Campus Ace Girl-Chapter 377 - 379: Memory Kill! Stunning the Entire Audience
When Gu Anxi woke again, a crisp, masculine scent in the air confirmed she wasn’t in her own bed.
This room was more classically luxurious and tastefully furnished.
She opened her eyes to see a man standing by the window, hands clasped behind his back.
As if sensing she was awake, the man said flatly, "The roasted meat is ready. Would you like some?"
Gu Anxi sat up, leaning against the headboard. The man turned to face her quietly. "It won’t taste as good once it’s cold," he added, raising a hand slightly.
The door opened, and a man in black entered. He wasn’t wearing a mask, but his face was remarkably plain.
In his hands, he held a large platter piled with fragrant roasted meat.
The man in black placed the platter down and departed, leaving her alone with ’Dark’.
After a moment, the man smiled. "Don’t want to eat?"
"I don’t want to be your apprentice," Gu Anxi stated lightly.
The man turned his back to her again. "Then you will never return. Furthermore, regardless of whether you try to escape, tomorrow I will put you back in the cage. There will be two beasts inside, so you had better eat something now."
Eighteen-year-old Gu Anxi seethed. He was despicable, cruel, evil!
Ignoring their vast difference in strength, she lunged, leaping onto his back, determined to fight him to the death.
He plucked her off as easily as if she were a mere insect—
Unable to overpower him, she resorted to biting.
The man looked down at the little spitfire, a flicker of... resignation in his dark eyes.
After a moment, blood welled from the bite. With a flick of his wrist, he tossed her onto a nearby sofa.
Gu Anxi tried to pounce again, but he tapped her knee, and she froze, unable to move.
He leaned in, his dark eyes meeting hers. "Quite spirited. Now, eat something. You’ll be going into the cage soon, hmm?"
He reached out to gently pat her hair. "Remember to come back alive."
Gu Anxi swore at him, "Pervert!"
"Is that so?" He smiled. "I don’t mind putting in three beasts." He walked to a cabinet, opened a drawer, and took out two silvery metal pieces thin as butterfly wings. With a flick of his hand, they embedded themselves deep into the tabletop beside Gu Anxi.
They bit deep into the wood!
Gu Anxi gulped. The man slowly approached, plucking the thin objects out. "These are called Butterfly Flies. I’m only giving you two. Your hits must be one hundred percent lethal. As for the other beast, you’ll have to rely on your fists."
He placed the two items in her palm. "You enter the cage in an hour. Decide now whether to practice or eat. Otherwise, you won’t come out alive."
Gu Anxi cursed him repeatedly in her mind, desperately wanting to stab him with the Butterfly Flies, but she still couldn’t move.
The man, however, merely picked up a jade-green medicine bottle, sat beside her, rolled up her pant leg, and began to gently apply the ointment...
Gu Anxi glared at him.
He said calmly, "You and I are master and apprentice. There’s no need for such ceremony."
Ceremony my ass! Is this how you treat your apprentice?!
When he finished, the injury felt cool and much better. He tapped her lightly, and she could move again... Just as she tensed, his voice sounded, "I advise you not to make any rash moves. The consequences are not something you can bear!"
Clutching the two Butterfly Flies, Gu Anxi asked softly, "And if I come out alive?"
"Become my apprentice. Or choose to face five beasts next time," the man stated, his voice devoid of warmth.
Gu Anxi slumped onto the sofa, burying her face in the cushions...
A strange light flickered in the man’s eyes, quickly replaced by his usual iciness. "If you don’t want to die, get up."
Gu Anxi remained listlessly on the sofa. The man produced a mask and, as she watched in a daze, he placed it on her. "From now on, you are Infinite..."
「...」
Again standing in the middle of the cage, Gu Anxi wore the mask, feeling as if she were in a gladiatorial arena.
Her palms were sweating. Before her, three beasts lay in a row, ready to pounce at any moment.
The cage was surrounded by a dense, dark-clad crowd.
All wore black, their faces concealed by masks.
Everyone watched this newcomer, the girl their Master had personally named Infinite.
"Three beasts... she’ll never make it out..."
"That’s right. Without special training, it’s impossible!"
"Perhaps she can... she’s the one the Master noticed..."
Gu Anxi stood there, momentarily speechless. Even in a place like this, people were such gossips.
She glanced up slightly and saw the noble-looking man seated nearby. The dark, soap-colored robe he wore looked exceptionally fine on him...
Gu Anxi gritted her small teeth—
At that moment, the three beasts, as if by some tacit agreement, pounced simultaneously—
At that moment, if Gu Anxi had used the Butterfly Flies, she had a high chance of taking down two of them. She had practiced until she was exceedingly proficient...
But she didn’t. Instead, she planted a foot on the cage bars, somersaulted, and delivered a side kick to one beast’s flank—
An uproar went through the crowd—
"She didn’t use a weapon!"
"She’s doomed!"
"Does she think she’s Wu Song?"
Just then, one beast let out a pained whimper and collapsed, motionless...
Blood gushed from its hind leg, pierced by a Butterfly Fly.
The other two tigers, smelling the blood, hesitated. They had been about to lunge at Gu Anxi, but now, after exchanging a glance, they pounced on their injured comrade in unison, tearing and biting—
Beasts devouring their own kind!
A gruesome, bloody scene!
Gu Anxi stood amidst the carnage. When the two tigers began to fight over the fallen one, she flung the two Butterfly Flies from her hand... striking both true.
All around, there was only silence.
Only the corners of the man’s lips curved slightly upwards. He looked at the little creature in the cage, slowly rose, and said, "Not bad!"
With that, he departed.
A sudden burst of applause erupted from the onlookers.
So formidable!
No wonder the Master chose her!
Actually, Gu Anxi was not nearly so composed. As the three beasts fell, her back was drenched in cold sweat, and her legs felt like jelly.
She didn’t know how she got back to her room. She reeked of blood and desperately craved a bath.
As she entered, she found a large wooden tub filled with hot water in the middle of the room.
The man was sitting on the sofa. With a slight wave of his hand, several attendants brought in folding screens and arranged them.
The attendants then withdrew.
"Go wash. No one will peek," the man said softly.
Gu Anxi met his gaze defiantly. He chuckled, then walked over, picked her up, and tossed her into the tub.
By the time she surfaced, sputtering, he was gone...
Gu Anxi couldn’t resist the hot water and washed herself thoroughly.
When she emerged, she put on a black bathrobe. It was huge, clearly a man’s, and carried that same crisp, clean scent.
The man returned again, the jade-green bottle in his hand, and began to apply ointment to her wounds.
Gu Anxi was too weary to resist this time and just lay there...
She looked like a small, pure-faced, lovely black kitten bundled in oversized clothes.
The man took some of the pale green ointment and gently applied it. "Still thinking of running away?"
