Before he knew it, it was past midnight.
In Lin Ye’s mind, the system announcement sounded once again.
[Detected that the host has advanced to Goblin Warrior.]
[Weekly Mission System unlocked!]
Lin Ye’s spirits lifted.
Weekly mission?
This was the first time it had appeared.
[Mission: Infamy Spreads Far and Wide!]
[Mission Type: Weekly Mission (refreshes every Monday at 00:00)]
[Mission Description: As a qualified BOSS, you should make your evil reputation known to adventurers.]
[Mission Requirement: Within this week, collect 10,000 points of negative emotion value from adventurers.]
[Mission Reward: EXP +2500, free attribute points +5, skill point +1.]
[Note: Make them angry, make them suffer, make them fear, make them despair!]
[Warm Tip: Directly killing adventurers is the fastest shortcut to completing the mission.]
Lin Ye looked at the mission description and fell silent.
The system was dead set on pushing him down the path of the final villain.
Killing people was out of the question.
Unless the other party had already earned their death, he wasn’t some lunatic. He wasn’t about to slaughter innocents indiscriminately.
If it was slower, then so be it. In any case, he had a whole week to collect negative emotion value.
……
The next morning.
“Teacher, I want to beat people up.”
The mouthful of hot tea Chen Meng had just taken nearly sprayed straight out.
This kid had done nothing but train for the past two weeks, like some ascetic monk. Why had he suddenly changed his tune today?
Chen Meng set down his teacup, completely thrown off by Lin Ye’s abrupt, out-of-nowhere statement.
In truth, Lin Ye had thought it over and over, and in the end, having no other ideas, had come to find Chen Meng.
If he wanted to collect negative emotion value quickly, the most direct and efficient method was to beat people up.
But he couldn’t just grab someone off the street and give them a thrashing.
That was bullying.
And it was illegal.
Although the system strongly recommended that kind of simple and brutal choice, Lin Ye was human. He had his own bottom line.
So he could only come to Chen Meng for help, to see how he could fight people openly, properly, and legally.
Chen Meng looked at Lin Ye’s expression, one that practically had “my fists are itching, I want to fight” written all over it, and suddenly laughed.
He asked with great interest, “Sure. Who do you want to beat up?”
“I don’t know either. I just want to find someone to fight. The open and aboveboard kind.”
The smile on Chen Meng’s face deepened, even carrying a trace of wicked delight at watching the world burn.
For the past two-plus weeks, Lin Ye had been extremely low-key at school.
Aside from attending class and eating, he was dragged by Chen Meng to the small training room after school for one-on-one special coaching.
He had practically cut off all meaningless social interactions.
Chen Meng had even heard some rumors saying that the dark horse from Class 7 who had astonished everyone in the previous baseline test was nothing more than a flash in the pan, and had now faded back into the crowd.
Some also said that the poor would always be poor; relying on one sudden burst of luck could never lead to a true comeback.
Only Chen Meng knew best just how terrifying and unreasonable Lin Ye’s rate of improvement really was.
He had thought this kid would continue developing silently like this, until he gave everyone a surprise at the monthly exam tournament.
He hadn’t expected Lin Ye to suddenly see the light today and actively want to go beat people up!
This was exactly what Chen Meng had been waiting for!
Whether dragon or tiger, one couldn’t stay coiled and lying low forever!
“Skip your first two classes this morning. Pack your things and change into a loose set of combat training clothes.”
“I’ll take you to broaden your horizons!”
……
Dongjiang No. 1 High, Building B Training Hall, third floor.
This was the practical combat training base exclusively for Senior Year Class 1 and Class 2.
The moment Lin Ye entered, he saw more than a dozen combat rings laid with high-strength cushioning materials inside the vast hall. Along the walls hung all kinds of practical combat protective gear and training weapons.
At this moment, almost every ring had students paired up and fighting.
Bang!
A student built as sturdily as an ox swept a vicious whip kick onto his opponent’s blocking arm, producing a heavy, muffled impact.
The student who had been hit retreated three steps in a row. His arm trembled violently, his face full of pain, yet he still gritted his teeth and searched for an opportunity to counterattack.
Low roars, the clang of weapons colliding, the dull thuds of bodies crashing together…
They rang out from every direction.
Even the air here seemed to carry the rusty scent of blood and sweat.
When Chen Meng’s tower-like figure appeared at the entrance, the clamor inside the hall froze for an instant.
Immediately afterward, everyone’s gazes fell on Lin Ye, who was following behind Chen Meng.
The lead teachers of Class 1 and Class 2, one named Sun Qian and the other Xu Zhisheng, both showed looks of surprise when they saw Chen Meng.
Sun Qian was a tall, thin middle-aged man, but anyone familiar with him knew what price one would pay for underestimating him.
A teacher capable of leading Class 1 would absolutely not be some ordinary person.
“Yo, Teacher Chen. What wind blew you here today?”
Chen Meng grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. “Brought my student here to open his eyes, to see what real top students are like.”
His gaze swept over the entire hall, his tone carrying a trace of undisguised provocation.
Sun Qian and Xu Zhisheng’s eyes naturally landed on Lin Ye.
They had some impression of this Class 7 student, who had charged into everyone’s view as a dark horse in the baseline test two weeks ago.
At this moment, because Lin Ye had successfully advanced, his height was already close to 1.8 meters.
His figure was no longer the thin and frail one from before either.
The lines of muscle across his body were smooth and solid. Set off by his black training clothes, he naturally carried a lean, capable air belonging to a martial artist.
But compared to the top students in the training hall, his physique still seemed somewhat “scholarly and weak.”
Looking around, the students of Class 1 and Class 2, especially the boys, were all sturdily built, with bulging muscles.
Some of them, just from their weathered faces and thick arms, would not have sounded out of place being called uncle.
Lin Ye even saw one guy nearly two meters tall, with arms thicker than his thighs.
This was fucking eighteen years old?
Lin Ye’s appearance was like a stone thrown into a calm lake, instantly stirring up ripples among the top students.
“Hey, hey, hey, look! It’s that guy—what was his name again? The one from the last baseline test whose life index blew straight past the limit!”
“I think he’s from Class 7!”
“They said before he was going to come to our class, but then there was no follow-up.”
“There’s been no news after the baseline test. He probably failed to meet some other requirement.”
Beside a ring not far from Lin Ye and Chen Meng.
Zhang Yuqing had just finished a set of high-intensity training. She walked down from the ring and untied the bandages wrapped around her wrists, fine beads of sweat dotting her fair forehead.
When she saw Lin Ye standing at the center of everyone’s attention, she was slightly stunned.
It was him?
For the past two weeks, Zhang Yuqing had still maintained her habit of going to the gravity chamber to train at three in the morning.
But that figure who had once made her feel immense pressure had never appeared again.
Not even once.
For some inexplicable reason, a faint emptiness had arisen in her heart, as though she had lost some target she had always been secretly competing against.
Zhang Yuqing had even wondered more than once.
Had he given up?
Had that extreme overexertion damaged his foundation, or had the burst of brilliance in that baseline test exhausted all of his potential?
But now, when she saw Lin Ye again.
A trace of secret delight suddenly welled up in Zhang Yuqing’s heart.
Because with just one glance at Lin Ye, she was certain that he had not given up, nor had he sunk into mediocrity!