Rulu left the secret house in the cemetery woods and wandered aimlessly around the city of Blue Sea. At this time, Blue Sea City was no longer as heavily guarded as it had been recently; there were significantly fewer patrolling soldiers on the streets, and those who were patrolling had become extremely lax. Rulu walked for over an hour in the city without encountering a single soldier's inspection.
"What should I do now? Do I really have to go assassinate Prince Suwen?" Rulu thought to himself as he walked. Prince Suwen was the enemy who had killed his mother and sister; he wished he could go to the governor's office and kill him immediately. However, Rulu was also worried that if he went, he might not return. If he got hurt or was captured or even killed, then Nana would be left all alone, with no one to take care of her.
Rulu was indecisive in his heart. He had just had a quarrel with C.C. and didn't want to go home for the time being, so he continued to wander aimlessly in the city.
Unknowingly, Rulu arrived at a place in Blue Sea City filled with many tall and uniquely designed buildings. He saw a stone tablet in front of a nearby arched entrance that read "Blue Sea City Saint Emperor Advanced Academy."
"Right, this school is where I used to..." Rulu paused when he saw the stone tablet. He remembered that before Mayor Qiao had any issues, he had attended this school.
"This school was funded by the Sanctuary and was specially established to cultivate talents for the Sanctuary. Many people who graduated from this school joined the Sanctuary and served it. This academy is also the most prestigious in Blue Sea City, where students are either wealthy or possess special abilities as Ultra-capables.
I attended this school to have a chance to return to the Sanctuary in the future to take revenge on those who harmed my family. Since Uncle Qiao's incident, I can no longer return here; that path is closed to me."
Rulu gazed blankly at the academy through the entrance's arched door. Perhaps due to the recent turmoil in Blue Sea City, the academy was on break, and the large iron gates in the entrance were wide open.
"Since I have nothing to do, I might as well go in and take a look." Rulu thought to himself as he entered the academy through the open arched doorway. Inside, there were a few scattered young people, most of whom Rulu knew to be students of the academy.
Having attended this academy for a few years, Rulu did not want to meet anyone he knew, so he deliberately avoided crowded places and chose to walk in secluded, deserted areas. Before long, he found himself in the woods at the back of the academy.
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This area of woods was often frequented by delinquent youths from the academy, who got into fights and bullied the weak, resulting in very few people coming here. Rulu walked in the quiet, empty woods, trying to clear his mind.
"Hey, you monster! With something like you, you think you deserve to study here? Get the hell out of here, ha ha ha!" Suddenly, a voice filled with insults and laughter came from somewhere in the woods, followed by several raucous laughs.
"It seems someone is causing trouble here; I wonder who it is this time?" Rulu thought as he flew on the wind to a tall tree in the woods and began to fly towards the source of the sound.
After a while, Rulu arrived at a clearing in the woods. Standing on the tree, he looked down at the clearing and saw about ten young men and women surrounding a strange creature in the middle. The expressions on their faces were mocking as they stared at the creature.
"Eh, what is that..." Rulu focused on the strange creature and saw that it was a juvenile lion. Like any ordinary lion, it had four sturdy legs and a long tail. However, this creature had a human face, resembling that of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy. Additionally, on its back, it had a pair of hawk-like tawny wings. In short, this creature was a monster with the body of a lion, a human face, and wings.
"Haha, look at this monster! It has a human head, a beast's body, and bird-like feathers! What the hell is this!" A tall, strong, chubby young man, about twenty years old, pointed at the monster and laughed heartily.
"Hey, you monster! How were you born? You can't be some kind of hybrid between a human, a lion, and a bird, right? Ha ha ha!" A short, skinny boy with fair skin sneered as he walked behind the monster and kicked it hard in the rear, then burst out laughing.
"My name is Sphinx, not a monster," the creature with the human face spoke up. It seemed to crouch on the ground like a lion, trembling all over, looking around with fearful eyes.
"His voice is so strange; it sounds neither human nor beast. It scares me," a plain-looking young woman said with a look of disgust at the lion-bodied, human-faced creature, making an unpleasant sound.
"Don't be afraid, babe; I'm here," the tall, chubby young man said as he pulled the girl into his embrace and kissed her on the cheek. Then, with a fierce expression, he turned to the creature called Sphinx and said, "Did you hear that, you monster? You scared my woman; hurry up and kneel to apologize to her."
Sphinx, whether out of fear or some other reason, lay still on the ground, not moving or speaking. The skinny boy leaned closer to the chubby man and said, "Hey, Old Wang, this monster has four legs. If he kneels, should it be on the front legs or the back legs?"
Without thinking, the chubby man replied, "Who cares? Just make all four legs kneel."
After saying this, the chubby man picked up a tree trunk about the width of a bowl and two meters long from nearby. He walked up to Sphinx with a fierce look and said, "You monster think you deserve to study here? Let me tell you, this is a school for us humans, not a place for you monsters. Get the hell out of here, or I’ll beat you to death! Do you hear me!?"
Sphinx trembled at his words. He lifted his head, looking terrified at the chubby man and stammered, "But I have nowhere else to go. People outside are afraid of me. If I go out, I’ll be threatened with guns and captured by soldiers. Only this academy can shelter me and provide me with food."