Dad

It turned out that once someone got stuck in a mental rut, they couldn't hear anything except what they wanted to hear—and even if they did hear it, they couldn't understand it.

To end the conversation as soon as possible, Wang Wen could only go along with Yu Zhi's topic. "Fine. I forgive you."

Then Yu Zhi naturally took the opportunity to push her luck. "Then could you stop avoiding me and come back to the Academy for classes?"

"I'm not avoiding you. I really have things to take care of." Wang Wen's tone sounded like he was coaxing his daughter. He was one "I" away from calling himself Dad.

Yu Zhi lifted her head, puzzled. "Why do you sound like my dad?"

At last, Wang Wen lost all patience with her pointless small talk. He buried his head in his meal and stopped responding.

But right then,

his ears twitched. He whipped his head around to look outside the cafeteria.

The next second,

a deafening explosion rang out, making every window in the cafeteria rattle.

The entire cafeteria descended into chaos.

Wang Wen hurriedly shoveled the rest of his food into his mouth, got up, and rushed outside.

As soon as he reached the entrance, he saw someone approaching from a short distance away at an unhurried pace.

Shen Rushuang, the head butler of Mirror, Tiansheng Group's!

When he saw Wang Wen at the cafeteria entrance, the corners of his mouth lifted in a smile. He was just about to greet him

when a large crowd came rushing over and surrounded him.

One of them, dressed in the uniform of a Guard Department supervisor, shouted angrily, "You wrecked the Academy Dean's office. You're not leaving today!"

Shen Rushuang chuckled. "I wasn't planning to leave."

Another group arrived at a leisurely pace.

Among them were the Department Chair and the Dean, both familiar to Wang Wen.

The Dean glared at Shen Rushuang and said gravely, "Tiansheng Group has gone after one student again and again. Now you've come to the Academy to threaten and attack people. Don't you think you've gone too far?"

Shen Rushuang looked at the Dean beyond the circle of people and smiled. "When the First Consortium comes to the Academy, they're treated with courtesy. When Tiansheng comes, you draw weapons. Seems to me the Academy is the one going too far."

"The First Consortium's Intelligence Department is aboveboard, and Department Head Gu is a man of great virtue and standing. How could he compare to you two-faced, duplicitous types from Mirror?" The Department Chair seemed to have gotten carried away. He cut in before the Dean and shouted the insult.

Shen Rushuang's smile vanished at once. His expression turned as cold as frost.

He made a sweeping motion with his empty hand.

The Guard Department supervisor's face changed dramatically. He leaped to intercept whatever was flying through the air and shouted in shock and fury, "Dodge!!"

BOOM!!

But he was a step too slow.

The Department Chair's plump body was swallowed by the flames of the explosion, becoming a round ball of fire.

The people around him instinctively scattered, then realized he was their colleague and hurriedly took off their jackets to smother the flames and save him.

Amid the shouts and confusion,

BOOM!

The fireball exploded a second time.

This blast extinguished every visible flame.

They became a shower of sparkling embers that slowly scattered.

Shen Rushuang narrowed his eyes, watching with some surprise as a figure emerged in the reflected firelight.

Wang Wen stood ramrod straight in front of the unharmed Department Chair.

A transparent sphere seemed to surround him, blocking every spark.

He rubbed his nose.

Then he took off his slightly charred jacket and dusted it off as he walked through the crowd. His voice was calm as still water. "Rushuang, Dad's right here. Don't miss."

"Ah!!!"

Among the students crowded at the cafeteria entrance, nervous but eager to watch the excitement, an excited girl shrieked, "Wang Wen!!!"

The surrounding students looked at the girl who had screamed.

Good grief.

She was gorgeous!

Which department was she in?

They hadn't seen her before. A new first-year, maybe?

This year's freshmen were something else. The legendary Cheng Queyi was already famous, and now another girl just as stunning had appeared?

The older male students thought tearfully, The first-year boys are so lucky.

Even more students turned their attention to the student in the crowd of "adults" who seemed to be called "Wang Min?"

They wondered what kind of big shot he was.

He was so young, yet he dared to interfere in the "adults'" business?

The students were curious.

Shen Rushuang was even more curious. Smiling broadly, he couldn't help asking in a peculiar tone, "A first-year student at the Academy. Parents died young. Never entered the World Tower. Faced fifteen enemies alone, killed one, and walked away unscathed. The Guard Department reported that it was thanks to a family heirloom, the Earth-Shaking Talisman. But now, that doesn't seem to be the case. What do you think, Wang Wen?"

Wang Wen ignored him. As he passed near the Dean, he said softly, "Dean, please evacuate everyone to another area as soon as possible, so they don't get caught in the crossfire."

The Academy's staff immediately sprang into action, running into the cafeteria to usher the students farther inside.

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

Wang Wen pressed his lips together and shook his head. "I'm sorry, Dean. I didn't expect to cause the Academy so much trouble. I'll handle this."

"Don't worry." The Dean's eyes were firm. "However you offended Tiansheng Group, if an outsider dares to bully a student inside the Academy today, I'd rather stop being Dean than let it happen."

The old Dean turned and called out to the Guard Department supervisor, "Teacher Gu, notify every guard in the Academy to close the gates and assemble in the cafeteria corridors. Prepare to repel the enemy!"

Enemy!

With that single order, the old Dean declared the newcomer an enemy of the Academy.

All the guards present snapped to attention and answered in unison.

Supervisor Teacher Gu said a few words into his communicator, then glared at Shen Rushuang with a cold smile. "Kid, you dared to attack teachers and students inside the Academy. Stay right there and wait to be buried."

Shen Rushuang looked around at the people streaming in from every direction and smiled. "Outnumbering me? That doesn't scare me."

As he spoke, he casually clapped his hands.

From the shadows beneath the trees and in the corners of the surrounding walls, groups of people with icy gazes slowly emerged.

"All members of Mirror, Tiansheng Group," Shen Rushuang said, cupping his hands toward the Dean from afar. "Please, Academy. Show us what you can do."

Teacher Gu frowned at the sight and directed the guards to protect the Academy's teachers and Dean, forming a ring with all sides facing outward.

This time, there really were quite a lot of enemies!

"Shen Rushuang!" Wang Wen left the crowd and stood at the front, calling out to him. "If you've got a problem, take it up with me!"

Shen Rushuang clapped a few times and nodded. "All right."

He forcefully swept a hand toward the Mirror members around him. "Kill!"

The Mirror members launched themselves at the guards, cold glints flashing from the weapons in their hands.

Blood sprayed everywhere.

At the first clash, several guards who hadn't reached level 200 in the World Tower fell instantly.

Without the strength of someone who had reached level 200 in the World Tower, there was no way to stand against a battle at this level.

Shen Rushuang smiled, but his voice was as cold as the depths of hell. "You dare oppose Tiansheng? Today, I'll flatten the Academy and leave not a single survivor."

WHUM!

A dull boom rang out of nowhere.

Like rocks crashing down a mountainside, a gale sweeping over the sea, thunder roaring across the heavens, and the earth collapsing beneath their feet.

In the densest part of the crowd, at least twenty Mirror members felt their ears ring. Every sound in the world vanished.

Then some tremendous force struck them, and they flew backward together, hand in hand.

As if hit head-on by a massive train, they flailed through the air for more than ten meters, raining down like a hailstorm of human bodies.

Most of them were lifeless when they hit the ground.

The smile froze on Shen Rushuang's face.

Wang Wen stepped through the gap, wiped away the blood gushing from his nose, and pointed a bloodstained finger straight at Shen Rushuang. "I'll say it again: Dad's right here. Don't miss!"