The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 1066: Chapter 1067: Chickening Out

This is a clear morning, just like every other day, it seems so ordinary in Ji You’s life.

The weather is very cold, but there is no wind blowing, although the cold is within Ji You’s tolerable range.

The swirling snowflakes have gradually stopped, but there’s still a thick layer of snow covering the ground, making a crunching sound when stepped on. Ji You gets up, washes up, and the first thing she does is start her morning jogging.

Running laps around the entire dormitory building.

This habit, as long as Ji You is at school, she never really relaxes for a single day.

Outside, the cold air makes people shiver...

Ji You, wearing a black tank top, black running shorts, and soft and comfortable running shoes, starts her morning jog. The wind blows into her nose, making her breathing even more uncomfortable, but she grits her teeth and persists.

At the start of winter, Ji You did not buy any winter thermal clothing. The material of thermal clothing is similar to protective clothing, but slightly inferior. It’s solely for warmth; once you set the program, it automatically adjusts to a suitable temperature based on a person’s body temperature, whether outside in falling snow or in wild, windy conditions, wearing thermal clothing keeps the body at a comfortable temperature.

And, warm in winter, cool in summer.

It’s a common item in the interstellar era, almost everyone has a set. Of course, people living on garbage planets or other countries and regions where people struggle with hunger and cold can’t afford to purchase it.

Cold?

Hot?

Just tough it out with your body.

Ji You doesn’t want to purchase or wear it, she’d rather provide herself with a more radical form of training. If she gets used to it or becomes dependent on such products, what if one day she encounters extremely harsh weather or environment causing her protective gear’s warmth effect to fail?

Then you can only wait for death.

These convenient, people-friendly thermal clothes are undoubtedly a great invention. If they were available in the 21st century, they would definitely be a hot commodity.

But!

Ji You refuses.

Ji You breathes out, virtually turning her breath into ice, jogging leisurely.

Beside her, Shen Changqing, Chu Jiaojiao, Yue Qiguang, Yue Qiyuan voluntarily join the morning jogging, along with Sheng Qingyan who was coerced by his grandfather’s threat to cut off his allowance.

Running, running.

Chu Jiaojiao starts taking off her thermal clothing and says, ”Ji You, I’ve decided, I also want to train my endurance and will no longer rely on these external things.”

Shen Changqing follows suit.

Yue Qiyuan, Yue Qiguang quickly do the same.

Soon, the entire road is filled with shivering, misty breath sounds.

Ji You turns to the lagging Sheng Qingyan and calls out, ”Spicy Eye, aren’t you going to train your resistance?”

Sheng Qingyan, wearing a comfortable thermal outfit, glances at Ji You and says, ”Oh no, I just want to be a little cutie living on the easy life, I don’t want to be cold at all.”

In fact, Sheng Qingyan has secretly opened a small slit in a hidden corner of his thermal clothing, allowing cold wind to sneak in, but the slit is too small for everyone to notice, or rather they noticed but pretended they didn’t.

Ji You responds, ”Alright, I’ll pretend I didn’t see the split on your waist.”

”...” Sheng Qingyan maintains his trembling voice, ”Oh no, my clothes aren’t split, I’m not shivering, you are.”

The group runs along, chatting and bantering.

Yue Qiguang speeds ahead of Ji You, leaving her behind in an instant, then turns back to whistle at her, ”Fool, with your weak speed, you want to outrun me, your daddy?”

”Give up.”

”Didn’t you say no one would challenge you today?”

”Seeing your pitiful state, once the laps are finished, daddy will immediately challenge you.”

”Just wait.”

”Watch daddy beat you up!”

Ji You suddenly accelerates.”

Unexpectedly, Yue Qiguang runs faster, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Realizing she can’t catch up, Ji You’s face darkens: slowly, she lowers her pace. Just then someone approaches and asks, ”Excuse me, are you Senior Ji You?”

Ji You: ”???”

A first-year girl, just entered school not long ago, with waterfall-like long hair, looking very quiet and delicate, unexpectedly blocked her way?

Ji You patiently waits.

Then sees this girl seriously say, ”Senior Ji You, there’s a tall guy outside calling your name, he’s been calling for a few minutes now, getting angrier. Why don’t you go take a look?”

Ji You is stunned: ”Which gate?”

The girl replies, ”The school gate.”

Ji You frowns slightly, she really can’t remember knowing such an outsider.

The girl adds, ”Looks... looks kind of fierce, seems to want to fight you.”

Ji You suddenly realizes, ”Oh no! A fight!”

The girl’s eyes flash with excitement, thinking something’s definitely going to happen, she quickly says, ”Senior, let’s go punch him! Teach him not to act arrogant at our school!”

Ji You hesitates for 1 second, then nods, ”Alright!”

The girl gets even happier.

Then.

In the next second, the girl sees Ji You sprint off, she quickly follows, then finds they’ve run the wrong way: ”Senior Ji You... wrong direction!”

”Wrong direction!”

”This way leads to the school gate.”

The girl watches as Ji You runs without hesitation, so fast that it makes light speed ashamed, she gets anxious, stomps hard, ”Senior Ji You, that direction leads to the farm! There’s only rabbits, Long-Mouthed Pigs, and various monkeys there...”

Ji You, running swiftly, hears this and replies, ”Yes, I am going to the farm.”

The girl: ”...”

The girl is almost in disbelief of her ears, and eyes but...

What she hears, word for word, adds up to what was said.

Ji You’s figure fades away, but her voice still clearly travels over, ”If someone looks for me, just say I’m not here.”

The girl: ”...”

The girl, a bit dazed, turns to Chu Jiaojiao, then looks at Shen Changqing, Yue Qiguang... for a moment, not knowing what to say, and then quietly asks, ”Senior brothers, sisters, what should I do?”

Chu Jiaojiao laughs heartily, ”You don’t need to do anything, just enjoy yourself.”

The girl: ”But—”

But she was responsible for passing the message.

This!

Is this completed? Or not done yet?

Seems to see the girl’s confusion, Shen Changqing softly says, ”If someone asks, just say, tell them Ji You went to the pig farm, just let them know to look for her at the pig farm.”

The girl: ”...”