With just a few words, Meng Chao understood what was going on.
There were all sorts of people, and they were all students from society who attended the martial arts refresher course.
Refresher courses in universities were a concept that had existed since ancient times on Earth.
There were plenty of superhumans who were over twenty-eight years old or even in their thirties or forties who only awakened to superhumans. They had the need to cultivate, but they did not have the time and energy to go through the standard full-time education.
The universities in this era relied on the education budget from the Survival Committee, and they had to gather the other half on their own, so they faced a lot of pressure. After all, peerless fighters were born from mountains of gold and silver, so no one would complain about having more money.
To the government, the superhumans who were educated in universities were not enough to handle the monster horde.
Agricultural University's martial arts course recruited hundreds of new students every year.
Dragon City University's martial arts course, which was even larger, only had around one thousand new students.
If the war became more intense, they would definitely not have enough. If one of them died, their hearts would ache for a long time.
The three parties came to an agreement, and a lot of night universities, special training classes, independent colleges, CEO refresher courses, and other organizations were born to train superhumans from society.
These organizations were very intimidating when they hung their signs. "Agricultural University's martial arts course elite refresher course". At first glance, they were even better than normal undergraduate students. They were like the legendary MBAs.
In truth, the teachers they received, the cultivation courses they took, and the final certificate they received were two different things.
The undergraduate students who studied hard for ten years and managed to get into university usually looked down on the students from society in the refresher course.
They thought that they often used the sign of the martial arts course to intimidate others, caused trouble, and ruined the reputation of the martial arts course. They were just a bunch of scum.
But the students from society looked down on the undergraduate students. They thought that they had come to understand supernatural abilities while fighting for their lives and nearly lost their lives, so how could they compare to them?
The conflict between the two sides ran deep, and they often fought against each other. On the first day of the new semester, they got off to a good start.
"Junior, you don't know how despicable these scum are," the sophomore said angrily and aggrieved.
"Didn't we fight against the monster controller course just now? The people from the refresher course don't have the right to join, but they actually used the outcome of the fight as a bet.
"That's fine. The university doesn't forbid bets during competitions. After all, it's also a test of the participants' judgment. The problem is, these people actually bet on the monster controller course winning!
"They're all from the martial arts refresher course, and they're all freaking martial artists. How can they side with outsiders like this? Do they have any dignity as martial artists?
"We were utterly defeated by the monster controller course and were feeling gloomy, but those traitors won a lot of monster coins and came to the canteen to celebrate smugly. They ordered a lot of delicacies and wolfed them down while talking to each other. Aren't they just rubbing salt in our wounds?
"Junior Brother, don't you think these shameless people are hateful? Do they deserve to be beaten?"
"Uh …"
Meng Chao felt that he had done the right thing just now.
However, the matter at hand was more important. It wouldn't be too late to fight after he found Blade Dancer.
"Senior Brother, do you know Gu …"
Before Meng Chao could finish his question, the second senior brother had already picked up a ladle with a long handle and rushed out with a shout.
Meng Chao was also stared at by two pairs of fierce eyes.
It was Ma Hong, who had been struck by his palm in the air and started foaming at the mouth.
He was in his thirties, and there was a deep scar on the left side of his face. It made his lips curl up, and he looked like he was constantly smiling coldly, even though it was not cold.
His presence was incredibly fierce, and his skin shone with a bronze luster. He looked like a saber that had killed hundreds of monsters and had its blade sharpened before it was reforged.
Even if Meng Chao had struck his vitals with his knifehand, he only needed half a minute to recover his fighting strength and come at Meng Chao again.
He first gave Meng Chao a thumbs up and praised his knifehand. Then, he got into a fighting stance and gestured at Meng Chao. "Again!"
Meng Chao sighed and nodded. Suddenly, he picked up a stool and threw it at Ma Hong. Then, he turned around and ran.
Ma Hong moved past the stool and reached Meng Chao first. His leg sliced through the air and went for Meng Chao's neck.
Meng Chao yelped and sprawled on the ground without a care for his image. With the help of the oily floor, he slid out from under a few tables.
Ma Hong's leg was like a blade, and it cut a table in half.
But it missed Meng Chao's back by a hair's breadth.
Meng Chao looked as if his butt had been whipped. His muscles surged like waves, and he instantly slid more than ten meters away.
Ma Hong snorted coldly and chased after Meng Chao like a bolt of lightning.
Along the way, two undergraduate students tried to stop him, but they were all easily knocked down.
Even though he had never received a full-time university education, every single one of his pores was filled with killing intent that had seeped through mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He was not someone a university student who was still wet behind the ears could compare to.
Meng Chao covered his head and fled in the crowd. He looked like a small animal that was running away from a battle between a hippopotamus and a rhinoceros. In an instant, his body was covered in soup, water, vegetables, and rice. He looked incredibly pathetic.
Even so, he was still forced into a corner by Ma Hong.
"Bro, it's a misunderstanding!"
Meng Chao turned his head around and wanted to cry. "I'm a freshman, and I'm very young. I don't know anything, so why are you chasing after me?"
Ma Hong was stunned, and his killing intent froze for a moment.
Meng Chao raised his hand, and a bottle of pepper went flying at him.
Ma Hong was shocked. He closed his eyes and dodged, but a lot of irritating powder still entered his nostrils.
But before he could sneeze, two toothpicks suddenly shot out of Meng Chao's mouth and went straight for his eyes.
Ma Hong was shocked and angry. He lowered his head slightly, and the two toothpicks broke against his forehead.
A bowl of hot chili oil came crashing into his face again.
In truth, Meng Chao had been running just now to collect hidden weapons.
Pepper, toothpicks, and chili oil. The true killing move was hidden under the chain attack of the three-piece set from the canteen.
"Demon Subduing Slash!"
When Ma Hong pounced on him in anger, Meng Chao had already finished creating his spirit energy magnetic field. The spirit tattoos on his right arm surrounded him, and the spirit energy magnetic field rotation turned into electric arcs at his fingertips. The electric arcs gathered together to form crackling lightning!
Ma Hong sensed great danger, and his hair stood on end. He wanted to retreat, but it was already too late. He could only grit his teeth and gather spirit energy on his left leg. Then, like a battle-axe, he swung his leg at Meng Chao's knifehand.
In terms of physical strength, a whip-kick was far stronger than a knifehand.
But Ma Hong had attacked in a hurry, so he had not finished creating his spirit energy magnetic field.
Meng Chao was ready to attack. His power was like a tidal wave, and from the moment he turned around to run, he had already calculated his opponent's reaction.
The saber and the axe clashed. Spirit flames and sparks flew everywhere, and the sound of metal clashing against metal rang out.
Ma Hong was sent flying again.
He fell among eight "rhinoceroses" and "hippopotamuses", and for the time being, he could not climb out.
Meng Chao sighed in relief and looked around him. Everyone was fighting passionately, and their eyes were filled with meat juice and vegetable soup.
He quickly hunched his shoulders and crawled behind a barrier formed by a few dining tables in the corner.
'Huh? There's a fatty with an oily face curled up there.'
He looked to be in his thirties or forties, and he had a big face and thick neck. He also gave off the air of a chef in the canteen, but he was dressed in a suit and wore a lot of jewelry. His face was powdered, and he had four rings embedded with crystals on his fingers that were as thick as carrots. The only thing missing was the word "nouveau riche" tattooed on his forehead.
When he saw Meng Chao jump in, the chef and nouveau riche hunched back, and an awkward smile appeared on his face.
By the looks of it, the meticulously placed barriers were the fatty's handiwork.
When Meng Chao saw him staring at his right arm, which was surrounded by spirit flames after he executed the Demon Subduing Slash, he intentionally waved his hand. "Did you see it?"
"I saw it."
The fatty gulped and gasped in amazement. "Ma Hong is an elite scout from the Red Dragon Army. He fought for three days and three nights in the fog and killed hundreds of monsters. He awakened to supernatural abilities, which is why he was sent to Agricultural University's martial arts course for further training. What skill did you use? How did you manage to cut him down twice?"
"Demon Subduing Slash," Meng Chao said. "You're also in the refresher course. Do you want to try it?"
The fatty was a little stunned. He shook his head so much that it looked like he was about to fall off. "I don't want to, and I don't dare to. Harmony brings wealth, and harmony is the most important thing!"
The fatty's features were scrunched together, and he looked like a meat bun with eighteen folds. Meng Chao wanted to laugh. "Why? I heard from my senior brother that you students from society are all fierce and arrogant."
"That's for other people. Ma Hong came from the Red Dragon Army, and when he was still a normal person, he carried out dozens of missions. He slept among monster carcasses all day and became a superhuman. Of course he's fierce!"
The fatty said pitifully. "But there are plenty of students from society who are normal workers, white-collar workers, and chefs in the canteen who awakened to supernatural abilities while they were still muddle-headed. They went to the refresher course to get a diploma, and when they went back, they would get promoted, get a raise, get a rating, and so on. How fierce could they be?
"What about you? What's going on? You attacked so ruthlessly, and even Ma Hong was killed by you. Why didn't you continue killing?"
"Don't even talk about it. I'm just a freshman. I came to the canteen to look for someone, but I ended up fighting against you without even realizing it. What the hell is going on?!"
Meng Chao finally found someone he could communicate with, and he sighed in relief. "Move your butt over. Let's squeeze together. Don't be afraid. Honestly, I'm also gentle and elegant."
"Okay."
The fatty obediently squeezed into the corner and sized up Meng Chao curiously. "Freshman, aren't you taking the entrance test? Who are you looking for in the canteen?"
"I'm done," Meng Chao said.
"I'm here to look for Mr. Gu Jianbo. I'm prepared to become his true disciple. Do you know him?"
The fatty was stunned for a while. "You're looking for Gu Jianbo to be your personal tutor? What's going on? Was the entrance test really bad? You didn't even get a single monster coin? With your Demon Subduing Slash, that shouldn't be the case! "
"No, I got twenty-five thousand monster coins," Meng Chao said.
"Twenty-five thousand?"
This time, the fatty was truly shocked. "You can choose Jiang Ming or Li Yingzi, right? Then, what's so difficult for you to say that you insist on looking for that bastard Gu Jianbo?"
Meng Chao blinked. Why was it that the mighty Blade Dancer was not famous in this era, but rather … had a bad reputation?
"Big Bro, do you know Mr. Gu?" Meng Chao sized him up.
"I know him very well. He's the one who teaches our refresher course!"
The fatty rubbed his face and grinned. "In Agricultural University, the refresher course is like a stepmother. You can enter it as long as you pay money, and there are all sorts of people there. You won't be able to learn any profound martial arts here. At most, you just have to teach a few fixed spirit energy magnetic fields and exchange the most basic experiences and skills when hunting monsters. That's all.
"It's enough for students from society who awakened by accident, but you're an undergraduate student, and you got twenty-five thousand monster coins. You should be at the top of the martial arts course, right?"
Meng Chao nodded. "First."
"Ah, what the heck?!"
The fatty slapped his thigh. "Think about it. What kind of person would be sent by the university to teach refresher courses? You're the top undergraduate student in the martial arts course, but you came to be Gu Jianbo's disciple? You're seriously sick, bro! "
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
