I Just Want to Show Off a Little

"Oh, my dearest friend, your return is finally here! After the trial by destiny, we Hundun Warriors returned to our respective homelands and lost contact. Unexpectedly, we meet again today. Indeed, this is the guidance of Heavenly Dao; we are destined to return to the same banner, to fight side by side, and to charge towards the ultimate darkness!"

Si Ming looked up and saw that it was indeed Chen Shimi, the School of Fiction's disciple with terminal delusions. By sheer bad luck, they were in the same class. The bandages wrapped around his hands were gone, replaced by more refined work gloves. It seemed that he had been admitted to No. 1 High School through a special admission program and had received pocket money from his elders, so he had upgraded his equipment.

Of the original six-person team, he was the most troublesome. In comparison, Xiong Aixin, who always talked about "little fairy," was easier to communicate with. At least when she didn't mention "little fairy, "Xiong Aixin acted like a normal person.

Si Ming noticed that the gazes of his classmates were no longer focused on him, but rather on Chen Shimi, and the gazes were rather subtle, neither liking nor disliking her.

"Let me ask you a question: You've been at school for two days now, have you made any new friends?"

Chen Shimi covered half his face with his gloved hand and chuckled in a low, nasal voice, "Hmph, what a ridiculous question. We, the chosen ones, bear the responsibility of saving the world and fighting against the ultimate darkness. Our lives are destined to be filled with hardship and constant calamities. How can we drag innocent people into it? The only ones we can trust are each other, fellow warriors of Hundun!"

Si Ming's gaze softened, and he said gently, "I understand. If you encounter any difficulties in your studies in the future, you can come to me. We can also occasionally have lunch together."

"Hehe, that's a great suggestion. If it can improve our teamwork, we can show our bond when facing enemies. Even when facing thousands of troops, we can rely on each other." Chen Shimi let out a mysterious laugh and returned to his seat with satisfaction.

Later, Si Ming looked at the class's contact list and realized that Chen Shimi's real name was Chen Simi. This guy actually played with homophones.

Chapter 129 I Just Want to Subtly Show Off

The process of electing class committee members was somewhat different from what Si Ming had imagined. According to his impression, the first class committee election usually only had a few people willing to volunteer, and there were not even enough people to fill the quota. The homeroom teacher had to appoint a few people. Only the position of class monitor would be competitive. Other class committee members could usually be elected by self-nomination.

However, the reality was quite different from what he had imagined. The students in the class participated in the competition very enthusiastically, with nearly half of them walking around the podium. There were even as many as ten people running for class monitor. Even Chen Shimi made a cringeworthy statement. "Under my leadership, we will sound the charge against the forces of darkness."

This is probably the difference between the Mohist School and the Confucian School. The Mohist School do not advocate humility, but rather advocate "valuing the virtuous," emphasizing making the best use of people's talents and abilities. If a person has ability but does not show it, it is harming the interests of the collective. In the Party's words, it means being disorganized, undisciplined, ununited, and lacking the spirit of dedication.

Murong Qing's path to becoming class monitor wasn't as easy as Si Ming had imagined. By the time the votes were finally tallied, she had only won by two votes over the second-place finisher.

"In other words, without my and Liu Qingqing's support votes, she would be tied with second place."

Si Ming turned his gaze to Murong Qing's formidable competitor, a boy who wore glasses. He wasn't the bookworm type; he was clearly very shrewd, exuding an aura of elite intelligence. His face was somewhat cold, the kind of handsome man straight out of a shoujo manga. According to his self-recommendation when he went on stage, he was the top scorer in this year's middle school entrance examination in Tange City.

After he failed to be elected, his homeroom teacher originally planned to recommend him for the position of vice class monitor, but he refused. According to the rules, those who fail to be elected have the right to run for a second time, so he went to compete for the position of academic representative. As the top scorer in the high school entrance examination, he naturally won the position with ease.

"Better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of an ox—this seems to indicate he's a very proud person."

Despite knowing that first impressions are not always reliable, Si Ming couldn't help but make a judgment based on them.

Incidentally, Chen Shimi received nine votes, placing third. This made Si Ming question the aesthetic sense of his classmates. He hoped that the voters were simply acting out of curiosity rather than genuinely agreeing with him; otherwise, the future of this class would be quite worrying.

Si Ming did not participate in the election, not only because he had had enough of being a class committee member in his previous life, but more importantly, because the class committee members here are not idle positions. Unlike in his previous life, they could not just be nominal members and basically not fulfill any responsibilities throughout the semester.

In the schools of Su State, every class committee member has their own responsibilities and must actively fulfill them; they cannot neglect their duties.

The position of class monitor goes without saying. As for the academic representative, the first requirement is that their theoretical grades must be in the top five of the class. Secondly, if any classmate asks them a question about their studies, they must answer it patiently and cannot make any excuses to shirk their responsibilities. People who only care about their own studies cannot be in this position.

In addition to organizing and arranging the class's cleaning activities, the labor committee member must take on the heaviest, most tiring, and dirtiest tasks.

In addition to managing class funds, the class life committee member is also responsible for recording students' attendance and contact information. If a student is on sick leave, the committee member must also visit the student's home to confirm the absence.

In this way, every position is not a nominal one. If someone holds a position but does nothing, they will be dismissed immediately after being reported by classmates and the report is confirmed. In serious cases, they will even be publicly criticized throughout the school.

It was clearly a tough job, but everyone was eager to run for it. This wasn't because they had any high level of moral awareness, but because serving as a class committee member would earn them "Chivalry Points."

As mentioned before, Chivalry Points affect the rating of the Mohist Knight Guard, but its effect is not limited to the Mohist Knight Guard. Every Su State Kingdom has such points. Whenever you do something beneficial to society and the public, the government will award corresponding Chivalry Points based on the actual situation.

As educational institutions, schools also have a certain amount of Chivalry Points. In this respect, private schools cannot compare with public schools. However, Tange No. 1 Middle School, as a key middle school in the city, has the most Chivalry Points among all middle schools.

Chivalry Points cannot be traded or exchanged for anything, and may seem useless, but the Mohist Knight Guard fight tooth and nail to obtain even a single Chivalry Points, simply because they are related to their Chivalry Points training privileges.

Although the Su State promotes martial arts training for all citizens and allows children to learn martial arts in schools, in reality, schools only teach martial arts related to physical cultivation and training, which are methods for strengthening the body and channeling energy. As for martial arts related to combat, they are rarely taught. If they are to be taught, they will only teach defensive martial arts such as the "Non-Aggression Sword Technique," or some martial arts with very low lethality and a greater emphasis on skill training, which will be included in the school curriculum.

From the state's perspective, the purpose of practicing martial arts is to improve physical health and protect oneself and one's family. Therefore, it is sufficient to cultivate martial arts that focus on self-cultivation, training, and defensive techniques. If offensive martial arts are also taught, practitioners will inevitably feel itchy to fight and may be tempted to engage in violence, which could easily lead to social violence incidents.

If two people have only learned defensive martial arts, even if a conflict breaks out and they start fighting, the result will be that neither of them can hurt the other. But if both of them have learned offensive martial arts, it is very easy for either of them to die or be seriously injured.

Ordinary people don't need to learn offensive martial arts. Even if they are determined to join the army in the future, as long as they learn Internal Cultivation and build a strong physique when they are young, they will have a solid foundation. It won't take much time for them to learn offensive martial arts after entering the army. As the saying goes, sharpening the axe will not delay the work of chopping wood.

Martial arts skills are the branches and leaves, the body is the trunk, Internal Cultivation is the roots. As long as the root system is extensive and the trunk is thick, it will naturally grow lush branches and leaves.

Therefore, although the Su State has made all kinds of martial arts manuals public, especially in Internal Cultivation, where it provides a smooth path and those with exceptional talent can cultivate to the Spirit Transformation Realm using the martial arts manuals in the bookstore, purchasing offensive martial arts manuals still depends on one's Chivalry Points.

If the Chivalry Points is too low, either they won't sell it to you, or they'll only sell a censored version. For example, in the version of "The Complete Collection of Martial Arts of the Spirit Transformation of the Su State" by Si Ming, the martial arts appendix is basically incomplete in the version that ordinary citizens can buy.

In addition, some martial arts require the use of weapons, such as knives, swords, and guns, which are strictly prohibited from sale by the state. Anyone caught doing so will be punished for the crime of illegally selling weapons. Only wooden tools such as ash wood poles and unsharpened "sports equipment" within the prescribed size and weight can be sold openly.

However, while ordinary people can choose not to learn offensive martial arts or use sharpened weapons, the Mohist Knight Guard obviously cannot. Thus, the Chivalry Points system was created to grant them more authority. The higher the authority, the more martial arts they can learn and the more sharpened weapons they can purchase.

As for privately teaching offensive martial arts, the authorities will not investigate unless the people report it. However, if someone who does not meet the required Chivalry Points injures others with offensive martial arts, not only will the person be punished, but the person who taught the martial arts will also be held accountable.

Students can practice martial arts as they please at school, but once they leave the school, they are not allowed to use martial arts beyond their authority, unless they participate in martial arts competitions that are permitted by the government. That's why everyone is so eager to accumulate enough Chivalry Points. Learning martial arts but not being allowed to use them is like wearing fine clothes in the dark, which is a kind of mental torture for young people who love to show off.

As a member of the Mohist Knight Guard, Si Ming had already accumulated enough Chivalry Points when he solved the kidnapping incident of Yuezheng Qiong. Naturally, he was too lazy to compete with his classmates for those small rewards. He used that time to flip through the textbook.

Aside from medical classes, other courses such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry are less demanding than the high school courses in my previous life. Biology is even directly incorporated into medicine. The content of the ideological and political classes has been replaced with the Mohist School philosophy, including both the new and old schools of thought, with about one-fifth of the content dedicated to explaining the philosophies of other schools of thought.

These textbooks were all compiled uniformly nationwide and contained the same content. Si Ming quickly glanced through them and put them aside without looking at them much. What really attracted his attention was the "Martial Arts" textbook compiled by Tange No. 1 Middle School itself. The book recorded the martial arts skills that each teacher in the school was best at, so that students could choose the appropriate teacher when taking martial arts classes.

These martial arts techniques are all publicly available, and the book records the methods of cultivation in detail. In theory, other schools could directly learn them by stealing them, but in reality, few schools do so because good martial arts also require good teachers to teach them. For example, if the book records a Higher Vehicle palm technique, but there are no teachers in the school who have learned this palm technique, then rather than forcing students to learn this palm technique, it would be better to switch to the martial arts that one is most proficient in.

Therefore, the essence of martial arts textbooks lies not in the martial arts themselves, but in the teachers. The type of martial arts taught depends on the quality of the teachers. Schools will compile textbooks based on their own teaching staff. Only third-rate schools, where the teachers' abilities are generally not very good, will directly adopt textbooks from key middle schools.

In school admissions, having a famous martial art as a selling point can attract excellent students; this is a common practice in high schools.

Tange No. 1 Middle School has many signature martial arts techniques. Among them, the two palm techniques that the principal is good at are displayed on the first page. One is called "Primordial Unity Palm" and the other is called "Spirit-Receiving Palm". Both of them have advanced ultimate techniques, namely "Earth-Shattering and Heaven-Stunning Primordial Unity Palm" and "Raging Tide and Terrifying Waves Spirit-Receiving Palm".

"Most martial arts techniques omit the fighting methods, only mentioning them briefly. The detailed records only cover methods for cultivating the body and channeling internal energy. It seems that to truly learn martial arts, one still needs to take corresponding courses. Hmm, I guess some more aggressive martial arts will have a Chivalry Points system for them."

Just as Si Ming finished skimming through the entire "Martial Arts" textbook, the school bell rang in the corridor, signaling the end of the school term.