[Overseas Chinese Middle School 4] A genius player offered an alliance, but Chen Han refused!

Chen Han slowly turned his head.

Ten thousand possibilities ran through his mind.

He prepared for the worst.

Then he turned around, only to find that this was a player?!

The player was a male student who looked very refined.

He held a math test paper.

He had done quite well, scoring 123.

He wore black-framed glasses.

His gaze was guarded, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.

His name was Li Hebing.

Chen Han was just about to ask what he wanted.

But Li Hebing spoke first.

"Chen Han, there's a problem I don't understand. Could you explain it to me?"

Chen Han remained expressionless.

In truth, though, he was very puzzled.

What the hell was wrong with this guy?

Didn't he know I was a player? Why was he still asking me about test questions?

"Boss, why don't we talk outside? Lots of people are sleeping here, and I have quite a few questions."

Then Li Hebing gave a modest smile.

Chen Han could read that much of the situation.

Li Hebing had something he wanted to discuss with him in private.

Chen Han then nodded.

The two went over to a windowsill in the corridor.

Comments started flooding the livestream chat.

"What's this Li Hebing up to?"

"This guy's been quiet all this time without giving anything away. He's a tough customer too!"

"Could he be here to form an alliance with Boss Chen Han?"

"You're overthinking it, buddy. In rules-based horror, everyone is usually extremely wary of everyone else. How could they form an alliance right at the start?"

"Agreed. Besides, there are way too many brainless fans watching this POV. I don't think this Chen Han guy is anything special. What the hell are you hyping him up for?"

After Li Hebing and Chen Han reached the windowsill in the corridor.

Li Hebing spoke first.

But first, he held his test paper up high, as though afraid others wouldn't know he was asking Chen Han about a problem.

"Chen Han, I can tell you're smart."

Hearing this, Chen Han first gave him a deep, unfathomable look.

He said nothing.

There was only a slight flicker in his eyes.

Li Hebing naturally noticed the subtle change in Chen Han's expression.

"Let's be frank with each other and stop pretending. Earlier, when our homeroom teacher, Teacher Li, was beating the player Li Shixin right beside you, the other players were all shaken to some extent, but you kept reading aloud at the same pace, just like the students here, acting as though it had absolutely nothing to do with you."

"When the player Liu Mingjie was beaten later, you reacted the same way."

"And before Liu Mingjie was beaten, your deskmate Wang Xihu even took the initiative to speak to you, but you kept pretending not to hear."

At this, Chen Han narrowed his eyes slightly.

He seemed very wary.

Just then, Li Hebing suddenly let out an exaggerated cry.

"Oh, oh! So that's how it works! This is exactly the part I still don't understand. Could you explain it again?"

The livestream viewers had been listening intently to their conversation.

But Li Hebing's shout startled quite a few of them into commenting.

"Why does this Li Hebing keep making such a fuss?"

"Headphone users have been killed in action."

"He looks so refined. Why does his personality seem anything but?"

Li Hebing's next words explained why he had been behaving so strangely.

"But Chen Han, do you know what I admire most about you?"

"The moment you entered the instance and saw the rules, you immediately got into character. That acting-if I hadn't known you were a player, you really would have fooled me."

"If I'm not mistaken, your rule four requires you to be a top student or a good student, right?"

Li Hebing was very pleased to see Chen Han's unruffled response.

He wanted to work with smart people.

Chen Han's reaction was exactly what he had expected, completely in keeping with his persona!

Incredible!

Even with all this flattery, he could still maintain such composure.

An ordinary person would inevitably get a little conceited.

But Chen Han still looked utterly unfathomable.

Li Hebing was certain once again that this was the genius he had been looking for, someone just like him.

"To cut a long story short, my persona is an ordinary student who really wants good grades."

"Paired with your persona as a top student or a good student."

"We're a match made in heaven for an alliance!"

"Even if we hang around together all the time, no one will suspect anything."

At this point.

Li Hebing suddenly gave Chen Han a sly look.

"You must know how important our personas are, right?"

"Like why our homeroom teacher, Teacher Li, beat Li Shixin within an inch of his life, while Liu Mingjie got off with just one stroke of the teaching pointer..."

"It's because..."

At this point, Li Hebing was just about to continue his explanation, brimming with satisfaction.

But unexpectedly, Chen Han looked him straight in the eye and raised his right hand.

He made a "pause" gesture at Li Hebing.

Then he folded the test paper into thirds and stuffed it into his pocket, with one side showing no matter how he folded it.

He strode into the restroom.

The livestream chat was stunned by Chen Han's sudden action.

"Holy shit, why did the boss stop listening and just leave?"

"That's so fucking cool! Even I was getting drawn in and thought he made a lot of sense, but the boss wouldn't even listen a little longer?"

"Chen Han: Never heard anything this lame. Don't @ me!"

Li Hebing had been brimming with satisfaction, thinking that he was so outstanding and had noticed so many details.

Surely he could win Chen Han over.

After all, in his mind, Chen Han was on the same level as him.

If the two of them worked together in rules-based horror, it could only result in 1 + 1 > 2.

He had never expected Chen Han to turn around and leave without even wanting to say another word.

Leaving only Li Hebing standing there, utterly disheveled in the wind.

In an instant, Li Hebing felt his pride suffer a tremendous blow.

A genius like me actually got rejected?

What a disgrace!

Someone as full of himself as he was naturally wouldn't abandon the idea of an alliance just because someone he had thought he could definitely win over rejected him.

On the contrary, after such a swift failure, someone like him would only think about how to regain his standing even faster.

So Li Hebing gritted his teeth and followed Chen Han into the restroom.

He called out as he walked.

"Chen Han, could you explain it again? I still don't understand!"

The livestream chat was also stunned by the scene.

Some were shocked that Chen Han had silently rejected Li Hebing.

Others were shocked by Li Hebing's persistence.

Just who was this Chen Han?

How had he managed to reduce the highly intelligent Li Hebing, who stood out from most players, to this?

"Holy shit, that felt so fucking good!"

"The way he talks really rubs me the wrong way, like he's the most amazing guy around and has seen through everything Boss Chen Han does. Hahaha, well, he didn't predict Boss Chen Han rejecting him so decisively, did he?"

"This Chen Han is fucking amazing. He actually stayed calm during such a high-pressure conversation and turned the tables on the other guy."

"Is Chen Han still taking disciples? (My esteemed master Chen Han.)"

"But that said, this Li Hebing does have some skill. Most importantly, he saw that Boss Chen Han had been playing the top-student persona the rules gave him all along."

"He also figured out the other players' personas and remembered their names. He's nowhere near Boss Chen Han, but among ordinary people, he's at least the tallest of the short."

"Looking forward to seeing what Li Hebing does next."

"I have a feeling this Li Hebing might end up like Fang Lei, Boss Chen Han's lackey from the last instance!"