Chapter 51: Transfer Student

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As Qing Chen walked out, he was surprised to notice that the apartment doors across from his were wide open, in there filled were plastic wrappings.

In the apartment, some workers were busy refurbishing the carpet and walls. These people were different from those he saw before, they all looked neat and their uniforms had "Cozy Remodeling" imprinted upon them.

Qing Chen never heard of this company before/

He looked for one of the workers and asked, "What is this for?"

The person looked at him and smiled, "Someone is moving in."

Qing Chen asked as if it wasn't a big deal, "Then who is the owner now? We'll be neighbors soon, so I want to at least greet them once."

The workers said, "I'm not sure, we're just doing our jobs and haven't met the owner yet."

Qing Chen found this strange.

That apartment on the opposite side of his had been left barren and empty for several years, how come now someone decides to move in?

Not only that, he even heard some noise upstairs.

Qing Chen took a look and suddenly found that Room 202 upstairs was also being remodeled.

What's going on? Why are two families moving in at once? This was suspicious.

But until now, only move-in workers appeared, and the owners still didn't appear.

Outside, there were still many workers bringing down furniture and daily supplies down from a large moving truck.

These items were all carefully wrapped in separate cloth layers, categorized as fragile, books, clothing, and many more.

Moreover, every box was covered in protective plastic wrapping to avoid dust.

It only took a second for him to figure that this new neighbor of his must be very wealthy.

Looking back at the old and dusty apartment behind him, then at this immense operation of moving in...

Why would any rich person move here? Are they out of their minds?

Everything that was happening in front of his eyes was much different than his usual life.

The apartment in front of him was a different model, but the total living area would at most be 92 square meters1~990 square feet, and with this old building structure, even some high voltage appliances would jump the circuit.

These rich people that decided to move here must be crazy.

Unless, that was for some other reason.... like the Inner World.

Aside from him, the only other time travelers living in this apartment complex would be Li Tongyun and Jiang Xue.

So far, he had been concealing his identity very well, so these people must have come for Jiang Xue.

At this time, Jiang Xue also came out with Li Tongyun. They looked each other in the eyes, and Qing Chen said, "Be careful."

"I will," Jiang Xue nodded.

Arriving at the school, Qing Chen first walked across Liu Dezhu's class, but he noticed that Liu Dezhu looked lost, sitting quietly in the classroom, with bandages all over his arm and face.

What's up with all these weird incidents today?

First, he got two random rich neighbors moving into his apartment unit, and now, Liu Dezhu seemed to have been severely beaten by someone.

Qing Chen opened up today's trending searches, and easily found an article about how Liu Dezhu got hurt yesterday...

In the post, there were even clear images of Liu Dezhu covered in bandages and the reporter's guesses.

The images were taken in front of the school, and from the angle... the person must have been hiding in the bushes next to the school gates.

Paparazzi!

Qing Chen felt a little speechless.

He never imagined that famous transmigrators already became high-profile targets.

But in retrospect, it did make sense for paparazzi to target Liu Dezhu since these people would go after anything that was attracting enough attention.

At the current state, time travelers were attracting more attention than pop stars and social media influencers.

Recently, even Wang Feng's2A famous singer live concerts couldn't even get onto the top ten of the trending searches. The leaderboard had been filled with information about time travelers.

Qing Chen was glad that he had been keeping himself low-key.

Not to mention if there were any additional dangers because of this, just the media attention would drive him crazy.

Right under this post, another one caught Qing Chen's attention. It was He Xiaoxiao's new video.

He returned to his classroom and searched for He Xiaoxiao's name on TikTok. This video was still a black background with white captions, "Today, I'll do a brief overview of the Forbidden Lands, a notable in-game feature."

"In the Inner World, there are currently 139 forbidden lands scattered across the wilderness. Of course, there are also newly formed ones that are not part of the official database yet."

"From my research, the formation of these forbidden lands had inseparable connections with supernatural beings..."

"Many advanced biotechnologies that exist in the Inner World originated from forbidden lands. If you are able to find something new in the forbidden lands, it is likely that you can get a large sum of cash reward from the corporations."

"The forbidden lands are dangerous places. I highly recommend players team up before entering."

Qing Chen watched the entire video in silence. This time, his knowledge was ahead of He Xiaoxiao's.

He noticed that in this video, He Xiaoxiao once again encouraged people to be in groups.

This was indeed a helpful reminder.

"Qing Chen, look." His deskmate Nan Gengchen shook his arm.

Qing Chen looked up and saw two unfamiliar girls standing in front of their classroom door.

The two girls were about the same height, and both had beautiful curly hair.

One of them wore a black and white baseball shirt with slim jeans.

The other wore a loose long-sleeved T-shirt. She looked much more casual as if this was just a random shirt she picked for herself.

Nan Gengchen was already in a daze looking at the girls. Their math teacher, Tian Hailong, stood on the podium and said, "I have two announcements this morning. First, your homeroom teacher, Ms. Du is unable to teach at the moment, so I will sub in for her until she comes back."

Tian Hailong continued, "The second thing I have is that we have two new transfer students coming to our class. I hope that everyone can help them out and make them comfortable at our school. Now, let's have them introduce themselves."

The girl in the baseball shirt stepped up first and said with a smile, "Hi everyone, my name is Wang Yun, from Hai City."

The other girl said, "Hi, my name is Bai Wan'er, also from Hai City. I look forward to working together with you this semester."

A loud round of applause sounded from the classroom, and Nan Gengchen was the loudest of all.

The teacher Tian Hailong glanced across the classroom and pointed toward an empty space next to Qing Chen and Nan Gengchen and said, "You will sit there for a while. Qing Chen is a top student in the class, so if you two have any questions, you can go ask him. Any boys here want to help me carry the chairs and desks from the storage room?"

As soon as she asked, some boys quickly stood up.

There was even one boy that quickly cleared his desk and pushed it next to Qing Chen and Nan Gengchen, then said to Wang Yun, "You can use mine first."

Wang Yun smiled and asked, "Then what about you?"

The boy said, "Don't worry about me, I'll go get another one from the storage room myself."

Qing Chen couldn't help silently but praise this student's social awareness.

Wang Yun thanked him and sat next to Nan Gengchen.

Just as Nan Gengchen was about to be excited about having a girl sitting next to him, Wang Yun said something that extinguished this excitement, "Hey, kid... Have you heard of Liu Dezhu?"