Rebirth in Another World: My Brother is an Intelligent Being

This room is extremely simple. Not only is there no bed for people to rest, it doesn't even have a basic bathroom. It is obviously not for contestants to live in.

At that moment, Li Xingchen glanced and noticed a backpack of the same style as the ones they were carrying, placed in the corner of the room. Li Xingchen walked over, picked it up, and gently opened it. Inside, he saw three items neatly placed: a letter, a silver plaque, and a bag of dried meat with an alluring aroma.

Li Xingchen opened the envelope, pulled out the letter from inside and unfolded it. It read:

Congratulations, lucky kid! You've successfully chosen the "Monster Room"! Jerky is the mountain cat's favorite food. If you want to continue moving forward, you can choose to defeat it or tame it. It will be a useful aid on your journey!

Li Xingchen looked at the dried meat in his hand and was a little confused... Why didn't you tell me earlier? It had already been killed just now. I won't be asked to compensate for it, right?

The live broadcast automatically captured and magnified Li Xingchen's letter as he read it, allowing everyone to clearly see the contents. Suddenly, comments flooded in like a tide:

"Hahahahaha"

"Hahahaha, my family, I can't stop laughing!"

"Brother: Can I still be resurrected if I've already killed someone?"

"Hahaha, my brother's confused expression is so funny. It's really funny, what can I do? Hahaha..."

But something even more unexpected happened next. In the picture, Li Xingchen opened the package, took out a piece of dried meat, smelled it, then stuffed it into his little mouth and started chewing it, while handing a large piece to Zero beside him.

Another barrage flashed by:

"Ah, my brother ate the cat food. Is that okay?"

"Didn't my brother have lunch? Why is he eating cat food?"

"It's okay, this is fresh pork dried, it's edible normally."

"..."

"..."

The barrage was speechless.

Whose kid is so greedy that he eats cat food without even looking at it.

Zero took the jerky, tore off a small piece, put it in his mouth, and commented, "The taste is bland."

Li Xingchen nodded in agreement: "Brother's cooking is definitely better than this."

"I'll make some for you next time." Zero knocked on the wall and answered without turning his head. At the same time, he listened carefully to see if there was any movement in the next room.

Zero decided to find a double room among these last few to use as their lounge.

They'd been traveling all morning, and so far, they'd only eaten a single pancake. Seeing Li Xingchen devouring even the dried meat used for pet training with relish, Zero figured he must be hungry. They'd better settle down, eat, and rest. Contestants would trickle in soon. While Alice hadn't specified the elimination rate, judging by Hanlin Academy's previous enrollment numbers, it was estimated to be over 90% for this trial.

Zero's guess was correct. Hanlin Academy intended to admit only the top 100 students this time. While this number was significantly higher than in previous years, it was still a significant increase due to the sheer number of applicants. In previous years, aside from the top three recommended, only the top 50 who passed the trials could enter the academy with regular tuition fees. Of course, some of the most prestigious families also accepted students directly without the trials, but they still had to pay tuition.

Of course, big families don't lack this little tuition fee. Participating in the trial is more just to hone the children and increase their life experience.

Zero listened for a few seconds and it was very quiet next door.

During this process, Li Xingchen had already stuffed the token into his small schoolbag and was chewing on some dried meat in his hand.

Seeing Zero walking out after hearing the noise, Li Xingchen knew that he was going to the next door, so he jogged after him.

Sure enough, Zero led Li Xingchen directly to the next room, but unfortunately, it was a single room, and the facilities were significantly inferior to the previous room they had visited. But Zero didn't care. Before the tree house was built, he and Li Xingchen had lived directly on the tree trunk and hadn't thought anything of it.

This time they didn't go in and decisively backed out. After checking three more rooms, they finally found a double room, room 1032.

Li Xingchen and Zero checked it out. It had two beds, a TV, and a bathroom, just like a standard hotel room. The beds were smaller, the room was more ordinary, and the TV screen was smaller, but these weren't a big deal to Li Xingchen and the others.

There was a set of spare clothes, a small backpack, and all the toiletries on the bed.

Li Xingchen opened his schoolbag and took out the things to look at: compressed biscuits, milk, and a silver token.

Missing the dagger and the emergency rope. It turned out I was right to take them away earlier.

Li Xingchen was quite satisfied with the dagger, but he thought the first aid rope was unnecessary. As for the small silver token, he hadn't found any use for it yet. However, there was also a token in the backpack after killing the wild cat, so it might be a prop for the next trial. Since they didn't know the specific function of the token, they gave up the idea of ​​going to other rooms to collect supplies.

Maybe the dried meat tasted a bit dry, so Li Xingchen opened a carton of milk and gave it to Zero, then opened a carton for himself and started drinking it.

The two of them had looked around when they entered the room just now. There was no kitchen for cooking, no pots or stoves, so they had to give up the idea of ​​eating the wild cat for the time being.

But there were only a few packets of compressed biscuits in the schoolbag. Could it be dinner for today? But they haven't even had lunch yet. If they had known, they would have eaten outside before coming in. Li Xingchen thought so.

Zero drank two sips of milk and then got up to boil a kettle of water.

Then the two of them emptied out all the contents of the small backpacks and counted them.

There were 16 packs of compressed biscuits, excluding the milk they had opened, 6 cartons of milk, two daggers, two emergency ropes, 5 silver tokens, two number plates, two sets of trial uniforms, a bag of dried meat, and toiletries that Li Xingchen had taken from that room, including two toothbrush cups.

The two of them evenly distributed their belongings and put them back into their respective small backpacks. The water was boiling by then, and Zero got out of bed and poured two cups, placing them on either side of the bed. One for himself and one for Li Xingchen.

Li Xingchen handed the dried meat in his hand to Zero, "Brother, are you hungry? Have some dried meat."

Zero reached in and took a small piece and put it in his mouth, indicating that it was enough. It didn't really matter whether he ate it or not. Not knowing whether the trial had prepared dinner, he decided not to waste food.

"Are you tired? Do you want to take a nap?" Zero asked Li Xingchen.

Li Xingchen shook his head. His six-year-old body was a little tired, but he didn't want to sleep yet. Li Xingchen looked up and asked Zero, "Brother, do you know what the trial is all about?"

This time it was Zero's turn to shake his head. "I'm not sure. I just know that the trials are rescheduled every year and are not the same as in previous years."

Then Zero asked again: "Do you want to sleep for a while? There aren't many people here now."

Li Xingchen understood. What Alice meant was that the number of people was greater than the room, and there would be a fight soon. Although he didn't know how this trial would work, it was indeed a wise choice to take a good rest now that there were not many people around.

"Brother, will you sleep with me?" Li Xingchen looked at Zero and blinked. Although there were two beds, he wanted to sleep in one with his brother.

Zero very consciously lifted the quilt and got into bed. He did not take off his clothes, firstly because he had no pajamas, and secondly, in case of emergencies.

Seeing this, Li Xingchen also packed up his food and snuggled into Zero's arms. With Zero lying beside him, he fell asleep in less than two minutes.