Chapter 7: Urban Stone-throwing Hero

Chapter 7: Urban Stone-throwing Hero

“I understand.”

Hearing what Yang Qi said, Granny Bai’s expression did not change. She said, “You don’t need to worry about this matter. Your biggest task now is to get into a good university.”

Granny Bai waved her hand for Yang Qi to leave, picked up her book, and continued reading.

Yang Qi knew Granny Bai’s character very well. She would shoulder everything herself and was firm in her decisions. Yang Qi had no choice but to leave, but deep down, he still felt uneasy.

“Ding! Task triggered: Protect the Courtyard from being sold within one month.”

“Task completion reward: 10 Level-1 Energy Stones.”

“Task failure penalty: Deduct all current cultivation points for each superpower.”

“Ding! The task has a time limit of one month. The countdown starts now…”

…

This triggered task made Yang Qi pause again. Granny Bai had just told him not to worry about it, and now the Superpower List issued such a task. What a coincidence.

“The triggered task has a time limit, and it’s exactly one month.” Yang Qi calculated in his mind. “It seems it all depends on whether we can hold on for this month. If we can, then this worry will probably be gone.”

Yang Qi was slowly getting used to the notification sounds and had even learned to look for clues in them.

Back at the Courtyard, Yang Qi found Huang Man and gave him careful instructions again. He told him not to go out and play casually recently. He went on and on, speaking as if brainwashing him, hoping that Huang Man would listen.

Not long after, the children in the Courtyard gathered around. Some did homework, others read books. For the older children, Granny Bai tried everything to send them to school, so they could learn knowledge and experience society. They should see both the good and the bad. Granny Bai knew very well that she could not be their shelter for a lifetime. How long could she shield them from wind and rain? It was best for them to rely on themselves or support each other moving forward.

To help these children better integrate into their school classes, the old lady personally taught them lessons and characters in the Courtyard. And now that Yang Qi had recovered from his illness, he naturally took on this responsibility without hesitation.

After lunch and the afternoon passed, Yang Qi needed to go to school. Before leaving, he found Auntie Chen and gave her a phone number. He told her to be sure to notify him if anything happened. Yang Qi did not have a phone. This number belonged to Lu Liangjie. He would need to inform Lu Liangjie after returning to school.

Leaving the bookstore, Yang Qi walked along Shuxiang Street towards the bus stop. He happened to see Li with Birthmark sneakily getting into a Land Rover. Yang Qi quickly ran a few steps forward. He saw the driver’s face. He wanted to see if there was anyone in the back seat, but the Land Rover was already far away.

The driver’s appearance reappeared in his mind. He had permanently memorized his full appearance and even subtle details.

Yang Qi wasn’t sure if this was related to the property purchase incident, but he decided to remember it for now anyway.

He boarded Bus No. 8. Shortly after sitting down, more people got on and it became crowded. Yang Qi gave up his seat to an old man and stood at the back of the bus. The bus stopped and went, people got on and off. The further along the route, the more students there were on the bus, some from Ruiyun High School, some from nearby. At another stop, a group of girls got on. They were full of youthful energy, wearing white school uniforms with bright smiles. Their black hair fell over their shoulders or was tied into pretty ponytails. A slight stir rippled through the bus cabin. It was unclear whether it was the bus’s inertia or their hearts’ inertia, but people subconsciously squeezed toward that side.

“What are you doing? What are you doing? Move aside! Trying to take advantage of me?”

A fierce-looking girl shouted. Her looks were average, with a few flying pimples on her face. She held onto a handrail with one hand and shielded the girls behind her with the other. She puffed out her flat, horse-galloping 32A chest, frowned, and glared with apricot-shaped eyes, scolding the people squeezing toward her. Strangely, this expression looked quite interesting and amusing. Seeing this, those people awkwardly smiled and backed away, maintaining some distance.

The few people standing behind the fierce girl were quite pretty, especially one of them. She wore a pure white dress, had delicate features, and a smile. She wasn’t surprised to see this tough girl lose her temper. They all giggled secretly. It seemed this was common, and they felt very at ease. In a close group of girls, there is always one fierce one to protect them on special occasions.

Not long after, the bus suddenly jerked, and everyone in the cabin lurched forward. A boy with thick glasses was lucky enough to lean his whole body against the fierce girl. And his hands, with a lucky double-hit, landed on that flat 32A chest.

The brash, fierce girl was stunned by the chest attack. The bespectacled boy lowered his head even more, hurriedly withdrew his hands, and whispered an apology. He rushed out as soon as the doors opened, as if his soul had left him, scared that the fierce girl would go berserk and hurt him.

The group of female students squeezed inward to make way for others to get off. In the jostling, they also asked the fierce girl concernedly if she was okay. After a slight daze, the fierce girl pretended to pat her flat chest, putting on a brave front and repeatedly saying she was fine. The other girls even teased her a bit, but they didn’t notice the fierce girl’s ears turning slightly red. That untouched virgin land had been violated. In truth, the fierce girl’s heart was already in a state of panic.

“My bag is torn!”

Suddenly, one of the girls exclaimed, then added, “My wallet and phone are gone.”

“It must have been stolen during the pushing just now,” the prettiest girl in white turned to look outside the bus. She saw a man clutching clothes under his arm walking quickly away from the bus stop and said, “It might be that person.”

“Driver, open the door again. A wallet and phone were stolen!”

The fierce girl immediately shouted. The bus hadn’t started moving, so the driver naturally opened the door again. Seeing this, the fierce girl rushed out the door and started running, heading straight for that man. Truly fierce. The man had been walking calmly, but sensing the fierce girl was indeed coming for him, he also started running, darting into a small alley.

“Don’t chase him, Sisi!”

The group of girls also immediately got off the bus and shouted. Seeing that the fierce girl, Du Sisi, did not stop, the girl in white said, “Let’s hurry and go see, in case something happens.” At the same time, she took out her phone to call the police, remaining relatively calm.

At that moment, a figure swiftly flashed past them, chasing after the fierce girl and the man with the clothes. The girl in white paused for a second. She felt this figure looked somewhat familiar, but it moved too fast to see clearly.

The person who gave chase was naturally Yang Qi from the same bus. Putting aside whether he liked meddling or showing off, just the fact that these girls were from Ruiyun High School, and the girl in white was Chen Xiaoxiao, the one who had stopped Zhuang Zhoufeng and the others last time, made Yang Qi feel he couldn’t just stand by. Most importantly, the schoolbag was clearly cut open with a knife, meaning the thief had a knife on him. Yang Qi couldn’t guarantee that the fierce girl wouldn’t get into some unexpected trouble.

Moreover, the Superpower List in his mind had triggered another task: subdue the thief. Reward: 1 Level-1 Energy Stone.

It must be said, that fierce girl Du Sisi ran quite fast. Probably her 32A chest gave her less restraint and bounce. She was close on the heels of the man with the clothes, shouting from time to time. “Stop right there, surrender and you won’t be killed! You little thief have some nerve, committing a crime right under my nose!”

They went through three small alleys. Amazingly, she hadn’t lost him and even seemed likely to catch up. The man with the clothes was extremely annoyed. His speed wasn’t slow, yet he was being chased like this by a high school girl. Turning into another small alley, the man’s eyes turned fierce. He took out a hood from his inner pocket, put it on to cover his face, and stopped. He was already holding the knife he used to cut open the schoolbag.

“Keep chasing and I’ll kill you!”

The man with the clothes brandished the small knife in his hand, coldly shouting at the fierce girl Du Sisi.

“Waving a little knife blade about the size of your… thing, who are you trying to scare!”

The fierce girl Du Sisi also stopped. Although she said that, deep down she couldn’t not be afraid. She took two steps back.

“Damn it!”

The man with the clothes swore. He wished he could push this fierce girl down, take out his own thing, and let her have a good look. To see if it’s the same size or bigger! But, glancing at the fierce girl’s smooth, flat chest, he finally gave up on that idea. He shouted, “Stand right there and don’t move. Take one more step, and I won’t be polite.”

After saying that, he brandished the knife in his hand again as a threat. Seeing the flat-chested fierce girl was somewhat scared, he snickered and turned to leave.

However, just as he turned, thwack. A hard object, coming from who-knows-when or where, hit his arm. The pain was intense; he couldn’t hold the knife, and it fell to the ground. Immediately after, two more hard objects flew and hit his thighs. He couldn’t withstand it, thump, and fell to the ground. The bag and phone he had tucked under his clothes spilled out, and it wasn’t just one bag and one phone.

“Ah! Ah! Aaaah~~~”

The man with the clothes lay on the ground, screaming, not knowing where to hold first.

The fierce girl Du Sisi was also stunned. She saw that the things hitting the thief were stone lumps the size of soup buns. She turned to look behind her, only to see a figure flash by, and then she could see nothing more. She felt even more curious, surprised, and weirded out. Her heart beat much faster, more exaggerated than when she was running.

“Zhang Qing, the ‘Arrowless’!”

A name popped into the fierce girl Du Sisi’s mind: the hero Zhang Qing from Water Margin. When Zhang Qing first appeared, he used his Flying Stone Technique to wound fifteen Liangshan generals in a row. He wounded fierce generals including Guan Sheng the Great Blade and Lu Zhishen the Tattooed Monk. Du Sisi, who loved Water Margin, knew this very well.

“A modern Arrowless Zhang Qing, the Urban Stone-throwing Hero!”

The fierce girl muttered to herself, her eyes sparkling with excitement. She had already forgotten about the weirdness and fear. With her thick nerves, she shouted loudly, “Thank you, hero, for saving a humble girl. This humble girl boldly asks the hero to show himself.”

This sentence almost made Yang Qi, hiding not far away, crack up. He stifled his laughter, almost hurting himself.

The fierce girl Du Sisi repeated it again. Seeing no sound or response, she acted forthrightly. She cupped her hands toward the direction where she had seen the figure and said, “Since the hero does not wish to see this humble girl, then she shall no longer trouble the hero. If the hero ever wishes to acknowledge this humble girl in the future, use the flying stones as a signal. This humble girl will march through fire and water for the hero, advancing wave upon wave, and will not rest until death!”

Upon hearing this, Yang Qi held back laughter again. What was all this? A few words and now it’s ‘will not rest until death’? This fierce girl’s hero complex was a bit too strong!