Where's the cute girl we were promised? She's completely wiped out S-rank dungeons!

"President! Maybe we should stop fighting for now... this situation is unavoidable!"

Song Yuan and the puppeteer simultaneously stopped fighting and looked at the churning black mist. That being said, there was practically nowhere to hide in the narrow corridor. The puppeteer glanced at Song Yuan with some disappointment, then darted into the electrical room and closed the door.

Song Yuan stood against the wall, raising her arm to shield her eyes. Black mist swept past her, and the monster's claws tore at her skin. Her mind kept ringing with notifications that her health was being deducted. However, the group of students quickly arrived at her side. Xu Tai'an was still unconscious. Qiao Ran and An Xiaoyou were also there. The former looked at her expectantly, while the latter, seemingly arrogant, was actually watching her expectantly out of the corner of her eye—clearly with a look of wanting credit.

So Song Yuan wiped the blood from her face and, quite cooperatively, asked them:

"How did you convince these students to take you downstairs?"

Because Qiao Ran was carrying Xu Tai'an, she couldn't lift her hair, so she could only stand there:

"Oh, well. After all, my aggro level is very low, so the NPCs in the dungeon are all quite friendly to me. Besides, they don't want to stay in this school anymore, so they agreed when I said I could take them away."

An Xiaoyou snorted coldly: "Yeah, all he does is talk. These monsters are getting harder and harder to kill. Before, a light slash would kill them, but now even five or six slashes might not be enough. I'm afraid we can't go through monster hordes like we used to."

"Really?" Song Yuan praised calmly, "Well done. And you guys, could you take us to the school gate?"

Qiao Ran and An Xiaoyou were very pleased with her praise. Song Yuan glanced sideways at the gaunt students; perhaps because their desire to escape school was so strong, they were surprisingly calm in the face of this scene. A female student whispered:

"Yeah, no problem. I miss my mom. Thinking about it, I've been in this school for almost three years, and apart from my health collapsing, I really don't know what I've gained."

This statement resonated with many students:

"Yes, yes, please take us away from here..."

Without delay, the four of them left the administration building under the cover of the students—only to find that the entire school, more than ten thousand students, had run out. Some were carrying cell phones and flashlights stolen from the teachers' offices, cheering and screaming as they slowly made their way towards the school gate. Seeing this, An Xiaoyou casually offered an explanation:

"Oh, I sent that brat from the pharmacy over to the teaching building to tell him to call all the students down."

Because a large number of students could provide cover for them to leave the school. A free and joyful atmosphere filled the campus; some students scaled the walls, while others used the main gate. Just as they were about to leave the instance, a system notification sounded automatically:

[System notification: You are only one step away from escaping the campus! The system is detecting a key item... It has been detected that you have obtained a key item. Would you like to use it immediately? After use, the campus outer barrier will completely disappear.]

An Xiaoyou: "The key item? That must be the key to the power distribution room. I didn't expect that this thing could actually be used a second time."

Song Yuan took the power distribution room key out of her skirt pocket, clicked the confirmation option, and when she reached out to try again, she found that her body could now pass through the barrier at the edge of the campus.

"Let's leave here first," Song Yuan glanced back at the campus behind her. "I don't think the remaining two people will die in the game so easily. It would be troublesome if they caught up with us."

[Ding~ Congratulations to player "Song Yuan" for achieving the completion condition: Escape this high school and successfully clear the dungeon [Yucai Private High School]. Logging out...]

The lifeless campus is filled with laughter because of your arrival~ Player "Song Yuan" has received gratitude points from NPCs: "Yucai High School Students". The gratitude points will automatically offset the hatred points. Your hatred points are now "0".

So, faced with a heavy academic workload, would you choose a healthy and happy body, or sacrifice everything for excellent grades?

[The reward points and viewer donations for this game have been credited to your account~ Congratulations on achieving the "Million Earnings" achievement three times in a row in the dungeon! The system will now place your image in the promotional slot~ Let your fans go crazy!]

Your overall level has been upgraded. Please go to your personal panel to view it.

After the game announcement ended, the system automatically extracted a portion of the footage from the previous live stream replay. The large screen on the giant archway flashed, and the girl's aloof and delicate face appeared in the best position in the center:

The system only captures images of Song Yuan when she is still or talking to others, because the exciting parts require payment to watch, and the system will not give up the opportunity to earn points.

Even this small glimpse was enough to drive her fans wild. Longtime fans felt a sense of relief, as if their daughter, whom they had followed for only a short time, had grown up in the blink of an eye. The lobby was bustling with excitement.

Shortly after they left the instance, the Puppeteer and Liu Gaosheng also cleared it. They did so using a god-tier item called [Disposable Wormhole].

The effect is that players will receive an adorable caterpillar about the thickness of an arm, which can bite an opening in any barrier. It will disappear after one use.

After exiting the instance, Liu Gaosheng, still shaken, leaned against the wall: "Damn it! I almost died."

He couldn't help but glance at the puppeteer beside him, who was lazily yawning, making him curse inwardly:

This guy had such an awesome tool but didn't say so earlier. All the students ran away, and he almost gave his last words when the two of them were crossing the monster horde!

Meanwhile, the viewers in the live stream were having a heated discussion when Song Yuan and her group emerged unharmed—a result that surprised everyone.

[Holy crap! Holy crap! It's over just like that? I feel like there was something fishy going on in this game. Although the Puppeteer and Liu Gaosheng didn't die in the game like Fu Zhengyang and Wang Daqiang did before, that's the Puppeteer who was ranked number one on the player leaderboard!]

To survive someone like that, what kind of skill is that?! Could it be that the puppeteer went easy on them?!

[You're talking nonsense (stomp on him). This is skill, don't you understand? It's like you made it sound like Iris God played this game easily. That was an E-rank versus an S+! He clearly won under pressure, okay?]

[Seriously, I think it's not impossible that the Puppeteer went easy on him. Doesn't he really like Qiao Shen? He's always wanted Qiao Ran to return to the Crystal Guild. If he wanted to, these semi-new players would have been dead long ago, right?]

[Yes, yes, yes! Let's not even talk about the early game, but they definitely went easy on us in the late game!]

Meanwhile, with fame comes trouble. As soon as Song Yuan and her friends left the game, they found a secluded corner where no one would notice. Xu Tai'an, having regained his senses, signed the membership application and joined the guild [Court of Justice].

When Song Yuan took the contract, she glanced at her:

"What, have you made up your mind?"

"Because...because now that we can finally have some peace and quiet, we can think things through properly."

After Xu Tai'an left the game, the injury to her throat disappeared. Her normal voice was soft and clear, but she would feel embarrassed when talking to people because she had never interacted with anyone before, so she would occasionally stutter.

Xu Tai'an opened the game panel, looked at the name after "[Affiliated Guild]", lowered his head, pursed his lips, and murmured:

"We will all have our wishes fulfilled, right?"

"Of course!" Qiao Ran clasped her hands together. "That's great! We've got four people now. The PK tournament starts in three days, and I've already registered. We should get the information about the guilds we'll be fighting against around noon tomorrow."