May 10, Year X023, 8:02, Group B Class 2.
Nine Athlete Students formed a small group, sitting in the same area without saying a word to one another. Every face was weighed down with worries, each wearing a look of bitter resentment.
Xu Shunkang sat with his fingers interlocked and his elbows propped on the folding desk before him. His face was dark, his eyes unfocused, and there was no telling what he was doing. He had something of Bu Jingyun's lonely, cold air when he sat on a rooftop.
Sensing Lin Yi approaching, Xu Shunkang, who had only just sat down, raised his head slightly and looked at him. A trace of regret seemed to flash through his eyes.
Lin Yi walked over to Xu Shunkang and asked, "Senior, can we talk?"
Lin Yi's arrival broke the oppressive silence in the area.
Xu Shunkang glanced at him, then at Li Huiyuan, and nodded.
"Have a seat."
Seeing Xu Shunkang invite Lin Yi to sit, the surrounding Athlete Students looked surprised, but none of them said anything.
"What do you want to ask?" Xu Shunkang asked directly.
Lin Yi did not beat around the bush either. "Senior, I wanted to ask what happened last night."
At Lin Yi's question, the surrounding Athlete Students grew tense, all instinctively turning to look at Xu Shunkang.
The oppressive atmosphere, which had begun to ease, seemed to congeal.
Xu Shunkang's fists clenched at once, and his body subtly tensed.
He slowly uttered the words, "A bloody battle..."
With that, he fell silent again.
Lin Yi sat beside him. When he still did not speak after a long while, Lin Yi began preparing some questions. Just as he was about to ask one, however, Xu Shunkang drew a deep breath and asked, "I heard Lao