Chapter 42: My Genius, Violent Troublemaker Classmates
Chapter 42: My Genius, Violent Troublemaker Classmates
The young man left with his underlings, like a stray dog with its tail between its legs, looking utterly dejected.
From beginning to end, faced with this young man who had been “wrecked” but miraculously made a comeback, he could not muster even the slightest courage to resist.
Perhaps for someone like him, being a dog had become a habit; unless his life was threatened, he would never think to fight back.
His original mood was ruined by those filthy curs. While the sadness was mostly gone, it was replaced by disgust.
Remembering how the same people had looked and spoken that day, Ling Yi felt an impulse. He really wanted to ask them, did they truly not know what shame was?
What kind of magic was it? That could make their dignity so cheap?
But he couldn’t be bothered to ask.
However, the demoness in his mind seemed to sense his current emotions and said calmly, “People like him have their own set of beliefs for getting by in the world. If you really scold him for being shameless, believe me, he’ll spout a bunch of twisted logic at you in no time. You’d find that even more disgusting! There are plenty of people like this in the world, and this is just the beginning. When you’ve seen more of them later, you won’t find it a big deal anymore.”
“No, seeing more would still be disgusting,” Ling Yi said as he left the place.
His former home.
From now on, it was just a former home.
He would never come back here again!
Just as he stepped out of the residential area, he heard a commotion nearby. It seemed like a fight was happening, mixed with whistles and cheers.
Ling Yi was slightly startled, thinking to himself, was someone causing trouble on campus today?
Didn’t they see? Even Zhao Tianping, upon hearing of his return, had sent people to appease him, clearly not wanting to turn this graduation ceremony into a joke.
In this situation, who was so blind as to provoke Boss Zhao?
“Old Ninth can’t be bothered to deal with scum like you, it’s dirty, afraid of stepping in dog poop. I’m not afraid! CNMD, you still staring? I’ll beat you up, what about it? One-on-one or a group fight, it’s up to you! Bunch of dogs!”
“Well said!”
“That felt good!”
“Senior, you have no idea how arrogant these dogs have been recently!”
“Beat them up!”
Zhang Lei’s loud voice reached Ling Yi’s ears from far away.
There were also students hidden in the crowd who loved stirring up trouble, cheering them on.
In the crowd, the young man who had just left the residential area and his few subordinates from the Disciplinary Supervision Department were lying on the ground in a sorry state, each with bruised and swollen faces.
The worst was that young man. His eyes were so swollen they were almost shut, his nose and mouth bleeding, looking utterly miserable.
Standing in front of them was the young and handsome Zhang Lei, hands on his hips, cursing.
“Get up! Weren’t you so tough? Bullies who kick someone when they’re down! Get up, don’t just lie there playing dead! Come on, I haven’t had enough yet!”
Ling Yi walked over and saw Sun Pengfei standing to the side with his arms crossed, watching the spectacle with a grin. Tenth Brother Luo Yong, Eleventh Brother Meng Zhensheng, and Twelfth Brother Huo Chang were also standing there, looking eager.
Every troublemaker from the Champion Class was here, none missing.
Seeing Ling Yi approach, a group of young junior students instantly swarmed around him.
“Teacher Ling is here!”
“Hello, Senior!”
“Senior, I like you!”
“Go away, go away! Senior belongs to everyone!”
“Hey, damn it, who shoved me from behind!”
The crowd watching the commotion instantly became chaotic.
Seeing Ling Yi approach, Zhang Lei and the others immediately wiped the grins off their faces.
Zhang Lei coughed twice and said with a serious expression, “Oh, Vice Director Wei, how could you be so careless while walking? Falling on flat ground? And ending up like this, tsk tsk. Go to the infirmary quickly. Don’t end up with some aftereffects like dementia. Then you won’t be able to suck up to anyone in the future. Get up, get up! Do you need me to give you a hand?”
“…”
The group was stunned for two seconds, then burst into laughter.
The young man lying on the ground was so angry his lungs were about to explode.
But remembering what the principal had personally told him during their meeting, he could only swallow the blood rising in his throat.
This beating was for nothing.
He thought he had escaped a calamity at Ling Yi’s place, that the matter was over. He never expected that while Ling Yi found him disgusting and couldn’t be bothered with him, Ling Yi’s classmates really didn’t let him off the hook.
Forget about revenge; he didn’t even dare have the thought.
Because he knew who had beaten him. Even without Zhao Tianping’s warning, he couldn’t afford to provoke them!
“Haha, Old Ninth, you’re here. Come on, let’s go check out our class,” Zhang Lei said as if nothing had happened. He came over, grabbed Ling Yi, and started walking away. He bared his teeth at the young girls trying to get closer. “Hey, hey, hey! What are you all doing? Finished your homework? Go do what you’re supposed to do! Our Old Ninth is taken!”
The group: “…”
Amused and exasperated, Ling Yi was ushered away by Zhang Lei, Sun Pengfei, Luo Yong, Meng Zhensheng, and Huo Chang.
When they reached a less crowded area, Ling Yi looked at Zhang Lei and asked, “How did you run into them?”
Sun Pengfei chuckled beside him. “What ‘run into’? We searched for them for quite a while. We did it on purpose.”
“Yeah, Ninth Brother, we had a hard time finding that bastard. He tried to run when he saw us. Eighth Brother hit him in the face with a heavy punch, and he went down right then and there. Pah! And he calls himself a Second Order young expert? Total trash, his combat power isn’t even five!” Twelfth Brother Huo Chang said scornfully, curling his lip.
“Right? I wanted to get a hit in too, but before I could, they were all lying down. If you didn’t know better, you’d think they were trying to fake an injury for money!” Eleventh Brother Meng Zhensheng said indignantly.
“You guys…” Ling Yi shook his head helplessly, then looked at Zhang Lei. “Since you beat them up, it wasn’t just some superficial injuries, was it?”
The others: “…”
Zhang Lei gave a thumbs-up and laughed heartily to the others. “See? What did I say? I told you, Old Ninth might seem calm and indifferent every day, but he’s ruthless at heart!”
Then, grinning at Ling Yi, he said, “Don’t worry. Although we didn’t go for the kill, that guy won’t be getting out of bed for at least ten days to half a month. Ah, what can I do? I’m now a young lieutenant in the Black Tortoise Legion. It’s not suitable for me to be too heavy-handed.”
Ling Yi couldn’t help but roll his eyes. Beating a vice director of Zongwu Academy’s Disciplinary Supervision Department so badly he couldn’t get out of bed for half a month was called ‘not too heavy-handed’? Yeah, that was totally acceptable.
Tenth Brother Luo Yong chimed in eagerly, as if presenting a treasure. “Ninth Brother, you probably don’t know. On the day you left the academy, we already beat up every bastard who jumped out to kick you while you were down. Especially those dogs you once taught. They’re in worse shape than Vice Director Wei. They should all be in the hospital by now…”
Zhang Lei shot Luo Yong a glare. “Why bring that up?”
“Those people got beaten too? Weren’t they already beaten up before? Just got out of the hospital, right?” Ling Yi asked, puzzled.
“Probably. Ah, whatever. They’re beaten anyway,” Zhang Lei said with a grin, changing the subject.
“Good beating. I just couldn’t be bothered to do it myself, doesn’t mean I didn’t want to beat them,” Ling Yi said.
“Hahahaha!”
They all couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Sun Pengfei said, “See? That’s the spirit of our Champion Class!”
“Yeah, I heard Ninth Brother became rich? Then for tonight’s gathering, why are we still going Dutch? The Class Monitor is paying!” Huo Chang said with a cheeky grin.
“Twelfth Brother, that’s not right of you,” Sun Pengfei glanced at Huo Chang. “Why even say that out loud? Who else should pay if not him? Expecting us poor foot soldiers to pay?”
Chatting and laughing, they arrived at their classroom—which was actually a small lecture room.
Zongwu Academy hardly had fixed classrooms, but the Champion Class was an exception. From the day their class was formed, this small lecture room became their exclusive, fixed classroom.
It was a little perk for the genius class.
Anyway, in the previous years, after classes, everyone would almost always gather here to chat.
When they entered, all the other classmates were already there.
Except for a certain humble prince without even a ranking, all eighteen classmates were present, none missing.
As soon as Zhang Lei entered, he shouted at Luo Xue, “Don’t you know how to watch your boyfriend? If it weren’t for me, Old Ninth would have been dragged away by those crazy girls!”
The others burst into laughter. Luo Xue rolled her eyes. “Never mind that for now. Let me ask you something.”
Zhang Lei asked guiltily, “What is it?”
As for Luo Yong and the others, they had already slipped to the side at the first opportunity.
“When you taught those bastards who kicked someone when they were down a lesson, why didn’t you call us to join?” Luo Xue’s eyes flashed with a dangerous light. “Where’s your collectivism? Your team spirit? Did you forget it all in just a few days?”
Zhang Lei was dumbfounded. He thought to himself, we’re the troublemakers, aren’t you all supposed to be the good kids?
But after glancing at the looks in everyone else’s eyes, Zhang Lei wisely chose not to argue. He hung his head. “Oh powerful Class President, I was wrong. Please let me off…”
Ling Yi was the Class Monitor of the Champion Class, but he didn’t handle any actual duties. Luo Xue handled everything, so everyone gave her the title of ‘Real Power Class President’.
Luo Xue snorted. “Be more thoughtful next time! We’ve wanted to deal with those scum for a long time! But you troublemakers took the lead.”
“Yeah, you beat them into the hospital without holding back. We can’t go to the hospital to beat them up, can we?” Big Sister Sun Xiao said disapprovingly.
“When beating people up, you have to do it in stages. You should have beaten them lightly first, not finished them all at once. Now we have no one left to beat,” Second Sister Feng Jun said softly and slowly.
“Such a good opportunity probably won’t come again,” Third Sister Zhuo Jinglan sighed.
Ling Yi: “…”
If he ever wrote a memoir about these guys, he could give it a title like this—My Bunch of Genius, Violent Troublemaker Classmates.
Sun Pengfei and those guys were troublemakers. As for the others, they only looked like good kids on the surface. In reality, not a single one was easy to deal with!
At the same time, news of this incident spread rapidly at an exponential rate.
When Zhao Tianping received the news, he was on the phone in his office.
After hanging up and hearing the report about the incident, Zhao Tianping just fell silent for a moment, then nodded. “I know.”
The messenger frowned and said, “Principal, this incident has a very bad impact. If we don’t punish those lawless individuals, in the future, our…”
Zhao Tianping looked at the messenger and cut him off. “How to punish them?”
“Of course… of course…” The messenger stammered for a while but couldn’t come up with anything.
Yeah, how could they be punished?
Expelled?
Don’t be ridiculous!
Never mind the families behind those young people, just considering the current public opinion, no one would sympathize with those who got beaten up.
A while ago, the Ling Yi incident caused a huge stir, and almost everyone knew what had happened.
Once today’s incident spread online, the people clapping and cheering would outnumber the sympathetic ones by countless times!
If you dare to kick someone when they’re down, you have to bear the revenge that follows when they make a comeback.
There really was nothing to say about that.
After dismissing the messenger, Zhao Tianping sat in his office, lit a cigar, and quietly smoked.