Dad

Facts have proven that once a person's mind gets stuck in a rut, they become deaf to anything other than what they want to hear, or at the very least, incapable of understanding it.

To end this conversation as quickly as possible, Wang Wen had no choice but to go along with Yu Zhi's topic: "Fine, I forgive you."

Yu Zhi then naturally pushed her luck: "Then can you stop hiding from me and come back to the Academy for class?"

"I'm not hiding; I really have things to take care of." Wang Wen's tone was like he was coaxing a daughter; he was one step away from replacing "I" with "Daddy."

Yu Zhi looked up, puzzled: "Why does your tone sound like my father?"

Faced with this behavior of making conversation just for the sake of it, Wang Wen finally lost all patience, burying his head in his meal and ignoring her.

But at that moment.

His ears suddenly twitched, and he whipped his head around to look outside the cafeteria.

The next second.

A heaven-shaking explosion erupted, causing all the glass in the cafeteria to tremble.

The entire cafeteria descended into chaos.

Wang Wen seized the time to shovel the rest of his food into his mouth, then stood up and rushed out of the cafeteria.

Just as he reached the entrance, he saw someone walking toward him from not far away, unhurried and composed.

It was Shen Rushuang, the Mirror head steward of Tiansheng Group!

The man saw Wang Wen at the cafeteria entrance, the corners of his mouth curling into a smile, and he was just about to open his mouth to greet him.

A large crowd of people rushed over from behind, surrounding him.

One of them, wearing the uniform of a security supervisor, shouted angrily: "You destroyed our Academy Dean office; don't think you're leaving today."

Shen Rushuang chuckled: "I didn't intend to leave, anyway."

Another group of people arrived at a leisurely pace.

Among them were the department heads and the Academy Dean, all of whom Wang Wen knew well.

The Academy Dean glared at Shen Rushuang and said in a deep voice: "Tiansheng Group has repeatedly targeted a student, and now you've even come into the Academy to wreak havoc—don't you think this is going too far?"

Shen Rushuang looked at the Academy Dean outside the encirclement and said with a smile: "When the First Consortium comes to the Academy, you treat them with courtesy, but when we from Tiansheng come, you draw weapons. It seems to me that the Academy is the one going too far."

"The Intelligence Department of the First Consortium is upright and honorable, and Department Head Gu is a man of high virtue and prestige—how could they be compared to you two-faced, duplicitous people from Mirror?" The department head seemed to have lost his head in a fit of righteous fury, shouting the insult before the Academy Dean could speak.

Shen Rushuang's smile vanished instantly, his expression turning as cold as frost.

He waved his hand through the air, empty-handed.

The security supervisor in the encirclement turned pale, leaping into the air to intercept while shouting in shock and rage: "Dodge!!"

"BOOM!!"

He was, after all, a step too slow.

The round-bodied department head was completely engulfed by the explosive flames, forming a spherical fireball.

Those nearby instinctively scattered, but upon realizing it was their Academy colleague, they hurriedly took off their coats, preparing to extinguish the fire and save him.

Amidst the shouting and chaos.

"BOOM!"

The fireball detonated a second time.

This explosion shattered all the open flames directly.

They turned into a cluster of flickering sparks that slowly dissipated.

Shen Rushuang narrowed his eyes, looking with some surprise at the figure revealed in the glow of the fire.

Wang Wen stood straight in front of the unscathed department head.

A transparent sphere seemed to surround him, blocking all the sparks.

He rubbed his nose.

He took off his slightly scorched outer garment, patted it, and walked through the crowd, his voice as calm as water: "Shuang'er, Daddy is here; don't miss your target."

"AH!!!"

In the crowd of students huddled at the cafeteria entrance—some terrified, some eager to watch the spectacle—an excited girl shrieked: "Wang Wen!!!"

The surrounding students looked at the girl who had screamed.

Good heavens.

She's this pretty?

Which department is she from?

I haven't seen her before; must be a first-year freshman!

This year's freshmen are a bit impressive; the legendary Cheng Queyi is already famous, and now another girl who is just as stunning has popped up?

"First-year juniors are so lucky," the upperclassmen thought, tears streaming down their faces.

Meanwhile, more students cast their gazes toward the student among the "adults" who seemed to be called "Wang Wen?"

They speculated on what kind of sacred figure he might be.

How could someone so young dare to meddle in the affairs of "adults"?

The students were very curious.

Shen Rushuang, standing nearby, was even more curious, his face full of smiles as he couldn't help but ask in a strange tone: "A first-year academy student, parents died early, never entered the World Tower, fought fifteen people alone, killed one, and retreated unscathed. The Guard Department report says it was an heirloom [Earth-Shaking Talisman] from your parents, but it doesn't look like that now, don't you think, Wang Wen?"

Wang Wen ignored him. Passing by the Dean, he said softly: "Dean, please evacuate the crowd to another location as soon as possible to avoid being caught in the crossfire."

Many academy staff members nearby immediately sprang into action, running to the cafeteria to usher the students inside.

The Dean looked at Wang Wen with concern: "You..."

Wang Wen pursed his lips and shook his head: "I'm sorry, Dean. I didn't expect to bring so much trouble to the academy. I will resolve this matter."

"Don't you worry." The Dean's eyes were firm: "No matter how you offended Tiansheng Group, if a student is bullied by outsiders in the academy today, then I have no reason to continue being Dean."

The old Dean turned around and said loudly to the head of the guards: "Teacher Gu, notify all guards in the academy to close the gates, assemble in the cafeteria corridor, and prepare to face the enemy!"

Enemy!

With the old Dean's order, the identity of the intruders was directly defined as enemies of the academy.

All the guards present were invigorated, responding in unison.

The supervisor, Teacher Gu, picked up his communicator, spoke a few words, and then stared at Shen Rushuang with a sinister sneer: "Kid, you dare to lay a hand on teachers and students in the academy? Wait right there for your burial."

Shen Rushuang looked around at the people pouring in one after another and smiled: "Comparing numbers? That's something I'm not afraid of."

As he spoke, he clapped his hands seemingly at random.

Groups of people with cold gazes slowly stepped out from the shadows of the corners and trees.

"All members of Mirror from Tiansheng Group." Shen Rushuang bowed toward the Dean from a distance: "Please, Academy, enlighten us."

Seeing this, Teacher Gu frowned and directed the guards to protect the teachers and the Dean, forming a formation facing outward on all four sides.

The number of enemies this time was truly quite high!

"Shen Rushuang!" Wang Wen broke away from the crowd and stood at the very front, shouting at Shen Rushuang: "If you have a problem, come at me!"

Shen Rushuang clapped his hands and nodded: "Sure."

He waved his hand forcefully toward the surrounding Mirror members: "Kill!"

The Mirror members lunged toward the guards, various cold glints lighting up in their hands.

Blood splattered.

Upon the first contact, several guards below the two-hundredth floor fell instantly.

In a battle of this level, without the strength of the two-hundredth floor of the World Tower, one simply could not stand their ground.

Shen Rushuang wore a smile, but his tone was as cold as the bottom of hell: "Oppose Tiansheng, and today I will raze this academy to the ground and leave no one alive."

"Hum!"

A muffled sound erupted from the flat ground.

Like falling boulders in the mountains, windstorms at sea, thunderstorms in the sky, or land sinking into the earth.

In the area where the crowd was densest, at least twenty Mirror members felt a ringing in their ears, and the sounds of the entire world vanished.

Then, their bodies were struck by some immense force, and they were sent flying backward into the air, hand in hand.

It was as if they had been hit head-on by a massive train; they flew ten meters away, flailing their limbs, before raining down like a hail of human flesh.

After hitting the ground, most of them had no breath left.

The smile on Shen Rushuang's face froze.

Wang Wen stepped out from the gap, wiped away the gushing nosebleed, and pointed a blood-stained finger straight at Shen Rushuang: "I'll say it again, Daddy is right here, don't miss your target!"