My Ability Pool is Superior-Chapter 72 - 71: Good Luck

"Hm."

Lv Bai responded and continued to take off the remaining protective gear on him.

"Time seems to fly by, doesn’t it?" the gaunt elder said with a sigh. "But with your skills now, you should have no problem achieving a good score in the second round of death match duels."

"That’s not certain." Lv Bai showed a friendly smile on his face.

"Be confident, old man like me probably couldn’t beat you when I was younger."

The gaunt elder patted Lv Bai’s shoulder, slightly helpless: "Still, you have to fight for it. Your cohort’s first round of death match results are out, and our campus came in dead last. I even heard the principal cursing in his office a couple days ago."

Underground City No. 9 has more than one Death Struggle School, naturally causing competition among them.

When a campus ranks low, resources and treatment decline, which is why higher-ranked campuses attract better talents.

It’s worth mentioning that Lv Bai hasn’t submitted his results for the first round of death match duels. Initially, he didn’t know where to register, and later just decided not to bother. After all, submitting after the second round ends is the same.

Lv Bai made a hand gesture: "I only get three thousand a month right now."

...

Walking out of the combat training ground, he stretched in the setting sun.

The holographic sky overhead seems quite real after staring at it for a long time.

"To be accurate, I might almost be forgetting what the real sky looks like?" Lv Bai unconsciously smiled and began walking toward the Habitable City.

He’s grown familiar with this route over the past month.

In the first few days, there were troublesome youngsters trying to block him every day. After a few lessons, no more troublemakers have shown up.

Despite fearing campus violence a bit, Lv Bai didn’t encounter Fan Ding, who seemed to be deliberately avoiding him.

Exiting the school gate, it was a five or six hundred meter walk to the steel frame bridge over the river.

The traffic here has always been dense, Lv Bai rarely sees a time without jams.

"This hobby is really niche." He marveled as he walked on the steel frame bridge.

On the riverside bench, he saw the girl in the white dress again.

He didn’t know if she "refreshes" at this location every day, but if he passed the steel frame bridge after noon, he usually saw her.

With no intention of striking up a conversation, he found the unique behavior catching his eye.

The high-rises of the Habitable City featured a predominantly grey-black color scheme.

Standing in rows, they exude an oppressive aura from afar.

Approaching them, that oppressive feel would lighten considerably. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

The lower levels have mostly been converted into shops and restaurants, even hotpot places, rendering the streets bustling with people.

Lv Bai didn’t linger on the street and went straight to his residence in Habitable City.

Thump, thump, thump,

His knock wasn’t heavy, as he knew anyone inside would hear it for sure.

That was soon proven true.

Soon, a girl’s voice rang from inside: "Coming."

The door opened with Lü Ziyi wearing oversized men’s slippers and holding a spatula in her hand.

"Why are you back so early today?"

Seeing it was Lv Bai, her voice turned somewhat cold but she quickly stepped aside halfway.

Lv Bai entered the house, shutting the door behind him: "Tomorrow is the second round of death match duels."

He didn’t act too familiar either.

It wasn’t out of sulking with the young girl. He constantly remembered that his predecessor was the real sibling of this pair, even if he inhabited their body after their death, he wasn’t him.

The reason behind concealing this was partly the potential risk of a premature reveal.

The other reason was the thought that such a truth might be too cruel for siblings relying on each other for survival.

Upon hearing that Lv Bai would participate in the second death match duel tomorrow, Lv Qingyan leapt off the couch barefoot: "Should we go out for a good meal tonight?"

"Go out for what?!"

Lü Ziyi playfully swung the spatula at the little boy: "All you want is going out to eat, the house is not out of food."

She continued talking while turning to switch off the induction cooker, then she served the dish on the table.

If inspected closely, you’d notice that this dish was already cooked, not served immediately just to keep warm.

Lv Bai portioned out three bowls of rice, sitting at the small square dining table.

During this, the siblings also took their places.

Lü Ziyi shot him a glance and tapped chopsticks together on the tabletop: "Let’s eat."

The dinner table promptly fell into silence.

The little boy feigned maturity, pursing his lips and secretly observing.

He didn’t dare speak, knowing that if he did, his older sister would respond with some old-fashioned saying like ’silent eating, no talking while sleeping.’

Lv Bai quietly chewed on his synthetic rice.

Truthfully, these artificially produced foods didn’t taste good. For example, this rice felt like grainy adhesive with lesser nutrition than genuine rice.

Its only merit is being cheap.

"Clean up yourselves after eating, I’m on the night shift this week." Lü Ziyi set down her bowl and chopsticks, heading to her bedroom to change clothes.

Before long, she returned dressed, carrying a small bag: "I’ll try to come back early tomorrow."

With that, she opened the front door and hesitated in the hallway for a moment, then couldn’t help but turn to Lv Bai: "Rest well tonight, after tomorrow’s death match, we’ll come to get you... Good luck."

"Alright," Lv Bai replied.

Click.

The door shut.

As the sister left, Lv Qingyan’s eyes lit up and he leaned closer to whisper, "Hey big brother, how about we go out to eat later?"

Lv Bai placed his chopsticks horizontally on the bowl and prodded the boy’s forehead with two fingers.

"Forgive my brother, some other time."

...

The next day, morning.

Most of the time, the holographic sky showed bright, cloudless weather.

Indeed, good weather unwittingly lifted spirits.

Outside the massive Tri-Use Conference Hall, the crowd buzzed with students discussing and preparing.

"Students, please enter in order, don’t crowd." A staff member commanded with a loudspeaker.

Lv Bai stood on the crowd’s periphery, not in a rush to squeeze in.

He scanned the crowd but failed to spot anyone familiar; Fan Ding was nowhere to be seen, hidden somewhere.

Compared to these students, he thought he was relatively relaxed.

"Next, students from class 05B, please enter."

Upon hearing the announcement, Lv Bai stepped towards the Tri-Use Conference Hall.

This cohort of students was undergoing the second death match duel, everyone was accustomed, speeding through the process.

Lv Bai presented his student card and swiftly reached the designated position under staff guidance.