Chapter 34

From that day on, a terrifying campus legend began to spread at Chixiao No. 2 High School.

"Hey, have you heard about 'that thing'?"

"Of course, it's too scary, too terrifying, too brutal!"

At noon, in the school cafeteria, several girls were whispering to each other, still trembling with fear.

"What are you talking about? Why are you all so scared?" a rather slow-witted girl asked, puzzled.

A girl with freckles looked around and then lowered her voice, speaking in a very mysterious tone: "Haven't you heard? In the senior class, there's an unlucky guy named 'Li Yao' who somehow offended Helian Lie and even knocked down one of Helian Lie's subordinates. As a result, Helian Lie flew into a rage and intensified his torture, making Li Yao look neither human nor ghost!"

"Goodness, Helian Lie, my idol! How did he torture him?" the slow-witted girl exclaimed.

The freckled girl quickly covered her mouth: "Keep your voice down, how can you shout about such things? We haven't seen exactly how he was tortured, but just one look at Li Yao will show you how terrible it is to offend Helian Lie!"

"Right, it's said that Helian Lie locked Li Yao in the logistics warehouse and tortured him day and night. Once, I passed by the back alley of the warehouse and heard a series of 'aaaaah' screams from inside. The screams were like they came from the underworld, so terrifying that I was scared out of my wits, even losing a shoe and not daring to go back to pick it up!" another chubby girl confirmed.

"Is it really that exaggerated?" the slow-witted girl was skeptical.

At that moment, a boy with a bruised nose, a haggard face, and exhausted body, walked past them, trembling and staggering, and plopped down nearby, collapsing on the table like a pile of mud.

"Look, that's Li Yao!" the freckled girl's eyes lit up, and she quickly nudged the slow-witted girl.

The slow-witted girl turned her head and couldn't help but exclaim: "Goodness, it's even more exaggerated than you said! His whole face looks like a pig's head! Look, he's shaking all over, and his hands are full of blood blisters, still bleeding, how terrifying!"

As she spoke, Li Yao suddenly convulsed violently, his head shaking.

"See, that's the result of being beaten to the point of having epilepsy," the freckled girl whispered.

Across from Li Yao, his best friend Meng Jiang brought him lunch: ten sausages as thick as arms, twenty lion's heads, a large wooden bucket of rice, and ten military-grade compressed biscuits from a military factory.

"Xiao Yao, don't lie to me, are you really undergoing special training with Old Sun, or did Helian Lie have someone beat you up?" Meng Jiang asked again, his eyes full of suspicion.

Li Yao grinned, a smile uglier than a cry, and he had no strength to speak.

"If I had known, I would have rather let Helian Lie beat me up!" Meng Jiang sighed deeply.

Not far away, the girls continued to whisper.

"How can he eat so much, he's a monster!" the slow-witted girl said.

"I know this!"

The chubby girl, a bit embarrassed, said, "From a psychological perspective, once a person is under immense mental pressure, they will involuntarily have a huge appetite, using excessive food to relieve tension. I eat more and more because my parents often argue, making me depressed. However—"

The chubby girl looked at the two sausages, three lion's heads, and a large bowl of rice on her plate, then at the mountain of meat in front of Li Yao, and concluded, "From the way he eats, he must be in the late stages, on the brink of mental collapse!"

"Poor guy!" the slow-witted girl looked at Li Yao's convulsing figure, her eyes full of pity.

"So, in our school, you can offend anyone, but not Helian Lie. Even if you accidentally offend him, you must immediately beg for mercy and never resist, or—this unlucky guy will be your fate!" the freckled girl said seriously.

This was the common conclusion of all the students at Chixiao No. 2 High School after seeing Li Yao's "tragic fate."

However, in the spirit crane messages between Sun Biao and Peng Hai, Li Yao was described in a completely different light.

On the seventh day of special training, the chat record between Sun Biao and Peng Hai.

Sun Biao: "Not human! This kid is definitely not human! It's only been seven days of special training, and he has already increased the 'abandonment' gravity field to 400 kilograms and completed all the training! Even when I increased all the training content by 20%, it didn't faze him! What about you, Hai, how's it going on your end?"

Peng Hai: "Don't even mention it, last night he fought me for a full ten minutes, and there were several times I almost got hit. Even though I only used 3% of my strength, the feeling was just too... unpleasant! But thanks to his threat, my control over my own strength has greatly improved!"

...

On the thirteenth day of special training, the chat record between Sun Biao and Peng Hai.

Sun Biao: "This kid carried a 500-kilogram load and completed two days' worth of training today. By the way, his spirit root development increased by 4% in just thirteen days, reaching 62%. Is he even human? Hey, Hai, speak up, why aren't you saying anything!"

Peng Hai: "I got hit by a punch last night, in the lower abdomen."

Sun Biao: "..."

Peng Hai: "..."

Sun Biao: "HAHAHAHAHA, I'm a disgrace to the cultivation world, and you're a shame to the cultivation world, getting hit by a mere human!"

Peng Hai: "I only used 3% of my strength! Not 3% of my power, but 3% of my senses, vision, smell, speed, everything! Getting hit by a lucky punch is normal! No, tonight I'll use 4% of my strength to fight him!"

Sun Biao: "What about your 'strength control training'?"

Peng Hai: "To hell with the strength control training, I need to have some fun first!"

...

On the twenty-fifth day of special training, the chat record between Sun Biao and Peng Hai.

Sun Biao: "I've already pushed all the 'abandonment' techniques to their limits, making the training difficulty comparable to what you experienced back then, but this kid still toughed it out, it's too scary! When he grits his teeth, I'm almost afraid to look into his eyes. Do you think—should I take some of his blood for analysis?"

Peng Hai: "Analyze, why?"

Sun Biao: "This kid definitely has beast blood, he's a genuine ferocious beast!"

...

On the last day of special training, the chat record between Sun Biao and Peng Hai.

Peng Hai: "Is it the last day? In a few hours, it will be the 'intense battle moment,' with thousands of senior students competing for ten admission tickets. How is the kid doing?"

Sun Biao: "It's hard to say, I'm a bit afraid to let him out."

Peng Hai: "Why?"

Sun Biao: "I'm afraid this ferocious beast will break out and blow the whole school sky-high!"