In the corner of the school, in a building with the words "Computer Room Building" written on the outside.

Cheng Xinghe had just climbed out of the simulation device subsystem equipped by the school.

With a somewhat unhappy look on his face, he pushed open the door of the small room where the simulation equipment was placed.

Just then, someone from the opposite door pushed the door open and walked out.

He is about the same age as Cheng Xinghe.

He said to Cheng Xinghe, "It's six to five. Come again next time."

Although Cheng Xinghe's face looked a little ugly, he still forced a smile, nodded politely, and then turned around to leave.

It was almost noon local time and he had to take a break.

However, as soon as he turned his head, a tall figure appeared in front of him.

He was stopped.

"Don't be in such a hurry to leave, Cheng Xinghe, do you have time to play again?"

Cheng Xinghe frowned and raised his head slightly to look at the big guy in front of him who was nearly two meters tall.

This man's name was Liao Hongsheng, and Cheng Xinghe was deeply impressed by him.

Because when he was a freshman, he and Liao Hongsheng participated in a competition together.

The final was a two-on-one match between them, and he won.

Liao Hongsheng had been arguing with him at that time and would often challenge him to simulated battles.

Although Liao Hongsheng was indeed quite capable, Cheng Xinghe was only 60-40 against him at best. Fighting with such a person would really help improve himself, and Cheng Xinghe didn't mind playing simulated battles with other people.

Just like the one who just went out, he was the one who took the initiative to find him for a simulated battle.

But Cheng Xinghe didn't want to fight with Liao Hongsheng.

His situation is different from others.

Because he talks a lot of trash and really likes to taunt.

Every time they met, he could hear a bunch of completely unpleasant words and the attitude was quite bad.

At the beginning, Cheng Xinghe thought that Liao Hongsheng just couldn't stand him winning the competition and wanted to get back at him.

So he agreed to Liao Hongsheng's invitation several times in a row. After all, if he played normally, he would always lose.

This is indeed the case.

It is impossible for Cheng Xinghe to not make mistakes, and he lost several times to the captain Liao Hongsheng.

At that time, Cheng Xinghe thought that Liao Hongsheng's attitude would become better.

However, it did not happen. Liao Hongsheng's attitude even became worse. Instead, he started to use Cheng Xinghe's defeat in front of others to say that Cheng Xinghe's previous victory in the competition was just luck.

After Cheng Xinghe heard the news, he went to check what was going on.

Then he was ridiculed for a long time by Cheng Xinghai, who had long known that Liao Hongsheng was from a faction that had conflicts with the Baiquan faction.

Since then, Cheng Xinghe has been too lazy to pay attention to Liao Hongsheng.

He didn't want to socialize with him, but trouble always came to him.

So Cheng Xinghe’s choice at this time.

He took out a pair of earphones from his pocket and put them into his ears.

He turned up the volume of the song playing on the terminal to the maximum, so that even Liao Hongsheng, who was several meters away, could hear it, and he turned sideways and walked around it.

But Liao Hongsheng completely ignored this. When Cheng Xinghe walked past him, he shouted in a loud voice: "I heard that you went to the edge star field some time ago and were captured?"

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Although Cheng Xinghe was listening to music in his headphones, he did not completely block out all other sounds, so he could of course hear Liao Hongsheng's revealing words.

But his first reaction was not anger, but why did Liao Hongsheng know about this? Why did he say this in public at this time?

Cheng Xinghe is not a fool.

Although he had done something stupid before, which led to his arrest by Chen Ming.

But the news at that time should not have been known to other students.

After all, his capture involved other star fields, as well as Yu Hui and Chen Ming. It was impossible for ordinary students to know about this and spread it at will.

Of course, it was understandable that Liao Hongsheng knew this. After all, Liao Hongsheng had started targeting him a long time ago, and it was normal for him to learn about his dark history from his elders.

But when Liao Hongsheng brought this matter up at this moment, something was wrong.

The floor he was on at the moment was a floor dedicated to housing the sub-equipment of the simulation device.

Most people generally do not enter deep consciousness frequently when using simulators.

In other words, people in the surrounding rooms who are undergoing normal simulations can hear what is happening outside.

Therefore, although only the person who had just fought with Cheng Xinghe stopped in the corridor to watch the show, there should be quite a few people paying attention to this place.

What was Liao Hongsheng trying to do? Cheng Xinghe was unsure, but with Bai Quan's constant exposure, he knew how he should respond.

Cheng Xinghe took off his headphones as if a sore spot had been touched, and cursed at Liao Hongsheng in a low voice: "What the hell do you mean?"

"Nothing, I just feel like you seem to be falling further and further behind, and you don't even have the courage to fight me anymore."

Cheng Xinghe sneered: "Then I suggest you find someone to fight with first before coming to me, you are such a villain who likes to take advantage of others."

"Don't tell me, I did just have a fight with someone, so you don't dare to come?"

"Come."

Cheng Xinghe didn't waste any more words. He turned around and walked back to the room and started the simulation equipment.

However, more than an hour later, Cheng Xinghe climbed out of the simulation device with an extremely dark face and opened the door.

After slamming the door open, he said to Liao Hongsheng outside, "The last match in your simulated battle record was the day before yesterday."

Cheng Xinghe had just fought with someone and his mental state could be described as exhausted.

But Liao Hongsheng's mental state was different.

Of course, his final victory was not easy.

But at this moment, his face was full of mockery, and he said in an extremely deliberate tone: "Oh, maybe the equipment is broken? Haven't you learned that all is fair in war?"

At this moment, Cheng Xinghe seemed to be completely crazy in front of Liao Hongsheng.

After all, he lost two games in a row, was ridiculed continuously, and was tricked by him with a little trick. It would be strange if he didn't get angry.

Cheng Xinghe also said what he wished: "One more time."

"A defeated general is worthy of fighting me?"

As soon as Liao Hongsheng opened his mouth, he saw the anger on Cheng Xinghe's face that was suppressed to the point of being distorted.

However, he still took the opportunity to speak before Cheng Xinghe ran away in anger: "You can fight if you want, what should we bet on?"

"What's the bet?"

"If you win, I will bow and apologize to you in front of the entire school during morning exercises."

"You lost, so is it okay for you to write down your previous defeat and post it on the school bulletin board? I don't even know what happened exactly."

"Can."

Cheng Xinghe agreed decisively.

Anyway, if I lose, all I can do is post the part that can be said about the fight with Chen Ming.

But Chen Ming is a level 5 psychic. He once lost to a current level 5 psychic, and it was not a crushing defeat. So it was nothing and not shameful at all.

He immediately turned around and returned to the room behind him.

But Liao Hongsheng suddenly said, "That's right."

Cheng Xinghe stopped moving, turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"

Liao Hongsheng looked like he was thinking about something: "How did you come back after being captured before?"

"Who told me that you sold your own sister to someone else in exchange for your life?"

All expressions on Cheng Xinghe's face disappeared instantly.

He said nothing but turned around and punched Liao Hongsheng.

Liao Hongsheng reacted and blocked it, but Cheng Xinghe did not hold back at all.

Another punch hit him squarely in the stomach.

Liao Hongsheng wanted to resist, but Cheng Xinghe's knee hit his lower abdomen.

When he was hunched over in pain.

Cheng Xinghe's third punch came from bottom to top and hit his chin.

The violent impact knocked Liao Hongsheng unconscious, and he fell to the ground, unconscious.

Cheng Xinghe kicked Liao Hongsheng, who was lying on the ground like a dead dog, and cursed, "Idiot."

Although Liao Hongsheng is taller than Cheng Xinghe, Cheng Xinghe is better in fighting ability.

The muffled sound of fists hitting flesh in the corridor was very familiar to the ears of the military cadets in other rooms, and immediately a group of people were attracted over.

Following closely behind was the teacher who received the news from the monitoring room.

Several teachers appeared out of nowhere and immediately controlled Cheng Xinghe, the only one still standing at the scene.

The surveillance footage just now was quite clear. The verbal conflict turned into a physical conflict, and confinement was absolutely necessary.

Just after Cheng Xinghe was taken away by two teachers.

Medical staff arrived soon and immediately gave first aid to Liao Hongsheng who was lying on the ground.

However, Cheng Xinghe only punched him in the chin, causing him to fall into a brief coma.

Liao Hongsheng immediately climbed up with the help of others. He wiped the blood from his lips that had just been bitten by his teeth, stared at Cheng Xinghe's back as he was taken away, and laughed disdainfully.

The teacher who stayed behind to disperse the students heard his voice and immediately pointed at him and said, "Come with me later and explain what you are doing."

"knew."

At this time, Cheng Xinghe had been taken out of the computer room building by the teacher and was about to be taken to the confinement room.

And just after he came out.

He found that outside the computer room building it seemed to be the end of get out of class time or something, and there were quite a lot of people pointing at him from a distance.

From a distance he could hear people discussing what was happening in the computer room building.

Of course, the news of his fight with Liao Hongsheng spread quickly.

Fighting is definitely prohibited in school.

However, they don't report each other's fights in private, and no one will report it.

It was only because Cheng Xinghe and Liao Hongsheng had just had a fight in the corridor, which had such a huge impact that it attracted the teacher.

Of course, the news that Cheng Xinghe was arrested for fighting spread.

Of course, the reason why Cheng Xinghe fought was also being spread.

However, when the news was spread, it was edited and modified to make it appear that Cheng Xinghe lost a simulated battle with someone and in frustration chose physical PK.

Of course, this is actually nothing. After all, it is a military academy, and after playing many simulated battles, many people have fought back through offline PK.

This kind of thing is usually treated as a joke and will pass in two or three days.

But along with this reason came another piece of news.

That was the news that Cheng Xinghe was captured.

Somehow, the news spread quickly among the crowd.

Cheng Xinghe heard all of this and kept it in mind, but he kept his head down and said nothing.

After all, even if he said it, he couldn't change anything, and it might even lead to some counter-effects.

Anyway, the current situation means nothing to him.

He had been beaten, scolded, and criticized by Baiquan before.

All these things happened in front of a bunch of uncles and even people of his age whom he knew.

It's just something people talk about, it's not a big deal.

Later, Baiquan even assigned him the task of taking care of the aftermath of every soldier who died because of his orders.

He went to many places, did many things, and met many people.

Not all those who lost their loved ones could remain rational. At that time, all he could do was to let himself be beaten and scolded, and that was all he dared to do.

He had to endure not only the physical pain, but also the psychological torture brought by seeing the crying and grief of the families of the soldiers who died because of his orders.

But he held on and survived until now, and he has not neglected any of his efforts in self-cultivation.

His mentality is quite stable.

Even though the teacher was parading him through the streets, he didn't feel uncomfortable.

Until he heard someone spreading the rumor that Liao Hongsheng had said that he sold his sister.

Cheng Xinghe raised his head and looked at the crowd.

Even in a noisy crowd, he easily identified the few people who were the first to spread the rumors.

He memorized the appearance of these people and lowered his head again.

Although this news seems to be pure fake news to anyone with a brain.

But as an older brother, the anger in his heart would not diminish when he heard the news.

What’s more important is that this rumor came at this time.

It's not like he doesn't know about Cheng Xinghai and Chen Ming, nor is it like he can't see what Bai Quan is thinking.

He had no objection to the relationship between Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai, and was very supportive.

His situation is slightly better than Cheng Xinghai's, but not much better, so he can understand Cheng Xinghai's difficulties.

He had already seen from the simulation that Cheng Xinghai was already considering Chen Ming as a possible marriage partner at that time.

So in the simulation, even if he captured Cheng Xinghai, he was only excited for the first two days, and basically did not act up in front of his sister afterwards, giving Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai enough opportunities to be alone together.

In his opinion, Chen Ming is definitely a capable person.

After all, Chen Ming was the one who could chat and laugh with Bai Quan before, and he was older than him in status.

As for his character, Baiquan is in charge, so there will definitely be no problem.

Even he was happy to see the psychics who had previously had conflicts with him make peace.

Of course, Cheng Xinghai had completely resolved the conflict between him and Chen Ming by organizing a mock battle to get him and Chen Ming to work together.

But now some people are bringing up old things again and even going so far as to make up new rumors. There is definitely something wrong.

He could feel that something was very wrong with what happened today, and it was very targeted.

He just wanted to take this opportunity to tell Bai Quan or Cheng Xinghai.

But his terminal had been confiscated just now.

And it seems that he will have to stay in the confinement room for two hours and wait for the results from Liao Hongsheng.

Anyway, it was Liao Hongsheng who slandered him first, so he shouldn't stay in the confinement room for too long.

But for some reason, before Cheng Xinghe entered the confinement room, he had a bad feeling.

Two hours later.

Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai returned to the shuttle and were preparing to return to school.

Cheng Xinghai's face was filled with a gentle smile.

She had long known that she didn't have many choices in life.

Her life and her marriage are inevitably accompanied by many interactions of interest.

Among the countless interests, Chen Ming is the one who is still the best after giving up all the interests. She is ready.

Although she knew that her relationship with Chen Ming was at most in the dating stage and not yet at the stage of marriage, she was already very satisfied to have such a relationship foundation.

Because Chen Ming is willing to accompany her to do things that other people think are bad, such as playing games.

It was the same in the previous simulation. Chen Ming was clearly a person who could treat research as entertainment and could invest a lot of time in research, but he would also occasionally chat with her about games.

At the end of each day's teaching, Chen Ming would always take time to play with her for a while.

She didn't ask for anything more to have someone like this to accompany her.

And there is another point, that is when she went out just now, she asked Chen Ming about his attitude towards her going to the battlefield.

Cheng Xinghai is also a very strong-willed person at heart.

Otherwise, she actually had many opportunities to rely on her status to make Baiquan agree to his marriage proposal and live a rich life at her fingertips.

But she didn't.

Instead, she continued to study in the military academy and completed all the credits for her major by her junior year. She also fought in several small-scale battlefields, achieved military merit, and obtained the rank of lieutenant.

She wanted to climb up on her own.

But if she wants to climb up, it means she will lose many rights that women have.

Among the candidates for marriage, few, or almost none, would allow her to continue to go to the battlefield after marriage.

If she married someone else casually, her final fate would most likely be to stay at home and take care of her husband and children.

She can only choose one between the battlefield and family.

She didn't want to leave the battlefield, leave this path that would make her strong.

But she also doesn't want to live out her life alone.

So even after agreeing to Chen Ming's request, she was still very nervous.

But just now, Chen Ming made it clear that he didn't mind this.

And he also gave her something.

A bracelet emitting psychic energy fluctuations.

The color is close to pure white and looks like metal.

But some parts feel like some kind of shell when touched, as if it is a mixture of two materials.

In that deep simulation, Chen Ming also gave her a bracelet.

But the bracelet was used by Chen Ming to restrict her.

And now this is used to protect her.

Cheng Xinghai rubbed the bracelet with his fingertips, then quietly moved towards Chen Ming who was sitting in the driver's seat next to him and slowly held Chen Ming's hand.

The shuttle returned to the school.

Just landed in the parking lot.

At the edge of the parking lot, a girl hurriedly ran to the shuttle.

Her gaze lingered on Chen Ming at the edge of the open shuttle door for a moment, then turned to Cheng Xinghai.

She easily noticed that Cheng Xinghai had the same bracelet as Chen Ming's on his wrist, but she didn't dwell on it and immediately said to Cheng Xinghai, "Xinghai, you're finally back."

When seen by people who knew her, Cheng Xinghai's face turned slightly red, and she quietly hid her and Chen Ming's hands behind her.

After shaking his hand vigorously, she loosened it, jumped off the shuttle, and walked towards the girl.

At this time, Chen Ming quietly put his hands behind his back and shook them.

All he could say was that today he saw the side of Cheng Xinghai as a girl.

But he forgot the scene in the simulation where Cheng Xinghai almost kicked him in the head.

The power of Cheng Xinghai is far beyond that of ordinary people. It should be the effect she developed by developing her brain through her own spiritual power.

Chen Ming's prosthesis was made according to Chen Ming's own physical fitness.

So in terms of physical strength, he cannot compare to Cheng Xinghai.

Chen Ming was thinking about something else. He looked at Cheng Xinghai and pretended to be calm as he asked the girl, "What's wrong?"

"Your brother might be arrested. He seems to have beaten someone to death."

The smile on Cheng Xinghai's face disappeared.

She was still very happy because she had already decided on her future.

But as soon as she came back, she heard this shocking news.

Chen Ming was about to say goodbye to Cheng Xinghai and leave, because he still had to look for Bai Quan and He Gu.

But after hearing this, he immediately jumped off the shuttle with Cheng Xinghai.

"What's going on?"

The girl looked at Chen Ming, as if she thought of something, and swallowed nervously.

"That... is on the school forum, you can check it out for yourself."

She immediately turned around and left in a hurry.

Cheng Xinghai had already taken out the terminal, opened the school forum managed by students, and saw the whole process of what happened two hours ago.

And the status of the man named Liao Hongsheng who was beaten by Cheng Xinghe was just updated about ten minutes ago.

He had been sent to the hospital at this time and was diagnosed with a severe concussion. His brain was displaced and skull fragments were pierced. He was lying in the intensive care unit and could die at any time.

Of course, he and Cheng Xinghai also saw the fake news spreading on the forum.

I now understand why Cheng Xinghe beat people to that extent.

Chen Ming was speechless at this time.

Because this kind of thing is really not pleasing to the eye and not up to standard, it can be solved very easily.

But the key point is, why did Cheng Xinghe beat people to that extent?

The rumormonger could have been beaten up, how could he have accidentally beaten someone to the point of death? Chen Ming knew Cheng Xinghe well, and he didn't believe that Cheng Xinghe would be so angry.

As long as you figure out the reasons behind this, you will basically know what is going on.

To be honest, Chen Ming's first reaction was that this was just a minor fight among students.

But he thought about it carefully and found that something was wrong.

Cheng Xinghe got into trouble just after he arrived here. It couldn't have happened earlier or later, but it had to happen now.

It's such a coincidence, it seems like there's something wrong.

It’s better to pay a little attention to it.

Anyway, if there is a problem, investigate it thoroughly.

If there's no problem, just think of it as finding something to do.

No matter what, Cheng Xinghe is Cheng Xinghai's brother and Chen Ming's nominal brother-in-law.

The conflict between them had been resolved long ago, and it was reasonable for him to help.

(End of this chapter)