The Mysterious Dungeon: A Survival Guide to the Twelve Talismans

Zhou An was bored and didn't want to listen to the lecture.

He is currently at level 11, and can only stay within 1100 meters of Li Shengsheng at most.

One kilometer should be enough.

Zhou An walked out of the No. 1 Middle School of the city.

There just happened to be a sports lottery shop nearby, within 1.1 kilometers of Li Shengsheng.

The lottery shop is not open yet; it usually opens in the afternoon.

Zhou An walked straight through the locked door and began to examine the scratch-off lottery tickets locked in the cabinet.

Scratch-off lottery tickets come in various denominations: five yuan, ten yuan, twenty yuan, thirty yuan, fifty yuan, and one hundred yuan.

Zhou An used to scrape off twenty-yuan Chinese red paper.

However, he always scraped off all thirty pages of the book.

If you buy them all, it will cost 600 yuan, and you'll break even at around 50%.

“These scratch-off lottery tickets are a real rip-off; I’ve never made a profit even once,” Zhou An shook his head.

He bought at least five whole boards, and lost money on each one.

Time flew by and it was lunchtime when school let out.

Li Shengsheng arrived at the cafeteria, got a lot of food, and then sat down at an empty table to eat alone.

The surrounding area was almost packed with people, but Li Shengsheng was all alone.

Li Shengsheng has no friends, not a single one.

Firstly, it's due to her personality; secondly, Li Shengsheng's academic performance is too good.

Li Shengsheng is beautiful and academically excellent, but her family is not well-off.

This led to Li Shengsheng being isolated and even bullied by her classmates.

Li Shengsheng was not physically bullied simply because she had excellent grades and was protected by her teachers.

"Tsk tsk tsk, look at her, Grandma Phoenix has only been dead for a short time, and she can already eat again."

"Yes, Phoenix Girl is eating even more than before. She's eaten more of this whole big bowl than any man."

Some faint sounds came from all around.

The cafeteria was noisy, but because Li Shengsheng's physical condition was far beyond that of ordinary people, her hearing allowed her to hear these words clearly.

Li Shengsheng continued eating without changing her expression, but you could see that her chopsticks were about to break.

"Relax, what's there to be angry about?"

"They're just a bunch of clowns. They're only jealous of your looks and your academic achievements," Zhou An said with a faint smile, sitting to the side.

"I don't care what they say about me; I'm used to it."

“It’s just that they talked about my grandma, and it made me a little uncomfortable,” Li Shengsheng thought to herself in response to Zhou An.

"How about I teach them a lesson for you?" Zhou An asked, somewhat eager to try.

“Okay,” Li Shengsheng agreed immediately.

This surprised Zhou An.

He thought Li Shengsheng wouldn't pay any attention to them.

It is clear that Li Shengsheng's personality is not the gentle and mild type, but rather the kind that will hold a grudge.

Of course, Li Shengsheng's personality suited him perfectly.

Zhou An looked the people at the table not far away up and down.

There were four girls sitting at that table; Zhou An remembered that they were all Li Shengsheng's classmates.

When class ended, they would gather together, and sometimes when they talked about Li Shengsheng, it was always with sarcastic remarks.

At this moment, Zhou An's gaze fell on a tall, burly man carrying a meal as he walked towards them.

Zhou An recognized her; she was Li Shengsheng's classmate from the next class, and also had another identity: a school bully with decent grades, whose father was the school's vice principal.

Chapter 52 The Bloodshed in the Cafeteria

The reason Zhou An knew this was because he was wandering around when he was bored and saw the other person bullying his classmates in class.

Judging from the route the school bully took, his target seemed to be Li Shengsheng.

"Sheng Sheng, does that tall, burly school bully often harass you?" Zhou An asked.

"Yes, it's so annoying," Li Shengsheng said irritably.

"Alright, I'll teach you a lesson too," Zhou An said with a faint smile.

Since the school bully's target is Li Shengsheng, he will inevitably have to pass by the four people's dining table.

At this moment, the school bully Ma An was holding a large plate of food in his left hand and a large bowl of pork rib soup in his right hand.

He stared intently at Li Shengsheng ahead, striding forward with two followers behind him.

Just as he arrived at the four-person dining table, Zhou An pointed and said, "You'll fall down."

Ma Anton suddenly slipped and his massive body crashed heavily onto the dining table.

Under Zhou An's influence, the rice and pork rib soup in his hands were successfully poured over the four people.

"Ah~~!" Four screams rang out.

It was accompanied by Ma An's painful growls.

The dining table was thrown forward a distance by Ma An's slam.

The four girls who had just screamed and stood up were also knocked down hard, instantly becoming extremely embarrassed.

"Ouch~~ That hurts."

"My foot..."

Several people cried out in pain.

Only then did Li Shengsheng raise her head and look over.

He found that all five of them had fallen to the ground and were groaning in pain, especially the four girls, who were covered in soup and food, looking extremely disheveled.

"What are you doing? Look what you've done to us!"

"It hurts so much, you idiot! What have you done?"

Several girls sat on the ground, looked at Ma An, the culprit, and immediately began to curse him.

"Shut up, you bunch of bitches, you tripped me up and now you're trying to shift the blame, huh?" Ma An was being helped up by his two henchmen.

His chest was in excruciating pain; he had slammed his head directly onto the table.

He subconsciously looked towards Li Shengsheng and, upon seeing her looking over, became even more furious.

"We tripped you? Are you kidding me? You've got us all in this state, and now you're calling us bitches and blaming us?"

"Do you believe I'll tell the teacher and get you expelled?"

"You've ruined our lives, and you still call us bitches???"

In an instant, the four girls became furious.

They are loyal users of Xiaohongshu, how could they tolerate such a thing?

On the other hand, Li Shengsheng stopped watching and continued eating with her head down.

"There's excitement to be had, why wouldn't we watch?" Zhou An said with a smile.

"I need to maintain my persona, just listen to what I say. Also, I'm so hungry." Although Li Shengsheng still had a blank expression, she was probably overjoyed inside.

"Wow, they've started fighting! These four girls are really brave."

A large crowd had gathered around to watch the spectacle.

However, no one dared to step forward to mediate the fight, or rather, they didn't want to; they just wanted to watch the spectacle.

The farce ended quickly.

"Let's go, I'm finished eating." Li Shengsheng put the empty plate down and left the cafeteria.

“Let’s go to that lottery shop outside the school. I found a board full of lottery tickets worth over a thousand yuan. It’s noon, they should be open by now,” Zhou An said.

"Only a thousand yuan?" Li Shengsheng felt it was a bit low.

"It's at least a thousand dollars. What if you're really rich, say five thousand or ten thousand? The wealth glasses won't show anything worth more than a thousand dollars," Zhou An said with a faint smile.

"Then I hope my little one can have a cup of milk tea." Li Shengsheng loves milk tea, but she didn't have the money to drink it before.

About fifteen minutes later, Li Shengsheng walked into the lottery shop with a cup of Mixue Ice Cream Peach Four Seasons Spring.

"Young lady, buying lottery tickets?" The shop owner was a woman in her forties, who was eating at a square table.

"Li Shengsheng?" A girl wearing glasses looked over in surprise at the dining table.

"Xiaolian, do you know her? Is she your classmate?" The proprietress looked at her daughter.

“Yes, she’s number one in the whole grade. Li Shengsheng, are you here to buy lottery tickets too?” Li Lian nodded and then asked Li Shengsheng.

To be honest, she was also a little jealous of Li Shengsheng, who was not only beautiful but also had excellent grades.

"Oh, you're Abao's classmate, young lady. Do you want to buy a lottery ticket or a scratch-off?" The proprietress immediately beamed with joy and became much more enthusiastic.

Firstly, he's a classmate, and secondly, he was the top student in his grade at the city's No. 1 High School. That makes his achievement all the more impressive.

“Auntie, I want to buy scratch cards,” Li Shengsheng said cheerfully.

"Okay, see which kind you want to buy," the proprietress said, pointing to the opened lottery tickets on the shelf.

Li Shengsheng stepped forward, pretended to pick one out, and then chose a twenty-yuan Chinese red one.

"Li Shengsheng, are you only buying one ticket?"

“I recommend you buy the whole sheet. It guarantees you’ll break even, and the chances of winning a big prize are definitely higher with the whole sheet than with a single sheet,” Li Lian said, standing up.

She knew that Li Shengsheng didn't have much money, especially after her grandmother died.

But she just wanted to embarrass Li Shengsheng, even if she actually bought the whole book, she would still lose half of it.

Seeing her daughter say this, the proprietress hurriedly helped her: "Yes, little girl, do you want to buy the whole book?"

"Is the chance of winning higher if you buy the whole book? How much of the guaranteed return can you get back?" Li Shengsheng originally wanted to buy the whole book, and now she had a helpful suggestion.

“It can recover 60% of your losses, but the chances of winning the grand prize are really high,” Li Lian said first.

Li Shengsheng hesitated for a moment, then shook her head: "I don't have that much money on me, but I'll just buy one and try it out."

"Fine, twenty yuan." The proprietress pursed her lips and sat down to eat again.

Li Shengsheng immediately took out her phone and scanned the QR code to pay 20 yuan.

Soon, Li Shengsheng sat down at the table and started scraping.

Li Lian wanted to say something more, but she didn't say anything more.

After she sat down, she took out her phone and started chatting enthusiastically in the class group.

It can be seen that Li Lian posted a photo of Li Shengsheng scratching lottery tickets in the class group.

However, Li Shengsheng was not in this class group.

Li Shengsheng was completely unaware of this and was simply scratching her lottery ticket.

And she was very excited, as it was her first time scratching a lottery ticket.

Zhou An also secretly used that scratch-off lottery prop.

A special force acted on the scratch-off lottery ticket in Li Shengsheng's hand.

Chapter 53 Temporary Financial Freedom

"Li Shengsheng, did you win?" Li Lian didn't even finish her meal and slowly walked over.

She wanted to take a picture of Li Shengsheng scratching lottery tickets.