Chapter 188 Trial and 3E Exam
The cold light penetrates into the bones.

Lu Mingfei stared at his movements in a daze, and suddenly thought of a leopard in the animal world pouncing on its prey. It was swift, majestic, and also had the oppression of a subordinate in the food chain.

"Damn it! Junior brother! Get out of the way!" Finkel shouted in horror, but Lu Mingfei couldn't move.

The freezing reaction engraved deep in his genes made him open his eyes wide, and he could only watch helplessly as the tip of the knife stabbed into his heart.

puff~
puff~
My eardrums are about to be shattered by my heartbeat, and the sound in my chest is like waves crashing against the shore. Adrenaline is secreted like sweat.

Fear, anxiety, sadness, time stretched in an instant, and various emotions flashed through his mind one by one. They mixed in his empty heart and then turned into fuel for his anger!

He was so angry, so angry that he seemed to want to set everything on fire.

The sound of bells came from the distant wilderness, and the dazzling golden color illuminated the world. The believers knelt on the ground and prayed, shouting: God! You have finally come.

Finkel, who was about to rush over by grabbing the railing, was stunned. His body froze as he leaned forward, and he almost fell to the ground.

There was a whimpering sound in the air, the figure's wrist was trembling, and the Nepalese machete seemed to be chopping on the hardest stone. Even if cracks appeared, it could not move forward at all!

But Finkel could see clearly—there was nothing between them but thin air.

A fist smashed into the tactical helmet! It was thin, weak, and without any strength, but it shattered the lens like a battering ram, and blood flowed out from the cracks!
The figure's feet flew off the ground and hung on the wall, making a sound louder than an explosion, and he twitched and was unable to get up.

Finkel widened his eyes and swallowed.

Lu Mingfei's eyes were dull, he bent down and picked up the gun that the other party had thrown on the ground at the beginning. The cold metal felt ferocious, and the rhythm of his breathing seemed to be integrated.

"Wait, Junior Brother!" Finkel came to his senses and ran off the bed naked.

Lu Mingfei looked back.

The golden pupils were filled with majesty, but the bearded man just laughed. He took out a camera from the drawer and said enthusiastically, "You want to participate in the free day? Hey, I want to go too, brother."

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There is no quiet place in Kassel today. Su Beixun sat in the dormitory, the sound of gunfire made him feel as if he was in a battlefield in the Middle East.

There are books spread out on the table.

Su Beixun poured the water into his stomach and looked at the densely packed Greek words on it.

I don't know what era this book is from. It is not printed with ink stains, but written word by word with a pen. The dark yellow paper is worn by time, as if it is an old man walking out of history.

It opened its mouth and whispered:

God personally established laws for mankind and punished mankind with great power. He called himself a shepherd and shepherded his people as lambs. Anyone who violated the laws and despised God's will would be killed by God with lightning, fire from heaven, and plague.

Before the throne of God stand four Seraphim, who represent earth, wind, water and fire respectively and are honored as the four great monarchs.

……

The phone suddenly vibrated.

Su Beixun picked it up and took a look. A large pop-up window appeared on the Kassel College news forum, and everyone who opened the website would definitely see it.

[S-class power! Chu Zihang and Caesar's defeat! ! ]

The title remains large and bold.

Click on the pop-up window and you will be redirected to a video. The entire video is very smooth, without shaking or loss of focus, with close-ups and long shots interlaced, presenting a quality comparable to that of a blockbuster movie.

In the hail of bullets, the boy with golden eyes dodged between the bunkers. His muscles were tense, and his bones were running as precisely as machines, without any unnecessary movements, simple and direct.

The bullets accurately harvested the lives of everyone they saw. The breacher, the sniper, the combat team... until the end, the gun killed the two men who were confronting each other.

The entire forum exploded instantly!

Chu Zihang, the president of the Lionheart Club, and Caesar, the president of the Student Union, the two most dazzling people in the entire academy, were actually defeated by a freshman? !

Although many people were hit by Frigga bullets and were dragged away for treatment, the remaining people were still able to support lively discussions.

They exclaimed at each other, digging for information about the boy, or swore at him, saying that his final victory was unfair as he eliminated the two men armed with cold weapons with guns.

Su Beixun watched the video over and over again at 0.5x magnification, squinting his eyes with interest.

"Interesting."

He muttered, snapped his phone shut, and returned his gaze to the book.

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The sunlight shone in from the window. The person sitting in the shadow hung up the phone, leaned back in his chair and exhaled silently.

"What's going on? Did they go too far with [Free Day]?" The middle-aged man across the table asked, "What's going on between Caesar and Chu Zihang?"

"I guess so," said the principal. "They trampled my Bermuda grass like a farmland... But this is much better than I thought."

"But you don't look happy." The middle-aged man picked up the black tea on the table and took a sip.

The principal was silent for a moment: "It's just that something happened that I didn't expect."

"what?"

"Lu Mingfei was attacked during his free day."

The middle-aged man frowned. "That S-level? Principal, with all due respect, based on my observations, that child seems a little too mediocre and totally inconsistent with his bloodline."

"But I have full confidence in that child." The principal smiled. "During this year's Free Day, he proved to me his amazing potential."

"is it?"

The middle-aged man was a little unconvinced, but he would not refute again. He changed the subject and asked, "What is the attack you mentioned?"

"I don't know." The principal sighed, "Maybe it's a test from some half-blood family."

He narrowed his eyes, his face as cold as a folding knife drawn from its sheath: "I've asked Manstein to investigate. I hope it won't lead to any of my old friends."

The light shone on that face that was both old and young. He stood up and looked out the window, speaking in a low voice, and no one knew who he was talking to.

"For old guys like us who have no way out, accidents are like Achilles' heel. Even if they are insignificant, they can still cause us to fall at any time."

The water of the river between the mountains rises and falls, and on the islands on both sides of the river, white flowers bloom on the dark green grass.

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"Jose Luis Chilavert, third-year student, D-level bloodline." Manstein looked at the unconscious man on the bed and said, "When will he wake up?"

"It's hard to say." The doctor flipped through the report in his hand: "The skin is torn, the skull is shattered and there is some edema... Even with the physical fitness of a hybrid, it will take a long time for this kind of injury to heal."

Manstein rubbed his shiny bald head irritably and turned around: "Chu Zihang, is Jose a member of the Lionheart Society?"

"Yes." The boy nodded.

"Does he have any close friends?"

"...Jose is very talkative and has a good relationship with everyone." The boy thought for a moment and said, "But I don't remember anyone who had close contact with him."

He has a rebellious short black hair, a broad forehead, clear facial lines, an expressionless face, and always looks expressionless.

"What a hassle." Professor Manstein muttered a few words and took out his cell phone: "Norma, retrieve Jose's online information and find out who he belongs to."

"Do you authorize?"

"Yes, I authorize, hurry up!"

The central mainframe in the basement of the library started to work instantly, and the sound of hard disk friction came from the cavity. The spider's silk runs through the entire network, and any insignificant movement will be collected into the source.

"Searching Jose's whereabouts and interactions over the past three years..." Norma's voice was like ice: "After analysis, no abnormalities were found."

"Hidden so deep?" The old man frowned. But it was true. To dare to instigate someone to murder an S-rank in Angers' territory, one must have some real skills.

He changed his mind: "Lu Mingfei was designated as S-level by the principal ten days ago. List all the people who have interacted with He Sai in the past ten days."

Soon, Manstein received a dense list of names on his mobile phone.

"It's another big project." He gritted his teeth in anger when he thought of his hair which had gradually disappeared over the years.

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It was late at night and Lu Mingfei sat on the bed, staring out the window in a daze.

"Are you okay?" Finkel poked his head out from the upper bunk.

“Of course I have something to say.” Lu Mingfei said expressionlessly, “I offended the two largest clubs right after the start of the school year. My college life is in tatters.”

"That's because you didn't turn on the light." With a click, Finkel shone the flashlight on his face: "What about now? How do you feel?"

"Thank you, senior brother. You know how to comfort people." Lu Mingfei was so moved that tears came out of his eyes.

He lay down sighing, not even in the mood to talk nonsense, his eyes passed Finkel and stayed on the wall beside the door.

The traces from the morning had long been cleaned up, as if nothing had happened. But the touch and sound of his punch smashing the skull never disappeared, and the slippery feeling of blood in his hands made this 17-year-old pure loser uneasy.

The strange feeling of having another self controlling your body is even more frightening.

Lu Mingfei inexplicably thought of "Kuroko's Basketball" which was serialized last year. There was a character named Akashi Seijuro in it. When his second personality appeared, [Eye of the Emperor] was ridiculously handsome. But when Lu Mingfei put himself into the first personality, he found that he was not happy at all.

He suddenly began to be afraid, afraid of himself and afraid of the future.

"Brother...will he die?" Lu Mingfei asked in a soft voice.

"Don't worry, junior brother. Don't underestimate the physical fitness of mixed-bloods. We are harder to kill than cockroaches." Finkel was still carefree.

Lu Mingfei was surprised: "You still know Xiaoqiang?"

"It's 'Flirting Scholar'." Finger yawned, "Do you want me to accompany you to review the classics? It's much better than you thinking about it here."

Lu Mingfei was a little tempted: "Forget it, I have an exam tomorrow."

He turned over.

"You've already defeated Caesar and Chu Zihang, and you're still worried about a small 3E test?" Finkel shook his phone: "If anyone dares to fail you, you can shoot this video in their face."

"Then why didn't I react to Long Wen yesterday?"

"...I don't know." Finkel held up his chin: "Maybe...it's really because the light is too bright?"

Lu Mingfei covered his head with the quilt.

"Strange, Junior Brother, you're not complaining anymore?" Finger jumped off the bed and pulled his blanket: "You're not scared, are you?"

"There's nothing wrong with students being afraid of exams." Lu Mingfei said perfunctorily.

"Oh, you are afraid of the exam." Finger snapped his fingers: "Then do you want to hear the secrets from my senior brother?"

"Cheat code?" Lu Mingfei stuck his head out. He saw Finger's dangling limbs at a glance, and wailed and retracted it again: "Please, senior brother, put on some underwear!"

Finkel sneered: "Without experiencing freedom, people will not grow."

"…You're better off being human."

"Alright, Junior Brother." Finkel waved his hand and lowered his voice: "Let's put aside the complaints for now and let me reveal the ultimate secret of the exam to you!"

He said it so seriously that Lu Mingfei couldn't help but be attracted.

Finkel grinned: "The 3E exam at Kassel College consists of eight sets of test papers that are used in a cycle and are never changed!"

“…So what?” Lu Mingfei was puzzled.

"Stupid!" Finkel pointed at himself and said proudly, "Don't forget, I am the only eighth-grade student in the academy!"

“Ahhhhh!” Lu Mingfei was so excited that he felt as if he had suddenly realized something. “This year’s exam questions are exactly the same as the year you entered school!”

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The sun jumped up and spread its light down along the clouds.

Su Beixun walked up the escalator and came to the classroom on the second floor of the library. The red-haired girl he saw before the plane was sitting at the desk. Su Beixun ignored her, and neither did she.

According to the name tag placed on the seat, Su Beixun sat next to the window.

There weren't many people in the classroom, but every now and then someone would walk in and it would fill up quickly. Lu Mingfei, with dark circles under his eyes, was the last to enter.

The classroom became noisy, and everyone looked at the biggest winner of the free day, intentionally or unintentionally, wanting to pull him into their social circle.

"Alright gentlemen!" Professor Manstein interrupted them, walking into the classroom with the same dark circles under his eyes: "Please turn off your cell phones and place them on the corner of your desk with your student ID. The 3E exam will begin soon."

Nuonuo handed out A4-sized test papers and a sharpened pencil to each student one by one.

The test paper was blank, but Su Beixun looked at it with no expression. In this dragon-slaying school, he would be disappointed if the paper was printed with densely packed questions like in an exam.

Manstein yawned and walked out of the classroom with Nono. As the door closed, the PA system began to play a powerful rock song, "Beat It" by Michael Jackson.

Su Beixun propped up his head and listened, leaving marks on the white paper with his pencil.

then……

A cold wind blew.

Su Beixun raised his head.

The sky was dark, with dark clouds piled up, layer upon layer, stretching from one end to the other, covering everything in the world.

The falling rain turned into ice crystals, hanging helplessly in the pale air. The sea was surging, and the waves rolled up waves dozens of meters high.

They rolled and roared, trying to flood the earth, the mountains, and even the savior Noah's Ark.

However, they were frozen. The sea was killed at its most angry moment, leaving only the tail sound of its roar between heaven and earth. It is like the corpse of a god, you can see greatness and sadness.

Su Beixun lowered his head.

Golden eyes stared at him.

The ferocious beast was frozen in the ice, its huge membranous wings spread out on both sides, its scales shattered, its wings half broken, and its body covered with turned flesh and blood.

Some blood flowed out. Strange snake-like fish surrounded it, swishing their tails and opening their toothy mouths like larvae waiting for carrion at a whale fall.

Is it still alive?
Su Beixun suddenly wanted to know.

He squatted down and placed his palms on the freezing ice, standing motionless like a frozen statue.

There was no light in the sky, everything was dark, dark clouds, dark sea, dark waves.

But he just felt that the world was so white! As white as dry bones, and also like death!
……

The black was smeared on the white, and Su Beixun came back to his senses.

The blank paper in front of him was already filled with densely written words. He had never seen such a font before, but he read them out loud as if instinctively.

(End of this chapter)