Ge Xiaolun's Challenge

"Move! Make way! Make way!"

"Ahahahaha! This is so much fun!"

"This is humiliating! I'm a cop, and you lot made me look like a thief!"

"Hey! You four, don't... don't... don't run!"

"..."

Three women and one man raced through the streets, pushing a handcart piled high with goods, with a panting female shop assistant chasing after them. The sight left the surrounding pedestrians utterly astonished!

Wei Zitong pushed the cart at the front, constantly forcing his way through crowds that had no time to move aside.

Lena was the Goddess of Blazing Sun, exalted high upon the throne with nothing to do. She had never experienced anything this thrilling before, and excitement was written all over her face.

Du Qiangwei remained silent and stayed close beside Lena. She was neither overly excited nor particularly disgusted, simply treating it as a novel experience.

Only Qilin, who had once been a police officer, found the whole thing deeply shameful, and her expression was extremely grim.

All four of them were extraordinary people, at the very least First Generation Super Soldiers of the Shenhe civilization. Running this short distance was nothing to them. As for the female shop assistant chasing them, she vanished after they turned a corner...

"Alright, she didn't catch up. Stop running!" Du Qiangwei was the most observant of the group. Seeing that the shop assistant had fallen behind, she called the other three to a halt.

"This is so embarrassing, acting like thieves!" Qilin covered her face and crouched down in misery.

"That was fun! So fun! Let's keep playing!" The excitement on Lena's face refused to fade as she shouted energetically.

"Still playing?" Qilin raised her head with a pained expression, then turned to Wei Zitong and said sternly, "Wei Zitong, don't think you can get away with this. The clothing store will have a backup of your card transaction records!"

"Doesn't matter. I already altered the records!" Wei Zitong spread his hands. When he swiped the card, he had silently said, "The name on the record isn't mine." As for which unlucky bastard got saddled with it, that depended on fate. Judging by closeness of relation, it would most likely be his sister or his old man.

Screw over his sister or screw over his dad? Let fate decide!

"Alright, alright! This Goddess has got you covered!" Lena waved a hand. "Let's keep shopping!"

"We're still going?" Wei Zitong, Du Qiangwei, and Qilin spoke in unison.

By the time Wei Zitong returned to the dormitory, he was exhausted as a dog. His body could still take it, but mentally, he was drained. He was now completely broke—at least, there wasn't even a three-digit amount left on his card.

Fortunately, he did not need to spend much money as long as he stayed inside the academy. Otherwise, he would have had no idea how he was supposed to survive the days ahead. As a major shareholder, he should have received plenty of dividends, but the Original Body Owner had been far too good at wasting money. Every year's dividends had basically been spent down to the last cent, and there was even a chance he had needed to ask his family for more money...

Speak of the dog, and the dog came right on cue!

More precisely, his old "lapdog" nickname had come right on cue!

Wei Zitong angrily looked up and saw Ge Xiaolun's highly punchable face. Seeing the smug grins on the faces of the onlookers around them, Wei Zitong immediately guessed that Ge Xiaolun had spread the story about him accidentally turning into a lapdog out of jealousy.

"Well, lapdog, enjoy licking today?" At some point, Ge Xiaolun had started speaking in a strangely sarcastic tone. Any normal person could understand the implication, and it immediately triggered a burst of laughter.

Wei Zitong knew he was not particularly well-liked among the male students, mainly because he was too handsome... Uh, that was probably it... right...

There were other reasons too. He knew far more than they did, understood the importance of advanced knowledge in this world, and studied with almost fanatical intensity. He had never blended in with this group of laughing, joking guys, so he seemed somewhat aloof.

On top of that, the girls favored him especially. With jealousy at work, today's scene had naturally come about.

Wei Zitong sighed and straightened up. Being handsome is hard. Being a top student is hard. Being a handsome top student is even harder!

Wei Zitong tilted his head and looked at Ge Xiaolun mockingly. "What? Jealous? Envious? At least it's better than you—not even having the chance to be a dog!"

"Damn it, don't get so full of yourself!" Ge Xiaolun's anger flared instantly. Waving his arms around, he shouted, "So what if you've got a little money?"

"Yeah! So what if you do?"

"You're proud of being a dog now?"

"I'd never be a dog!"

"..."

The others quickly chimed in, but among this group of losers, there would always be one discordant voice. For example...

Zhao Xin looked around and said gloomily, "Damn it, don't lump me in with you! Can you not make it sound so righteous?"

"Screw you! What a disgrace!" Cheng Yaowen smacked the back of Zhao Xin's head hard. "Xin Ye, whose side are you on?"

"Damn it, Yaowen, why'd you hit me?" Zhao Xin said miserably. "I'm just telling the truth. Every single one of you is crazy jealous behind his back, so why are you all suddenly acting so righteous? I can't get used to it!"

As soon as Zhao Xin said that, the morale Ge Xiaolun's side had finally managed to build up collapsed at once. Everyone shifted their angry gazes away from Wei Zitong and glared viciously at Zhao Xin!

Wei Zitong smiled. Zhao Xin really was an honest kid. He paced a few steps in front of Ge Xiaolun, wagged a finger at him, and said with a smile, "You're right. It really is impressive. I spent over four million on them today alone. Can you—can any of you—afford that?" As he spoke, he turned to scan the other onlookers.

Hearing that number, everyone sucked in a breath. Damn it, over four million! Even selling them would not be enough! Spending over four million on three women who were not even his girlfriends—how filthy rich was that?

Even Wei Zitong's heart ached a little at the thought of those four million, but to use the force of money to overwhelm their numerical advantage, he secretly gritted his teeth and kept the pain from showing on his face.

"Y-you, who are you trying to bluff? What clothes cost over four million?" Ge Xiaolun tried to sound tough, but his voice was already wavering, and he could barely speak clearly.

"There really are!" Cheng Yaowen suddenly jumped out to undermine him. His real goal was to show off. He patted his shit-yellow suit and said, "This outfit of mine cost nearly a million!"

"Damn it, a hidden tycoon! I thought that outfit was just cheap street-stall crap!" Zhao Xin exclaimed in amazement.

The tiny bit of morale Ge Xiaolun had painstakingly built back up vanished again. His teeth itched with hatred. What a bunch of useless traitors!

Shaking his head hard to cast off his frustration, Ge Xiaolun suddenly raised his head, glared at Wei Zitong, and gritted out, "So what if you have money? That doesn't fly here! This is the Super Seminary. We're all Super Soldiers. What matters isn't money—it's strength!"

"Oh? What do you want, then?" Wei Zitong looked at Ge Xiaolun with a smile, asking though he already knew.

"Quit acting like such a coward! I challenge you to a duel!" Ge Xiaolun gathered his courage and roared, "If I win, you're not allowed to go near Qiangwei again!"

Wei Zitong finally understood why Ge Xiaolun had been acting so bold today. It was because of Du Qiangwei. It seemed the seed he had planted in Ge Xiaolun's heart had finally sprouted. But he could not lose momentum on the surface, so he kept smiling. "That's not for you to decide. I'm not the one getting close to Qiangwei—Qiangwei is the one getting close to me!"

"Besides..." Wei Zitong's expression turned cold. "What gives a cowardly, weak, useless loser like you the right to tell me no?"

"You..."

Ge Xiaolun's eyes nearly split with rage, but before he could do anything, Wei Zitong spoke first. Both of them were Super Soldiers whose words carried offensive effects. Whoever spoke first held an absolute advantage!

"You are not allowed to speak! You are not allowed to move!"

With just those two sentences, Ge Xiaolun was pinned firmly in place, completely unable to move!

Then Wei Zitong stepped forward, spun his body in a wide arc, and kicked the immobilized Ge Xiaolun flying!