Chapter 16
Luo Shizhen believed that after demonstrating his diligence and good working ability, Big Brother finally approved of him.
He did it! He achieved what Mr. Chen said: get along well with classmates!
However, in the eyes of Rong Nian and Lu Qiujin, after Xiao Shan had his underwear washed, he suddenly resigned himself to fate.
He no longer grumpily shouted “Don’t call me Big Brother”!
Instead, he lay on the sofa like a salted fish, playing dead.
Rong Nian pretended to come out to get things several times and saw Xiao Shan lying there stiffly.
Luo Shizhen, on the other hand, was packing luggage one moment, mopping the floor the next, then doing exercises. He looked very busy.
He rarely took the initiative to lean over and ask Xiao Shan: “Why don’t you go to the training room?”
Wasn’t this guy basically soaking in the training room anytime he was in the dorm, except for sleeping?
This also fit the characteristics of Awakeners. Awakeners had exclusive consciousness over territory. For public spaces like the outside, they usually wouldn’t appear if they could avoid it.
Xiao Shan opened his eyes. That fierce face appeared extremely listless at this moment:
“Luo Shizhen used disinfectant in the training room. It needs ventilation to disperse the smell. Can’t go in for eight hours.”
Awakeners’ five senses were already sharp. Even a trace of disinfectant smell would make Xiao Shan extremely uncomfortable.
Rong Nian was puzzled: “Disinfectant? Where did he get disinfectant?”
The school knew Awakeners had sharp senses and wouldn’t put disinfectant in the cleaning room.
Xiao Shan expressionless: “He brought it himself. Said he used half at the last school and couldn’t bear to throw it away, so he brought it along.”
Rong Nian: “…”
Bringing disinfectant to school—he had never heard of such a thing.
“Luo Shizhen is an Awakener himself; doesn’t he find it choking?”
Xiao Shan: “He said he can practice holding his breath, treating it as a preview for swimming class.”
“…Then why don’t you go to the game room?”
Although Xiao Shan’s entertainment room and study were connected to make a large training room, a section was partitioned off as a game room.
Xiao Shan: “He cleaned my game room too.”
He closed his eyes like a dead fish, completely lacking his usual arrogance:
“I went to check. Not a speck of dust. Even my porn discs hidden at the very bottom were wiped clean by him. The porn discs smell of disinfectant.”
Rong Nian: “…”
Xiao Shan was truly defeated. If he hadn’t stopped him fast enough, Luo Shizhen even planned to make his bed for him.
He simply couldn’t imagine how he would sleep at night if his bed retained the smell of disinfectant.
“I wanted to hit him, but as soon as I made a fist, he praised me for being amazing. I scolded him, and he thought it was because the cleaning wasn’t clean enough and wanted to clean it again.”
“Rong Nian, do you want to be a Big Brother?”
Xiao Shan was very calm, as if dead:
“I can see it. He just wants to find a backer, so he wants to recognize a Big Brother. How about this? You recognize him as a lackey, and I’ll catch a hundred fish for you.”
“I was wrong to knock off half your tail before. Can I apologize to you? Just take him away.”
Rong Nian looked at Xiao Shan as if seeing a ghost.
Xiao Shan, who would rather be beheaded than bow his head, actually said he wanted to apologize to him?!
“Are you possessed by a ghost?!”
Xiao Shan’s eyes stared into the void: “As long as you take him away, whatever you say goes.”
He felt he was truly mistaken before to think roommates like Rong Nian and Lu Qiujin were bad.
Where were they bad? They had so much sense of boundaries.
A truly good roommate should be like a dead person, never appearing in front of him usually.
Rong Nian looked at Luo Shizhen, who was reading seriously behind them, and said awkwardly:
“I don’t want to. He’s set on you. What would it look like if I actively approached him?”
Although he had guessed Rong Nian wouldn’t agree, Xiao Shan still sighed deeply, deeply, like a zombie that hadn’t been dead for long.
He even suspected—no! He was absolutely certain—this was Mr. Chen’s conspiracy.
Old Chen deliberately sent Luo Shizhen to deal with him.
Was it because he blew up half a teaching building fighting last month?
Rong Nian blew one up too! Why didn’t Old Chen find Rong Nian?
Xiao Shan didn’t give up.
He even laid down his dignity and actively messaged Lu Qiujin privately.
[Lu Qiujin, give me an idea to make that guy scram from my side!]
Lu Qiujin, who was reading in the study, received this message and started to be a little surprised.
To make the consistently arrogant Xiao Shan bow his head so quickly to ask for an idea… this Luo Shizhen, looking weak and timid, had quite some ability.
He felt a bit of interest in Luo Shizhen in his heart, but his reply revealed nothing.
Lu Qiujin: [Why should I help you?]
Xiao Shan: [Don’t you dislike that brother of yours? I can rush to your house next holiday and beat him up.]
Xiao Shan: [Let me state beforehand, beating him to death is a no-go. I don’t want to attract the Inspector for such a piece of trash.]
Lu Qiujin felt a bit of regret. If Xiao Shan could beat his brother to death, he would really be willing to help with ideas.
What’s the use of beating him half to death? The Lu family was rich; even if crippled, they could hire healing Awakeners to cure him.
Lu Qiujin: [My brother and I love each other. Please don’t talk nonsense :)]
Xiao Shan: [.]
Lu Qiujin: [Actually, you don’t need to be so angry. Luo Shizhen won’t hinder you. Just use him as an ordinary follower.]
Xiao Shan: [He’s too sticky! Can’t stand it!]
Lu Qiujin: [Didn’t he ask you to teach him to build muscles? You lack a sparring partner anyway, just use him.]
Xiao Shan: [? He looks very weak at a glance, and he’s an Energy User sensitive to Qi. I’ll beat him to death.]
Lu Qiujin: [Controlling your output is also a form of training :)]
Xiao Shan: […]
Xiao Shan: [Break one of your brother’s legs.]
Lu Qiujin: [After all, he is an Awakener, not that easy to die. He doesn’t look like he likes fighting. You take him for intensive training. When he’s too tired to bear it, naturally he won’t want to follow you.]
Xiao Shan: [Sounds like it needs a lot of time. Is there a faster method?]
Lu Qiujin: [That is the price of one leg :)]
The implication was, if he wanted a better method, one leg wasn’t enough.
Xiao Shan: […]
He threw the phone on the sofa and said to Luo Shizhen, who was sitting seriously at the bedside desk opposite him:
“Tomorrow you train with me.”
Hearing Big Brother actively talking to him and wanting to train with him, Luo Shizhen turned back in surprise:
“Really, Big Brother! Thank you, Big Brother!”
Luo Shizhen was a person who worked very seriously. Knowing his brain was slow and he couldn’t do several things well at the same time, usually, when he settled on one thing, he would bury his head and do it to the end.
When he was at No. 3 High School, his goal was to get into college, so Luo Shizhen spent almost all his time studying.
Even working so hard, his grades were at the bottom. If it were anyone else, they would have given up long ago, but Luo Shizhen was single-minded and continued to work hard regardless.
And now, he became an Awakener with a monthly salary of twenty thousand. Besides getting along well with classmates, Awakeners had to fight Anomalies.
Training well was naturally the number one priority.
Only by training well could he fight more Anomalies and be worthy of the twenty thousand monthly salary he received.
Luo Shizhen first cherished and put away the book carefully, then stood up full of expectation.
The school arranged training clothes and various training equipment for every new student. Luo Shizhen pushed out the half-person-high large box from his entertainment room.
“Big Brother, do we need to wear training clothes for training?”
“Big Brother, do I need to wear these gloves?”
“And this, I don’t know how to use it, and I can’t understand the manual. Big Brother, you definitely know, right? Can you teach me?”
He was happy like a puppy that got a big bone, pushing the box, his dark bright eyes looking at Xiao Shan with expectation, worship, and gratitude.
To make it more convenient for Xiao Shan, Luo Shizhen pushed the large box directly in front of the sofa.
Xiao Shan lifted his eyelids to take a look: “That’s a communicator. It goes on the shoulder. It can encrypt voice, transmit data, and has a global positioning system.”
“So amazing, just like in the TV shows!”
Luo Shizhen carefully held the communicator, clumsily trying to put it on his shoulder, but couldn’t get it on no matter what.
Xiao Shan originally wanted to pretend not to see it, but seeing Luo Shizhen keeping his head down, trying repeatedly and seriously.
He didn’t make a sound when he couldn’t put it on, just patiently changed methods slowly. Because he kept his head down, his face was tinged with a soft red, looking even easier to bully.
He really couldn’t stand watching anymore.
“So stupid. This matches with the combat suit. If you don’t change into the combat suit, how can you put it on!”
“So that’s it!” Luo Shizhen looked up happily, showing no frustration at all, and thanked Xiao Shan gratefully: “Thank you, Big Brother!”
Xiao Shan was truly convinced. How could this person have no temper?
With such a personality, if he were in his hometown, he would have been bullied to death long ago.
Luo Shizhen had already found the combat suit and started putting it on. The combat suit design was different from ordinary clothes; it had a multi-layered structure and needed to be equipped with various installations. It was his first time wearing it, so it was another struggle.
Xiao Shan really couldn’t bear to look. As the person who loved fighting the most in the school, no one was more familiar with combat suits than him. Seeing someone fiddle with it like this, he couldn’t stand it.
He simply stood up from the sofa: “The pull cord is here. In an emergency, hold the pull cords at these parts, and the combat suit will quickly disconnect.”
“Don’t press your hand there. That’s the magnetic adsorption control device. Press it after wearing it properly, and the combat suit can adsorb to your body.”
“Why is it red? Because you turned on the thermal imaging. The helmet has sensory enhancement modules inside. These buttons have different functions: this is night vision, this is thermal imaging, this is electromagnetic wave detection. Remember them all!”
Luo Shizhen stammered: “A bit, a bit too many. My memory is bad; I can’t remember.”
“Tsk! Isn’t it written in the manual? Look, there are marks here. Which mark corresponds to which function is written clearly. If you can’t remember, memorize it by rote for me. If you remember the combat suit functions wrong, you won’t even know how you died when fighting Anomalies!”
Luo Shizhen nodded like a chick pecking rice: “Thank you Big Brother. Big Brother, I remember. I will definitely memorize it well!”
“Big Brother, what is this?”
Xiao Shan glanced at it: “You better remember this thing well. It’s an energy shield generator. It can form a transparent protective layer capable of resisting energy impacts, even bullets. It saves your life at critical moments.”
“Press here to block the chest, here to block the head, here to block the back, here to block legs…”
Luo Shizhen tried hard to remember the positions: “Big Brother, you are so amazing. You can remember everything so complicated.”
Xiao Shan sneered: “It’s because you are too stupid.”
“Also this temperature regulation system. Memorize it to death for me. Otherwise, if you adjust to hot temperature on a hot day, it’ll heat you to death!”
Luo Shizhen praised from the bottom of his heart: “So amazing, even the temperature can be adjusted. Big Brother, our school is so good.”
Xiao Shan somewhat agreed with this:
“What is this? There are plenty of sophisticated devices on this combat suit. If not for the fighting here and these combat equipment, I wouldn’t have come to school.”
Luo Shizhen worshipped: “Big Brother, you look very capable of fighting at a glance. Even without a combat suit, you must be exceptionally good at fighting.”
“You have good eyes. I fought my way up since childhood. I could break an adult’s leg at eleven.”
Xiao Shan spoke arrogantly: “Alright, your upper body is done. Just step in for the lower body like this… Tsk! Why can’t you even put on shoes? Press here, and you can put them on. Stupid, press here.”
“Go, go, go. Can’t press accurately even after explaining so clearly. Move aside, I’ll do it. Press here, see it? Then the device inside will retreat, and you put it in…”
Luo Shizhen looked down at Xiao Shan: “Thank you Big Brother. Big Brother, you are so good. I’ll continue cleaning and washing clothes for you in the future.”
Xiao Shan sneered. Just as he was about to look up and say, “And then make me unable to enter the training room because of the disinfectant fumes?”, he suddenly realized something was wrong.
Look up? Why did he have to look up?
With his height of 1.9 meters, shouldn’t he be looking down at Luo Shizhen?
Xiao Shan looked at himself again. He was actually unknowingly half-kneeling on the ground.
One hand holding Luo Shizhen’s combat shoe, the other holding Luo Shizhen’s ankle.
A posture of helping him put on shoes.
Xiao Shan: “…”
“Fuck!!!!”
He sprang up violently, looking like he had seen a ghost.
—Am I crazy?
—I’m actually half-kneeling, putting shoes on for Luo Shizhen???
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Xiao Shan ah Xiao Shan 😂🤣🤣