"What? Lin Yi? He's here? Where?"
Zhong Pinliang was also startled. He hurriedly looked up in the direction Zhang Naipao was pointing!
Sure enough, he saw Lin Yi walking leisurely through the school gate, wearing his school uniform and carrying a backpack.
"Damn, this kid is pretty relaxed, isn't he!"
Watching Lin Yi's carefree demeanor, Zhang Naipao felt extremely annoyed. He had nearly suffered a concussion from this guy yesterday, and he still had a bump on his head and several Band-Aids on his face. Just thinking about it made him furious.
"Brother Liang, shall we go over there?" Gao Xiaofu said instinctively.
"Go over? Go over to do what? You think you can beat him?"
Zhong Pinliang gave Gao Xiaofu an annoyed look. *Do you think you're some kind of fighter? Weren't you taken down in a single move yesterday?*
Gao Xiaofu realized his mistake immediately. Yesterday, the three of them had been utterly crushed by Lin Yi; going over there now would be nothing but looking for trouble! He shrunk his head back, able to do nothing but watch Lin Yi in frustration.
Just as the three of them were feeling disgruntled, they suddenly saw Zou Ruoming call out to Lin Yi to pick up a ball for him. They immediately took on the look of spectators waiting for a show, staring intently at Lin Yi.
"Ha, this is great! Someone is going to deal with Lin Yi for us!"
Gao Xiaofu felt a surge of satisfaction as he watched the situation unfold.
Zou Ruoming was a tough customer, especially with a brother in the underworld. If Lin Yi got into a conflict with him, they wouldn't even need to bother him; Zou Ruoming would kill him himself.
"With Lin Yi's personality, he definitely won't pick up the ball for him," Zhang Naipao said triumphantly. "Zou Ruoming is quite a fighter. This is going to be good!"
Zhong Pinliang also watched with great interest as a conflict brewed between Lin Yi and Zou Ruoming. If it went as Zhang Naipao said and Zou Ruoming gave Lin Yi a beating first, that wouldn't be bad at all!
"Huh? No way. Since when did Lin Yi become so weak?"
Seeing Lin Yi actually walk over to pick up the ball, Gao Xiaofu's mouth dropped open. Was this the same Lin Yi from yesterday?
Yesterday's Lin Yi wasn't like this at all. Could today's version be his twin brother?
"This Lin Yi is driving me crazy!"
Zhong Pinliang clenched his fists. "He knows how to play both sides. He's so obedient in front of Zou Ruoming, but he looks down on me, Zhong Pinliang? I'll be damned if I don't make him my mortal enemy!"
Zhang Naipao and Gao Xiaofu were also fuming. This was a provocation—a blatant provocation! Were they really that much inferior to Zou Ruoming and his group?
As the three were seething with anger, a dramatic scene occurred. Lin Yi tossed the basketball, but the ball struck Zou Ruoming's hand, passed through, and then slammed directly into his face.
Immediately after, Zou Ruoming's nose sprayed blood, and he collapsed to the ground...
"Holy crap, no way!"
Zhang Naipao's jaw dropped.
"I knew Lin Yi wasn't a good person. How could he be so submissive!"
As he said this, Zhong Pinliang felt a sense of relief in his heart. To be honest, seeing Lin Yi bow to Zou Ruoming just now had made him very uncomfortable. Now, seeing Zou Ruoming knocked down just like he was yesterday, he felt a massive weight lifted. In fact, the current Zou Ruoming looked even worse than he had yesterday.
"Zou Ruoming is in trouble this time. Damn, who told him to mess with this kid? This kid is a freaking lunatic!"
Thinking back to Lin Yi's behavior on the rooftop yesterday, Gao Xiaofu felt a sense of schadenfreude.
"It seems only Brother Black Panther can deal with him. We are no match for him at all!"
Yesterday, Zhong Pinliang had been somewhat indignant, believing that Lin Yi's victory over the three of them was partly due to the element of surprise. But today, they realized that Lin Yi was truly terrifying!
His strength was incredibly formidable; even from that distance, he could knock Zou Ruoming unconscious with a basketball.
"That's true," Zhang Naipao nodded in deep agreement. "It seems we'd better not provoke this guy. He's a total brute."
Lin Yi, of course, had no idea that the person he just hit was Zou Ruoming, ranked second among the school's "Four Great Villains." Even if he had known, he wouldn't have shown any mercy. The Four Great Villains? He'd turn them into the "Four Great Dead Villains"!
Lin Yi arrived at the door of Class 5, Grade 12, and knocked.
"Come in!"
Teacher Liu's voice came from inside. This period was Teacher Liu's math class.
"Teacher Liu, something came up at home, so I'm late," Lin Yi said very politely as he pushed the classroom door open.
Although he had already spoken with the Dean of Academic Affairs, he didn't want to use that connection to pressure Teacher Liu. After all, the local supervisor is more important than the distant official; he still had to deal with Teacher Liu in the future.
Teacher Liu had already received word from Director Wang that morning, so he didn't say much, merely nodding and saying, "Alright, come in."
Lin Yi walked into the classroom properly and returned to his seat.
Chen Yushu looked at the briskly walking Lin Yi with some astonishment and said to Chu Mengyao beside her, "Sister Yao Yao, why do I feel like he isn't injured? He was shot in the leg, yet he's walking so fast?"
"Who knows with him!"
Chu Mengyao glanced at Lin Yi and curled her lip. "Maybe he's having success in his love life." For some reason, Chu Mengyao thought of the scene between Lin Yi and Song Lingshan in the hospital yesterday.
"Oh, that little vixen Song Lingshan, acting like she's so noble!"
Chen Yushu also thought of yesterday's scene and said indignantly. What made her even more upset was that her brother could actually like a woman like that.
In Chen Yushu's view, Lin Yi was passable; if one set aside their prejudices, he was a fairly handsome and capable man, but he wasn't on par with her brother. Therefore, she was very resentful that Song Lingshan had fallen for him.
Lin Yi, naturally, was unaware that the two young ladies in front of him were discussing him. He took out his math book, flipped to the page Teacher Liu was reviewing, and listened to the lecture quietly.
All the main curriculum had ended, so the daily schedule now consisted of reviewing previously learned knowledge.
Although Lin Yi had never attended formal school, he had self-studied high school and college curricula under the supervision of Old Man Lin, so listening to Teacher Liu's lecture was not difficult at all.
Lin Yi was no prodigy; his memory was simply better than the average person's. Coupled with the fact that the internet was so developed now—allowing him to download any materials or tutorials—self-study was not a difficult task.
Looking toward the seats of Zhong Pinliang, Gao Xiaofu, and Zhang Naipao, Lin Yi realized the three of them were not in the classroom. Could it be that their injuries from yesterday were too severe and they hadn't come?
However, Lin Yi didn't care whether they lived or died. Let them be; if they wanted to come, they could, and if not, even better—it would save him the headache of seeing them.
However, what Lin Yi did not expect was that Zhong Pinliang, Gao Xiaofu, Zhang Naipao, and the others were actually beginning to plot a conspiracy on how to deal with him...
(End of Chapter)