26: Chapter 26 has a bald companion.

In fact, if this guy named Ye Cheng could have recognized reality and stopped after the "sudden baldness" strike, Lin Muyang wouldn't have taken things too far.

At most, he would have let them go back with their bald heads to reflect for a few days.

But...

Seeing this group of people with their shiny, bright heads, rather than learning their lesson out of shame and indignation, they became even more aggressive. Mana fluctuations began to surge from each of them; they were clearly trying to start a fight out of humiliated rage.

In that case, Lin Muyang could only say "sorry" to them in his heart...

With a thought, he quickly switched his Aura.

God-Tier Aura—[A Thousand Miles of Flow], activate!

As the name suggested.

The effect of this Aura was extremely simple and crude: it caused all targets within range marked as "enemies" by Lin Muyang to immediately enter an uncontrollable, violent state of gastrointestinal stress, and then—A Thousand Miles of Flow!

And the ones Lin Muyang marked as enemies were precisely Ye Cheng and his three companions.

Thus, a dramatic scene unfolded once again!

The four young men, who had just gathered their mana and struck an attacking pose, wanting to give Lin Muyang a harsh beating to vent their anger, all had their expressions change drastically at almost the same time!

Their faces, originally flushed with anger, instantly turned pale and twisted, and cold sweat even broke out on their foreheads.

"Wait... wait! My stomach... hiss... something's not right!" One of the lackeys suddenly doubled over, clutching his abdomen with a painful expression. "You guys start fighting, I... I'll be right back!"

"What? Don't run yet! I... my stomach also feels a bit off..." Another lackey also felt an indescribable cramping and urgency coming from his lower abdomen, his legs involuntarily clamping together.

"It couldn't be such a coincidence, right? You guys also... also ate at that newly opened 'Menglai Shi' fast food place?" The third lackey's face was filled with horror and disbelief.

"Holy... I can't! I really can't hold it anymore! Let's go—!"

One second, the four of them were fierce and aggressive; the next, they were all clutching their stomachs, their faces a mix of pain, anxiety, and extreme embarrassment. They no longer cared about making trouble for Lin Muyang, turning around to flee the scene as fast as possible to find the nearest public restroom.

However...

The effect of the Aura Lin Muyang activated was instantaneous and "God-Tier"!

They had only just turned around and barely managed to run two steps...

At almost the exact same moment, the bodies of the four men suddenly stiffened, and their movements came to a complete halt!

Immediately following that...

[Given that the scene is too realistic and unpleasant to look at, the details will not be described here...]

In short.

At this moment, an indescribable, thick, and strongly biochemical-offensive odor began to spread rapidly, centered around the four of them...

"Retch—!"

"What's that smell?!"

"Holy crap! They... they..."

The surrounding Class Transferees, who were originally watching the excitement or selling equipment and skill books at their stalls, suddenly had their expressions change wildly. One by one, as if avoiding a plague, they hurriedly began to pack up their stalls and retreated rapidly, wishing they had two extra legs!

Pedestrians who were originally passing by leisurely, especially those clean-conscious young ladies, all turned pale with fright. They quickly covered their noses and mouths tightly with their hands, frowning as they quickened their pace to escape this suddenly "dangerous" area.

Of course, there were also many people who loved a good spectacle or had special hobbies (?). Instead of moving away, they excitedly took out their phones and started snapping photos of the four disheveled and awkwardly posed figures in the center, the flashes clicking incessantly.

"Haha! Record it quickly! This is material for the 'idiot news' of the year!"

"Tsk tsk, this scene is too beautiful, I don't dare to look..."

“The eldest young master of the Ye family in the middle of the street... pfft, this is a huge joke!”

At this moment...

Ye Cheng and the other three felt like they wanted to die!

They felt as if their souls had left their bodies, their minds were blank, and only boundless shame and despair submerged them like a tide.

Oh heavens! Oh earth!

What on earth was going on?!

Why did the four of them have stomach aches at almost the same time and completely lose control... at the same time?!

In broad daylight, at the entrance of the bustling Hongwu Mall...

Not only did they become bald, but they also put on such an unsightly performance!

They had completely lost all face!

Especially with so many people around taking photos, it was easy to imagine that before long, their "heroic posture" today would spread throughout the entire Class Transferee circle in Zhongnan City, and even make the front page of some humor forums!

"How tragic..."

The culprit, Lin Muyang, acted like a completely ignorant and innocently involved bystander. With a perfectly timed expression of surprise and disgust, he retreated several steps, as if afraid of being affected by that invisible "Aura."

At this time.

Ye Cheng's face had turned as pale as a corpse's, and the strength seemed to have been drained from his body. His legs went weak, and he could no longer support himself, collapsing onto the ground with a thud. His shiny bald head reflected a desolate light in the afterglow of the setting sun, which, combined with his current situation and expression, formed the most unacceptable and humiliating image of his life...

He looked around blankly.

The gazes those pedestrians and Class Transferees cast were no longer ones of just watching a spectacle, but were instead unmasked disgust, contempt, ridicule, and even nausea...

"It's over..."

"It's all over..."

"My life... is completely over..."

Ye Cheng's heart felt cold.

Now...

Forget about pursuing Shen Muyao.

From now on, any normal woman would probably stay far away from him. The name Ye Cheng, along with today's scene, would become a long-circulated laughingstock!

The extreme shame and anger eventually transformed into a bone-deep hatred for Lin Muyang!

"Lin Muyang!!"

Ye Cheng suddenly raised his head and, using all his strength, let out a roar like a wounded beast, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the "innocent" culprit.

"It's you! It must be you behind this! I'm going to kill you!! I want you dead!!"

At this moment, Ye Cheng desperately needed a target to vent all his current breakdown and fury upon.

Clearly, he chose Lin Muyang.

However...

Lin Muyang appeared even more aggrieved than him. He spread his hands and spoke to the surrounding crowd in an extremely helpless and sincere tone:

"Wait, everyone is watching! Let's be reasonable, okay? It's one thing to blame me for your baldness, but can you really blame me for this too? I've been standing here from start to finish, and I haven't even touched you once!"

His "logical and evidence-based" defense immediately gained the approval of the vast majority of the onlookers!

Originally, not many people had stepped forward to help Lin Muyang; some didn't want to cause trouble, and others felt that small frictions between new Class Transferees were normal.

But the situation was completely different now!

Ye Cheng and his group clearly wanted to bully someone, only to mysteriously become the most "eye-catching" guys in the area (in various ways), losing face completely. This was purely their own bad luck, or perhaps even the heavens couldn't stand it anymore.

Now that they had made such fools of themselves, they actually wanted to shift the blame onto that handsome young man who hadn't even made a move, and even threatened to kill him?

Someone finally couldn't stand it anymore!

One should know that among those setting up stalls or passing by nearby, there weren't just new Class Transferees, but also many level forty or fifty experts, and even higher-level ones!

Most importantly, the commotion here was simply too big, and that indescribable smell had even wafted upstairs...

Hong Wuliang and Su Qingyue, who were originally discussing matters in the fifth-floor office, sensed the chaos and the unusual scent below almost simultaneously.

The two exchanged a glance and, without hesitation, flew straight down from the window!

"What's going on?!"

"Who has the audacity to cause trouble at the entrance of my Hongwu Mall?!"

The two-meter-tall, burly Hong Wuliang descended from the sky like a heavy artillery shell, his feet landing firmly on the ground with a dull thud, making even the ground seem to vibrate slightly! His voice was like a great bell, carrying a natural, imposing Aura!

"Lin Muyang, are you alright? Is someone looking for trouble with you?"

Su Qingyue, on the other hand, landed gracefully beside Lin Muyang. At some point, she had already grasped an ice-crystal longsword emitting a piercing cold air in her delicate hand. Her gaze behind her glasses swept sharply across the scene, carrying an unmasked protective intent.

When she and Hong Wuliang turned their gazes toward Ye Cheng and his group—the source of the smell—both of their expressions became incredibly vivid, and the corners of their mouths couldn't help but twitch a few times...

These four guys...

Were they performing some kind of performance art? Or were they... conducting some kind of mysterious ritual?

"Tea... Teacher Su?"

Ye Cheng was also a student of First High School who had just transferred classes today, so he naturally recognized his homeroom teacher, Su Qingyue, at a glance.

Seeing Su Qingyue unhesitatingly block the way in front of Lin Muyang with her sword, clearly intending to protect him, Ye Cheng's heart instantly sank to the bottom. He knew that with Su Qingyue present, it was fundamentally impossible for him to take action against Lin Muyang today...

But could today's matter really just be left at that?

If he left in such a pathetic state...

Wouldn't he, Ye Cheng, become the laughingstock of the entire city... no, quite possibly the entire national Class Transferee circle?!

He wouldn't be able to hold his head up for the rest of his life!

Extreme unwillingness and humiliation caused him to lose his reason.

With a trembling hand, he suddenly pulled out his communication phone from his pocket and dialed a number as fast as he could, almost screaming into the receiver with a sob:

"Dad!! Dad, come quickly! At the entrance of Hongwu Mall! Someone is bullying me! Your son is about to be bullied to death!! Bring people here quickly!!"

Seeing this scene.

Lin Muyang felt a bit helpless and sighed.

Sure enough...

The classic trope from novels was playing out.

Beat the small one, and the old one comes.

Fine, so you know how to call your daddy?

"No matter who you call today..." Lin Muyang thought to himself as he looked at the frantic Ye Cheng, "As long as you dare show hostility toward me, your old man will end up bald too! For a family, the most important thing is to be neat and uniform!"

He actually wasn't too worried.

In this crisis-ridden era of Class Transferees, although the law of the jungle in the wild and life-and-death struggles in secret realms were the norm, there were extremely strict orders and regulations inside large human cities, especially in major cities like Zhongnan City!

An iron rule set jointly by the top human experts—large-scale private fighting is strictly prohibited within the city, high-level professionals are strictly prohibited from attacking low-level professionals without cause, and sabotaging public safety is strictly prohibited!

Otherwise, if experts could do as they pleased in the city, a single high-level area-of-effect skill could result in thousands of casualties. Human society would have collapsed long ago; how could it talk about development and countering the increasing number of secret realm monsters?

If Lin Muyang were alone right now, the other party's family might take a risk and use some dark means to quickly "dispose" of him and then find a way to cover it up.

But now, Lin Muyang clearly had Su Qingyue standing behind him, as well as the powerful and well-connected Hongwu Mall owner, Hong Wuliang!

With these two present to witness and intervene, unless Ye Cheng's father wanted to challenge the city rules and endure the wrath of the authorities and other major forces, he would never dare to openly kill Lin Muyang.

At most, he would apply pressure or use some underhanded tricks behind the scenes.

So Lin Muyang really wasn't afraid of the guy calling his old man over.

At most, he would let his old man also experience the "sudden baldness" surprise, letting the Ye father and son make a grand appearance with matching hairstyles, performing a "heartwarming" scene of "father and son sharing the baldness"!