Activate, Destiny Mission! (Part 2)

... endure ...

... endure and endure again ...

Gurgle, gurgle. That consciousness wasn't just waking up; it felt like it was boiling, more active than ever before. It wasn't trying to fully stretch out and seize control, but rather seemed to have been triggered by something. Specific memories, immense obsessions, and violent emotions all went berserk at once. Crackle, pop! Inside the mental domain, it was like thunder and lightning, with sparks growing hotter and brighter.

---- I can't endure anymore! ----

---- I don't want to endure anymore!! ----

A massive surge of emotion broke through the solidified mass of consciousness. A thunderous roar echoed throughout the entire mental domain. Shi Tiexin's eyes suddenly flashed with images – memories etched deeply into another consciousness.

Shi Tiexin's eyes went blank for a moment as he began to receive fragmented memories.

He saw the arrogant, wild laughter of delinquent youths.

He saw beatings, extortion, threats, and bullying.

He saw a young boy from the countryside, wanting to continue his studies and live up to the expectations and trust of his fellow villagers, decide that it was better to avoid trouble than to stir it up, choosing to endure rather than resist.

He saw the immense pressure buried in that boy's heart, the pent-up drive to study hard and make a name for himself. He saw that boy biting back tears alone, telling himself to endure, just a little longer, and everything would pass once those villains got bored.

But he also saw that things didn't go as planned. Those delinquent youths loved to bully those who didn't fight back. The more he endured, the worse they became. Even though the boy was poor and had no money to extort, they would still bully him just for their own amusement.

He saw some malicious faces and heard some wild insults and shouts. These mixed together, wave after wave, surging forward. Countless broken memories contained humiliation, and at the end of every humiliation was the face of Teng Chaoguo.

"Kneel down, crawl through here..."

"Come on, my good grandson, call me grandpa, and grandpa will let you go..."

"Drink this piss, and I won't make you pay the money..."

"You're tall, aren't you? From now on, whenever you see me, you have to squat. Hahahaha!"

"Kneel down when I tell you to. Not kneeling? You dare defy me? Beat this good grandson to death!"

Scene after scene blended together, like chaos. In the vast chaos, Shi Tiexin suddenly felt that everything before him was so familiar.

Wasn't this exactly what he had experienced in Tumubao?! Wasn't this exactly what he had experienced at the Star Engineering Cadet School?!

Oh, other consciousness, it turns out you and I are truly the same!

And this grief, this unwillingness to yield, it's all the same as mine!

As this thought arose, with a deafening roar, the chaotic vortex of memories was split open by a brilliant light, as if the heavens and earth were being created. The brilliant light finally transformed into several large characters, appearing in Shi Tiexin's field of vision.

[Activated, Destiny Mission!]

[Destiny Mission 1: Might Cannot Be Bent.]

[Description: Even a poor orphan should stand tall!]

[Completion Conditions: Explore on your own]

[Completion Reward: Explore on your own]

Destiny Mission?

Shi Tiexin didn't know what this was or what it represented. The completion conditions and rewards were all "explore on your own," making it confusing. But he didn't care about that now. He just clenched his fists, stared at Teng Chaoguo, who was swaggering ahead, and his gaze suddenly sharpened.

So that's it, I can't possibly stay out of this. This is my own business!

What completion conditions, what completion rewards – Shi Tiexin didn't care about any of it now. He just carefully sensed the continuously active consciousness, feeling its emotions, feeling its thoughts. Suddenly, Shi Tiexin called out in his heart.

---- Hey, other consciousness, are you afraid of this guy? ----

The other consciousness suddenly paused, and then a somewhat dejected and ashamed emotion was transmitted.

---- Afraid ----

The communication between consciousnesses didn't lie. Fear was fear; it couldn't be faked. Shi Tiexin didn't despise him. Instead, he seriously conveyed, ---- Being afraid is normal. I was afraid too, I was timid too. Fear is a natural reaction when facing irresistible violence. So, other consciousness, did you yield? ----

The other consciousness suddenly went berserk, releasing intense emotions explosively.

---- I didn't yield! ----

---- I will never yield! ----

---- I don't want to endure anymore, I want to fight him to the end!! ----

Shi Tiexin suddenly smiled. ---- Very good. Now, watch me. Let me show you that we don't need to fear guys like this at all. ----

As his thoughts moved, he had already walked out of the teaching building and arrived at a secluded corner of the campus. There was a separate, single-story toilet building, and a foul smell wafted from it from afar.

"Get lost, all of you!" A subordinate rushed forward a couple of steps and went inside. Soon, the sound of hurried footsteps echoed from within as a group of boys ran out in a panic. They all secretly glanced at Shi Tiexin before scurrying past and fleeing in haste.

"We're here, go in, Scholar Stone?" Teng Chaoguo grinned sinisterly and walked into the toilet first. Two subordinates blocked the rear, cutting off their escape route. Shi Tiexin didn't mind and stepped into the toilet.

The scene suddenly went dark. After a moment of adjusting to the dim light, Shi Tiexin could finally see the situation inside the toilet.

This place was truly... rotten to the core!

Even in the most historically accurate TV dramas, Shi Tiexin had never seen such a dilapidated toilet!

The layout here was not much different from the toilets in the Trash Class dormitory building. On one side was a long row of urinals. On the other side was a long, elongated squat toilet. A large water tank was nailed to the wall; there was no instant flushing system, only a rumbling release of a large stream of water every so often, which was why the place reeked.

There were no windows on the walls and no lights overhead, so it was very dark inside. Only on the wall near the ceiling was there a row of ventilation holes. Through these fist-sized holes, faint light filtered in, making it barely possible to see.

All in all, it was mediocre, but not too outlandish.

However, there was one fixture here that was much worse than the toilets in the Trash Class. That was the buckets filling the urinals. Yes, you read that right – there were black, enormous urine buckets!

These urine buckets completely filled the urinals, forcing the boys to relieve themselves into the buckets. It was only mid-morning, and the buckets were already more than half full of yellow liquid. Coupled with the slightly warm weather, a pungent stench rose to the heavens. Upon closer inspection, quite a few dead flies and cigarette butts floated in the buckets, bobbing up and down with the foam – a truly disgusting sight.

This was the Black Toilet.

The gladiatorial arena for the delinquent youths of the Trash Class to settle disputes with force.