"What?!"
Xiao Fanghua raised her voice. Her anxious expression scared the class rep.
She quickly comforted the class rep and said to Meng Chao, "I'm sorry, Meng Chao. Why don't you sit here for a while? I'll go to Li Jue's house to take a look. Li Jue is the most talented student in the study class."
As she spoke, she placed her hands on her hips and hurried out.
Meng Chao thought about it. He was worried about letting a pregnant woman walk through the settlement alone, so he quickly followed behind her.
Xiao Fanghua moved through the tent maze with great familiarity. Occasionally, she jumped over piles of trash and bent down to move through large sheets.
Each tent had a number on it. A piercing noise came from Tent 1341. A middle-aged woman crawled out of the tent and angrily headed north. She nearly knocked Xiao Fanghua over.
Meng Chao quickly supported Xiao Fanghua.
Xiao Fanghua gave Meng Chao an apologetic look and shouted into the tent, "Mr. Li Jue?"
Rustling came from the tent. In an instant, a head that did not look like a nose or eyes crawled out. The muscles on its face twitched nervously, and its gaze was filled with wariness. But under that wariness, there seemed to be more emotions hidden within.
"Ms. Xiao, you're here again," the middle-aged man said stiffly.
"Mr. Li Jue, I'm here to ask why Li Jue isn't going to the study class when he's fine?" Xiao Fanghua asked.
Li Jue's father's eyes turned red, and he said coldly, "What do you mean by 'fine'? After Li Jue practiced the martial arts you taught him in the study class, he coughed up blood three times! What kind of harmful martial arts are these? I'm not going! I'm not going! "
"Mr. Li Jue, it's not like that!"
Xiao Fanghua said anxiously. "Didn't I explain it to you last time? When the fog descended, Li Jue was attacked by the monster's mind, and it activated the supernatural abilities hidden in the depths of his brain. His body is still very young, so he can't withstand this power, which is why he coughed up blood.
"The monster's mind attack isn't targeted at Li Jue alone. It's a large-scale attack that doesn't differentiate between people. But Li Jue's talent is really high, and his senses toward spirit energy and vitality magnetic field are really sharp. That's why he showed signs of awakening beforehand. This is a good thing!
"As long as he takes the gene medicine and nutrients I mentioned every day, and cultivates according to the pole-standing and meditation techniques taught in our class, his symptoms will disappear very quickly. His skills will also improve greatly, and he will definitely have no problem passing next year's high school entrance examination.
"What's wrong, Li Jue's father? Didn't you give him the genetic medicine every day?"
Li Jue's father's eyes reddened even more. He hissed, "What gene medicine? It's all a scam. I won't fall for it!"
"This …"
Xiao Fanghua said, feeling a little at a loss. "Li Jue's father, how can you say that? The genetic medicine recommended by our class is all produced by legitimate factories. Besides, we received a donation from Blue Home, and it can subsidize each child. You only need to pay a 30% discount of the cost price, and Li Jue's cultivation will reach a higher level. The other children in the class are gritting their teeth and persevering. Li Jue is a good seedling that I value the most. It's a pity to give up halfway!"
Her words somehow touched Li Jue's father's sore spot. His eyes turned red, and he said loudly, "If I can't say it, then I won't do it! Everyone knows what you're up to. You said that it's a 30% discount of the cost price, but who knows? It's a lie! It's all a lie! "
When he shouted, quite a number of residents popped their heads out of their tents and sized up Xiao Fanghua and Meng Chao curiously.
Meng Chao frowned a little and asked Xiao Fanghua in a whisper, "Big Sis Xiao, what kind of medicine does your class use to cultivate every day? What's the price you give the students?"
"There's bone cell growth fluid for adolescents produced by Photoelectric Biology, muscle fiber rapid healing fluid produced by Mighty Dragon Pharmaceuticals, and high-efficiency blood tonic produced by Ancient Pharmaceuticals."
Xiao Fanghua listed the names of six types of gene medicine and high-calorie nutritional fluid. "Through our relationship with Blue Home, we worked directly with the factories and told them that we're helping the citizens who lost their homes. That's why we got the cost price from the factories. We didn't earn a single cent from them.
"Then, we held a few donations from Blue Home, and we helped the children pay for 30% of the cost.
"30% of the cost price? That's so low that it can't get any lower. Just by spending a few hundred a day, the children will have hope to cultivate!"
Meng Chao nodded.
Superstar provided monster raw materials, and it had a lot of working relationships with the pharmaceutical companies and biochemical modification companies Xiao Fanghua mentioned. At the very least, Meng Chao had heard of them and knew that they were famous and legit companies in the industry. They would definitely not use a monster to make soup and sell the nutritional fluid for three years.
Recently, they worked with Spirit Creations Creatures, so they had a general idea of the prices of the middle-grade gene medicine and high-calorie nutritional fluid for teenagers.
The prices Xiao Fanghua listed were not fake. Not only did they not earn money, they also had to get donations from everywhere to subsidize their expenses.
The clearest comparison was Bai Jiacao.
Ever since the Meng family had some money, they prepared the most luxurious cultivation set meal for her so that she could prepare for her high school examination. Forget about everything else, just the gene medicine and high-calorie nutritional fluid alone cost them two to three thousand a day. That meant that they spent tens of thousands a month.
Otherwise, she would not have been able to get into Construction High's experimental classes with just the Dark Witch's blood.
Once she entered high school, Bai Suxin attended a parent-teacher conference to exchange parenting experiences with the other parents. When the other parents heard that the Meng family only spent a few thousand a day to send their children into Construction High's experimental classes, they were all shocked.
The cultivation families spent more than ten thousand a day on their children's studies.
In comparison, Xiao Fanghua racked her brains for the sake of the poor children. She carefully prepared the cultivation set meal with the highest quality-price ratio, and it cost a few hundred a day.
When he thought of this, Meng Chao felt a little annoyed.
His expression darkened, and he stood in front of Xiao Fanghua. "Mr. Li, it's up to you whether you want your son to join the class or not. In any case, Ms. Xiao is using her spare time to help the children with their lessons.
"But Ms. Xiao didn't cheat you of a single cent. She might even use her own money to subsidize your child. You're turning the tables on her and disappointing her. No one will be willing to help the children in the settlement in the future. You're just harming yourself and everyone else.
"I'd advise you to set your sights further. In the future, the Other World will definitely be a world of superhumans. It's rare for your child to have cultivation talent, so he should cultivate well. This is the only way to change his fate!"
Meng Chao's voice was not loud, but it was enough for the neighbors to understand what was going on.
Li Jue's father's expression was very strange. It was as if the mask formed by wariness and anger had shattered to reveal his incredibly weak side.
He crawled back into the tent.
A series of stumbling sounds came from inside the tent.
Meng Chao and Xiao Fanghua looked at each other before they crawled into the tent.
They saw Li Jue's father sitting on the narrow camp bed with his head buried in his palms.
The burly man's shoulders were heaving, and he was weeping silently.
Meng Chao smelled a faint stench.
Following the stench, he noticed that Li Jue's father's entire right leg was wrapped in a few layers of gauze and bandages. There was a suspicious green and purple liquid seeping out.
"You're poisoned," Meng Chao said with a frown.
"When the fog descended, I was sprayed by a monster's poison on my right leg, and I started receiving treatment. I dug out all the rotten flesh, and I thought that I would be fine, but the poison seeped into my bones. After I worked for a few days in the ruins, the poison acted up."
Li Jue's father rubbed his face a few times and gradually calmed down. He whispered, "I'm sorry, Ms. Xiao. I fought with my wife just now, and I was in a bad mood. My mind was muddled, and I said some nonsense.
"I know that you're a good person. You're all good people. The price of gene medicine is already very cheap, but no matter how cheap it is, it's still a few hundred a day. Even if I work in the ruins without sleep or rest, I won't be able to afford it, much less look like I'm in right now."
Xiao Fanghua looked around the empty tent and asked, "Your things are all at home. You didn't bring them out?"
"No," Li Jue's father said.
"They were all burned to ruins. I didn't bring anything out."
"The public welfare organization should have arranged for free treatment, right?"
Xiao Fanghua asked hesitantly. "Your leg …"
"There's free treatment, but you have to queue up. Even for the simplest debridement and dressing, you have to queue up for a few days. After all, there were too many people who were injured during the fog," Li Jue's father said.
"Besides, the poison seeped into my bones, and it keeps coming back. It's very troublesome to treat it. I was thinking about making up my mind and borrowing some money to amputate my leg so that I could get a fake leg. That way, I could seize the time to look for a job, but my wife wouldn't let me, and neither would Li Jue. Besides, it's not easy to find a job right now. Even if I found one, the pay wouldn't be high. I don't know when I'll be able to pay back the money for the amputation and the mechanical prosthesis, much less let Li Jue cultivate."
Xiao Fanghua and Meng Chao were silent for a while.
"No matter what, we can't let the child fall behind in his cultivation," Xiao Fanghua said.
"Li Jue's father, let Li Jue go to the study class for now. We teachers and the volunteers from Blue Home will think of a way to deal with the problem of gene medicine and high-calorie nutritional fluid."
"Forget it, Ms. Xiao. You've helped Li Jue a lot, and our family is very grateful to you. We won't give you any more trouble," Li Jue's father said with a bitter smile.
"Li Jue was the one who said that he doesn't want to go to the study class anymore."
Xiao Fanghua was shocked. "Why?"
"Li Jue said that cultivation isn't something that can be done in a day. The higher his cultivation level is, the more cultivation resources he needs to use. Even if he can get your help right now and solve the problem of gene medicine and high-calorie nutritional fluid, what about a few months later? What about next year? What about the year after?
"Even if he manages to get into a key high school, it doesn't mean that he'll definitely become a superhuman. The courses in key high schools are even more arduous, and the competition is even fiercer. If he doesn't have enough resources, it's very easy for his spirit energy to deviate and he'll fail.
"At that time, he won't be able to awaken to supernatural abilities, but he'll be covered in injuries and won't be able to take on normal jobs. He'll just be causing trouble for his family.
"Li Jue is a very sensible child. In any case, that's just how our family is. It's impossible for them to support him in becoming a superhuman. He's thinking about using his cultivation time to work so that he can earn enough money to pay for my medical fees.
"I-I'm sorry, Ms. Xiao. I've disappointed you. Please don't blame Li Jue. If you want to blame someone, blame me for being useless!"
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