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Chapter 107 The Get-Out-of-Death Token?

Geng Yao raised her hand and caught the book precisely.

Thankfully, this part of the game only tied her feet and waist; otherwise, she might not have even been able to reach out and catch the book.

"Thud!" The thick book fell into her hands.

Geng Yao reacted quickly and grabbed the book with her other hand. Just as she was about to raise the book to block the barber's endless attacks, she saw the barber's originally aggressive movements suddenly stop.

The blade, which was originally aimed at her neck, suddenly turned and faced the opposite direction.

"Click."

A long strand of hair fell to the ground.

Geng Yao looked up with lingering fear.

It's over?!

"Don't move." The hairdresser pressed her head down, turned her head back to face the mirror, and bent down to cut her hair with great concentration.

It seems... it's really over?

Geng Yao met Tian Baiwei's gaze in the mirror.

Tian Baiwei nodded calmly, her tense nerves relaxing slightly. She took a step back, looking somewhat tired, and slumped onto the sofa.

Before she could even finish exhaling, she heard a whooshing sound. Silver scissors flew from the barber's hand, hurtling towards Tian Baiwei.

Tian Baiwei only had time to turn her head to dodge before the scissors grazed her school uniform and pierced into the sofa next to her.

"Oh, sorry," the barber said without any apology. "My hand slipped." He slowly walked over and pulled the scissors off the sofa.

The scissors made a "pop" sound when they were pulled out, and brought out a lot of yellowed sponge along with them.

Tian Baiwei: "..."

Now she understood how the sofas in this store had ended up in such a dilapidated state...

The barber who had taken the scissors didn't leave immediately. Tian Baiwei sensed something was wrong, and her combat skills, honed through daily training, made her body move first.

Sure enough, the next second, the scissors plunged viciously into the spot where she had just been sitting. If she hadn't reacted quickly enough, the scissors would have been embedded in her thigh.

But why? Why did the hairdresser suddenly turn around and attack her?

Out of the corner of her eye, Tian Baiwei caught sight of Geng Yao's anxious face. Suddenly remembering something, she turned around and picked up another copy of "Student Handbook" from the sofa.

Sure enough, the next second, the barber casually picked up the scissors and returned to Geng Yao's side, continuing to cut hair as if nothing had happened.

So... as long as you have the "Student Handbook," you won't be attacked?

But... Tian Baiwei frowned slightly: Why is that?

Did the Student Handbook inherently possess the characteristic of being a get-out-of-jail-free card? Tian Baiwei always felt that this matter was not so simple.

Her gaze began to sweep across the hair salon.

She always felt that she had missed some important clue.

Tian Baiwei sat on the sofa, somewhat agitated, unconsciously flipping through the "Student Handbook" in her hand.

To be honest... when Geng Yao first sat down in the chair, the barber didn't attack her. So, the barber only started attacking Geng Yao after she did something, or rather, after he confirmed something.

Wait a minute... Tian Baiwei remembered that the hairdresser seemed to have asked Geng Yao a few questions before he started cutting her hair.

He asked Geng Yao, "Are you ready?"

I even checked it twice.

What does this confirmation mean?

Tian Baiwei was a little confused. Her gaze unconsciously swept from the layout of the barbershop to Geng Yao, and finally landed on the "Student Handbook" in Geng Yao's hand.

"The school advocates a diligent and hardworking academic atmosphere. Students should cherish all their spare time, make full use of their free time for reading and independent learning, broaden their knowledge horizons, improve their comprehensive qualities, and not waste a single second..." She unconsciously read out the school rules on the page she had turned to.

She found out!

Tian Baiwei's eyes suddenly lit up.

The hairdresser attacked Geng Yao not because Geng Yao did anything, but because Geng Yao did nothing.

Geng Yao did not read books in her spare time.

—And getting a haircut was counted as "spare time".

Just like how the hairdresser didn't attack her at first, but then suddenly turned around and attacked her, it was also because she and Geng Yao were exactly the opposite—

She initially waited for Geng Yao, flipping through the "Student Handbook" on the sofa behind her.

Afterwards, she threw the student handbook in her hand to Geng Yao as a weapon. With the book in her hand, Geng Yao no longer violated the school rules. It was because she did not pick up another book immediately after losing the first one that she was attacked by the hairdresser.

Verifying this... is quite easy. Tian Baiwei's gaze swept around the store and quickly found another book.

The book was a composition magazine, left there by someone who didn't know, just tossed in a corner, easily missed if you weren't looking closely. Tian Baiwei walked over with her student handbook, picked up the magazine, and then carefully put the student handbook down.

She kept an eye on the barber's direction out of the corner of her eye, carefully backing away step by step while clutching the magazine. The barber didn't even lift his head once, not even after she had retreated to the sofa.

Sure enough... she guessed right.

This magazine was originally intended as a survival tool for players like them in the game. Judging from the size of the barbershop, not too many students would come at once, so one or two magazines would be enough.

But this is on the premise that they did not come alone.

Otherwise, they would be locked in the chair from the start, and even if they thought of a way to escape, they would not be able to get the "way out of the world" hidden in the corner while being attacked by the barber and restricted.

As expected of... a game featuring red-clad characters!

Even the initial design of the chair, which restricted the feet and waist, was all for this moment.

Tian Baiwei let out a long sigh of relief.

After maintaining their habit of "reading in their spare time," the two of them successfully got their hair cut.

Well... the two looked at each other, both revealing expressions of unbearable disapproval.

Their current hairstyles... have reached the point where there's no need to judge whether the hairdresser's skills are good or bad—they're just plain ugly.

The only advantage is that the two of them can directly blend into the student NPC's group.

Hopefully... they made the right bet.

As the two of them returned to their dormitory building right on time, clutching their student handbooks, they were unsurprisingly met with ridicule from others.

"Hahahaha! Seriously, class monitor, you guys actually went to get haircuts?!"

"I can't take it anymore, hahaha, this hairstyle is just too funny... Where's the screenshot button in this game? Hahaha, I have to take a screenshot to remember this moment, it's too hilarious!"

"Oh my god, what were you two thinking, class monitor and me?!"

"Hahahaha—"

"What's all the noise about?!"

Teacher Lü appeared downstairs at the dormitory building at some point, glaring at them with displeasure.

"You—" Her gaze swept over the heads of the laughing military cadets, her brows furrowing deeper and deeper. "Why is your hair styled according to the 'Student Appearance and Grooming Standards'?!"

"With so many people, only these two students are behaving properly!" She pointed at Tian Baiwei and Geng Yao.

"Points deducted! All of you except these two students will have points deducted!"

The military academy students who had been mocking the two suddenly stopped laughing.