Nine Star Burden

Chapter 51: Come with Me

There was a change in location for the military training session of this day. In Jiangbin High School, the Year One and Year Two students shared the same Teaching Block, which could be seen as soon as one passed through the entrance.

However, the Teaching Block for the Year Three students was much further away and students had to travel a long distance to get there. There was a specific field for every Teaching Block.

During the morning lesson, the eight classes of Awakened were sent to the Year Three field for training.

Actually, the school just wanted to segregate the Awakened from the ordinary students.

After all, the military training for the Awakened seemed more like basic combat training. Their leader was also a renowned fitness trainer from the city.

Meanwhile, the ordinary students were led by an actual military commander.

That made Jiang Xiao somewhat puzzled. Logically speaking, there shouldn’t be a lack of Awakened in the army.

Regardless, the leader of the Awakened should be from the military too, shouldn’t it? he thought.

In the end, Jiang Xiao was arranged to get into position by Lei Jin. He was positioned at the front because of his 1.72m stature.

The military training competition was about to begin soon and Jiang Xiao had indeed joined at a rather late timing. The basic movements taught by Lei Jin and the common knowledge that the Awakened ought to have had all been covered, and the content of the morning lessons now was all about reviewing the combat skills learned in the past few days.

The young, strong and energetic kids were secretly competing with each other, continuously making loud sounds even when they were revising the various techniques and moves.

Jiang Xiao’s appearance only caused a slight uproar last night and no one tried to make things hard for him today. The students were all training and working hard while anticipating the battle.

Jiang Xiao could clearly sense that there were plenty of cliques in the class. During breaks, the 24-person class would be divided into four groups. Apart from Jiang Xiao’s team of five, there were two other groups that consisted of four or five members who seemed to be very close to each other. The remaining groups seemed to be unambitious. They chatted together in groups and none of them seemed too dignified or haughty. There was no tension in the air either.

“How is the selection carried out? Is there a procedure?” Jiang Xiao asked the elder brother, Zhu Wen, when he was seated on the ground during the break.

Full of confidence, Zhu Wen answered softly, “Zhu Wu and I will take care of this. Rest assured and get ready for the battle. Don’t engage in vigorous exercise for the next two days. Replenish your Star Power to the maximum.”

Replenish Star Power to the maximum?

Am I a mobile phone?

Speaking of mobile phones, Jiang Xiao finally opened a WeChat account under the strong persuasion of his teammates, with the same moniker as his Weibo account—”Jiang Xiaopi-mischievous-or-not”

The five of them had also formed a chat group on WeChat. Although there were only five members, it seemed to have become Zhu Wu’s confession page where he would express his romantic feelings towards the beauty, Liu Ke.

Jiang Xiao was completely thrown off guard, for he did not expect the manly Zhu Wu to be so good at flirting and saying sweet nothings.

He thought that it should be because Zhu Wu had stopped restraining himself since they were now in a private group chat. He would say things like:

“Don’t complain, hug me.”

“You don’t belong to Fen City, you belong in my heart.”

Jiang Xiao had just joined the group and only one lesson had passed. Yet, Zhu Wu had already flirted with her twice.

What intrigued Jiang Xiao was the fact that Zhu Wu could still speak to Liu Ke decently after putting down his mobile phone.

It was simply amazing.

Are they really the same person?

After linking his contacts, Jiang Xiao naturally saw that Han Jiangxue and Xia Yan were under the “Recommended Friends” list.

He added “Man-Wearing-A-Straw-Hat” and “Hong Yan”.

Their WeChat monikers were exactly the same as their Weibo ones, and their replies were quick too.

Man-Wearing-A-Straw-Hat: “Stop playing with your mobile phone in class. Train hard.”

Jiang Xiao was speechless.

Jiang Xiao couldn’t afford to incur her wrath at all. He dared not retaliate against her criticism.

Xia Yan’s reply did shock Jiang Xiao, however.

Hong Yan: Who’s that Caucasian chick?

Hong Yan: Do you fancy that Caucasian girl?

Hong Yan: Am I not beautiful enough, or are my legs not long enough?

Hong Yan: I treat you so well, but you’ve never fed me anything before. Don’t you know how to be filial to me?

Jiang Xiaopi-mischievous-or-not: ???

Hong Yan: Is it because I can’t carry the sword anymore, or have you gotten ahead of yourself?

Jiang Xiao was speechless.

Impressive.

This woman is really something. Not only does she want to keep Han Jiangxue for herself, but she also wants to deal with me?

Girl?

Are you flirting with me or chiding me?

No matter what it may be, you’ve chosen the wrong person!

“Yi Lianna,” Jiang Xiao called.

“Huh?” Yi Lianna turned around, only to see that Jiang Xiao was waving his mobile phone at her.

“What’s the matter?” Yi Lianna walked towards him curiously, squatted down and looked at his mobile phone.

“Help me out. A woman is mocking me.” Jiang Xiao raised his mobile phone and continued, “Stand up, don’t squat.”

“I thought you were going to take a photo of my face,” said Yi Lianna, full of resentment. However, she still stood up, nonetheless.

Jiang Xiao tilted his head and gently leaned his head against her long leg.

Jiang Xiao extended his arm and searched for an elevated angle while placing his mobile phone really low, almost reaching the ground.

Yi Lianna initially thought that there was nothing to do with her face, but when she saw Jiang Xiao’s sudden actions, she hurriedly smiled.

“Hey, you can’t do that, it’s too close. The effects won’t be nice.” Liu Ke hurried over, snatched Jiang Xiao’s mobile phone and took several steps back. She then squatted down and stuck the mobile phone into the ground.

Incredibly distressed by this sight, Jiang Xiao reckoned that his mobile phone would probably be damaged after those photos were taken.

Ka-cha.

Yi Lianna scurried towards the mobile phone hurriedly and couldn’t help but gasp in amazement after seeing the photos. Her face was blurry due to the backlight, but the hazy effects were absolutely beautiful, for it gave her body a gilded glow.

Her beautiful poster was displayed vividly and the elevated angle made her legs look even longer than they already were.

Jiang Xiao tilted his head smilingly and leaned it against Yi Lianna’s left leg gently.

Yi Lianna smiled and tossed the mobile phone back at Jiang Xiao. “Go ahead, use the photos for your swindling.”

“Evil has to be dealt with by evil.” Jiang Xiao chuckled and send the photos to Xia Yan.

Xia Yan returned 30 seconds later…

Hong Yan: I’ve already told your sister, good luck (smiley emoticon).

The smiley was even more vivid.

Huh?

She’s a tattletale too?

Jiang Xiao decided to go all out and shared another photo with his “Friends”.

He decided to let the photos speak for him.

The caption below the beautiful photo read:

“Day 1 of disliking Xia Yan (smiley emoticon)”

Jiang Xiao felt thrilled to be mischievous.

Jiang Xiao also refreshed his Weibo page…

Because…

Being mischievous twice would bring him twice the thrill.

After the morning lesson, Jiang Xiao returned to the dormitory gleefully and carried his bedsheets and duvet to the public restroom.

After trying to figure out how to slot his coin into the washing machine for a long time, he decided to seek help from the lady in charge of the dormitory, who told him that she charged cheaper than the washing machine for laundry services.

She charged a fair price of three yuan for every piece.

Jiang Xiao thought about it and gave her 6 yuan before heading downstairs to the canteen to get his meal card settled.

Halfway through, Jiang Xiao suddenly thought of something. He wondered, Did Auntie intentionally damage the washing machine?

While he was registering for a meal card, he saw Liu Bufan topping up his card.

Liu Bufan smiled at him with a tinge of envy and said, “The Zhu brothers are too fast. We were all ready to wait and observe you for another day, but they’ve already roped you into their team.”

“Uh.” Jiang Xiao nodded. He could understand how Liu Bufan and other students felt. Were the Medical Awakened strong? Of course they were. However, everyone knew that the combat power of the Medical Awakened was weak at the start.

Even with Blessing, active output candidates were more advantageous in the battle in Year One.

The advantage of the Medical Awakened was their ability to absorb Medical Star Techniques, but that was to be used in the future. The Medical Awakened at this stage mostly did not have any Star Techniques that could change the dynamics of the battle or carry out resurrection.

Liu Bufan and the rest had either already assembled their teams or had less foresight than the Zhu Brothers, so much that they could tell Jiang Xiao’s specific combat standards.

Of course, Jiang Xiao had undeniably chosen to join the team because he recognized the strengths of the crew cut twins.

Jiang Xiao knew his combat standards. Be it because of his intuition or the increase in the level of his internal Star Map, he knew that his combat standards had already reached the peak of Brass Quality.

However, the brothers could still battle Jiang Xiao with ease. That was enough proof of their abilities.

Since he had competent teammates, he could be considered to have gone on the right path.

He spent days and nights training underground attentively and braved through all odds in the snowfield. Jiang Xiao felt that he would be letting himself down if he didn’t achieve any remarkable results in the high school tournament.

The ambitious Jiang Xiao topped up 100 yuan into his card, bid goodbye to Liu Bufan and left. As soon as he made his way down the stairs of the second floor, he was stopped by someone.

“Hey, kid, come with me,” said a tall and thin young man, grabbing Jiang Xiao’s arm. At the same time, two other youths stepped forth and shoved Jiang Xiao down the stairs.

Jiang Xiao was dumbfounded.