Chapter 262: Fight in the Courts
3 in the afternoon, after waking up from a dream.
Moving my shoulder, I immediately felt a pain tingle in my body. The wound from the bullet had been split open by the Artificial’s claws, causing the wound to reopen. Medicine wasn’t doing a good enough job in healing it either.
“Huu!”
I suddenly sat up and leaned against my bed. Looking outside my window, I saw a group of male students sweating it out on the basketball courts as they played a game, while another large group of female students were cheering them on.
I stretched my neck and sat against the wall comfortably and relaxed.
To my side, I heard Glasses speak to me, “Hey, Xiao Yao, when you were asleep, I happened to see your arm and all of the wounds on it. Where in the world did you go yesterday night to get injured this much…?”
Turning to answer Glasses’ question, I stared for a second before saying, “Glasses, you shouldn’t be asking these types of questions, it’ll bring you no answers…”
Tang Gu’s body started to tremble, “Xiao Yao…are you…are you connected to the underworld?”
“Pah, do I look like that type of person?”
“Probably not, you don’t mix with the ** crowd and you’re also pretty handsome. If anything, you’d probably have a girl delinquent by your side, not Wan Er. Her father wouldn’t have let you get near her in the first place if you were.”
I stood up and shook my arm. Besides the gunshot wound, the rest of the wounds were already all healing up. With another 3 or 5 days, I would once again be at my peak. Ever since the first encounter with the Artificials, my life became so much less secure; everyday was spent in complete anxiety as I prepared to be attacked.
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Going to the bathroom to wash my face, I then walked out of the dormitories to find some food to eat. Soon after, I found myself wandering around the sports field to try and stimulate my blood as well as my Qi flow. The sooner that my blood and Qi flow returned to normal, the better the benefits would be.
The cold refreshing breeze of Autumn blew past my face. I was wearing a new shirt and a nice black windbreaker on the outside, hiding all of my injuries from sight entirely. However, my face still had a single scratch that was visible to the naked eye; wounds from the Artificials were truly hard to recover from.
“You can do it! Wang Ze Cheng is soooo hot!”
The screams of female students could be heard from the side of the basketball courts but the name that was mentioned was one I could never forget. Quickly making my way over, I saw that it was an unexpected match between the chinese and computer departments. And one of the representatives for the chinese department was Wang Ze Cheng!
Wearing light blue sportswear, Wang Ze Cheng’s entire body was already sweating. His handsome face was calm but firm and his eyes were icy cold in determination. He was practically taking all of the opportunities given to him and within 10 seconds he had already scored twice. At one point, he had even scored three points from a half court shot, an astonishing achievement that caused everyone around to applaud at once. Even the many girls were all shouting, “Wang Ze Cheng go!”
I calmly sat down onto the stone bench and watched the faraway basketball game with a tranquil expression.
……
“Peng!”
Rushing to make a slam dunk, Wang Ze Cheng leapt extremely high, slamming the ball into the basket in a graceful manner. While he was in midair though, he had looked into my direction.
I looked at him as well without saying a word. By my side, many of the girls had shrieked loudly in approval.
“Pa….”
Gently falling to the ground, Wang Ze Cheng returned to his side of the court, though he had looked very cautious towards me now. The way he handled the ball was truly gorgeous but when the opposite team had the ball, he fouled them and, the ball flew at an angle towards me as if it was a bullet!
This! Was he purposely trying to hurt me?!
“Watch out!” A girl on the side shouted out as a warning, “Li Xiao Yao, watch out!”
I looked directly at the basketball and gathered Qi. A cyclone condensed in front of me, turning it away and with a “banh” the basketball flew backwards as if it had hit steel. I remained sitting, indifferently looking over at Wang Ze Cheng.
“Hey man, are you ok?” A male about 2 meters tall laughed as he looked at me, “Wang Ze Cheng didn’t do it on purpose, don’t take offense. It was just an accident…”
Wang Ze Cheng smiled, and with an apologetic face said, “Student Li Xiao Yao, I apologize, it wasn’t on purpose…I didn’t hurt you right? The basketball’s speed just now was a bit fast, so I couldn’t control it. Sorry….”