When the class monitor said these words, there was no anger or ferocity on his face. Between his sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, there was still his signature righteousness.
When the students saw it from afar, they thought the class monitor was encouraging the last-place student in the class.
Who knew that what Zuo Haoran said was: "With just you, you still want to get into an Undergraduate program? In your next life!"
Meng Chao wanted to say something but stopped.
Zuo Haoran continued to smile: "What, you're not convinced and want to hit someone? Don't say I'm not giving you a chance to stand up for yourself. You're injured, I'll let you use one hand. Do you dare, you trash!"
Chu Feixiong strode over.
Zuo Haoran's eyes darted around. He patted Meng Chao on the shoulder and said loudly, "Meng Chao, it's your turn. Go for it, we're all supporting you!"
He walked away with a smile.
His elegant appearance, in the eyes of the students, salvaged some of his image.
"What did Zuo Haoran say to you just now?" Chu Feixiong frowned, knowing that when the class monitor came over, it was never a good thing.
"It's nothing, I'll handle it myself later. Is it my turn?" Meng Chao was too lazy to take off his coat and slowly stretched his limbs.
"Meng Chao, go for it!"
"We're all supporting you, don't let Class 6 down!"
"Work hard, strive, you will definitely get into a junior college!"
He had just spoken up for everyone, and the students were very grateful, cheering him on.
"I'm not in good shape today." Meng Chao said gloomily.
He wasn't lying, he really wasn't in good shape.
He had spent the whole night fighting monsters, exhausted and weak. His hidden injuries hadn't healed yet, and he could only exert 50% of his strength at most.
The students snickered, thinking, When have you been in good shape in the past year, kid?
"If you had stayed last night and studied the Super Raging Bull Force with us, it would have been great. But it's not too late to work hard now. During the self-study session this afternoon, I'll teach you personally!" The little fatty Wang Tao encouraged loudly.
He had just broken his personal record and his confidence was exploding.
"You don't know the Super Raging Bull Force?" Chu Feixiong asked in a low voice.
Meng Chao thought, if he were to use the Wild Bull Technique at this time, wouldn't that be too pretentious?
"I've only studied the theory, I haven't used it on myself yet. The Super Raging Bull Force is so powerful, my physique is weak, I can't handle it." He could only say softly.
"Alas, there's only one week left, it's too late!" Chu Feixiong stomped his feet anxiously.
"Come on, Meng Chao is going to test the 100-meter run, let's applaud and cheer for him!" Zuo Haoran said loudly, taking the lead in applauding.
Sparse applause rang out around.
Some people also reacted, feeling that the class monitor was a bit sarcastic and didn't know whether to follow along with the applause.
"I'm really not in good shape, don't applaud, the more you applaud, the more flustered I feel." Meng Chao pouted.
"Don't worry, Meng Chao, everyone understands your situation. The most important thing is to overcome yourself. Don't think about comparing yourself to us. It's great if you can be even a little bit stronger than yourself," Zuo Haoran said with a bright smile.
"Alright, my Raging Bull Force is really not working, but I've been using Ripple Force to heal my injuries for the past year, so let's try... Ripple, shall we?" Meng Chao muttered to himself, stepping onto the starting line and kneeling on one knee.
Most of the students didn't have high expectations for him, only watching out of courtesy.
The homeroom teacher didn't even look at Meng Chao, but instead buried his head in his tablet, gleefully studying how much his class's top students lagged behind the average level of the Rocket Class.
Zuo Haoran, on the other hand, crossed his arms, a half-smile on his face.
Just then.
The wind picked up.
The testing room clearly didn't even have windows open, but everyone felt a breeze on their faces.
No, not just a breeze, but wave after wave, each wave higher than the last!
The astonishing air currents, like ripples, spread out from under Meng Chao's feet.
"This is—"
The students were horrified, looking towards the source of the overflowing ripples, and discovered that Meng Chao's legs were clearly in place, but looked somewhat blurry, all due to the ultra-high-speed tremors of his muscles, creating fine, overlapping afterimages.
"Class monitor, move aside, I'm going to launch," Meng Chao said calmly.
Future version of Ripple Force, Expert Level, erupt!
Whoosh!
Including Zuo Haoran, the students on both sides of the track only felt a bone-chilling gust of wind on their faces, their eyes stimulated to the point of closing, as if a tsunami had roared past them.
When they opened their eyes again, Meng Chao's feet had already devoured half the track.
"Such strong Ripple Force!" The whole class was horrified.
The homeroom teacher also jumped up, his tablet falling to the ground.
Meng Chao's posture was a bit strange. Unlike everyone else's Wild Bull Charge, it was as if he was being pushed by a giant wave, easily blasting out an afterimage.
"Beep beep, nine point five nine seconds!"
Although he clearly slowed down in the second half, relying on his exaggerated starting speed, he still ran a rather astonishing result, ranking third in the class, only behind Zuo Haoran and "Zhao Xue Shen," who was known for his speed.
For a time, the atmosphere was strange, and there was silence.
Meng Chao slowly decelerated, pinching his weak legs, and twitched the corner of his mouth.
As expected, he wasn't pretending, his condition really wasn't good.
"Damn it, this body is still too weak. Wasting a whole year can't be made up for in a day.
"Nine point five nine seconds! A hundred-meter time of only nine point five nine seconds! That's zero point zero one seconds slower than the Earth Era's sprint king, Bolt!
"I can't even outrun Bolt, what qualifications do I have to take the Undergraduate exam!"
Meng Chao slammed his fist hard, his face full of annoyance.
Then, he noticed the air was a little stiff.
Looking up, Meng Chao saw that everyone, including the homeroom teacher, the class monitor, the class beauty, and his best buddy, was staring at him in stunned silence.
"What's up?" Meng Chao asked, puzzled.
"Your speed..." Chu Feixiong asked in disbelief.
"I know, it's pretty slow, and I'm also very troubled by it," Meng Chao sighed.
The classmates took a deep, deep breath, barely, with great difficulty, suppressing the urge to beat this show-off to death.
"Meng, classmate Meng Chao!"
The homeroom teacher was the first to react, jumping three feet high with excitement, "Your injuries, have they healed?"
Good heavens, Meng Chao was the top student in the entire class in the first and second years of high school. If he hadn't been seriously injured, he would definitely have been Class 6's trump card.
If this trump card recovered his health and teamed up with Chu Feixiong and Zuo Haoran, the homeroom teacher would be set!
"Not fully recovered yet, but this year I've been practicing the Ripple Force diligently, and I've found some unique learning methods, so it can be considered a blessing in disguise?"
Meng Chao said, "If any classmates need it, I can also share with everyone. Just follow Chu Feixiong's standards and give me some Gene Serums, high-energy nutrient solutions, cell growth agents, monster materials, or just cash, anything is fine, I'm very easygoing."
The homeroom teacher and the classmates all took a deep breath.
Two upgraded versions of force exertion methods, wouldn't that send the whole class soaring!
Zuo Haoran's face, however, felt like it was being slapped left and right by Meng Chao and Chu Feixiong, until it was swollen.
Meng Chao was too lazy to look at him and walked to the punch force tester on his own.
"You, your limit punch force, couldn't possibly be as exaggerated as your 100-meter sprint, right?" Chu Feixiong asked.
"How is that possible? Do you think I'm a monster? My punch force is really ordinary, and I helped my dad clean up monsters all night last night, my arms are sore, numb, and swollen, almost useless," Meng Chao said truthfully.
Harvesting monsters is heavy physical labor, especially constantly disassembling the hardest shells of crustacean monsters.
When encountering fragile organs such as venom sacs, one must be as delicate as a surgeon performing an operation, with muscles and nerves highly tense, which is very taxing.
Meng Chao really couldn't even lift his arms right now.
He took half a day to even out his breathing and finally placed his fist on the tester.
Seeing his pained expression, which didn't seem fake, everyone finally believed that his punch force was probably really unremarkable.
"With Meng Chao's top three speed in the class, even if his punch force is only 180 kilograms, as long as his marksmanship isn't too much of a drag, he's enough to break into the top ten in the class. Alas, there's hope to pass the school test!"
The classmates calculated for a while and shouted in surprise.
From the bottom of the class to standing out in the school test, how monstrous!
"Hard to say, I remember last time he tested, his limit punch force seemed to be 150 or 160 kilograms, which is a bit troublesome. You know, the Ripple Force is not suitable for instantaneous output on the fist," someone also shook his head.
Before the words were finished, Meng Chao erupted.
From his fist to his arm to his torso, everything was blurred, and waves of power surged into the punch force tester. There was no thunderous roar like when using the Raging Bull Force to punch, but more like crashing waves, slamming layers of hidden force into the machine, then stacking and exploding.
The value on the display screen increased in stages, from 120 kilograms at the beginning, to 150 kilograms, then to 180 kilograms, breaking through 200 kilograms, and still showing no signs of stopping. In the end, it stopped abruptly at 218 kilograms!
"..."
The students were once again horrified.
Chu Feixiong's limit punch force was 233.5 kilograms, Zuo Haoran's was 225 kilograms, and another student in the class known for his punch force, "Wu Xue Ba," was 223.6 kilograms. Meng Chao's 218 kilograms ranked fourth, even 2 kilograms higher than Wang Tao, the chubby kid who had just broken through the platform after studying the Super Raging Bull Force!
More importantly, usually, limit punch force and the 100-meter sprint are two things that are hard to have at the same time.
Only a wealthy second-generation like Zuo Haoran, with abundant resources, can cultivate both.
Power-based students like Chu Feixiong, Wu Xue Ba, and the chubby Wang Tao have strong limit punch force, but their speed is slightly inferior.
Speed-based students like Zhao Xue Shen are good at the 100-meter sprint, but their punch force is weaker.
Meng Chao, however, like Zuo Haoran, exhibited the characteristics of both strength and speed being on par. Not counting shooting, his overall score ranked second in the class, only a line behind the class monitor!
"This, this is too exaggerated?"
"Is Meng Chao still human? He recovered so powerfully without a word, not giving us any psychological preparation. Wuwuwu, so scary!"
"The top student of the whole class last year is back!"
"Wuwuwu, I originally thought that 'Wu Xue Ba' and 'Zhao Xue Shen' were the two great masters of the pretense world in our Class 6, but after seeing Meng Chao today, I realized that there is always someone better, and there is always a sky beyond the sky. I lost, completely lost!"
Under the astonished, envious, and angry gazes of his classmates, Meng Chao lightly exhaled a breath of stale air and stepped down from the punch force tester.
"Feixiong, I didn't lie to you, right? I'm really not good at the Wild Bull Technique. The punches I throw with the Ripple Force are all soft and weak, with no strength at all," he said with a wry smile.
Having exerted all his strength, his limit punch force only reached the level of Tyson, the Earth Era boxing champion. Apart from a wry smile, Meng Chao couldn't squeeze out a second expression.
"..."
Chu Feixiong took a deep breath and suddenly raised his hand, "Reporting, Teacher Wang, can you please go out for five minutes? I want to beat Meng Chao!"
All the students in the class raised their hands with a whoosh: "We also want to beat Meng Chao, beat this pretentious bastard to death!"
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