Vol 1 Chapter 11 (1/2)

Chapter 11: This is……Friends.h.i.+p?

With a bang, the door to the room was kicked open yet again as Long Hai entered with furrowed brows, he asked coldly, “Who’s screaming?”

Chen Lei painstakingly ran towards Long Hai like a terrified little beast.

Disgust appeared in Long Hai’s face momentarily as he whipped Chen Lei viciously, scolding, “Tras.h.!.+” Before he used his feet to turn Chen Lei’s body, which had fell to the ground.

Chen Lei’s clothes had already been ripped, but his face was uninjuried, the only abnormal thing on it the purple black marks the choking left.

Long Hai was completely disinterested, he simply asked loudly, “Who did it?”

Qian Ye stood up from his bed and calmly spoke, “Me.”

Long Hai squinted his eyes and sized up Qian Ye before speaking, “Good, little boy, you have guts! Men! Bring him out for ten whips and hang him up until tomorrow!”

Qian Ye did not resist, he did not even show a hint of fear as he followed the guards out.

And after only a while, the familiar sound of the whip hitting flesh could be heard from the window. With every whip, the children’s dark memories surfaced, causing them to have uncomfortable expressions.

However, there was only sounds of whipping outside, with nothing to accompany it.

There wasn’t a scream, a m.u.f.fled scream, not even a sound could be heard. It was as if the guards were whipping a block of wood.

Even after Long Hai had left but Chen Lei was still on the ground, incapable of standing. That whip from Long Hai was not light at all, and adding in his previous injuries, it would be impossible for him to recover within a month.

The gazes of the surrounding children were all full of mocking and disdain. Everyone now knew that the skinny and weak Qian Ye was the truly vicious one. Chen Lei wanted to a.s.sert himself, but he had chosen the wrong victim for it, a grave mistake.

“Go to sleep!” The strongest child in the cla.s.s spoke intelligently.

On the dawn of the next day, Qian Ye who had been hung for the entire night had been taken down, and currently, he was so weak he couldn’t even stand properly. But even so, he stumbled to follow the morning run. And even after most of the children completed three rounds, he was still on his first, but he eventually completed his morning regime while sacrificing his breakfast time.

When night came, Qian Ye had only managed to finish half of his daily regime, it was certain that his rank would fall. However, the entire cla.s.s seemed to have collectively forgotten that fact, not a single child mentioned that matter.

That was because every child that had received ten whips would all stay in bed for the next few days, no one acted like Qian Ye did. Every movement they made would agitate the wound, inciting intense pain.

Therefore, most of the children who had received ten whips would give up, choosing to not even work out at all, much less complete half of the regime.

As it was late, every child was on their bed right now.

However, Chen Lei was kneeling in front of Qian Ye, his arms hugging Qian Ye’s thigh as he cried for mercy.

Glancing at Chen Lei, Qian Ye pushed him away before slowly climbing up his own bed to sleep.

Every other child were asleep, all but Chen Lei. He stood on the ground with clenching and unclenching fists, his face full of uncertainty.

Qian Ye had endured whipping while Chen Lei suffered internal wounds.

Killing Qian Ye now would be the easiest, but he feared the punishments that would follow. Of course, perhaps there was another fear deep in his heart, one he wasn’t willing to admit, the fear of losing to the current Qian Ye.

In this week, Qian Ye dropped half of his rank as expected, but what was unexpected was that as he was walking to his cultivating room one day, the child who was ranked number one in the cla.s.s came to him and gave him a piece of Zhu Yan Blood.

“I have four pieces of this, but I don’t need so much.” He had said.

As the number one ranker, this child had received a lot of benefits.

Qian Ye looked at him with surprise, and after thinking for a while, he took it generously before reaching his hand out as he spoke, “My name is Qian Ye.”

That boy smiled, “I’m called Song Zining.”

The two of their hands touched as they introduced themselves, though they already knew each others name a long time ago.

In this week, Song Zining gave Qian Ye a piece of Zhu Yan Blood every day until Qian Ye had returned back to the upper half of the list, regaining his right to receive Zhu Yan Blood.

Other than that, Song Zining and Qian Ye did not interact much, they did not even speak more than a few sentences with each other.

Reaching the tenth month, Qian Ye finally completed his third cycle of Force waves and used his full power to attack the Node’s barrier, while Song Zining had already ignited his Force Node two months ago.

Qian Ye noticed that the third cycle of the force waves had a strength one times stronger than the first cycle, with every collision of the waves, there would be intense pain.

According to this development, when he had reached the tenth cycle the pain would rival the pain of whipping. And at that point, it would be a mystery whether the children would be able to endure it.