The students from Star Luo Royal Academy had clearly come with ill intent. Relying on their superior numbers, they fanned out and surrounded the Shrek group.
"What? Cat got your tongue?" the leading student from Star Luo Royal Academy sneered. "Weren't you acting all tough just now?"
Yue Zhengyu stood at the front, his brows drawing together slightly as he looked at the dense crowd opposite him.
"Hey, Wulin, Xie Xie, all of you, get over here!" Yue Zhengyu called without turning around, issuing orders as though it were only natural. "There are too many of them. I'm not afraid, but two fists can't beat four hands. Come help me teach these guys who don't know how high the heavens are or how deep the earth is a lesson!"
He had thought that, as a prospective member of the Shrek Seven Devils and the "Angel Prince," his call would receive his friends' unconditional response.
Instead, the air suddenly fell silent.
Yue Zhengyu waited for quite a while, but there was no movement behind him.
Puzzled, he looked back—and was instantly dumbfounded.
Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and the others had actually taken several steps backward in perfect unison, then turned around with complete nonchalance and begun admiring the scenery out at Sea.
"Ah, the weather's lovely today. What a refreshing Sea breeze." Xie Xie whistled, his gaze wandering as though he hadn't heard Yue Zhengyu's cry for help at all.
"Yeah, the fish here look delicious." Xu Lizhi rubbed his belly, his expression blissful.
"Wulin, let's go. Teacher Wu needs us." Gu Yue was even more direct. She took Tang Wulin's hand and started toward the cabins.
Tang Wulin was kindhearted by nature. Seeing Yue Zhengyu facing more than a dozen people alone, he felt a little