146: Caring for the school is everyone's responsibility

“Sorry…”

“We were wrong…”

The two of them squatted outside the hole in the wall like little chicks, bowing their heads and apologizing to Cheng Zhen.

“We’ll definitely pay…”

“Please don’t tell Teacher…”

Cheng Zhen hadn’t understood what was happening yet and was about to ask when he heard another roar from outside—

“Wu Daxing! Qi Qiugu! It’s you two again!”

A person ran over from a distance, full of anger. Cheng Zhen looked closely and saw it was Teacher Wu, who had previously taught him practical combat.

The two students he called out already had expressions of giving up the struggle, standing silently in place while Teacher Wu scolded them mercilessly.

“I warned you two last time, and now you’re doing it again? This is a residential area, not a demolition zone!”

“Sorry, we were wrong, we’ll never do it again…” The two apologized incredibly smoothly, clearly very practiced.

Teacher Wu was still not appeased and lectured the two for several more sentences. Finally, he made them pay a fine and compensation, and also ordered each of them to write a five-thousand-word self-reflection to settle the matter.

Upon hearing ‘five-thousand-word self-reflection’, the expressions on their faces were as if the sky had fallen, utterly distraught.

“It’s already letting you off easy to just make you write a self-reflection! If someone had been injured, expulsion would be deserved!” Teacher Wu glared, wanting them to understand the seriousness of the problem.

The male student named Wu Daxing whispered, “We set it to explode in an uninhabited area, it wouldn’t hurt anyone…”

“If it doesn’t hurt people, then you just demolish the school?!” Teacher Wu’s anger, which had just subsided, flared up again. Looking at the large hole in the wall, he really wanted to add a few more thousand words to their punishment.

As he looked up, he made eye contact with Cheng Zhen inside the hole.

Cheng Zhen was still trying to figure out what was going on when he saw Teacher Wu’s face light up with surprise: “Hey? Cheng Zhen! When did you move in?”

Seeing Teacher Wu’s sudden change of expression, the two scolded students quietly looked up at Cheng Zhen, deep in thought.

“I just moved in not long ago. Teacher Wu, what is this…?” Cheng Zhen looked at the hole in the wall, full of confusion.

Teacher Wu had just been scolding students, but he hadn’t expected Cheng Zhen to be nearby. Thinking that they were all classmates, he saved face for the two of them and said, “These two have been experimenting with skill combinations recently and ran into some problems. I didn’t realize you moved into this empty villa today. Cheng Zhen, don’t worry, the skill users in our school’s Civil Engineering College are all very capable, I guarantee they’ll restore this place to its original state in no time!”

“Sorry, Classmate Cheng Zhen.”

The two of them also spoke up apologetically: “If any items are damaged, we will definitely compensate!”

Fortunately, after Cheng Zhen moved in, his suitcase was taken directly to the second floor, and nothing was left on the first floor. Only the house and the school’s furniture were damaged.

Seeing that Cheng Zhen was fine, Teacher Wu was relieved and made a call for people to come and clean up and repair the wall.

Teacher Wu left, leaving the two students looking dejected as they went to write their self-reflection.

Although a repair team had already been arranged, they felt bad about damaging the house like that, so the two of them wanted to borrow a broom to help Cheng Zhen clean up the dust on the floor.

“No need, Teacher Wu has already contacted the dormitory manager to find someone to clean up. I’ll just wait here.”

Such things would definitely be cleaned up better and faster by skill users. Cheng Zhen thought it would be better for these two to hurry back and write their self-reflection.

“Sorry for causing you trouble.”

The girl named Qi Qiugu thought for a moment and suggested, “How about this, we’ll give you the stable ‘balloons’ from our experiment as compensation, is that okay?”

Balloons?

Seeing Cheng Zhen’s confusion, Wu Daxing explained, “Just as Teacher Wu said, we’re experimenting with various skill combinations to create powerful ‘prop-like’ weapons to deal with dungeons.”

“The experimental results are various kinds of balloons. These small ones are easy to carry and quite powerful. I was just tidying these up in the house, but I didn’t expect a draft to blow a balloon over to your place, and it exploded…”

After listening, Cheng Zhen subconsciously looked at the large hole in the wall.

The explosion radius was at least 2 meters, powerful enough to create a floor-to-ceiling window in the villa.

You’re telling me this was caused by a balloon exploding???

Cheng Zhen couldn’t help but be curious about their skills.

Qi Qiugu pulled out three balloons rolled into lollipop shapes from her inventory and handed them to Cheng Zhen.

“This balloon lollipop emits a scent that can be used to attract some monsters. When they take a bite, the balloon will—BOOM!”

She explained the item’s usage: “The material for this balloon was custom-made by me. It’s not easily burst by squeezing, which helps avoid accidentally injuring yourself. However, it will still explode if it encounters sharp objects or high-temperature, high-pressure environments, so be careful about that.”

Cheng Zhen looked down. The balloon in his hand looked a bit like the gift puppets give out at amusement parks, plump and soft, even a little cute.

Can this thing really blow through a wall?

Cheng Zhen was a little skeptical.

“Hehe, don’t let its harmless appearance fool you, it’s actually quite powerful!”

Perhaps everyone who sees the balloon for the first time finds its power hard to believe, so Wu Daxing habitually prepared to demonstrate.

He tied a stone to the bottom of the lollipop balloon, then gave a strong flick of his wrist and threw it far away.

Pulled by the stone, the balloon quickly flew towards the willow tree by the roadside.

With another ‘boom—’, the willow tree snapped.

Cheng Zhen: (⊙ ˍ ⊙)!

Qi Qiugu: (Ω Д Ω)!!!

“How about it? Pretty powerful, right?” Wu Daxing said with some pride, seeming very confident in his skill’s effect.

Cheng Zhen looked at the balloon in his hand, astonished.

So skill users can also craft items like this?

No wonder high-level skill users have a high clear rate. As long as they don’t encounter certain special monsters or environments immune to attacks, they can just have a smooth ride all the way through!

Cheng Zhen then looked at the dumbfounded Qi Qiugu next to him.

Sister, it’s normal for me to be surprised since I haven’t seen this before, but what are you so shocked about?

“…”

Qi Qiugu’s mouth twitched, her hand pointing at Wu Daxing trembled slightly, and she let out a soul-piercing scream: “Why did you blow up the tree?!”

“You haven’t even written your five-thousand-word self-reflection yet!!!”

Wu Daxing’s smile froze on his face.

Teacher Wu, who had left, returned upon hearing the noise, his grim face filled with a terrifying kindness…