Chapter 7: You’ve been arrested?

No, I’m not rejecting you. But for now, getting ‘married’ is really too soon. This world is completely unfamiliar to you, and I… I also need time to get to know you again. We can first interact like we did before. I’ll show you around here and let both of us ease into it. Is that okay?”

Seeing that his words seemed to have been misunderstood, Tang Yingjie quickly added an explanation.

After hearing the explanation, Alice’s mood calmed down a little.

“You’re right. I was too impulsive.”

She gathered her chaotic emotions. Her temperament seemed to return to the cold and proud Saintess from before.

But unlike before,

This time she was too close.

She had broken through the icy shell of the aloof Saintess. Now the two of them were lying on a narrow bed, able to directly feel each other’s human warmth.

For a moment, neither spoke. Because of Tang Yingjie’s earlier rejection, there was no ambiguous atmosphere between them at all. The scene felt somewhat awkward.

To break this awkward atmosphere, Alice took the initiative to speak to Tang Yingjie.

“By the way, I haven’t asked you yet. What is this place? A prison? Why is the bed here so small? Have you been arrested by the people of your world?”

There was confusion and some worry in Alice’s tone.

She had not sensed any magic power in this world. She wasn’t sure whether a magic-sealing array had been set up in this room or if this world simply had no magic at all.

This environment made her, as a mage, feel very insecure.

She couldn’t help but worry about Tang Yingjie’s and her own safety. If this was a prison and Tang Yingjie was locked up here, then according to the customs of her world, he would most likely be treated as a heretic and dealt with directly.

If this world was rich in magic power, she would still have confidence in breaking out together with Tang Yingjie, the Hero.

But now it seemed that if this really was a prison, she might not even be able to protect herself.

“Ah? No?”

Tang Yingjie said awkwardly.

“I’m at school. It’s a place similar to a magic academy. This is the student dormitory.”

“This is a dormitory!?”

Alice’s tone rose by two notches.

Frightened, Tang Yingjie quickly covered her small mouth with his hand.

Fortunately it was already three or four in the morning, when people slept the deepest, so no one noticed that an uninvited guest from another world had entered their dorm.

Tang Yingjie carefully looked around to confirm no one had woken up before letting out a sigh of relief.

“Keep your voice down. Don’t disturb my roommates’ sleep.”

“Oh, so you were keeping your voice low earlier to avoid disturbing their rest? I thought you were worried about alerting the monitors outside.”

“It’s not that exaggerated…”

Tang Yingjie smiled.

The dorm auntie was on the first floor. She wouldn’t come up at this hour to care if they were chatting in the dorm. This wasn’t high school anymore.

But soon he couldn’t smile anymore.

Because a very real problem now stood before him.

A living person, and a girl at that, had suddenly appeared in the dorm.

What to do when dawn came tomorrow?

He definitely couldn’t explain it to his roommates.

Take her out tomorrow morning?

But the dorm door downstairs was already locked and would only open at six o’clock. Even if it opened, he wouldn’t dare to openly walk out with Alice.

Otherwise, if the dorm auntie saw him bringing a blonde, blue-eyed girl out of the boys’ dorm early in the morning, who knows what report she would give to the counselor.

If only there was something to cover her with.

But it was summer now. His wardrobe only had short sleeves. The hooded jacket and such had been taken home last semester during break.

This was very awkward.

He couldn’t possibly have her wrap her hair and face with his clothes when going out.

He thought hard with his super brain for a long time. In the end, his super brain told him to use super muscles instead.

“The space here is too small. Let’s go. I’ll take you to a slightly more spacious place to rest.”

Tang Yingjie knew that crossing worlds would cause strong fatigue in the body. He could also see that Alice had not directly fainted yet only because she was relying on her far-beyond-normal mage mental strength to hold on.

His dorm was clearly not suitable as a resting place, so they had to change locations.

He quietly climbed down from the upper bunk. Alice sat on the bed and watched him.

Her eyes seemed to ask:

“Do I have to climb down so ungracefully too?”

Alright, it was indeed a bit difficult for this young lady.

Fortunately he was 1.85 meters tall. Gently carrying someone down from the bed was easy.

Warm fragrance and soft jade entered his arms. After putting her down, Tang Yingjie didn’t dare to pause. He carefully walked to the dorm door, opened the security door.

While passing, Alice curiously examined the thick metal door panel and the delicate lock tongue structure on the side.

She couldn’t help but praise,

“Such a delicate and beautiful mechanism design. I didn’t expect that although the beds in your academy are quite… um, poor, the door locks are made very well.”

“Thank you for your praise.”

Tang Yingjie nodded with a helpless smile, then carefully closed the door. After the click of the lock tongue sounded, he said,

“Follow me.”

He was about to take Alice to the elevator but suddenly stopped and hesitated.

The cameras in the dorm hallway might be for show, but the ones in the elevator lobby and inside the elevators were definitely operating.

Although no one in the school should be watching the footage 24 hours a day, leaving video evidence was still bad.

So he turned and led Alice to the stairwell, which had no cameras.

“So this is a tower? What kind of lamp is this? Is that… an electric element?”

Tang Yingjie brought Alice to the stairwell and gently stomped his foot. The originally pitch-black stairwell immediately lit up.

Only then did Alice notice that they seemed to be inside a huge building. The stairs going up and down seemed to extend infinitely. She couldn’t help but feel a trace of fear.

“It feels a bit scary.”

Just as she thought that, her attention was quickly drawn to the lamp that lit up above her head.

This motion sensor light was also an old item. The lampshade outside had yellowed, and the original incandescent tube gave off a dim yellowish light.

Seeing something that could emit light, Alice curiously sensed it, only to discover that inside the glowing object flowed the hardest-to-tame thunder and lightning element.

“We are currently on the sixth floor. There are monitors in the elevator lobby and inside the elevator, so we would be recorded if we go out that way. Later we’ll leave from the twelfth floor. This is called an electric lamp. It shouldn’t count as a magic tool, right? It’s powered by electricity. In our world it’s not considered very high-end.”