109: Chapter 109 This is Educational Correction

Linhai Commercial Center.

The neon lights were still glowing after the rain.

In the center of the plaza, a black cross hung in mid-air.

Paper strips hung down.

Hundreds of trapped citizens sat on the ground, with test papers floating in front of them.

Some were crying while memorizing vocabulary.

Some held their heads and shouted, "I'm really not a high school senior!"

The most miserable one was a delivery driver.

He hadn't even taken off his helmet, holding a pen in his hand, forced to write an essay.

The topic was "My Dream".

The delivery driver stared at the blank paper, his eyes already dead.

"My dream is to not write this."

The next second.

A paper strip whipped against his helmet.

Smack!

[Negative attitude, deduction of twenty points.]

The delivery driver broke down on the spot.

"The country has already abolished foreign languages! What right do you have to make me work overtime!"

In the center of the black cross.

The faceless man in a suit slowly raised his head.

It had no eyes.

Only a mouth that split to the ears.

The mouth was crammed with black letters.

"Foreign languages... must not be abandoned..."

"Examinations... must not be abandoned..."

"Those who err... must be corrected..."

The outer perimeter of the commercial center.

The Investigation Bureau had set up a blockade.

Ordinary agents dared not get too close.

Su Yao stood outside the blockade.

She had changed into a black combat uniform, her shoulders still damp with rain.

She looked at the black cross in the center of the plaza, her fingers pressing against the short blade at her waist.

Must kill.

Cannot delay.

Once a Rule-type Strange Tales completes "concept binding," it will escalate from a city event to a national disaster.

By then, it wouldn't just be testing a few hundred people.

It would be the entire Great Xia.

Just as Su Yao was about to step into the Domain.

A voice fell from above.

"So this is that Foreign Language Tribunal?"

Su Yao looked up.

At the top of a street lamp stood a woman.

Her black trench coat was blown by the night wind.

She held a long blade in her hand, the back of the blade resting on her shoulder, her posture lazy.

The Watchers S-Class Executive.

S-Class Executor Shen Yuan.

She looked down at Su Yao and smiled.

"Are you Su Yao?"

Su Yao frowned.

"Executor Shen Yuan."

Shen Yuan jumped down from the street lamp.

She landed without a sound.

She walked a semicircle around Su Yao, her eyes looking as if she were appraising an unsheathed blade.

"The files say you are a Special Consultant for the Investigation Bureau."

"But no one told me you were S-Class."

Su Yao didn't explain.

Shen Yuan clicked her tongue.

"You hide it deep."

Su Yao looked towards the plaza.

"Now is not the time for idle chatter."

"Of course."

Shen Yuan gripped the hilt of her blade, a light in her eyes.

"Kill the Strange Tales first."

She paused, then added another sentence.

"If you still have energy after we finish, let's have a fight."

Su Yao: "..."

This woman was indeed the same as the rumors.

Combative.

And she didn't pick her opponents.

Just as the two were about to make a move, the fountain on the other side of the plaza suddenly stopped.

The water surface arched silently.

A figure in a white trench coat walked out from the water.

White hair.

Pale mask.

Water droplets slid down his cuffs, yet his clothes remained dry.

Bai Cang.

Su Yao's pupils constricted.

Shen Yuan's smile deepened.

"It's getting lively tonight."

Bai Cang didn't look at Shen Yuan.

His gaze fell on Su Yao.

He paused for two seconds.

Then, he let out a soft laugh.

"You've come too."

Su Yao unsheathed her blade by half an inch.

"This is not a place you should be."

Bai Cang glanced at the black cross.

"I'm here to collect the goods."

Su Yao's voice turned cold.

"This is an A-Class Rule-type Strange Tales; it must be killed on the spot."

"No."

Bai Cang raised his hand.

The water from the fountain turned into thin threads, winding around his fingertips.

"It is an offering."

Su Yao knew to whom the offering he spoke of was to be presented.

There was a chill in her eyes.

"You've gone even more insane than last time."

Bai Cang's tone was calm.

"I have simply seen the path clearly."

"The old order cannot save humanity."

"Since that entity in the Void Realm likes to devour, then we shall send these damned Strange Tales before It."

"Exchange Strange Tales for power, exchange power for the future."

Su Yao gripped her blade tighter.

"You are feeding the calamity."

Bai Cang laughed.

"Aren't you all utilizing It as well?"

"Driving the tiger to devour the wolf."

"The Ranch Project."

"If Executive Jiang Xu dares to do it, why can't I?"

Su Yao didn't reply.

Because she knew Bai Cang had hit upon the ugliest part of the human upper echelons.

Shen Yuan listened impatiently.

She shouldered her blade and took a step forward.

"Are you two going to fight or not?"

Both looked at her simultaneously.

Shen Yuan raised an eyebrow.

"One wants to kill, one wants to capture."

"Opinions don't align, why not just have a fight?"

Bai Cang finally looked at her.

"Someone from The Watchers?"

Shen Yuan grinned.

"S-Class Executor Shen Yuan."

Bai Cang nodded.

"Heard of you."

"Combative, not afraid of death."

Shen Yuan corrected him.

"I am combative, not suicidal."

She pointed her blade at Bai Cang.

"Especially not wanting to be written into the battle record of a wanted criminal like you."

Bai Cang didn't get angry.

He just looked at Su Yao.

There was a bit more scrutiny in his eyes.

Last time at the chemical plant.

This little sister could only borrow the Saint Flame Valkyrie.

Relying on external objects, relying on risking her life, relying on combat experience to hold on.

Now it was different.

She stood there, her aura stable.

The flow of spiritual energy in her body had no instability.

A true S-Class.

Bai Cang's heart sank slightly.

This girl was progressing too fast.

So fast it didn't look like normal Cultivation.

Could it be she also pursued something strange?

The Void Realm?

The Holy Domain?

Or... that entity?

Bai Cang raised his hand.

A water thread as thin as a hair sprang out from the rain.

No killing intent.

Just probing.

The water thread pierced through the air, heading straight for the center of Su Yao's brow.

Su Yao didn't retreat.

She unsheathed her blade.

A flash of light.

The water thread snapped in two.

When it hit the ground, the floor tiles were cut with a deep groove.

Bai Cang narrowed his eyes.

Su Yao raised her blade.

"You've become stronger."

Bai Cang chuckled.

"I didn't expect that mouse from last time who could only borrow external power would now have S-Class strength."

"However, have you forgotten what I said last time?"

"If you appear before me again, I will personally send you on your way."

Su Yao lowered the tip of her blade.

"However, this time it is you who has borrowed external power."

She looked at the sea-blue luster flowing behind Bai Cang.

"Sea Kingdom Authority."

"That is not yours."

Bai Cang's eyes paused slightly.

Su Yao continued:

"And, how do you know I don't have an ace up my sleeve?"

Shen Yuan interrupted.

"So are you two going to fight or not?"

No one paid her any mind.

The smile on Shen Yuan's face slowly faded.

She was very annoyed.

These two people, one a riddler, one a madman.

Neither would fight properly.

And just as the three S-Class individuals were confronting each other.

In the underground parking lot of the commercial center.

A group of Salvation Society members had already started working.

They wore matching gray protective suits, their movements practiced.

Some set up isolation arrays.

Some spread out Seal cloths.

Some took out a black box, projecting anchor points toward the black cross.

The captain lowered his voice.

"Move quickly."

"The leader is holding off those two S-Class, we finish packing in ten minutes."

The vice-captain nodded.

"Core frequency locked."

"Foreign Language Tribunal rule chains: three."

"Examination."

"Elimination."

"Correction."

"Cut the Correction chain first, to avoid it judging us as violating rules in return."

A rookie swallowed hard.

"Captain, this is an A-Class Rule-type Strange Tales."

The captain glanced at him.

"When we in the Salvation Society were catching Strange Tales, you were still memorizing vocabulary at school."

The rookie was silent.

That sentence caused a lot of damage.

The Seal cloth unfolded.

Black runes lit up layer by layer.

The cross in mid-air suddenly vibrated.

The faceless man in a suit stopped chanting.

It finally realized something was wrong.

"Violation..."

"Someone is cheating..."

"Must judge..."

It was just about to raise its hand.

Click.

A metal ring from the Void Realm caught its neck.

A second.

A third.

Densely packed Seal rings locked its limbs.

The black cross began to shrink.

Like a test paper being crumpled into a ball.

The faceless man in a suit's mouth opened and closed violently.

"You..."

"Do not respect the examination..."

"And you do not respect foreign languages..."

In the corner of the parking lot.

Li Hao lay behind a car, still clutching the unfinished test paper.

He watched that group of Salvation Society members, completely dumbfounded.

He was originally hiding in the restroom.

As a result, a listening test paper fell from the restroom ceiling.

He fled all the way to the underground parking lot.

He didn't expect to see something even more absurd.

Just as he wanted to send a message to Su Yun about what he saw here, at that moment.

A Salvation Society member turned to look at him.

Li Hao froze.

The man walked over, crouched down, and stared at the test paper in his hand.

"Are you a trapped student?"

Li Hao nodded like a garlic-pounding pestle.

"Yes, yes, yes, I'm an innocent passerby."

The man took his test paper and glanced at it.

Silent for two seconds.

"Multiple-choice questions all wrong?"

Li Hao's face turned red.

"I guessed."

The man patted his shoulder.

"Brother, there's a reason why you were trapped here."

Li Hao: "..."

You wanted criminals also engage in academic discrimination?

In mid-air.

The Foreign Language Tribunal was completely anxious.

It tried to activate the Domain to drag everyone into the exam hall.

But as soon as the core vibrated, the connection to the outside was cut.

The national emotional resonance was broken.

The commercial center Domain was broken.

The test papers in front of the trapped citizens turned into black ash.

Some were stunned for half a second, then held their heads and cried.

"I'm free!"

"I'll never buy a phone case again!"

"Who said foreign languages are useless? Foreign languages can kill you!"

The black cross shrunk into a palm-sized black paper ball.

The paper ball was still wriggling.

From inside came the faceless man's broken voice.

"It's fine that you don't respect me..."

"But you actually don't respect foreign languages..."

The Salvation Society captain stuffed the paper ball into a special box.

Snap.

Close lid.

Lock.

Apply Seal.

The movements were done in one go.

"Job done."

On the ground plaza.

Su Yao's expression changed.

She felt the core of the Strange Tales disappear.

Not killed.

It was taken away by the Seal.

She looked sharply at Bai Cang.

"You were stalling for time."

Bai Cang did not deny it.

"The Salvation Society is good at this."

Shen Yuan also sensed it.

She was stunned for a moment, then laughed.

"Not bad."

"Stealing a Strange Tales right in front of the Investigation Bureau and The Watchers."

She leveled her blade.

"Bai Cang, you really have no shame."

The water flow behind Bai Cang rose slowly.

"I said, this is an offering."

Chapter 110: Oppression That Even a School Uniform Can't Block

In the living room.

Black letters were still wrapped around Su Yun.

Chu Youwei stood in front of him, the pointer in her hand hanging down gently.

I don't know when, but the cold professional attire on her had faded away, returning to the uniform of Linhai No. 2 High School.

White shirt, pleated skirt.

Very familiar.

But that nearly blinding blonde hair of hers hadn't changed back, and the lingering rule luster in her eyes hadn't dissipated either.

Thus, this appearance, falling into the eyes of Su Jianguo, Lin Wanqing, and Su Qing, felt even more wrong.

Like a school beauty.

Or rather, a school beauty whose most dangerous side had been completely amplified by something.

Chu Youwei slowly leaned over.

Su Yun looked up at her.

The next second.

She reached out.

Her slender fingers gently lifted Su Yun's chin.

The living room fell into instant silence.

Su Qing's eyes widened.

Su Jianguo gasped.

Lin Wanqing's hand holding the teacup also paused imperceptibly.

Su Yun: "..."

No.

Is this part of the tutoring process?

Chu Youwei was calm on the surface, but inside she was already exploding like fireworks.

What am I doing?

I actually lifted Su Yun's chin?

This is too bold!

But...

But I was controlled by the Strange Tales.

Right.

I was controlled by the Strange Tales.

The rules are manipulating me.

So it's reasonable for me to do something a bit out of character.

Chu Youwei lowered her eyes, looking at Su Yun, who was close at hand.

The young man was bound by black letters, but his expression didn't have a hint of panic, instead carrying a subtle scrutiny.

Her heartbeat became even more chaotic.

If...

If I kissed Su Yun now...

It wouldn't be my problem, right?

I am controlled by the Strange Tales.

Right.

Even if I kissed him, it wouldn't matter.

Anyway, it wasn't me initiating it.

It was the Strange Tales.

It's all the Strange Tales' fault.

Chu Youwei's ear tips turned red bit by bit, but the expression on her face remained cold and proper, pressed by the rules.

She spoke softly.

"Student Su Yun."

"You have long avoided foreign language studies, your attitude is extremely poor."

"You must be punished."

The more Chu Youwei spoke, the steadier her voice became.

Steady enough that she almost believed it herself.

She leaned slightly, her fingers lifting Su Yun's chin didn't let go, the lingering rule luster in her eyes flashed.

"Now, I will punish you."

In the living room.

Su Jianguo's eyeballs were about to pop out.

Su Qing was even more furious on the spot.

"No! This punishment..."

She was just about to rush up, when Lin Wanqing glanced at her indifferently.

That gaze was calm.

The meaning was also very clear.

If you dare to move, I will punish you myself!

Su Qing froze in place, her fists clenched until they creaked.

She was so aggrieved she almost coughed up blood.

Anyone who isn't blind can see this!

The core of the Strange Tales was long gone!

The rule aura outside was broken!

Chu Youwei is not being controlled at all, she just wants to reward Su Yun!

It's simply detestable, he's going to get his way.

Su Qing looked at her mother in grief and indignation.

Mom!

Do something!

Lin Wanqing picked up her teacup and took a slow sip.

As if she hadn't seen anything.

Su Jianguo opened his mouth, but eventually closed it silently under his wife's peripheral vision.

The head of the household chose strategic blindness.

After all, the Royal Rose perfume scent on him hadn't been completely washed off yet.

It was not appropriate to express any opinions about the opposite sex right now.

Chu Youwei's face got closer and closer to Su Yun's.

Her ear tips were red enough to drip blood, but her expression still stubbornly maintained coldness.

"This is... educational correction."

Su Yun looked at her and suddenly spoke.

"Actually."

Chu Youwei's movements paused.

Su Yun said seriously:

"I prefer how you looked just now."

Chu Youwei was stunned.

"How I looked just now?"

Su Yun swept his gaze downward, his tone regretful.

"Professional attire, blonde hair, pointer."

In the living room.

The air was quiet for a full three seconds.

Chu Youwei looked down.

White shirt.

Pleated skirt.

School uniform.

She froze completely.

The next second.

The coldness on Chu Youwei's face completely cracked.

"!!!"