I Start with a Mysterious Island

Chapter 534: Chapter 351: The Amusing and Awkward Act of Playing Dead

But Lin Li was clearly only in his early twenties. Despite the twenty-year age gap, Lin Li had already cultivated to a realm higher than his own.

"Yeah! For someone that young to reach the Second Order Middle Stage... his cultivation talent is even greater than that of the Zhou Family’s young master, Zhou Tianci." The other guards immediately chimed in.

These guards, so easily defeated by Lin Li, had just been certain they would die out here in the wilderness.

But Lin Li had spared them. Having survived a near-death experience, the guards couldn’t help but feel a little grateful to their opponent for letting them off, and at the same time, a little awestruck by such a powerful figure.

They were all Cultivators, so it was natural to admire the strong, especially a cultivation genius like him.

"..." Wang Fugui was a complete dud when it came to cultivation. His family had provided him with considerable resources, yet at twenty-seven, he had only reached the First Rank Middle Stage. Compared to Lin Li, he was leagues behind.

He watched his guards chatter back and forth about Lin Li, openly envious of his achievement of reaching the Second Order Middle Stage at such a young age.

Remembering how he had provoked Lin Li at the beginning, Wang Fugui felt a complicated mix of emotions, and his face couldn’t help but grow hot.

’It’s a good thing no one else found out about this,’ he thought. ’If word got out, I’d be utterly humiliated.’

"Young Master, why is your face red? Did you get hurt when you fell just now?" the slim guard asked with concern when he noticed Wang Fugui’s embarrassed blush.

The other guards immediately looked over at Wang Fugui, their faces filled with concern.

Of course, Wang Fugui wasn’t about to tell his guards that his face was red from the embarrassment of remembering his own arrogant, death-defying taunts toward Lin Li.

"It’s nothing. My face is just red from the sun..."

The guards looked up at the sun. ’It’s still a while before noon,’ they thought. ’The sun isn’t strong enough to cause a sunburn!’

But since Wang Fugui had said so, they couldn’t very well press the issue. Besides, after a moment’s thought, they seemed to have a vague idea why their young master’s face was red.

"Young Master, are we still going to Bibo Lake to hunt for treasure?" the slim guard asked.

"..." Wang Fugui fell silent, turning his head to look at the small, gourd-shaped mountain in the distance.

Bibo Lake was just behind that mountain. On horseback, they could be there in ten-odd minutes.

Had the fight with Lin Li not occurred, Wang Fugui would have firmly insisted on continuing to Bibo Lake when the slim guard asked.

"No. We’re going home." The events of a few minutes ago were still vivid in his mind. The sound of his own voice, mentally apologizing to his parents with his eyes squeezed shut, still echoed in his head.

Right now, all he wanted was to hurry home and see his parents.

Hearing that Wang Fugui was no longer insisting on going to Bibo Lake, the guards collectively breathed a sigh of relief.

From the very beginning, they had been against leaving the city to go treasure hunting at Bibo Lake.

After all, there were only five of them—far too few. Right now, Bibo Lake was teeming with Cultivators hunting for treasure.

If anything unexpected happened, with their limited strength, they would have likely all perished there. But they couldn’t talk Wang Fugui out of it, so they had no choice but to follow him out of the city toward Bibo Lake.

Thinking about it now, getting thrashed by Lin Li before even reaching Bibo Lake might not have been such a bad thing. At least it knocked some sense into their young master and made him give up on the idea of treasure hunting.

He reached for the saddle, placed his left foot in the stirrup, and swung himself onto his horse.

"Giddy-up..."

Seated on his mount, Wang Fugui flicked the reins and shouted.

The horse, which had been quietly grazing nearby while watching its master get beaten up, chewed on its mouthful of grass and started off toward Dongwu City.

The lightly injured guards also mounted their horses and quickly chased after Wang Fugui, who had already set off.

「Blue Star.」

In Rongcheng, the weather today was the same as yesterday: sunny, with not a cloud in the sky, and the temperature remained high.

However, since it wasn’t yet noon, the morning temperature hadn’t reached an unbearable level of heat.

「Rongxi Primary School, Class 1-1.」

The classroom had six rows, with five single desks in each row, for a total of thirty students.

During the first class of the morning, Zhou Tongtong sat in the third row by the window, her hands on her desk and her back straight, listening intently to the teacher at the front of the classroom.

As the first class was drawing to a close, Zhou Tongtong, who had been listening attentively, suddenly felt something. She turned to look out the window, her gaze landing on a small grove of trees in front of the distant wall.

"Hm?"

"DRING DRING DRING..." The bell for the end of class rang. At the front of the room, the slightly chubby, round-faced Chinese teacher, Wang Jiao, spoke to the students.

"Class, that’s all for today. I’m going to assign some homework now."

Zhou Tongtong’s gaze was still on the grove outside the window. Hearing the teacher mention homework, she quickly looked away and began to write down the assignment.

Wang Jiao assigned some simple homework, then gathered her teaching materials and left the classroom, heading for the teacher’s office.

The student at the desk next to Zhou Tongtong’s was a girl named Wang Duoduo, a cute little girl with short hair who was the same height as Zhou Tongtong.

This little girl had graduated from the same kindergarten as Zhou Tongtong, and they had been in the same class there, too.

Now in primary school, they had been assigned to the same class again, becoming classmates once more. Compared to the new students she had just met, Zhou Tongtong was much closer to this old friend.

As soon as the teacher left, the once-quiet classroom immediately erupted into a clamor.

The children chattered away with their classmates, mostly talking about the cartoons they had watched at home the previous night.

That’s just how students are. It’s perfectly normal for only a few to talk about their studies after class.

Zhou Tongtong got up from her seat, walked out of the classroom, and ran toward the small grove in front of the distant wall.

Wang Duoduo had just finished writing down the homework assignment and was about to ask her old friend if she wanted to go to the restroom together. But the moment she looked up, she saw her friend running out of the classroom.

"Huh?!!!"

"Why did Zhou Tongtong sneak off without me!"

Wang Duoduo put her pen back in her pencil case, which was decorated with cartoon characters, then stood up to chase after Zhou Tongtong.

She walked out of the classroom and saw that Zhou Tongtong wasn’t heading for the restroom, but was running toward the small grove by the distant wall, which puzzled her.

Following her feeling, Zhou Tongtong went to a corner of the grove. Her gaze locked onto a large, leafy tree, and she said with a smile,

"Come on out! Stop hiding. I know you’re here."

A gust of wind blew past, causing the trees to sway gently. Their branches and leaves rustled against each other, making a soft sound.

"RUSTLE RUSTLE RUSTLE..."

Amidst the rustling of the leaves, two faint sounds could be heard.

"Meow..."

A small black figure and a small white figure peeked their heads out from behind the large, leafy tree.

They looked at the smiling Zhou Tongtong, then scurried toward her on their short little legs.

Seeing the Little Black Cat and Little White Cat run up to her, Zhou Tongtong crouched down. She reached out a small, fair hand to scratch the two little strays under their chins and said with a smile,

"Little Black, Little White, what are you two doing at my school?"

"Meow... Little Black said he wanted to come see you at school, so we came," said the Little White Cat.

"The school isn’t far from home, but it’s amazing that you were able to find your way here!" Zhou Tongtong praised them.

"Meow... Of course. We’re amazing," the Little Black Cat said, tilting its head up proudly.

"But do you remember the way home?" Zhou Tongtong asked.

Zhou Tongtong was thrilled that the two little stray cats had come to see her at school. But she wouldn’t be happy at all if they ended up getting lost on their way home.

"Meow... Don’t worry, Zhou Tongtong! We know this area like the back of our paws. There’s no way we’ll get lost," the Little White Cat said confidently.

It was so confident because before it and the Little Black Cat had settled down in the Ping’an Garden District, they had often wandered around without a fixed home.

Therefore, they were extremely familiar with the nearby streets and couldn’t possibly get lost.

Hearing the Little White Cat say this, Zhou Tongtong was relieved. Just then, a familiar voice called out from behind her.

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