Her Talent for Courting Death Has Always Been Impressive - Chapter 50 Part 2

“My friend is different. He’s a professional,” Yang Buqi said firmly. “I’ll have him come pick you up now. Just follow his arrangements from here on, don’t go anywhere tonight. At dawn tomorrow, I’ll come pick you up and send you home.”

“After you go back, just focus on preparing for your exams, don’t think about these things anymore. As for that girl’s situation, there will be professionals handling it.”

Perhaps because of their previous acquaintance, hearing him speak so definitively, Qu Mian gradually calmed down. After hesitating for a moment, he nodded. Yang Buqi put away that admission invitation and made a phone call in front of the other two. After about half an hour, a man wearing a long black coat walked in, looking around. After meeting up, he briefly communicated with Yang Buqi and took Qu Mian away.

“That person seems to be from Ciji Institute, right?” Xu Turan said softly after the two had walked far away. Yang Buqi nodded, “Mm. He can hypnotize. Mainly to control Qu Mian, to prevent him from wandering around tonight…”

Xu Turan glanced at him curiously: “Do you know what’s going on with that school now?”

“I don’t know completely, but I have a direction,” Yang Buqi pulled her, “Let’s go back to Ciji Institute first, I’ll tell you on the way.”

Xu Turan nodded indifferently. She followed all the way to the parking lot, and it wasn’t until they got in the car that she heard Yang Buqi say: “The girl Qu Mian mentioned, her situation is unclear for now. But as for himself, he’s definitely been targeted by an abomination.”

“What I’m more concerned about is, what’s the relationship between that abomination and Golden Tree?” Xu Turan fastened her seatbelt and looked up suspiciously. “I studied at that school. Its address isn’t on Xiangzhang Road.”

Xiangzhang Road was in this city, while the school she attended was out of town, quite far away.

“In a sense, ‘it’ is Golden Tree Academy itself. The one you attended should be a decoy school arranged by ability users. The real academy is actually a domain, always in a controlled state…”

Yang Buqi hissed, seeming to be thinking about how to explain this matter more clearly: “Frankly, I don’t know much about it. I’ve only seen it in documents, and what I saw was old data from 6 years ago. It was called Big Sophora at that time…”

So when he heard about “Golden Tree” before, he didn’t react at all.

Xu Turan: …

Huh? So what’s the deal? Am I actually a graduate of Big Sophora Secondary School?

After strutting around with the persona of a “noble girls’ academy” graduate for half a day, Xu Turan was momentarily dumbfounded upon suddenly learning the school’s original name.

“Uh, don’t mind the details. At least the school you attended had all the proper qualifications…” Yang Buqi choked a bit, then decisively changed the subject.

“It’s like this. I don’t know if Zhu Tang has told you. There are some extremely powerful abominations that ability users actually have no way to completely suppress or seal. To control such abominations, they can only choose to ‘balance’ them. One of the methods is to permanently station in their ‘domain’, and create rules within the domain through order ability users and rule papers, thereby achieving the purpose of restricting the abomination’s activities, forming a long-term and delicate balance…”

“Mm.” Xu Turan nodded, “She introduced me to this. She said these ‘domains’ are also called ‘boxes’.”

Continuously existing, completely closed off, with only resident ability users and forces from the abomination side active inside, apart from humans who accidentally enter. Unless one enters the box, no one knows what the situation is like inside.

Even within the circle of ability users, “boxes” are a very mysterious existence.

And Golden Tree—or rather, Big Sophora, is one of the most typical of these domains. Currently, a small independent organization is responsible for this domain. Apart from this domain, they don’t interfere with any other matters. Controlling the abomination in the domain is their sole purpose.

“Although that organization is small, it actually has quite a history. Since its establishment, it has been fighting against the abomination of Big Sophora Secondary School.” Yang Buqi said while driving, “I don’t know much about that abomination. I only know that its method of feeding is to issue false admission invitations, lure people into the school area, and then gradually tame and cultivate them to become believers and food.”

“And that organization was originally led by a high-level order ability user. He created favorable rules in the domain, restricting the abomination’s activities within the domain, but couldn’t completely restrict its behavior of recruiting students. It could still cast a wide net online for itself, motivating others to enroll. So they had to work with the outside world to establish a decoy school, accepting all those who wanted to enroll…”

As for things like admission invitations that precisely fish for specific targets, they should have been strictly controlled. That’s why Yang Buqi couldn’t understand why Qu Mian would specifically receive one.

The only possibility was that something was currently wrong inside that box.

This raised some unease in Yang Buqi’s heart, while on the other side, Xu Turan’s concerns were even deeper.

—Fang Xing.

Xu Turan knew this name. It was the female protagonist in the original novel.

According to the known plot, this protagonist met Qu Mian during this summer vacation, got into A University as agreed, but after starting school, her feelings were manipulated by the original Xu Turan, and she faced a series of pressures from the outside world. Helpless, she moved out of the dormitory and rented a place outside to avoid trouble, but unexpectedly ended up living in a haunted house, thus starting a series of horrific events…

However, in this part of the content, not a single word mentioned that she would get into trouble during this summer vacation.

Moreover, because of her trouble, Qu Mian was also targeted by the abomination, and by coincidence, he ran into her and Yang Buqi—thinking carefully, this seemed too coincidental.

Xu Turan rubbed her forehead, suddenly regretting not asking Qu Mian more about the situation at the time. She turned to look at Yang Buqi, then quickly turned her attention back:

“I remember Zhu Tang saying that there’s a special ‘observation’ task for these kinds of domains,” Xu Turan said thoughtfully. “Regular observation can ensure that outsiders can roughly grasp the situation inside the box. Doesn’t the Big… I mean the main Golden Tree Academy have such measures?”

“They do have them.” But Yang Buqi frowned, “Because their organization itself is understaffed, the observation tasks are handed over to Ciji Institute and Renxin Institute to take turns. This cycle should be Renxin Institute’s responsibility, I’ll apply to review their observation report when I get back.”

The so-called “observation” is to send out several people to observe whether the situation in this domain is balanced and stable from an outsider’s perspective.

“Observation” is further divided into two types: “black box observation” and “white box observation”. Black box means staying in the periphery of the domain or in safe locations inside, confirming the stability of the domain with the naked eye or tools.

White box requires going deep into the domain, practically executing all the rules to check the operation of the order. If all orders are operating normally, it proves that the interior of the domain is very stable.

Comparatively, “white box observation” is the safest. But Yang Buqi didn’t know which observation method Renxin Institute used. If they used black box, the probability of oversight would be quite high, and he would need to apply for another observation.

“We’re almost there.” Yang Buqi looked at the traffic lights ahead, thought for a moment, and still added a word of caution, “I’ll go inquire about the specific situation first. You…”

“I’ll go to the inpatient department. To see a friend.” Xu Turan said cheerfully, “You can just drop me off there.”

Yang Buqi slightly pursed his lips, nodded, and watched Xu Turan get out of the car. He thought for a moment and still added: “In any case, don’t act rashly, okay?”

“I never act rashly.” Xu Turan answered very seriously.

She always courts death with a purpose.

Yang Buqi: “…”

No, I don’t think you understood my meaning.