Liu Bufan

Chapter 46: Liu Bufan

The school's sports field was brightly lit.

"Poor kids," one might think. "Even having too good of school conditions isn't great." The bright lights at night made it seem like daytime, and they still had to undergo military training.

"Hey, look, a handsome little brother is coming." In a formation near the northwest corner of the field, a girl was kneeling on the ground, pressing her companion's legs.

Her companion, while doing sit-ups, quietly asked, "Where? Where? Which direction?"

"Right behind you," the girl whispered. "The coach is talking to him. It's a good opportunity, hurry and look."

The girl doing sit-ups quickly turned her head and looked into the distance.

She saw a middle-aged man with a boy in front of the formation, talking to the coach.

"Has Class 2's final ace finally arrived?" Behind the girl's row was the row of male students, also doing sit-ups, and their discussions began to grow louder.

"Hey, Big Fatty, you finally have a companion." The girl with the stylish short hair turned her head, revealing a cute smile, and looked at the male classmate who was doing sit-ups without anyone to press his legs.

"Ah." The male classmate called "Big Fatty" wasn't actually that fat. From a normal person's perspective, his build was quite average.

However, for an Awakened, he could indeed be considered "fat."

As everyone knew, an Awakened's total Star Power was linked to their physical strength, which led to Awakened individuals frantically training their bodies and striving to improve their Physical Fitness.

These children, full of dreams, were no different. Each of them was either as thin as a monkey or well-trained and strong.

Big Fatty was one of the few in Class 1 whose physique was "out of shape." Besides him, there were three other fat students, respectively nicknamed Second Fatty, Third Fatty, and Fourth Fatty by their classmates.

This year, Jiangbin No. 1 High School had a total of 16 regular classes and 8 Awakened classes.

This was also because Jiangbin No. 1 High School had a formidable reputation, allowing it to attract so many Awakened students. For some smaller schools, having one or two Awakened classes would be considered good.

Furthermore, unlike regular student classes, which often had over 40 or 50 students, Awakened student classes only had 24 students each.

The class assignment standard for Awakened students was based on each student's academic performance and Star Chart status. Of course, academic performance only accounted for 30% of the total score.

Class 1 was famously known as the "Ace Class." With the relatively low proportion of academic performance in the total score, these children were selected, meaning they were basically the ones with the best potential in this batch.

And Class 2, where Jiang Xiao was, was a class whose potential wasn't top-tier but wasn't weak either.

Since the military training began more than ten days ago, Class 2 had consistently maintained 23 students, with no adjustments made from Class 3.

The classmates had also been discussing privately whether the school was saving a spot for some legendary figure. Although Class 2 was inferior to Class 1, their academic performance ranked them above the other six classes.

In fact, besides the students in Class 2 awaiting the appearance of their mysterious classmate, students in the other seven classes were also waiting for this mysterious individual.

They genuinely wanted to see what kind of extraordinary abilities this person possessed.

Finally, the much-anticipated mysterious classmate arrived!

He had two eyes, a mouth, two arms, and two legs, was tall and thin, and looked harmless, not at all fierce as rumored.

Big Fatty managed to do one sit-up before stopping, bending his knees and resting his hands on them. He looked at the figure in the distance and said, "Heh heh, Liu Ke, I know what's going on in that little head of yours."

"Aren't you our communicator? You're good with words," said Liu Ke, the girl with short hair, revealing a cute smile as she held up three fingers to Big Fatty.

Big Fatty: "Huh?"

Liu Ke: "Three minutes. I want all his information!"

"Three minutes isn't enough. This evening training session, I'll give you everything after it ends," Big Fatty said with a confident smile.

"I knew Big Fatty was the best!" Liu Ke's voice was soft and sweet, extremely pleasant to hear.

Big Fatty looked pleased and his confident smile gradually turned a bit lewd. "I can't just work for free, you know."

"What do you mean?" Liu Ke asked, her big, innocent eyes blinking. Big Fatty's heart almost melted.

"Let's exchange WeChat IDs," Big Fatty said with a grin, rubbing his hands together.

"Alright then," Liu Ke said, looking reluctant, but she finally nodded. "But you have to get his WeChat ID for me first."

"You got it!" Big Fatty slapped his chest with a resounding thud.

In the distance, Jiang Xiao looked at the coach in front of him, still marveling at how small the world was.

This person was none other than Jiang Xiao's former personal coach, Lei Jin! Ten days ago, Jiang Xiao thought Lei Jin had gone crazy from being cooped up and had even forgotten to say goodbye before escaping from Xia Yan's house.

But who would have thought he was here to coach the new students? How desperate for money could this guy be? Working odd jobs everywhere? Jiang Xiao had also learned about Lei Jin's strength indirectly. He knew Lei Jin was a professional sparring partner, but he didn't expect him to be so professional that a school like Jiangbin No. 1 High School would hire him to coach Class 2? Speaking of which, isn't this military training? Where's the drill instructor? "Crawled out of the Snowy Plains? Xia Yan told me about it, and I was a bit worried about you," Lei Jin said with a chuckle.

Beside them, Director Gao stared blankly at Lei Jin. This gold-medal sparring partner actually knew Jiang Xiao?

"Ah, I crawled out. Thanks for your concern," Jiang Xiao said gratefully. The two men had spent a full seven days together, and they had indeed developed some camaraderie.

Of course, although Lei Jin was the sparring partner, Jiang Xiao was the one being beaten unilaterally.

Thinking about it, this was quite a sad statement.

"No need to worry. I was a bit concerned when she told me, but then I forgot about it and went for some BBQ skewers," Lei Jin said.

Jiang Xiao: "..."

Lei Jin sized up Jiang Xiao, specifically looking at his eyes. "Hmm, your spirit and energy seem pretty good. The Snowy Plains are dangerous, so it seems you've channeled your energy into the right things."

Jiang Xiao: "Huh?"

"And it's so cold in the Snowy Plains, it probably wasn't easy for you to operate," Lei Jin said, patting Jiang Xiao's shoulder. "Even though Earth is peaceful, you need to maintain it. You must restrain yourself. You're still young, don't ruin your body."

Jiang Xiao: ??? "Do you live at the dorm or go home?" Lei Jin ignored Jiang Xiao's bewildered expression and continued to press.

"Dorm, it's convenient," Jiang Xiao replied. "Saves me chasing the Route 102 every day."

"Have you got all your daily necessities? I see you arrived late. If you haven't bought them yet, you can stay at my place tonight," Lei Jin said generously.

Jiang Xiao: "I've slept enough with you. Your snoring, I..."

"Ahem." From the side, Director Gao could only use his cough to make his presence known.

"Ah, Director Gao, look at me, I get so carried away talking that I forgot. This kid was my student, then he went to the Snowy Plains for training. I was really worried he wouldn't make it out," Lei Jin said, patting Jiang Xiao's shoulder with a smile. "You go rejoin your group first."

Jiang Xiao, wearing a white t-shirt and black shorts, walked into a green formation.

The 23 people were divided into four rows, with six people per row. Jiang Xiao naturally found himself in the last empty spot in the last row.

Just as Jiang Xiao was looking for an opportunity to blend into the team, the male classmate in front turned around. He had a well-proportioned build, thick eyebrows, and large eyes, looking quite manly.

It was none other than Big Fatty.

Big Fatty grinned and spoke with a heavy Liaodong accent: "Hi, classmate, my name is Liu Bufan. The 'bu' is for 'progress', and the 'fan' is for 'ordinary'. I'm our class's correspondent."

In the three northern provinces, geographically speaking, the further north you go, the closer you get to Mandarin.

If Liaodong dialect was close to Mandarin, then the dialect of the North River could be considered a relatively pure dialect.

Of course, even though the North River dialect was as close to Mandarin as it could be, it still contained many regional vocabulary words. To outsiders, it was still recognizable as coming from one of the three northern provinces.

Unexpectedly, before Jiang Xiao could answer, a classmate next to him spoke up first, and in a sarcastic tone: "Heh, correspondent."

The male classmate had a scar on his lip and looked like a Ruthless Person.

He seemed to hold the title of "correspondent" in great disdain. He turned to Big Fatty Liu Bufan and said sarcastically, "The whole school knows you're Class 2's correspondent, heh. Classmate Liu Bufan, I do agree with your 'fan' being 'ordinary', but your 'bu', which is 'progress', seems to also be 'regress', doesn't it?"

Liu Bufan's smile stiffened slightly, but he continued to grin and said, "Regress is fine too. For example, right now, taking a step back leads to a broader view, haha."

The male classmate froze for a few seconds, then snorted and turned away.

Jiang Xiao looked at Liu Bufan in surprise. Are kids this mature nowadays? Did these words come from a high school student? Such high emotional intelligence? Thank you for the generous reward from "caring about the years", thank you for your support.