On their way back to the base, Meng Chao chatted with Lin Chuan about a lot of things. They talked about the teachers with special traits in their elementary school, the secret base of the boys at the back of the school building, and a huge drawing from Lin Chuan there. It looked like a huge gorilla, but it was actually a drawing of the fierce Principal Li.
This discovery made Meng Chao yelp. He told Lin Chuan that his drawing had brought him a lot of trouble.
When he discovered it in the secret base, he thought that it resembled Principal Li a lot, so he added an arrow by the side and wrote down Principal Li’s name beside it. He did not expect that he would be captured by a teacher, who would then insist that Meng Chao was the one who drew it, which would then result in Meng Chao being forced to write a reflection report worth five thousand words. Next Monday, he also had to reflect on his actions in front of all the students during the morning assembly, and when he went back home, he was punished by his father.
Lin Chuan laughed like a pig again.
His pig-like laughter entranced the Medical University girl once more.
The two men talked about the grocery store and snack shop at the entrance of the elementary school. They talked about the models of the Battle God Lei Zongchao and all sorts of superbeasts that were incredibly popular at that time that they were supposed to assemble and paint them on their own.
They also talked about the snacks by the side of the road. Fried lizard skewers had lizards with their stomachs cut open. After their organs were cleared out, minced earthworm meat was stuffed inside them, and they were fried in oil. The key was that a small bit of Demonic Halberd Pig fat had to be added to the vegetable oil, so when they were fried, the aroma would come out like a punch, and it would hit anyone passing the stand so hard that they could not even stand properly.
“Do you remember Grandpa Wang? The lizard meat he fries smells the greatest. When he opens up his stall at three o’clock in the afternoon, the children who haven’t even been dismissed from class would no longer have the mood to train. I heard that he has a secret technique. He searches for the freshest and juiciest earthworms. But no matter what, his fried lizard skewers are different from other people’s,” Meng Chao said with a gulp.
“How could I not remember? I loved them the most while I was in elementary school,” Lin Chuan said. “Now that I think of it, they weren’t hygienic, but they were really tasty. You can laugh if you want, but a few times when I was in despair in the depths of the wild, the only thought I had in my heart was that I can’t die. I still have to go back to the entrance of the elementary school and eat a fried lizard skewer made by Grandpa Wang!”
“Seriously?” Meng Chao’s eyes lit up, and he said, “Then, next time, if you have the chance to go back, I’ll definitely treat you to one. Grandpa Wang is old, and his body isn’t very good now. He sets up his stall only for two hours every day after elementary school is over, but I have his contact number. If he knows that you’re coming, he’ll definitely prepare a grand meal for you!”
“What do you mean by if I have the chance? I’m still staying in Joyous Heavenly Garden. If we have the time, we can go and look for Grandpa Wang together. We can even visit our homeroom teacher and language teacher in elementary school. I wonder whether Principal Li retired.
“If we see him, I will definitely admit that I was the one who made that drawing, but you didn’t write that 5,000-word essay in vain, you know? It’s your fault for writing his name over there! Hahahaha!”
Lin Chuan laughed boisterously.
Meng Chao laughed as well, but he was surprised. “You’re still staying in Joyous Heavenly Garden?”
With Lin Chuan’s status as one of the youngest Heaven Realm elites in Dragon City and his fame online, even if he was not as experienced an elite as Soul Breaking Saber Luo Wu and could not stay in a top-class luxury house in Dragon City No. 1, he should be able to easily get a huge house that was more than 160 square meters and the type that was classified as a high-end abode fit for cultured people. Why was he still staying in a public renting house?
“There have been people trying to persuade me to move. They tell me to move to a better and larger place, so it’ll be easier for me to make connections and work, but I’m a nostalgic person at heart. I’m already used to the boisterous atmosphere of the public renting houses and the neighbors I’ve seen since I was young,” Lin Chuan said with a smile.
“Besides, I was thinking that the Monster War is still going on, and there might come a day when more powerful monsters will rush into Dragon City and reach Blessed Heavenly Garden and Joyous Heavenly Garden.
“The luxurious apartments, high-end abodes, and apartments for talented people all have defense systems. They also have their own main fighting tanks and veteran elite, so they are not afraid of monster invasions.
“But if the powerful people who appear once in a blue moon in the public renting houses move away after we become rich, we’ll only have the old, sick, and weak left behind. If the monsters really invade our home, who will protect them?”
Meng Chao’s respect for him rose.
He felt that he had met someone who thought like him and that heroes thought alike.
Of course, he was currently far weaker than Lin Chuan. He needed to continue working hard so that he could catch up to his idol!
“Unfortunately, I’m at the depths of the wild all the time. Even if I return to Dragon City, I’m either being treated in the hospital or training in the Supernatural Tower. I seldom go back home. Now that you said it, when I have the chance, I should go back and see the people from my past…” Lin Chuan said with a smile.
While they chatted with each other, they discovered that they shared a lot of similarities. When they returned to the base, they were already so close that they nearly shared a drink with each other and swore to be brothers.
The Griffin Li Yingzi stood at the entrance to the base and waited for them with a dark expression.
When they met, she first scolded Meng Chao fiercely, saying that he had become really audacious and that he respected neither the organization nor the laws. He often ran around wildly by saying that the visibility in the fog was not good and that communications were not smooth, which resulted in him always entering dangerous areas. Today, he even went mad and decided to provoke a Blood Flower infested Will o’ the Wisp Dragon.
If Lin Chuan had not arrived at the final moment and something really happened to him, what would she have to say to his tutor, Gu Jianbo?
She scolded Meng Chao for a full three minutes, and he soon wanted to crawl into a hole and die, but suddenly, the topic of her conversation changed, and she shifted her wrath on Lin Chuan. She said that he had just been heavily injured in Graveyard Forest and returned to Shattered Starlake to be treated.
So why was he unable to control his legs and started running around after staying in the hospital for only one day? Did he think that there were no Hell Beasts in Shattered Starlake so he could run around doing whatever he wanted?
Lin Chuan’s tutor from his university years was Li Yingzi.
And their student-tutor relationship was closer than anyone else’s.
When Li Yingzi started scolding him, she did not hold back at all. She did not give any respect to the internet celebrity.
As Meng Chao listened to the scolding, he gradually understood Lin Chuan’s situation. He had killed three Grade Give Hell Beasts known as Multi-headed Fire Lizards in the depths of Graveyard Forest while he was on a hunting mission. He saved two comrades, but his organs were invaded by poisonous flames. Right now, he was still enduring great pain, as if there were flames burning his body.
“Big Brother Lin, you…”
Meng Chao simply could not imagine it. Just now, Lin Chuan had elegantly won against the blood-red rat horde and chatted happily with him along the way, yet he was actually poisoned by flames and was in great pain.
What terrifying willpower!
A thought appeared in his mind, and Meng Chao seized the chance when Li Yingzi stopped scolding them after five minutes. “Big Brother Lin, did you know that Multi-headed Fire Lizards are Hell Beasts that have really strong desires? Sometimes, when they can’t find sexual partners, they use normal lizards or other python-type monsters to satiate their lust. They end up leaving behind so many holes on these pitiful creatures that they look like hornets.
“So, if we run into a reptile-type monster with hornet nest-shaped wounds on their carcasses in the wild, there’s a possibility that there are Multi-headed Fire Lizards nearby, so we have to be on guard.”
Lin Chuan and Li Yingzi looked at each other at a loss. They could not understand why Meng Chao… would mention such strange trivia.
Kindling shone at the top of Meng Chao’s vision, and two small rows of words appeared.
[Elite citizen Li Yingzi has been enlightened by you, and her knowledge to survive in the wild has increased. Increase contribution points by 1.
[Pseudo-heroic citizen Lin Chuan has been enlightened by you, and his knowledge to survive in the wild has increased. Increase contribution points by 3.]
‘I knew it, he’s a pseudo-heroic citizen!’
Meng Chao’s heart raced.
He just knew that Weeping Reaper Lin Chuan was not someone ordinary. Another pseudo-heroic citizen had appeared.
Meng Chao did not have a lot of information regarding Lin Chuan from his memories from the previous life. He felt that with how recklessly the other fought, he might have actually died in a soon-to-come fight.
In this life, Meng Chao swore in his heart that he would definitely change his idol’s fate so that he could live through the battle safely and continue shining brightly in the path of Dragon City rise to power.
After deciding this, Meng Chao began promoting and boasting about the Ultimate Style. “Big Brother Lin, if your organs are injured, you should try practicing the Ultimate Style.
“The Ultimate Style focuses on cultivating the 1,024 branch meridians, and it can quietly nourish your organs. It will get rid of the poisonous flames and promote the healing of hidden injuries. The effects are really good.”
“Sure!”
He had thought that Lin Chuan would hesitate a little when in the face of the brand new cultivation style.
He did not expect that he would agree immediately and would even be willing to join Project 1024 and explore how Heaven Realm elites should create brand new cultivation system for the Ultimate Style.
If they were certain that it was effective, Lin Chuan was even willing to use his status as an internet celebrity to promote the Ultimate Style in livestream classes, his circle of friends, and social media platforms.
“Big Brother Lin, you’re such a bro!”
Meng Chao was delighted.
“You and I are people who were taught by the same homeroom teacher in elementary school. If I don’t help you, who should I help? Besides, your tutor isn’t a stranger to me either. In the past, he often treated me to drinks and food. While I was going through my most difficult times, Gu Jianbo often helped me. When someone offers you a small bit of kindness, you should repay them tenfold. This is a simple rule, and I still know it,” Lin Chuan said with a smile.
“Huh?” Meng Chao was puzzled. “Why did Mr. Gu treat you to food?”
Lin Chuan coughed dryly a few times and pulled Meng Chao to the side. He whispered, “At that time, the Griffin was a greenhorn. She was a new lecturer who was a nobody. No one was willing to choose her as their personal tutor, and I was ranked at the bottom of the admission test in the martial arts course. I adhered to the rules and became her disciple.
“Then… well, you know that Mr. Gu and Ms. Li… have a special relationship. They seem to have been in a conflict of some sort. Ms. Li didn’t like to acknowledge Mr. Gu, and I was her only male disciple at that time, so Mr. Gu often treated me to food to ask about Ms. Li. As this happened multiple times, we became closer to each other.
“By the way, how is Ms. Li’s relationship with Mr. Gu now? Are they back together?”
“Well…” Meng Chao thought about it and whispered, “I can’t say. In any case, they always fight at midnight.”