11:55 a.m.

Evolution Academy, Teaching Building No. 3.

Lin Zichen, Shen Qinghan, Li Chuxin and the client were all waiting on the first floor of the building, waiting for the target to appear after class.

Five minutes later.

The class bell rang right on time.

The once quiet teaching building suddenly became noisy.

Students poured out of the classrooms, crowding the corridors in twos and threes, chatting and laughing as they headed downstairs.

Quite a few students, pressed for time, chose the shortcut and leapt down from the upper floors, landing with a heavy thud.

Then they got up as if nothing had happened and left.

“Isn’t that Lin Zichen?”

“This is the sophomore teaching area, what’s he doing here?”

“He’s staring at everyone who walks by, he’s not here as a paid stand‑in, is he?”

“Nine times out of ten, he really is here for someone, I wonder which unlucky one has caught his eye.”

“I thought he was just mouthing off at the gym that day, didn’t expect he was serious.”

“Showtime.”

Many people noticed Lin Zichen and started talking.

Lin Zichen ignored the chatter and stood there quietly without moving.

He didn’t speak either.

He just waited for the target to come down.

Yet after waiting a long time, the target still didn’t show.

“That’s strange, why haven’t I seen Huang Jiamin, did she take leave today or what?”

The client muttered with a puzzled face.

Lin Zichen said blandly, “She didn’t take leave, she’s staying in the classroom and not coming out.”

“How do you know?”

The client asked curiously.

Lin Zichen tossed off a line, “Intuition.”

Intuition? Not intuition, perception.

The biological attribute Danger Perception had greatly boosted his sensing ability, he could sense all kinds of presences even a hundred meters away.

“Lin Zichen, stop waiting, that Huang Jiamin isn’t coming down. She knows you’re blocking her, she’s scared and hiding in the classroom right now, calling her brother for help. My advice is you go up and find her directly.”

A young man waiting to watch the fun shouted loudly to Lin Zichen.

No sooner had he finished than a girl in the crowd frowned and reprimanded him, “Yan Liang, what are you doing, how can you take an outsider’s side!”

“Side your mom! That bitch put nine green hats (cheating/cuckloding) on me, I can’t wait for her to die! If you keep yapping, I’ll come over and kick you!”

The young man hurled abuse at the girl.

He was Huang Jiamin’s classmate and also her ex‑boyfriend.

During last year’s summer vacation, in less than a week, he was given nine green hats by Huang Jiamin and now he couldn’t wait for her to die.

‘Nine green hats?’

Shen Qinghan was stunned, thinking this guy was too tragic, so tragic she couldn’t bring herself to tell him to be strong.

Li Chuxin beside her even exclaimed, “My god, that woman is so wild, she actually put nine green hats on her own boyfriend, that’s insane!”

The client, however, looked worried, “Huang Jiamin’s brother is extremely strong, his Biological Level is as high as Ordinary Tier Seven and I hear he’s pretty well‑connected in the Student Union, maybe we should drop the commission today and not do it.”

Then she added, “It’s my unilateral breach, you don’t need to refund the eleven credits.”

“Hu Yingli, don’t wimp out!”

Li Chuxin urged the client, “Zichen is much stronger than you think, the day before yesterday at the gym he one‑shotted that Jin‑something‑Yu disciplinary inspector, at best that brother of Huang Jiamin’s is on the same level as that Jin‑something‑Yu, easy one‑shot!”

The client fretted, “It’s not that I don’t believe in Brother Chen’s strength, it’s that Huang Jiamin’s brother really is well‑connected, he’s got friends everywhere, I’m afraid when the time comes he’ll have numbers on his side and Brother Chen will be at a disadvantage.”

Yesterday, after being bullied by Huang Jiamin, she’d lost her temper and her senses for a moment and thought of commissioning Lin Zichen to beat the other party up.

Now that she’d cooled down, she felt that was too impulsive.

Huang Jiamin’s brother wasn’t an ordinary person, he really couldn’t be offended, or life at school would be even harder down the line.

“Me, at a disadvantage?”

Lin Zichen smiled and said calmly to the client, “Relax, no matter how many ants there are, they can’t bite down an elephant. Since I dared to take your commission, I’m confident I can help you resolve it. Come on, let’s go upstairs and find Huang Jiamin.”

With that last line, Lin Zichen bent his knees and sprang up to the floor where Huang Jiamin was.

It wasn’t high, only the third floor.

Counting the corridor parapet on the third floor, it was just over nine meters.

Any Ordinary Tier Seven expert could jump up with ease.

Only, when the one doing it was a freshman, it became out of the ordinary, even shocking.

At that moment, quite a few people on the scene were shocked and couldn’t help crying out, “Damn, he jumped up to the third floor from a standstill, is he really a freshman?”

“This physique talent is the most monstrous I’ve ever seen!”

“Holy crap, this Freshman King is too strong, I’m already a sophomore and even a Gene Fuser who’s fused several aberrant beast genes and I still can’t jump straight to the third floor.”

“Too strong, I feel like a waste in front of him.”

Many people were crushed by the comparison, faces full of existential doubt.

Students who could get into Shanhai University were almost all top students back in high school, the top two or three in their schools, people others looked up to.

Yet such top students all looked dim beside Lin Zichen at this moment, so ordinary they didn’t even compare to the stones by the roadside.

Truly, people compare people and someone ends up dying.

The more you compare, the less drive you have to try.

While the crowd on site was questioning life.

From a certain third‑floor classroom came an excited girl’s scream.

“My brother is a member of the Student Union’s External Relations Department, he’s got good friends everywhere, you’d better think twice before you lay a hand on me, don’t dig your own grave! Don’t come over here, don’t come over here! I’m begging you, don’t hit me, if you must hit me don’t hit my face!”

It was Huang Jiamin shouting.

She was wailing as miserably as a pig being slaughtered.

Lin Zichen’s perverse tendency to swell girls’ faces had already spread through the school, many people knew he had that special quirk.

Huang Jiamin feared Lin Zichen would puff her face up into a pig’s head, or even smash it and disfigure her.

“I heard this Freshman King especially likes hitting girls’ faces and he hits hard, that Huang Jiamin probably won’t show herself for months.”

“Bitch deserves it! Hope she gets permanently disfigured!”

“Come on, upstairs to watch the fun!”

After a burst of commotion, a lot of onlookers hurried up the stairs, eager to see Lin Zichen beat up Huang Jiamin.

But before they could rush into the stairwell, a figure flew out from the third floor.

Calling it flew out isn’t quite right.

More accurately, she was thrown out.

It was Huang Jiamin who was thrown, her whole body landing precisely on the grass below.

With the plants above cushioning her, she was lucky enough to be safe and sound.

The next second, Lin Zichen appeared in the third‑floor corridor and under everyone’s gaze, lightly hopped down to the ground, almost landing without a sound.

“Nearly ten meters high and he made almost no sound on landing, how strong does your control have to be to pull that off?”

A boy in the crowd said in disbelief.

Hearing that, the others finally realized how ridiculous that jump had been and shock spread across their faces.

Lin Zichen ignored the gawkers’ astonishment.

He looked calmly at Shen Qinghan, who hadn’t had time to go upstairs and said unhurriedly, “Hanhan, I’ll leave Huang Jiamin to you to challenge, gauge how hard you hit.”

Just now upstairs, he hadn’t laid a hand on Huang Jiamin.

He had only thrown her down from above to execute her in public before the crowd of onlookers.

The executioner would be Shen Qinghan.

“Okay, got it.”

Shen Qinghan answered, then immediately took her phone from her small shoulder bag, opened the school app and as Lin Zichen said, initiated a challenge to Huang Jiamin.

She was a pink, fresh‑faced freshman girl.

With no Peak Ranking and no Freshman Ranking, she could unconditionally challenge any senior above her year.

And the challenge could be established without the other party’s consent.

Once the challenge was established.

Shen Qinghan didn’t waste words and strode straight toward Huang Jiamin.

“Stop, stop right now! You can’t hit me! If I lose even a single hair, my brother will never let you go!”

Huang Jiamin had just climbed out of the grass and seeing Shen Qinghan approaching at a quick pace, she went white with fear and shouted at her.

Shen Qinghan ignored her, her steps speeding up as she bore down on her.

When she was less than ten meters away.

A shout suddenly came from behind:

“Who dares hit my sister!”

The voice was extremely loud, packed full of surging vitality and it made a lot of people’s ears buzz.

Shen Qinghan stopped and looked back in the direction of the voice.

What met her eyes were three strapping young men.

The crew‑cut one in the lead was Huang Jiarui, Huang Jiamin’s brother—a powerhouse with a Biological Level as high as Ordinary Tier Seven.

The two young men with him were his colleagues from the Student Union’s External Relations Department and they were also powerhouses at Ordinary Tier Seven.