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Chapter 221 - 221 188 Lurking Minions Awaiting the Right Opportunity

221: Chapter 188: Lurking Minions, Awaiting the Right Opportunity 221: Chapter 188: Lurking Minions, Awaiting the Right Opportunity The training ground of Songyang High School.

As Zhou Chechen took a deep breath, the surrounding chill quickly dissipated, and his frosty aura gradually retracted.

In front of Zhou Chechen, Lanling, whose face was blue and purple from the cold, shivered, but as the blood circulated throughout his body and waves of heat surged, he finally felt a bit better.

But Lanling didn’t care about the frostbite on his body.

Instead, he said with some satisfaction, “President, you finally got serious and even invoked the power of the Zhou Family, didn’t you?”

In Lanling’s view, Zhou Chechen being able to mobilize the Zhou Family’s forces like this to retaliate against Zhang Yu meant that Zhou’s status in the Zhou Family was far higher than Lanling had previously estimated.

Lanling continued, “Simply push forward and find a way to expel Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen…”

Seeing Lanling’s somewhat excited expression, Zhou Chechen thought to himself, “Lanling…oh Lanling, if only my opponent were you…how nice would that be?”

Of course, he couldn’t agree with Lanling’s suggestion.

After all, according to Zhou Yang’s instructions, what he needed to do was to apply pressure on Zhang Yu bit by bit, suffocating him more and more without crushing him all at once.

Zhou Chechen thought to himself, “Stepping on the opponent while not killing him with a single stomp is the real challenge in this operation.”

“Now the martial arts class leads him to a dead-end of basic cultivation techniques.”

“Through physical education class, let him gradually become addicted to the addictive drugs.”

“Taoist skill make-up classes squeeze his time after school to make money and practice…”

Zhou Chechen could imagine that as Zhang Yu ran out of time to cultivate and earn money, his strength and grades were bound to decline.

After all, even in the Immortal Path, this is just like most skills in the world—if the practice time is insufficient, not only will he fail to maintain his original level, he might even start to regress.

The muscles and bones of the whole body will regress as the amount of training decreases, leading to a decrease in physical strength.

Mana will gradually decline with the decrease of breathing exercises, even affecting the control over mana.

The Dao Heart will generate self-doubt and self-examination due to insufficient practice time, gradually losing control.

“Let alone having no money, then there’s no money for medicine.”

“If you suddenly stop medication under the long-term use, then the regression in cultivation will be even more obvious.”

Although Zhou Chechen knew Zhang Yu couldn’t get into the top ten universities, even among non-top ten universities, there were huge differences between them.

“The 36 mid-tier colleges, the 72 lower-tier colleges, and that pile of miscellaneous institutions, the differences between them aren’t small.”

“Seeing his level drop from aiming for the 36 mid-tier to eventually approaching junior college level, what would that feel like?”

Zhou Chechen couldn’t imagine it, but he could guess that it wouldn’t feel good.

After all, he’d seen such cases many times before; Songyang High School was never short of poor geniuses whose grades declined due to bullying.

Grade decline…

for students in key high schools, it’s the easiest thing to make them collapse.

The same thing happened to Shuang Youpeng, who was once ranked first in his grade, as he watched his grades continuously decline until he collapsed.

In Zhou Chechen’s eyes, Zhang Yu was more talented and better in grades, but if it weren’t for the people backing Zhang Yu, dealing with him would just cost a bit more manpower and money compared to dealing with Shuang Youpeng.

Moreover, as Zhang Yu gradually became accustomed and addicted to the Wild Dragon Elixir, once the supply stopped, Zhou Chechen could more vividly imagine his despairing look.

“If that’s not enough, just lead this guy into gambling, or set up some other scam…”

“As for Bai Zhenzhen, even if she doesn’t want to betray Zhang Yu now, as their differences in treatment gradually emerge, conflicts will inevitably arise between them…”

Zhou Chechen had seen many poor people being played until they were mentally and physically broken, ultimately becoming obedient serfs.

Although those poor people might not have the grades of Zhang Yu, human nature seemed the same to Zhou Chechen.

“When Zhang Yu’s grades keep declining, but Bai Zhenzhen doesn’t get targeted like him…

what will he think?”

“When poor people find themselves in desperate situations, and discover that even their good friends can’t be relied on, it’s often the final blow.”

Zhou Chechen sighed.

Using the Zhou Family’s power to slowly push such a poor student into the abyss seemed too easy to him.

Now his biggest issue was worrying about the retaliation from the people backing Zhang Yu, and the backlash he might endure.

After all, according to Zhou Yang, the plan was to force Zhang Yu to seek help step by step.

Zhou Chechen thought to himself, “I need to come up with a self-preservation method.”

Just then, Lanling’s call interrupted Zhou Chechen’s meditation.

“President?

President?”

Lanling looked at Zhou Chechen and said, “President, did you hear what I said?

Find an opportunity to dismiss them directly.”

Although Zhou Chechen quickly pondered the matter in his mind again, he knew that he couldn’t discuss this with Lanling, especially since Zhou Yang requested Zhou Chechen to use his own name to force Zhang Yu to seek help.

How could he talk to outsiders about this?

After thinking for a while, Zhou Chechen finally sighed and said, “Instead of expelling them and letting them find jobs freely outside the school, I think we should keep them in school and have some fun with them slowly.”

Upon hearing this, Lanling’s eyes lit up, and he smiled, saying, “Indeed, you know how to have fun, President.

Then let’s slowly mess with him.”

Looking at Lanling, who seemed to believe him and was ready to act, Zhou Chechen sighed in his heart: “Alas, if all the senior students in Songyang City were like you, I could easily get into the top ten.”

…

Meanwhile, at the entrance of Songyang High School.

Having worked on exams for a continuous 4 hours, Zhang Yu frowned, his mind constantly analyzing the current situation.

When he saw Bai Zhenzhen, she picked up her phone and sent him a message.

Bai Zhenzhen: Be careful, someone is watching us.

For a moment, Zhang Yu’s brow furrowed even tighter, and after channeling the power of the detection ritual, he indeed sensed the presence of cameras.

Zhang Yu messaged back: Try to see if we can shake them off.

In the next moment, the two accelerated, shooting out like lightning, leaving behind a series of sonic booms.

But soon, they found that no matter how they accelerated, made sharp turns, or changed directions, it was difficult to escape those tracking them in secret.

Even after they dashed into the subway, and not long after exiting, they sensed the cameras tracking again.

Bai Zhenzhen took out her phone and messaged: Very strong, the people following us are completely above us in strength.

Bai Zhenzhen recounted her experience of finding Zhou Chechen and then being repelled by the security guard named Zhou Hao, and messaged again: The guy tracking us now is probably similar to Zhou Hao, a master at the peak of Qi Refinement for many years.

Bai Zhenzhen: They might specialize in sneaking, tracking, and surveillance.

Zhang Yu understood that if they continued to be tracked, it meant they couldn’t go to the covert tutoring world to earn money, nor could they borrow the Spirit Vein to cultivate over at An An’s protection area.

As Zhang Yu pondered strategies for resistance, Fu Ji spoke in their minds: “Bear with it for now.”

Bai Zhenzhen messaged: Zhou Chechen is step by step compressing our training and earning time, are we going to sit and wait to die?

Fu Ji looked at Zhang Yu’s phone screen, gazing at Bai Zhenzhen’s message, she continued: “When dealing with Huo Shan and Song Xu, the reason we were able to be so successful was that we mastered the information gap, possessing intelligence they did not know.”

“But this time, Zhou Chechen and his backing, the Zhou Family, are able to continuously monitor you, investigate you, and keep gaining your information.

The greater your actions, the more information is exposed.”

“And your intelligence on Zhou Chechen and the Zhou Family is far too little, even about Zhou Chechen’s ultimate goal…

we know nothing.”

“Moreover, the resources and energy they possess are unmatched by you.”

“From my life experience, in such situations, if you act blindly and retaliate blindly, the results are often not good.”

Fu Ji sighed and said, “So…

bear with it for now.

Many times in life, you will encounter opponents you can’t resist at the moment.

In these times, you need to learn to lie low.”

“The more you face these situations, the more you must calm with stillness, in the process of patience, focus on your growth, and silently search for flaws, waiting for the opportunity to strike back.”

“Moreover, judging by the current situation, you have the conditions to endure.”

“After all, the methods they’re using haven’t really hit you, and in some aspects can actually be used by you.”

“Your own abilities, potential, and the ritual power I’ve given you, these are the information gaps you possess when facing them.

Utilize these information gaps to persist against them until you find the chance to win.”

…

In the following days, Zhang Yu seemed to have returned to the life of a typical top high school student, commuting between school and his apartment, living a two-point line of study and going home.

In general knowledge class, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen squeezed every moment to operate their mental methods, absorbing spiritual mechanism, incrementally improving their Dao Heart and Mana.

…

During Physical Education class, under the watchful eyes of teacher Lin Hui, Zhang Yu injected the delivered maniac dragon compound in one go, feeling the savage drug power pumping furiously through his body, he began cultivating Red Marrow Primordial Qi.

On the other side, Bai Zhenzhen sparkled all over with electricity, after injecting the dragon elephant compound, she used the drug power, thunder mana, and True Spirit Root, to crazily push forward her Thunder Thunder True Body.

Especially the thunder mana gained after activating potential allows her to cultivate Thunder Thunder True Body with remarkable efficacy, combined with the True Spirit Root even further, advancing rapidly.

And occasionally running to the restroom to suck a few electric chargers allows her Body Refinement progress to become increasingly fast.

Fortunately, when she originally practiced Thunder Thunder True Body, electrical glows would appear.

At this moment, although there was an additional layer of thunder mana’s support, it did not attract much attention.