The sweltering summer had already passed its halfway mark, and the start of the school year was fast approaching.
Chen Shouyi parked his bicycle and locked it, then joined up with his two good-for-nothing friends. As they headed toward school, they bragged and shot the breeze.
"Over the summer, I signed up for a Martial Arts Cram Class. I feel like I've improved a lot. I'll probably have a pretty good chance of passing the Martial Apprentice test during my senior year." Chen Shouyi, thin and frail, thumped his shriveled chest and declared loudly.
Beside him, the short and chubby Zhao Yifeng snorted and said coldly, "Stop bragging. Who doesn't know what you're really like? Didn't you call last time and say your mom had signed you up for a math cram class, and it nearly blew your head apart?"
Sun Xin, walking on the other side, took the opportunity to add, "People like us can forget about passing the Martial Apprentice assessment. We'd be better off honestly aiming for a slightly better junior college."
Chen Shouyi's face stiffened slightly, and he said, both embarrassed and annoyed, "Who signs up for only one cram class these days? My schedule was packed every day this summer. Naturally, I didn't neglect martial arts."
As if to reinforce his words, he continued, "Anyway, I'm definitely going to become a martial artist."
It had been nearly twenty years since the Otherworld and Earth had fused together. Over those twenty years, the two worlds had launched several large-scale wars in succession, each trying to conquer the other. Yet whenever either side attempted an invasion, it returned in utter defeat.
The fundamental reason was that the rules governing Earth and that world were completely different. Electronic devices and explosives alike malfunctioned as soon as they entered