Chapter 106

——"Just wanted to cheat."

Even though inter-school competitions and student leagues were terms far away from Su Xiuchun, her student days had long passed. But when she heard someone using "just cheating" as an excuse to excuse themselves, she found it unbelievable and burst out laughing.

Su Xiuchun really burst out laughing at that time.

"I just wanted to cheat," Coach Su said. "How come cheating seems like such a trivial matter to your school's purchasing manager?"

The middle-aged young man kept wiping the sweat from his forehead. "This... isn't this a comparative? Compared to the other crime that could be brought against our school, cheating is indeed the lesser of two evils."

This proverb was quoted in a rather odd way, and the way the other party tried to excuse himself, for the school, was also quite "humorous". Su Xiuchun found it humorous at the time, but he was not prepared to relay the middle-aged man's original words to Jiang Yunu as a joke.

Even though Jiang Yunu was a girl who stood out from her peers, in Su Xiuchun's eyes, she was still a minor, a student player who had just finished the first round of the practical competition.

With a twist of mind and a few words, adults turn the rules that underage students believe in and abide by into a piece of wet, dried, and wrinkled toilet paper, and then tell it as a joke. What's the big deal?

Jiang Yunu didn't ask Coach Su what the others had said. She was very good at grasping the key points and quickly sorted out what Su Xiuchun had revealed in her mind: "That mechanical... no, that modified elemental beast can lock onto a target in a directional manner?"

"Yes." Su Xiuchun nodded. "In addition to its body being illegally modified by armed forces, it has also been implanted with a smart chip that can remotely record target information, allowing it to accurately lock onto targets and pursue specific students during the practice arena."

If this kind of modified monster was not so expensive and its origin was not legitimate, Songnan might have spent a huge sum of money to buy a large batch of them directly, and then recorded all the information of the Songnan school team players. In this way, it would not be a problem for Songnan's team to earn the majority of the points.

"It's a good thing they didn't." Coach Su also thought of that scene and smiled mockingly, "Otherwise, if a modified elemental beast of this level could accurately track the young men and women of Songnan, I think the aristocratic families in District 7 would be completely reorganized - because the heirs would be wiped out in one fell swoop!"

Jiang Yunu suddenly thought of Xue Zhanxing.

Young Master Xue was explicitly and covertly prevented from participating in this league. From this, it can be seen that his family is indeed aware of this matter.

If a "battle royale of young masters and young ladies" really were to take place, it would be expected that those families with real strength would give up their children early on, and the ones who would be sacrificed would definitely not be the real heirs.

"What are you thinking about?" Su Xiuchun asked, sizing up Jiang Yunu's expression. "Do you find this guess a bit scary and funny?"

Jiang Yunu didn't reveal Master Xue's "gossip" for the time being. She smiled and said, "Yes."

Then she continued: "—I'm still thinking about my seniors and my seniors, and myself."

Since the modified elemental beast Songnan bought can remember its targets, looking back now, it probably recorded the information of the seed players from each school early on.

If it is impossible to purchase in bulk to help the Songnan school team score points painlessly, then I will go it alone and accurately attack my competitors on the court.

Such as Zhou Jinxue, senior Pari, the ace player of the "Flea" school, the number one student of the "King of Curls"... including Jiang Yunu who entered later.

The information of this group of players was remotely entered into the chips of the modified elemental beasts one after another. The opponent accurately located and chased them on the field, using a special superpower anti-injury mechanism to send them off the field one by one, and also pretending that they were injured by their own superpowers due to improper use of superpowers.

Jiang Yunu had just entered the battlefield when she and Xie Shi met three students from the Songnan school team on the mountain battlefield. Now she can look back and assert that they came here just to "recognize people."

Identify the individuals and determine who the candidates who are replacing Engel are, so as to determine whether the candidate's information should also be recorded.

"I'm very grateful for their kindness." Jiang Yunu said after figuring it out, "It turns out that they recorded my information shortly after I entered the scene, so I got an exclusive one-on-one reception with the modified elemental beast the next day."

The white-haired girl also described this targeted suppression as quite humorous. In her mouth, the incident became almost humorous.

Su Xiuchun's eyes flowed over Jiang Yunu like flowing water. Speaking of this matter, she seemed to be aroused in another way.

"Speaking of which," Coach Su said, "I haven't even interviewed you yet, Jiang Xiao. It wasn't convenient to talk about it at the meeting that day—as a first-year student at a junior high school, what was it like facing a true elemental beast?"

At the meeting that day, everyone knew that the truth had been revealed to some extent, but they could not really reveal anything to the minor who was facing a real elemental beast. All conversations and inquiries avoided the core issue.

To be honest, Su Xiuchun had long wanted to know what Jiang Yunu would feel after discovering that he had shot a "real thing".

Jiang Yunu sat on the sofa opposite and said, "Not very good."

Su Xiuchun raised his eyebrows: "Difficult?"

Jiang Yunu said sincerely, "I mean, that modified elemental beast isn't very good."

Su Xiuchun: "..."

Coach Su was silent for a moment, and the corners of his mouth widened.

“How arrogant!”

Su Xiuchun snorted a laugh from her nose. It was hard to say whether her comment was positive or negative, but judging from her attitude, it didn't feel like "arrogant" was a negative adjective.

"It's certainly more difficult than a purely mechanical elemental beast. It takes a while to analyze its movements and combat strategy," Jiang Yunu said. "But if you hadn't told me it was a real elemental beast, or a modified one, I would have just thought it was an 'enhanced plus' practice test, like the difficult question at the end of a college entrance exam."

The white-haired girl used her index finger and thumb to indicate a short distance.

It's really just a small piece, with the space in the middle just enough to hold a small sardine.

"—This question is a little beyond the syllabus," the girl said. "It's about this much, but not too much."

Su Xiuchun's eyes fell on the gap that Jiang Yunu had pointed with his two fingers. She looked at it for a moment. This time, Coach Su, whose facial features were exaggerated, even shrugged his shoulders.

——Still smiling.

Jiang Yunu's description swept away the depression that Su Xiuchun had been feeling for the past two days. The modification company that sold the modified elemental beast to Songnan has disappeared, and the people in charge of Songnan are more difficult to deal with than the other. They either shirk responsibility like the "middle-aged young man" and firmly implement the policy of "pretending to be ignorant when not asked, and being surprised when asked", or they are particularly good at pushing and pulling. Dealing with them is like a donkey pulling a millstone, and you have to grind out useful information from under the millstone one circle after another.

Coach Su couldn't pull out his special knife and chop them all. Inspector Ye Li had a stern face every day and played the imposing role of front-line interrogation. This was because he was afraid that Su Xiuchun would smile when dealing with people, but she would become impatient and start to take action.

It’s better to be a straightforward child!

Speak your mind, ask if you don’t understand, be open and honest, don’t be ashamed to show your little thoughts, and don’t bother to hide your purpose.

Coach Su really likes Jiang Yunu who is straightforward like this.

"Okay." She confirmed Jiang Yunu's evaluation of the modified elemental beast with one word, and sat up straight on the sofa with a smile.

"With what you said, I think those illegal modification dealers should all go home and cry," Su Xiuchun said. "The flesh-and-blood weapons they painstakingly upgraded and modified have become, in the hands of first-year elementary school students, just an extra question that's 'not much beyond the syllabus.'"

Jiang Yunu keenly dug out the deeper information from these words.

"Coach Su," the white-haired girl said, her eyes wide open, having never seen much. "Can't we just hold the person in charge accountable, and arrest anyone who's selling these illegally modified products?"

Su Xiuchun snapped his fingers and pushed the small plate with half a plate of snacks in front of Jiang Yunu.

"It's not that simple." said an adult who has seen many people and things.

She just said this, and it was obvious that she didn't want to continue the discussion.

Jiang Yunu had already obtained the information she originally wanted. Although she was still a little curious, she also knew that it was important to be content. She should not continue to ask questions about topics that Su Xiuchun was unwilling to discuss in depth.

"I hope I can become stronger and grow up as soon as possible." The white-haired girl just said.

"Hmm?" Su Xiuchun tilted his head slightly, "Why are you suddenly talking about this?"

Jiang Yunu said, "Because some things require me to become stronger and older before I'm qualified to 'sit at the table' and listen, to intervene and help, right?"

Coach Su looked at Jiang Yunu for a moment. She seemed to finally be unable to hold back. She stood up from the sofa on her side and crossed to the other side in one step.

She pulled Jiang Yunu's head over and asked her to rub it like a small animal.

Su Xiuchun: "He's a little devil!"

Coach Su seemed to treat Jiang Yunu's words as the ignorant speech of a child, but Jiang Yunu, who had her head lowered by the woman's hand, didn't notice. Su Xiuchun rubbed her head and showed a thoughtful look.

Inspector Ye Li, who was serving as the silent man and silent waiter nearby, saw it.

The man met Su Xiuchun's gaze in silence. He saw Su Xiuchun smile at him, and a nerve in his forehead suddenly jumped.

At the same time, his heart was beating fast, and he thought to himself: ...No way?

This conversation between adults was not seen by the underage girl.

When Jiang Yunu was released and was able to raise her head again, Su Xiuchun looked at her with a smile, while Inspector Ye Li was silently cosplaying in the background.

Su Xiuchun said, "Okay, you've been here long enough. If you don't go back, I'm afraid that Mr. Lei and Mr. Lu from Enge will come looking for you, and I'm afraid that my lounge will eat children."

Jiang Yunu didn't tell anyone about her visit to Su Xiuchun. She estimated that even if Leis Daniel and Lu Xixi were wondering where she had been, they would never have thought that she was in Su Xiuchun's luxury lounge.

But it was time for her to leave. She could hear Coach Su politely saying goodbye.

Jiang Yunu jumped up from the sofa in the reception room briskly, and her feet stepped on the ground again after a long time. At the same time, she recalled that before she was invited into the lounge, Inspector Ye Li came to find Coach Su, and it seemed that he had something to do with Su Xiuchun.

"Did I interrupt you?" Jiang Yunu realized belatedly and felt a little sorry. She asked Su Xiuchun and then looked at Inspector Ye Li, "I remember that before you invited me in, Inspector Ye Li seemed to have something to ask you."

"Oh." Su Xiuchun seemed to know why the man came to see her in the first place. She waved her hand and said casually, "It's okay. Don't worry about that. I have something unimportant. Compared to talking to you, it's not worth mentioning at all."

Inspector Ye Li's thick, sharp eyebrows seemed to twitch slightly.

Jiang Yunu wasn't sure whether Su Xiuchun's matter was really "not worth mentioning", but since Coach Su said so, she took it to heart.

"Okay." said the little white-haired girl, "I'll leave now and not disturb you."

Su Xiuchun smiled and sent her to the door, and ordered the silent waiter... Oh no, the silent man, Inspector Ye Li went to the tea room again and packed a box of high-end snacks for Jiang Yunu.

Jiang Yunu left the administrative building carrying snacks and a lot of intelligence information. It can be said that he returned with a full load.

In the senior lounge, Inspector Ye Li went to find a formal coat for Su Xiuchun to wear during the meeting. As he put the coat on her, he couldn't help but ask, "You don't really want to...?"

"Shh." Su Xiuchun picked up a piece of biscuit left over from the plate on the coffee table with Jiang Yunu and casually pressed it on the man's mouth.

"Don't tell me yet. If it works, it'll be a surprise for the kids. If it doesn't, there's no point in telling me now."

“…”

Inspector Ye Li ate the biscuit without saying anything.