Chapter 124
Chapter 124
The sight of his mother made Lin Qingfeng’s brain crash.
He could not consider how or why she had arrived.
The woman had the classic tightly curled hairstyle of a Shanghai auntie and cradled an evil toy poodle. One look at her made Lin Qingfeng’s legs buckle. He dropped to his knees.
“Mom, I was wrong…”
Call the Parents was less powerful offensively than Verbal Condemnation.
Its damage was low, but the humiliation was overwhelming.
When it came to destroying someone’s psychological defenses, it was a heaven-defying skill.
Normally, Lin Qingfeng could have realized this was only a replica. Under the skill’s effect–especially with Qin Lan’s extremely high Spirit–he lost all reason.
Only the most primal fear of his mother remained.
No creature could remain calm when its furious mother stood before it and shouted its full name.
“Lin! Qing! Feng!”
The curly-haired auntie’s roar drained all color from his face.
“I paid for you to attend university so you could learn! All you learned was how to fight?!”
“Do you want to die?!”
He immediately begged for mercy, snot and tears streaming down his face.
“Mom! I’m sorry! I was wrong!”
“I’ll never do it again!”
“I shouldn’t have bullied people with other students! I shouldn’t have borrowed money and refused to repay it! I shouldn’t have put a rubber band around it and told a junior student I was wearing an ultra-thin condom when I wasn’t wearing one at all…”
“I shouldn’t have taken other people’s reserved simulated-instance slots! I shouldn’t have installed malware on a professor’s phone, stolen his private photos, and blackmailed him…”
Lin Qingfeng confessed through his tears and slapped himself repeatedly.
“I’m not human! I deserve to die! I’m an animal…”
Under everyone’s astonished gaze, he slapped his face red while listing crime after crime.
“Holy crap… Has Senior Lin lost his mind?”
“Who knows? I’m recording it. I’ll post it on the campus network later. It’ll go viral.”
“Why didn’t you say so? I’m recording too!”
“Wait. Is any of that true? Holy shit, he blackmailed a professor?”
“Who cares whether it’s true? Tell me it isn’t explosive.”
The crowd chattered and pulled out phones, terrified of missing this once-in-a-lifetime spectacle.
Qin Lan looked contemptuously at Lin Qingfeng.
“Bastard…”
“You did that much awful shit?”
He had intended only to intimidate and humiliate Lin Qingfeng. The man’s mind was so weak that a few pushes made him expose everything down to his underwear.
Seeing disaster, Zhao Kuang seized Lin Qingfeng’s shoulders and shook him violently.
“Senior Lin! Wake up!”
“That isn’t your mother! She’s fake!”
Unfortunately, shaking could not dispel the effect.
Unless someone possessed Spirit comparable to Qin Lan’s, it would last until Qin Lan exhausted his curse energy.
Qin Lan happened to have plenty.
He narrowed his eyes at Zhao Kuang.
“Hah. I nearly forgot you…”
“Come forth! Zhao Kuang’s father!”
Qin Lan did not actually need the bizarre incantation.
He simply felt that summoning something without shouting a line lacked grandeur, so he added the step.
The scene changed again.
Lin Qingfeng continued his tearful self-criticism.
Beside him, Zhao Kuang knelt and kowtowed to his father.
Facing the man responsible for ninety percent of his childhood beatings, Zhao Kuang lost all his temper.
“Dad, forgive me. I shouldn’t have lied…”
“I never liked women. I’ve liked men since childhood…”
Zhao Kuang’s forehead split from kowtowing, but the content of his confession was even more astonishing.
His huge body now trembled as helplessly as a chick.
Qin Lan’s eyes widened. “Holy shit?”
Zhao Kuang kept exposing himself.
“You always taught me to be manly, but I really like men… I love their muscular bodies and their sexy stubble…”
Zhao Kuang wept bitterly.
“I deliberately act fierce and gather lots of underlings, but it’s only so I can reasonably make physical contact with them…”
“Every time I put an arm around their shoulders, my heart races…”
“It’s like touching soft cotton while floating among the clouds. I never want to let go…”
The men beside Zhao Kuang turned green.
What?!
I treated my big brother like a big brother, but he treated me like his wife?!
Without hesitation, they turned and fled.
None dared look back.
Even Qin Lan retreated two solemn steps.
“Something like this actually happened…”
To avoid hearing anything more heaven-defying and contaminating his brain, Qin Lan hesitated, then ended the skill.
Without curse energy supporting them, the replicas became illusory. Within seconds, they faded to transparency and disappeared.
As the two figures dissolved, Lin Qingfeng and Zhao Kuang gradually regained awareness.
Lin Qingfeng touched his swollen red cheeks in a daze.
“Why… was I slapping myself?”
Zhao Kuang had repeatedly kissed the ground until his mind became muddled. Even with “Dad” gone, he continued muttering.
“Don’t hit me, Dad. Don’t hit me…”
Qin Lan looked gratified.
“It seems both students have deeply recognized their mistakes.”
“As the saying goes, nothing is better than correcting an error. If you change your ways, you can still be good children.”
“In that case, I’ll–”
Before he finished, the paving stones shattered. Thick vines erupted from the ground and bound Qin Lan tightly.
They moved extremely quickly. Each was as thick as a bowl, emitted faint blue light, and contained dense curse energy.
In less than a second, the vines formed a small “prison,” with Qin Lan as its inmate.
Feeling their strength, Qin Lan remained calm.
To him, the vines were as laughable as rubber bands. He could break free whenever he wished.
But first, he wanted to see who had attacked.
“Those vines! Senior Qian Yang attacked!” someone cried.
Heads turned.
A blond young woman slowly approached, her expression icy.
Her cold gaze settled on Qin Lan.
“What do you think Clear Spring Academy is? A place where you can run wild?”
“My vines have trapped you and injected paralytic toxin into your body. In thirty seconds, you’ll lose consciousness and be at my mercy.”
Understanding dawned on Qin Lan.
“So they’re poisonous.”
“I wondered why an [Abnormal Status Nullified] message suddenly appeared… I thought I’d gotten food poisoning from a bargain meal earlier.”
Qian Yang walked closer, step by step.
She glanced at the miserable Lin Qingfeng, and her eyes grew colder.
“You actually beat him into this state…”
Qin Lan immediately grew serious.
“Hey, you can eat shit carelessly, but you can’t speak carelessly.”
“Senior Tang, Lin Qingfeng slapped his own face swollen. That has nothing to do with me.”
Qian Yang froze and frowned.
“What Senior Tang? My surname is Qian, given name Yang!”
Qin Lan froze too.
“Huh? Not Tang?”
“Sorry. You just used Blue Silver Bind, so I mistook you for the guy born with twin martial souls…”
“I was wondering why I couldn’t see your spirit rings…”
Then he asked with complete sincerity, “By the way, can you use a hammer?”
“You know, the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer Technique?”
Qian Yang’s expression twisted.
He dared!
At a time like this!
His arrogance knew no bounds!