The goddess-like icy beauty, Mu Fan approached under the surprised gazes of the onlookers, ignoring the police officers surrounding her as she walked straight to Mu Fan.
When she was about thirty centimeters away, she stopped and looked up at the young man whose body was soaked in blood plasma.
"Mu Fan."
Her voice sounded soft, like the snowflakes that fell in winter, devoid of any warmth, but they melted softly in the palm of one's hand when they landed.
"Hmm."
Mu Fan saw his own reflection in her clear pupils, so vivid.
"I have a request."
"What is it?" Mu Fan asked, perplexed.
"If one day you decide to let go of all your concerns to fight, please take me with you." As she finished speaking, Lu Qingxue bowed slightly, her black hair cascading down.
Only she and Mu Fan understood the meaning of those words at that moment.
The surrounding police officers didn't react much, but the Dingchuan Academy students who had not dispersed but gathered around were genuinely stunned.
Lu Qingxue actually bowed to a boy, and the two of them were so close; this instantly ignited the gossip within the crowd.
Mu Fan saw determination, pleading, and guilt in her eyes.
So he nodded slightly, "Okay."
It was a combat promise between the two.
"Officers, don't let them go, make them pay me my money!"
Lu Qingxue's gaze turned icy as she looked at the shouting boss, who was stunned by the chilly beauty before him but quickly shouted back, "What, you want to stand up for him? Pay up first!"
"How much did you lose? I'll make the compensation." Lu Qingxue spoke calmly, which again caused the surrounding crowd to erupt, everyone raising their Sky Communication devices to record.
This was definitely sensational news, the ice-cold Valkyrie was standing up for a boy repeatedly, what was happening to the world?
"My barbecue shop is totally ruined, to completely repair everything along with the disruption of business, at least, at least five hundred thousand, no! At least eight, nine... one million Star Coins! A total of one million Star Coins for my losses, you can't leave without compensating, the officers here can witness."
The greedy looking boss kept pushing as he thought Lu Qingxue's air was not that of an ordinary civilian, bidding up the price to a staggering one million.
"Bullshit, really a rip-off."
"That's absurd, can't make one million in half a year!"
"Even daring to swindle Senior Sister Lu!"
…
The surrounding crowd grew increasingly agitated, Lu Qingxue spoke, and Mu Fan stopped talking.
He really wanted to take action, but he now quietly watched her handle the situation, which seemed to decrease the violence in his heart a bit.
"So is it five hundred thousand or one million?" Lu Qingxue asked calmly.
"One million! Give everything and all is good!" the thin-lipped and monkey-cheeked boss said stubbornly, lifting his chin.
With a movement of her arm, Lu Qingxue held a black card between two fingers, holding it in front of her chest.
"Take this card, go buy materials, hire workers for repairs, cleaning, and during the construction, the lost work fees will be calculated based on your average daily sales last month. Aside from the regular repair time, I will compensate you for an extra fifteen days," she said.
Listening to Lu Qingxue, the initially pleased shop boss's face slowly turned unpleasant, and just as he was about to explode, he heard the icy woman continue: "This card is an unlimited access card, the limit is far beyond your imagination. You have ten days to repair, after which I'll come to collect… If I find you took even an extra penny, I will dismantle this store."
With a flick of her hand, the black card shot out as a blur, brushing past the shop owner's cheek and embedding itself deep into the wooden wall behind him.
"Buzz~"
The card sank deep, halfway, the trembling sound resonating in the brain, the shop owner felt a chill on his cheekbone, covering it with his hand and finding a faint trace of blood.
The brain, previously muddled by money, instantly sobered up, then looked at the card deeply embedded in the blood-stained wooden wall, forcibly swallowing down the curses that were about to spill from his lips.
Yet he was not willing to submit so meekly and tried to glare and say some harsh words.
But at just one glance from Lu Qingxue's icy glacier-like eyes, the shop owner felt a deep chill throughout his body, not doubting for a moment that this young woman could achieve all this.
He probably really ticked off someone he shouldn't have…
He then turned to pull the card out.
As he touched the card, he was shocked again; it was a pure metal bank card.
The owner's identity must be incredibly affluent and noble!
Feeling unfortunate but also delighted to receive half a month's compensation, he tried hard to pull it out.
Hmm…
The card didn't move.
Hmm!
Taking a deep breath, the shop owner used all his strength this time, his face turning red with exertion, and finally, the card loosened slightly.
With a swoosh, the figure fell heavily to the ground due to the excessive force.
"Ouch, my back," the shop owner cried miserably, lying on the ground with his face flushed red, clenching the card tightly in his hands and looking at the female officer with pleading eyes.
The female officer, who was about to take advantage of the situation, simply turned her head away, dismissing the shop owner as a worthless fool.
…
In the Monitoring Department at Dingchuan Academy, two minutes ago, an urgent message caught the attention of the staff.
"Level 3 urgency?"
"This was from four minutes ago, now it's Level 5 urgency!"
The urgency levels from 1 to 8 escalate, and Level 5 already indicates a bloody conflict.
This made the Monitoring Department staff startled, as Ding Chuan hadn't seen such a level of urgent information in several years.
"Watch record number 10547, five minutes ago…"
As the staff clicked, a scene began to play.
"The shopping district looks normal, nothing unusual."
"Someone flew out of the barbecue restaurant!"
"What kind of weapon is this? The wall has been blown open?"
"My God, is that even human!"
"This…ugh."
A staff member who opened the video couldn't hold back and vomited directly on his colleague next to him.
"Are you fucking sick?"
"No…ugh."
"Damn it! I've had it with you."
After the other colleagues had seen the video, the gory scene replayed incessantly in their minds like a relentless nightmare, causing their stomachs to churn.
When they looked again at the message they had received, they finally noticed the final note.
[Involved party: First-year student from the Mecha Academy at Dingchuan Academy, Mu Fan.]
"We've received an urgent communication from a senior instructor from the Logistics Department."
Both hurriedly connected to Sky Communication.
"I am Siqinmuhe, a senior instructor from the Logistics Department. Who is the current duty manager at the Monitoring Department?" the voice on the other end was short and urgent.
"Senior instructor at the Mecha Academy, Bach."
"Instructor Bach? How fortuitous. Contact Instructor Bach immediately. There's been a bloody incident in the D5 area of the commercial district outside the campus. The involved are freshmen core students from Mecha Academy, and significant students from the Microelectronics and Logistics Departments. I request he quickly leads a team to handle it. Police and military forces have already been alerted!"
"Received."
After hanging up the Sky Communication, the two staff members couldn't bother with the pungent vomit; they hastily contacted Bach.
Moments later…
Inside Dingchuan Academy, a middle-aged man covered in half-body war armor, leading sixty armed personnel, hurried to the school's exterior.
The bloody conflict was just one aspect—the crucial concern was the name of one of the involved students, which had utterly unsettled him.
"Mu Fan?"
Outside the academy, surrounded by countless eyes and camera lenses, he had outright killed a bald, chubby man.
Before he could even view the video, just this message alone had infuriated Bach.
This was a representative of the new students of Dingchuan Academy. The recent hostility with the military had not yet settled, and now there was a public murder.
This matter could directly affect Dingchuan Academy's public image.
The key point was that he had recently recommended Mu Fan to the academy's senior leaders, and this was also a direct disciple of Ruan Xiongfei…
So many factors were now mixed together, creating an utter chaos worse than a tangled mess!
However, what he needed to do now was to keep the student from being taken away by the military at all costs.
If the military were allowed to handle it, once Ruan Xiongfei returned in a couple of days, Dingchuan Academy would truly face upheaval.
After officially reaching Level 5 urgency and the staff had set off, the rotating manager at Dingchuan Academy's Monitoring Department also received a standard push notification.
Instructor Lindberg from the Fighting Department was currently teaching at the Fourth Fighting Training Ground. His eyes lit up when he saw the Sky Communication, and he sneered.
"Bach, oh Bach, this is the promising student you recommended."
He then immediately took off his gloves and threw them aside.
"Train on your own for an hour, I'm going out to handle some matters!"
The higher-ups at Dingchuan Academy finally began to stir from one corner.