The Cannon Fodder NPC Went Too Far [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 31
Chapter 31
Several beams of light pierced through the thin clouds, gently scattering onto the earth. Under the rising sun, countless students in school uniforms hurried to campus. The ringing of bicycle bells and the honking of car horns interwove.
Xu Lu Xi walked toward the teaching building with her backpack. Her school uniform was neatly worn, her hair in a high ponytail. She kept her head down, and her soft ponytail swung back and forth in front of Gu Ao Yu. Gu Ao Yu walked slowly behind Xu Lu Xi with her hands in her pockets, her gaze subconsciously drawn to the swaying braid, inexplicably wanting to pull it.
The good, obedient student was followed by a silver-highlighted, unruly bad kid. This peculiar combination immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding students. They secretly nudged each other, and whispers suddenly rose.
Xu Lu Xi seemed to feel the burning stares around her. Her fingertips subtly clenched, anxiously picking at the straps hanging down from both sides of her backpack. She lowered her head and quickened her pace sullenly.
Gu Ao Yu frowned, looked up, and fiercely glared at the surroundings. The students’ bodies stiffened, and they immediately lowered their heads and quietly walked toward the teaching building.
Xu Lu Xi pursed her lips, her face feeling hot for some reason, and walked even faster.
Stepping into the classroom, the surrounding students subtly glanced at her, silently making way. Xu Lu Xi’s obedient smile stiffened slightly. She immediately noticed the peculiar desk. Her trimmed nails pressed into the palm of her hand through the backpack strap, adding another red mark.
The books, which were supposed to be neatly placed on the desk, were scattered messily on the floor beside the desk. Several dusty footprints were imprinted on the clean pages, not to mention the countless pieces of paper torn from them and crumpled into balls.
Scratches of various depths wantonly crisscrossed the desk, covered with various scribbles. Ugly handwriting and strange, crooked drawings were marked with striking red pens, containing insulting language.
Xu Lu Xi’s long eyelashes lightly fluttered a few times, then quickly subsided, no longer moving. Her lowered eyelids concealed everything in her eyes. She bent down and quietly picked up her books from the floor, smoothing out the wrinkled pages one by one.
Gu Ao Yu’s eyes immediately met this scene upon entering the door. An inexplicable fire burned and exploded in her chest. The veins near her temples bulged. Her already languid eyebrows became even more impatient, unsure who she was angry at.
She took a deep breath, grabbed Xu Lu Xi, who was squatting on the ground looking for page numbers, and pulled her up. Her sharp eyes coldly scanned the surroundings. She slowly pointed at Xu Lu Xi’s desk and asked in a low voice:
“Who did this!”
Although her words were bland and she didn’t even raise her voice, those watching the show and those feeling schadenfreude all controlled their expressions and sat silently in their chairs.
Xu Lu Xi opened her mouth helplessly, secretly tugging on her sleeve. Gu Ao Yu’s lips curled into a cold, subtle arc. She pushed Xu Lu Xi’s hand away and lazily walked around the classroom a few times.
Then, she executed several precise kicks, accurately striking several desks. With a clatter, the books on the desks spilled all over the floor.
The students whose expressions had changed instantly stood up angrily, their eyes red, their fists tightly clenched.
“Gu Ao Yu, what are you doing!”
Glancing at the fists beside their legs, Gu Ao Yu sneered, tilted her head, and crooked a finger at them.
The enraged students trembled, exchanged wary glances, and silently sat back down in their seats.
“If I kicked the wrong person, my desk is yours to deal with. If not, consider today a warning. I don’t want this kind of thing to happen a second time. Whether it’s to her or any other student in this class.”
“If you need anything, find me. I’d be delighted to assist.”
Her voice remained lazy and casual. Gu Ao Yu’s eyebrows raised, and she chuckled softly, two sharp little canine teeth slightly visible.
Xu Lu Xi stared blankly at Gu Ao Yu’s back. Her slightly frizzy long hair lay on her shoulders, the silver highlights at her temples acting wantonly. She left the room just as the bell rang.
“Host, Host, are you going to skip class again today?” The little blue ball watched as Gu Ao Yu brazenly whistled at the old man heading to the classroom for his lecture, then, accompanied by the old man’s passionate insults, she walked away leisurely with her hands in her pockets.
“Going to sleep in the grass for a bit. I have something to take care of after class.” Gu Ao Yu stretched her muscles and bones and comfortably lay down in the grass. She used her school jacket as a pillow beneath her head. Her loose collar was slightly open, revealing a segment of her long neck.
Tiny bits of sunlight filtered through the gaps in the leaves, sprinkling speckles onto her face and fragmenting in her dark eyes.
She crossed her hands behind her head, lazily chewing on a weed she had just pulled from the dirt, blowing it half-heartedly.
“Host, why don’t you like classes?” The little blue ball lay down beside her, mimicking Gu Ao Yu.
“Because it’s boring. What’s the point? They drone on and on, and I don’t understand a single word. Besides, they don’t like me.”
Gu Ao Yu slightly puffed out her cheeks, spitting out the weed. The bell signaling the end of class arrived as promised. She bent her knee, using her abdominal strength to arch her back and stand up from the ground. She elegantly patted the dust off her clothes and walked toward the teaching building.
She had been involved in street activities for a long time, so she understood the nature of those people. They failed to bully Xu Lu Xi yesterday, so how could they just let it go today? Even if the instigation came from the original host.
They might respect her as their former boss and not seek trouble with her, but Xu Lu Xi was different. The face they lost in front of her would definitely be regained.
Sure enough, the door to the girls’ restroom on this floor was somehow locked from the inside. Many students who urgently needed to use the restroom quickly knocked a few times. Hearing the arrogant insults from inside, they withdrew their hands, angry but afraid to speak up, and climbed upstairs.
With a loud “Bang,” Gu Ao Yu, with a scowl, kicked the wooden door. The already flimsy door shook a few times, slowly revealing a gap.
She kicked it again, swaggered in, and slammed the door shut, locking everyone inside the restroom. Then, she leaned lazily against the door, instantly drawing everyone’s attention.
Countless students with oddly colored hair surrounded her, making Xu Lu Xi appear exceptionally thin under their tall, sturdy figures.
Xu Lu Xi held her arms tightly across her chest, desperately clinging to her drenched school jacket, preventing those malicious hands from ripping it off. The elastic band holding her hair had vanished somewhere during the struggle, and her dark hair was plastered messily to her face.
She looked up at Gu Ao Yu in a state of disarray, and a drop of water from her eyelashes splattered onto her face.
Gu Ao Yu glanced at her, shook her head, and said softly:
“Truly pathetic.”
“B-Boss…” The delinquent girl, who was clutching Xu Lu Xi’s collar, paused her tightly clenched fist mid-air under Gu Ao Yu’s inscrutable expression. She wasn’t sure whether to strike or not.
Gu Ao Yu slowly straightened up and walked toward Xu Lu Xi. The surrounding delinquents exchanged glances and subconsciously opened a path.
Gu Ao Yu stopped beside Xu Lu Xi and frowned. The slender girl in front of her was small and petite, barely half a head shorter than her. Could her stepmother, with that kind of temperament, really raise such a fragile daughter?
A slightly cool fingertip traced Xu Lu Xi’s pale cheek, pressing against the fresh cut near her lips. The pad of her finger pressed gently. A drop of bl00d seeped out from the cracked wound, staining Gu Ao Yu’s skin.
Xu Lu Xi shivered all over. Her slender arm pressed against Gu Ao Yu’s wrist. Her amber eyes were strangely clouded with a misty sheen. The rippling water made it impossible to discern her true emotions.
It looked as if she was the one being bullied.
Gu Ao Yu sneered, smeared the bl00d from her fingertip across Xu Lu Xi’s eye corner, then straightened her back, facing the hostile delinquents with a solemn expression.
“Since you still call me ‘Boss,’ then stop this now. Don’t engage in this kind of destructive bullying anymore. Apologize properly and strive for forgiveness.”
Hearing Gu Ao Yu’s deadpan delivery of words utterly incongruous with her appearance, the crowd was first stunned, then erupted in anger. Clearly, they interpreted Gu Ao Yu’s final warning as sarcastic mockery.
“Gu Ao Yu, are you sick? We respected you as ‘Boss’ because you were the toughest girl in this area, you were righteous and loyal, and you backed us up without a word whenever the sisters had a grievance.”
“Now you openly betray us for that inexplicable stepsister, breaking trust and righteousness! You’re unworthy to be ‘Boss’! From now on, we cut all ties. You walk your easy path, and we’ll take our own difficult way.”
The leader righteously listed Gu Ao Yu’s crimes, instantly earning cheers from the crowd.
Gu Ao Yu blinked, listening to their outrageous remarks. A cold arc curved on her lips. She knew it. Kids this age just needed a beating.
Her greatest skill used to be physical persuasion. There was nothing a punch couldn’t solve. If there was, it meant two rounds.
“So, no one is backing out?” Gu Ao Yu asked, answering her own question, and then shook her head helplessly.
Her leg muscles tensed. She rose onto the ball of her foot, delivering a fierce straight punch directly to the abdomen of the delinquent in front. The delinquent stumbled back a few steps.
Seeing this, the others roared and surged forward. Gu Ao Yu was like an agile leopard, darting through the crowd. Her left leg swept out, knocking two people to the ground. Immediately followed by a right hook, sending another person’s nose bleeding profusely. A sharp elbow strike as she turned, a flying kick…
Everywhere she went, there was carnage. In just a few minutes, the floor was littered with groaning delinquents, lying haphazardly.
Gu Ao Yu stood tall in the center, her clothes slightly dirty.
She slowly turned to face the only two people still standing: Xu Lu Xi. She reached out and gripped Xu Lu Xi’s right wrist, preventing her from retreating.
Gu Ao Yu shielded Xu Lu Xi in front of her, maneuvering her to stand before the delinquent girl who had grabbed her collar earlier. She leaned close to Xu Lu Xi’s ear and quietly asked:
“Do you know how to fight?”
Xu Lu Xi’s eyes widened. She turned her head, staring blankly at the cold-eyed Gu Ao Yu. Her moist eyes suddenly turned completely red.
Seeing that Xu Lu Xi still didn’t react, Gu Ao Yu irritably released her wrist, her patience rapidly wearing thin.
Can’t you stand up for yourself and expect others to constantly protect you? She didn’t have time to guard her every day. She wasn’t a savior.
Giving a man a fish is not as good as teaching him how to fish. She had seen too many people like this. When pushed to the very end, they would tear at their attackers’ flesh with their mouths and teeth, even covered in bl00d. She didn’t believe Xu Lu Xi had no desire to fight back. Her deliberate delay in coming to her rescue was partly for this reason.
Everyone has a fierce spirit. Where is yours?