Chapter 25
Because Chu Xiao and Xiao Shan broke into the confinement room and beat up a student undergoing confinement, they were also punished with confinement.
Although they didn’t damage the confinement room, the penalty stood.
The principal suspected these students committed offenses deliberately to avoid training, so with a wave of his hand, he brought in a teacher with spatial abilities and modified the confinement room into a small training ground.
Causing trouble must be because you’re too idle. Even in confinement, you have to train!
All three had their abilities temporarily suppressed. Training in this state was far more arduous than usual.
Thus, the situation evolved into the three of them being trained half to death together in the confinement room. And even in this state, they still found time to beat each other up.
The teacher in charge of their training, seeing that these three still had energy to spare, increased the intensity again.
By the time training ended, the three were indeed too exhausted to physically fight, but they could still muster the strength to verbally abuse one another.
Chu Xiao cursed Rong Nian: “Like a dog, using scent to mark classmates in such a lowly manner. Even the lowest beasts aren’t as vulgar as you.”
Rong Nian had no strength to maintain his human form. His beautiful gradient-colored fish tail lay wretchedly on the floor, covered in small cuts.
These wounds had originally been large, but due to the strong recovery abilities of Awakeners, they now appeared as small cuts.
Naturally, these weren’t caused by training, but by the combined beating from Xiao Shan and Chu Xiao.
Yet, upon hearing these words, Rong Nian’s scarred fish tail actually slapped the floor triumphantly.
His thinking leaned towards the bestial. When no one was fighting him for something, he might be relatively indifferent. But once someone tried to snatch it, he only felt that what he possessed was a treasure.
“So what if I’m like a dog? Luo Shizhen likes dogs. I am his dog.”
Chu Xiao: “…”
His fair face flushed with anger, unable to believe Rong Nian could be so shameless.
In his eighteen years of life, Chu Xiao had always been a top student or a loner. No matter how many dark and obscure thoughts had risen in his heart, he truly didn’t know how to curse people.
He held it in for a while, only managing to squeeze out: “Shameless!”
Rong Nian didn’t care. He paid no mind to the insults of mere humans.
“I got the Mark; what do I need shame for?”
Even though he had no strength left, he still lifted his chin with difficulty and arrogance.
“You want face? Don’t think I don’t knowāthe scent on you told me long ago. You want to Mark Luo Shizhen, but you can’t. You can only watch me Mark him, watch me be his dog.”
“When the time comes, we’ll eat together and shower together. He’ll even comb my fur, let me lick him, and hold me while sleeping.”
Chu Xiaoās chest heaved violently with rage. He instinctively tried to summon ice, but came up empty before remembering they were in confinement and their abilities were disabled.
Usually aloof and proud, he now wished he could crawl over and bite Rong Nian to death.
But he couldn’t even crawl…
Xiao Shan, on the other hand, aligned with him this time and jumped straight in.
Having been a hooligan, he was much better at cursing than Chu Xiao.
“Want to be a dog? Did you devolve into a dog? You’re just a fish; do you even have fur to comb?”
“Shizhen just pitied you and helped with a Mark. In three months, the Mark will clear. Even if you want to be a dog then, no one’s going to put a leash on you.”
Rong Nianās eyes turned dark, and he lunged forward abruptly.
He wanted to tear every piece of meat off this person to make him regret those words!
He lungedā
And didn’t move.
The training teacher transferred here watched the monitor and took a relaxed sip of tea.
“Finally drained their energy.”
Another teacher worried, “But with them cursing each other like this, won’t it affect the camaraderie between classmates?”
The training teacher chuckled. “Their camaraderie is already negative; what’s there to be afraid of?”
“Let them curse. Young people, they all roughhouse like this. Through the fuss, theyāll eventually build some feelings.”
Look at Chu Xiao and Xiao Shanāincompatible as fire and water before coming here, but now they were cooperating.
The training teacher was experienced.
“When they’re too tired to even curse, their emotions will calm down. Being lively and fighting is better than being dead silent all day.”
Sure enough, the three didn’t curse for much longer, mostly because they ran out of strength.
Silence reigned in the confinement room for a while. Rong Nian slapped his tail on the floor and suddenly asked:
“Since you’re all in here, isn’t Luo Shizhen alone outside? What if he gets bullied by others?”
Actually, he was afraid someone else would want to Mark Luo Shizhen.
Xiao Shan sneered. “He’s my lackey. Would I let him get bullied?”
Chu Xiao narrowed his eyes. Glancing at Xiao Shanās expression and seeing him still posturing as a “Big Brother” without appearing to covet Shizhen, he lowered his guard against Xiao Shan slightly.
But not by much. Similar things had happened beforeāpeople claiming they wanted to be friends, only to reveal a different face later.
Who knew if Xiao Shan would be the next one.
But for now, Rong Nian, who kept clamoring to be Shizhenās dog, was the bigger threat.
Because Shizhen really liked dogs.
Rong Nian didn’t care about Chu Xiaoās cold glare. He simply asked suspiciously:
“You’re in here. How can you guarantee he won’t be bullied?”
The school had more Atavism Sequence Awakeners than just him.
What if someone else took a fancy to Luo Shizhen and wanted him to keep them?
Xiao Shan glanced at him sideways. “I asked Lu Qiujin to help look after him. There won’t be any problems.”
Rong Nian became alert. “Lu Qiujin? He’s not a good thing!”
Xiao Shan was confident. “Lu Qiujin only has eyes for his family. I promised to break his brother’s legs, so he’ll take good care of Shizhen for me.”
Before joining Eternal Day, Xiao Shan and Lu Qiujin knew each other.
They had made several transactions.
Trading with Lu Qiujin was simpleājust beat up his brother.
Rong Nian was skeptical, then turned his spearhead toward Chu Xiao.
“And you? What did you do for Luo Shizhen!”
Chu Xiao was cold. It was just a Mark that lasted three months; what right did Rong Nian have to question him?
Xiao Shan answered for him. “He’s queued for the two legs three months from now. By then, Lu Qiujinās brotherās legs should be mostly healed.”
He struggled to prop himself up against the wall base, sitting up. On his fierce face, a mocking expression appeared as he continued to curse:
“The only one who hasn’t done anything for Shizhen now is you.”
“Being a dog? Are you worthy?”
Rong Nianās exquisite face instantly turned ferocious.
“What’s so great about that!”
He raged, “I can beat Lu Qiujinās brother too! Leave the legs six months from now to me!”
The teacher in the training room nearly sprayed tea all over the screen.
“What sin did Lu Qiujinās brother commit?”
The other teacher reminded him, “He’s the one who tried to transplant the Awakened ability from Lu Qiujin to himself.”
The training teacher: “Oh… I remember now. His parents were accomplices too. Eternal Day was going to imprison them for life, but Lu Qiujin stopped it.”
Almost killed by them, yet he forgave the murderers and stopped Eternal Day from jailing them, remaining a loving family.
In the eyes of ordinary people, Lu Qiujin must seem like a peerless saint.
But among Awakeners, no one thought Lu Qiujin did it out of soft-heartedness.
More likely, he felt it wasn’t enough. Compared to Eternal Day taking action, he wanted to exact revenge personally.
The training teacher sighed. “I recall he’s entered the annihilation phase too.”
The other teacher looked complicated as well. “Hope he can survive it.”
But if Lu Qiujin couldn’t hold on, an Awakener harboring such extreme hatred would be completely polluted. The resulting Anomaly would be devastating.
Thirty years ago, when Xia Country was still exploring Awakeners, they didn’t know that an Awakener’s mutation created something more destructive than an Anomaly.
Not until a Guardian was fully polluted. His teammates couldn’t bear to kill him before he fully mutated. As a result, this Sequence 5 Guardian mutated into a Rank 8 Anomaly.
The mutated Guardian could no longer be called human. He killed all his teammates and massacred an entire small city before two Controllers joined forces to strangle him.
Since then, a new position was born in the Awakener Center: Inspector.
The Inspector’s duty was to kill Awakeners before they fully mutated to prevent successful alienation.
And coincidentally, an Inspector had been transferred to the school as a short-term instructor for the students.
The training teacher could only silently pray for Lu Qiujin.
“That child has hate in his heart. He desires to live more than anyone. To survive, he will work very hard.”
Besides, wasn’t there a new Purifier student in the school?
Although newly awakened, he had a surprisingly good temper.
Maybe Lu Qiujin could receive purification too.
The three in the confinement room were also discussing Lu Qiujin.
Chu Xiao: “I’m not worried about Shizhen’s safety; Mr. Chen will look after him. But Lu Qiujin… are you sure he won’t have any crooked ideas?”
Shizhen was so good; anyone by his side would be moved, right?
Rong Nian also became vigilant. “Right, right! What if Lu Qiujin wants to be Luo Shizhen’s dog too!”
Xiao Shan looked at the two with disdain.
“Lu Qiujin is a pretender; face matters more to him than anything. Do you think everyone is like you two? I asked Lu Qiujin because I know he won’t be like you.”
The scar at the corner of his eye moved with his sneer, making him look even fiercer and more reliable.
“Although Lu Qiujin is deep, vengeful, a pretender, and makes people want to beat him to death.”
“But at least, like me, he’s a straight man.”
This was the result of his careful deliberation.
Having Lu Qiujin protect his little brother was guaranteed safe.
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