Chapter 5: Buying a Cell Phone, Teleportation.

The four roommates played at Wanda Mall until eight o’clock in the evening before taking a taxi back to the dorm, all looking exhausted.

Originally they had no big plans. They just wanted to buy a phone and eat some barbecue, thinking they would be back by the afternoon.

But when guys go out, especially four guys together, plans always change.

First, the four of them went to the Huawei store in Wanda Mall and wandered around. After chatting for a long time, someone suddenly suggested they might as well check Xiaomi.

So they turned and went to the Xiaomi store next door.

While looking, someone else said since they had seen Xiaomi, they might as well check vivo too.

Thus, the four of them spent the whole morning until past two in the afternoon going through every brand phone store in Wanda Mall. In the end, they went back to Huawei and bought a flagship model for over four thousand yuan.

After paying, they looked at the time and realized it was already quite late.

Eating all-you-can-eat at this hour didn’t feel very appropriate.

Then one idea guy suggested that since they were going to eat all-you-can-eat anyway, they should save their stomachs. It would be better to eat when they were hungrier at night so they could eat back the full cost in one go.

This proposal was approved by everyone. However, the time until dinner was neither too long nor too short, so they chose among watching a movie, going to the internet cafe to play a few rounds, or sitting in a milk tea shop playing on their phones for a few hours. In the end, they picked the internet cafe for four consecutive games.

They played until six in the evening before logging off and going upstairs to eat.

Tang Yingjie had originally thought he would have to bleed a little tonight. After all, two hundred yuan per person for all-you-can-eat meant eight hundred for four people. He had already spent over four thousand on the phone, so his mom’s transfer definitely wasn’t enough. He would have to use his own savings.

Unexpectedly, before eating, Wang Yaoguang habitually checked Meituan and Douyin for coupons and discovered that the two-hundred-yuan all-you-can-eat deal was for two people.

The original eight-hundred-yuan budget instantly dropped to four hundred.

His small treasury was saved.

After crazily eating for two hours, all four of them were stuffed senseless.

Because it was all-you-can-eat and they ate quickly, the others didn’t notice that Tang Yingjie alone actually ate more than the three of them combined.

He himself had already gotten used to it.

Although his appetite in the other world wasn’t as exaggerated as today, it had still far exceeded that of ordinary people.

After returning, the seasoning level of his world completely crushed the other world by ten streets. Eating naturally made his appetite open wide.

It was really hard to imagine that the person sitting in this all-you-can-eat barbecue restaurant had, just the day before yesterday, been eating salted grilled beef with potatoes and broccoli in the other world….

He was truly fed up with a world without chili powder, without garlic, without cumin and black pepper.

It felt so good to be back!!!

In the end, the four overstuffed people, fighting off carbon-monoxide-induced drowsiness, took a taxi back to school. They didn’t even have the energy to walk around to digest. After a simple wash when they returned to the dorm, each one crawled back into their beds.

In the entire dorm, only Wang Yaoguang was still fighting sleep as he opened Genshin Impact, Arknights, Azur Lane, and Onmyoji to clear his daily stamina.

It had to be said that this guy’s persistence with games was truly astonishing to Tang Yingjie. Even a man with an iron will like himself couldn’t hold on and wanted to sleep, yet there was someone beside him who could fight drowsiness to do his game dailies.

Truly a god among men.

If it were him, he wouldn’t even know how to run two games in the background.

He shook his head, flopped onto the bed with a thud, closed his eyes, and fell asleep immediately.

Actually, if everyone had a bit more energy, playing another couple of games might have refreshed them.

But tomorrow was Monday.

Monday had an 8 AM class!!

That was why everyone went to wash up and sleep so early.

Wang Yaoguang wasn’t afraid.

Not because he didn’t have an early class tomorrow, but because this person possessed incredible execution ability. Even if he only slept four hours, he could still get up the next day and attend class on time without ever being late.

Tang Yingjie couldn’t do that.

So he chose to sleep early.

As sleepiness grew stronger, he offered no resistance to Duke Zhou’s embrace. He closed his eyes and fell asleep.

In his dream….

It seemed someone was calling him.

A familiar yet ethereal aura, as if piercing through the void, reconnected him with another world.

This feeling made him subconsciously feel a trace of unease, but the unease came quickly and left just as fast. As that connection sensation disappeared, the furrowed brows of Tang Yingjie in his sleep also relaxed.

At the same time, in the other world……

The magic array that had been exhausted after sending Tang Yingjie away was once again filled with magic materials. The Saintess of the Magic Temple, Alice, stood at the center of the teleportation array, surrounded by black-robed mages from the Magic Temple performing locking calculations on Tang Yingjie.

The medium used at the center of the magic array to lock onto Tang Yingjie was surprisingly a phone from the other world.

According to Saintess Alice, this black rectangular object was a personal item left behind by the Hero Tang Yingjie in his room. From its material, it could be deduced that it was a product from the other world. Using this item as a magic medium to reverse-locate the Hero’s world was perfect.

Soon the mages completed the positioning and locking, and prepared the teleportation channel at the same time. They only needed to wait for the Saintess to finish her preparations, and they could activate the magic to send the Saintess to the Hero’s side.

Alice took a deep breath and walked to the center of the teleportation array.

She looked at her familiar country and the familiar faces around her.

She simply nodded and said,

“I am ready. Send me to him.”

“Brave girl, truly worthy of being our Saintess.”

An elderly mage covered in a black robe said approvingly.

Originally, his granddaughter had lost to Alice in the competition for Saintess of the Magic Temple and missed the position.

Unexpectedly, after the subjugation ended, the Hero from the other world did not choose to enjoy wealth and honor in their world. Instead, he requested to be sent back to his original world.

And right after that, he received a request for help from the Saintess.

The content of the request was for the Magic Temple to help her go to the other world together with the Hero.

The price was that she would give up her Saintess position and let his granddaughter take over as the new Saintess.

This was undoubtedly an extremely worthwhile deal.

The old mage agreed without hesitation.

“So the Saintess and the Hero are destined to be together after all.”

“You may never be able to return after this trip. Are you sure?”

“I am sure.”

“Very well. Then I shall wish you a happy marriage in advance, Lady Alice.”

As the old mage finished speaking, the magic array lit up with blue light once more. Following a blinding flash, it vanished.

Saintess Alice had completely disappeared from this world.