The Ancient Gods' Whisper-Chapter 1040 - 488: Stranger Tenant_3
There are different segments for renting, the first and second rings are often filled with the offspring of Ascender Families, the third ring is where some outstanding students from poor families huddle together for warmth, and as for the fourth and fifth rings, these are where some students with neither a rich family background nor notable talent end up, often referred to as cannon fodder.
Gu Jianlin’s residence was in a cannon fodder zone, located in Block 17 of the fourth ring.
Logically, given the status of this fake identity, he shouldn’t be living here, as it isn’t conducive to his activities.
But since the Shadow Department arranged it this way, there must be a deeper purpose.
However, when he saw his housing information, he still frowned.
"It’s a shared rental, really?"
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When Xia Zhi returned home with an exhausted body, the first thing she did was shed her clothes and soak in the bathtub, her fair and graceful body curled up into a ball, but her mind was on the battle that erupted at Hongqiao Airport in the evening, causing her already fragile heart to suffer severe trauma, leaving her in a daze even now.
She didn’t want to recall what exactly happened at that moment anymore.
Because when those two terrorists in first class looked up at her, her mind nearly collapsed.
Fortunately, those terrorists didn’t trouble her, allowing her to evacuate the innocent passengers first.
Regrettably, she was still too frightened, making mistakes during the evacuation, which led to a renowned academic getting startled and having a heart attack on the spot, who is still being resuscitated now.
Not only that, her panic caused several passengers to get injured.
Afterwards, the Demon Hunters of the Judgement Court subjected her to a mental interrogation.
Her performance in this operation was marked as unqualified.
Invariably, she got dismissed.
This also declared her internship assessment a failure, forcing her to stay in school for another year.
For students from wealthy families, staying in school for another year is just embarrassing but has no other impact. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
But it’s different for Xia Zhi.
Because she’s poor.
Like most ordinary girls in the world, her parents are just farmers from her old home in Shanbei, so normal that they haven’t even blended into modern life, let alone the Extraordinary World of myths and wonders. She has two younger brothers and three younger sisters, and as the eldest daughter of the family, she can only shoulder the family burden.
Luckily, she became the golden phoenix that flew out of the chicken coop, because she awakened the most ancient path at the local branch in her hometown when she was a kid, with quite a remarkable appearance, she smoothly got into the Central Spirit Core Institute.
A blink of an eye, ten years have passed.
Initially thinking that life would be smooth after becoming an Ascender, the pressure of life left her breathless.
Some might ask, do Ascenders lack money?
The answer is yes.
Because students of the Central Spirit Core Institute have to pay a hefty tuition, including the astronomical cost for their own advancement, though academic merit can be exchanged for resources, it’s for personal use only and not for trading.
Once caught trading Extraordinary Resources privately, it’s considered a serious crime.
Such a turn of events would ruin her life completely.
The outcome would be tragic.
Tragic.
All these years, maintaining her studies at the school and living off part-time jobs while also using extra bounty rewards to subsidize family expenses had been a struggle. But just this year, due to her father’s grave illness at home, unsuccessful farmwork, and her younger siblings’ educational expenses, her financial balance was shattered.
Most critically, Xia Zhi’s old ailment had worsened.
All her hopes were pinned on earning a good job after graduation.
One that could support her life and her humble family.
But today, her hopes were shattered.
Recalling the event of the afternoon, her head hurt as if it was splitting open, as if two souls were whispering inside her body, sometimes terrifying ghostly faces flashed across her eyes, occasionally harsh golden eyes, and every so often ghost shadows in white lab coats flickered by in front of her, the scent of disinfectant filling the air.
She trembled uncontrollably in the bathtub, reached into the small leather pouch she kept by her side, and drew out the special sleeping pills she had used ten bounty rewards to buy, then swallowed them hurriedly down her throat.
The effects were quick, she gradually calmed down, her breathing becoming more even.
The clear, cold moonlight shone on her pale face through the window, and she lay wearily in the water, feeling more wronged the more she thought, finally hugging her knees and sobbing softly, unable to stop the tears.
Why?
Why must the struggles of those big figures affect small characters like her?
She had been living so earnestly already...
At this moment, suddenly, her doorbell rang.
Xia Zhi jolted up like a startled rabbit, thinking that perhaps the events of the afternoon weren’t over, that those damned Demon Hunters were coming to interrogate her once more; she quickly grabbed her phone to check the video surveillance.
Unexpectedly, the surveillance showed a young man in a hoodie.
"I know you’re watching me through the surveillance,"
the young man said expressionlessly: "I paid for six months’ rent on Deep Space Network this afternoon."
Only then did Xia Zhi remember that she rented out her bedroom for livelihood this afternoon.
