Back to the Peak

Chapter 28: The Start of School

On the first day of the school year, the gate of Spark Academy was naturally very busy. Gu Changjin drove his car to the nearby area, and then looked at Shi Qingyang with a smile: “You really scared me when you fell off the wall back then.”

“Grandpa Gu, at that time, I thought I couldn’t go in to study, so I wanted to see the school from the wall. I didn’t expect to scare you,” Shi Qingyang opened his eyes wide and lied.

Gu Changjin knew that Shi Qingyang must have had intentions at that time. When he thought about Shi Qingyang’s behavior when he ran to Cheng Ran’s room last night, he couldn’t help holding back his breath. But he also hoped that Shi Qingyang could protect Cheng Ran…

“I sent you some information about Spark Academy. Let’s have a look,” Gu Changjin suddenly said.

Shi Qingyang responded, and while looking at the information in his hand, he didn’t show anything on his face, but privately he was a little surprised.

Gu Changjin told him not to destroy Cheng Ran’s Academy life; so Cheng Ran must truly study at Spark Academy?

He looked up and saw Gu Changjin’s bitter expression.

The management of Spark Academy was very strict. Irrelevant people were not allowed to enter. When signing up, parents were not allowed to accompany the students. Gu Changjin was worried that he had performed too much, so of course he couldn’t also accompany them in. He just told Cheng Ran to take care.

“Qingyang, will it be all right?” Cheng Ran listened carefully to Gu Changjin’s instructions and looked at Shi Qingyang anxiously. It was the first time he had seen so many people. He was afraid and excited.

“Of course it will.” Shi Qingyang smiled and put down the contact terminal. He never understood how Cheng Ran could have been wronged in his past life when Gu Changjin had a good relationship with the dean of Spark Academy and loved Cheng Ran. Now it seemed that it had been because someone had ordered it.

Was Cheng Ran the child of his parents’ enemies? Otherwise, how could he go through so much turmoil?

Gu Changjin had been instructing him Cheng Ran, but now he also looked at Shi Qingyang: “You must take good care of the young master.”

“Grandpa Gu, I will.” Shi Qingyang nodded.

“Go in,” Gu Changjin said. The dean of Spark Academy had some friendship with him, but he was more loyal to the Cheng family. There was no doubt that he would report Cheng Ran’s situation to the Cheng family. Because of this, he must listen to Cheng Hong.

In the Academy, houses were built one after the other, and many houses were directly connected together. These buildings were all made of metal, silver, gold or black. It was obviously a mess, but it made people feel comfortable at a glance.

Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran went in with the admission notice, and then the teacher at the door sent everything that had to be done today to their contact terminals. After the contact terminal was connected on the network, the teacher also took the initiative to guide them. The first thing they wanted to do was to go to the auditorium to attend the entrance ceremony and pay the fees.

The school had all their information, and the division of classes had long been completed. However, after arriving at the school, all the students had to undergo another test at the entrance ceremony for no other reason than to ensure that the information of each student was correct.

It was said that when there was no such activity in the past, someone bribed the person who tested the qualifications of the 16-year-olds, and finally got into a good school. Someone was framed and assigned to the worst class despite their extraordinary qualifications. After he soared to the sky, the school regretted what happened…

Spark Academy was just a school in a tertiary City, but its detection was far more accurate than common detection practices. If it found that the real situation of a student was different from the record, their treatment would change.

Shi Qingyang lead Cheng Ran through a long corridor to a very bright auditorium. The rectangular auditorium was very high, with rows of seats in the middle enough to accommodate thousands of people. Now, the seats were sparsely populated. There were some people sitting on the ground, and the incoming freshmen were waiting for radiation detection and payment.

In front of the auditorium, there were five radiation energy detectors, which were very complex and needed to be operated by professionals. During the detection, the tested person only needed to sit on the chair in front of the detector. At that time, the machine would give each person a specific grade according to the records of countless people previously recorded.

Such detectors had been used nationwide for only three hundred years. Before that, people could only rely on the rough judgment of experienced radiation warriors to know the qualifications of people who had just undergone radiation.

In the end, it took decades to collect data to develop such a machine.

Stimulated by his parents’ affairs yesterday, Shi Qingyang remembered many memories of Spark City. At this time, he saw many acquaintances in the long line.

Of course, most of his so-called acquaintances were enemies, judging from his solitary situation at that time.

After they lined up with Cheng Ran, a round faced teenager in front of them turned his head and said, “Hello, you came together. Did you know each other before?”

“Yes, we came together.” Shi Qingyang smiled.

After Shi Qingyang spoke, Cheng Ran relaxed a lot and grabbed Shi Qingyang’s clothes with a bit of flaunting: “I came with Qingyang.” He was full of interest for what was ahead, and wanted to make some friends.

“It’s nice to know someone. Although several people from my school could go to Spark Academy, I was the only one from my class. I don’t know anyone else. My name is Ying Yuan. What’s your name? Do you want to exchange contact numbers?” asked the round faced boy.

Cheng Ran immediately nodded and exchanged contact numbers and names with Ying Yuan excitedly.

After the exchange, the two sides were familiar with each other. Ying Yuan looked at the detector on the stage with more worry: “My parents’ qualifications are average. I’m really worried now that I’ll be disqualified and kicked out.”

Cheng Ran didn’t even have radiant energy at all. Hearing what he said, the excitement on his face turned into worry.

“But it’s all right. If the machine has no problems and there’s no deception, the most that’ll happen is going to class 10!”

“Oh.” Cheng Ran nodded, relieved that he was originally in class 10.

Shi Qingyang always felt jealous when he saw Cheng Ran chatting with others, especially after learning that Cheng Ran ate his tofu1 because of his skin hunger.

However, he also knew that he couldn’t stop Cheng Ran, who was eager to make friends. After others knew his situation, they may not want to be friends with him though.

Everyone else had to work hard to get high scores in order to enter the school. Suddenly, a zero score student got in. Who would welcome him?

Of course, nothing could be done about this situation. Shi Qingyang had made up his mind to apply for the school’s “free pass” immediately after the things here were over. Students who were as strong or stronger than teachers could leave and enter the school freely, and even choose the courses they wanted to attend using the free pass. 

Yin Tiancheng once applied for a free pass because his family had better learning resources than the school. Naturally, Shi Qingyang could apply with his own strength.

After doing so, on the one hand, he would draw suspicion from Yin Tiancheng. On the other hand, he could use this to gather some people in the school.

As for his own safety, Shi Qingyang was not worried. Now the city was very safe. As for outside the city, he would call Gu Changjin to accompany him out.

What’s more, Yin Tiancheng would never act rashly without knowing Cheng Ran’s identity.

The line moved forward slowly, and finally it was Shi Qingyang’s turn. After he sat on the chair, he immediately relaxed and grasped the test handle.

Some faint radiation entered from the palm of his hand into his body, and a large amount of data began to appear on the nearby instrument.

The speed of radiation energy detection is very fast. After monitoring the reaction of every muscle and part of his body after that ray of radiation entered him, the machine quickly came to a conclusion: “Radiation capacity is C-, radiation adaptability C-, physical condition is poor.”

The teacher carrying out the test sent the enrollment information and class classification information to Shi Qingyang’s contact terminal. He was about to collect the tuition fee, but Shi Qingyang suddenly pulled Cheng Ran who was about to sit on the detector: “Teacher, please wait a minute.”

When he was testing, he suddenly remembered something. Gu Changjin once said that Cheng Ran could not touch radiant energy.

Moreover, in his previous life, he didn’t seem to see Cheng Ran in the first few days of school. At that time, many people said that Cheng Ran had no face to come to school. Now think about it, was he ill?

Cheng Ran was getting better these days. He could eat a little meat, but he couldn’t afford to damage his body for this test.

“What’s the matter?” The teacher who carried out the test asked in puzzlement.

“Teacher, you just need to test whether he has radiation energy. You don’t need to test his qualification.” Shi Qingyang said. Cheng Ran had no radiation energy and hadn’t tried testing his qualifications before. It’s probably because of this that Gu Changjin forgot to make accomodations.

Even if Gu Changjin didn’t explain, Shi Qingyang couldn’t watch Cheng Ran get hurt.

The teacher looked at Cheng Ran’s information, and his face immediately changed: “No radiation energy?”

The teacher’s voice was not loud, but people around him still heard it, and the expressions they used to look at Cheng Ran immediately changed. The teacher looked at Cheng Ran with a complicated expression, and then asked Cheng Ran to sit on the detector. As expected, only the device’s radiation energy was detected – the weak radiation energy used to detect qualification was completely harmless to radiation energy users, but would harm the bodies of ordinary people.

The large screen at the back of the auditorium displayed everyone’s information, and naturally showed Cheng Ran’s situation.

“Cheng Ran, radiation capacity: –; radiant adaptability: –“

This kind of data was unfamiliar to the students here. Did that mean there wasn’t any radiation energy?

Footnote

1- To eat tofu: Chinese phrase for touching someone and taking advantage through physical contact. Sorta like copping a feel.(return)