Part 3
The egg cub pounced toward Arlyn.
Arlyn caught the egg cub just in time.
He looked at the rabbit cub, then at the egg cub. After a silence, he said, “They’re so small, they won’t understand anyway. It doesn’t matter.”
His subtext was: They can’t understand it, so just let them be.
The Empress turned the video projection back on.
Instantly, the two little attention-seekers went quiet as mice.
In the projection, Jia Qingwan lowered the Defense Fortress for the second time, and then…
The most stunning scene appeared.
Rabbit cub: “(⊙o⊙)! Da awoo da da da da da!”
The rabbit cub clapped his two tiny paws together. As he clapped, he bounced up and down with the egg cub. They looked exceptionally joyful.
The two cubs didn’t understand, but Arlyn and the Empress knew exactly how powerful this source weapon manufactured by Yun Yingzhi was.
The two looked at each other.
Arlyn said, “What a fighter jet.”
The Empress paused, looked at the two lively cubs, and sighed from the bottom of her heart: “What a pair of fighter cubs belonging to a fighter jet.”
Rabbit cub: “Da?”
The rabbit cub looked at them with confusion, while little flowers of joy popped up around the egg cub as it spun several circles in place.
10:30 AM. The exam continued until noon.
When the exam ended, Yun Yingzhi was listless. He was completely out of it. He felt that he hadn’t done well this time and might need a make-up exam.
Like Yun Yingzhi, the other students in the same exam hall also looked lifeless.
Until…
A student among the crowd said, “The appraisal for the pure defense weapon made by A13167 should be over. Let’s go check the results.”
Yun Yingzhi’s ears moved. He thought to himself: It’s just a pure defense weapon. What results could there be to see?
Yun Yingzhi was still grieving over his grades and had no interest in the appraisal results. Anyway, he believed he would definitely pass the preliminaries.
Suddenly, a student said, “Red Peony Big Brother is such an incredible fighter jet!”
Yun Yingzhi’s eyelids twitched, and he was instantly alert.
He sat up straight, his eyes scanning all directions and his ears listening to everything. He had a subtly bad premonition.
“Did you hear? The students from the Source Weapon Manufacturing Department even delayed their exams just to watch the livestream.”
“Wow!”
“But they said it was totally worth it!”
Yun Yingzhi’s hands were shaking slightly.
Given that Yun Yinghui and the others already knew he was contestant A13167, he didn’t want them to add the label of “Violent Rabbit” to him right now.
He didn’t! He wasn’t!
Yun Yingzhi took a deep breath to calm his nerves and opened his personal terminal, intending to search for relevant information.
Then he discovered that he didn’t need to search at all. He saw news about the pure defense weapon he had manufactured everywhere.
The Level 4 attack-type weapon he made before had already attracted many people’s attention. This time, the Level 6 “defense-type” weapon he had put so much effort into had directly topped the headlines and trending searches of all major platforms.
His ears heard the students saying “What a divine weapon of war,” while his eyes saw lines of text that completely destroyed his persona. He felt himself crumbling.
Clearly, the situation he thought was absolutely impossible had occurred.
Oh, it really did happen.
He just happened to see a line of text.
[The “pure” defense weapon manufactured by contestant A13167—a divine skill of war revealed despite deliberate concealment.]
Yun Yingzhi’s beautiful lips pressed into a straight line. He pulled a long face, thinking these people were truly too wicked.
His personal terminal gave a prompt; Jia Qingwan was calling him.
Yun Yingzhi stood up, said a word to Yu Feiwen and his other two roommates, walked out of the exam hall, and went to a quiet stairwell to answer the call.
The moment the video call connected, Jia Qingwan said, “I’m sorry.”
Yun Yingzhi: “…” He didn’t even know what to say for a moment.
Jia Qingwan: “Yingzhi, although I don’t know why, you indeed deliberately hid the final attack effect in that source weapon.”
Without waiting for Yun Yingzhi’s reply, she continued, “I shouldn’t have shown it without your consent.”
Yun Yingzhi thought about it. As long as his “vest” wasn’t stripped away, this wasn’t a huge deal.
Facing a girl, Yun Yingzhi was particularly patient. He said, “No, Sister Qingwan, it’s not a big deal.” As long as the vest stayed on, it wouldn’t be a big deal.
Jia Qingwan asked, “Yingzhi, can you tell me why you were unwilling to show the strongest skill of that weapon?” She was still very confused about this question.
In her understanding, a good source weapon must be shown to do justice to its manufacturer and the weapon itself.
Yun Yingzhi had clearly hidden it on purpose, and she didn’t believe it was just because of the competition’s requirements.
Yun Yingzhi’s cheeks turned beet red instantly. He couldn’t answer for a long time.
Jia Qingwan frowned slightly. “Yingzhi, did I cause you trouble? Can I make it up to you?”
Yun Yingzhi shook his head, hesitated, and said, “Actually, it’s really nothing.”
Jia Qingwan: “Hmm?”
Yun Yingzhi paused, then finally spoke. “Sister Qingwan, you know, many people on the Star Network have a deep misunderstanding of me. They think I might be a bit…” He gave Jia Qingwan a “you know what I mean” look and continued, “But I’m not that kind of person at all. I thought the ultimate skill in the source weapon would deepen their misunderstanding of me, so I specifically didn’t mention it.”
Jia Qingwan: “…”
It would have been fine if she didn’t know the reason, but the moment she did, Jia Qingwan’s gaze toward Yun Yingzhi became particularly subtle.
Jia Qingwan thought back to the weapons from the Alvin Studio made by “Xingchen,” then thought about the weapon Yun Yingzhi gave to Yun Yinghui, and then the “pure defense” weapon she had just used…
She felt that Yun Yingzhi might have a very deep misunderstanding of himself.
On second thought, she suddenly didn’t understand. Why did Yun Yinghui also think Yun Yingzhi was particularly soft and weak?
Thinking even more carefully…
?
A massive question mark slowly formed in Jia Qingwan’s mind.
Wait. It wasn’t just Yun Yinghui who thought so. Yun Yinghui, and even all the students of Fanse Academy seemed to share this perception?
Jia Qingwan was startled. Forget about them—even she herself had shared the same perception before she knew Yun Yingzhi was contestant A13167.
At this moment, Jia Qingwan was suddenly very curious. How exactly had Yun Yingzhi managed to keep his “soft and weak” persona from crumbling over all these years?
???
A row of massive question marks appeared in Jia Qingwan’s brain.
After a thought—right, the practical combat exam for Fanse Academy’s Combat Department was coming up soon.
Jia Qingwan said, “Yingzhi, for your practical combat exam, can I go watch the battle?”
Yun Yingzhi: “Huh?” He was horrified.
Jia Qingwan: “Can we go with Yinghui when the time comes?”
Yun Yingzhi’s already red face turned even redder. He said awkwardly, “You guys… shouldn’t come, right?”
Jia Qingwan: “Why?”
Yun Yingzhi paused, then said with a face full of shame, “I think… I’ll embarrass you guys.”
Jia Qingwan: “…”
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