These dropouts and troublemakers dropped out of school because they felt dizzy and disoriented from the daily struggle with textbooks, which led to their frustration and self-doubt. Could things get any more insidious than forcing a group of people with dyslexia to study?
In an instant, all the thugs on the street had vanished.
Qin Chu sat on a rock to the side, watching the group of people read. When he spotted someone cheating, he immediately kicked the person, sending them tumbling over.
He acted like a dean of students, even more so than the dean of students.
The thugs, who thought they would be done reading in a short while, were getting sore throats and restless when they heard Qin Chu's devilish voice, which sounded like it came from hell: "Memorize it."
To Yang Ge and his gang of thugs, these words were tantamount to "Go to hell."
After staring at them reading for a while, Qin Chu turned to Zhao Yuan: "Is it alright not to go home?"
"It's nothing." Zhao Yuan waved his hand at him. Going home was nothing compared to watching these idiots study. He thought for a moment and then added, "I lied to my dad. He thought it was my friend who invited me out to play."
When the group of thugs were all dizzy and about to vomit while looking at their phone screens, Qin Chu finally called a halt.
After nearly an hour of reading, only one person out of more than a dozen could recite it completely.
This usually unremarkable little dwarf was very excited, and stood up straight with his head held high.
Qin Chu glanced at him and gestured for the short man to come over.
Seeing that Qin Chu was calling that shorty instead of him, Yang felt that he, as the second-in-command, had lost face and decided to stay up all night to memorize this passage.
Qin Chu was completely oblivious to this involution effect, and only said to the short man, "I have something to ask you. Do you know Meng Bo?"
When Zhao Yuan heard Qin Chu asking about Meng Bo, he clicked his tongue inwardly, thinking to himself that he knew this person well and should ask him!
But he couldn't say that, because he was now playing the role of a well-behaved student who was being bullied.
The short man hadn't expected Qin Chu to notice him, and leaned closer, his voice trembling with excitement: "I...I know. Meng Bo is the leader of another group, their territory is...is right here..."
At this point, the short man suddenly stopped talking, and he and the other thugs looked at the street behind them in unison.
Meng Bo's territory was just cleared out by this big shot!
Now, if you ask them if they know Meng Bo... is this the legendary "killing the chicken to scare the monkey"?
The little guy's legs immediately started to tremble.
Qin Chu, somewhat displeased that he had stopped halfway through his sentence, urged, "Continue, where does he live? Why haven't we been able to find him these past few days?"
Upon hearing this, Yang Ge and the others breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed they were going to seek revenge on Meng Bo.
“Meng Bo isn’t from around here; he should be living somewhere else. We haven’t seen him for several days now, and we don’t know where he went.”
At this point, Yang suddenly remembered the information he had recently gathered and found an opportunity to interject. He said in a very obsequious manner, "I heard that Meng Bo and his group have connections with big shots in the underworld. I guess they're working as their lackeys now."
Hearing his description, Qin Chu couldn't help but scoff: "So, you guys aren't gangsters?"
Yang Ge still had some self-awareness, and looked embarrassed: "What are we doing here..."
At this point, Qin Chu also understood that the fight that disqualified Zhou Sisi and Wang Peng from taking the college entrance examination was probably instigated by Meng Bo and others.
At this moment, Noah spoke in Qin Chu's mind: "Sir, each world has its own distribution of power. Although this world is very limited, the thugs outside the streets are probably the strongest force in this world. Generally, encountering such a force has a certain probability of attracting the attention of the mainframe..."
This is to advise him not to cause trouble outside.
Qin Chu was still considering his options and did not reply immediately.
The thug then shared some more information about Meng Bo.
After listening for a while, Qin Chu suddenly asked, "Is Meng Bo handsome?"
Yang and the others were stunned, clearly not expecting Qin Chu to ask such a question.
Before they could react, Zhao Yuan, who was standing to the side, suddenly blurted out, "Not handsome, terribly ugly."
Chapter 18 The First World (16)
Qin Chu turned to look at Zhao Yuan, who blatantly lied: "I was just guessing. These thugs usually look fierce and menacing!"
Anyway, she's not as handsome as him.
Upon receiving the signal, Yang and the others immediately began to spout nonsense.
"right!"
"Can you call that handsome? His head is bigger than a winnowing basket!"
"Shoehorn face!"
"A gaping, blood-red maw!"
"My face is covered in pimples!"
"Pig nose!"
"Protruding ears!"
"And bald!"
Qin Chu: "..."
What kind of aesthetic sense does Zhou Sisi have?
I'd rather like that fat guy from that day.
Noah also heard these words and, very enthusiastically, followed their narration, creating a simulation diagram.
Qin Chu glanced at it and felt like he was going to go blind.
His face looked like it was about to freeze solid, but in reality, it was filled with gloom and despair.
With this kind of aesthetic sense, how can this girl be saved?
Qin Chu had never imagined a mission could be so difficult.
Noah comforted Qin Chu: "Sir, I think this is a good thing."
Qin Chu scoffed, "This is supposed to be a good thing? He's not even as good-looking as the Star Beast."
Noah argued confidently, "Think about it, with looks like this, you probably can't find another one like him in the entire Little World. This means that as long as we get rid of Meng Bo, Zhou Sisi will have no chance of falling for someone else!"
Qin Chu: "..."
Damn, that's really true.
The weekend was chaotic, but Meng Bo still didn't show up.
When Qin Chu passed through that alley again on Monday, he was very pleased to find that apart from pedestrians who had taken shortcuts, there wasn't even a mouse to be found.
Besides being Meng Bo's territory, this alley was also a gathering place for some local thugs.
Qin Chu has cleared out the entire alley, and any thug with a brain knows to stay far away from this area. But there are always some brainless ones who wander around and end up near the No. 1 Middle School.
Wang Peng came to school early today.
He had just reached the vicinity of the school gate when he heard the sound of arguing.
A girl in a school uniform was stopped by a group of cocky boys. Although they didn't do anything too outrageous, the girl was very timid and was so frightened by the thugs' words that she almost cried.
As a good student all along, Wang Peng was still subconsciously a little scared when he actually faced a hoodlum.
But after what happened on Friday, he became much bolder. Although he didn't go so far as to fight the thugs one-on-one, the fear he once had vanished. Later, when he entered the alley with a stick, he even stood in front of the class representative and the others.
Wang Peng turned around, intending to go to the girl's side to help, when he saw a familiar, cold figure walk past.
The man walked up to the girl and pulled her behind him.
But it seems he was born without the nerve to cherish women. The girl wasn't harmed by the thugs; instead, he pulled her, and she lost her balance and fell on her bottom.
"..."
Although Wang Peng was speechless, he didn't just stand by and watch. Fearing a fight might break out, he went over to help Cheng Cheng.
Those thugs were such cowards; they didn't know what had happened. When they looked up and saw Cheng Cheng's face, they were so scared that they ran away.
Then Wang Peng watched as Cheng Cheng turned around, saw the girl sitting on the ground, and asked in confusion, "How did you fall?"
Wang Peng: "..."
This guy will probably stay single for the rest of his life.
Wang Peng's idea only lasted for two classes.
It was time for eye exercises again. Zhao Yuan appeared to be doing the exercises seriously with his head down, but in reality, he was supporting his head with his hands and was almost snoring.
Today's patrolling teacher happened to be Old Chen, the head of the teaching department who taught their math class. Just as Old Chen was about to patrol over, Qin Chu kicked Zhao Yuan in the shin.
Zhao Yuan shuddered before resuming his exercises.
Old Chen, with a stern face, patrolled with utmost seriousness. So much so that Qin Chu kicked Zhao Yuan four times during the short five-minute exercise session.
After the teacher left the classroom, Qin Chu couldn't help but ask, "Did you go thieving last night?"
Zhao Yuan was so sleepy that he was dizzy. Hearing this, he waved his hand at him and mumbled, "Don't mess around, I need to sleep for a while."
What's going on?
General Qin was angered by this word again. If it weren't for the fact that this guy was really sleepy, he would have picked him up and given him a beating.
Zhao Yuan didn't sleep much last night.
On Saturday, Qin Chu asked Meng Bo if he was handsome. His deskmate, usually so aloof, was hardly the type to ask such a question.
Zhao Yuan couldn't help but ponder this issue all day yesterday. He wouldn't say he cared that much, but whenever he had free time, he couldn't help but think about it.
He happened to have some insomnia last night, and after thinking about it for a while, he finally couldn't resist anymore.
Zhao Yuan couldn't quite describe his feelings; he felt like he was being controlled by a ghost. In the middle of the night, instead of sleeping, he climbed out of his bedroom window and ran out onto the street to look for Meng Bo.
It's nothing special, just to see how handsome Meng Bo is, that his deskmate actually asked him a question.
He had dealt with Meng Bo a few times before, but in those situations, who would pay attention to whether he was handsome or not?
Zhao Yuan had a good plan: if Meng Bo was too ridiculously handsome, he'd just drag him out and beat him up. Anyway, regardless of whether Meng Bo was as handsome as him before, he definitely wouldn't be as handsome as him from now on.
But once everyone had slipped out onto the street, Zhao Yuan discovered that he had absolutely no idea where that bastard Meng Bo lived.
So Zhao could only slink back home in disgrace.
The classroom was noisy, but actually, the noise was quite soothing to fall asleep in.