ASER - Chapter 77
Chapter 77: A Wish
It was a truly brutal kick. A shoe print marked the back of Zhongchuan Mingxiu's clothes as he was viciously kicked off the flyer.
From Zhongchuan Mingxiu +7777!
Caught off guard, Zhongchuan Mingxiu choked back a mouthful of blood after being kicked. He was about to land and leap back up for a counterattack when he realized where he had fallen... Everyone was looking at him.
From the very beginning, these people's attention had been captured.
At that moment, the spear had just pierced Bai He's thigh, and in the next second, Zhongchuan Mingxiu's attack failed, and he was kicked down.
All the changes happened within these two seconds.
These two seconds were exactly what A'Diao wanted—for the classmates opposite to look over.
"Ah! My eyes!"
"Fuck!"
"Chen A'Diao!!!"
From the eyes of some of these people, streams of glue shot out... Because of their different positions, these streams of glue crisscrossed, forming sticky strands, then splat, splat, splat, instantly adhering to a dozen tall ginkgo trees in the ginkgo forest.
The glue connected, forming a large, three-dimensional spiderweb.
From Xu Luo +2222!
From Wang Shen +3333!
From...
Zhongchuan Mingxiu happened to fall onto this newly formed spiderweb, getting stuck all over. The crowd below, blinded, became chaotic, turning the glue connections into a tangled mess.
"Dai Qiang! Lock onto my position, she's at..." Zhongchuan Mingxiu yelled sharply. Dai Qiang and Chen Zhongze suddenly flew up, their Spirit Power surging, each preparing to attack A'Diao to rescue Zhongchuan Mingxiu.
But abruptly, Tang Zhou's scream came from behind.
The water flow he had been controlling and using to bind Song Ling had bizarrely solidified into ice. The low temperature spread, instantly freezing his arm, and the temperature continued to drop terrifyingly.
Tang Zhou felt as if his flesh and blood were being cut by knives.
Turning his head, he saw Song Ling still standing on the tree, motionless, but her aura was completely different from before.
The wind blew, and the surrounding ginkgo leaves drifted down like golden snowflakes, rustling dynamically, but her eyes were like burning fire, like icy dye.
Spirit Power pulsed, her mind clear and connected.
Chen Zhongze and some others who hadn't been blinded by the glue felt it... sluggishness, dizziness.
Fuck!
Chen Zhongze immediately recited a protective spell, using golden Spirit Power to shield his vital areas. Since his Spirit Power wasn't sufficient for full-body protection, a terrifying heat suddenly surged from the soles of his shoes.
"Ah!!"
Chen Zhongze jumped up from the burning and quickly took off his shoes, only to see them completely melted by the high temperature.
If he was like this, let alone the others.
Looking back at the tree, Song Ling hadn't moved at all. Two Ice and Flame Spirit Pupils floated beside her, driven by her Spirit Power, constantly intensifying the high and low temperatures, trapping a group of people in a terrifying thermal environment.
Screams and wails filled the air.
Taking advantage of the chaos, Tian Zhongxiang and the others suddenly erupted, directly overwhelming the surrounding people affected by the various negative statuses. Four wild boars frantically charged, throwing knives spiraled through the air, and Tian Zhongye attacked with his metal shield.
They tore open a path.
However, amidst the oinks and grunts, a fragrant pig nimbly rushed out, leaped swiftly, and rotated its plump body 360 degrees in mid-air. Then, its mouth opened wide, and snap, it swallowed the blue cicada.
Landing back on the ground, its trotters steady, its fat trembling but not cumbersome. Perfect!
Everyone: "!!!"
Holy shit, that worked!?
On the other side, Dai Qiang, also a psychic, resisted Song Ling's mental attack and quickly left her temperature control range.
Swish! After flashing into the forest, he cast an invisibility spell on himself, then quickly locked onto A'Diao based on Zhongchuan Mingxiu's location and initiated psychic interference.
Blindness! Dizziness!
Ineffective, ineffective!
What's going on? This is impossible!
As Dai Qiang panicked, he suddenly heard something moving in the forest. Before he could react, countless golden ginkgo leaves came swirling towards him.
This was a technique.
It seemed like the head teacher had taught it in class.
"!!!"
As Dai Qiang was enveloped and cocooned by thousands of ginkgo leaves, Zhongchuan Mingxiu, seeing no hope of support, controlled his flyer for a long-range bombardment.
The spiderweb finally broke, and Zhongchuan Mingxiu finally broke free, falling from mid-air. But before he could regain his balance... a dazzling electric light suddenly flashed before his eyes.
An identical but thicker and stronger lightning bolt came.
The same technique, the same lightning beam.
Boom!!!
This was a lightning bolt that could instantly kill Zhongchuan Mingxiu.
It also caused Bai He and Zhongchuan Mingxiu to explode with over ten thousand mental feedback again.
The former was from shock; the latter was from being hit!
Zhongchuan Mingxiu was struck by the electric current mid-air and fell like a cannonball. Oh no! He landed on the spiderweb again.
Stuck again! Ah!
Was he the spider demon's prey?
Unfortunately, he wasn't Tang Sanzang, because the spider demon wouldn't step on his back.
The force wasn't strong, but it made him aware of her arrival.
His equipment, damaged from blocking the lightning strike, was now ruined. Zhongchuan Mingxiu, with his back being stepped on, didn't dare to move because he couldn't withstand another attack. But before he could come up with some rhetoric to navigate the situation, A'Diao spoke first.
"Teacher Shi said as long as no one dies and no one's cultivation is crippled, there are no restrictions on combat today. Now, the red cicada is in your hand, so the fight between us is justified, right? Tell me, if I make your eyes spurt sulfuric acid, would that be excessive?"
Zhongchuan Mingxiu's heart suddenly felt like it was suffocating.
"Eyes, you know, aren't as easy to treat as a few cuts. With the current healing period, wouldn't it take at least two months? Otherwise, it would cost an unimaginable amount of precious resources. But don't worry, I've already checked for you. If you want to recover within a few days, it will probably cost three hundred million. How about it? Am I not thoughtful? Aren't you touched?"
"But if it takes two months, I'm afraid you won't even be able to catch up to Yuan Shu."
Why would she say such a thing?
Zhongchuan Mingxiu only belatedly realized that his hand holding the red cicada was glued shut.
He instantly understood: She did it on purpose, deliberately creating conditions to continue "beating" him, so the school teachers wouldn't easily intervene.
What Cheng Zhang had realized, Zhongchuan Mingxiu also thought of—today wasn't an ordinary assessment; it was a school test. Shi Dagang and the others wouldn't easily interrupt the assessment process.
So, she had calculated this to fleece him!
Threatening, extorting.
From Zhongchuan Mingxiu +7878!
Zhongchuan Mingxiu was intelligent; he grasped Chen A'Diao's consistently vile nature—she needed money, so she would extort it.
And the loser had no right to protest.
Zhongchuan Mingxiu tried to see if any security personnel were around to save him, but there were none.
"10, 9, 8..." She started counting down on her own.
Two months or three hundred million, which to choose?
Zhongchuan Mingxiu quickly made his decision. "The red cicada is yours. Thirty million star coins to settle our grudge! But I demand that you won't deliberately use excessive force against me at school because of this grudge in the future. Of course, the same goes for me; I won't deliberately antagonize you again. Only normal teaching competitions as required by the teachers. After all, we are classmates; there's really no need for such a life-or-death struggle."
Actually, he was thinking, up until now, have I ever gone beyond the normal level in teaching competitions?
Compared to her malicious acts, I've been more than reasonable.
But she was strong; today, she defeated him like a dog. She was the king.
Very well, much easier to persuade than that idiot Yuan Shu.
A'Diao smiled, pulled out her phone's payment code, and only after Zhongchuan Mingxiu had paid did she help him remove the glue and take the red cicada. She said with a smile, "Look at what you're saying, Classmate Zhongchuan. We're just having a normal competition; who would take it seriously? After all, the person who assassinated me was Cui Liang, and the one who wavered but still secretly helped the Cui family wasn't you, but your family members."
"Would I really hold a grudge against you for that and take the opportunity to cripple you in other competitions in the future?"
"I'm not that ruthless."
Really? But he felt that everything emanating from her, only that wicked payment code was real.
Zhongchuan Mingxiu was truly scared this time. Within those few seconds, his mind flashed with all the family teachings he had received since childhood—"Study for the rise of the family." "Endure the humiliation of crawling under Han Xin's crotch for a thousand-year plan." "Take a step back for a wider view, take a step forward and your whole family dies." "Never try it, or you'll die." And so on...
A few seconds later, after self-brainwashing, his mentality suddenly calmed down. Coughing up blood, he looked deeply at A'Diao. "The settlement I mentioned is a true settlement. From now on, neither I nor my family members will act foolishly again. Please inform your father and brother, Classmate A'Diao, that our past foolishness is unbearable to look back on."
A true man knows how to bend and stretch...
A'Diao couldn't be bothered to care if he was sincere or not. Anyway, she had gotten the benefits. She patted his shoulder amicably. "There's no need for that. Only with back-and-forth exchanges between you and me can we achieve circulating economic benefits and promote economic development."
Quite profound, huh?
Zhongchuan Mingxiu, pale-faced, contributed 6666 mental feedback, and continued to transmit hundreds and thousands more, probably feeling immense resentment whenever he saw her.
It was like nausea, wanting to vomit~~~
However, A'Diao suddenly sensed a chilling coldness and turned to look.
High in the sky, flames raged fiercely. Two figures were sent flying, leaving behind billowing flames.
Across a row of ginkgo trees, on the rooftop of the second-year building opposite them, Zhou Xiuhua and her partner were beaten until they vomited blood, but Tuoba had already seized the golden cicada. Riding his flyer high in the air, he laughed heartily.
"I told you not to fight me for it, but you insisted. Now you've been beaten, haven't you?"
Fuck!
Mingze was also furious: "Damn Tuoba! We were about to retreat, but you kept pestering us. You just wanted to fight!"
"If I had known you were so weak, I wouldn't have bothered fighting you." Tuoba's words were infuriating, but he was also full of vigor and spirit. "It's more satisfying to fight Chen A'Diao, right, Chen A'Diao!"
A call-out across the distance!
This was a declaration of war.
At this time, thanks to Song Ling's unexpectedly terrifying temperature control, Tian Zhongxiang, her two teammates, and a surprisingly helpful Cheng Zhang had controlled the situation where the blue cicada had been. The blue cicada was now in the fragrant pig's belly, and the situation had calmed down. Hearing Tuoba's shout and seeing A'Diao confronting him from afar, it was like—a clash of kings!
At this moment, the school's assessment team teachers were also watching.
Tuoba's dominance was expected, but he had defeated Zhou Xiuhua and her partner earlier than anticipated. The gap was too large.
He was stronger than the teachers had expected.
He was indeed a genius who had cleared the third level within a month of starting school.
But Chen A'Diao was also truly formidable, even more ferocious than Tuoba, her every move filled with a murderous aura.
Of course, her viciousness was also real. They hadn't missed the scene where she extorted thirty million from Zhongchuan Mingxiu.
A few teachers, more upright by nature, had some minor complaints, but seeing that the dean and other higher-ups didn't react and Qu Jiangnan seemed indifferent, they kept silent.
The wind rustled through the forest, and ripples rose on the vast, calm lake.
These two were probably destined for a battle.
Zhongchuan Mingxiu's eyes flickered: He hoped the two would fight. If Tuoba could defeat Chen A'Diao and snatch away her advantage today, even if Tuoba rose to a higher position because of it, at least it could curb Chen A'Diao's momentum.
From his observation, when A'Diao had approached him earlier, his equipment had detected her Spirit Power intensity. It was indeed much lower than Tuoba's, but it had already surpassed his and Mingze's.
A late bloomer, exceptionally talented, but even more ruthless than Tuoba.
Fight, fight, it would be best if she was beaten to death.
Standing on the spiderweb amidst the golden ginkgo leaves, A'Diao locked eyes with Tuoba on the rooftop two hundred meters away for three seconds. Suddenly, she picked up her phone, activated the loudspeaker, and turned the volume to maximum. "Big Brother Tuoba, what strong lungs you have! You're truly in great shape! I don't have such a loud voice. But since you called me, I'll tell you a secret."
"I've had a wish since I was little, and I've sworn to the Three Pure Ones, Buddha, and Guanyin—whoever can defeat me, I'll marry him!"
"Big Brother Tuoba, if you have such intentions, then come!"
That night, you were still the bastard who cheated me out of thirty pounds of crayfish, you pig!
But now, you are my Big Brother Tuoba.
Holy shit!
Truly unexpected, a bolt from the blue, earth-shattering, a thunderous, heaven-splitting, earth-sinking, purple-gold hammer!
From Tuoba +12222!
From Zhongchuan Mingxiu +8888!
From Qu Jiangnan +13333!
From Song Ling +7777!
From...
From Jiang Zhou +23333!
Even some junior schoolmates from the first and second years contributed a lot of mental feedback, and it was still increasing, about to break through four hundred thousand.
My god! So much mental feedback! I hereby declare my high school alma mater to be Jinling Academy!
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