This was the first time in recent years that a duel between two arch-rivals had taken place in the Central Scout Academy. Lin Zhong-qing and Li Yingjie's bet on their futures had caused quite a stir among the lower grades, which was why so many people had come to the combat hall today.
Li Yingjie was already on the stage, waiting for Lin Zhong-qing's arrival. At this moment, he was very pleased with himself. He thought that Lin Zhong-qing was already his prey, and he was just waiting for the final announcement. Li Yingjie was confident that with his strength, taking down Lin Zhong-qing would be a piece of cake.
The more Li Yingjie thought about it, the more excited he got. It was as if he could already see the scene of Lin Zhong-qing bowing down to him …
However, things did not develop as he expected. In the last minute of the arena battle, when he saw that the person opposite him was not Lin Zhong-qing, but Zilong, Li Yingjie knew that he had fallen into his opponent's trap. He went berserk. "Why is it you?"
Zilong grinned. "Why can't it be me?" In Li Yingjie's eyes, his bright smile was now a form of mockery, mocking him for being too smart for his own good.
"I didn't expect Lin Zhong-qing to be your teammate, and I didn't expect you guys to be willing to waste a spot on that guy." Li Yingjie had already made up his mind. Once he defeated Lin Zhong-qing, the first thing he would do was to prevent him from joining the other teams. Since Lin Zhong-qing refused to submit to him, then he would completely destroy him, and then completely turn Lin Zhong-qing into a lowly dog that he, Li Yingjie, could beat and scold at will!
"If you're willing to let someone from a normal class join your team, then Lin Zhong-qing is at least a Special Class-A student. There's no shame in accepting him." Zilong was a little speechless. No matter how he looked at Li Yingjie now, he felt that there was something wrong with his head. He really didn't know what he was thinking. The members of the team were the best partners to grow up with, and even more so, the close companions to fight side by side in the future.
Therefore, every team leader had to be very careful when accepting new members. For example, Li Yingjie accepted a member who was obviously a burden to the team just to take revenge on someone who didn't want to join his team. In Zilong's eyes, this kind of behavior was unreasonable and absolutely retarded.
Zilong's words ignited Li Yingjie's anger. There was only one thought in his mind right now, and that was that he had fallen into the trap of Ling Lan's team. He believed that Ling Lan's team was trying to get rid of him, their biggest competitor, in order to become the overlord of Year 4738.
It had to be said that Li Yingjie felt too good about himself. He had always seen Ling Lan's team as his competitors, so the moment he found that the situation was against him, his first thought was that he had been set up.
Blinded by rage, Li Yingjie could no longer keep his cool. As soon as the referee signaled the start of the match, he charged towards Zilong with bloodshot eyes. Of course, this kind of action was useless — after losing his cool and losing his composure, the difference between them became even more obvious. In just a few moves, he was completely suppressed by Zilong.
A trace of a smile appeared on Ling Lan's lips. Zilong was definitely going to win this match.
In a corner not too far away from the arena, Wu Jiong, who had been watching the fight, huffed coldly when he saw this. "Ye Xu, let's go."
"Okay!" Ye Xu nodded in agreement. Based on their strength, they could already see what the final outcome would be. They had initially been looking forward to the fight between Li Yingjie and Zilong, but who would have thought that Li Yingjie would lose his cool and lose his composure? The fight had become a foregone conclusion, causing them to lose interest.
The reason Wu Jiong, Ye Xu, and the others had come to watch the match was actually because they wanted to take Lin Zhong-qing into their team. Although Lin Zhong-qing was currently ranked 15th in the class and didn't seem all that strong, in the span of almost two years, he had managed to climb from the bottom of the pack to the upper ranks of Class-A. As long as Lin Zhong-qing maintained this level of improvement, there would come a day when he would truly be able to squeeze into the ranks of the top. Wu Jiong and Ye Xu both had high hopes for his future, so they were willing to give up a precious spot in their team to take Lin Zhong-qing in.
Of course, Wu Jiong and Ye Xu also believed that as long as Lin Zhong-qing was willing to join, with their family's position in the military, they would be able to negotiate with Li Yingjie nicely. The other side would not refuse to give in.
Only, Wu Jiong had not expected that Ling Lan would be one step ahead of them... Wu Jiong felt that it was a pity, thinking that he had been one step behind. He had initially wanted to wait until Lin Zhong-qing had completely given up before he could make a move. This way, he would be able to gain Lin Zhong-qing's gratitude. Who would have thought that Ling Lan's group would have interfered, cutting him off halfway? If he had known this would happen, he would not have chosen to wait to maximize his benefits. Instead, he should have taken the initiative to contact Lin Zhong-qing the moment he found out that Li Yingjie was scheming against him...
"That punk Zilong sure is godd * mn fast. He actually beat us to it and got Lin Zhong-qing," said Ye Xu indignantly as he looked at Zilong, who was steadily gaining the upper hand.
"Zilong? That punk is just a fighting maniac, how could he have thought so far ahead? Without that person, how could Lin Zhong-qing have chosen to join them? "Wu Jiong gestured for Ye Xu to look at Ling Lan, who was standing in the corner, his gaze extremely cautious.
"Ling Lan..." Ye Xu's expression changed slightly. He still remembered the time when he had been defeated by Ling Lan in one move. That time, his confidence had almost been crushed. Luckily, Wu Jiong had found him. They, who had also lost terribly to Ling Lan, had come together because of Ling Lan. The two of them had worked together and successfully formed a team, becoming one of the only three teams in their grade. This also allowed their reputation in the class to match that of Ling Lan's team, forming a kind of counterbalance.
As for Li Yingjie's team, in their eyes, they were actually no threat at all. Only Li Yingjie himself still blindly believed that his team was one of the strongest in the class...
At the end of the day, Wu Jiong still somewhat looked down on Li Yingjie. This direct descendant of the number one aristocratic family might have decent combat ability, but that brain of his was really not up to Wu Jiong's standards, always doing all sorts of random things that did not benefit himself or others.
Wu Jiong's group quietly disappeared from the combat hall. Meanwhile, on the stage, the outcome of the match was quickly decided. Li Yingjie, who had initially been able to last several hundred moves against Zilong, could not display the strength of a top five student of Class-A at all. In less than a hundred moves, he was sent flying out of the stage by one of Zilong's punches, and was judged to have lost.
After Li Yingjie lost, two options popped up on his communicator. One was to accept his loss and submit to the other, and the other was to choose to redeem himself, using battle points to exchange for his freedom.
Based on Li Yingjie's personality, he would definitely choose to redeem himself. However, Li Yingjie did not choose, and instead fainted from anger.
Because Li Yingjie had lost the ability to choose, three minutes later, the academy mainframe automatically passed the choice to Zilong, letting him make his choice.
If he chose to be a subordinate, he would need to be invited by Zilong's team, while redeeming himself would require the loser to take out a certain amount of battle points to redeem himself.
How could Zilong be interested in someone like Li Yingjie? He hurriedly chose to let Li Yingjie redeem himself, and then saw the countless zeros on the A.I.'s screen, dazzling Zilong. It turned out that Li Yingjie had also been worried that Zilong would choose to redeem himself, so he had designed the price to be 100,000 battle points. This was definitely an astronomical figure. Mind you, Zilong had achieved remarkable results in the academy these past two years, but even he had only managed to get a little over 1000 battle points.
In fact, when Li Yingjie had asked his team to challenge Lin Zhong-qing in 'enemy mode', he had already offered this price to redeem himself. No matter which choice Lin Zhong-qing made, he would not be able to escape from his grasp. He wanted to use these battle points to force Lin Zhong-qing to give up on his studies and work non-stop in the virtual world to repay his debt (Scout Academy battle points and virtual world honour points could be exchanged for each other).
However, Li Yingjie's rather sinister plan ended up smashing his own foot, allowing Zilong to benefit. This was also why Li Yingjie had fainted from anger. He knew what the price to redeem himself was, and even he could not bear it.
Very quickly, Zilong's communicator sent a message, saying that a batch of battle points under Li Yingjie's name had been transferred to his account. The mainframe also told Zilong that any inadequacies would be transferred to him when Li Yingjie earned more battle points in the future. In other words, even if he did not take Li Yingjie in as a subordinate, Li Yingjie would still have to work for Zilong until he graduated from the Central Scout Academy.
Just like that, Li Yingjie suffered a huge loss, while Zilong was freed from the trouble that had plagued him for almost two years. However, Zilong very quickly received the remaining battle points from Li Yingjie, and settled his debt. Zilong knew very well that this was probably the result of Li Yingjie's family pulling strings behind the scenes. They had directly transferred credits from the real world directly into Li Yingjie's account, and then exchanged them for battle points to clear his debt.
Although the academy had announced to the public that it was impossible to exchange credits from the outside world for real world credits, the academy would still take care of those with real power and influence. Zilong was well aware of the twists and turns in this matter, so he was not surprised when he received the debt. He only told Ling Lan and Han Jijun about the battle points. In the end, Ling Lan decided to leave behind 10,000 points for emergencies, and leave the rest for Han Jijun to handle, hoping to use this large sum of money to profit in the virtual world of the scout academy. Of course, the biggest goal of Ling Lan and the others was so that all the members of their team would no longer have to worry about purchasing those power-increasing agents.
Battle points were very useful — in the academy, they could even buy top-grade cultivation agents that were hard to find outside. Even high-grade genetic agents were available here, but they were very expensive — 10,000 battle points for one vial. Even if the children of the academy did their best to complete missions and actively challenged the arena battles, they would still need at least five years to accumulate 10,000 battle points.
Zilong's current battle points could only buy 10 vials of high-grade genetic agent, and this amount was only the amount that Zilong could absorb in a year. Ling Lan felt that buying these agents now was really not worth it — they might as well think of ways to profit from it. The more they earned, the more agents they could get.
Han Jijun also felt the same way, so he gladly accepted. He felt very motivated, feeling that this kind of life was what he wanted. Everyone went off to do their own things, except for Little Four who kept nagging by Ling Lan's ear, saying that he was more suited than Han Jijun to handle those battle points.
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