The chicken had finished the rice, the dog had gnawed through the flour, and the lamp had burned through the lock.
The unlucky kid had cried himself dry, but still, reality could not be changed.
One hour later, in a "classroom" specially cleared out in a secluded corner of the oasis, Yan Fei, drifting along like a lonely ghost, once again saw Ji Jue.
Out in the open space, Ji Jue was fully focused on stretching and warming up, meticulously working every joint in his body.
He was preparing for class with everything he had!
No, was this really necessary...? This setup would have been enough to kill a Transcendence!
What had I done to deserve this treatment?!
Yan Fei's eye twitched in waves, and his vision went dark.
Why had things turned out like this?
For the first time, he had met a teacher who could guide him toward the future; for the first time, he had found a place where he could thrive and give full play to his talents. When those two things overlapped... the rest was omitted.
Yan Fei's mind was still completely blank, stuck in a crashed, bewildered state.
No, I'm going to fight Mister Ji?!
Seriously?
I'm dead for sure!
"Mister Ji, I-I'll double my homework. I'll definitely work hard and finish it," Yan Fei said, still trying to cling to his last shred of hope. But upon hearing this, Ji Jue merely gave a helpless, indulgent smile.
"To skip class, you're even willing to say you'll double your homework?" he sighed. "This is no ordinary bad student. You need serious correction!"
At that moment, a hundred thousand question marks popped up over the boy's head, all scrambling to appear first.
He truly could not understand why!
But what why was there? Did a