Chapter 143
"Family members, if you don't understand, just ask. Did I do something wrong?" Alec stopped in his tracks and humbly looked to his classmates, especially the group in Class 6) who considered themselves the most knowledgeable about Qin Su, for help.
"Ha?"
"What do you mean by that, senior?"
Seeing the puzzled looks on everyone's faces, Alec added, "Just now, the moment I stepped into the Main Spaceship, Qin Su handed over the authority to me."
"Could it be that there's something I bought that I shouldn't have, something that offended Qin Su?" Before anyone else could speak, Alec lowered his head, looking suspiciously at the items he had purchased, and showed them to his classmates, "Take a look, everyone."
Once it was confirmed that Alec had nothing illegal in his possession, the others shook their heads.
"It looks like everything's fine."
"It shouldn't be a problem with the item itself."
Alec looked down at his legs. "Did I step into the Main Spaceship wrong? Shouldn't I have stepped in with my right foot first, instead of my left?"
"... Senior, our Brother Su wouldn't be that eccentric."
"Exactly, the Class Monitor isn't some difficult boss like my dad's. He fired my dad because he stepped into his office with his left foot when he joined the company."
"It's obviously an excuse. He's probably been unhappy with your dad for a while and is just making up a pretext. Did he offer any compensation afterward?"
"We lost money."
"Phew... that's good."
[This humble servant deeply sympathizes with you.]
[A part of my heart has been slightly broken. I suggest deleting these words; a friend of mine felt quite uncomfortable reading them.]
"Why is that?" Alec, puzzled.
Qin Su: "..."
What else could it be? Of course, it's because he just wants to rest. Anyway, there's no danger now, and he's given up on anything that requires effort or mental exertion.
"Perhaps..." He Muzhi had been silent until now, suddenly spoke, "It's because for us in this Purge, the most difficult time has passed, the mission is over, and there's nothing left to do that's dangerous or difficult. Our Class Monitor has successfully completed his mission, so he's transferring the authority back to you, senior."
If it were really as he thought, Qin Su would always remember that he wasn't the commander this time. Even though Alec had given Qin Su authority, Qin Su still remembered that Alec was the commander this time and had no intention of vying for credit.
In other words, Qin Su didn't care about fame, fortune, or other such empty titles.
As soon as He Muzhi finished speaking, the others present quickly realized something similar to what He Muzhi meant, and their gazes toward the Rest Pod became intense.
Lifi and Richards nodded repeatedly, and then began writing furiously on their personal Optical Brain screens, expressing their feelings.
Qin Su: "..."
In the end, everyone was misled.
In this world, probably no one cares more about fame and fortune than him. Although he handed over his privileges, he still secretly hacked in and kept an Electronic Eye in public areas, monitoring the movements of his classmates.
Judging from Lifi and Richards' condition, Qin Su had a premonition that his Life Points, now in its Forty-Five Years, was about to experience another surge.
After listening to He Muzhi's analysis, Alec was finally relieved.
With little time left before leaving Vagakupo, many students didn't know when they would be able to return. They made the most of their remaining time to carefully record the underwater scenes outside the Transparent Wall.
After the cleanup, even after they removed the Shielding Device at the end, 99% of the time, all you could see were normal underwater creatures.
The waters of Vagakupo are unfathomably deep. They only cleaned the waters to a depth slightly below where the local residents of Vagakupo fished and angled, without venturing into very deep areas. The goal was to ensure that the local residents of Wagakubo Planet could fish and angle without danger, while also allowing ordinary fish to reproduce normally without being overtaken.
It is normal for one or two insects that are clearly different from normal aquatic creatures to pass by occasionally.
When the time came for the Spaceship to depart and Hyperspace Jump, everyone had already packed their belongings and found their places.
Even after traversing many places at high intensity, everyone's bodies and minds had long since adapted, and they didn't feel tired when they left. Even when the jolts of the Hyperspace Jump came, they didn't stop talking, even though they didn't have any weapons to dismantle the device.
"He Muzhi, who is that for?" Sophia, looking at a fishbone Dagger among He Muzhi's many items.
The entire Dagger was white, engraved with intricate and vibrant patterns. She overheard He Muzhi buying it; it was quite expensive.
She was quite familiar with Lailisi, and had heard a bit about their preferences. Lailisi liked things that were durable, Lin Yin liked all kinds of old books, and Samuel liked all kinds of futuristic trinkets. He Muzhi had bought all of these. He Muzhi had gone to several places to buy this Dagger, and Sophia had a vague guess in her mind and wanted to confirm it out of gossip.
Upon hearing this, He Muzhi looked at the transparent box beside him and confessed, "It's a gift I wanted to give to the Class Monitor."
The Fishbone Dagger lacked lethality, but its unique and exquisite design made it a formidable weapon. He Muzhi firmly believed that this was only true for ordinary people like them; even something seemingly harmless would become incredibly powerful in Qin Su's hands.
He had never seen Qin Su interested in anything before. After much deliberation, he chose the Fishbone Dagger, thinking that it would look beautiful on Qin Su.
Sophia's eyes lit up, and she readily held up the Black Brooch on her right. "I'm giving this to the Class Monitor too."
She didn't know what Qin Su liked, but she felt that black suited Qin Su well, so even though she didn't know if she could give it to him, she still bought it.
Suddenly, others who had been listening intently to their conversation joined in.
"Actually... I also brought a gift for the Class Monitor."
"To be honest, this is something I wanted to give to the Class Monitor."
"The Class Monitor will be very happy to see this."
Qin Su provided them with so much extra money without any side effects, and he also went to great lengths for them. They didn't know what they could do for Qin Su, so they could only superficially think of giving him gifts.
Qin Su: "..."
Accepting gifts is equivalent to accepting favors, which is not something he can do right now. He can only give favors out and refuse anything unless absolutely necessary, making it hard for his classmates not to remember him.
Taking it back is out of the question. After the Spaceship lands, he'll have to figure out a way to escape quickly.
Students from other classes in Vagakupo followed suit, briefly boosting the Vagakupo economy and increasing the income of some residents—something that rarely happened when students from other schools came to carry out Purge missions.
The students received a large sum of extra money this time, and when they went shopping with "financial power," they inevitably mentioned the name "Qin Su."
If you encounter someone who enjoys surfing the internet and has already heard of the great name 'Qin Su', you'll inevitably chat for a while.
The merchants had connections with each other, and unknowingly, they learned that the students of the Fourth Military Academy Vagakupo "foolish and rich," and that the reason they were shopping so generously was all because of Qin Su.
Unwittingly, this earned Qin Su a lot of goodwill.
As the students were on their Hyperspace Jump to leave Vagakupo, many vendors shared the story on their Social Media Accounts.
Out of genuine desire and to attract traffic to their own business, Richards and Lifi, during their Hyperspace Jump, compiled the articles, pictures, and videos they had written over the past few days and sent them to their Parents for compilation and public release.
Matters related to Qin Su don't need to be pushed out; they generate their own buzz. As Spaceship spaceships gradually arrived at the Fourth Military Academy, the entire event that occurred in Vagakupo was already known to everyone on the StarNet.
The act of selling surplus supplies was too provocative, and apart from those within the school, no media outlet on the StarNet reported it.
But this doesn't stop people from racking their brains to spread gossip. Even with both bots and human intervention, the rumors about this matter in the comments section are too numerous to delete.
[With one punch from Qin Su, the Extermination Worm.]
Welcome to the "Nine Clans of Strangers" match-3 game!
[The Light of the Federation?]
[I have a feeling that after this incident, all the Military Academies involved in insect eradication will issue a rule: under no circumstances is it allowed to sell anything (you know what I mean) related to the school.]
[When they were doing this on their own, they turned a blind eye. But Qin Su just brought it into the open, and they got upset. All they know is how to bully students.]
[Everyone's blaming Qin Su; internal reforms have already begun.]
[I think I saw something incredible. There really was. I knew Qin Su wouldn't do something like this out of the blue.]
[This is too hellish for the insects. Has any of you considered their feelings? No, you only think of yourselves. What a cold-hearted bunch. Aren't we invaders to the insects too? I suggest that humanity be exterminated and the world returned to the Zerg.]
[Is it abstract or serious?]
[It seems like only flipping the table will get attention.]
[This is the first time I've seen someone so brazenly exploit loopholes. Anyone who sees this would be incredibly audacious. I seriously suspect Qin Su did it on purpose, to expose this chain of interests and show them that if they do this, then I'll do it—it's because they taught me well.]
[How dare you say that? Do you even want to live? Watch out, they might check your Energy Meter!]
[As expected, to see the full picture of the insect, you have to rely on the Moderation Bot going crazy. But what is this thing? Its body is uneven and hard like armor, and it's all stacked on top of each other, like a family tree. It makes me feel disgusted but also like I want to laugh.]
[The Combat Suit only limits Qin Su's performance. Qin Su has definitely undergone secret experiments. His entire arm is definitely Mechanical Exoskeleton. It's just that the technology controlled by Qin Su's family is so advanced that we can't tell.]
Why don't you just say Qin Su is a robot?
[New bug? Waiting for the official name to be given to it.]
[If it were anyone else, I would definitely think it was special effects. But if it's Qin Su, it's not surprising at all. This ugly worm is just unlucky to run into Qin Su.]
Looking forward to the day when () takes over.
[Being so arrogant, you might not even know what's going to happen to you one day.]
Amidst the uproar on the StarNet, the Spaceship controlled by Alec landed safely.
Qin Su didn't give his classmates a chance to muster their courage. Taking advantage of their hesitation, he quickly got out of the Rest Pod the moment the Spaceship landed and left.
Before his body had fully recovered, to avoid any unforeseen complications, Qin Su pretended not to see the overly eager look in Aiseboer's eyes that made Qin Su suspect some kind of conspiracy. After a brief and polite greeting to the Principal and the Class Advisor, he quickly left.
Qin Su didn't seem to want to talk to him, making Aiseboer feel guilty as he watched Qin Su's departing figure. "Teacher Zhang, Qin Su is still bothered by what I did, isn't he?"
Zhang Minglang nodded. "That should be it, no doubt about it."
Qin Su left too quickly, and no one from either Class 6 or Class 66 had time to give away the gifts they brought.
The only thing they could be thankful for was that, even He Muzhi wasn't an exception in not giving out gifts; they were all equal.
--
Qin Su still felt unwell, so he used his Heat Period as an excuse to attend classes in the Real World while continuing to avoid everyone's gifts.
Seven days later, Qin Su reappeared in the Comic World.
As Qin Su walked towards the classroom, he watched the comments on the screen while listening to the discussions of the people around him.
"Hey, did you hear? Su Zhanghua dropped out of school."
"I've heard the rumors. Apparently, out of more than 400 students in his class, only about 200 returned. He used to be quite cheerful, but recently he's become depressed and has developed serious mental health issues since coming back. Everyone's guessing it's because he, as the Class Monitor, couldn't handle it and was overly self-blaming. But if you ask me, he wasn't the one in charge this time; it was Blake from the class of 'Class of 25.' He... there's no need for him to be like this. This isn't a man-made disaster; it was an accident. Nobody wanted it."
"That's true, but those were his classmates he spent every day with. Suddenly, so many of them are gone, and he's the Class Monitor. The psychological pressure is immense; anyone would find it unbearable. If Qin... cough cough cough..."
The person who was about to say something seemed to sense something, looked up and saw Qin Su's tall figure in the distance, and quickly lowered their head and shut up.
Qin Su: "..."
Although he didn't hear the whole thing, Qin Su could roughly understand what the other person wanted to say. Life is unpredictable, and there was nothing he could do about it. Like his classmates, he could do nothing but feel sad and regretful.
He's just a marketing whiz; he can never be a true prophet.
Seeing Qin Su reappear after his Heat Period, Zhang Minglang raised his hand and clapped, using the applause to draw everyone's attention away from Qin Su and back to himself.
"Get back to reality, all of you. Haven't these few days of holiday been enough to distract you?"
Too many students from the Class of 25 and Class of 26 graduating classes died this time, so the school gave the students from both classes a few days off after the funeral.
When the students looked at him, Zhang Minglang announced loudly, "The second Purge operations will begin in two months."
Experiencing such a long gap for the first time, some students quickly asked in confusion, "Doesn't that mean it's almost the end of the semester?"
"That's right." Zhang Minglang nodded, glancing at Qin Su before continuing, "Because of some... well, well-known reasons."
Even Aiseboer publicly indicated to him that he was siding with Qin Su, so Zhang Minglang didn't bother to embellish his words any further.
"During this period, the number of Zerg has decreased at an unprecedented rate, and the school held a meeting to adjust the Purge schedule."
Hearing this, the students understood. It seemed that because of the "list of planets that the Zerg must eat" circulating on the StarNet after the Purge last semester, the Purge of the Zerg was no longer just their task. In order to eat, people from various planets were constantly "joining" them.
"Of course, don't expect to relax during this time. For the next eight weeks, the Class of 26 will be divided into groups of twenty classes, starting from the Sequential Placement, and each week they will be integrated into the Class of 24 cohort's classes, which are categorized by professional skills, for further study."
"During this period, everyone must study at the pace of the classes that are being integrated into each week."
"After the study session concludes, we will announce the final Purge schedule."
"There can only be one Class Monitor. Due to the temporary merging of too many classes, during the study period, which class's arrangements to follow will depend on the performance of the members of that specific class."
"?"
(6) A clear look of doubt appeared in the eyes of the class.
"Teacher, are you sure you didn't say something wrong? Isn't it... the Class Monitor?"
How can we judge them by their performance?
Zhang Minglang thought to himself that, judging from the Class Monitor's words, there was no need to even think about it. Qin Su would rotate every week, and wherever it was Qin Su's turn, everyone had to follow Qin Su's arrangements. It didn't matter to Qin Su alone, since he had no room for improvement at all.
However, apart from Qin Su, the senior students have more experience and strength than the junior students in all aspects. For everyone's sake, they still prefer to let the senior class Class Monitor be the overall Class Monitor after the merger.
"What? Are you scared?" Zhang Minglang said with a smile, using flattering words, "Don't you want Qin Su to see your progress?"
According to this rule, whether the Class Monitors can become the Class Monitors of the temporarily merged classes depends entirely on their own performance.
The students in Class 6 immediately tensed up and subconsciously looked at Qin Su: "..."
They certainly wanted to, but... those were the Class of 24, could they handle it? What if they performed poorly, not only would they embarrass Qin Su, but they would also cause Qin Su to lose his position Class Monitor.
Qin Su: "..."
Why are you all looking at him? He could raise his hand ten thousand times in favor of this arrangement; there's no way he could argue against it.
He only had a superficial understanding of the courses taught in the senior classes, and had no experience with senior students' classes or their pace.
According to the teacher, there will be many classes attending the same time. If he unfortunately becomes the Class Monitor and makes a mistake, he will face the danger of being magnified infinitely by many people.
Qin Su pretended not to notice the gazes of his classmates.
Seeing that Qin Su didn't seem inclined to speak, Zhang Minglang quickly seized the opportunity and said, "Since no one has any objections, please proceed to A-09 Training Ground. All classes will be assembled in half an hour."
After Zhang Minglang finished speaking, he announced the dismissal and quickly left the classroom.
What happened next was none of his concern, so Qin Su stood up with a light heart and headed towards his destination.
The other students in Class 6 obviously had something to say, but Qin Su had left, so they could only quickly follow in Qin Su footsteps.
Behind Qin Su, they kept quiet, taking advantage of the fact that Qin Su didn't turn around, and opened their Optical Brain to chat enthusiastically in the group chat where Qin Su wasn't present.
At the same time, students in other classes also finished listening to their respective Class Advisor.
A student remembered what happened on the Forum before and posted about it on the Forum.
[75L: The school will definitely make arrangements for this. Just thinking about Qin Su immediately realizing that we seniors are more desirable than juniors makes me happy.]
[76L: What if Qin Su likes the "raising a child" type of relationship? (evil grin)]
[77L: Doesn't this mean we'll soon have a legitimate opportunity to compete with Class 6)?! Looking forward to it!]
[78L: Which venue? Our classes have already decided. Tomorrow, we'll have the competition among class Class Monitor for the Head Class Monitor Position. We've already brought our own stools and are heading to Qin Su's venue to wait for the show to begin.]
[79L: A-09, You're welcome. I don't have any other hobbies, I just love watching fights (doge)]
[80L: Didn't someone previously claim that Class 6) is nothing without Qin Su? Now the opportunity has arrived. It seems the answer to whether Class 6) is a mule or a horse is about to be revealed (doge)]
[81L: It's a pity it wasn't our Class of 23, otherwise I would really like to see what happened to Class 6 of the Class of 26 class.]
[82L:@ Class of 23, don't regret it. Ask Halton, the most prominent figure in your class. It's said everywhere that he was following Qin Su's orders, which is why he was able to teach He Muzhi during his spare time. He definitely knows something about what happened in Class 6) ]
[83L: I can only say that He Muzhi truly deserves to be Qin Su's chosen one. At first, he was nothing, but later... this kid doesn't treat me like a human being at all. Every time he attacks, he goes all out to kill me. It's either my brain, my carotid artery, or my heart. I asked him if there was some grudge between us that I didn't know about. Do you know what that kid answered? He said, 'Sorry, that's how Qin Su taught them. If possible, he hopes to grow up quickly and, after the attack, thoroughly stir up the target's brain like Qin Su did.' Folks, is that right?]
[84L:?! The real person has shown up and caught a Halton. If you're not lying to us, doesn't that mean Qin Su, a great demon king, taught a bunch of little demon kings? Every demon should have Qin Su tattooed on their body.]
[85L:... Sorry, but that's really how the Class Monitor taught it.]
[86L:?6666 Both sides have arrived at the scene. Also, what little devil? Don't flatter those people from Class 6. ]
[87L: Front row seat! I've already secured a spot with lightning speed. Hurry, there are plenty of good seats now, or they'll be gone!]
[88L: So fast? Seriously, no offense intended, but you all listen to whatever Qin Su says, you learn anything he teaches you, are you Qin Su's dogs? You want to do such disgusting and terrifying things, are you perverts? (I'm vomiting)]
[89L: The Class Monitor's dog? Such a good thing? I'm the first to sign up!]
[90L: So that's it... that's right! (Head held high, hands on hips. jpg) I am Qin Su's dog!]
[91L: Confirmed. They're definitely a bunch of lunatics (just kidding). To get closer to Qin Su, these people have abandoned their dignity and even their conscience. If they really did something so horrific, won't they have nightmares at night?]
[92L: None of these are as important as Qin Su. You guys are too narrow-minded. With Qin Su, dignity, money, and status would be a piece of cake. Nightmares... laughable. When I think of Qin Su, I can't think of anything else. I only dream about Qin Su.]
[93L: Let's make a bet. Can the group in Class 6 get Qin Su to become the Head Class Monitor? Anyone interested?]
[94L: Hurry up and open! I bet Class 6) will win]
[95L: I bet Class 6 loses. They're just wearing Qin Su's label, not Qin Su himself. We're experienced seniors, what are we afraid of?]
Ten minutes later, Qin Su arrived at his destination.
Seeing the sea of people, Qin Su resisted the urge to stop and turn around to check if he had gone to the wrong place, and forced himself to continue walking amidst everyone's excited gazes.
"...?"
Are you so free that you don't have to go to class?
Although he didn't understand why there were so many people, Qin Su could tell from the scene that things were definitely not simple.