Outside the tent, Xiao Feng and his group kept a safe distance from Hui Yi, all feeling a bit tongue-tied.
"Senior Brother, if you're going to sleep, just sleep properly. Why are you leaving your foot out of the blanket?"
"And the guy sleeping on the top bunk is sothing else. He insists on sleeping upside down. If he weren't sleeping opposite to Senior Brother, it wouldn't be like this."
"Anyway, no matter how you see it, Senior Brother's performance this ti has definitely tarnished the reputation of 'monks'."
Xiao Feng opened his mouth, about to speak, when he saw Hui Yi trembling, shrunk up, and said in a quivering voice, "S-s-sorry, can soone go in and get my shoes?"
Everyone exchanged glances, then shook their heads and stepped back.
Clearly, no one wanted to experience the feeling of being "poisoned."
"This ti, you're sure to win." Xiao Feng said to Hui Yi earnestly.
"W-what's sure?"
"Solo combat, in competitive events like that, you just take off your shoes and use them as a weapon, your opponents definitely won't dare co near you."
After Xiao Feng's comnt, the surrounding people burst into laughter.
A mont later, Hui Shiqi said, "I think Bro Feng is spot on. We should give it a try. I don't rember any rules stating you can't take off your shoes."
That comnt sparked another round of heated discussion amongst the crowd.
"I really envy Senior Brother."
"Yeah, yeah, wish we had such blessings."
Hui Yi's face turned pale. Since when did having foot odor beco a blessing?
If it were before, he might have sighed deeply and said sothing like, "How can people be so callous," and then try to appeal emotionally.
But right now, he really couldn't bother to do that.
His feet were on the icy ground, feeling like countless steel needles penetrating his soles, the pain was unbearable.
"Huffing... hissing..."
Hui Yi kept drawing in cold air, rubbing his left foot on his right to warm them up, and vice versa, switching back and forth to avoid getting frostbite.
Just at this mont, a gust of wind blustered, making Hui Yi tremble even more, his feet alternately lifting and setting down.
Xiao Feng suddenly felt sothing was off, checking the wind direction and then where Hui Yi stood... directly facing the girls' dormitory across.
...
"Sister Qingyue, why hasn't anyone thrown shoes here yet?" The little girl asked in a low voice.
Du Qingyue looked down from her top bunk, seeing the little girl's eyelids drooping, and said, "You go to sleep first, I'll wake you when it happens."
"No need, no need, I can still stay..."
Before finishing her sentence, she was already asleep.
Du Qingyue chuckled, lay back down, and glanced at the luminous watch on her wrist, feeling sowhat perplexed.
By right, it should've happened by now, so why hasn't it?
At this mont, Zhao Yanqiong from the top bunk on her right whispered, "Qingyue, Qingyue..."
"Hm?"
"Do you... sll sothing strange?"
Du Qingyue perked up, sniffed the air twice, and indeed caught a sour scent.
Moreover, the sll seed to be getting stronger...
At that mont, Du Qingyue's mind conjured up an image.
Qi Guanghe pinching his nose with one hand, holding one of Xiao Feng's shoes with the other, ready to throw it in from outside.
But... could Xiao Feng's feet sll that bad?
Before she could think further, a few light sleepers had already woken up, frowning and complaining.
"What stinks so badly?"
"This sll is so strange, worse than durian or stinky tofu."
"Did soone not wash their feet before sleeping?"
Two minutes later, all forty people in the girls' dormitory had opened their eyes and sat up.
Most were awakened by the sll, while so were woken up by the noise.
But either way, none of them could fall back asleep anymore.
"Turn on the lights and check where the sll's coming from!" soone suggested.
The lights flicked on, and soone pinched their nose, grimacing, "I say we should go outside and avoid it first, the sll is too strong, it's all over the room."
Many people nodded, agreeing with this suggestion.
Half a minute later, soone couldn't help but exclaim, "Oh my god! It's like canned surströmming!"
Half a minute later, finally soone couldn't resist putting on clothes and dashed out of the tent.
The mont soone takes the lead, it's hard not to have a second or third.
In under a minute, half of the forty people had run out, and among those left, more than half were putting on clothes.
"Qingyue, should we head out too?" Jiang Yixin said with a grimace.
Du Qingyue nodded, signaling everyone to dress up and head out.
Given the current situation, she was a bit unsure of what was happening.
Could it be... part of the examination, testing ergency response capability, just not disclosed to us?
This thought lingered briefly before Du Qingyue dismissed it.
She decided to follow Xiao Feng's advice and go with the flow; surely forty people couldn't all fail.
"Why are the boys from the dormitory across running out too?" Lu Yao wondered.
As soon as she said this, soone shouted, "Look!"
Looking in the direction the person pointed, they saw four groups of people dressed in protective clothing, wearing gas masks, and carrying disinfectant, entering the boys' dormitory.
Not long after, another four similarly dressed people entered the girls' dormitory.
In no ti, more than a hundred people divided into male and female camps, gathered between the two dormitories, separated by a distance not too long, yet not too short either.
"I'll go check out what's happening." Du Qingyue said calmly, then headed towards Xiao Feng.
With her leading the way, the others followed suit, and the two camps rged together.
Upon discovering the source of the odor, everyone looked at Hui Yi with a clear sense of dread, then retreated to avoid this "fragrant" bald head.
Xiao Feng glanced at the ti, finding it was nearly dawn.
He frowned, worried that this incident might delay the examination, which would waste more ti.
...
After both dormitories were disinfected, Qi Guanghe's cousin, Wu Zhanbo, appeared in the scene, standing firm, called out loudly, "There was a minor issue, but it's all sorted now. Go back to sleep.
Just a heads up, tomorrow's examination starts as scheduled, don't use lack of sleep as an excuse if you don't perform well!"
Finishing this, he looked at Hui Yi and said, "Co with , I'll arrange a separate dormitory for you."
Xiao Feng let out a sigh of relief, no longer worried about the examination being delayed.
Though, he's unsure if Qi Guanghe still plans to go through with the shoe-stealing sche.
But that's beyond his control.
If they decide to call off the shoe-stealing plan due to Hui Yi's stunt, Xiao Feng can't exactly hold a knife to their throats and force them to steal his shoes and toss them into the girls' dormitory across.
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