Part 3
This Qi body had never been treated like this. It froze for a moment, then tentatively touched Luo Shizhen’s Qi back lightly.
It was gently touched again.
This Qi body acted as if it had discovered a new continent, instinctively wrapping around him.
“?”
Standing by the dumbbells, a red-haired student with superior looks but rebellion written all over him frowned, looking at another black-haired student who looked exactly like him but without the dyed hair.
“What are you doing?”
The black-haired student also looked puzzled. “I’m not controlling it.”
The red-haired student scoffed. “Your Qi. If not you, then who?”
Before the Qi from the black-haired student could wrap around, another Qi squeezed over, snatched the spot, and leaned in, also receiving a gentle touch from Luo Shizhen’s Qi.
These two Qi, fighting for the position on Luo Shizhen, quickly came into conflict and began attacking each other fiercely.
The black-haired student looked quietly at his brother.
Red-haired student: “…”
Yes, the later Qi that also wanted to wrap around Luo Shizhen was his.
His expression was a bit unnatural as he stubbornly said:
“Probably because he’s a Purifier and he doesn’t reject me, my Qi feels comfortable approaching him. It’s not that I personally want to do this. You know Qi isn’t very controllable. I don’t have any thoughts about this new student.”
Black-haired student: “I didn’t ask you.”
Red-haired student: “…”
The twin brothers’ Qi fought inseparably, which benefited the latecomers.
Different Qi approached more and more, wanting to drive away other competitors.
The students on the field also noticed something wrong with their Qi. Some retracted it directly, while others found approaching Luo Shizhen comfortable and simply let it be.
Some were provoked into attacking by others seizing space. Even though they hadn’t approached Luo Shizhen yet or tasted the sweetness of being soothed by his Qi, they fought more violently than anyone.
—Although I don’t know what you’re fighting for, I want to fight for it too!
In just two minutes, these initially probing Qi inexplicably turned into a gang fight.
But strangely, every Qi seemed to have a tacit understanding. Regardless of whether the Awakeners were controlling them, they fought chaotically but didn’t harm Luo Shizhen in the slightest.
With over a dozen Qi attacking each other around him, Luo Shizhen remained completely unaware.
These past few days, he kept feeling that he couldn’t integrate into the collective.
When Luo Shizhen was at No. 3 High School, he was a bit like a transparent person, unable to blend into everyone’s atmosphere.
He hadn’t expected that after preparing his self-introduction so thoroughly, he still couldn’t integrate into the collective at the Awakener School.
The classmates seemed quite aloof and didn’t talk to him.
But the good news was, it didn’t seem like they were only ignoring him. The classmates, whether roommates or not, seemed to communicate very little with each other.
Luo Shizhen was also very busy and didn’t have time to think about integration.
He didn’t notice at all that over a dozen Qi on his body were already fighting for dominance; he just felt the air becoming a bit stuffy.
But his cold was already cured.
Luo Shizhen quickly found the reason: It probably going to rain. Before it rains, the air gets stuffy.
He wondered when Lu Qiujin would pass the limit training. If it rained, the training difficulty would definitely increase.
And Chu Xiao and Big Brother—would they feel even stuffier in the confinement room?
Luo Shizhen thought briefly of his friends but didn’t speed up his training just because it might rain.
Mainly, his movements were still a bit unfamiliar, and he couldn’t speed up even if he wanted to.
Before coming to the school, Luo Shizhen had never learned such formal training. Having only learned for three days, his movements were still a bit clumsy and slow.
Whether doing soothing movements on his own or using equipment, he looked serious and cautious.
When he forgot how to do a soothing movement or felt he was doing it wrong, Luo Shizhen would stop and look around to see if a teacher was present.
Finding no teacher, he took out his phone, put on headphones to avoid disturbing other students, logged onto the school intranet, found the soothing movements in the training course, and studied seriously along with the video.
Other students usually never went on the intranet, nor did they watch these basic training courses.
There were only about two hundred clicks in total on there, basically all contributed by Luo Shizhen in the past few days.
Sometimes he watched and practiced during class, sometimes he reviewed after class. It could be said he was very diligent.
Luo Shizhen didn’t know that school teachers could see the increase in clicks from the backend and which student clicked.
The school had only twenty-eight students in total, all prodigies, yet destined not to live long. This made them even more pitiable.
The principal watched over them like eyeballs, wishing he could follow them around during meals to record what they liked to eat.
So, whenever a student clicked on a school video, if teachers happened to be on the school website page, a reminder would pop up:
【Student XX is watching XX video. He might have some doubts. Teachers, remember to help clarify ^v^】
However, back when the school had only twenty-seven students, this bunch never entered the school website.
Even if they were truly confused, they would rather bang their heads against the wall than actively ask teachers for help, so teachers almost never went on the official site either.
But the new instructor teachers didn’t care about these “unwritten rules” of the school.
For the past few days, Sui An had kept the school website open almost constantly.
Less than thirty seconds after Luo Shizhen clicked on the video, Sui An, who was looking at the computer outside, didn’t move his body.
However, transparent threads grabbed two bananas from the fruit bowl and tossed them toward Lin Qi.
Lin Qi was looking at his phone with his back turned. Sensing the change in wind direction, he turned directly and reached out, catching one in each hand.
“Whoa! Chief, why are you suddenly so good to me?”
He peeled a banana and was about to eat when he heard Sui An say:
“You’re the leading instructor today. Don’t just wander around outside. Go in and guide the students.”
Lin Qi: “?”
It’s just soothing training. Anyone with hands can do it. What needs guiding?
But as the saying goes, eat another’s food and do their bidding. He agreed while holding the two bananas:
“Alright! Going now.”
Lin Qi wasn’t a picky eater; he could eat any fruit. But he didn’t eat much, and two bananas were a bit too much for him.
But Luo Shizhen loves bananas, right?
He had read the student profile given by the principal, which stated that Luo Shizhen’s favorite fruit was bananas.
—God knows why the information the principal gave the teachers had to include what the students liked to eat.
Lin Qi still remembered that the student named Rong Nian loved eating raw fish. There was a bracket afterwards stating: If found eating raw fish, report immediately to facilitate the school giving him deworming medicine.
He had figured it out. The principal shouted fiercely every day, but he was actually the one who spoiled the students most.
Anyway, Lin Qi had a good memory. Reading it once, he not only remembered what each student liked to eat but also why Luo Shizhen loved bananas.
The file said bananas could quickly relieve hunger and replenish nutrients. When studying in high school, to maximize study time, Luo Shizhen would eat bananas when hungry outside of regular meals.
Heavens, so hardworking.
Lin Qi thought at the time, this kid studies so hard, his high school grades must be very good.
Eating one banana and carrying the other, he planned to give this one to Luo Shizhen upon entering.
Poor thing. Five hours of high-intensity training without food—a young lad of eighteen or nineteen must be starving.
Before going in, Lin Qi’s mood was relaxed, and he even had time to mentally roast his captain.
After all, the students had been trained to exhaustion; they surely lacked the energy to cause trouble.
But as soon as he entered the soothing training ground, his eyelids twitched.
He saw Luo Shizhen in the training ground seriously following the movements on the phone video, strictly imitating them one by one.
Other students stood far away, keeping a clear distance from each other.
It looked like a very normal, common mode of interaction between Awakeners.
But he could clearly sense that on Luo Shizhen’s body, there were at least a dozen Qi of young Awakeners coiled around.
They were killing each other, fighting and scrambling… to wrap themselves around Luo Shizhen??
Lin Qi: ?
On the field, not only had these Qi fought up a storm, but even the students were affected by their own Qi, creating undercurrents among themselves.
Only Luo Shizhen, seeing him enter, put down the dumbbells in his hand and, carrying the dozen fighting Qi on his body, called out happily:
“Hello, Teacher!”
These Qi immediately turned toward Lin Qi vigilantly and fiercely, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws as if discovering a common enemy.
Lin Qi: “…Hello.”
No, I just looked away for a moment…
What on earth are these adolescent brats doing!!
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