"Who is it? Calling in the middle of the day, don't you know Ansheng is busy watching short videos?"
On the outer wall of the Xinxing Agricultural Research Institute's female dormitory, a small white fox was sitting on the air conditioning unit.
It showed a look of resentment, reached out a hand, rummaged through the "rumbling" air conditioning unit, and pulled out a phone from the metal grill behind the air conditioner.
"Who on earth would call in such 35-degree heat and make me sit on this air conditioning unit blowing hot air. You better have a reason, if you're just messing with Ansheng, don't blame my hammer for having no eyes."
The dorm isn't like home; Ansheng found it hard to hide his phone in Ah Qing's dorm.
But he didn't receive many calls usually, so he just left it in the air conditioning unit outside the dormitory.
But who could have expected someone to call at 3 PM in the height of summer, making him pick up a call on the air conditioning unit while enduring the 33-degree heat and hot wind blowing in his face.
Ansheng almost wanted to curse.
When he picked up the call, the low cry of a Fennec Fox came through the receiver:
"Wang Ya has woken up. It's the 30th today, it's time to take Wang Ya to the school dormitory. Oh, by the way, I have some intel on what you asked me to find out."
"Oh? Wang Ya is awake? She... forget it, I'll talk about anything related to Wang Ya when I visit tonight."
Ansheng originally wanted to ask about the ancient tomb that turned Wang Ya into her current state, but he realized it was hard to explain over the phone with just a few words, so he decided to visit the Fox Kingdom tonight to check things out.
"And... Wang Ya going to school?" The Fennec Fox was anxious enough to want to stamp its foot, taking advantage of the call before it was hung up, it questioned Master Fox urgently.
"We'll talk tonight, I'm busy right now." Ansheng showed a strange expression as he hung up the phone.
From the Fennec Fox's tone, it wasn't hard to tell that Wang Ya was still the same Wang Ya, which made the Fennec Fox tremble with fear.
But that's exactly what Ansheng wanted.
You see, until a few days ago, nothing had been discovered about the Fierce Beast.
But once Wang Ya woke up, suddenly the Fennec Fox had some leads on the Fierce Beast.
Wang Ya's influence is immediate when it comes to pushing for progress.
"Whimper, whimper, whimper~"
Ansheng joyfully hid the phone, climbed over the wall back to the dorm's balcony, stepped lightly to jump and push open the balcony door, and went back inside to enjoy the air conditioning.
"Hey hey hey, check out the class group chat, the advisor just sent the Xiqi Campus rules and they're hilarious."
Lying sideways on the top bunk, wearing shorts and a loose short-sleeved shirt, Mo Yiqing seemed to see something interesting on the phone, full of joy, recommended the document in the class group chat to others.
The start date for Xinxing Agricultural Research Institute is relatively late, and before students returned in large numbers, the advisor sent out the Xiqi College of Agriculture rules in the group chat.
Students opened the campus rules file, naturally skipping the first few dozen lines of fluff, directly browsing the parts the advisors had highlighted with red lines [Xiqi Campus Rules].
[1. No feeding pandas, not even cats (violating the rule results in a 100,000 fine for panda check-ups)]
[2. No tractor racing in the fields, nor three-wheel racing on the roads, two-wheels are also prohibited.]
[3. Do not attack classmates with organic fertilizer.]
[4. No drifting on the school's lawns with cars (your senior's boyfriend tried, the repair fee was 2 million)]
[5. No swimming in Wenxin Lake (there are carnivorous animals cultivated by School of Animal Science students in it, with six previous incidents of students' vital organs attacked)]
[6. No bringing utensils into the restroom (please don't stick chopsticks into your waste, as the cafeteria auntie might pick them up, wash them clean, and recycle them)]
[7. No entering the back mountain (that area isn't our school's territory, it's a protection zone)]
[8. No trespassing the experimental building.]
"No attacking classmates with organic fertilizer..." Ah Qing was stunned when seeing the rules, "Isn't organic fertilizer just composted manure? How is this more outrageous than Yunnan Campus's prohibition on casting curses on classmates and not believing any local who says mushrooms are non-toxic."
Tractor races in fields have been talked about frequently and are not much of a thing.
But battles with organic fertilizer, honestly, it's Ah Qing's first time seeing something so terrifying.
"No feeding pandas?"
Tang You looked at rule 1 instinctively turned to a panda cub gnawing on an apple by the side of the sofa.
"Woof?"
The panda cub looked vigilant at Tang You, who just gave it an apple but seemed like she wanted to take it back.
The panda cub seemingly liked the 25-degree air conditioning in Ah Qing's dorm a lot.
As long as there were people in Ah Qing's dorm, it would definitely come to enjoy the air conditioning and ask for fruit.
"...a hundred thousand. Your name will be One Hundred Thousand." Tang You met the panda cub's gaze for a moment, silently averted her eyes, and named the panda cub.
Feeding pandas results directly in fines, and as stated clearly in the rules, the fines were not from the school but from the Qinling Panda Ecological Protection Base and local forestry departments, with legal efficacy.
They might not always enforce it, but setting related penalties in advance can avoid meaningless disputes.
"The seniors sure know how to play." Lingren gave a quiet sigh after reading all twenty-five Xiqi campus rules, "The prohibition on picking used contraceptives from the experiment fields and putting them on fruits, I can't even imagine what happened."
Special school rules ≈ Outrageous things students have done.
Bagging the fruits is actually a very common method to prevent pest damage.
But stopping the Elf from bagging fruits, Lingren really can't imagine what happened.
"That's nothing. The shady college I used to attend was even more ridiculous. It explicitly wrote that students were prohibited from bringing non-school members of the opposite sex to the campus." Ansheng scooted over to Ah Qing's side to screen-peep at the school rules, and after reading them, scoffed.
In his past life at a shady college, something reversed celestial spirits happened.
A male student brought a rich girl to his dorm room overnight.
But for some reason, it gradually evolved into the rich girl bringing her friends to that dorm room, which was utterly absurd.
To put it bluntly, the rich girl essentially booked the dorm.
The situation became so dire that even as shady as the school was, the principal couldn't withstand the shock. Since then, the school outright banned unregulated access by outsiders.
"Oh yes, Momo, accompany me to the school's pickup station later!"
After some mutual mocking of Xiqi's school rules, Ah Qing glanced at the time. It was already four thirty in the afternoon, and the sun had begun its descent. She turned to Mo Yiqing and said a sentence.
The pickup station hadn't been open before, and the summer homework they sent from Sui City along with Momo hadn't been distributed.
Now that the pickup station was open, she was a bit worried that the summer homework might have withered due to the long-distance transportation.
Although the survival of the summer homework wasn't important, what mattered was the observation diary that had to be submitted along with it.
The professor was really strict.
"Alright." Hearing this, Mo Yiqing nodded.
"Are you sending Xiaolan back so soon?" Tang You heard Ah Qing mention going to the pickup station and immediately associated it with the fact that the formal start of the semester was just a few days away. Naturally, she thought Ah Qing was planning to send Xiaolan away.
Tang You abandoned the Flame King Dragon she was strategizing against and picked up the little fox on Ah Qing's bed, her face full of reluctance.
It's him!
The one who made me win big in CSGO, acting so smug.
It's him, a single ten-roll, complete with skins, that established me as a legendary figure in the group.
It's also him who made my card games go so smoothly, practically riding on my opponent's head.
Upon hearing the news of Xiaolan leaving, Tang You felt discomfort all over, as if drowning without a life preserver, like a salted fish brought ashore.
But there was no other option.
The College of Agriculture prohibits the keeping of pets.
"Xiaolan is going back?"
Ah Qing's expression was momentarily stunned. Then, she looked seriously at Tang You and said, "Xiaolan... where's the 'back'?"
"Huh?" Tang You was puzzled, not knowing what she meant.
"Today, even if the principal or the education bureau director comes over, Xiaolan is a stray animal!"
Ah Qing confidently nodded, "He just happened to come to our dorm for food. We, absolutely, are not keeping pets at school, he just automatically warmed up to us."
Facing the rule prohibiting pet ownership.
Ah Qing decided to resist to the end.
Say it's stray, if they take it, we don't pay it.
Ah Qing couldn't bear to send Xiaolan back, back to that uninhabited ancestral home, gazing into the distance, waiting for her return like a longing stone.
She even picked out a rental place, the only problem now is not having the money for rent, she needs to wait until she gets paid.
"......."
Hearing Ah Qing's response, Tang You was taken aback, but quickly regained her senses, confidently saying:
"Yes! We're not keeping a pet; our Xiaolan is the Xiabei Subspecies of White Fox, even if the highest authority comes, he's still a National Grade II protected animal!"
Ansheng: "........"
Even if the highest authority doesn't come, I'm still an honest to good National Grade II protected creature!
Living so comfortably lately, I nearly forgot about the principal.
Tonight, let's empty the school's arsenal, give them something to do, so they don't bother checking on students' personal lives every day.
Empty the arsenal tonight, cut your power tomorrow, sit on your couch eating chips the day after, and finally, flick chip crumbs onto your sofa, formatting both your study materials and naughty pictures on your computer.
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