A Sudden Touchpoint

“Oh my, isn’t this my adorable little junior sister?”

As their relationship grew closer, Li Qinyue had shed her initial cold demeanor.

“Are you wearing the clothes I bought you properly?”

She examined the outfit on Huang Xiu.

“Hey, these aren’t the ones I bought you. Can Xiu Xiu buy her own clothes now?”

“Such a high-level psychological attack! But I’m not the same Huang Xiu who blushed at everything before!”

Huang Xiu took a deep breath to calm herself, then replied, “My mom bought these with me.”

This was the fifth lesson of the fifteen-day hell training during summer break.

Its name: Shopping for girls’ clothes!

According to her mother, she was being trained to become a qualified girl who could shop alone, with excellent fashion sense and aesthetic judgment.

“I see, mom bought them.”

Li Qinyue waved her hand in disappointment. “Alright, I won’t chat with you anymore. Hand over your ID card and admission notice!”

Huang Xiu pulled out both the black and red admission notices from her bag and handed them over along with her ID card.

But Li Qinyue only took the black one, not even glancing at the ID card.

She opened the black notice, pressed the school emblem against the surface of a spherical machine, and pushed down.

Hum!

The sphere vibrated slightly.

Starting from the contact point of the emblem and the sphere, white patterns flowed across the ball for a full circle.

Huang Xiu stared intently at the changes in the sphere. Li Qinyue suddenly said, “Hold out your hand.”

She obediently extended her right hand.

The golden bracelet swayed with the movement.

“Why is Xiu Xiu wearing a bracelet?” Li Qinyue squinted, teasing her.

“This is my…”

Before Huang Xiu could finish, a sharp sting shot through her right hand.

“Ow!”

She instinctively tried to pull back, but her pale wrist was firmly held by Li Qinyue.

Looking up, she saw the woman holding a blue needle that resembled a blood sugar tester.

“Don’t move!” Li Qinyue said softly.

She gently turned Huang Xiu’s small hand over.

Blood as red as carnelian dripped onto a small jade card on the table.

The moment they touched, ripples spread across the card’s surface like water waves, then a faint red light glowed inside but quickly dimmed.

“Done!” Li Qinyue took a cotton swab and pressed it onto the wound on Huang Xiu’s hand. “Hold it yourself!”

Huang Xiu nodded, her eyes slightly misty from the sudden sharp pain.

Although she often cut herself to use her ability and had increased pain tolerance, there was a big difference between a planned cut and an unexpected stab.

Li Qinyue dipped the jade card onto the surface of the spherical machine, then handed it over.

“Take this back and stick it on the back of your campus card.”

With that, she waved her hand, signaling Huang Xiu could leave.

Huang Xiu put the jade card in her pocket and stuffed the admission notice back into her bag as she walked out.

[The important thing for registration wasn’t the ID card, but the admission notice and one’s own blood.]

[So these two should serve as proof of my identity?] She guessed randomly.

Leaving the building, she stood at the end of the registration line.

Huang Xiu had originally been at the end of the line. After her test, it basically marked the end of registration.

The new students lined up in two rows and were led by volunteer seniors to the dormitory.

“How strange!”

Even if Tian Du University was special, there was no need to march them like prisoners!

This kind of operation felt very odd to Huang Xiu.

Huang Xiu followed the group through the campus for nearly twenty minutes without seeing any sign of the dormitories.

Fortunately, everyone was a special ability user, and even carrying large bags, they showed no signs of fatigue.

The excitement of soon seeing the dorms kept them from feeling bored.

“Almost there!” The burly man leading them, who seemed to hold some official position named Zhuang Bu, suddenly spoke.

This wasn’t said for the new students.

Because before they could respond, the volunteer seniors around the group nodded in unison.

“Good, understood!”

Most of the seniors had stern faces, but Huang Xiu could see the eagerness in their eyes.

Something was about to happen!

Huang Xiu realized this. She glanced around and noticed many new students had also caught on.

After all, this was a place gathering the nation’s special ability geniuses.

Few were truly foolish.

Stupid people, even with powerful talents, were like children holding guns; passing the retest would be extremely difficult.

Although she knew this was Tian Du University and nothing unexpected should happen, Huang Xiu still heightened her vigilance.

One minute, two minutes… the group continued forward.

The sound of suitcase wheels scraping the ground mixed with shuffling footsteps was clearly audible.

The sun had completely set.

The moon hung high in the sky, its white veil covering the ground with a hazy feeling.

Buildings of various architectural styles lined the road one after another.

This place was like a miniature city gathering architectural styles from around the world.

As they passed a Western-style mansion, the street lamps suddenly flickered as if with poor contact.

Bzzz!

The orange light swayed like a candle flame in the wind.

“No way!” Huang Xiu suddenly realized something.

She looked up in shock. The volunteer seniors all had excited expressions.

The world was fading away. All the noise around her receded. The summer cicadas disappeared.

The crisp chirping of birds vanished.

Her body began to feel light. On the silver-white virtual energy ocean, waves suddenly rose!

Her ability core’s rotation speed quietly increased by two notches.

Huang Xiu closed her eyes slightly and could sense that the breeze blowing from nowhere was filled with virtual energy.

The virtual energy here was extremely active! The concentration in the air far exceeded that of the real world!

This place, was a contact point!

Inside Tian Du University, there was actually a contact point!

“Here it comes!” Zhuang Bu suddenly announced. By now, almost all new students had noticed the anomaly.

The virtual energy concentration here was abnormal!

Not everyone had been to a contact point before, but they knew that places with high virtual energy were certainly not safe.

So… here it comes? What is coming?

Are virtual realm monsters coming?

Why are there virtual realm monsters in Tian Du University?

Is this a test? Or an accident?

Their small heads were full of question marks. They nervously looked around.

But in the distance, there was only deep darkness; nothing could be seen.

At that moment, Chi Xue beside Huang Xiu closed her eyes, using the technique learned in the retest, virtual energy perception.

Her action reminded many nearby new students, who also closed their eyes.

Even Zhang Si, who was at the bottom, closed his eyes.

Virtual energy perception was not a particularly complex technique. With some training, any special ability user could master it.

But whether one could remember to use it in time was a reflection of combat quality and talent.

“This batch of new students isn’t bad.” Zhuang Bu’s mouth curled slightly.

But he quickly noticed that not everyone had closed their eyes. One among the new students still stood with arms crossed.