17: The much-anticipated first meeting, Han Lie with a perfect image
The next morning, Han Lie finished a simple breakfast—a glass of milk, a piece of bread, and a fried egg. The displayed entries were the essence and blood of a Rank 3 fierce beast, the Giant Axe Ox, Divine Demon Wheat, and the essence and blood of a Rank 4 fierce beast, the Fire Phoenix Chicken…
After the hearty meal, his vital energy surged.
While tidying up, he silently chanted, “Check panel!”
“Host: Han Lie
Vital Energy: 100
Entries: Congenital Medicine Saint Body 1.0
Other: Omitted”
“Why is my Vital Energy still one hundred?”
Han Lie frowned. Logically, he should have already broken through after eating so much. He figured that to break through his limit, he probably needed external force or external objects.
He stopped thinking about it.
He would ask the teacher when he got to school.
He left his small home, less than thirty square meters, preparing to take the bus to school.
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At the same time, Old Ge, the homeroom teacher of the Experimental Class, was in the process of handing over with Han Lie’s original homeroom teacher, Lao Wang, who had a pained expression as if he had been cut.
“He’s my only good prospect!”
“And you snatched him away!”
Old Ge smiled at this. “Alright, Lao Wang, it’s the principal’s order, it’s not like I insisted on snatching your student. Besides, didn’t the principal say that the credit for cultivating a dark horse is yours and no one can take it away?”
Lao Wang thought of the bonus and also smiled. “Fine, fine, who told you to be the teacher of the Experimental Class? Your teaching experience is richer than mine!”
“I’ll take that as a compliment!” Old Ge was also in a good mood. “By the way, how is Han Lie as a student? I mean, in terms of personality…”
Even though Han Lie was famous now, he was just a nobody before. Old Ge asked several classmates, and they all said they didn’t know Han Lie at all.
“He’s very well-behaved!”
Lao Wang said truthfully, “Before, he was the harmless type in class. He listened attentively in class, practiced diligently after class, never got into conflicts with anyone, and was extremely, extremely obedient!”
“Whew, that puts my mind at ease!”
Old Ge breathed a sigh of relief. He was truly afraid that Han Lie would be a troublemaker, and coupled with his unfamiliarity with others and his sensitive identity as a dark horse, all these factors combined seemed very likely to cause conflicts.
With only three months left until the Martial Exam, he didn’t want the class to be in a mess.
Since Han Lie was very well-behaved,
Then there shouldn’t be any problems.
“His fundamentals are very poor…”
Old Ge looked at Han Lie’s grades in various subjects and couldn’t help but frown.
“Yes!”
Lao Wang didn’t know what to say either. In fact, even he was surprised now why the bottom-ranked Han Lie could suddenly become a dark horse.
“It’s fine, it’s fine…”
Old Ge waved his hand. He wasn’t too concerned about poor grades in various subjects. One must know that for martial artists, the body is the capital for revolution, especially in the early stages of martial arts. As long as one has a good body, it’s fine if other aspects are slightly weaker.
“I’ll have to really focus on his fundamentals when I get back!” Old Ge thought to himself.
The two of them chatted for a while longer, both optimistic about Han Lie’s performance in the new class and the chemical reactions he could bring about.
A dark horse who climbed up from a lower class would definitely provide a certain encouragement and stimulus to the original students!
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In reality, it was indeed so. After the news of Han Lie’s transfer spread yesterday, all the students in the Experimental Class had already begun to inquire about Han Lie, either openly or secretly.
That’s why Cui Dazhi was asked so many times, and Bai He Wan was particularly curious about Han Lie the moment they met.
Because the entire group was like this.
Early this morning,
A hidden undercurrent began to stir in the classroom.
“Han Lie is coming today!!”
“I just saw him enter the campus. After he tidies up in his original class, he might come to our class during morning self-study!”
“Holy crap, that fast?”
“Exactly. If he’s quick, he might even be able to do morning stance training with us!!”
“Do morning stance training with him?”
“I’m looking forward to it!!”
Everyone was full of anticipation. For these students in the Experimental Class, besides anticipation, there was also a hint of competitiveness in their hearts.
Because these top students, although they didn’t say anything out loud, hated it the most when others compared them to someone else. They had heard a lot of ‘stepping on one to praise another’ these past two days.
They wanted to compete with Han Lie!
They wanted to get the upper hand over him!
Many people had this thought, especially the boys. One must know that male competition is everywhere.
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“What will Han Lie be like?”
Everyone couldn’t help but start imagining.
Time quickly passed, and it was time for morning stance training. Led by the class monitor, Xin Yao, everyone began their morning stance training. Over an hour passed, but Han Lie’s figure was nowhere to be seen.
They were slightly disappointed.
However, they waited for the late-arriving Cui Dazhi.
Some students who couldn’t stand still immediately gathered around the latter, chattering:
“Dazhi, you’re finally here!”
“Oh…?”
Cui Dazhi looked half-asleep.
“I heard!!”
The others ignored this. “Han Lie was especially hardworking in his original class. He arrived at school at five every morning and then started practicing, right?”
“Huh?”
Upon hearing this, Cui Dazhi immediately became alert.
Where did this rumor come from?
Not to mention that Han Lie woke up at five because the six o’clock bus was full of old grandpas and grandmas, but the act of waking up at five only happened two or three times a semester, right?
“And, and…”
“I heard Han Lie pays special attention to his diet. He doesn’t eat snacks at all, right?” a classmate asked.
“???”
Question marks appeared above Cui Dazhi’s head. Not far away, Bai He Wan, who was doing stance training with her ears perked up, almost lost her balance and fell.
Cui Dazhi was dumbfounded.
He probably knew that the classmate’s remark about not eating snacks was referring to high-end snacks, which Han Lie had indeed never eaten before.
But wasn’t that because he was poor?
“……”
“And, and…”
Other classmates, in a few words, sketched out a picture of a good martial arts student, Han Lie, who was so diligent it was infuriating, hanging his head by a rope and pricking himself with an awl, with only martial arts on his mind.
“?”
Cui Dazhi wanted to say, are the person you’re talking about and the person I know the same? The Han Lie in his eyes was just an ordinary person with flaws.
He came to understand.
This wasn’t Han Lie’s true image; this was the image of Han Lie that everyone imagined he should have, and why shouldn’t a dark horse like him work hard!
“And, and…”
Everyone was still talking.
Cui Dazhi was about to say something, because he was afraid that Han Lie’s image was too perfect, and when his true colors were exposed, it would be easy for him to fall from grace.
And just at this moment,
Faint footsteps came from outside the classroom. One had to admit they were top students; everyone in the classroom immediately fell silent.
Then,
Then!
They saw Han Lie appear at the classroom door, carrying a sling bag, his school uniform unbuttoned, and a roasted crispy chicken sausage in each hand, putting them into his mouth.
“!!!”
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