Chapter 73: The Fastest Competition
After arriving at Anhang Academy, Cheng Ran started looking sleep deprived, which made Shi Qingyang glance at him several times: “Ranran, you didn’t sleep well last night?”
“Yeah.” Cheng Ran nodded and yawned. In fact, he seldom got angry. When people thought bad things about him, he didn’t care at all, but when people said bad things about Shi Qingyang, that made him extremely angry.
“How are you suddenly not sleeping well? Is your internal clock not adjusted?” Cheng Ran usually had a very regular schedule. Maybe it was because his internal clock got disrupted while staying in the ant nest before?
“That’s probably it… Qingyang, you must win and beat them all down!” Cheng Ran said.
“Definitely,” Shi Qingyang said. In actuality, he was more than twice as old as these people, and had both strength and experience. If he couldn’t beat others like this, then he was just too shameful.
“Xiao Ran, if you’re sleepy, you’d better not watch the competition and go to bed early,” Cheng Xuze persuaded after he looked around and saw Cheng Ran yawning..
“I’m not sleepy, I want to watch the competition,” Cheng Ran said, pinching his eyebrows to refresh himself. In the past, at Spark Academy, he thought Shi Qingyang was particularly handsome when competing with others.
Seeing this scene, Shi Qingyang reached out and rubbed the traces pinched out between Cheng Ran’s eyebrows: “I might not go straight to competing this morning, so you’d better go to the dormitory to lie down…” Anhang Academy had arranged dormitories for the students of other academies, but they hadn’t slept there before.
The dean of Anhang Academy had been paying attention to them and immediately said, “Does Classmate Cheng Ran want to go to the upper office to have a rest? There is a lunch rest area for teachers who teach practical combat. Robots clean it up every day and you can see the whole competition field from top to bottom.” Cheng Hong’s news made so much noise yesterday that he couldn’t help worrying about it now, and he wanted to please Cheng Xuze wholeheartedly.
“When Qingyang’s match is over, I’ll go.” Cheng Ran looked at the match schedule, and when he yawned again, he wrinkled his nose.
“I’ll finish it up sooner,” Shi Qingyang said. Spark Academy, along with the other academies from two tier-3 cities, participated in this competition. Anhang Academy only selected eight from their own ranks, adding up to a total of 34 people. The huge protective cover was divided into eight areas, and each area had a competition platform. This competition, as in the past, consisted of knockout matches. Everyone would first compete with each other for three games, then see the winning rate to promote to the next round.
“Yes, finish early so that Xiao Ran can go to bed,” Cheng Xuze immediately said, then glanced at the courteous dean again.
The dean of Anhang Academy had already sent someone to decorate the lounge upstairs. At this time, he hurriedly ordered someone to arrange the order of the matches.
Although the computer drew lots for the matchups, the referee arranged the times of each match. It was completely possible for the referee to line up Shi Qingyang’s three matches earlier in the rounds, which was not cheating. In fact, others would be happy to see him to this–since Shi Qingyang’s matches would be more intensive, others would be appropriately relaxed and have more time to rest.
In fact, grouping someone’s matches together to fight like this would be like throwing several opponents at a single person in a row. But the dean of Anhang Academy was eager to please Cheng Xuze, and didn’t care about Shi Qingyang.
Cheng Xuze watched Shi Qingyang change into his combat clothes, and as Cheng Ran stared at Shi Qingyang from a distance, Cheng Xuze looked down at the contact terminal in his hand. There were a lot of communications and information about Cheng Hong. Later, even Qin Liu called him several times.
He always thought that Cheng Hong did his job well. Although he made a little fuss about his family, he wouldn’t go too far outside. Now thinking about it, since Cheng Hong could make others change the competition with a word, he was naturally capable of other things as well. Moreover, now more and more people held the Cheng family in their regard, and naturally more and more people also looked up to Cheng Hong–people like the dean of Anhang Academy were never rare.
The Cheng family was now a big family and a big business, so they should be more cautious. He didn’t worry about Cheng Hui at all, but Cheng Hong… With Cheng Hong’s temperament, he might become befuddled after receiving flattery.
After he got some sleep, he thought more clearly about some things–maybe all the support given by the Cheng family to Cheng Hong should be taken back.
After a few clicks on the contact terminal, Cheng Xuze directly cancelled the monthly dividend that the Cheng family would pay Cheng Hui.
There were also some enterprises under the Cheng family. The profits of these enterprises would be paid out to the Cheng family members as dividends every month. Previously, Cheng Ran relied on this dividend to have money to spend. But such dividends were also shared by Cheng Hong and his wife, as well as his children, who received much more than Cheng Ran.
Now, he wouldn’t send any to Cheng Hong!
Cheng Xuze decided this matter, and his eyes were on the competition field. He was a level-8 master. Watching a group of inexperienced children compete was not interesting for him at all. The reason why he came here was actually just to support Cheng Ran and Shi Qingyang. The only one he paid attention to was naturally Shi Qingyang.
Like him, many people paid attention to Shi Qingyang. At the same time, Shi Qingyang also lived up to expectations as his first match arrived.
This competition’s matchups depended entirely on drawing lots. The first opponent drawn by Shi Qingyang was a fourth-year student of Spark Academy.
He was not familiar with this senior, but he had read up on the competition information and knew that the other party was a level-2 radiant warrior. This kind of achievement was very good in Spark Academy, but in other places, this was really nothing
Shi Qingyang jumped onto the stage with a relaxed leap. He was going to go for a quick and decisive and go back to accompany Cheng Ran quickly, but he didn’t expect the opponent across the way to shout, “I admit defeat!”
He was too quick to give up…
“You really aren’t going to fight?”
“I’ve fought with you before… I won’t fight again.” The senior smiled. He heard all the rumors spreading outside yesterday. Many people thought Shi Qingyang was just a little white face, a pretty boy with no power, but as Shi Qingyang’s classmate, he deeply understood how wrong that impression was.
Was Shi Qingyang just a pretty kept boy? If someone didn’t know that Cheng Ran had a good family background, they would surely think that Cheng Ran was the one being raised by Shi Qingyang. Shi Qingyang was very fierce when he entered school. He beat Yin Tiancheng and didn’t leave any pieces behind. No one would want to cross his path at all.
The referee simply looked for the second player match-up drawn by Shi Qingyang immediately after watching this scene. The next opponent was also a level-2 rad-warrior, but it was a third year student from Qinghu City. Although this student was only in his third year, he was tall and big. As soon as he came on stage, he immediately snorted coldly, “Little pretty boy, I’ll beat you down!”
“Have you read the competition information?” Shi Qingyang was silent for a moment. He had no intention of cheating, so he changed his competition data yesterday
“Of course, I’ve already memorized it,” the man immediately said, “Don’t think I’ll be afraid of the Cheng Family and let you go! I’ll never admit defeat if we don’t fight!”
“Then let’s start…” Shi Qingyang was a little speechless. He could see that the person in front of him looked down on him, and the reason was that he thought Shi Qingyang was flattering the Cheng family, and that most likely the student of Spark Academy had taken the initiative to admit defeat because he was afraid of his revenge.
Shi Qingyang thought this kind of thinking was ridiculous, but he didn’t understand why even though he had changed the data, the man in front of him dared to speak so boldly. After all, he was now a level-3 radiant warrior, but even if the other had good talent, he was only level-2.
What Shi Qingyang didn’t know was that although he changed his information yesterday, the teachers of Spark Academy submitted the information this morning in order to keep this secret weapon hidden. By that time, the competition was about to start, and naturally no one would go to review the information again.
Shi Qingyang actually preferred to fight far away. In the late stage of his last life, his body became worse and worse, and gradually he liked to attack his opponents at a distance. The person in front of him obviously took the path of close melee combat.
Although the man despised Shi Qingyang through his words, he was really very careful when it came to the battle. He rushed towards Shi Qingyang, and at the same time, two knives composed of radiant energy condensed in his hands, cleaving at Shi Qingyang’s shoulders and fiercely blocking Shi Qingyang’s retreat.
“Player No. 19 gathered his rad-energy blades very fast. It can be seen that he has rich experience in actual combat, and he also seized the opportunity to attack in one fell swoop, using both hands at the same time, forcing his opponent to avoid it. Let’s see player No. 24…” The commentator was stunned. Before he could say the words ‘will deal with it’, he soon said: “Player 19 flew out. Player 24 was faster than him. He didn’t dodge, didn’t even put up a protective cover, and kicked Player 19 out with one foot. No, it wasn’t so simple. Player 19 can’t get up now. Let’s see the scene playback. God, Player 24 even sent out some very fast wind blades when kicking. No wonder Player 19 would fly out!”
The commentator excitedly explained Shi Qingyang’s match. In fact, compared with other popular matches, Shi Qingyang’s wasn’t very interesting, but who made his identity different? The people who came to watch the competition watched Cheng Ran yesterday, so wouldn’t they watch Shi Qingyang today?
A teenager from a tertiary city could calmly call Cheng Xuze ‘Grandpa’. This alone made people pay more attention to Shi Qingyang. In fact, if it weren’t for all the things regarding Cheng Hong that were tossed out yesterday, it was likely there would be many people on the internet attacking Shi Qingyang.
Shi Qingyang couldn’t hear the commentator’s words, but he looked at his legs with some hesitation. He knew that his physical condition had changed after eating the queen ant’s meat, but it wasn’t until just now that he finally felt the change clearly.
When he kicked out just now, he thought he could only make the person step back a few steps, but he didn’t expect to suddenly find that the rad-energy in his body could flow to his legs, making him lose control of the strength of his kick…
In fact, he didn’t plan to send out the wind blades at first. It was only later when he found that his strength was too much that he then added several wind blades to make others think that his opponent got knocked back by the wind blade.
Otherwise, it would be too unusual for him to kick out a man who weighed at least 160 kilograms using just his leg strength.
His reaction was very fast, and the speed of the wind blades was faster. Others shouldn’t have been able to see it.
The big man who was kicked out had been taken away. Although he was made into cannon fodder, his injury was not serious and his radiation energy loss wasn’t much. Presumably, after receiving treatment, he would be able to participate in his second match soon.
Of course, compared to him, Shi Qingyang was more relaxed now.
The referee had already long finished deciding the outcome. At this time, he naturally looked at Shi Qingyang: “Player 24, do you need to rest?” As he asked, he began to read the information of the next person to compete with Shi Qingyang.
“No need,” Shi Qingyang said directly.
“Contestant No. 24 is Shi Qingyang, and the match is against contestant No. 32, Li Jiajia.”
This time, it was a girl who looked a little petite, but Shi Qingyang didn’t dare to underestimate her when he saw the other side–the Li Jiajia in front of him, he knew.
When he first came to Anhang City, although Li Jiajia was still a student, she had organized a hunting team and often took people out of the city to hunt. Although different from Liu Qilin’s handsome appearance, Li Jiajia looked very cute, but in terms of the degree of ferocity, Li Jiajia should be far more aggressive than Liu Qilin. After all, Liu Qilin was only level-3 at her highest potential, but Li Jiajia in the end would rise all the way to level-7, and was also known as the Iron Lady. Moreover, many girls regarded her as their idol, and many people also hoped that she could become the second level-9 female warrior in Chinese history.
However, this was unlikely. If nothing unexpected happened, she should stay at level-7. After all, her talent wasn’t outstanding, and it became more and more difficult for radiant warriors to upgrade the higher they went.
But even so, this was enough to prove the woman’s ability, and Li Jiajia had now reached level-3…
In the beginning, Li Jiajia was a battle madman, and she liked to fight outside of the city best. She Qingyang once fought with a mutant beast alone, and when he was chased everywhere, Li Jiajia suddenly appeared and took her team to clean up the mutated beast, staging the scene of a beauty rescuing the hero.
Of course, after the rescue, Li Jiajia left with the beast without sparing a look at him.
Shi Qingyang thought of what had happened at that time, and became extremely cautious in the present. He looked at Li Jiajia intently. After the referee started the game, he quickly retreated, and kept throwing wind blades with both hands…
“Player 32 is one of the most talented students of Anhang Academy. Although she is female, she is extremely aggressive. Like player 24, she is a level-3 radiant warrior. This game must be wonderful! Player 24 has taken the lead. He fired his blades very fast, with no sense of pity… Player 32 she… flew out again…” The commentator spoke very spiritedly in the beginning, but in the end, he became somewhat speechless: “The battle was over too fast! Let’s replay the match scene. It’s obvious that Player 32 planned to use some level-2 combat skills to attack, but Player 24’s speed is too fast. In just one second, he released several blades, scattered the combat skills that Player 32 was gathering, and released a level-3 combat skill, which directly sent Player 32 out of the game…”
Shi Qingyang silently stepped down from the competition platform. At this time, the teacher next to him had helped Li Jiajia, who had been knocked down by him. Although he shot hard just now, because the radiation energy in the competition field was not as strong as that of outside, and Li Jiajia was wearing combat clothes, she was not seriously injured. However, even so, the girl still let out a groan and hugged her stomach, her eyes full of tears.
The Iron Lady, even she had moments like this? Shi Qingyang suddenly felt a little guilty. He even laid such a heavy hand on a 17-year-old girl… However, along with feeling ashamed and uneasy, he couldn’t help feeling the hairs on his body stick up when he saw the “tall and mighty” Iron Lady of his memory wiping her tears while comforted by several female classmates after she left the competition platform.
Of course, the most important thing now was to go to sleep with Cheng Ran… As for the following matches, Shi Qingyang believed there was no need to pay them any attention.
When Shi Qingyang stepped off the competition platform and went to Cheng Xuze, Cheng Xuze was talking to a middle-aged man with a work permit pinned to his body, the words “Ye Houan” printed on it extremely clear.
Not only was the name familiar, but also his appearance also seemed a little familiar…
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