97: Chapter 97 In this world, it's hard to be a good person!

"This regional grand competition has now successfully concluded in Perfection."

"All testers, immediately return to your respective dormitories to rest."

"Three days later, the Creator Academy will uniformly distribute resource rewards based on the prodigy ranking!"

As Chief Examiner Wang Changjun's majestic voice echoed within the grand auditorium, this trial filled with shock, twists, and heart-pounding moments finally came to an end.

Chief Examiner Wang Changjun on the high platform flickered, transforming into a gray stream of light and disappearing.

Meanwhile, the aristocratic big shots and plutocrat helmsmen in the VIP seats completely lost their usual composure and calmness at this moment.

They stood up one after another, whispering to each other, and casting their gazes from time to time at the lofty name on the prodigy ranking.

Over nine million points, a towering first place by a wide margin!

Along with a legendary S-rank divine kingdom wonder!

Now, everyone knows that starting from today, this name will definitely resound throughout the upper circles of the entire Federation.

However, Lin Yunfei, who was at the center of the storm, completely lacked any awareness of enjoying such universal attention at this moment.

He knew all too well what wicked things he had done today.

Although under the strong protection of Chief Examiner Wang Changjun, he successfully survived from the mouth of the Tier 3 Giant Dragon and legally stuffed the nine dragons wall into his own pocket.

However, standing in this grand auditorium were still thousands of 'good fellow students' whom he had scammed to the point where they almost didn't even have their underwear left!

Especially Lei Dingtian, the Military Region Twins, and other top Prodigies.

Just now on the plaza, Lin Yunfei clearly saw their gazes that looked like they wanted to eat someone.

"The wind is tight, let's bolt!"

Taking hurried, small steps, just as he was about to reach the door of his dormitory!

"Boom!"

A vat-thick purple-black thunderbolt descended from the sky without warning, fiercely striking the floor less than half an inch in front of Lin Yunfei's toes!

The hard alloy floor was instantly blasted into a charred deep pit, and the violent thunder Law wandered in the air, making a heart-palpitating "crackling" sound.

Lin Yunfei retracted his right foot like an electric shock, his eyebrows slightly raising.

He didn't even need to look up to know that the main characters had come looking for him.

"Lin Yunfei, after taking such a huge benefit and scamming so many of us to death, you want to run away without even saying hello?"

"Do you really think this Creator Academy is run by your family?!"

Accompanied by a roar that was suppressed to the extreme, as if a volcano would erupt at any moment, three figures exuding intense Killing Intent blocked the back door exit of the grand auditorium like three huge mountains.

The person at the head was none other than the first-in-line heir of the Lei Family, Lei Dingtian!

At this moment, where was Lei Dingtian's previous elegance and poise as a young master of the imperial capital?

His expensive, top-grade battle armor had long been burned into chunks of charred carbon by dragon breath.

His hair, which was originally neatly combed, was now messily piled on his head like it had been chewed on by a dog.

On Lei Dingtian's left and right sides were the Military Region Twins, Lian Zhan and Lian Yun, who were equally disheveled but whose Killing Intent did not diminish in the slightest.

Lian Zhan was bare-chested, his solid muscles covered with scars of all sizes, and he tightly gripped a heavy axe with several chipped notches, staring fixedly at Lin Yunfei.

Lian Yun remained silent, his hands slightly spread open with ten fingers, and the fingertips were lingering with emerald-green wood-attribute Divine Power, ready at any time to block all possible escape routes for Lin Yunfei.

Three peerless Prodigies joined forces to block the door!

The surrounding students who were originally preparing to leave stopped in their tracks upon seeing this scene, sucking in cold air as they retreated, fearing they would be caught up in the terrifying conflict about to erupt.

"Aren't those Young Master Lei and the Lian brothers? What are they trying to do?"

"Nonsense! If it were you, being used as a human shield and thrown to a Tier 3 Giant Dragon, with more than half of your kin dead or injured, could you swallow this breath?"

"Lin Yunfei has really kicked an iron plate this time! Even though he got first place, by simultaneously offending the two young masters of the imperial capital's Lei Family and the military compound, his days ahead definitely won't be easy!"

Listening to the surrounding whispers, Lin Yunfei's face did not show any panicked expression.

He calmly patted the non-existent dust on the corner of his clothes, then raised his head, meeting the three Prodigies' gazes that looked as if they wanted to kill, revealing a surprised and innocent expression.

"Oh my, if it isn't Young Master Lei and Young Master Lian!"

"The grand competition is already over; why aren't the three of you properly bandaging your wounds and resting in your dormitories instead of coming to this back door to catch the cold wind?"

Lin Yunfei put his hands behind his back, his tone filled with "deep care" between fellow students.

"Stop playing dumb with me here!"

Lei Dingtian stepped forward, the battle spear in his hand abruptly pointing at Lin Yunfei's nose tip, the electric arcs leaping on the spearhead less than three inches away from Lin Yunfei's face.

"Lin Yunfei, do you still have any shame at all?"

"Just now on the plaza, in front of the Chief Examiner, you said you couldn't bear to watch us fall deep into heavy encirclement and took the initiative to step forward to forge a path of survival for us?!"

"Bah!"

The more Lei Dingtian spoke, the more excited he became, his chest heaving violently, and his saliva was almost about to spray onto Lin Yunfei's face.

"Is that forging a path of survival? You clearly abducted a Dragon Cub and stole someone's S-rank wonder, getting chased like a stray dog by a Tier 3 Giant Dragon!"

"You caused a monstrous disaster yourself, yet you treated us clueless people as a rear-guard human shield!"

"The two thousand Thunder Kin that my Lei Family spent countless resources to cultivate with great difficulty were directly burned into ashes all over the ground by that mouthful of dragon breath just because of you, bastard!"

Lei Dingtian's voice echoed in the back door passage of the grand auditorium, every word dripping with blood and tears.

"Today, you must give us an explanation for this blood debt!"

Lian Zhan at the side also widened his eyes in anger, fiercely slamming the heavy axe onto the ground, producing a muffled "thud" sound.

"Brother Lin, I, Lian Zhan, ask myself if I am not a petty person. Being inferior in skill during the grand competition, I admit defeat!"

"But above all, you shouldn't have utilized my trust in you!"

Lian Zhan gritted his teeth, recalling how he had foolishly patted his chest at that time, solemnly guaranteeing Lin Yunfei that 'leave your backs to us'.

That humiliation of being played for a fool and even helping someone count their money was more uncomfortable than being killed!

"Do you know that when that Tier 3 Giant Dragon appeared above our heads, those Flame Berserkers under my command turned to ashes without even letting out a scream?!"

"Taking our lives in exchange for your first place and S-rank wonder? Lin Yunfei, won't your conscience hurt?!"

Facing such tearful, moral high-ground blood-and-tear accusations from the three Prodigies.

If it were anyone with even a shred of shame, they would probably be ashamed beyond compare at this moment and apologize repeatedly.

However, the person they were facing was Lin Yunfei.

Not only did Lin Yunfei not show the slightest bit of guilt, but instead he let out a heavy sigh, his face showing an expression even more heartbroken and aggrieved than theirs.

"Brother Lei, Brother Lian! You... How can you think of me like that?"

Lin Yunfei clutched his chest with a heartbroken expression, as if he had suffered a great wrong.

"Yes, I admit that that Dragon indeed chased out because I took the nine dragons wall. But, think back carefully on the situation at that time!"

Lin Yunfei began his set of impeccable reverse-PUA logic.

"At that time, tens of thousands of frantic Demonic Beasts surrounded the Central Altar impenetrably! Even if no Dragon appeared, with the remaining Divine Power you had at the time, could you have charged into the altar safe and sound?"

Lei Dingtian and Lian Zhan were slightly stunned, recalling the desperate situation of falling into a quagmire back then.

"You couldn't, right?"

Without waiting for them to speak, Lin Yunfei gave the answer decisively.

"If I didn't charge over with the Dragon, if I didn't utilize the terrifying power of that dragon breath to instantly clear all low-tier Demonic Beasts around the altar, could you have entered the safe zone so smoothly?"

"What do you mean I used you as human shields?"

Lin Yunfei suddenly took a step forward, staring straight into Lei Dingtian's eyes, his gaze filled with a righteous and awe-inspiring radiance.

"I was using my own life as bait, forcibly utilizing the power of a high-tier Divine Beast to blast open a broad road to victory for all of us!"

"I bore all the risks of stealing the wonder and suffered the most direct fury of the Dragon! And you guys only needed to slightly resist the aftermath in the back to smoothly get the high scores for second and third place in the whole match!"

"Isn't this a perfect tactical cooperation?"

"For the sake of the big picture, I, Lin, am willing to bear all the infamy rather than watch all fellow students die a tragic death in the beast tide. In the end, not only are you not grateful to me, but you even came to call me to account?"

"Alas, in this world, it is hard to be a good person!"

Lin Yunfei said while shaking his head very desolately, that heroic and tragic posture of 'everyone else is drunk while I am sober' and 'if I don't enter Hell, who will enter Hell' could practically win a Federal Oscar little golden man...

The three people Lei Dingtian, Lian Zhan, and Lian Yun were directly stunned by Lin Yunfei's heaven-defying and earth-shattering remarks.

Having lived for nearly twenty years, they had seen shameless people, but they had never seen anyone who could make shamelessness sound so fresh, refined, and righteous!

Scammed people to the point of almost total annihilation, yet he could turn around and say it was a favor to them?!

"You... You..."

Lei Dingtian pointed at Lin Yunfei, his fingers shaking wildly, unable to hold back a complete sentence for a long time.

This brat's tongue-fu was simply a hundred times more perverted than his Azure Dragon Guards!

"Stop talking nonsense with him!"

Lian Yun, who had not spoken all along, now had eyes filled with icy frost.

"Sharp-tongued and turning black into white! Lin Yunfei, even if you talk until the heavens break today, you must pay with your life for those Ironwood Tree Demons of mine that died!"

"Since you took the S-rank wonder and your strength has greatly increased, today, we will experience the true combat power of your towering first place!"

"Do it!"

Accompanied by Lian Yun's angry roar.

Inside the passageway of the grand auditorium's back door, the atmosphere instantly dropped to freezing point.

The battle spear of Lei Dingtian instantly erupted with dazzling thunder light, purple electric snakes dancing wildly in mid-air, ionizing the surrounding air with a pungent scorched smell.

Lian Zhan roared towards the sky; although his battle axe was dilapidated, the flames on his body still blazed fiercely, like an enraged god of fire.

Lian Yun formed hand seals with both hands, and countless thick green vines directly burst out from the gaps in the alloy floor, like venomous snakes winding toward Lin Yunfei's ankles.

They wanted to thoroughly suppress this shameless bastard in the first moment of leaving the examination hall!

Facing these three tyrannical auras pressing over like rolling mountains and overturning seas.

Lin Yunfei prepared to summon the Azure Dragon Guards to deal with them.

However, just as Lei Dingtian's thunder battle spear was less than half a foot away from Lin Yunfei's face, just as Lian Zhan's heavy axe was about to chop down, at the critical moment when a fierce battle was on the verge of breaking out.

"Beep beep beep! Beep beep beep!"

An extremely sharp red alarm sound, representing the Federation's highest-secret level, suddenly rang crazily on the tactical terminals on Lian Zhan and Lian Yun's wrists!