Chapter 134: 134, Meet Yang Xiaojin again! (Third update, requesting monthly votes)

The school arranged by the Qing family for Jiang Wuhe and Ren Xiaosu was called Barrier 13 Middle School, officially known as the 109th Barrier 13th Middle School.

When Ren Xiaosu heard the name, his first reaction was, How vast must this barrier be to have thirteen middle schools? No, it must be far more than thirteen.

Among the documents provided by the Qing family, there were recommendation letters, resident ID cards, and basic enrollment information. Tang Zhou said that only after he reported to the school would they officially register him.

Yan Liyuan and Wang Dalong were in their third year of junior high, while Ren Xiaosu was in his third year of senior high. When Tang Zhou mentioned this, he sought Ren Xiaosu’s opinion, asking if he could keep up with the academic pace. After all, what could one learn in a settlement classroom? He didn’t want to end up sitting in a classroom, unable to understand a word, which would be embarrassing.

Yet Ren Xiaosu sneered. How could someone as eager to learn as him be so easily judged by Tang Zhou?

Tang Zhou fell silent at Ren Xiaosu’s words.

Though Ren Xiaosu and Luo Lan had once found each other repulsive, their brief shared ordeal of life and death had drawn them closer. Though they claimed no debts, Tang Zhou still cared deeply for Ren Xiaosu and the others.

If not for Ren Xiaosu, Tang Zhou would have died in the wilderness.

According to Tang Zhou, there was also a university within the 109th Barrier, and even students from other barriers would find ways to get in.

However, Ren Xiaosu believed those days were long gone, when the wilderness was still safe. Now, few dared venture beyond the barriers.

When Ren Xiaosu spoke of this, Wang Fu Gui was delighted. He said that in his youth, though there were no large beasts or wolf packs in the wilderness, there were refugees who had turned into bandits, killing people like weeds.

Yet even so, people still risked crossing the wilderness between barriers.

Sometimes he couldn’t fathom what those people were thinking. Perhaps they were truly brave, or perhaps they lacked sense, but such people had never been in short supply.

Ren Xiaosu didn’t rush to take Yan Liyuan and Wang Dalong to complete their enrollment. He planned to wait until the next morning, after everyone had cleaned up, to explore the barrier. All six people in the group were equally unfamiliar with it.

Now, rather than rushing to earn money, it was better to first see what this place they had longed for so many years actually looked like.

Just the next morning, Yan Liyuan suddenly called out in the front yard, “Brother, come look—there’s a note here.”

Ren Xiaosu paused, then hurried over. Since yesterday, he had felt something was off—first, he had glimpsed a familiar figure on the road, and later, he had sensed someone watching him intermittently.

That feeling of being scrutinized made him instinctively uneasy.

Now, a note had appeared out of nowhere. Perhaps it would provide some answers.

Ren Xiaosu took the note from Yan Liyuan and read the small characters written on it: A place of many troubles, not suitable for long stays.

“Brother, what does this mean?” Yan Liyuan asked curiously. “Who wrote it?”

“Where did you find this note?” Ren Xiaosu asked.

Yan Liyuan pointed to the gate. “Under the door gap, as if someone slipped it in last night. Is someone playing a prank?”

“No,” Ren Xiaosu shook his head. He was certain it wasn’t a prank.

Because… he recognized the handwriting.

On his way back from Jing Mountain to the barrier, he had once seen an extra line of delicate small characters in a rock cave. At that time, Ren Xiaosu had realized the handwriting must be Yang Xiaojin’s.

Now, the characters on this note were strikingly similar to those in the cave.

Combined with the familiar figure he had spotted yesterday, Ren Xiaosu finally confirmed that Yang Xiaojin had indeed come to the 109th Barrier, and the note was from her.

Could something significant be happening in the 109th Barrier? Why would she directly urge him to leave?

Ren Xiaosu understood that Yang Xiaojin must have a powerful organization backing her actions. Her presence here likely meant she knew something and had a specific purpose.

Was she here to assassinate Luo Lan? After all, Yang Xiaojin had once killed Qing Zhen, so targeting Luo Lan this time was plausible.

But that didn’t make sense. Luo Lan now had no soldiers or experts around him. Killing Luo Lan didn’t seem difficult. If Luo Lan were truly her target, then Luo Pangzi might have died yesterday.

Ren Xiaosu pondered what Yang Xiaojin intended by warning him. When she left, she had even stolen a new dagger. He didn’t believe she could be so kind-hearted…

However, Yang Xiaojin probably didn’t know Ren Xiaosu had returned to that rock cave, so she was unaware that the note she had secretly slipped had already exposed her identity.

Such was the way of the world—it was just that coincidental.

But where could he go if he left now? Ren Xiaosu felt melancholic. He had just entered the barrier and didn’t even know the name of the road in front of the gate.

The key was that he couldn’t leave!

Ren Xiaosu thought that Luo Xinyu’s abilities might allow her to bypass the barrier walls directly, enabling her to bring Yang Xiaojin in.

But what abilities did he, Ren Xiaosu, have to enter or exit the barrier?

“Let’s not think about this for now,” Ren Xiaosu told Yan Liyuan. “Don’t tell Old Wang and Sister Ya. Let’s not give them more worries.”

“Okay,” Yan Liyuan nodded.

“Want to catch up on sleep?” Ren Xiaosu asked.

“No,” Yan Liyuan shook his head. “I slept well.”

Last night, even after arriving at the barrier, Ren Xiaosu and Yan Liyuan still maintained their habit of keeping watch.

It wasn’t that they felt there were hidden dangers around them, but they had grown accustomed to it.

If people in the barrier knew about this, they might laugh at them for being inexperienced. While there were some petty thieves in the barrier, and occasionally someone would rob a secluded place in the middle of the night, such cases were rare. There was no need for anyone to keep watch.

The barrier was not the same as the wilderness!

In the morning, Wang Fu Gui went to exchange the Qing family’s money. He consulted the foreign exchange window at Li’s Bank, only to learn that the exchange fee was 23%!

Ren Xiaosu advised him not to exchange too much. What if they needed to exchange back to barrier currency someday? The fee would be wasted.

Wang Fu Gui grew nervous upon hearing this. “Xiaosu, are you saying we’ll exchange back to barrier currency? Where would we go?”

“I didn’t say for sure,” Ren Xiaosu smiled. “But we’re not short on money now. Just exchange some small bills and keep the rest.”

At this moment, Ren Xiaosu had a premonition that perhaps one day in the future, they would truly leave here and head to another unfamiliar barrier.

For now, he was more curious about what Yang Xiaojin and Luo Xinyu were doing in the 109th Barrier.

He didn’t know if he would have another chance to learn the skills from Yang Xiaojin…

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