74: Chapter 74 This isn't a test, it's a diplomatic incident.

Su Yun smiled.

It was a faint smile.

So faint, it felt like a breeze brushing past the window during morning study.

But when Gu Lang saw it, his back grew even colder.

Because he knew very well that the young man in front of him was no ordinary person.

No.

It couldn't even be simply described as "not an ordinary person".

The death record seen through Corpse Peering wouldn't lie.

Su Yun had already died.

He had died at the hands of the Slit-Mouthed Woman.

Yet now, a person who had already died was sitting beside him, calmly flipping through an English textbook, even pondering how to memorize "abandon".

Gu Lang couldn't judge what Su Yun really was.

But he could judge one thing.

If he provoked him here, the consequences would definitely be something a single inspection card couldn't contain.

The tall man's hand was still resting on his cuff.

A compressed spiritual energy lock was hidden there.

This was the Investigation Bureau's standard control device for abnormal Awakened; once triggered, it could instantly seal the target's spiritual energy circuits in their limbs and release a high-pressure restraint field.

It worked very well on ordinary Awakened.

It also had a certain suppressing effect on B-Level Weird Tales.

But as Gu Lang looked at that hand preparing to reach for the spiritual energy lock, he felt it wasn't like grabbing a law enforcement tool.

It was more like throwing a lighter into a nuclear reactor.

He slammed his hand down on the tall man's wrist.

His voice was low enough that only a few could hear.

"Don't make a move here."

The tall man frowned: "Are you ordering me?"

Gu Lang looked at him.

There was no emotion in those pure black eyes, only a kind of nearly cold judgment.

"I am saving you."

As soon as these words were out, the bespectacled man's expression changed.

The students in the classroom couldn't understand the secret language between them, but they could smell something off.

These so-called inspection team members were not here with good intentions.

And it seemed they were really planning to do something to Su Yun.

The Homeroom Teacher's expression also sank completely.

Although he had just taken over this class and hadn't even fully adapted to the outrageous ecological environment of Class 1, Grade 3, he at least knew one thing.

Students in the classroom were under his jurisdiction.

Especially Su Yun.

This child had just gone through the Pseudo-Human Examination Room incident and had been inexplicably targeted by the "Education Safety Inspection Team".

If he, the Homeroom Teacher, just sat there and did nothing, then he shouldn't be a teacher anymore.

The Homeroom Teacher stood directly at Su Yun's desk, blocking half of the tall man's position.

"Comrades, if you don't have official procedures, please don't disturb the students' morning study."

The tall man shook off Gu Lang's hand.

His expression turned completely cold.

"We are executing the Highest Safety Directive."

As soon as these words were out, the air in the classroom seemed to drop by a few degrees.

Several students subconsciously shrank their necks.

They couldn't understand the specific meaning of the words "Highest Safety Directive".

But just the tone alone was enough to make one's heart panic.

The bespectacled man also stepped forward half a step, his tone suppressed very steadily, yet carrying a kind of official pressure that allowed no refusal.

"Student Su Yun, we are not asking for your opinion, but eliminating safety hazards."

He looked down at the folder, his voice colder.

"You were once involved in a B-Level Weird Tale incident, and your performance was abnormal."

"After you came into contact with the transfer student Gu Lang, there was no spiritual fluctuation."

"Now you are refusing the basic spiritual examination."

"All of these are sufficient to constitute grounds for temporary control."

The tall man continued: "If you continue to be uncooperative, we have the right to take you away from the school for closed-door interrogation."

The classroom went silent instantly.

Take away from the school.

Closed-door interrogation.

These words, falling into the ears of a group of high school students, were almost a threat.

The smirk on Li Hao's face disappeared.

Chu Youwei's fingertips tightened slightly, and her gaze turned cold.

The Homeroom Teacher's face was livid: "By what right are you taking my student away?"

The tall man said coldly: "By the Highest Safety Directive."

Su Yun looked at him: "Highest?"

"Yes."

"Who gave it to you?"

The tall man said coldly: "You have no right to know that."

Su Yun nodded.

He was not angry.

His tone didn't even change.

He simply reached into his school uniform pocket and pulled out a golden token.

"Then, do I have the right to know about this?"

The token was not big.

It was entirely gilded.

The front was engraved with a broken sun pattern.

The back was a line of ancient Sanctuary script.

Ordinary students couldn't understand it.

But the two plainclothes investigators understood.

The tall man's pupils shrank suddenly.

The folder in the bespectacled man's hand almost fell to the ground.

The Sanctuary Saintess's personal token.

And not just an ordinary keepsake.

This was Saintess Lin Xinglan's own token.

Seeing the token was like seeing the Saintess herself.

The nature of this thing appearing in the hands of a high school student had completely changed.

This was no longer "safety inspection".

Nor was it "temporary control".

This was a diplomatic incident.

A series of consequences flashed through the bespectacled man's mind instantly.

The Linhai branch director would be implicated and have to write a ten-thousand-word self-criticism overnight.

The Investigation Bureau headquarters would hold an emergency accountability meeting.

The Sanctuary would issue a letter to apply pressure.

The High Command's diplomatic coordination office would be forced to step in and clean up the mess.

In the worst case, Saintess Lin Xinglan herself would bring people from the Sanctuary to block the gate of the Investigation Bureau.

He could even imagine the headlines.

"Daxia Investigation Bureau Illegally Detains Sanctuary VIPs."

"Holder of Saintess Keepsake Harassed by Investigation Bureau on Campus."

"Linhai Branch's High-Pressure Law Enforcement Sparks Sanctuary Accountability."

This wasn't handling a case?

This was throwing a cigarette butt into a powder magazine.

And throwing it after lighting it.

The tall man's Adam's apple moved.

"You... how do you have this?"

Su Yun placed the token on the desk, his tone very flat.

"Someone gave it to me."

Li Hao leaned over to take a look and asked in a low voice: "Brother Yun, what is this? Game merchandise?"

Chu Youwei looked at that token, her breath hitching suddenly.

Her Family had relevant records.

The Sanctuary's Saintess Token.

Outsiders had no possibility of obtaining it.

It wasn't because the thing itself was so powerful.

But because it represented the Sanctuary's attitude.

What kind of place was the Sanctuary?

It was a transcendent organization independent of all major official systems.

And the Saintess Token was an identity symbol personally endorsed by the highest level of the Sanctuary.

Chu Youwei's gaze toward Su Yun changed completely.

Before, she only suspected Su Yun was a hidden big shot.

Now she felt her perspective was too small.

This guy wasn't just a simple hidden big shot.

He was likely a relative of a hidden big shot.

No.

Even "relative" might be conservative.

What kind of status did someone who could hold Saintess Lin Xinglan's token have within the Sanctuary?

Illegitimate child?

Saint?

Sanctuary heir?

The more Chu Youwei thought about it, the more outrageous it seemed, but the more reasonable it felt.

No wonder Su Yun was so calm in the face of Strange Tales.

No wonder he dared to confront the investigators directly.

No wonder he could come to school like nothing happened today after the whole city was locked down yesterday.

It turned out it wasn't that he was thick-skinned.

It was that his backing was big enough to make him fearless.

The bespectacled man forced his voice to be steady: "Student Su Yun, this token involves the high level of the Sanctuary, please explain its source."

Su Yun raised his eyes: "Saintess Lin Xinglan gave it to me."

The classroom was quiet.

Li Hao scratched his head: "Who is Saintess Lin Xinglan? A celebrity?"

Chu Youwei turned her head to look at Li Hao and spat out two words faintly: "Idiot!"

The bespectacled man's forehead broke out in sweat.

The tall man's toughness also collapsed a corner.

Saintess Lin Xinglan.

The current Saintess of the Sanctuary.

That was a person who could talk to the High Command on equal terms.

If they forcibly inspected the person holding the Saintess Token today, the Sanctuary could issue a letter of accountability tomorrow.

The day after, the Investigation Bureau could hold a disciplinary meeting internally.

Two days after that, the two of them might have to kneel at the entrance of the Sanctuary to explain why they harassed a Sanctuary VIP on campus.

The tall man still wanted to struggle.

"The token may not be real."

Gu Lang turned his head to look at him, his eyes looking at a dead man.

He really wanted to ask one question now.

Are you tired of living?

Do you know who is sitting in front of you?

He had died.

He had been killed by a D-Level Slit-Mouthed Woman.

But now he was alive.

He also had the Sanctuary Saintess Token behind him.

There might even be people from the Sanctuary watching outside.

You are questioning the authenticity of the token now?

This was no longer bravery.

This was a creative way to commit suicide.

Su Yun picked up the token and casually placed it on the inspection card.

The gray-white card lit up.

The next second.

"Beep—"

A harsh alarm sounded.

A line of red text jumped out on the surface of the card.

[Sanctuary Highest-Level Diplomatic Identification.]

[Insufficient Authority.]

[Please stop the inspection immediately.]

[Please stop the inspection immediately.]

[Please stop the inspection immediately.]

Three times in a row.

The sound was quite loud.

All the students in the class heard it.

Li Hao's eyes widened: "Holy crap, Brother Yun, your merchandise even has anti-counterfeiting!"

Su Yun took the token back: "Yeah, it's authentic."

The Homeroom Teacher's face also sank.

"Gentlemen, explain."

The bespectacled man immediately put away the folder.

"Misunderstanding."

Su Yun: "Wasn't it the Highest Safety Directive just now?"

The bespectacled man smiled stiffly.

"There was a communication deviation in the process."

Su Yun: "Weren't you going to take me away for closed-door interrogation just now?"

The bespectacled man's back began to sweat.

"That was a contingency plan made based on incorrect information, not representing the final execution."

Su Yun: "Didn't you say I had no right to know just now?"

The tall man's face turned blue and white.

Gu Lang added insult to injury from the side: "Now he has the right."

The tall man looked at Gu Lang.

Whose side are you on?

Gu Lang had no expression.

He wasn't on anyone's side.

He just didn't want Class 1, Grade 3 to become the High Command's Accident Scene Number Zero this morning.

Su Yun pushed the inspection card back.

"Are you still doing the inspection?"

The bespectacled man shook his head immediately: "No need."

Su Yun: "Can I refuse?"

"Of course."

"Won't be forcibly taken away?"

"Absolutely not."

"Won't threaten the people around me?"

The bespectacled man's sweat came down.

"Absolutely not."

Su Yun nodded: "Then you can leave. Morning study is almost over, and I haven't finished memorizing the words."

Chu Youwei looked at his textbook.

Still on the first page.

Abandon.

She couldn't help but say: "Your progress is quite stable."

Su Yun: "The foundation must be laid firmly."

Li Hao leaned over: "Brother Yun, can you lend me this token to touch? I want to get some nobility that doesn't require doing homework."

The Homeroom Teacher spoke coldly: "Li Hao, your homework is tripled."

Li Hao froze.

"Teacher, can diplomatic immunity exempt me?"

"If you say another word, quadruple."

Li Hao shut his mouth on the spot.

The tension in the classroom was dissipated a lot by this.

But the two investigators couldn't laugh at all.

The bespectacled man took a half-step back, pulled out his communicator, and reported in a hushed voice.

"Target Su Yun is in possession of a Saintess token from the Sanctuary, suspected to be personally bestowed by Saintess Lin Xinglan."

There was a two-second silence on the other end of the communicator.

Then, a voice suppressing anger came through.

"Who told you to conduct forced testing inside the school?"

The bespectacled man's face went pale.

"Sir, we were just following protocol—"

The voice on the other end grew colder.

"Protocol? Does your protocol say to coerce a holder of a Sanctuary token? Does it say to exert spiritual pressure in a classroom of Class 1, Grade 3? Does it say to make the Linhai branch take the fall for your diplomatic incidents?"

Sweat beads rolled directly down the bespectacled man's forehead.

"Sir..."

"Withdraw."

The voice on the other end sounded like it was squeezed out between teeth.

"Withdraw immediately."

"Say one more word, and I will personally send you to the Sanctuary to explain yourselves."

The bespectacled man immediately acknowledged.

"Yes."

But just as he turned to leave, a dull thud suddenly came from outside the classroom window.

Bang!

The glass vibrated slightly.

Everyone turned their heads.

Outside the window, on the plane tree opposite the teaching building, two figures were crouching.

One was thin and tall.

One was as sturdy as a door panel.

Arbiter Lei Zhen and Arbiter Qin Feng.

The two had originally been observing from a rooftop a hundred meters away.

The distance was far.

They only saw the Investigation Bureau personnel enter the classroom and stand in front of Su Yun's desk.

Then Su Yun took out the Saintess token.

How could this be allowed?

The Saint had even taken out the Saintess token.

What did this imply?

It implied that the situation was critical enough to require revealing his Sanctuary status to save his life!

Arbiter Qin Feng nearly exploded on the spot.

"Brother Lei! The Investigation Bureau is going to make a move on the Saint!"

Arbiter Lei Zhen's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.

Last time, when Dark Blade abducted Su Yun into the sky in broad daylight, they had already committed a major dereliction of duty.

If they let the Investigation Bureau take the person away from the classroom again this time...

Saintess Lin Xinglan wouldn't scold them.

She would purify them directly.

The two did not hesitate at all.

They rushed over from the rooftop.

At this moment, Arbiter Lei Zhen was crouching outside the windowsill, his face pressed against the glass, his eyes so fierce they could scare a child to tears.

Arbiter Qin Feng was even more exaggerated.

One of his hands was already pressed against the window frame, with golden spiritual energy emerging from between his fingers.

The whole class looked at the two adults outside the window.

They were silent.

Li Hao opened his mouth: "Our class is... quite lively today."

The Homeroom Teacher was also stunned.

Where did these ones come from?

He had just taken over this class.

First, a ghostly transfer student.

Then, suspected plainclothes officers from the Investigation Bureau.

Then, a Saintess token.

Now, two adults who looked like they were about to demolish the building were crouching outside the window.

He was just a teacher.

Not a supernatural affairs coordinator.

The Homeroom Teacher looked at the two people outside the window, then looked at his lesson plan.

He suddenly felt that this job might not be suitable for an ordinary human.

Arbiter Lei Zhen spoke through the glass in a deep voice: "Student Su Yun-Saint... are you being coerced?"

The voice wasn't loud.

But the whole classroom heard it.

Su Yun-Saint?

What kind of Celestial Dragon is he?

Uh... it seems right, holding this token, he is indeed a Celestial Dragon.

The whole class looked at Su Yun in unison.

Chu Youwei's eyelid twitched.

As expected.

The Saint?

Although Arbiter Lei Zhen changed his words at the last minute, she heard it.

She definitely heard it.

Su Yun-Saint... what?

The Saint?

A Saint descendant?

A hidden heir of the Sanctuary?

Chu Youwei instantly filled in a whole complex plot involving secret Family succession struggles, covert support from the Sanctuary Saintess, and the Investigation Bureau attempting to test the bottom line.

The look in her eyes as she gazed at Su Yun became even more complicated.

So that was it.

This guy usually pretended to be an ordinary high school student, not because he was low-key.

It was because his identity was sensitive.

Su Yun rubbed his temples.

It's over.

Why did these two idiots come here?

Arbiter Qin Feng was already preparing to break through the window.

"Investigation Bureau people, stay away from him!"

The bespectacled man's face turned even paler.

Sanctuary Arbiter.

And two A-Level ones at that.

They were only here today to assist with the Lone Wolf mission and secretly probe the situation.

As a result, they fished out a Saintess token.

Now they had fished out two A-Level Sanctuary personal guards.

This was no longer just a diplomatic incident.

This was a diplomatic incident serial.

The tall man gritted his teeth: "We are Investigation Bureau execution personnel."

Arbiter Qin Feng sneered: "Executing on a distinguished guest of the Sanctuary?"

Arbiter Lei Zhen looked at Su Yun.

"Student Su Yun, just say the word, and we will immediately beat them to death... uh, take them away."

Su Yun was expressionless: "No need."

Arbiter Qin Feng was anxious: "But you even took out your token!"

Su Yun: "I took it out to ward off evil spirits."

Arbiter Qin Feng: "..."

Arbiter Lei Zhen: "..."

A few students in the classroom couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Li Hao whispered to Chu Youwei: "Brother Yun's Family situation seems even more outrageous than I imagined."

Chu Youwei whispered back: "Shut up, watch the show."

The bespectacled man immediately bowed.

"Student Su Yun, today our protocol was not rigorous. Apologies."

The tall man, with a dark face, also followed suit and bowed his head.

"Apologies."

Su Yun glanced at them.

"Don't apologize to me."

The two were stunned.

Su Yun pointed at the classroom.

"You scared my classmates."

The classroom went silent.

Li Hao froze.

Chu Youwei also looked at Su Yun.

The students in the class who were originally nervous had their expressions change.

When the investigator said they wanted to take Su Yun away just now, they were indeed scared.

But no one dared to admit they were scared.

Because that would be too embarrassing.

But Su Yun said it out loud.

He didn't say he was offended.

Nor did he use the token to continue suppressing others.

He only said—

You scared my classmates.

Li Hao opened his mouth, but suddenly couldn't say anything.

Chu Youwei's eyes flickered slightly.

This person was usually sharp-tongued, lazy, and always appeared indifferent to everything.

But every time something real happened, the person he protected was never himself.

It was like this in the Pseudo-Human Examination Room.

It was like this now too.

The bespectacled man was silent for a moment, then turned and bowed to the whole class.

"Apologies for interrupting your class."

The tall man was reluctant, but under the gaze of the Sanctuary token and the two A-Level Arbiters outside the window, he still bowed his head.

"Apologies."

No one in the class spoke.

But that sense of oppression finally dissipated.

Su Yun finally withdrew his gaze.

"Go."

The two investigators didn't dare to linger, and quickly left with their folders.

Gu Lang did not leave.

He was still sitting beside Su Yun.

Arbiter Lei Zhen and Arbiter Qin Feng didn't leave either.

The two climbed through the window and stood on both sides of Su Yun's desk, like two door gods.

The Homeroom Teacher looked at the window, then at the footprints on the floor, his mouth twitching wildly.

"Can't you... use the door?"

Arbiter Qin Feng looked down at the shoe prints.

"The situation was urgent."

The Homeroom Teacher took a deep breath.

He felt he should be angry.

But he didn't know which one to be angry at first.

Was it being angry at the Investigation Bureau plainclothes officers entering the school for high-pressure enforcement?

Or being angry at the Sanctuary bodyguards crouching on the window?

Or being angry at these two adults climbing through the window into the classroom?

Or being angry at why he, an ordinary Homeroom Teacher, had to face this kind of international situation during morning self-study?

Su Yun looked up: "You two go too."

Arbiter Lei Zhen said in a low voice: "Student, the Saintess ordered us to provide close protection."

"This is school."

"We can disguise ourselves."

Su Yun looked at Arbiter Lei Zhen's face, which was scary enough to stop a child from crying at night.

"What will you disguise as? A new PE teacher?"

Arbiter Qin Feng immediately replied: "I can disguise as the school doctor."

Li Hao looked at him: "Brother, does your temperament look like a school doctor? You look like you came to collect a corpse."

Arbiter Qin Feng's eyes turned cold.

Li Hao immediately lowered his head to do his homework.

Writing with unprecedented seriousness.

Su Yun sighed.

"You go out. Five hundred meters away. Don't let me see you stuck to the window again."

Arbiter Lei Zhen hesitated: "But..."

Su Yun took out the token and tapped it on the desk.

"This is an order."

Arbiter Lei Zhen and Arbiter Qin Feng stood at attention instantly.

"Yes."

The two jumped out through the window again.

The Homeroom Teacher looked at the window frame and fell into silence.

Could this window still be used?

The morning self-study bell finally rang.

The classroom regained a bit of liveliness.

But the way everyone looked at Su Yun was different now.

Li Hao peeked at him secretly.

The girls whispered and discussed.

Chu Youwei looked down at her workbook, her brain having already filled in the script of "Hidden Sanctuary Heir Tested by Authorities, Hiding Identity to Experience Life on Campus" up to the third season.

Gu Lang, however, slowly turned his head to look at Su Yun.

His worldview was crumbling bit by bit.

A person who had already died once.

A person feared by Strange Talk Sequence 033.

A person holding a Saintess token.

A person closely protected by two A-Level Sanctuary Arbiters.

A person who could make Investigation Bureau plainclothes officers bow their heads on the spot.

Now sitting next to him, opening his foreign language book, preparing to memorize 'abandon'.

Is this reasonable?

Does this make sense?

High Command sent him to fish for high-level Strange Tales.

As a result, he didn't catch the fish.

He seemed to have been thrown next to the monster's dinner plate.

Gu Lang's voice was very low.

"What exactly is your identity?"

Su Yun picked up the foreign language book.

"A high school student forced to memorize vocabulary."

Gu Lang stared at him: "The Sanctuary protects you, the Investigation Bureau investigates you, and the things High Command wants to find might also be by your side."

Su Yun opened the first page.

"Coincidence."

Gu Lang's voice was even lower.

"Is it really a coincidence?"

Su Yun did not answer immediately.

He just looked down at the words on the page, his slender fingers tapping lightly on the desk.

In a place Gu Lang couldn't see.

Deep within Su Yun's Soul, countless invisible tentacles slowly stretched out.

That scent from Strange Talk Sequence 033 was still fresh, still tempting.

Like a small snack delivered to the dinner table, but still labeled "Do Not Eat."

The Corpse-eating Dog inside Gu Lang instinctively curled up deeper.

It was afraid.

It understood one thing earlier than Gu Lang.

They weren't here to fish.

They were the bait placed on the table.

Su Yun lowered his eyelids.

The corners of his mouth lifted imperceptibly.

"Student Gu Lang."

"Hmm?"

"Do you know what 'abandon' means?"

Gu Lang was stunned.

Su Yun said seriously: "To give up."

Gu Lang frowned: "So?"

Su Yun looked at him, his tone sincere.

"I suggest you learn it too."