160: Chapter 160 Home Visit Trap
In the inverted principal's office, an old lamp was lit.
The light was very dim.
Under the lamp, an old man wore a faded military uniform.
The Old Era medal on his chest was missing a corner.
Xiao Zhenjiang stared at him, his voice lowering.
"Qin Yuanshan."
Li Yan was stunned.
"Who?"
Zhang Changlin's expression was heavy as he answered for him.
"The first chief designer of the Huaxia Awakening System."
"The first Awakening array on Blue Star was built under his supervision."
Li Yan's eyes widened.
"Isn't he a hero then?"
Xiao Zhenjiang didn't speak immediately.
He looked at the old man in the inverted office, and after a few seconds, he spoke slowly.
"He was also the last person to go missing in the Old Era."
Jiang Feng looked up.
The old man was also looking at him.
Between the two Fourth High Schools, shattered classroom rules were still floating.
The students who had just escaped control huddled in the corners of the classrooms, no one daring to make a sound.
Xuanji was held in Dragon Girl's arms.
The wound on her chest hadn't fully closed yet, and her Face was terrifyingly pale.
Dragon Girl whispered, "Does it hurt?"
Xuanji shook her head.
Dragon Girl thought for a moment and pulled out half a bag of potato chips from her pocket.
"Want some?"
Xuanji looked at the half bag of potato chips and fell silent.
She had lived for countless eras.
This was the first time she found that comforting someone could be so down-to-earth.
In the principal's office, Qin Yuanshan slowly stood up.
"Xiao Zhenjiang."
"You've grown old."
Xiao Zhenjiang said in a deep voice, "You didn't die either."
Qin Yuanshan smiled slightly.
"I'm not exactly alive."
He raised his hand and pressed it on the medal on his chest.
"I am just a record detained here."
Li Yan frowned.
"A record can still talk?"
Qin Yuanshan looked at Jiang Feng.
"First Blue Star left me behind to let you enter the door."
"It knows you might not necessarily trust it."
"But you might trust an old soul of Huaxia."
Jiang Feng's tone was flat.
"Then it's overthinking."
Qin Yuanshan was taken aback.
Jiang Feng continued, "I don't even trust it, so why should I trust you?"
Li Yan almost laughed out loud.
These words were so Jiang Feng.
Not giving any Face.
But incredibly steady.
Qin Yuanshan did not get angry.
He nodded.
"Good."
"You are more clear-headed than I was back then."
He waved his hand.
The walls of the principal's office cracked open.
Rows of old files emerged from within.
Yellowed pages covered the walls.
Every page was filled with names.
[First Batch of Awakening Experiment List.]
[Survived: Three people.]
[Out of Control: Nine hundred and seventy-two people.]
[Missing: One thousand three hundred and sixty-six people.]
[Self-destructed: Two hundred and ten people.]
The playground suddenly went quiet.
The smile on Li Yan's Face vanished.
Xiao Zhenjiang closed his eyes.
"I've never seen these files."
Qin Yuanshan's voice was steady.
"Because I hid them."
Li Yan's temper flared up instantly.
"Why did you hide this?"
Qin Yuanshan looked at him.
"Because if it had been announced then, Huaxia would have collapsed."
"The Demon Realm had just descended, and the outskirts of the cities were full of monsters."
"We had no way out."
"First Blue Star provided the Awakening array."
"The price was letting it screen people."
Zhang Changlin asked in a deep voice, "Do you know what it was screening for?"
Qin Yuanshan nodded.
"I know half of it."
"It said it wanted to screen for those who could support Blue Star."
Li Yan sneered.
"And the result?"
Qin Yuanshan looked at the files, his voice lowering.
"The result was that it was screening for keys."
At the edge of the playground.
Shen Qingni gripped the ice sword in her hand.
She thought of herself.
A control sample.
A tool to stimulate Jiang Feng.
It turned out that from the first generation, everyone was under someone else's pen.
So-called talent.
So-called ratings.
So-called fate.
It had all been stuffed into file folders long ago.
Jiang Feng looked up, not beating around the bush.
"Where is the fifth key?"
Qin Yuanshan took out half a blue stone fragment from a drawer.
The stone fragment wasn't large.
But as soon as it appeared, the four earth keys in Jiang Feng's palm burned simultaneously.
A System prompt popped up.
[Detected the fifth blue star earth key fragment.]
[Recyclable.]
[Warning: This fragment is bound to the total authority of the old Awakening System.]
Qin Yuanshan did not hand it over immediately.
He looked at Jiang Feng.
"If you take it, the old Awakening System will completely die."
Jiang Feng said, "And?"
Qin Yuanshan said, "Many people will hate you."
"Those who make a living from the old array."
"Those who use ratings to suppress others."
"Those who stand at the top through resource allocation."
"They will say you destroyed the order."
Jiang Feng looked at Xiao Zhenjiang.
Xiao Zhenjiang spoke directly.
"The Huaxia military will take the blame."
Li Yan took a step forward.
"Whoever dares to jump out, I'll chop them down."
Zhang Changlin also nodded.
"Give me the list; I'll investigate tonight."
Qin Yuanshan looked at this scene, his smile fading slightly.
"If I had your spirit back then, perhaps far fewer people would have died."
Xiao Zhenjiang was silent for a moment.
Then, he said, "It's not too late now."
Qin Yuanshan shook his head.
"It's too late for me."
"But it's not too late for him."
He looked at Jiang Feng, light appearing in his eyes for the first time.
"Jiang Feng."
"I can give you the fifth key."
"But I have one request."
Li Yan immediately became alert.
"Don't pull that moral kidnapping crap."
Qin Yuanshan didn't even look at him.
"Take the old files back."
"Make them public."
"Let everyone know that Awakening shouldn't be a judgment."
"Ratings shouldn't be shackles."
"Talent shouldn't decide a person's entire life."
Jiang Feng said, "This is already being done."
Qin Yuanshan nodded.
"That's good."
He threw down the fifth earth key.
The stone fragment passed through the blue screen between the two schools and fell toward Jiang Feng.
But just as the fragment was about to fall into Jiang Feng's palm—
The light in the principal's office suddenly went out.
Qin Yuanshan's expression changed.
"It's here."
Behind the office, the wall cracked open.
A blue hand reached out from the darkness, grabbing for the fifth earth key.
That hand had no skin.
It was covered in students' names.
Every name was struggling.
Zero Seven's Face turned pale.
"That's not a teacher."
"It's the manifestation of First Blue Star's school rules!"
The blue hand grabbed the edge of the earth key.
The next second, a cold voice spread throughout the two schools.
[Old principal's authority revoked.]
[Fifth key recovered.]
[Blue Star autonomous Awakening judged as truancy.]
[All students must retake the course.]
In the classrooms above, the students who had just regained consciousness screamed simultaneously.
Blue light lit up on their foreheads again.
The classroom power left by the fake Liu Cuilan began to make a comeback.
Shen Qingni raised her sword.
Ice light shot into the sky, severing several blue lines.
Li Yan also rushed out.
"I hate make-up classes the most!"
But there were too many blue lines.
They didn't kill.
They only changed names.
Once entangled, one's gaze would slowly become empty.
Xiao Zhenjiang split a blue line in front of him with a sword and shouted in a deep voice, "Jiang Feng!"
Jiang Feng had already moved.
He didn't go after the fifth earth key.
Instead, he first raised his hand and pressed it toward the entire Blue Star Fourth High School.
The new Awakening array lit up.
That line of words appeared again.
[The Awakened's own will takes priority.]
The blue lines crashed into these words like hitting a steel wall.
They snapped one by one.
A System prompt followed.
[New Awakening array vs. old school rules.]
[Can plunder residual authority of the old school rules.]
Jiang Feng said, "Plunder."
[Plunder successful.]
[Obtained all attributes: 8 Ji.]
[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 178 Ji.]
The blue hand paused for a moment.
Only then did Jiang Feng look up.
"Stealing my things?"
As his voice fell.
He stepped onto the inverted principal's office in one stride.
The office floor sank on the spot.
The blue hand retreated while holding the fifth key.
Jiang Feng reached out and grabbed its wrist.
The students' names on the blue hand glowed frantically.
[Touching school rules is prohibited.]
[Violators will receive a demerit.]
Jiang Feng's fingers tightened.
"Record it."
*Crack.*
The blue hand fractured.
[Major demerit recorded.]
Jiang Feng continued to apply force.
"Keep recording."
*Bang!*
The blue hand exploded into shards of light.
The fifth earth key fell into his palm.
The five earth keys came together with a soft click.
[blue star earth key fragments: 5/9.]
[Thirteenth Transformation prerequisite progress increased.]
[Obtained all attributes increase: 25 Ji.]
[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 203 Ji.]
*Boom!*
Both Fourth High Schools shook simultaneously.
The light of the new Blue Star Awakening array began to spread.
Starting from Dongjiang City, it spread all the way to various parts of Huaxia.
Countless old Awakening stone tablets cracked at the same time.
Those who had once been suppressed by ratings heard the same prompt in their ears.
[Old ratings invalidated.]
[Please re-choose your path.]
At this moment.
In various parts of Huaxia, countless people looked up.
Some had been judged as F-grade and could only be handymen for a lifetime.
Some had been completely kicked out of the resource System because their talent was incompatible.
Some clearly had a heart full of passion but were suppressed for half their lives by the phrase "rating too low."
Now, that lock was broken.
The ice sword in Shen Qingni's hand completely solidified.
The frost no longer turned into a high-and-mighty crown.
Instead, it turned into a sword that belonged to her.
Fire surged within Li Yan's body.
He looked at his hand and grinned.
"This time, the old System really got smashed to pieces."
The old injuries on Xiao Zhenjiang's body healed another section.
He looked up at the new Awakening array, his eyes heavy.
But in that heaviness, there was a bit of ease for the first time.
Far away in Tianshu Dragon Garden.
Dragon Girl suddenly burped.
The extreme grade godhead in her stomach quieted down completely.
Subsequently, a purple-gold dragon shadow rose from behind her.
A System prompt entered Jiang Feng's ears.
[Contract target: Dragon Girl.]
[extreme grade godhead devouring stabilized.]
[Evolution stage increased: Wuliang Heavenly Dao Ancestral Dragon (Larva).]
[Blue Star bearing capacity limit permanently increased.]
[Contract feedback: All attributes increased by 10 Ji.]
[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 213 Ji.]
Dragon Girl was stunned.
Then she whispered to Liu Cuilan, "Grandma, did I grow taller again?"
Liu Cuilan patted her head.
"I can't tell."
Dragon Girl was a bit disappointed.
"Oh."
Jiang Feng glanced at the panel; his mood was okay.
Fixed a school.
Snatched a key.
Helped Dragon Girl digest the godhead along the way.
Not a bad harvest.
In the principal's office, Qin Yuanshan's body began to fade.
He looked at the Huaxia below and gave a very old military salute.
"The road ahead, I won't be able to see it."
Jiang Feng said, "Then don't look."
"I will tear my way through."
Qin Yuanshan smiled.
"Good."
"But remember, the sixth key is not in a school."
"It's in..."
Before he could finish.
From the deepest part of the inverted school, a bell suddenly rang.
It wasn't the class bell.
It was the dismissal bell.
Ring, ring, ring—
Ring, ring, ring—
All classroom doors opened simultaneously.
Behind the doors stood rows of "parents."
They all had the Faces of Jiang Jianguo and Liu Cuilan.
Densely packed.
So quiet it made one's skin crawl.
At the very front, a woman in a black dress holding a textbook looked up at Jiang Feng.
Her voice came down.
"The fifth key is lost."
"Initiating Home Visit."
"Target: Jiang Feng's family relationships."
"First stop—Tianshu Dragon Garden."