Vol 1 Chapter 14 (1/2)

Chapter 14: To fight or not to fight

Fang Minghui was instantly shocked, and before she could speak, a boy ran over as he hurriedly spoke, “No! She’s mine!”

Song Zining’s face darkened as he spoke coldly, “What are you to challenge me?”

That boy’s face instantly turned pale as he stammered, “But, but you already have two women.”

“Two isn’t enough.” Song Zining replied coldly.

This sentence made the boy speechless, looking at Qianyao indignantly, he slowly retreated.

That boy was in a group with a few of his friends, when he had ran over, the others chose to stand still and watch.

One of the taller youngster walked over and spoke with a deep tone, “Song Zining, you’re going overboard. The few of us have always respected you and indulged you. However, you cannot monopolise all the good for yourself, and more so, you cannot bully my brother!”

Qianye recognised this fellow named Wujin, he ranked behind Song Zining, but the difference in their overall scores were not too large.

Song Zining ignored the hidden threat in Wujin’s words and laughed coldly, “I just bullied your brother, so what?”

Slightly squinting his eyes, killing intent radiated from Wujin’s body as he slowly spoke, “There isn’t much of a difference between us, and now that I think about it, it’s been a while since I fought you seriously!”

“That is because you’re too afraid to come find it, I did not intent on avoiding a match with you at all.” Song Zining laughed coldly as he straightened his body, his knife-sharp killing intent rising in the air.

Exercising his joints, Song Zining laughed coldly, “Wujin, you shouldn’t be dumb enough to believe in the stupid rankings? How about this, we’ll go to the battle cla.s.s for a fight right now, and this time, I won’t show any mercy. After this match, you can f.u.c.k off with your s.h.i.+tty second place!”

Facing Song Zining’s challenge, Wujin’s facial expression became uncertain and with a hmph, he turned and left.

While facing the back of Wujing, Song Zining spoke leisurely, “Wujin, if you want to join forces with other people, do it quicker. I will ignite my second Node in two more months!”

Rank two fighter!

Wujin’s body trembled as he turned to look at Song Zining with an unbelieving expression before leaving in a hurry, his previous aura completely gone.

The surrounding children were similarly shocked as their att.i.tude towards him became more respectful. Fang Minghui immediately changed her view of Song Zining and obediently walked to his side, speaking lightly, “I’ll do whatever brother Song wants me to, accompanying anyone is fine.”

Pointing at Fang Minghui, Song Zining spoke to Qianye, “Qianye, she’s something you deserve. In this place, if you don’t go for things that are rightfully yours, people will start to doubt and test you. Showing off a bit of your strength would reduce the amount of ha.s.sles.”

Qianye originally wanted to reject, but after being stared at by Song Zining’s resolute gaze, he could only let Fang Minghui follow him.

Returning onto his bed, Qianye thought back to the incident earlier.

What Song Zining wanted to tell Qianye was that strength was everything. Without strength, against someone like Song Zining, one could only retreat and relent, or be beaten to death.

Even the second ranked Wujin had to suffer humiliation and retreat when he faced against Song Zining. As for Fang Minghui, this kind of extremely low ranking girls would follow any man without much care.

Qianye felt like he had understood what Song Zining was trying to convey.

Fang Minghui secretly climbed up Qianye’s bed, but the Bing Yue Exercise tormented Qianye was completely disinterested in her. He only grabbed her waist once before falling asleep.

For the following period of time, Fang Minghui followed Qianye around, despite never touching her, Qianye did not have her leave. Amongst his batch of students, Qianye was ranked in front, staying in the ten range.

This was thanks to his extraordinary performance in every lesson, especially in some of the knowledge based lessons like the firearms and machinery subjects, Qianye’s performance being close to perfection. As for physical cla.s.ses, he suffered slightly, but in cla.s.ses where they had to fight, thanks to his viciousness, he managed to stay within the top thirty.

Song Zining was right, with Qianye’s combined rank, he indeed had the right to set a female companion. But he never looked for one and and as a result, he was seen as someone who was guilty over insufficient strength.

The life in Acheron Camp was never boring.

One day, during machinery cla.s.s,  Qianye had used simple equipment to create a highly precise cartridge after ten failures. He was extremely satisfied with his own work, a single cartridge was very easy to make, but creating a high precision cartridge without meticulous equipment was difficult. One needed certain strength and control to accomplish such a feat.

This was a core skill in battle. With this ability, Qianye could repair broken firearms and other equipment in battle, it’s essentiality self-evident.

As Qianye was admiring his own work, a young girl’s voice suddenly appeared next to him, “How amazing!”