82: Chapter 82 You've already gone home, why are you making me work overtime?

The next morning.

The entrance to Linhai No. 2 High School was livelier than a wet market.

It wasn't because of the students.

It was because of the police cars.

Parked outside the school gate were three black SUVs from the Investigation Bureau, two motorized motorcycles from The Watchers, and a team of Sanctuary Arbiters sporting "Municipal Maintenance" signs.

They were wearing reflective vests and hard hats, each holding a scanner, and were carefully inspecting the sewer manhole cover at the school entrance.

The level of seriousness didn't look like they were checking for safety hazards.

It looked more like they were investigating whether a King-level Strange Tales was sealed beneath the manhole cover.

One of the Sanctuary Arbiters even crouched beside the manhole cover, using tweezers to pick up a single strand of hair and place it into a transparent storage bag.

The students passing by were full of confusion.

"Did the sewer at the school entrance explode?"

"I don't know. Wasn't it perfectly fine yesterday?"

"Look at those maintenance workers; their vibes are so weird."

"Duh, what kind of maintenance worker carries a dagger at their waist?"

Su Yun walked to the gate with his schoolbag on his back and took a look.

Very good.

The global situation is so tense that A-level powerhouses are needed to check manhole covers.

Human civilization has a bright future.

At this rate, in two days, the trash cans in Linhai City will need their own dedicated security.

Su Yun withdrew his gaze and walked into the school as if nothing had happened.

Just as he stepped through the school gate, Li Hao, who was standing inside, waved at him frantically.

"Brother Yun! Over here!"

Su Yun walked over.

Li Hao lowered his voice, his eyes shining, looking as excited as if he had just peeked at the Homeroom Teacher's pay stub.

"Have you heard? The Queen of Great Britain is arriving in Linhai at noon today!"

Su Yun nodded.

"Heard about it."

Li Hao was even more excited.

"That's the Queen! A living one! Will she ride in a golden carriage? Will she bring a bunch of knights? Will she speak with a built-in translation accent?"

Su Yun glanced at him.

"Have you ever passed an English listening test?"

The light on Li Hao's face dimmed by half.

"Brother Yun, your insults are always spot on."

He was silent for two seconds, then added unwillingly.

"But I don't think I can be blamed for that. When the English listening audio plays, that female voice sounds like it's summoning Strange Tales. I want to write a suicide note every time I finish listening to it."

The two entered the teaching building.

The teaching building was equally abnormal.

At the corner of the hallway, there were two more people wearing cleaning uniforms.

One held a mop.

One pushed a cleaning cart.

But Su Yun could tell at a glance that the mop handle was made of a special alloy, and hidden under the cleaning cart were three sets of spiritual energy capture nets.

What was even more absurd was that a new notice was posted on the door of the second-floor men's restroom.

"Due to municipal maintenance, the restroom is temporarily closed today. Students, please use the facilities civilly and do not summon unknown entities in the stalls."

Su Yun paused.

The school's notices were starting to evolve too.

Li Hao followed his gaze and muttered softly.

"Who would summon unknown entities in the restroom?"

Su Yun glanced at him.

Li Hao immediately shut his mouth.

For some reason, he felt that Brother Yun's glance seemed to be saying, "You'd better not jinx it."

Senior Year Class 2 was already in an uproar.

Everyone was discussing the Queen's visit.

After all, just yesterday it was the Investigation Bureau's forced testing, a diplomatic incident involving the Saintess, and an A-level Arbiter breaking through the window.

Today, it had turned into the Queen of Great Britain personally visiting Linhai.

The international level of this class had far exceeded what a normal high school should have.

Someone in the front row was reading the news in a low voice while holding a phone.

"The Queen's delegation is expected to arrive at noon; temporary traffic control will be implemented on some roads in Linhai."

"I heard a princess is accompanying her."

"Really? The princess is coming too?"

"What does she look like? Blonde hair, black stockings, long legs?"

Chu Youwei sat at her desk with a current affairs document spread out.

Beside the document was a book of math competition problems.

She saw Su Yun come in and immediately turned around.

"Classmate Su."

Su Yun stopped.

Whenever this form of address appeared, it meant she wanted to extract information again.

And usually not insignificant information.

Chu Youwei rested her chin on her hand, smiling very gently.

"Last night, the Queen of Great Britain suddenly endorsed Night Owl, and today the delegation is coming to Linhai."

"With your family's deep background, it's impossible you haven't heard any rumors, right?"

Li Hao immediately pricked up his ears.

Two classmates in the front row also stopped reciting.

Someone in the back even put down their pen.

The entire Senior Year Class 2 instantly entered gossip-eavesdropping mode.

Su Yun shoved his schoolbag into the drawer, his tone calm.

"I really don't know."

Chu Youwei narrowed her eyes.

"You said you didn't know yesterday too."

Su Yun nodded.

"So I'm maintaining a consistent persona today."

Chu Youwei: "..."

Li Hao whispered: "Brother Yun, you're consistently annoying."

Su Yun looked at him.

"Did you finish your homework?"

Li Hao immediately opened his book.

"I suddenly love studying very much."

After saying that, he picked up his pen very seriously and wrote two large characters on his blank homework notebook.

Study.

Then he stopped.

Because he realized he only knew how to write the title.

Chu Youwei did not give up.

She tapped her fingers gently on the desk, her tone sounding like casual conversation.

"At least you know why the Queen is coming to Linhai, right?"

Su Yun thought for a moment, his gaze falling on the empty seat beside him.

Gu Lang had already arrived.

He was wearing his school uniform, and his complexion was paler than yesterday.

Even though it was early morning, he looked like he had just come out of a morgue.

On his desk was a book titled "Essential Vocabulary for College Entrance Exam English".

Su Yun looked at the line of words for two seconds, feeling that the level of mental pollution from this book was actually no lower than that of low-level Strange Tales.

He pointed at Gu Lang.

"Ask Gu Lang."

Chu Youwei was stunned.

Gu Lang looked up.

Su Yun said indifferently: "He definitely knows."

The entire class's gaze instantly converged on him.

Gu Lang was silent for two seconds.

He really wanted to say that he was just an ordinary transfer student.

But that line had no market in Class 2.

After all, yesterday the Investigation Bureau people were forced to apologize by the Saintess, and two A-level Arbiters had climbed in through the window.

The standard for ordinary people in this class had already been kicked into the sewer by Su Yun.

In Senior Year Class 2, the four words "ordinary family" no longer possessed any explanatory power.

Chu Youwei looked at Gu Lang.

"Classmate Gu?"

Li Hao also leaned in.

"Brother Gu, insider info? Can you tell us? If it's inconvenient, just blink."

Gu Lang glanced at Su Yun.

Su Yun was flipping through a foreign language book.

Very seriously.

So seriously that it looked like he really didn't know anything.

He closed the vocabulary book.

"Twelve-forty at noon."

The classroom went quiet for a moment.

Chu Youwei's eyes flickered.

"The Queen arrives in Linhai?"

Gu Lang nodded.

"The Platinum Royal private plane will land at the Linhai Eastern Military Airport."

Li Hao gasped.

"Holy crap, real insider info."

The classmates in the front row were shocked.

"Gu Lang, does your family have a background too?"

Gu Lang was expressionless.

"Ordinary family."

The whole class was silent.

Then everyone looked at Su Yun in unison.

Su Yun: "?"

Why are you looking at me?

Li Hao whispered a summary.

"Got it, 'ordinary family' equals military airport intel."

The classmate next to him nodded along.

"Then an 'ordinary family' like Su Yun's must equal a Sanctuary diplomatic channel."

"Reasonable."

"Very reasonable."

Su Yun was silent.

He felt that the perception of this class had been polluted.

And the source of the pollution was likely himself.

Chu Youwei was thoughtful.

"So the Queen is coming in a hurry."

Gu Lang said coldly: "She shouldn't have come in the first place."

Su Yun raised his eyes.

"How so?"

Gu Lang's tone carried a bit of uncontrollable irritation.

"This woman, I don't know what kind of nerves she's having, but she insists on coming to Linhai."

The classroom instantly went quiet.

Li Hao's mouth hung open.

Chu Youwei was also stunned.

Someone's pen dropped to the floor, a clatter that was exceptionally clear.

Su Yun looked at Gu Lang.

"You call the Queen of Great Britain 'this woman'?"

Gu Lang frowned.

"Is there a problem?"

Li Hao gave a thumbs up.

"Brother Gu, you're really not afraid of diplomatic incidents."

Chu Youwei whispered: "If this was recorded, it should be enough to trade for a study abroad spot."

Gu Lang: "..."

He suddenly realized that in this class, even speaking required tactical assessment.

Because the thought processes of this group of ordinary students next to him had been trained very strangely by several consecutive Strange Tales incidents.

They weren't necessarily afraid.

But they were definitely good at landing the final blow.

Su Yun leaned back in his chair.

"With the Queen coming personally, the security pressure must be huge."

"Don't you need to go?"

Gu Lang looked at him.

Su Yun's tone was casual.

"Although your strength is trash, you've barely touched the threshold of S-level."

Gu Lang's eyelid twitched.

Trash?

Barely?

He, codenamed Lone Wolf of High Command.

Sealed Sequence 033 Corpse-eating Dog.

High-level Strange Talk Sequence adapter.

S-level combat unit.

Placed in any city, he was a high-level combat force capable of directly taking over the front-line battlefield.

Even in High Command, he wasn't some small soldier that could be casually expended.

In Su Yun's mouth, he had become trash.

And 'barely'.

What was even more absurd was that the Corpse-eating Dog core inside him didn't feel angry after hearing this.

It even shrank back.

As if it felt the other party's assessment was very objective.

Gu Lang's mood was even worse.

Li Hao gasped.

"Brother Gu, you've touched the S-level threshold?"

Gu Lang didn't speak.

Li Hao turned to look at Su Yun.

"Brother Yun, why can you say these things so naturally? How did you see that?"

Su Yun turned a page of the book.

"Because I'm good at math."

Li Hao: "..."

Chu Youwei chuckled.

She laughed very softly, but her gaze kept lingering between Su Yun and Gu Lang.

Gu Lang didn't refute.

This in itself explained the problem.

A person who could know the landing time of the Queen's private plane.

A person who was casually evaluated by Su Yun as "barely touching the S-level threshold".

A person who, despite being called trash, didn't immediately deny it.

Chu Youwei pressed her fingertips gently against the page.

She was becoming more and more certain.

This transfer student was definitely not an ordinary person.

But what was even scarier was that the way Gu Lang looked at Su Yun didn't look like he was looking at a classmate.

It was more like he was looking at a disaster source that couldn't be understood, recorded, or fully reported.

Gu Lang stared at Su Yun.

"I'm not going to the airport."

Su Yun asked: "Why?"

Gu Lang said word by word.

"Because I have more important things to do."

After finishing, he looked at Su Yun with burning eyes.

The air in the classroom suddenly changed.

Chu Youwei frowned slightly.

Li Hao looked at Gu Lang, then at Su Yun.

Su Yun raised his hand.

The Homeroom Teacher had just walked into the classroom, still holding the lesson plan.

"Su Yun, what is it?"

Su Yun said seriously: "Teacher, I don't want to sit with a pervert."

Gu Lang: "..."

The whole class: "..."

The new Homeroom Teacher pushed up his glasses, glanced at Gu Lang, and then at Su Yun.

Silence for two seconds.

"Denied."

Su Yun frowned.

"Reason?"

The Homeroom Teacher put the lesson plan on the podium.

"In this class, only your mental state is compatible with his."

A burst of suppressed laughter erupted in the classroom.

Li Hao covered his mouth, his shoulders shaking wildly.

Chu Youwei lowered her head, her lips curling up.

Gu Lang's complexion turned even paler.

Su Yun looked at the Homeroom Teacher.

"Teacher, this is unfair distribution of educational resources."

The Homeroom Teacher calmly opened the roll call book.

"When you used the Saintess to deal with the Investigation Bureau yesterday, the class had already borne diplomatic pressure it shouldn't have."

"Now you are responsible for bearing a little 'deskmate pressure'."

Su Yun: "..."

This teacher had evolved.

And the direction of the evolution was very ominous.

Gu Lang said coldly: "I am not a pervert."

Su Yun turned his head to look at him.

"High Command told you to find monsters, why do you keep staring at me?"

Chu Youwei's fingertips also paused.

Li Hao didn't understand the main point, but he understood the word "monster".

He immediately sat up straight.

"What monster? Is the school going to have trouble again?"

Many classmates in the classroom also became nervous.

After all, it wasn't the first time Senior Year Class 2 had dealt with Strange Tales.

They were now extremely sensitive to the words "monster", "Investigation Bureau", and "testing".

Gu Lang lowered his voice.

"You suppressed my aura, I can't do my work."

Su Yun looked at him.

"When did I suppress you?"

Gu Lang sneered.

"Yesterday in the classroom."

Su Yun remembered.

"You mean the eraser?"

Gu Lang didn't speak.

Silence was default.

At that moment yesterday, the Corpse-eating Dog sequence inside him had indeed been suppressed.

It wasn't suppressed by the eraser.

It had felt some kind of incomprehensible high-level aura through that eraser.

It was like a stray dog, just about to bark wildly at a trash can on the side of the road.

Only to find an ancient beast standing behind the trash can.

At that moment, the Corpse-eating Dog couldn't even bark.

It even wanted to cut off its tail and hide it.

Su Yun tapped the desk, didn't dig deeper, and continued.

"Then why don't you do it at night?"

Gu Lang opened his eyes.

"What?"

"Release your aura, attract the target."

Su Yun said: "There are too many people in school during the day, it's inconvenient for you. The playground is empty at night, you can release it as you please."

Gu Lang stared at Su Yun.

"You also said it's at night."

Su Yun: "Hmm."

Gu Lang was expressionless, saying word by word.

"I'm already off the clock."

"Why should I work?"

The classroom was dead silent.

Three seconds later.

Li Hao slapped the desk.

"Well said!"

This sound seemed to ignite some switch.

The whole class nodded along.

"Makes sense."

"Workers refuse unpaid overtime."

"High Command can't violate labor laws, right?"

"Making people act as bait at night, shouldn't that count as a night shift allowance?"

"Night shift allowance isn't enough, there should also be a high-risk subsidy."

"High-risk subsidy isn't enough either, at least cover the meals."

Li Hao was boiling with enthusiasm.

"Brother Gu, I support you! Just because you're S-level, doesn't mean they can treat you like an ox or a horse!"

Gu Lang was silent.

This was the first time he felt support in class.

Although the direction of the support was very strange.

But I have to say, it was a bit warm.

Chu Youwei held her forehead.

For the first time, she felt that Gu Lang and Su Yun sitting together might really be a reasonable arrangement.

The two of them, one looked like a weird ordinary student.

One looked like a government-employed Strange Tales bait.

Both were very absurd.

And this class could actually provide them with a stable mass base.

Su Yun was also silent.

His gaze towards Gu Lang had a bit more approval.

"Your awareness doesn't look like that of an official person."

Gu Lang snorted.

"I just have a normal mental state."

Su Yun nodded.

"In Class 2, this sentence is already a very high self-evaluation."

Gu Lang: "..."

True.

A group of high school students heard the two words "S-level" and didn't explode on the spot, didn't chase after him to get to the bottom of it, and certainly didn't egg him on to show off his skills.

Is this reaction normal?

Gu Lang silently swept his gaze around.

Some were catching up on homework, some were memorizing words, and others had already started seriously discussing whether S-level counted as a high-risk job.

He suddenly realized.

This class was indeed not very ordinary.

Just then, Li Hao's voice, full of thirst for knowledge, came faintly from the side.

"Brother Gu."

Gu Lang turned to look at him.

Li Hao's eyes shone, and he asked with a serious face:

"Can you fly?"

Gu Lang: "..."