Chapter 2657 — The Centipede Goes Up in Flames
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"Oh? Is that so?" Gu Mengyao found it strange as well, but hearing Wei Zhao say that Shen Yushu was fine, she breathed a sigh of relief. "So long as she's all right. If she's fine, then let's carry her back to the dormitory to rest. It looks like she really may just be worn out..."
"All right." Wei Zhao nodded, gathered Shen Yushu into his arms, and glanced at Zhong Yongliang, whose face was inexplicably sorrowful. "Zhong Yongliang, I'll come find you for our match this afternoon—but first I'm taking Xiaoshu back."
"Fine..." Zhong Yongliang wanted to weep but had no tears. He was wondering what he ought to do—should he cut and run? The Drunken Centipede was dead; if he stepped into the ring, he would only be waiting to be beaten. He had not sunk to the point of craving abuse!
But running away would be disgraceful enough in itself. He had boasted only this morning, and had even sworn that whoever failed to show up was a son of a bitch—surely that son of a bitch was not Zhong Yongliang himself? Zhong Yongliang was utterly helpless, yet there was nothing at all he could do...
"Brother Liang, what are we going to do?" Gao Xiaofu was equally at his wit's end, with no idea what to do for the best.
"What can we do? Run for it. Go back to the Tomorrow-Upon-Tomorrow Sect and hide out for a while. How could that centipede just catch fire? Truly bizarre..." Zhong Yongliang had no other choice but to flee. Otherwise he would only lose the match anyway—better not to show up at all.
"Uh... we're running just like that?" Gao Xiaofu was taken aback, but on reflection, what else could they do but run? So he nodded and said, "Then shall we go back to the dormitory and pack up?"
"Yes, pack up. We leave at once!" Zhong Yongliang had made up his mind.
Zhong Yongliang had no choice but to run; there was no help for it. His Drunken Centipede was dead, he had no trump card left with which to stand against Wei Zhao, and so he could only hurry back to the dormitory with Gao Xiaofu, bundle up their luggage in big bags and small, and quickly leave the dormitory building.
However, when the students they passed saw them, none of them supposed that the two were running away; they assumed the pair were making preparations for the afternoon's contest. Thus it was that Zhong Yongliang slipped through the crack unobserved.
The two of them stole quietly to the parking lot, got into the car, drove out of the school gate, and were gone in a cloud of dust...
Wei Zhao carried Shen Yushu back to Gu Mengyao's dormitory. Since Shen Yushu truly had fainted, the auntie at the door did not stop him, and simply let Wei Zhao go on up.
"Wei Zhao, is Xiaoshu really all right?" Gu Mengyao looked at Shen Yushu, laid on the bed and still deeply unconscious, and asked with some misgiving.
"She's really fine. As far as I can tell, every function in her body is normal—she has simply fainted. Barring the unexpected, she'll wake up in about an hour," Wei Zhao said.
"That's good." Gu Mengyao breathed a sigh of relief. "Have you eaten? I haven't."
"No. Shall I go out and buy something?" Wei Zhao, too, had been summoned by Gu Mengyao before he had eaten.
"No need. There's instant noodles in the dorm—I'll go make us two bowls and we'll make do. I'm a little worried about Xiaoshu." Gu Mengyao had no appetite either, and she rose to go prepare the noodles.
"All right." Wei Zhao nodded.
The instant noodles were soon finished. Since Xiaoshu had fainted, Wei Zhao and Gu Mengyao simply sat there with nothing to do, and the atmosphere could not help but turn a little awkward.
True, the two of them were now living together, but at home there had always been Shen Yushu, that little ray of sunshine, to lighten the mood.