Ling Lan did not have much of an opinion about Ling Lan's overconfident challenge, but as Ling Lan's follower, Zilong was displeased. He felt that his boss was being looked down upon. He slammed the table and stood up, saying angrily, "Dammit, how dare he challenge my boss? Looking for death! Teacher Cheng, I am willing to accept his challenge on behalf of my boss. "
Zilong's appearance stunned Lin Zhong-qing, and a flash of pleasant surprise flashed through his eyes. Perhaps the others did not notice, but Ling Lan did. Of course, all the credit went to Little Four, who was monitoring the classroom from all angles. No one's facial expressions could escape Little Four's sharp little eyes.
Zilong's unexpected request for battle made Cheng Yuanhang's face flash with anger. He said coldly, "Zilong, don't test my patience."
Cheng Yuanhang was really angry now. How old were these children? How dare they keep calling him boss? What did they take this sacred Central Scout Academy for? Cheng Yuanhang was a commoner, relying on the Central Scout Academy's nurturing to get to where he was today. He loved the school very much, and so hated those bad kids who could harm the school's reputation.
And students like Ling Lan and Zilong were bad kids in his eyes. Especially Ling Lan — the dean had personally come to ask for leave on his behalf on the first day. Cheng Yuanhang was very displeased. The dean was Cheng Yuanhang's most respected and loved person. He believed that the dean's personal visit must have been due to pressure from the faction behind Ling Lan...
Because of this incident, Cheng Yuanhang privately believed that Ling Lan had only been able to enter Special Class-A through the back door. Cheng Yuanhang despised this kind of spoiled brat who relied on his family's influence. Thus, he had come up today to give Ling Lan a show of strength, making him understand that it was impossible for the Central Scout Academy to rely on connections and background to dominate.
Of course, Zilong refused to give up. Just as he was about to argue, Ling Lan pushed Zilong back to his seat and told him to stop talking.
Ling Lan turned to look at Cheng Yuanhang and asked indifferently, "Does Teacher have any opinions?"
Cheng Yuanhang gave her two choices. "You can choose to accept the challenge or reject it. However, this means that you have voluntarily given up your seat. Student Ling Lan, which one do you choose?"
Ling Lan looked at Lin Zhong-qing and said, "Since Classmate Lin wants to challenge me, I will gladly oblige."
When Lin Zhong-qing heard that Ling Lan had accepted the challenge, a complicated expression flashed across his face. There was a hint of uneasiness, but most of it was relief. This expression was not something a challenger should have.
"Boss, looks like that little guy has other motives for challenging you," Little Four reminded Ling Lan when he caught the change in Lin Zhong-qing's expression.
"Mm, let's wait and see." Ling Lan was secretly on her guard. Although Lin Zhong-qing looked rather weak, she had read N number of novels and anime, and knew that there were many main characters who liked to play the pig to eat the tiger. Who knew if this Lin Zhong-qing was one of them? Ling Lan braced herself, ready to fight at any moment.
Ling Lan's acceptance of the challenge made all the first grade Special Class-A children excited. Under Cheng Yuanhang's lead, they all came to one of the combat halls in the academy.
Walking up to the information input counter in the hall, Cheng Yuanhang personally entered Ling Lan and Lin Zhong-qing's battle request. Under the combat type section, he selected an open arena duel.
Ling Lan glanced thoughtfully at Cheng Yuanhang. It looked like this instructor was indeed targeting her — the feeling she had felt earlier had not been a figment of her imagination.
This was not Ling Lan's first time coming to this combat hall. On the day of registration, she had already applied for a combat match with Qi. She knew very well that there were many options for a combat match. She could choose a private closed duel, a small arena closed duel, a small arena semi-open duel, a small arena open duel, a small arena open duel, a small arena open duel, a small arena open duel, a small arena closed duel, a small arena open duel...
Duels with closed names were all secret, and no one was allowed to watch. For example, her duel with Zilong had been a private, closed duel. Meanwhile, her battle with Lin Zhong-qing was actually the most suitable type of combat type to be a semi-open arena duel.
A semi-open arena duel was a unique combat room, and the audience needed to know the password to enter the room. As long as the Class-A students knew the password, they would be able to fight without any interruptions. Even if the loser were to lose, they would not be disheartened by the humiliation.
However, a public duel was different. This was open to all the students of the Central Scout Academy, and before the duel, the combat hall would announce it to all corners of the academy. Thus, public duels were usually only seen during the semi-annual ranking battles, and were rarely seen during normal times.
Sure enough, the announcement of the open arena duel was repeatedly made by the combat hall, causing all the students who were preparing to do their private training to gather around the arena. When they saw the two new students in the arena, dressed in dazzling red, a duel between two Special Class-A children, they were pleasantly surprised and began to discuss amongst themselves. The atmosphere in the training hall became even more lively.
There were even quite a few students who turned on their communicators to contact their friends to come watch.
Ling Lan and Lin Zhong-qing were currently facing each other in the arena. In contrast to Ling Lan's calm composure, Lin Zhong-qing appeared extremely nervous.
Cheng Yuanhang looked at the two on the arena and asked, "Are you two ready?"
The two of them nodded in confirmation, and Cheng Yuanhang gave the order, "Battle, begin."
When Lin Zhong-qing heard Cheng Yuanhang's command, he did not attack immediately, but instead quickly retreated, putting some distance between himself and Ling Lan.
"What is he trying to do?" asked Little Four, confused.
"You'll know when they fight. And Little Four, when I'm focused on the fight, don't make any noise to disturb me," reminded Ling Lan worriedly.
She still remembered that some time ago, when she had been training with the Ling family loyalists, Little Four's intrusion had caused her to receive a vicious punch from one of the loyalists, almost seriously injuring her. Luckily, the Ling family's medicinal bath and Qi exercises had been very effective, not causing any future problems for Ling Lan. Still, that incident had scared Ling Lan half to death — it turned out that her life had always been in danger.
Little Four immediately made a zipping motion, indicating that he had sealed his mouth and would definitely not disturb Ling Lan.
Ling Lan activated her Qi exercises, and she immediately felt all of her senses improve rapidly. When she looked at Lin Zhong-qing again, she felt as if she had everything under control — it was wonderful.
This was also an ability she had just discovered after training with Number Five for the past two nights. Although it was only two nights, because of the time exchange, Ling Lan had been ruthlessly tortured by Number Five for more than two months, almost driving Ling Lan crazy.
Luckily, this ability had gone from being a nervous knife that only worked sometimes to being a regular ability five to six times out of ten times — Ling Lan's efforts were worth it.
The next second was coming! Ling Lan's instincts told her that Lin Zhong-qing's attack was coming.
Sure enough, between the two of them, Lin Zhong-qing chose to attack first. It came very suddenly, and the angle of his attack was definitely tricky.
Quite a few senior students saw Lin Zhong-qing's attack and nodded in approval. Lin Zhong-qing's timing was very good — the timing he had waited for was right at the peak of a human's mental fatigue, the time when one's reflexes were the slowest. Moreover, his attack style was also very good — it was no ordinary combat technique.
However, Ling Lan's performance amazed these students. She seemed to have been prepared — Lin Zhong-qing's attack only made her move a small step, and she easily dodged it with a slight tilt of her body.
"F * ck, this child is really confident in herself, actually choosing such a small angle to dodge. She's too arrogant, isn't she?" The senior students watching the fight were rather surprised, and they all criticized Ling Lan's dodging action for being too blind and daring.
Zilong and Luo Lang glanced at each other, and saw the shock and surprise in each other's eyes. They knew very well that using the smallest angle to dodge an attack was Ling Lan's signature move. This was definitely the most energy-efficient way of dodging, but only Ling Lan dared to do this. Zilong and Luo Lang didn't even dare to try it. This had a lot to do with confidence and strength — they were still not proficient in this. However, what shocked and surprised them was definitely not this familiar dodging action. Rather, it was that they could sense that Ling Lan had a better grasp of this kind of small dodging pattern, so her movements appeared very graceful and natural.
Lin Zhong-qing's attack missed, but he didn't retreat immediately. Instead, he followed it up with a series of punches, as if he could beat a master to death with a flurry of punches. Unfortunately, Ling Lan's strength was really much higher than his — this kind of move was no problem for Ling Lan at all.
Ling Lan swayed her body slightly, swiftly dodging Ling Lan's combination of punches. Meanwhile, she was very lucky to enter the strange state she had entered when she had fought with the five alpha wolves. Ling Lan didn't know how to control this state, so whether she could enter it or not still depended on how lucky she was.
Once she entered this state, all of Lin Zhong-qing's attacks would be weak points in Ling Lan's eyes. She only needed one punch to knock Lin Zhong-qing down. However, right now, Ling Lan saw Lin Zhong-qing grit his teeth and attack with all his might, his face full of dissatisfaction and anger, so Ling Lan decided to wait a little longer.
Lin Zhong-qing's boxing skills didn't have many moves. Ling Lan saw the second repetition of his attacks, and knew that it was time to end the match.
Ling Lan didn't do anything, only clenching her fists and punching viciously at that greatest weakness in her eyes.
Bam! Ling Lan's fist landed squarely on a ball of soft flesh, and then that thing was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing heavily into the arena floor.
With just one punch, Lin Zhong-qing had been hit, and he still hadn't gotten up.
All the spectating students were dumbfounded. Could it be that this wasn't a battle between the Special Class-A students, but a battle between Special Class-A and a normal class? They knew very well that although Special Class-A was ranked 50th, the strength of each child was actually about the same, almost on par with each other. But the scene before their eyes shattered their understanding. Were there really such differences between the children of Special Class-A?
"You've lost," said Ling Lan calmly to the guy lying on the arena floor, refusing to get up. Although this punch of hers looked heavy, it was definitely not enough to hurt the opponent.
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