Chapter 58
Lu Shao shook his head.
“Brother Feng already told us to train properly. He’ll take care of Chen Cheng’s side, so let’s not disturb him while he rests.”
That made sense.
If Ye Xuan went, the rest of the team would definitely make a fuss about going too.
Then a whole roomful of people would be standing there making noise, and Chen Cheng would not be able to rest properly.
“Alright. Then tell Brother Feng to let us know as soon as Chen Cheng wakes up.”
With Luo Feng absent, Lu Shao took on the responsibility of temporary team leader and led everyone through training.
Fortunately, although the team members liked to play around, they were very serious during training.
During the noon break, everyone gathered together while Lu Shao submitted the list for the weekend challenge match. Although Chen Cheng was still unconscious, Lu Shao still signed him up.
There were still a few days before the challenge match. If Chen Cheng woke up during this time, he could still participate. After all, the rewards for the winning side were very generous.
Every team member would receive the title of Honorary Team Member, a reward of one thousand virtual funds and ten battle points. The team leader would receive the title of Honorary Team Leader, and the base’s highest commander would personally award the winning team a medal at the assembly.
Lu Shao said that such a grand award ceremony was also meant to encourage mid- and lower-level ability users to train and improve their combat capabilities.
Tong Wei did not take Team C seriously at all. He spread his hands with a look of disdain.
“Not only is Team C’s strength far below ours, we even have one more person than them. Isn’t this just an easy beatdown?”
Ever since Quan Guanxi joined Team C, no new members had joined them. At that time, Team B and Team C had the same number of people.
But later, Ye Xuan joined Team B, so Team B now had one more person than Team C.
Lu Shao told Tong Wei not to be careless.
“Nothing is certain until the very last moment. Don’t lose when the time comes and embarrass Brother Feng.”
“Yeah, yeah, I know. Lu Shao, why are you acting like an old mother?”
“What old mother? I’m reminding you, alright?”
Tong Wei covered his ears and ran away, saying as he ran, “Not listening, not listening, the turtle is chanting scriptures.”
Lu Shao had nowhere to vent his anger.
Aside from Brother Feng, no one in the team could control Tong Wei.
In the afternoon, everyone tacitly headed to the central arena to train. The central arena’s system contained data from different team members, allowing members to choose combat mode and challenge various ability users in the base.
Of course, right now, everyone would definitely prioritize challenging members of Team C.
Ye Xuan had originally planned to try challenging strength-type zombies and speed-type zombies yesterday. Today, he started combat training at the last minute.
But now, it seemed there was no need to challenge those two types of zombies anymore. He had already personally fought against such abnormal “stone men.” No matter how abnormal those two zombie types were, could they be more abnormal than a “stone man”?
Ye Xuan reserved an empty room on the bottom floor through his bracelet and exchanged three hours of training time.
On the way to the reserved room, Ye Xuan ran into Team C.
A group of them came over laughing and joking. When they saw Ye Xuan, they exchanged glances and walked over to block his path.
“Well, if it isn’t Team B’s famous space-type ability user. I heard you asked for support yesterday, and the mission still failed.”
“Sigh, and someone even ended up unconscious because of it. So this is Team B’s so-called strength?”
The base was small. The advantage was that it was easy to manage, but the drawback was obvious too. Whenever something happened, news spread everywhere as if it had grown wings.
The others laughed maliciously.
Ye Xuan laughed along with them.
The leader’s mouth stiffened. “What are you laughing at?”
Ye Xuan said with regret, “I was thinking, if your team had done that mission, it definitely would’ve succeeded, right?”
The leader thought Ye Xuan was praising him. He smoothed back his bangs and said arrogantly, “Isn’t that obvious? Our people aren’t as useless as yours.”
“Really?” Ye Xuan narrowed his fox-like eyes and smiled. “But not only did you not even have the qualifications to take that mission, you didn’t even have the qualifications to provide support. So how do you know you definitely would’ve succeeded?”
Ye Xuan had always lived by one principle: those who respect me, I respect in return; those who insult me, I will pay back.
He could suffer a loss, but that depended on who the other party was.
The people in front of him were not qualified.
Team C’s faces changed as they realized Ye Xuan had been mocking them.
“Ye Xuan, are you looking to die?”
“Don’t think you can act however you want just because Luo Feng has your back.”
“Your teammates aren’t here right now, and we have more than ten people.”
The leader cracked his knuckles, ready to act at any moment.
Ye Xuan remained perfectly calm. One sentence was enough to make all of them cool down.
“Don’t forget what happened to Quan Guanxi back then. Do you want to repeat the same mistake?”
Everyone in Team C turned to look at Quan Guanxi, who was standing at the back. Their disgusted gazes fell on him without the slightest concealment, as if Quan Guanxi were not a person but a rat dropping that had ruined an entire pot of porridge.
Little did they know, their entire team was no good either.
Quan Guanxi lowered his head and reduced his presence. From the very beginning, he had not said a word, yet Ye Xuan still dragged trouble onto him.
Ye Xuan. Ye Xuan. Every time he ran into this damned guy, he had to bear his teammates’ anger.
The leader spoke. “Quan Guanxi’s matter is our internal affair. It’s not your place to interfere.”
Interesting. They wanted to kill him, yet he was not allowed to interfere?
Ye Xuan kept a smile on his face, looking extremely punchable.
The leader clenched his fists. “Don’t get too proud. I hope your team doesn’t lose too miserably in the challenge match this weekend.”
Ye Xuan had no idea where this man got the confidence to run his mouth in front of him.
“I’ll return those exact words to you. When you lose, calling me daddy won’t help.”
More than ten people stood against Ye Xuan, yet not only did they fail to gain any advantage, they actually ended up on the losing side.
Every member of Team C looked as dark as the bottom of a pot.
“Ye Xuan, why are you standing here? The challenge match is on Sunday. Aren’t you going to train?”
As soon as Xia Chenxi entered the central arena, he saw Ye Xuan facing off against a crowd alone.
Judging from their expressions, they had not gained any advantage from Ye Xuan’s mouth.
When facing people he disliked, Ye Xuan’s tongue was very sharp. Xia Chenxi had already witnessed that back in university.
When he encountered teammates who shifted blame in games, Ye Xuan never endured it silently. Without using a single curse word, he had scolded that person for an entire match. That time, one of his teammates had been the school’s well-known loudmouth, and Ye Xuan had even become briefly famous in school because of it.
Even someone like Xia Chenxi, who ignored everything outside his own affairs, had heard about it.
Seeing Xia Chenxi, the members of Team C hesitated and took a few steps back. The person before them was not an ordinary strength-type ability user. This was one of the top strength-type ability users in the alliance.
Xia Chenxi looked at them coldly.
“I was the one who supported that mission. I admit that without Ye Xuan, I couldn’t have beaten that zombie. If you’re looking down on Ye Xuan because of that mission, then I can tell you very clearly—you wouldn’t have been able to beat it.”
Not “might not,” not “perhaps not.”
Definitely not.
The members of Team C lost face and left with their tails between their legs.
Quan Guanxi brushed past Ye Xuan and said in a low voice, “Just you wait until Sunday.”
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