Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

Bai Yu: "..."

If you say I'm a steam engine, I can accept that.

Tao Rusu continued to complain: "Oh, so disappointed, I thought I could eat some barbecue..."

"If you want to eat, go buy it."

"You don't understand. Of course, the barbecue you eat with your own money is more delicious than the barbecue you get for free!" Tao Rusu said with her hands on her hips.

"I understand your perspective, but I won't treat you to barbecue." Bai Yu supported his knees as he stood up. "Morning break is almost over, why don't you go back to class?"

"Oh, it's okay. I was planning to skip class anyway." Tao Rusu stuck out her tongue.

"You still look so proud?"

"Because I have good grades, I can wander around the school freely." Tao Rusu puffed out her chest proudly. "I've always been in the top three of the school. Isn't that amazing, Sister Tao?"

"Not that great," Bai Yu said, "unless you can play basketball."

Tao Rusu said unhappily: "For the time being... I'm also surfing the Internet."

Bai Yu: "?"

It turns out that some memes don’t exist in different universes?

Tao Rusu shouted in dissatisfaction: "!"

Bai Yu: "Is this the key point?"

The two chatted for a few more sentences, and Bai Yu found that this girl was quite talkative. She was not arrogant and did not feel distant during the conversation. At the same time, she was also quite honest. If she said she would skip class, she really did.

He even managed to get a bottle of green tea.

But she also returned a bottle of energy drink. It seems that she is not short of money, but just enjoys the pleasure of being forced to get something for free.

"You really have lost your memory." Tao Rusu said confidently half an hour later: "You really don't remember a lot of things."

"Did we just talk about a lot of things?"

"No, I just think... you and I have been talking for such a long time, but you haven't even mentioned Su Ruoli." Tao Rusu raised her index finger and shook it. "That's very unusual."

Bai Yu was puzzled and asked, "Do I usually talk about Su Ruoli?"

"How should I put it..." Tao Rusu sat on the double bars in the playground, swinging her legs. "Every time I see you, you're always in pairs. It's rare for you to be alone. If one of you isn't clinging to the other, this kind of thing wouldn't happen."

Bai Yu: "Hmm..."

"But that's probably not your problem, but Su Ruoli's." Tao Rusu held her chin up. "Now that she's gone, I have the chance to run into you and talk to you. Otherwise, she'd come up to me in a short while. Last time, too... she even stuffed a lollipop into my hand to signal that I could go back and not disturb you from studying... It was such an insult! I'll never forget this humiliation!"

"and then?"

"Then I left." Tao Rusu said bluntly: "That lollipop tasted good."

Bai Yu: "..."

Okay, this is pretty weird.

Bai Yu continued, "You really don't attend classes on weekdays?"

Tao Rusu said, "There's nothing I need to do, because I'm a genius. I've already said that I'll always be in the top three."

"There are two other people in the top three, and they are all studying hard."

"Who said that?" Tao Rusu blinked. "One of them hasn't been to school for a long time. He only received elite education at home. He just registered his name in school and came here during the unified examination."

"Where's the other one?"

"He is currently missing and not attending classes."

"...Su Ruoli?"

"Who else could it be?" Tao Rusu pointed at Bai Yu. "By the way, you're ranked 100th in academics at school, which is average."

Bai Yu said proudly, "It's just the top three. I'll test you next time."

...How dare you underestimate my test-taker spirit! Do you know which country's high school students you're challenging?!

Tao Rusu laughed heartily, supporting herself with her hands behind her back, raised her cheeks, and looked at the blue sky: "You are much more interesting now than before. In the past, you were like a wooden lump. No matter how I teased you, it was useless. You were so rigid. You are more interesting now."

Bai Yu seemed to have sensed something and asked in a deliberately sentimental manner, "Do you care about me a lot?"

"I don't care." Tao Rusu said in a relaxed tone, "I don't care at all."

She tilted her head, making it impossible to see her expression. All one could hear was her voice dropping a few degrees: "It's just...it's just that sometimes I think about you and her, as if you suddenly disappeared..."

Bai Yu quietly watched the high school freshmen running and exercising on the playground, and said lightly: "She will come back."

Tao Rusu lowered her back and hung upside down on the horizontal bar, her hair hanging down, her face upside down in front of Bai Yu: "Are you telling the truth?"

Bai Yu shook his head and said, "It seems that the person you actually care about is Su Ruoli."

Tao Rusu held up her cheek and said, "I do care a little bit... I guess."

She bit her lip slightly and whispered, "Actually, that day... I just skipped class and saw it all in the corridor."

Bai Yu asked: "Psychological shadow?"

Tao Rusu loosened her hands and landed steadily with a leap: "It's not a psychological trauma!"

Bai Yu walked out of the playground first. He said slowly, "I don't know what happened after I fell into the shadow world."

Tao Rusu followed behind: "Hmm..."

Bai Yu continued: "So next I will go and find out what happened?"

"Find out?" Tao Rusu was startled. "What are you going to do?"

Bai Yu didn't look back, but stopped, put his finger on Tao Rusu's forehead and pushed her back.

"It doesn't matter what I'm going to do, but I'm going out now, so don't follow me."

Tao Rusu staggered back half a step. With her independent style, she wouldn't obey orders. But this time, she didn't follow him. Instead, she suddenly said something discouraging: "Maybe everyone is dead. It's been four days."

Bai Yu said without even turning his head: "I am still alive, so they are alive too."

Tao Rusu did not appreciate Bai Yu's stubbornness, but calmly asked, "What can you do with your own strength?"

The girl clenched her fingers tightly, her eyes stubborn and self-deprecating: "We are not extraordinary people, what can we do..."

The discouraging words he said sounded far less derogatory than self-deprecating.

Bai Yu seemed to be thinking: "Could it be that you are..."

"Just pretend I didn't say anything." Tao Rusu snorted and stamped her feet: "I'm going to take a nap in the infirmary."

Bai Yu also turned around. He was also preparing to leave the school and go to Changyesi next... If he wanted to save people, he had to know the coordinates of the sinking of the Shadow World. This thing was in his mind, and he had to find a way to get it out.

As he was about to move forward, the corridor he passed by cast a shadow.

However, he did not notice that a crack suddenly appeared in the shadow in the corridor.

……

At the top of the corridor, an eye was staring at Bai Yu's back, with deep malice hidden in its eyes.

Chapter 17 Shadow Realm

There is a trap ahead.

But Bai Yu didn't notice.

After coming to this world, his thinking still remained in his original society and he did not have such keen insight.

Living in a safe society has become a habit, and of course we don’t think about what may be under our feet, just like ordinary people walking on the street cannot prevent themselves from stepping into a bear trap. The most they step on is a thumbtack, which is already bad luck.

Not watching where you step will cost you dearly.

Danger lurks in the shadows—that's what's written on the cover of the textbook.

It's not that he didn't see it, but he didn't care.

Bai Yu had already raised his foot and was about to step on the shadow crack.

Could he possibly realize it?

he can not.

So can he dodge it?

The answer is... yes.

Because a shoulder hit his back hard, Bai Yu was knocked more than three meters away.

The boy weighed over 60 kilograms and was nearly 1.8 meters tall, almost an adult. However, the force from behind directly made him fly into the air.

Bang! Bai Yu didn't fall down immediately. Instead, he rolled over and landed smoothly. He propped himself up with one hand, his eyes filled with confusion: "You..."

Before he could even utter the question "What are you doing?", he was bombarded with insults. Tao Rusu yelled, "Watch where you're walking! You want to die, idiot!"

Bai Yu did not notice the threat under his feet, but Tao Rusu noticed it and rushed to rescue him in a 100-meter sprint.

The crack in the shadow was three meters directly in front of Bai Yu's sight.

This time he looked down and was stunned for a moment. His lack of common sense made him unable to tell what this thing was. It was like a bug in an image display stuck on the ground. He could only guess from Tao Rusu's reaction that this might be similar to the previous shadow world, but the size of this crack was not very large, only less than half a meter.

Tao Rusu held her knees and gasped for breath. She was very tired after running all the way here. Although the distance was not long, it consumed a lot of physical and mental energy.

Just as she bent down, the shadow crack, which was originally only half a meter wide, suddenly expanded.

A strangely shaped, flexible, bone-spurred strip several meters long popped out from it.

It swept all around and tied up Tao Rusu's calves with incredible precision.

The moment they touched, Bai Yu saw blood splattering and heard the sound of broken bones.

The human body could not resist the force of breaking bones, and she fell to the ground and was dragged into the crack in the ground at an extremely fast speed.

All this happened so quickly that Bai Yu only had time to take half a step forward... This sudden situation was completely beyond his imagination, just like a crocodile coming out of a manhole cover and biting someone.

In the blink of an eye, half of Tao Rusu's body was sunk into the ground, but she did not ask Bai Yu for help or reach out her hand.

The intense pain made her frown, and she uttered a word before her body completely sank into the shadows.

"--run!"

Shadows spread out in ripples.

The crack did not heal immediately, but Tao Rusu had disappeared as if he had sunk into a pool of water.

Bai Yu's body was stiff and his mind was a little confused. The next moment, he raised his left hand and slapped himself to come back to his senses.

No matter what the situation is, stay calm... analyze the situation and make a judgment.

There are two choices.

1. Leave and find someone to rescue you; 2. Jump down and save others yourself.

Choice one: calling the teacher might be too late. Facing a monster that could easily break human bones, how many seconds could Tao Rusu survive? She was not a transcendent, and with a broken leg, she couldn't even escape or delay.

Option 2: You need to have enough combat power. No one knows what the situation is below, and it is not even clear what level of monster it is... If you jump down, no one can save you, and you may even die.

...There is hope only when you are alive.

...I've died once, do you want to die again?

Cowardly thinking runs rampant within the cage of rationality.

Bai Yu fell into hesitation. He was an ordinary person and could not get rid of this hesitation. It was natural. Seeking benefits and avoiding harm was the instinct of living things. Human beings were even more selfish. Human nature could not stand the test. He was neither a hero nor a strong man. What was wrong with keeping himself safe?

Yes, ordinary people cannot jump without hesitation, even if that is the person who saved them.

But the Heroic Spirit can.

【Projection Activation】

...Old man, please help me.

The moment the projection of the heroic spirit covered his body, the so-called confusion was dispelled. Ren Xia's will was so strong and he was so decisive in saving people that he even skipped the time to think. Instinct directly drove his body and he jumped down towards the shadow crack that had begun to shrink.

……

It hurts, it hurts.

Tao Rusu saw that her left leg was broken and twisted, covered with several bloody holes, and white bone spurs pierced through her flesh.

It was the first time she had experienced such pain, and the pain did not make her consciousness clear immediately.