8: Chapter 8: The Temptation of a Private Room – Mengmeng Figured It Out.

A fierce wind whistled past.

This Goblin had a clear target, swinging its wooden club straight at Lin Qing's face!

"Lin Qing!!"

Su Sixi did not hesitate for half a second, throwing her body forward to meet it head-on.

At this moment, the bed shield was pinning two Goblins firmly against the wall, and Lin Qing could not withdraw it.

If he withdrew it, Shen Zhiyi and Yang Yating behind him would have to fill the gap with their lives!

They had to finish this quickly and kill these two monsters before the bed could be pulled away.

Just as he was about to slash at one of them, catching Su Sixi's movement out of the corner of his eye, he roared fiercely:

"Pin it down! Don't get reckless!"

This roar forcibly reined in Su Sixi's reckless impulse.

Her feet paused, and she executed an extreme side dodge.

Whoosh—the wooden club brushed past her shoulder and smashed into empty air, stirring up a gust of wind.

Su Sixi reversed her grip and slashed with the short blade in her hand.

Squelch!

The blade precisely sliced open the Goblin's wrist that was holding the club.

"Kee—!" Green blood spurted wildly, and the wooden club slipped from its grip.

Fierceness surged in the depths of Su Sixi's eyes, and the tip of her blade naturally moved to slit its throat.

Lin Qing's heart skipped a beat because he clearly saw the corner of the one-handed Goblin's mouth split into a vicious smile.

"Don't be reckless, cripple its left leg first!" Lin Qing roared.

Su Sixi's body moved faster than her brain, her wrist suddenly flipping over to reverse the blade.

Crack!

The short blade viciously stabbed into the Goblin's kneecap, and the monster shrieked as it dropped to its knees.

"Got it, got it, Lord Dormitory Head!" Sweat beaded on Su Sixi's forehead, but her mouth refused to yield in the slightest.

Lin Qing didn't have any time to retort.

Exerting force with his right hand, his short blade went straight down, piercing right through the forehead of the Goblin pinned by the bed shield.

Squelch!

But before the blade could be pulled out, a sudden change occurred!

"Hiss-ah!"

On the side, the Goblin whose body was pinned so it couldn't move, with only its head exposed, suddenly stretched its neck like a venomous snake for half a meter, grinning to reveal sharp fangs as it bit toward Lin Qing's wrist.

"Fuck! How creepy is this?"

Who the fuck would have thought this thing's neck could telescope?

"Lin Qing!"

A scream pierced through the hallway.

Shen Zhiyi, whose hands had been shaking so much she could barely hold the bat a moment ago, actually mustered up her courage, swung the baseball bat in a full arc, and smashed it down with all her might!

Bang!

The Goblin's head was knocked abruptly to one side, its fangs brushing past Lin Qing's cuff.

Just half an inch short, and a chunk of flesh on Lin Qing's hand would have been honorably retired.

Breaking out in a cold sweat, he drew his blade with a backhand motion and thrust it upward from below.

Squelch!

The short blade pierced right through the long-necked Goblin's chin.

Two seconds later.

The fierce light in the eyes of these two Goblins dissipated, and their bodies instantly disintegrated into ash.

Two warm currents burrowed into Lin Qing's body out of thin air.

His muscles grew slightly warm, and his strength actually increased by a fraction!

Lin Qing's eyes suddenly lit up.

Could it be that as long as he killed monsters, he could raise his life level?

"Good! This damn world had finally given a path to grow stronger!"

"I... I didn't hold you back, right?"

Shen Zhiyi leaned against the door frame, her voice trembling like a falling leaf in the wind.

Lin Qing turned his head. "That strike was insanely cool."

With a sudden rush, the roots of Shen Zhiyi's ears and her snow-white neck instantly turned completely red.

What time was it, and he was still complimenting people!

Yet it was precisely these words that forcibly dispersed more than half of the fear about to overflow from the bottom of her heart.

"Zhiyi, Yang Yating." Lin Qing put away his smile, his gaze murderous. "Retreat back to the doorway, and call me immediately if there's any danger."

Hearing that slightly intimate "Zhiyi", Shen Zhiyi's eyelashes trembled violently, and she pulled Yang Yating back with a blushing face.

Lin Qing quickly swept his gaze across the battlefield.

Bai Nian was locked in a bitter struggle with that muscular Goblin. With her talent fully activated, her short blade cut into the monster's knee pit.

Crack!

The wound wasn't deep. This monster had thick skin and dense flesh, and upon seeing blood, it became even more violent, actually pinning Bai Nian down tightly.

On the other side, Su Sixi's every strike was ruthless, deliberately aiming for tendons in the hands and feet.

A female bro who didn't recklessly rush in was even more bone-chilling than a berserker when she took action.

The girls inside the doorway were completely dumbfounded watching this.

Especially Shen Zhiyi's life-saving strike just a moment ago made them understand—dainty girls, when truly driven to desperation, could also smash open a monster's head!

Su Mengmeng covered her mouth, looking at the green blood splattered on Lin Qing's body, looking at this reassuring back standing at the front, her heart trembling.

At this moment, she figured it out.

She wanted to grow stronger. She must grow stronger!!!

Right at this moment, Yang Yating at the doorway suddenly opened her eyes, her hoarse warning reaching everyone's ears.

"Squad Leader, watch your back!!"

The gray mist rolled, and a Goblin crept up silently behind Bai Nian like a ghost.

It was holding a notched stone axe in its hand, with a bone whistle hanging in front of its chest. The blade of the axe was already raised high, hacking straight down at Bai Nian's back neck!

Bai Nian was entangled by the muscular Goblin and had no way to break away.

"Bai Nian!" Screams merged into one inside the doorway.

In the nick of time!

Lin Qing drove his mind wildly.

Hum—!

The large bed instantly transformed into a round shield, appearing out of thin air behind Bai Nian.

Clang!

The stone axe fiercely hacked onto the surface of the bed and was forcibly shaken away.

Cold sweat surged wildly down Bai Nian's back; one second later, and she would have undergone a craniotomy performed by the Goblin with a stone axe—the kind that couldn't be stitched back up.

Lin Qing didn't even look over there, controlling the large bed with his thoughts to bend into a circle, trapping the stone axe Goblin inside.

Both ends connected and locked tight!

But before Lin Qing could set his mind at ease, on the other side of the gray mist, a murderous intent arose once more!

A Goblin gathered strength close to the ground and leaped, brushing past the ceiling, flipping through the air directly over Su Sixi's head!

Its target was neither Bai Nian nor Lin Qing.

But rather Yang Yating, who had Disaster Foresight activated!

The stone axe Goblin's sneak attack just now was merely a decoy!

"Yang Yating!"

Lin Qing sprang out like a cheetah.

Yang Yating's entire body went cold as she watched the stone knife stab toward her abdomen.

Bang!

Lin Qing slammed his body into Yang Yating, using his shoulder to forcefully knock her back into the doorway.

At the exact same instant.

Rip—!

The stone knife viciously slashed across Lin Qing's waist. Clothing tore, and fresh blood instantly gushed out!

"Lin Qing!!"

The veins at the corners of Su Sixi's eyes twitched violently, and the fierceness in her eyes could no longer be suppressed.

"Don't get distracted!" Lin Qing gritted his teeth and roared, the burning pain at his waist completely igniting the ferocity in his bones.

He thrust his left hand backward, grabbed that Goblin tightly by the neck, swung it in a full circle, and smashed it fiercely against the wall!

Bang!

The Goblin's head was smashed out of shape, yet it was still struggling frantically.

Lin Qing's right-hand short blade went from bottom to top, directly piercing through its throat!

Squelch! The third one!

The ashes scattered, and another trace of warm current poured into his body.

The next instant, a pale white glow quietly lit up on Lin Qing's body, and a tingling sensation swept through his entire body.

A stronger force flowed through his limbs; it looked like his life level had increased.

He hurriedly brought up his personal status panel.

He saw that the line displaying the life level had been updated from the original blank to [Common Grade (Entry-Level)].

???

So humans' life tier couldn't even rank as Common Grade in the survival world?

On the other side, Bai Nian seized the monster's opening, kicked and snapped the muscular Goblin's knee, and ruthlessly stabbed her short blade along its eye socket.

Squelch! The monster turned to ash, a wisp of energy burrowed into Bai Nian's body, and her eyes instantly lit up brightly.

Su Sixi had decent luck; the Goblin she faced was the weakest and had no special abilities. Relying on a fierce drive, she forcefully beat the opponent into a cripple.

She stepped on the back of the Goblin whose limbs had been disabled, and savagely jammed her short blade into the back of its neck.

"Want to step past me to hurt him?" Su Sixi's voice was extremely low, exuding a bone-chilling frost. "Die!"

The Goblin turned into flying ash.

Lin Qing clutched his bleeding waist, hissing in pain, yet he still didn't forget to act cheeky: "Not bad, bro, quite protective."

Su Sixi's action of pulling out her blade suddenly stiffened.

She turned her head abruptly. "Shut up! Who is your bro!"

Lin Qing: "?"

These words carried quite a bit of information.

But there was simply no time to savor it carefully right now.

Seeing all its companions dead, the final stone axe Goblin trapped by the large bed panicked completely.

It opened its large mouth, desperately biting toward the bone whistle on its chest!

"The bone whistle!" Yang Yating's complexion turned pale as paper. "It's going to summon!"

Lin Qing's scalp went numb.

If this thing blew, who the hell knew if a platoon or a battalion would show up?

"Shut your trap!"

Lin Qing exerted wild pressure with his mind.

Instantly activating his SSS-grade talent, Physical Silencing!

The edge of the bed suddenly expanded upward and tightened, binding its mouth.

At this moment, this Goblin's whole body was tightly wrapped by the bed, with only the part above its eyes exposed.

"Bai Nian! Su Sixi!"

The two women understood tacitly and erupted simultaneously.

Blade lights crisscrossed!

Squelch! Two short blades pierced through the temples on both sides of the stone axe Goblin, left and right.

The last one, dead!

The thick fog gradually faded, leaving only heavy panting sounds in the hallway.

Shen Zhiyi leaned against the door frame, the baseball bat dropping to the floor with a clatter, her wrists shaking so much she couldn't even clench her fists.

Yang Yating supported herself against the wall, her complexion as white as paper.

Bai Nian walked quickly to Lin Qing's side, staring at the bloodstain on his waist, pressing her lips tightly together: "Is the wound deep?"

Lin Qing lowered his head and glanced at it: "Flesh wound, won't die."

Su Sixi rushed right over and violently tore open his tattered clothes.

Gazing at the seven- or eight-centimeter-long wound, her heart ached in waves, but a wave of anger also rushed straight to the top of her head.

"You call this a flesh wound?!"

Lin Qing drew a sharp breath: "My good grandma, go easy! It really isn't that deep!"

The girls inside the doorway finally dared to poke their heads out.

Five people, all of them alive.

The girls who had been teasing him a moment ago for having an inappropriate talent had completely changed their gaze toward Lin Qing at this moment.

This man had truly blocked the God of Death outside the door!

Su Mengmeng trotted out and stopped in front of Lin Qing.

She stared at the bloody gash, her small hand suspended in mid-air, wanting to touch it yet not daring to, tears spinning in her eye sockets: "Does it hurt?"

Lin Qing originally wanted to be cheeky for another two sentences, but looking at her expression that was about to shatter, he swallowed the words on the tip of his tongue.

"It's alright." He forcefully managed a smile. "Not as giving-a-headache as doing Advanced Mathematics."

Su Mengmeng: "..."

Su Sixi sneered: "If you couldn't do Advanced Mathematics, then you must have had it pretty miserable before."

Lin Qing: "..."

Good grief, a bro's blade stabs even more accurately than a Goblin's.

Bai Nian wiped the blood off her face and glanced vigilantly toward the right corridor: "The white light spawning monsters is gone. The battle should be over, let's collect the loot first, don't stay outside for long!"

Everyone snapped back to their senses immediately.

Lin Qing nodded and walked toward the piles of ash on the ground.

In each pile of ash, a dozen or so silver coins were scattered.

Beside two of the piles, two bottles of murky liquid had also dropped.

In the ashes of that final stone axe Goblin, a bone whistle rested on the ash, accompanied by a crude light crossbow and an old, yellowed piece of parchment by its side.

Lin Qing picked up the parchment, flicked away the dust, and a line of virtual text popped up:

[Room Expansion Blueprint (Small): Consumes 50 wood to expand a 3*3 independent small room inside the dormitory.]

"An independent room?!" Bai Nian's eyes instantly lit up.

In this wooden house that didn't even have a decent bed, a private room where one could close the door had massive utility!

As soon as Su Mengmeng saw the blueprint introduction clearly, her small face turned completely red with a "shua".

An independent room...

In her mind, Lin Qing's luxurious large bed uncontrollably popped up, along with her own embarrassing talent.

She had just figured it out: she must grow stronger.

But when she thought at that moment that there wasn't even a place to unleash her talent, her heart immediately wanted to back out.

After all, she couldn't possibly...

Su Sixi was like she had installed a radar, instantly locking onto her: "What are you blushing so hard for?"

"N-No, I'm not!" Su Mengmeng waved her hands in a panic, looking the spitting image of a thief with a guilty conscience.

Shen Zhiyi on the side also quietly turned her face away, the roots of her ears burning alarmingly hot.

Holding the blueprint, Lin Qing's lips curved slightly upward. "Tonight... we finally have a room to sleep in."