CH 4

The monkey that was smacked by Yue Xingwen’s broom emitted an ear-piercing ‘shriek’ from its mouth, the sound was so high-pitch that it caused Yue Xingwen’s brain to swell and hurt. The monkeys around him seemed to be called by it, and climbed quickly towards Yue Xingwen along the iron cages, walls, and ceiling.

The scene of the monkeys scrambling to crawl towards himself made Yue Xingwen’s hair rise. 

He clutched his broom warily with his back pressed against the metal door—— Thanks to the fact that he had just kept an eye out and took this broom at the door as a temporary weapon, if he was mentally relaxed after the additional question, and directly pushed open the door in front of him, he would be killed by this group of crazy monkeys.

Yue Xingwen was soon surrounded by the monkeys.

A quick-witted little monkey abruptly jumped down from the right wall, extending its hand to try to grab the broom out of Yue Xingwen’s hand. Yue Xingwen’s eyes were cold, and gave the monkey a hard kick with his right foot. The little monkey that was kicked hard by him, hit the iron cage in the distance with a ‘clang’.

A few monkeys on his left climbed along the iron cage and tried to attack him, and Yue Xingwen immediately turned around and swept his broom towards the left side—— the monkeys were swept down by him in succession like dominoes collapsing! 

The monkeys seemed to be enraged, their eyes were red, and bared their teeth.

The screeching of the monkeys and the clattering noise of them crawling around on the surface of the iron cages gave Yue Xingwen a splitting headache.

He took a deep breath and calmed down to think about countermeasures.

The monkeys were everywhere, on the ceiling, on the walls, on the sides of the cages, and it was a good thing this laboratory was only about twenty meters long and the metal door at the end was close at hand. As long as he grasped the right timing and ran through in one breath, he should have time to dodge the monkeys’ attack.

Yue Xingwen quickly recalled the skills in the dictionary.

‘To Prostrate Oneself in Admiration’, there were so many monkeys, it was useless to have a monkey get down and give him a salute. ‘Seven up Eight down’, he could lift seven monkeys and eight monkeys down to the ground. He needed to select 15 targets, Yue Xingwen swept his gaze across the laboratory, the number of monkeys was greater than 15, this skill could be used, it just needed a proper timing.

He gritted his teeth and quickly rushed forward.

The monkeys immediately chased him from all directions after seeing him rushed into the laboratory. 

The monkey on the ceiling regarded the chandelier as a swing, dangling by its tail and swinging its body over to scratch Yue Xingwen’s face. Yue Xingwen swept his broom upward, and knocked the chandelier out, hitting the metal door with the monkey, making a loud ‘bang’, splattering the pieces of the chandelier everywhere!

There was a strange resistance behind him that kept Yue Xingwen from moving his legs. He looked back, only to see two huge monkeys actually pulled the back hem of his white coat, hanging shamelessly on his body. Yue Xingwen took off his white coat without hesitation, smoothly wrapped the two monkeys who pulled his clothes with his white coat, and kicked them away to the distance.

However, there were too many monkeys, and the broom in his hand was soon snatched away by several monkeys. Monkeys always like to grab things, and this trait was really too annoying. Yue Xingwen narrowed his eyes, raised his right hand, and a thick <Modern Idiom Dictionary> appeared in his hand.

The monkeys seemed to have found a new toy and ran to grab it. Yue Xingwen silently said in his heart. “Seven up Eight down!” 

The surrounding monkeys were driven by a mysterious force, and in an instant, seven monkeys levitated into the air in a ‘lying on their stomachs’ position, and eight monkeys collectively laid on their backs as if they had slipped on a banana peel. The two remaining monkeys were farther away, and when they saw their partners making the same strange pose, they both seemed a bit confused and did not react for a moment.

Yue Xingwen immediately took his leg off the ground and ran wildly!

He ran the fastest pace in his life, he had never run this fast in the 50-meter sprint in P.E. class.

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‘Seven up Eight down’ control time was over.

The screeching monkeys came up after him and slammed the door frantically, and Yue Xingwen had no time to think about what was behind him.

Because, before his eyes, an even more terrifying scene appeared——

There were three people in white coats in this room, one male and two females. 

The skinny female student fell to the ground, her neck was bitten off, with her eyes wide open, as if she could not believe that she would die like this.

And the two people who were alive, one was a male student who was tall and strong, had pale skin and red eyes, and was gnawing on something with relish, the corners of his mouth still bleeding while gnawing, his white coat was stained with blood, but he was completely unaware. The other one was a long-haired female student, she was also gnawing, also covered in blood, and she was holding something in her hand—— It was half of the broken human’s arm.

The moment Yue Xingwen entered the door, both of them stopped their gnawing movements, and looked up at him at the same time.

Yue Xingwen’s whole body had a goosebump! 

He had seen many Resident Evil and Doomsday Zombie type movies, but, no matter how realistic the movies were, they couldn’t compare to the terrifying visual impact and mental shock caused by seeing it with his own eyes! These two monsters were right in front of him, less than 5 meters away, and they were gnawing at the corpse of their own classmate…

At that moment, Yue Xingwen really wanted to dig his own eyes out and forget about this scene.

However, before he could think much about it, as if the senior brother and senior sister found fresher food, they immediately pounced towards him.

The difficulty of the Faculty of Medicine’s laboratory was obviously increasing step by step; The rats in the first level were locked in cages and couldn’t hurt people; The rabbits in the second level were small and couldn’t cause fatal damages to people; The monkeys’ attack power in the third level was significantly increased; and the people in the fourth level, even if there were only two of them, posing a great threat to people who charged in! 

These two people were not as stiff as the zombies in the movie, but they were very flexible and even had enhanced physical abilities.

The male student with a height of more than a hundred and eighty meters and had a strong body, rushed over with a stride, and his powerful hand directly attacked Yue Xingwen’s vulnerable throat! Although the female student looked skinny, she had a weird smile at the corner of her mouth, and she still held a bloody half of the broken human arm in her hand.

Yue Xingwen had experienced the ordeal of the first three rooms and wouldn’t panic at the sight of anything. Moreover, this ‘senior brother and senior sister’ were mentioned in the diary he found in the office, and he had expected to meet the mutated senior brother and senior sister here.

After experiencing the noisy monkeys crawling around, at least this laboratory was quiet and he didn’t have to endure a deafening noise. 

Yue Xingwen raised the palm of his right hand slightly, and the dictionary once again materialized in his hand.

Yue Xingwen recited silently in his head. “To Prostrate Oneself in Admiration.”

That senior brother’s stretch arm was on the verge to grab Yue Xingwen’s throat, but as a result, he was suddenly affected by a mysterious force and he plopped down directly with a ‘thud’ in front of Yue Xingwen, as if he gave Yue Xingwen a kowtow.

The long-haired senior sister followed behind her senior brother closely, and when her senior brother got down like that, she tripped and fell down as well, and out of inertia, she laid on top of her senior brother’s body. 

The two of them fell on the ground in succession and couldn’t get up for a moment. Yue Xingwen seized the opportunity and darted away from them!

Unfortunately, he had only run less than 10 meters when the two people on the ground quickly caught up with him.

The bosses in this level moved extremely fast, and it was far faster than Yue Xingwen’s running speed. The moment Yue Xingwen was stopped by two people in the front and in the back, a layer of cold sweat appeared in the palms of Yue Xingwen’s hands.

He had used ‘To Prostrate Oneself in Admiration’ skill just now and was in cooldown, he needed to wait 5 minutes before he could use it again. He had also used ‘Seven up Eight down’ before, and it did not meet the requirement of 15 targets. He was reluctant to use the ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ because it was a big move and had 24  hours cooldown, if he used it now, it might make the rest of the course even harder. 

The first-level dictionary only had these three skills, the broom had been snatched away by the monkeys, and no other weapons could be found in the room. What should he do?

In front of him was the medical school senior brother, who was glaring with his round eyes in anger and trying to strangle him alive, and behind him was the medical school senior sister, who was holding a broken arm in her hand with a weird smile. It was one against two, he couldn’t go up and fight physically, right?

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in Yue Xingwen’s mind, he withdrew the dictionary back into the palm of his right hand.

At the moment the senior brother lunged towards him and tried to choke him, Yue Xingwen suddenly raised his right hand, and the dictionary in his palm appeared out of thin air. Immediately after that, the brick-like thick dictionary smashed hard into the man’s forehead in front of him! 

With a ‘bang’, the other party was dizzied by the smash, and staggered his footsteps.

Yue Xingwen closed his right hand, and the dictionary once again turned into an icon in his palm. The senior sister behind him came to hit Yue Xingwen’s head with the broken arm in her hand, Yue Xingwen quickly went sideway to dodge it, raised his hand again, and smashed the dictionary that appeared out of nowhere directly into the back of the female student’s head——

The dictionary probably hit her cervical spine, the skinny female student was actually knocked unconscious.

Yue Xingwen continued to run wildly. 

The dizzy senior brother’s senses finally returned, he roared and pounced on Yue Xingwen. After chasing halfway, suddenly, a thick brick-like dictionary flew in front of him, the senior brother did not have time to dodge, and was directly smashed by the dictionary.

How thick was the Modern Idiom Dictionary? Not to mention it was coming from the air and smashing his face head-on.

That senior brother was smashed so hard that his head was dizzy, and his nose was bleeding.

Yue Xingwen once again retrieved the dictionary that had been thrown far away. 

Perhaps, this was the best use of the <Modern Idiom Dictionary>? The dictionary was as thick as a brick, it could appear out of thin air and disappear instantly, and he could control it with his consciousness. The dictionary would go wherever he told it to go, and he did not get tired of throwing it out to smash people.

For a moment, the thick red dictionary flew all over the directions, the senior brother was smashed black and blue by the dictionary. There was nowhere for him to hide, and finally, Yue Xingwen, who was looking for a good angle, launched a sudden attack and the dictionary hit the other party’s temple with a ‘bang’. At last, the senior brother rolled his eyes and fell to the ground with a crash.

The medical school senior brother who was lying on the ground with his limbs wide open looked a little embarrassed.

Yue Xingwen breathed a sigh of relief and summoned the dictionary back. 

This dictionary actually had a ‘self-healing’ function, after smashing the other party and being covered with a lot of disgusting blood, the dictionary actually returned to its original clean appearance when being summoned again.

Yue Xingwen was in a very happy mood after he discovered a new use for the <Modern Idiom Dictionary>, and then he turned to walk towards the metal door.

The Library Tutor said, ‘words are the best weapon for your Department of Chinese Language and Literature’, although Yue Xingwen agreed with the resource books setting of his major, but now, his dictionary had only few idioms, and the cooldown time was too long… It was better to take it out directly to smash people, convenient and quick.

The moment Yue Xingwen pushed open the door, a ‘ding’ alert sounded in his ears, a familiar mechanical male voice was heard, “Congratulations to student Yue Xingwen for completing the Faculty of Medicine’s compulsory course <Escape From the Laboratory>, please check your examination result.” 

Immediately afterwards, continuous characters popped out in the transparent hover box before him——

Faculty of Medicine’s course: Escape From the Laboratory

Credit: 2

Clearance Score: 95 points (based on a comprehensive score of the clearance time, course performance, and injuries) 

Additional Question: 20 points (correct answer)

Overall Score: 115 points

Final Point: 2 x 115 = 230 points

Course Failure Rate: 30% 

Click on the link to see the course performance ranking.

He got 95 points for the course’s score, plus 20 points for the additional question, the final score was actually as high as 115 points!

Yue Xingwen was very pleased with this result. After all, he was a liberal arts student, it was thanks to his thick and heavy idiom dictionary that he used to smash the last two bosses directly to get such a high score in this Faculty of Medicine’s course, otherwise, he really would not be able to run out so quickly.

The 30% failure rate surprised him a bit, indicating that the students who entered the library were still quite strong, with 70% of them passing the course. Those who failed the course were likely too timid to be frightened by the crazy animals and failed to escape at the allocated time. 

All the university students who came here were around 20 years old, yet they had to face such a brutal test of survival. Once he thought of that, Yue Xingwen had a deep hatred for this library system and could not wait to leave this damn place.

However, what was this performance ranking?

Did the library actually have a performance ranking for each course?

Yue Xingwen clicked the link on the last line of the hover box curiously.