novelburst-info
Chapter 87
Chapter 87
As soon as class ended, Ji Nian was about to leave when someone stopped her.
It was a female classmate she didn’t recognize.
The girl seemed a bit shy but also secretly excited as she spoke: “Ji Nian, someone’s looking for you at the door.”
Ji Nian glanced toward the classroom entrance.
There stood Gu Xiuyuan, his uniform neatly pressed and his hair meticulously trimmed. When he noticed her looking, he gave her a nod.
Anyone who didn’t know better might have thought it was a leader conducting an inspection…
“Got it, thanks.”
Ji Nian nodded at the girl, bent down to retrieve something from her desk, and then walked over to Gu Xiuyuan.
She almost forgot.
The girl who had been thanked looked at her friend and whispered excitedly, “She said thank you to me!”
“Did you see it clearly? Are her eyes really green?”
“Yeah, even prettier than John’s blue eyes from the next class…”
“What were you talking about this morning?”
Gu Xiuyuan asked as soon as the second class ended, having come down on time to find Ji Nian.
Ji Nian pulled him toward the girls’ restroom.
Gu Xiuyuan’s eyes widened in shock. “Wait… I can’t go in there.”
But Ji Nian was only there to grab Shen Qingtang, who had gone to the restroom.
Quickly pulling Shen Qingtang away, Ji Nian held onto both of them and led them to a quieter spot.
“Here, new toys for you.”
She handed Gu Xiuyuan a guide to elementary school essays, making him hold it.
Then, Ji Nian pulled out two small bottles from her pocket.
They were about the size of an eraser, filled with a transparent liquid.
“What’s this? Looks like the eye drops my grandma uses after binge-watching dramas.”
Ji Nian snapped her fingers.
“Bingo! It’s for the eyes.”
Shen Qingtang caught on immediately. “A magical potion that changes eye color!”
There was an episode in *Doctor Strange* where the doctor created a potion that could change eye color, which had fascinated both Shen Qingtang and Gu Xiuyuan.
They had been dreaming about it ever since.
Ji Nian thought it was no big deal. She had made it over the weekend when she had some free time, just as a toy for the two kids.
“It’s real! Ji Nian really knows the Mystic Doctor!”
Ji Nian: Yes, because I *am* the Mystic Doctor.
“But it can only change your eyes to a shade similar to my green. It’s not like in the cartoons where you can change to any color or even transform, like the Sharingan or the Ghoul eyes.”
The two kids weren’t disappointed at all. They were eager to try it.
Having eyes like Ji Nian’s would be amazing! They adored her emerald-green eyes.
“It only lasts for ten minutes. If you really want to try it, wait until the afternoon break.”
She didn’t stop them and left after giving her instructions.
She had actually made several colors: pure black (Ji Nian’s personal choice), blue, amber, and red.
She hadn’t handed them all out at once to keep the surprise going. Giving everything away at once wouldn’t be as fun, and these colors would keep them entertained for a month.
Not forgetting her original purpose, Ji Nian carried her teaching materials to the office.
But, to her disappointment, the familiar person wasn’t at their desk when she entered.
“Teacher, do you know where Teacher Mo went?”
She asked the Chinese teacher from the neighboring class who shared an office with Mo Chen.
“Oh, right, I completely forgot.”
“Teacher Mo took a sick day today. He asked me to tell you not to come looking for him, but I forgot to pass on the message.”
“I’ll be covering his class for your afternoon session, so remember to come see me then.”
Ji Nian felt a pang of disappointment.
Why… of all days?
Her eyes lit up with concern as she turned to the neighboring teacher. “Is Teacher Mo sick? Is it serious?”
The Chinese teacher thought what a kind-hearted child she was and replied gently, “It’s just a cold, don’t worry.”
However, when Ji Nian asked if she could call Teacher Mo to check on him, the teacher politely refused.
After Ji Nian left, looking dejected, the teacher thought for a moment and sent a message to Mo Chen.
**Blossoms on the Path:** Teacher Mo, your class representative is very concerned about you. She heard you were sick and was quite worried.
Chen Mo didn’t see the message right away.
It really was a coincidence.
The rain the previous day had triggered a relapse of his chronic illness, rendering his legs immobile and giving him a fever.
He couldn’t possibly go to school in a wheelchair, so he had taken the day off.
It seemed even the heavens were helping the bald man.
The dwarf, who had successfully infiltrated the school, chose the second class in the afternoon—when both students and teachers were at their most fatigued—to begin his operation.
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When Ji Nian returned to the classroom, a group of kids was excitedly rushing downstairs.
“Is Yang Xinyu telling the truth? Is it really that amazing?”
“I don’t know, but if we can really see another world, that would be incredible.”
Ji Nian: ?
She stopped the kids and asked curiously, “What’s this about another world?”
The kids, in a hurry, were initially annoyed at being stopped. But when they saw it was Ji Nian, they suddenly became shy.
“Uh… well… it’s just…”
The girl who had been so excited earlier suddenly stammered when faced with Ji Nian. Her friend stepped in and explained, “Yang Xinyu from Class Five said a classmate has a drink that lets you see another world. Yang Xinyu said he saw Killua using Nen abilities!”
Ji Nian: ? Who’s Killua?
Kids tend to get carried away when they’re excited.
“I want to try it later. Maybe I’ll see Eijun!”
“Oh? Then I want to drink it too. I want to meet Hinata!”
Ji Nian didn’t understand a word of it.
“Can I come with you?”
**System:** [You’re from another world, and you’re still interested in other worlds?]
Ji Nian chuckled.
[I smell a conspiracy.]
Some magical drink that lets you see another world? Sounds like someone’s been eating mushrooms.
Hearing that Ji Nian wanted to join, the girls exchanged glances and then huddled together to whisper.
“Yang Xinyu said we have to keep it a secret. There’s only so much of the drink.”
“But it’s Ji Nian. Don’t you want to be friends with her?”
“She’s so pretty, like the BJD doll my sister has. I want to play with her.”
After some discussion, they reached a consensus. “Okay, you can come with us.”
“But you have to keep it a secret. Only we can know. Don’t tell anyone else.”
Ji Nian looked at the girls’ earnest and serious expressions and nodded in agreement.
**In her mind:** [A secret, huh… even more suspicious now.]
The girls hurried toward the most remote and long-abandoned activity room.
Standing outside the door was a boy with brown hair and dark skin.
Foreign-looking students weren’t uncommon at S Elementary, so no one paid him much attention.
Only Ji Nian noticed that he wasn’t wearing the name tag that indicated his grade and name.
Suspicious.
Then, when she caught a faint, familiar sweet scent wafting from inside the room, her heart skipped a beat.
009!?
Ji Nian quickly composed herself.
What had started as a casual observation now turned into a necessity to investigate.
A clue that had been missing for two years had suddenly reappeared. Ji Nian followed the girls inside.
But just as she was about to step through the doorway, the boy guarding the entrance reached out to stop her, speaking in broken Chinese:
“No green eyes. You go.”
Ji Nian: ?