Chapter 2: Transportation

The dormitory was built in the same style as the school gate with the rich cyberpunk colours.

Lin Xinghe was very calm at this moment.
Now she wouldn't even be surprised if there were buildings from outer space.1

There was no security guard at the entrance of the dormitory.
It was quiet.

Lin Xinghe followed the signage and easily found Room 303.

The door was made of metal.
The layer of glass on the upper half was broken.
Cracks spread out from it like a spider web.
The lower half was covered with mottled newspapers and the door was lined with green and purple lights.

The styles of Room 304 and Room 305 were relatively normal.
Both had simple, wooden doors.

Lin Xinghe was silent for a second and accepted the setting calmly.

She held the doorknob and pushed forward.

The door opened.

Her room was a single room.
Fortunately, the inside wasn't designed in the same style as the door.
It was decorated in an ordinary modern style.
It was about 16 square meters, similar to a small, high-end apartment unit.
Though small, it was complete in every way.
There was a small kitchen by the entrance which was equipped with an induction stove and a microwave.

She opened the cabinets and found them full of pots and pans ready for use.

Lin Xinghe found the freshman handbook on her desk.
There was also a big gift box containing a mobile phone, a laptop, and a cyan bracelet.

She quickly skimmed the freshman handbook.

Every villain who has died in their original world and who has impressed the school are granted the opportunity to come study reform.
The so-called 'reformation' involves taking exams and earning points.
After collecting a certain number of points, you will be able to complete your course, leave school, and start a new life.

The most important thing in the school is points.
Points are indispensable for food, clothing, housing, and transportation.5

Each person starts with 100 points but has to pay a fixed monthly expenditure of 50 points to cover the cost of tuition and housing.
Once a person's points hit zero, they will be expelled from school and die again.

The main way to earn points is through examinations.

The specifics about how to take exams were not written in the freshman handbook.

After Lin Xinghe got a general understanding of the school, she felt a bit more at ease.
Everyone was dead but still has the chance to resurrect.
No matter what was tested, she just had to work hard and answer the questions.

There was only one thing she still had doubts about—Why is she a villain?3

Her life went smoothly.
It's almost like she took the protagonist's script.
It was a bit tragic when she died but looking back on her short life, even if she wasn't the heroine, she could still be the second female lead.
How was she reduced to a villain?

And she hasn't done anything wrong in her life!1

This doubt was answered after she put on the cyan bracelet.

As soon as she attached the bracelet, a transparent message box popped up.

Name: Lin Xinghe

Class: Class 1 of the Modern Era Department

Points: 100

Rank: D

Do you want to see the biography?

Lin Xinghe selected “Yes.”

Lin Xinghe, age 23, had an easygoing and gentle personality.
She did not have much ambition and lived a simple life with no pursuits.
After graduating from university, she was noticed by a new director, filmed “April and the World,” and immediately rose to stardom.
Her smooth ride in the entertainment circle gradually made her arrogant and the powers of fame and fortune made her forget her original goals.
She couldn't stand it when the little new flower, Lin Youyou, took her spotlight time and time again and repeatedly set up situations to trip up Lin Youyou.
However, heaven is righteous and her plots ended miserably every time.
Because of a storm of online criticism, she jumped down a 28-story tall building and ended her young life in a single stroke.

Lin Xinghe: ? ? ? ?

…
Who is Lin Youyou?4

Lin Xinghe thought about it for a long time and then vaguely remembered that there was indeed a person named Lin Youyou in the entertainment circle, but she was still a trainee who had yet to make her debut.
Because she was beautiful and her family had some influence, she was frequently searched.

But that's not the point!

The point is, Lin Xinghe doesn't even know her at all! She never did any of these things!

And she died by a lightning strike, not by jumping off a building.

Is there a bug?

She felt quite wronged.
Everyone else is a real villain.
At most, she was a quasi-villain, yet she was labeled as a villain when she didn't do anything bad.

But Lin Xinghe thought about it for a while and felt that it wasn't a bad thing.
Anyways, she was already dead.
Now, she just had to study hard for the exam and earn enough points to revive.
When she comes back to life, she'll know what will happen in the future.
She can avoid Lin Youyou and prevent the tragedy.

Thinking of this, Lin Xinghe felt relieved, took a shower, and laid on the bed.

She fell into a deep sleep as soon as she hit the bed, free of worries.

Once a person has died, there is nothing left to fear or worry about.1

After Lin Xinghe got up the next day and walked to the teaching area, her view of the world was shaken again.

When she was a university student, her campus was located in the suburbs and it was famous for being big.

Most people chose to ride a bicycle or spend a dollar on the shuttle bus to go to the teaching building.
Some people left half an hour early and walked there.
A handful of students would drive luxury cars.

At this moment, Lin Xinghe stood on the spacious road and suddenly felt that the school's architectural style wasn't mixed and matched at all.

Because there were students flying in the air on swords and also on brooms.
The students on the ground were more normal.
Some were sitting on the tour bus that she rode with Lu Qin yesterday.
There were also bicycles and ordinary cars all around.

And then there were people who were as light as a swallow, jumping on the roofs of cars with pointed toes.

Everywhere she went, there was the sound of cursing.

“It must be great to move lightly! Fucking putting your shoeprints all over my car!”4

“Bastard, don't let me find out which class you're in.
Lao Tzu will burn you to death (1).”

 

“Ah, hey! Can we talk about flying etiquette? Don't litter!”

“Shouldn't you cultivators be fasting now? Eat shit for breakfast! Your seaweed egg drop soup spilled on me! I just washed my hair!”

“Fuck! Which Earth-attribute maniac made a big hole here! Dad almost fell to death!”6

…

Lin Xinghe was a little surprised, but remained quite calm.
She was only shocked for a few seconds and then she began to think about how to get to the teaching area of ​​the Modern Era Department.
This Villain School is very big.
It took twenty minutes for the tour bus she took with Lu Qin yesterday to get there.
If she walks, she estimated that it would take more than double the time.

While thinking, Lin Xinghe smelled something.

The wide road is divided into a pedestrian lane and a car lane.

Breakfast stalls were lined up one after another about fifty meters ahead of the sidewalk she was walking on.
They sold pan-fried buns, common breakfast items like youtiao (2) and soy milk, and breakfast items she's never seen before, such as tubes and tubes of colourful potions.

Lin Xinghe stopped in front of the stall that was selling potions.

The stall owner excitedly started introducing: “You've never seen potions in the Modern Era Department, right? This is a magic potion.
Drink a tube and double your stamina.
You'll have no trouble in the exams.
Lasts one day.
Only five points.
We have all the flavours—blueberry, chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, lemon.
You look like a new student.
I'll give you a 20% discount.
If you buy two tubes, I'll make it a 30% discount.”

“Little Sister, don't listen to him.
Five points is a scam.
Come buy Big Sister's youtiao and soy milk.
It's a hundred times more delicious than the cafeteria's and the price is the same.
Just give me one point.
Buy one, get one free.
You'll be full.”

“Hey, you're just going to steal customers like this?”

“I just can't stand it anymore.
How can you steal five points? It's clearly a trap for newcomers.
How many points can a D rank student have and five points for one tube.
How is this any different from pushing people into the fire pit?”

“You don't understand.
I call this venture capitalism!”

The stall owner pointed to a cardboard sign on his stall.

“Buy a tube and get a chance to enter a lottery draw.
The grand prize is a homemade magic broom.
A new type of transportation tool—no gas, no electricity, and no driver's license.
You can't even get my magic broom for 50 points.”2

The stall owner selling youtiao and soy milk rolled her eyes: “You've sold these potions for a few months.
Let alone the grand prize, nobody has won the third prize.
Who knows if you really have a grand prize.”

“Don't be ridiculous.
Our department has people with clairvoyance ability to testify.
There's a golden ball with the grand prize in it.
You can't blame me for your bad luck.
Classmate, just take one and taste the world of magic.
20% off makes it only four points.
Buy a tube to use in the exam.
Nothing to lose.”

Lin Xinghe said: “Give me one tube.”

“Yes, which flavour?”

“Chocolate flavour.”

“Swipe your bracelet against mine.”

With a beep, Lin Xinghe saw a message pop up on the bracelet.

Points: 96

Lin Xinghe noticed that the colour of the stall owner's bracelet was different from hers.
Hers was cyan while the owner's was purple.
The owner of the youtiao and soy milk stall next door had blue.

The stall owner beamed as he packaged the potion for Lin Xinghe and said, “You can just open my potion to take it.
If you don't use it, you can store it in the freezer.
It'll become tastier.
Come, I'll give you a chance to draw the lottery.
Shake it.
Gold is the grand prize, red is the first prize, orange is the second prize, purple is the third prize, and white is no prize.”

As soon as the stall owner dropped these words, Ling Xinghe shook out a dazzling, gold bead from the lottery machine.

She wasn't very surprised.

…
It looks like her good luck hasn't disappeared after coming to this foreign world.1

Lu Qin got off the tour bus with a pair of dark circles under her eyes.

She feels sick at the thought of last night.

She saw Lin Xinghe disappearing from her sight.
There is only one path to the dormitory in District 1.
Both sides are fenced off.
It's extremely dangerous at night, so there's only one path you can take.

However, Li Jun said that the person didn't come and threw a fit of anger at her.
She even had to apply medicine after sending him out.
She felt nauseous just thinking of Li Jun, that vulgar and ugly son of a bitch.
But she's just an ordinary person.
She doesn't have any abilities.
She doesn't know magic, cultivation, or martial arts.
Once she enters the exam room, she'll be slaughtered.
She can only depend on others like a dodder flower (3) and accept this kind of explosive temper.

She even thought that Li Jun had deceived her.
Maybe he caught Lin Xinghe and dealt with her, and then came over to take advantage of her too.

There's only one path there.
There's no way he didn't catch Lin Xinghe.

“Give way! Give way!”

A sharp voice sounded in the air.

Before Lu Qin could react, she felt a gust of wind rush toward her face and she was almost knocked over.
When she found her bearings, she looked intently and saw Lin Xinghe getting down from a magic broom.
She looked great.
Her beaming eyes bent like crescent moons.
She smiled at her: “Yo.
Morning, Class President.
“

Lu Qin stared at her broomstick and asked: “H-How do you have a magic broom?”5

Lin Xinghe said: “Good luck.
I bought a tube of magic potion on the way here and won it from the lottery.”1

Lu Qin: ? ? ?+

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Footnotes:

(1) Lao Tzu: means “I” or “Your Father”; said in anger or arrogance.

(2)Youtiao: fried dough sticks; I'll try to avoid using Chinese words as much as I can but “fried dough sticks and soy milk” is too long to repeat!1

(3) Dodder flower: used to describe girls in texts; means they are as weak as dodder and need to depend on other people to live.