Chapter 135
"Someone else asked me that too."
"Same situation, let me check... wow, everyone on the Forum is asking about it too."
"Don't say anything yet. There must be something wrong with this enthusiasm. We're just killing time anyway, so everyone go and try to get some information out of them."
OK!
During the brief exchange, someone quickly managed to extract the answer.
"Several classes within their schools started betting. Tsk, I found out, and guess what? Out of a hundred people, only one person bet on Qin Su being in charge of Transport today. Hilarious! They bet very well. They shouldn't bet next time."
"It proves that gambling is indeed something you should never get involved in; it harms both yourself and others. Now can we tell them that?"
"Tell me, I'm really curious to see their expressions when they find out the truth."
"Even a naturally rebellious nature has its uses; congratulations to those who bought the shares against the trend."
Some students from Class 6) and Class 66) answered their friends' questions, while others posted the answers online and then watched from the sidelines.
"What? Qin Su went to the Transport Team?!"
"Are you kidding me?"
"It's fake!"
"My money, all of it is my money!"
The same sharp sound rang out from different classes and different areas the instant the answer was revealed.
Lin Yin didn't really like things that relied on luck, so she didn't buy anything. Hearing most of her classmates inside the Spaceship groaning and a tiny minority gloating, she whispered to Lailisi on the other end of the video call, "The upset may have been late, but it happened... As expected of Qin Su, he's truly unpredictable."
"A-Yin, you're truly my lucky star! Luckily you stopped me, otherwise I would have lost money out of my own pocket before I even got any Star Coins in my pocket."
Hearing the sounds of frustration around her, Lailisi struggled to control her expression and prevent herself from laughing out loud in front of the senior students.
The cooperation between senior and junior classes is not as harmonious as that between Class 6) and Class 66). Seniority has a certain effect no matter where it is placed. She doesn't know how other classes are. Their class will be suppressed if they are arrogant in front of senior classes.
Lin Yin smiled and said, "I couldn't get in touch with Samuel. I hope he didn't buy it either."
"It's probably a bit risky," Lailisi sighed. "He's just too bad at saying no."
[29L: I've behaved myself.]
[30L: But I'll do it again next time.]
[31L: That's right, it's all about the thrill and excitement.]
[32L: @ (Class 66 and (Class 6, I hope you won't bother with the people who contact you privately next time. Wait until you've finished your daily tasks before you speak up. Don't interfere with our thrill-seeking (smile)]
[33L: (Class 66 indicates they have received it]
[34L: (Class 6 +1]
[35L: If Qin Su Transport goods... then by the same logic, wouldn't it mean that a bunch of laggards from your (Class 6) and (Class 66 are carrying out combat missions on the front lines?]
[36L: Although you're right, I still felt criticized. Don't say that next time, it's really hurtful.]
[37L: Holy crap, it's really true (shocked face)]
[38L: Could it be that... the students at the bottom of your (Class 66) and (Class 6 have become so strong that they are on par with the top-ranked students in other classes? Otherwise, I can't understand why Qin Su would make such an arrangement.]
[39L: Hiding your strength! Pretending! You two old bastards, daring to deliberately conceal your abilities during training to mislead our judgment!]
[40L: We're not saying this, we don't have it, don't talk nonsense, your spine is going to have problems!]
[41L: So, are there any classes that need to learn this?]
[42L: At a critical moment like this, learning everything will only kill you. Don't forget, Class (Class 6) and Class 66) have Qin Su to back them up. What do you have?]
[43L: OK, shut your nasty little mouth]
[44L: Breaking defenses is as easy as breathing]
[45L: Support! You have no idea how terrifyingly well Brother Su controls the strength of each of us. Let me put it this way: before we even started our operation, Brother Su had already planned the Purge routes for each member of our combat team. When the time on the schedule arrived, almost everyone was stuck at the end of their individual Purge routes. Brother Su told us to retreat, and we quickly deployed the Soundwave-Blocking Devices. Brother Su had vanished without a trace.]
[46L: As a member of Class 66, I would like to say that before this, I have never had a task where every step was arranged so clearly. I didn't need to use my brain at all, and I didn't have to worry about being eaten by bugs. Thank you Qin Su, and thank you classmates!]
[47L: What's the difference between this and feeding you food? Shut your mouths and stop showing off!]
[48L: Is it possible that Qin Su assigned himself to the Transport Team because he hoped that He Muzhi and his group of strong, all-around individuals wouldn't look down on Transport? In other words, Qin Su values the Transport profession!]
[289L: Oh no, are the consequences that serious? I'm not learning anymore!]
[290L: Thank you. After reading the self-description in the picture, my enthusiasm has not only frozen, but it's also increased to 1.4.]
Qin Su returned to the Spaceship ahead of time and hid in the Rest Pod. He saw that his Life Points were rising as expected. Not wanting his classmates to fall into the trap, he registered several accounts. He first posted some bloody pictures he found on the Forum and screenshots of many students' accounts of being attacked by insects. Then, he coordinated with his colleagues to stir up trouble.
Finally seeing that no class wanted to follow his example and put the students ranked last in terms of ability in positions that were not suitable for them, Qin Su, in the Spaceship's Rest Pod, breathed a sigh of relief.
He spent three weeks observing the students in both classes thoroughly from beginning to end.
The students responsible for fighting today are weak, but the students protecting them are anything but.
During the Purge, just as he had initially envisioned, many students responsible for defense and supply Transport helped the Team 1 members. Each time they were rescued from danger, the way the team members looked at each other changed.
It would be dangerous to learn this in other classes.
Using bloody facts, Qin Su successfully nipped the restless ambitions of other classes in the bud. As the scope of the Purge expanded, he began to categorize the insects that had been silently captured.
Based on today's observations, the insects they attract with their current Underwater Combat Suits are all too small.
On the day it was his turn to fight, these 'minor' insects were simply no match for his strong demands, nor could they satisfy the Viewers's appetite.
He needs to manipulate the Light Waves to lure the insects he carefully selected before his turn, those that are generally considered difficult to deal with, towards his location.
If he did that... then, his surroundings would undoubtedly be the most dangerous place.
Therefore, the classmates who will be not far from him and in the same direction as him at that time must be quite strong.
With this in mind, Qin Su opened the ranking table of the two classes' overall strength and quickly decided to arrange He Muzhi and others to be in a position far away from him during the Purge on the second day. This way, on the third day, they would be closer to him, and the other students would feel more at ease.
My gaze Sequential Placement over a familiar name, and then I arranged them one by one according to their strength.
Qin Su hadn't finished adjusting his Combat Plan for the day. The live feed of the entire Spaceship's docking area, which was constantly running, showed the students passing through the protective light layer and entering the Spaceship one after another.
Having confirmed that all students from both classes had safely returned to their units and that no one had disobeyed orders and remained outside, Qin Su withdrew his gaze without turning off the display screen inside the Spaceship.
In the scene, the students returning to the cabin huddled together, talking and sharing their experiences of disassembling various weapons.
Taking in all the open pages before him, Qin Su continued editing while pondering the questions.
He also needs to figure out how to deal with the remaining weapons.
At the current pace of the students' disassembly and research, they will never finish disassembling it by the time they return home.
--
Back inside the Spaceship, Class 6 didn't see Qin Su. They were used to it and guessed without thinking that Qin Su should be in the Rest Pod. They deliberately passed by the Rest Pod and confirmed their guess. Most of the students, who weren't too tired today, took out weapons that interested them from the Supply Warehouse. Since they had nothing else to do, they buried themselves in studying them.
The first thing the Class 66 did upon entering the Spaceship was to look for Qin Su. After confirming Qin Su's location by following the actions of the Class 6, they were relieved and began to think about weapons.
Everyone's main attention was on the weapons, and they chatted idly. However, with more than a thousand people from two classes gathered in one space, even a large space would feel chaotic with everyone talking at once.
"What kind of arrangements do you think the Class Monitor will make for the next few days? It won't be the same as today, will it?"
Everyone chimed in with their own comments, inevitably gossiping about the arrangements for the next few days.
"I don't know, but to be honest, please don't be angry, the cleanup progress today was really not fast."
The members of Team 1 were so embarrassed and ashamed that their faces flushed. "..."
Everyone was really giving them face; not only were they slow, but their accuracy was also terrible.
Fortunately, today's Purge operation didn't last long—not a whole day, nor a single afternoon—so their embarrassment didn't last long.
Although they were secretly pleased that Qin Su hadn't discriminated against them because of their poor strength, they were already satisfied with the short few hours of experience and hoped that it wouldn't delay everyone's progress any further.
Seeing that most of the people in Team 1 lowered their heads instinctively upon hearing this, He Muzhi temporarily stopped assembling his equipment and quickly said, "I think Qin Su will be taking turns coming over the next few days."
Upon hearing this, the members of Team 1 looked at He Muzhi with hopeful eyes, hoping he would provide more supporting evidence.
No matter how much they boast, they know very well that there is always an insurmountable distance between Qin Su and them, and He Muzhi is the only one among them who is closest to Qin Su.
Although... this distance is still very far.
But no matter what, they were closer to Qin Su than they were, and they understood Qin Su better than they did.
Under the expectant gazes of He Muzhi forced himself to continue:
"By rotating through the three types of work, we can all experience them one by one."
"As we all know, the kill count of those fighting on the front lines is distributed to the rear Transport personnel according to the school's rules, based on a certain percentage of their own kills. If you want to get more kills and prevent your team members from feeling that you're not killing enough, you need to try your best to kill more bugs during your assigned Purge period."
"In other words," He Muzhi looked earnestly at his classmates, "If my guess is correct, and the rotation is indeed happening over the next few days, Qin Su is trying to make us understand, through our own experience, the principle that our destiny is in our own hands."
As He Muzhi finished speaking, the previously noisy space fell into a moment of silence. Amid the quiet, gasps of emotion could be heard from the depths of their hearts.
"Are we... worthy?"
"Help! How are we ever going to pay this back?"
"I had this feeling that 'only Qin Su treats us like human beings,' and my eyes welled up with tears."
Thinking back on my disastrous performance today, ugh, is it possible to turn back time? If only I had behaved better!
Seeing the students' strong emotional fluctuations, He Muzhi feared his guess was wrong, potentially causing misunderstandings among the students and even affecting Qin Su. He quickly folded his gloves and added, "These are just my personal guesses..."
"What speculation? This is clearly the truth!"
"Exactly, how could you not understand Qin Su?"
"..."
"You think too highly of him," He Muzhi thought, feeling a pang of unease.
"..."
Qin Su's movements froze. He did indeed want to rotate the players, assigning the two and a half weakest to Team 1 today. This was partly due to considerations such as matching their strength with the duration of the battle today. However, more importantly, it was a 'precise match' based on their personalities, backgrounds, interests, and so on, hoping they would become links in each other's networks.
He wasn't as selfless as they thought.
On the contrary, compared to He Muzhi's analysis, he was mercenary, shrewd, and selfish.
"But..." Amidst a chorus of deeply moved voices, Raymond reminded everyone, "Don't you all think that when our Class Monitor was leaving today, he didn't even give us a second glance, and he turned and left so quickly? Was that a sign of dissatisfaction with our performance today?"
"..."
The air became heavy and suffocating.
This time, it wasn't just Team 1 that was emo; Team 3 were also rendered speechless by Raymond's single sentence.
According to Raymond's verifiable past records shared by everyone, besides He Muzhi, there is another Raymond who is said to be the best at understanding Qin Su's intentions.
"Sorry, they all ate way too much at Qin Su."
"No, it won't happen." After a brief silence, Lifi suddenly spoke up, recalling what he had witnessed.
Everyone's attention was focused on Lifi, their faces full of confusion, not understanding what Lifi meant.
"That's how it is..."
In just over a minute, Lifi told everyone everything he had seen while protecting Richards.
After finishing his explanation, Lifi said, "So I think if Richards could receive such patient, meticulous, and considerate treatment from Qin Su, then everyone else should be treated the same way. After all, Qin Su has always treated us all equally, hasn't he?"
Richards belatedly slapped his forehead and muttered, "Right, I should have submitted a list of required supplies, but I was so nervous, scared, and anxious that all I could think about was clicking away. I really didn't submit a single request for supplies. It was all Qin Su's doing—observing and replenishing the supplies I needed."
At this point, Richards' eyes lit up dramatically. He immediately activated his Optical Brain, his voice trembling with excitement. "This absolutely has to be sent to the family group chat! I, Richards, have finally achieved something, that I'd be treated like this by Qin Su!"
Having achieved his goal, Qin Su looked at his Life Points, which had risen to thirty-two years after this period of accumulation, and which were likely to increase significantly in the near future due to Richards' gratitude and his family's efforts to leverage public opinion. A smile crept onto his lips.
Sure enough, heaven will not let down this person who starts scheming in his mind the moment he opens his eyes every day.
Everyone: "!"
If it were someone else, they might not believe Lifi's platitudes and think Lifi was just trying to comfort them.
But if it's Richards, that notorious loser from Class 66... it's actually quite possible!
"That's right, no matter how bad we are, we can't be worse than Richards."
"If Qin Su could even stand Richards, then we... are alright, right?"
"I support him. After all, it's impossible that Qin Su is being so kind to Richards because he has ulterior motives. It's all out of Qin Su's sincerity, which is the tolerance of a strong person. So Richards shouldn't be too happy yet. Even if Qin Su's Transport target wasn't him, the other party would have received the same treatment."
"That's right, Richards was just lucky to be in the same group as Qin Su."
Richards happily shared the treatment he received from Qin Su, while feeling uncomfortable about the fact that his classmates said he was bad at the game.
He felt no discomfort whatsoever amidst the sour remarks and envious glances from his classmates.
Qin Su: "..."
Fortunately, he has developed a very thick skin now and won't blush when he hears these words.
Raymond looked annoyed, but amidst Jeffrey's mocking laughter, he stubbornly retorted, "What are you laughing at? This is just the first time I've misjudged the Class Monitor's feelings, unlike you, who's never guessed right even once!"
His record in understanding Qin Su's thoughts remains impressive.
Qin Su: "..."
Blue Basin
Late at night in the Comic World.
In the stillness of the night, Qin Su brought his Combat Suit back to the Real World, wanting to see if the Pheromones that influenced the Zerg could combine with the light on the Combat Suit used to lure Zerg, potentially achieving the precise attraction of the Zerg species he had recently enumerated.
--
The next day.
At eight o'clock in the morning, after gathering, everyone saw the day's Cleansing Plan issued by Qin Su, and their eyes gleamed with excitement.
After Qin Su the Spaceship first, the people following him couldn't contain their excitement and started shouting one after another.
"Rotation, it really is rotation!"
You guessed right!
"It still has to be He Muzhi! Raymond and the like have to step aside."
"Hey, hey, hey!" Raymond gritted his teeth, "No praising one while belittling another!"
He Muzhi's conjecture yesterday was supported by Qin Su's strong 'evidence'. Both Class 6) and Class 66) accepted that everything He Muzhi said yesterday was the truth of how Qin Su treated them. The gazes they looked at Qin Su's back became even more intense without them realizing it.
Even when the task of Purge the enemy was arduous, Qin Su tried his best to give them experiences they wouldn't normally have.
Compared to the others, He Muzhi noticed that his group was positioned further away from Qin Su's location today than yesterday. He wondered to himself if his performance hadn't satisfied Qin Su, which was why he'd been assigned to such a distant spot.
Knowing full well what was in his own interest, Qin Su continued his selfish and self-serving behavior, showing no intention of clarifying anything. Even though he was extremely aware of the situation and cared deeply about it, he pretended to be indifferent and oblivious to his classmates' every move as he headed towards his destination.
They were still in groups of three, with the same team members as before. The difference was that today Qin Su was in charge of protection, Lifi was in charge of frontline kills, and Richards was in charge of Transport.
Having returned to his old profession, Richards, whether because he was back in his comfort zone or because of Qin Su's treatment yesterday, was full of energy today, as if he had been injected with chicken blood. When Lifi didn't need him to provide weapons, he kept looking at Qin Su with bright eyes.
Qin Su didn't forget that he still needed to use the filter that Richards' eyes had created for him to 'market' himself in the media. On one hand, he managed his image in front of Richards, and on the other hand, he kept an eye on Lifi's situation.
Lifi had watched Richards for several hours yesterday and gained a certain understanding of the actual combat situation. In addition, she wanted to perform well in front of the instructor and did not want to make a mistake. She was on high alert, her whole body tense, and she dared not relax for a moment.
It wasn't until the nearly entire day-long Purge was over and Qin Su's cold voice rang out in the Full-Band Communication Lifi's tense body, which had been taut for hours, finally relaxed.
"Call..."
Lifi breathed a sigh of relief, feeling secretly pleased.
'Great, she successfully made Qin Su see it; his training wasn't in vain!'
Richards couldn't help but feel an overwhelming sense of envy and admiration, while also feeling remorseful for his initial poor performance.
Although he couldn't help Lifi as he had hoped or gain Lifi gratitude, Qin Su found that he felt no disappointment when he thought about Lifi's every move during the Purge, and he quickly accepted reality.
That night, to ensure the third day's Purge would proceed without incident, Qin Su quietly left the Spaceship under the cover of darkness and fired the equipment he had brought back from the Real World into the selected insect's body.
--
According to the rotation rules of the first and second days, the students of Class 6) and Class 66) believed that Qin Su would definitely be rotated to the combat Team 1 on the third day.
On the third day of the Purge, things unfolded exactly as they had predicted.
The excitement from the speculation didn't last long. When they saw Qin Su announce the positioning for the third day's Purge, everyone calmed down from their high spirits, and their gazes towards He Muzhi and the others changed.
(Class 66: "..."
It must be because their performance was not as good as Class 6). Otherwise, why are all the main combat members of the people around Qin Su who are close to him the people from Class 6)? If it weren't for the fact that there were people from Class 6) in the group who benefited from the strength of the group of students from Class (Class 66), it could be said that no one from their class could get close to Qin Su.
He Muzhi: "!"
For the first two days, although he and Qin Su did the same work, they did not stand in the same direction, and were even some distance apart. On the third day, however, he was transferred to the area to Qin Su 'Qin Su left.
Based on his previous guesses, this was most likely Qin Su's reward for him passing the test; it must be that his performance in the Transport and protection work satisfied Qin Su.
Only...
He Muzhi glanced at Sophia to Qin Su's right, and Jeffrey Sheng Shuang and the others who were very close to them, his eyes flashing with a cautious expression.
Good news, we're getting closer to Qin Su.
The bad news is that the competition for 'performance' has also intensified.
Sophia thought similarly to He Muzhi, and smiled, raising an eyebrow. "He Muzhi, stop looking. Although we're classmates, I won't let you have it."
He Muzhi gave a similarly provocative look. "Same."
"Hehe, don't forget, we're still here."
"Enough talk, draw your guns!"
"Come on, who's afraid of who!"
The top students in Class 6, including Sheng Shuangjie and others, also said the same thing one after another. The look in their eyes when they looked at each other was full of hostility towards their rivals.
Qin Su: "?"
He recognizes each character individually, so why can't he understand the meaning when they're put together?