Chapter 36
And so, a week passed just like that.
After Gu Xici's warning, everything seemed to be developing according to her plan. The death of the boy seemed to become an unspoken, secret past.
As for the story's main character, Qiao Tang, she recently moved in to live with Gu Xici, and Gu Xici took care of her temporarily. As for Su Mo's matter, Qiao Tang really didn't mention it haphazardly.
Everything seemed to return to normal, but it felt like something had changed.
After ensuring that Su Mo was comforted, Lu Jia locked the room and went out alone. Not long ago, she received a notification inviting her to a meeting.
She didn't feel like attending the meeting, but she decided to go anyway because it might involve the arrangement of the dormitory afterwards. She thought that if the content wasn't important, she could find an excuse to leave and not waste her time.
Walking smoothly onto the first floor, Lu Jia saw a girl sitting downstairs in a chair, holding a small notebook.
The girl squinted her eyes, leaned back on the chair's backrest, and bobbed her head up and down. She showed signs of dozing off, but it was clear that her willpower was struggling, making her look very tired.
As Lu Jia looked at the girl, she instinctively slowed down her pace. However, when she completely descended the stairs, the girl woke up.
"Wait!"
At this point, Lu Jia had to stop walking.
The girl's gaze tightly focused on the person who appeared suddenly in front of her, wearing a white and red striped vest. "Hey girl," she whispered. After confirming Lu Jia's gender, her initially wary eyes suddenly relaxed.
"Where are you going in the middle of the day?" Despite this, she didn't relax just because Lu Jia was a woman, and continued to ask as usual.
Listening to the girl's words, Lu Jia couldn't help but feel strange. Wasn't there a meeting? How come the girl sitting in the chair seemed unaware of its existence?
"Don't we have a meeting at noon?"
"Meeting? Ha~ Who said that? Is someone playing a prank on you?" It seemed like a joke to the girls, even to the point where they thought she was being tricked by someone else. This only deepened Lu Jia's suspicion.
"I said it."
Interruption came in a low voice, breaking their conversation. Upon hearing the voice, the girl who was sitting stood up abruptly and politely said, "Vice President."
Looking at Li Hua, who appeared beside her and was almost a whole shoulder taller, Lu Jia quietly suppressed her desire to ask the girl more questions.
The newcomer, who seemed even taller than the sky, completely ignored the girl standing up and only glanced briefly at Lu Jia. He muttered to himself, "Let's go," then turned around and headed towards the first floor of Building C.
Watching the boy's back, Lu Jia observed for a while and eventually decided to follow along.
The person sitting at the stairs couldn't help but display a look of confusion upon seeing the back of the boy and girl. What is the Vice President's relationship with this girl? And what does "meeting" mean?
Obviously, everything that had just happened left her feeling lost in a fog. Unbeknownst to her, someone wearing white sneakers silently approached from behind.
On the first floor of C Building, twelve people were sitting around a round table, and Lu Jia quietly took a seat in the middle.
Looking at the remaining eleven people beside the round table, apart from Jiang Bei and Li Hua who were previously selected by everyone, there were now additional members chosen by Li Hua as three team leaders.
Lu Jia wasn't very familiar with this new leadership team, she only knew Li Hua, Jiang Bei, and Gu Xici at most. However, she couldn't see Gu Xici's presence at today's so-called meeting, and she felt uncomfortable about being here herself.
But obviously, except for her, the others seemed to not have such a feeling, they appeared much more at ease than Lu Jia.
Jiang Bei, sitting across from her, first gave a brief overview of his and Li Hua's plans for the past week.
For the current 8th Building, the main issue is actually the shortage of food. The school's storage is ultimately limited, and although it can barely support them for now, if this continues, the food will run out in less than a week.
So, for the upcoming plans, everyone needs to try going out of the school to obtain more food.
Over the past few days, most people here have already become accustomed to the safety of the school zone. Nobody knows what will happen if they go out, so after Jiang Bei's words, the others didn't show much reaction, and the meeting fell into silence.
It wasn't until Li Hua started knocking on the table, showing impatience, "Are you going or not? It's a simple matter. If you want to starve to death, you might as well be like a bunch of turtles!"
Compared to Jiang Bei asking for opinions, it was indeed more effective when Li Hua spoke to everyone.
Because Li Hua said so, those who were originally chosen by Li Hua naturally couldn't say anything, and they all expressed that they could try it in order to survive.
As for Lu Jia, she didn't speak from beginning to end. She didn't think there was a problem with Li Hua asking for the plan to leave the school. After all, if they don't go out, they will have more to worry about than just zombies.
However, she still found it strange to appear in such a meeting. These people obviously ignored her and didn't seem like they wanted to ask for her opinion.
Just when she was about to think that maybe these people had called the wrong person, the topic seemed to suddenly change.
"But President, if we're going out, shouldn't you also deal with the recent issues on the girls' side?"
The boy speaking had a mole on the corner of his mouth. When he spoke, his ears actually moved along with his words, giving Lu Jia the impression that this unfamiliar boy had a nickname of "Ear Boy."
Listening to Ear Boy's words, Lu Jia's sixth sense reminded her that the key point might be coming up.
"Especially after the incident with Wang Chenghua, Gu Xici has been completely out of control, with no organization or discipline. This is not a good thing for our whole team. Plus, who knows what the truth of this matter is, since everyone is dead. They have the final say, calling it the protection of the injured and prohibiting discussion of this matter. I have a feeling it's just to cover up the evidence."
The Ear Man continued speaking, and he became more and more angry. From the way he looked, it seemed like he had seen everything with his own eyes, or maybe he had found solid evidence that could change everything. But clearly, he didn't have either of these things.
As for Wang Chenghua, this name, Lu Jia heard it for the second time from Gu Xici's mouth. As a firsthand witness, it was easy to guess how she felt about the person standing up for Wang Chenghua in front of her, naturally.
Regarding Gu Xici's unruliness, if there were stricter rules about boys entering the girls' dormitory and training for the girls, Lu Jia would have nothing to say about it.
"Yes, and that Gu Xici, since our team was formed until now, she hasn't made any contributions at all. In fact, because of her, the friction between boys and girls has only increased. I'm worried that if this continues, it will cause more trouble for management," agreed the boy with the big nose, nodding along with Ear Man. His nose seemed larger than normal, almost swollen.
Suddenly, the previously quiet meeting became noisy. Except for Jiang Bei and Li Hua who didn't speak, and Lu Jia who didn't interfere in the matter, the rest had remarkably similar thoughts.
Most of them believed that Gu Xici hadn't done anything and yet enjoyed power, which was unfair to everyone.
They also thought Gu Xici was too proud. And that girl named Qiao Tang, even though she was frightened, in the end, nothing really happened. Plus, Qiao Tang killed someone, and it was well recognized that Wang Chenghua had that ability.
They were concerned that in a time when power was needed, if everyone saw that they could easily kill a key player without facing any punishment, the people following Gu Xici would become more arrogant in the future.
And recently, Gu Xici had secretly gone to the warehouse multiple times and took sharp weapons, which she gave to some girls. Her intentions were impure.
Even in their discussion, they had begun to suspect that they should go against Wang Chenghua not because of anything Wang Chenghua did, but because Gu Xici was ordered to tempt Wang Chenghua and seize the opportunity to attack him, thus legitimizing the team's split.
So in the end, they even expressed their intention to remove Gu Xici from her position.
Hearing this, Lu Jia somewhat understood why Gu Xici, who was also a manager, was not present here. After all, such a conversation made it impossible for Gu Xici to join in.
But even so, what does it have to do with her?
Their conversation bored her and even made her feel nauseous until her name was mentioned.
"I don't think Gu Xici is suitable for this position, and we have all witnessed Lu Jia's hard work these days. So, I believe that after removing Gu Xici, we can directly appoint Lu Jia."
Hearing her own name being mentioned, Lu Jia found it funny. Not to mention that she wasn't really working hard, because she wasn't. What Lu Jia cared more about was the guy who proposed this idea. Judging by his tone, it seemed like Gu Xici would definitely be removed.
"Yes, Lu Jia was actually the choice made by both the President and the Vice President. With their discernment, I believe she is fully capable of this position, and maybe even better than Gu Xici," the guy with the big nose continued to show his agreement.
Many others also echoed their sentiments, which made Lu Jia feel like the matter was already settled.
Throughout the whole story, the only people who didn't speak apart from the ones mentioned by name were Li Hua and Jiang Bei. Li Hua stayed silent the entire time because he had arranged everything, so he didn't need to take action himself.
He simply watched Lu Jia silently, already confident in the answer. After all, based on the information he had gathered, Gu Xici had been opposing Lu Jia at every opportunity recently. Given this great opportunity, it was impossible for Lu Jia to choose to give up.
As for Jiang Bei, he obviously didn't oppose this proposal. Recently, many people had confronted him about Gu Xici's actions, both men and women. So he also began to lean towards replacing someone who caused him trouble.
