Probe

Normally, guests would have come out to take a look when they heard fighting, but the guests at this hotel remained nowhere to be seen. Zhou En vaguely guessed at a possibility.

There was actually no one staying at this hotel.

With that thought, Zhou En did not hold back. He kicked open the wooden door of a room on the sixth floor. Sure enough, the doors in this cheap hotel were all shoddy goods.

He quickly entered the room and locked the wooden door behind him.

"That wooden door is already broken from your kick. Locking it won't do much good," Liu Yu reminded him. At the same time, she swiftly moved the desk and stools over to brace the door.

After Liu Yu's reminder, Zhou En began copying her in a somewhat convincing manner.

"By the way, because of the Li family, several teams participating in the Hundred Schools War are listening to Li Ming."

"They may deliberately target us during the competition, and this might be a test."

Remembering something, Liu Yu warned Zhou En.

Zhou En gave a bitter smile. "At a time like this, you still have the mind to think about that?"

He muttered to himself that women were strange. No matter when it was, they were always thinking about club competitions. He even wondered whether Liu Yu had some sweetheart in the club.

If Liu Yu had known what Zhou En was thinking, she definitely would have made him leave lying down.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Just as Liu Yu and Zhou En finished placing the furniture, heavy pounding came from outside the door. Their hearts tightened, and Liu Yu could not help asking, "What do we do?"

After thinking it over, Zhou En could only say, "Call 110 first. Let's see if the police can get here in time."

Liu Yu nodded and began dialing 110 on her phone. Zhou En paced back and forth anxiously. In this situation, he could not think of any way out at all.

Zhou En also knew that the wooden door outside would soon be smashed apart. When that happened, Liu Yu and he would have no way to retreat.

Bang! As Zhou En paced back and forth, lost in thought, the wooden door was finally kicked open with brutal force.

"They're inside." Seeing Zhou En and Liu Yu in the room, the lead thug called out to the men behind him.

Zhou En could only stand at the doorway. Because the hotel owner had been incredibly cheap, the door was built so narrow that only one person could pass through at a time, greatly easing Zhou En's pressure.

But no matter how tough Zhou En was, he was still only one person. An endless stream of people rushed at him one after another, leaving him increasingly unable to cope. Zhou En also noticed that anyone who had exchanged blows with him

would quickly retreat to the back and be replaced by someone new. They wanted to wear him to death.

But Zhou En had no other choice. He could only force himself to hold on and refuse to fall. The pain in his body was far beyond anything his mind could endure.

Just as Zhou En thought he could no longer hold on, the piercing police sirens were like light in the darkness. His spirits rose, and he forcibly rallied himself to keep fighting.

"Run, the police are here!" someone shouted, and everyone swiftly scattered.

Zhou En let out a long breath.

Liu Yu poked Zhou En in the back and said, "I know who was staying at this hotel." Without waiting for him to respond, she continued, "The people staying here were students who came to participate in the Hundred Schools War."

"I don't know why Li Ming sent them away." Zhou En could not help nodding at her words.

The police soon found Zhou En and Liu Yu. By the time they arrived, Li Ming had already fled with his men, so there was no need to take any statements.

After routinely questioning Zhou En and Liu Yu, the police drove away in their patrol car.

At the hotel entrance, Zhou En watched the departing police car and thought, Li Ming has quite a lot of influence. It seems even the report to the police can be suppressed.

"Isn't this the trash from East District Academy?" Just as Zhou En and Liu Yu watched the police car disappear into the distance, an ill-timed voice rang out.

Zhou En and Liu Yu turned around and saw a tall, skinny young man swaggering toward them. "East District Academy should keep its tail between its legs on its first time entering the competition. Don't get too arrogant."

"That's right. Don't think that because you spent over a hundred thousand in funding to compete in this Hundred Schools War, you're anything special. I'm telling you, no matter how much money your school spends, you'll never get a good ranking."

Zhou En turned and saw another person who had appeared from who knew where, pointing at his nose and mocking him.

"You—" Just as Zhou En was about to lose his temper, Liu Yu quietly grabbed him from behind, signaling him not to act rashly.

Zhou En was startled as well. He had no strength left at all. If he went up against them now, he would definitely be at a disadvantage.

With a slight smile, Liu Yu clasped her hands in greeting. "May I ask which academies you two are from?"

"Heh, do I need to tell a bottom-ranked academy?" More and more people arrived, all looking at Zhou En and Liu Yu with mocking eyes.

Zhou En vaguely sensed that something was wrong. These academy teams could have returned at any other time, yet they had chosen to come back at this exact moment. It was clearly premeditated.

"Let's go." Zhou En grabbed Liu Yu and ran out before the crowd could form an encirclement.

Liu Yu glanced back and saw that no one had chased after them. She quietly said to Zhou En, "Those were people from West District Academy. I think they've already completely figured out our situation."

"What?" Zhou En was somewhat shocked. "Didn't you say you didn't know the other schools?"

Zhou En's words immediately made Liu Yu furious. She fiercely pinched the soft flesh at his waist.

"In any case, be more careful during tomorrow afternoon's match."

"Mm," Zhou En answered through the pain.

After getting far away from the snack street, both Zhou En and Liu Yu felt rather heavy-hearted. Even an idiot could see by now that the two of them—no, perhaps their school—was being targeted.

"Those academy teams may try to snipe us during the competition." Liu Yu looked troubled. After all, no one would feel good about being targeted for no reason.

"The teams that were mocking us just now were from West District School and Four Symbols School."

Zhou En seemed unconcerned. Soldiers would come, generals would stop them; water would come, earth would block it. This angered Liu Yu terribly.

At the hotel entrance, Li Ming stood with his arms crossed and asked one of his underlings, "Did you figure out his limits?"

If Liu Yu had been there again, she would have recognized that underling as Yang Lin, the captain of West District School.

"We figured it out. Zhou En only knows the Sun Character Consecutive Fist."

The moment those words were spoken, everyone else displayed undisguised shock.

"He only knows one move? Could someone really possess such strength with just one move? I don't believe it." Some of the underlings who had not taken part in the matter began shouting.

"Zhou En's punches are too fast and too powerful. That's why he can represent his school in battle with just one move," Yang Lin explained.

Everyone sucked in a cold breath.

"To make it into a club's official team with just the Sun Character Consecutive Fist is truly not simple." Li Ming crossed his arms and spoke calmly.

"Even my younger brother couldn't beat you. It seems you really are qualified to make me take a proper look at you."

Since the snack street had already been occupied by people from the other schools, Zhou En and Liu Yu did not want to stir up more trouble. They casually found a restaurant near the school to eat, and after both of them had ordered their dishes...