportionately large hammer struck down vertically, performing a dimensional reduction strike on the creature, grinding it into a meat patty.
“Lorrian, do you want to eat this? It can enhance the physical body.”
“I only eat ‘eggshells,’ this kind of physical flesh is too raw for me, and my body must remain pure, not contaminated with too many impurities… We are still different in that regard.”
Lorrian exchanged the youngling for three points, and lunch ended.
Perhaps because both were skilled at eating and adapting to biological themes, a difficulty level 8 lunch was not a challenge at all, it even came with a generous gift.
they headed to the Orphanage’s “convenience store.”
This place didn’t have a counterpart in the Orphanage from Yi Chen’s previous life, it was an original concept by the Duke to meaningfully extend the duration of the gambling and enhance its excitement.
The manager of the convenience store was also the ‘postman.’
His distinctive high hat and red lips were quite recognizable; he seemed to embody all the neutral roles in this gambling event.
As the two approached the convenience store, the postman’s gaze deliberately shifted toward them.
Here, one could buy items fitting the era’s backdrop visible in the marketplace.
Everything was available, from seafood noodles to boxed editions of Three Kingdoms Kill, to three-shot M16 rifles, although the price difference was substantial.
Yi Chen also specifically looked up the “axe.”
He would need 10 points to exchange for a handy silver-plated hand axe, so he decided to return in a few days to get it.
Moon Scar directly took out the three points earned from lunch and bought several novels about the “moon,” without remembering the accumulated points, seemingly wanting to spend more time in this Orphanage.
At least for now, the events taking place were very interesting to Moon Scar, and he wasn’t close to growing bored of them yet.
‘Afternoon – Knowledge Class’
The schedule matched the one from Yi Chen’s previous life, with only the afternoon dedicated to learning sessions, which were genuinely regular classes without deliberately making it tough for any student.
Enhancing knowledge was beneficial for the Orphanage to select elites like Yi Chen, who could continue to undertake the teaching responsibilities of the Orphanage in the future.
Moreover, because of the knowledge gained, Yi Chen was even more eager to explore the outside world.
there were still classroom rules to follow; any instance of breaking the rules during class,
such as being caught daydreaming by the teacher, unable to answer a sudden question, would be marked down as a demerit.
If one accumulated three demerits, they would be sent to Director Cao’s office for a ‘cranial test.’
Passing the test would allow a student to return to class as normal, but no one ever did.
Those who failed were transformed into ‘Attendant Students,’ crawlers with brains fully exposed and perception enhanced by devices, crawling in various classrooms to monitor every student.
Whenever they detected any rule-breaking, the Attendant Students would immediately alert the teacher.
In his previous life, Yi Chen had never had any classroom demerits but had witnessed the ‘Attendant Student transformation,’ the screams of living beings being sawed open for brain modification still haunted him.
Returning to the gambling,
All the orphans gathered here to draw lots, deciding which classroom they would go to for classes.
However, Yi Chen and Moon Scar pulled out two dice, and the person responsible for the draw was again the postman.
[2], [2] such low numbers slightly disappointed Moon Scar.
The two were arranged in a small classroom for an ordinary language arts class,
Recently fascinated by novels, Moon Scar was immediately captivated by this literary class, sitting upright and staring unwaveringly at the blackboard, on several occasions nearly removing his gauze.
The danger in the classroom was limited to impossible questions; students would have their fingers broken to be used as chalk substitutes, but overall, it did not threaten their lives.
Moon Scar committed the entire four hours of class content to memory and rushed back to the dormitory to immerse himself in novel reading as soon as class ended, growing more engrossed.
Dinner was personally delivered to the dormitory, a far more comfortable arrangement than what Yi Chen had previously experienced… previously, their dinners had been night-time food hunts in the basement, competing with rats or directly eating them.
‘Evening – Talent Class’
This was the last session of the first day of life in the Orphanage.
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