Chapter 45 Resident Evil: Don’t Die Next to Me, I’m Afraid of Level 2 Zombies

Zhang Ningzhi felt like she had lost all her Face that day. “Okay, thank you. I’ll transfer the money to you on my phone.”

“Mm.” Jiang Nian nodded.

Even the landlord’s Family had no surplus grain. A part of the money he had was reserved for his next task, such as the task of getting double rewards for buying gym classes.

The other part he planned to spend at home. Buying a house was out of the question for now, but he could consider improving his quality of life by upgrading some home appliances and furniture.

Rather than spending money to show off, he preferred to spend it on his parents.

Jiang Nian left the classroom with two water cups, took the umbrella hanging on the corridor windowsill, and leisurely walked towards the end of the corridor. His phone vibrated in his pocket.

He took it out and glanced at it. Ningzhi had sent a regular red envelope.

He opened it—fifty.

Hmm?

That was a bit much. Jiang Nian suspected that if it weren’t for the white porridge, he probably would have received a hundred.

As expected of the Young Miss of Nanjiang Bay, she was generous.

Usually, it was a joke to ask for 50, but were you serious?

Jiang Nian placed the water cups on top of the water dispenser, turned around, and walked downstairs, typing his reply, “White porridge is originally two yuan fifty, but the canteen auntie usually sells it to me for two yuan.”

He wasn’t deliberately emphasizing that looking good could get a discount. Although Face was only worth fifty cents, at least the discount was almost as good as Alipay’s Face-scan red envelopes.

Ningzhi: “Your Face is actually worth fifty cents?!”

Huh?

Such cautious usage, even adding an exclamation mark after the question mark. And no emojis were added, to indicate no mockery whatsoever.

Fifty cents!! Fifty cents is also love.

His heart was sealed with cement.

Jiang Nian replied with a Dragon meme and put his phone back in his pocket. He glanced at the rain curtain, opened his umbrella, and walked into it. He was becoming more and more skilled at being a kept man.

However, fifty yuan came with fifty yuan’s worth of service. He passed the canteen without stopping.

Sorry, Auntie, she gave too much!

Exiting the school’s west gate led to Hongqi Road, while the main gate opened onto a short street. Next to it was a pedestrian street with a small commercial supermarket, selling everything from food to clothing and daily necessities.

He carefully selected and bought a packaged piece of old brown sugar, then bought a box of steaming hot white porridge from a roadside porridge shop, the price soaring directly to four yuan fifty.

Unfortunately, no Face-scan discount of fifty cents.

He didn’t forget to buy himself a bottle of Sprite, the 1.25 L chubby Sprite. If he directly treated those brats to drinks, they would feel pressured.

But if he only bought one large bottle, no words were needed; they would help themselves.

After finishing everything, he held his umbrella and returned to the school’s third-year building. The third-year building actually had a name; it used to be called Diligence Building, but by Jiang Nian’s year, it was changed to Virtue Building.

The school leaders understood Yin and Yang, not asking for diligence, but at least not for immorality.

Jiang Nian walked up the stairs, shaking off the water from his umbrella, which fell in a straight line on the stairs and instantly vanished. As he reached the third floor, a muffled thunder rolled across the clouds.

Lightning illuminated the stairwell. On the third floor, he saw a familiar figure, Zhou Haifei with black-rimmed glasses. Their eyes met for only a second, then quickly moved away.

“Here.”

“Thank you.”

Zhang Ningzhi took the still-hot white porridge and knew it wasn’t from the canteen. There was a porridge shop outside school, but it had been raining so heavily just now.

She drank the porridge in small sips. Jiang Nian had already left.

Afternoon.

The first class was physics. Jiang Nian suddenly opened his eyes. He didn’t know when he had fallen asleep; he only realized he had been asleep when he opened his eyes and woke up.

Damn, he thought he was listening to the lecture.

Chinese campus youth had no JK pure love, only pure classroom sleepiness.

He turned to look at Li Hua, who was already preparing to take out his medicated oil. He was planning to smell it, then lick it. He actually drank some medicated oil!

Holy crap!

That instantly sobered Jiang Nian up. He nudged Li Hua.

“You’re really hungry, damn it!”

Li Hua didn’t hide it. “Brother, try some.”

“No need, bro, you enjoy it yourself.” Jiang Nian waved his hands repeatedly. The medicated oil really worked; watching him lick it, he wasn’t sleepy anymore.

“Xuezi, give me a sip.” Li Hua was a moocher.

“What kind of vulgar term is that?”

“If not Xuezi, should it be Bizi?” Li Hua looked at the chubby Sprite on his desk. “Whatever it is, quickly give me a sip, my mouth is full of that taste.”

Jiang Nian handed him the Sprite. Li Hua stealthily unscrewed the cap to release the gas, and while the physics teacher turned to write on the blackboard, he quickly poured a sip into his mouth from a distance.

In an instant, that refreshing sensation—Jiang Nian saw his eyes turn red and couldn’t help but give him a thumbs-up.

Awesome! No wonder science prodigies are different from ordinary people!

Dude, don’t die next to me in a zombie apocalypse. Eighteen years old, afraid of level two mutated zombies.

Zhang Ningzhi, in the front seat, was also a bit sleepy, her stomach aching slightly. She had felt much better after eating a few mouthfuls of hot porridge at noon. She reached down and picked up her thermos from the floor.

The reason she didn’t put it on the desk was fear of it inexplicably falling during class or self-study. The “thud” would draw everyone’s attention, which for her was an extremely socially embarrassing situation.

Jiang Nian had filled the hot water. Thinking of this, Zhang Ningzhi’s heart felt a slight, pleasant tingle.

She unscrewed it, and steam wafted up.

Sniff, sniff. This sweet, cloying smell didn’t seem to be plain hot water. It was reddish. Zhang Ningzhi froze, subconsciously looking up at the physics teacher, who was still writing on the blackboard.

She secretly took a sip. It was indeed brown sugar.

Jiang Nian was so thoughtful.

Jiang Nian:???? You’re spreading rumors, aren’t you!

Fifty yuan’s worth of service naturally came with fifty yuan’s worth of quality. Whatever line of work, strive to be the best, even if it breaks you.

Finally, class was over, and the whole class slumped over.

During the second break, the big Ma Guojun, Ma Guojun, automatically refreshed next to Li Hua’s desk. He reached out to Jiang Nian and took a large, contactless gulp of Sprite.

“Thanks, Brother Nian.”

After saying that, Ma Guojun felt something was off and asked Jiang Nian, who was propping his head and doing math problems.

“Jiang Nian, you used to be from No. 2 Middle School, right?”

“Uh-huh.”

“You play basketball?”

“Yeah, I learned when I was a trainee at the TF Family.” Jiang Nian answered lazily and casually, “Later, I was disqualified as a trainee for assaulting a judge.”

“You knew him at No. 2 Middle School?” Li Hua asked curiously.

Zhang Ningzhi, in the front seat, was memorizing vocabulary but also secretly perked up her ears.

“No, I remember there was some idiot at No. 2 Middle School also named something Nian, who got into a fight with three or four people while playing basketball.” Ma Guojun scratched his head. “He won, got carried away, and threw their shoes in the toilet.”

Jiang Nian casually turned his head away. “That’s really idiotic.”

Ma Guojun looked puzzled. “It couldn’t be you, could it?”

“Huh?” Jiang Nian looked exaggerated. “How could it be? I didn’t like playing basketball in middle school. In fact, I only started learning in high school. Don’t just slander people.”

“True. I’ll ask around sometime.” Ma Guojun nodded.

“Hey~ you…” Jiang Nian pointed at him, smiling awkwardly. “Is that really necessary? What if that person has already gone abroad to study? Why are you so gossipy?”

Hearing this, even Zhang Ningzhi in the front seat turned around, and a group of people looked at him with strange expressions.

Thank you to all the bosses for your monthly passes and rewards, Orz, the newbie bows in gratitude.