The Crybaby Alpha is Actually Really Cool - Chapter 9
In Hongwen Building 101, there were a total of ten round tables, and each round table was equipped with six stools. It was clearly one table per dormitory.
Wen Yuchen was the first to walk towards the table at the very back of the classroom and sat down immediately. Xu Lingguang, on the other hand, occupied the C-position table, which was the foremost and most central in the classroom. The two faced each other across four tables, attempting to make the other surrender with fierce looks and savage expressions.
Cheng Shu pulled You Xiaoxi and Xiong Yan to the side to watch the battle, and even used his optical computer to time them: “Let’s see how long they can stare.”
Ruan Qingyao, who had just returned from the restroom, found that he couldn’t understand what was happening. He looked left and right, then leaned closer to Cheng Shu and the other two and quietly asked, “What are they doing again?”
“Uh…” Cheng Shu suddenly found his language so poor that he couldn’t describe the idiocy of these two “elementary school chickens.” He tried to explain, “Yuchen wants to sit there, and Lingguang wants to sit here.”
Ruan Qingyao blinked his confused little eyes. “Then why are they staring like the Frog Prince? What do they want to do?”
Hearing this description, Cheng Shu and the other two burst into laughter.
You Xiaoxi laughed, “Prince? Forget it. At most, they’re toads (癞**□**). Hahaha.”
In terms of appearance, Wen Yuchen and Xu Lingguang were both handsome guys, but they couldn’t stand being beaten black and blue, which made them look similar to the bumps on a toad.
He was immersed in his laughter, unaware that danger was approaching, until two arms were added to his shoulders, as Wen Yuchen and Xu Lingguang clamped him from the left and right.
The two shared the same animosity, using the same sinister tone: “Xiaoxi, who did you call a toad (癞**□**?”
All it took to turn Wen Yuchen and Xu Lingguang from enemies to friends was one You Xiaoxi. Cheng Shu clapped in his mind.
Ruan Qingyao watched the three people wrestling together in bewilderment, while Xiong Yan rolled up his sleeves, eager to join in.
He quietly moved closer to Cheng Shu, and only after absorbing the peaceful aura from Cheng Shu did Ruan Qingyao’s violently pounding heart calm down.
Woo woo woo, he really didn’t understand these Alphas. Betas were much better.
At 7:50, the warning bell rang. Nie Wan, the instructor responsible for the class, walked towards 101 with lesson plans tucked under his arm, only to find everyone crowding at the doorway and windows.
Nie Wan frowned: “What are you all standing here for? Didn’t you hear the bell? Hurry up and get inside and sit down!”
Pushing aside the people crammed at the door, Nie Wan finally saw the scene inside—a chaotic mess, with stools and tables overturned, and four people fighting in a heap, while two others hid in the corner.
“What in the world are you doing?!” Nie Wan kicked the iron door. The loud bang stopped the four of Wen Yuchen.
All four were brought to stand next to the podium.
Ruan Qingyao sighed in relief: “This way, we don’t have the trouble of deciding which table to sit at.”
Cheng Shu was stunned for a moment. That way of putting it seemed not wrong.
Ruan Qingyao, who had been a top student sitting in the front row since childhood, naturally sat down at the C-position table that Xu Lingguang had just occupied.
Xu Lingguang lifted his chin proudly and said, “See? Qingyao supports me!”
“Bullshit!” Wen Yuchen immediately swore. “It’s because all the other tables are taken.”
The people who had only dared to stay outside also entered the classroom after the teacher made a path, and they were seated instantly and almost silently.
Xu Lingguang: “You are truly vulgar and rude!”
Wen Yuchen: “You motherf—”
The sound was choked in his mouth. Wen Yuchen glared angrily, only to see Nie Wan pinching his lips with two fingers. Wen Yuchen tried hard to pry his arm away, but the arm didn’t move an inch.
The next second, Nie Wan retracted his hand, pulled out a roll of wide adhesive tape from his pocket, and ka-ka sealed the mouths of Wen Yuchen and Xu Lingguang.
Nie Wan played with the tape, saying with a grin, “I don’t like anyone making noise in my class.”
Wen Yuchen and Xu Lingguang reached up to scratch the tape off their mouths, but they couldn’t peel it off and it hurt a lot. Seeing this, everyone immediately sat up straight, behaving very obediently.
Exactly at 8:00, the class bell rang.
Nie Wan held an electronic pen and wrote the two large characters “聂晚” (Nie Wan) on the electronic blackboard. “I will be responsible for your morning class. As for the content, it’s up to my mood. It will be useful to you all, in any case.”
In other words, you don’t understand anything.
“Very good, it looks like everyone is very well-behaved. I like good children the most.”
“Let me think, for this class, let’s first get a general understanding of Spiritual Artifacts. Hmm… you. Come up and take out your Spiritual Artifact.”
Nie Wan pointed at Ruan Qingyao. Ruan Qingyao held onto the table and stood up, his legs feeling a tiny bit weak. Mainly, this Instructor Nie was too savage.
However, Ruan Qingyao’s adaptability was excellent. He recovered after two steps. He elegantly stepped onto the stage, spread a square tablecloth on the podium, took out an expensive-looking crystal display stand, and then spread a piece of high-grade velvet cloth on the stand.
With all the preparations done, Ruan Qingyao then summoned the small box and placed it on the velvet cloth, completely oblivious to Nie Wan’s stiff smile.
Nie Wan had pointed at Ruan Qingyao simply because he was the best-looking and most outstanding among the pig-heads, and he hadn’t expected him to be so dawdling.
However, this box did look quite expensive. He wondered if the gemstones on it could be pried off.
He reached out to pick it up, but his arm was blocked by Ruan Qingyao’s outstretched arm. Nie Wan frowned. Ruan Qingyao then took out a pair of white gloves and handed them to him: “Please put on the gloves.”
Nie Wan: …
The two locked eyes. Ruan Qingyao didn’t retreat a single step. Hmph, letting him touch it was out of respect for the teacher!
Nie Wan chuckled and put on the gloves. “Oh, besides storage, it has no other uses?”
Ruan Qingyao used righteous indignation to cover his guilt: “It also has ornamental value!”
“Are you an Alpha?”
Nie Wan was very curious. “Never before has an Alpha summoned a Spiritual Artifact that cannot be used for combat.”
The Alphas below the podium also nodded in agreement in their hearts. They had never seen an Alpha reduced to logistics. Could this be a Beta pretending to be an Alpha?
A hint of faint joy appeared in Ruan Qingyao’s eyes: “If I say no, can I leave the military tower and go home?”
“Uh…” Nie Wan felt he had been speechless many times in just these few minutes. “Release your pheromones.”
Ruan Qingyao immediately took a small half-step back, crossing his arms and looking suspiciously unstable. “Pheromones are only for my mate!”
Nie Wan ground his teeth, grizzling. “Little friend, you are quite interesting, huh.”
Although what he said wasn’t wrong, how common was it for Alphas to compare height, size, and pheromones?!
Ruan Qingyao said very seriously: “I am very uninteresting. Don’t be interested in me.”
“Alright, alright, you can go down,” Nie Wan surrendered. “Leave the Spiritual Artifact!”
Ruan Qingyao grumbled: “I can’t leave it alone. It will be lonely and bored.”
Then, he was picked up and placed next to the four people including Xu Lingguang. “One more word and I’ll glue your mouth shut too!”
Ruan Qingyao sniffled and shed tears of injustice.
Nie Wan decided to ignore him and focused on teaching. “Everyone’s Spiritual Artifact is different. Regardless of whether your Spiritual Artifact is suitable for combat, once you enter the military tower, you must be prepared for combat.”
“Take this box, for example. Besides storage, it can also be used as a brick. It’s hard and has edges. One box, one hole. I estimate you can also control its size. A big box pressing down on a swarm of bugs is not a problem.”
As he spoke, he waved the box around, making Ruan Qingyao’s heart pound in fear. His precious box would absolutely, definitely not be used as a brick!
After speaking, Nie Wan tossed the box towards Ruan Qingyao, who panicked, terrified that the box would fall and touch the dust.
For the rest of the time, Nie Wan opened the electronic screen and played an animation, which was a detailed introduction and analysis of the hundred famous Spiritual Artifacts from the past decade—very dry and boring.
After the dismissal bell rang, Nie Wan suddenly said hauntingly, “Remember to review when you go back, everyone. I will be asking questions in tomorrow’s morning class, and I will prepare a wonderful reward for mistakes.”
The yawns everyone had halfway through were immediately halted. They asked each other: “How much did you remember?”
“Did you listen? I bloody didn’t listen!”
“Holy crap, emergency aid, brothers! Who took notes?”
After a chaotic clamor, they found that at most, they had remembered the third one, and there were ninety-seven more unaccounted for. Instantly, wails of despair spread everywhere.
Once the tape automatically disappeared and they could speak, Xu Lingguang said proudly and smugly: “I remembered eighty percent! Beg me, beg me, and I’ll help you foolish mortals.”
Wen Yuchen and the other three stared at Xu Lingguang in unison, as if looking at a traitor. As an Alpha, being able to listen to such a boring class and remember it—was that even reasonable?!
The three of them flexed their wrists. “Hehe, beg your big head.”
The only reason a child is not obedient is because they haven’t been taught a lesson enough times.
Cheng Shu rubbed his forehead: “Did you guys forget about the training at 10:30? It’s already 10:23.”
“Crap, then run!”
At the same training ground, the damage Gao Juntian had caused to the grass in the morning had been restored.
Gao Juntian’s face had now recovered its original appearance, and he was looking at the stopwatch on his optical computer.
10:29:59
Watching the last second tick by, Gao Juntian showed a cheerful smile: “Folks, you are late again!”
Everyone, panting heavily from running, weakly collapsed onto the grass. Damn it, were they set up by that Nie guy? Did he intentionally wait until after class to tell them, distracting them and making them late?
Then, they heard the similarly malicious laughter of the instructors in the adjacent fields.
They understood. These veterans were all the same!
Gao Juntian said, “I originally wanted to make your first official training easy, just a physical test, but I didn’t expect you to be so enthusiastic. I would be embarrassed not to respond to your enthusiasm.”
Everyone: Ptooey!
As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Li pulled over a flatbed cart. On the flatbed cart was a cage covered with a white cloth.
It was swaying, either because Sun Li wasn’t good at pulling the cart or because something inside the cage was struggling.
Gao Juntian walked over. “Here, this little fellow is also very enthusiastic, just as enthusiastic as you all.”
He suddenly lifted the white cloth, revealing the entire cage. Black bugs were crammed into the cage in a strange posture, looking somewhat comical.
Gao Juntian and Sun Li opened the cage together. The body of the bug was finally revealed to the crowd. It looked like a spider overall, with eight slender, spiky legs on each side, and two prominent fangs at its mouth, which were dripping saliva. Where the saliva fell onto the grass, the small blades instantly withered, indicating strong toxicity.
When it stretched out its legs, it was five or six meters high, and its body diameter was easily two meters. It emitted an intensely evil aura. The closer you got, the more severe the mental pollution it caused.
Gao Juntian introduced it: “Spider Worm. One of the eight worker bugs of the Zerg race. It has no intelligence and is the most common bug on our battlefield.”
The crowd, especially the Alphas, had grown up with the mantra of “going to the battlefield to kill the Zerg.” After shouting this slogan for so many years, seeing a real bug for the first time was undoubtedly shocking.
Under the massive body of the Zerg, even a person two meters tall appeared slightly small.
Wen Yuchen and Xu Lingguang were also unable to snap out of their daze for a long time.
Cheng Shu thought that it might be a bit too soon to let them fight a bug now. Just as he thought this, he heard Ruan Qingyao quietly murmur: “The little grass is so pitiful. It was just trampled by Instructor Gao’s morning star (wolf tooth club), and now it’s being corroded by the Spider Worm’s venom. How tragic.”
Cheng Shu turned to look at Ruan Qingyao. There was no trace of shock, fear, or pain on the young man’s face. Instead, it was full of genuine sympathy for the little grass.
Hmm… How many days of nightmares did his Alpha cousin have the first time he saw a bug?
Cheng Shu asked curiously: “Qingyao, what do you feel when you look at it?”
“It’s very ugly,” Ruan Qingyao shook his head. “Being so ugly, it must have been discriminated against a lot growing up. Thinking about it, it’s a bit pitiful. We shouldn’t judge people by their appearance.”
He was completely immune to the Zerg’s mental pollution. It should be known that the Zerg’s most formidable weapon was not their amazing reproductive or combat power, but their inherent mental pollution ability.
Cheng Shu suddenly understood why Mo Buyu would personally bring Ruan Qingyao to the military tower.
Mo Buyu: Thanks for the invite. I was genuinely only craving his pheromones. I didn’t know about anything else!