Chapter 81 - I Hear I’m a Battle God (18)
translator: baumkuchen (unedited)
Zhan Yanling brought his younger brother to an underground Oga exchange.
They entered an exchange with an entrance adorned with red and gold. Inside, it was decorated like an elegant tea room. There was even a person playing a piano on the stage. Next to the stage, was a low table, and on it, a lit stick of incense emit a faint fragrance. Just one sniff was enough to tell that every inch of the incense was worth an inch of gold.
Even in tis of war, there would always be people unwilling to give up that bit of aristocratic taste and extravagant living.
Zhan Yanling pulled Zhan Yanchao over and sat him down. A male Oga then fluttered over to him like a butterfly to a flower and sat down next to them. With a single look at Zhan Yanling, he could imdiately judge the other’s position from the standardised flower on his collar. He said in a sweet voice, “Sir......”
Zhan Yanling had used a suppressant in advance. He covered his mouth and nose with a clean white handkerchief, then motioned at Zhan Yanchao with his chin.
That Oga naturally understood what he ant. He brushed his waist against Zhan Yanchao’s body.
Zhan Yanchao, “Am I a tree?”
The Oga, “En?”
Zhan Yanchao, “Are you a dog?”
The Oga laughed. “Young Master really knows how to joke.”
Zhan Yanchao frowned, fed up. He pushed his teacup towards him. “Who wants to joke around with a waiter. Pour tea.”
Then, he turned to Zhan Yanling. “Ge, what did you bring here for?”
The Oga, unwilling to give up, tried again, “Young Master is a Beta? Have you beco an adult yet? Gone through the tournant yet?”
Zhan Yanchao, “None of your damn business.”
The Oga, “......”
Seeing that his younger brother was going to act outrageous again, Zhan Yanling coughed lightly. “Yanchao.”
Zhan Yanchao beca a little more well-behaved. He grabbed a plate of lon seeds and began to gnaw on them slowly. At the sa ti, he sneakily observed their surroundings, trying to figure out his older brother’s purpose in bringing him here.
There was a mix of slls in the exchange. Sotis, it would be the faint sll of jasmine, sotis, it would be the sweet sll of bamboo. In short, it was all like wine that had aged for years, the intoxicating sll faintly floating into people’s minds.
Fortunately, Zhan Yanchao’s spiritual energy couldn’t be considered weak, plus, he still had the physique of a Beta, so he still had so resistance.
Zhan Yanchao found that all the service staff here were pale-skinned and charming, with extrely flexible waists. They swayed as they walked, looking as delicate as flowers.
After taking a few looks around, Zhan Yanchao lost interest, focusing back on eating his lon seeds.
A bunch of weaklings that would go soft with a bite, compared to Xiao Ji, they were just a group of lon seedlings.
But before he could eat more than a few lon seeds, a pair of soft, fragrant hands felt their way over from beside his seat, and gently grasped his wrist. “Young Master......”
Zhan Yanchao jumped up in shock. After grabbing his wrist and wrenching it off him, his hands reflexively wanted to slap the person behind him across the face, but as if rembering sothing, he stopped his hands in ti, scooping up a handful of lon seeds and throwing them at the face of the person behind him while he was at it.
Zhan Yanling, “......”
Zhan Yanchao was hopping mad. “Boss! What are your service staff trying to do? They’re making moves on your custors!”
Zhan Yanling held his hand against his forehead, feeling a migraine coming on.
The Oga held his wrist to himself, his forehead already covered in sweat, and his eyes glimring slightly, “Young Master...... My hand......”
Zhan Yanchao was simply looking at this person like he was a poisonous snake or a wild beast. He flashed over to the other side of the table. “Are you putting on an act? I didn’t use any strength!”
Hearing the ruckus coming from this corner of the exchange, the person in charge walked over. He first glared at that Oga, then made a series of apologies to Zhan Yanchao and said, “If this sir is not satisfied, I’ll exchange this one with another one for sir.”
Zhan Yanchao replied without thinking, “Exchange what? I don’t want anyone!”
The person in charge then thought that Zhan Yanchao was enraged. He flared up at the Oga, “How did you offend him?”
The Oga didn’t dare to speak, just shivering violently.
Only then did Zhan Yanchao notice that this Oga’s eyes were full of tears, as if he had suffered so grievous wrong. He began to feel a little uncomfortable. “Why is he crying so virtuously, I only pulled his hand off of . ......It’s not like he’s made of glass.”
It wasn’t until he said that that the person in charge noticed the Oga’s abnormality. He ordered, “Hand.”
The Oga pitfully extended out his hand to the person in charge to examine. The conclusion was that it had been sprained.
Zhan Yanchao couldn’t quite believe it. “I really only pulled his hand off of .”
At this, the person in charge could see that Zhan Yanchao was a little young master unfamiliar with the ways of the world. He waved his hand. The Oga, of course, didn’t dare say anything to Zhan Yanchao. He looked weakly at him with tearful eyes, then walked away.
Only then did Zhan Yanchao sit down. He took a sip of jasmine tea to suppress his shock, then began to sniff at his clothes, a face full of disgust.
Zhan Yanling sighed. “Are you so fierce to everyone?”
Zhan Yanchao explained, “He was the one to move against first.”
Zhan Yanling, “......”
Zhan Yanchao then said, “Besides, I really didn’t use any strength.”
Zhan Yanling asked, “You really don’t know what an Oga is?”
Zhan Yanchao thought for a mont. “Isn’t Uncle Hong’s wife, Aunt Hong, an Oga? She looks pretty, and her body doesn’t look bad either. Nothing special.”
“That’s because Uncle Hong treats Aunt Hong well,” Zhan Yanling said, “Oga’s shoulders can’t bear any weight, their hands can’t carry anything, their bodies are extrely fragile. Their defensive and offensive abilities have all regressed to twice or even several tis less than average.”
Zhan Yanchao looked at his brother, his face full of astonishnt.
“This place can be considered a high level Oga exchange. Only beautiful Ogas can enter. In the evolutionary process of our planet, in order to be able to give birth to more offspring and expand our military’s manpower resources, Alphas, Betas and Ogas can all get pregnant and give birth to children. What’s special about Ogas? Other than being able to get pregnant more easily compared to the other two sexes, to put it bluntly, they’re nothing more than high grade bed warrs.
“That’s the kind of person you wanted Ji Zuoshan to beco before. Now, what you’re crying and shouting about wanting to beco is also this kind of person. ......Zhan Yanchao, you just know that no matter what you beco, father will always accept you and support you, but you know nothing about how humiliating and painful it is to be Oga.”
Zhan Yanchao thought for a long ti. Zhan Yanling waited for his response.
After a while, Zhan Yanchao suddenly realised, “No wonder Xiao Ji won’t forgive .”
Zhan Yanling, “......” Oh my god, my idiot younger brother.
Zhan Yanchao glanced over in the direction the Oga had left in. His uneasy emotions surged into his heart once more. “If Xiao Ji beca an Oga, he would also beco like this?”
Zhan Yanling said, “Everyone is the sa after regressing.”
Zhan Yanchao did his best to protest this, as if this way, he could deny his previous unknowing cruelty towards Ji Zuoshan, “No way. He would still have his spiritual energy.”
Zhan Yanling replied, “After regressing, it would all disappear.”
Zhan Yanchao suddenly felt cold all over. Thinking about the Oga’s tearful eyes from just now, his lips turned white.
Zhan Yanling still didn’t stop attacking him. “As far as I know, Ogas practically don’t have any human rights. After a battle, the higher-ups will even award Ogas for free to any Alphas in need. Do you know, when Ogas walk around amongst the army, what label hangs around their neck? ——’First class supplies’.”
Zhan Yanchao stared vacantly at the cup in front of him.
“Supplies”......?
Noticing the slackening of his younger brother’s expression, only then did Zhan Yanling relax. “Ji Zuoshan separating from you, is because you went overboard. Isn’t the two of you returning to your own separate paths a good thing?”
“I used to treat him badly.” After so careful consideration, Zhan Yanchao suddenly raised his head. His naturally beautiful eyes, with black and white clearly defined, surged with moving waves. “If he beats into an Oga, his anger should be vented. Then, I’ll be his Oga for the rest of my life. Wouldn’t those two things offset each other then?”
Zhan Yanling, “......” What kind of stupid primary school arithmatic are you doing?!
Zhan Yanling suppressed his rising blood pressure. Doing his best to remain calm, he said, “Did you not hear what I said? What being an Oga ans......”
Zhan Yanchao said, “If it ans he’ll forgive , I’m willing to do it.”
Zhan Yanling blew up with rage. “What if he doesn’t forgive you.”
Zhan Yanchao was very aggrieved, “I already let him fuck , he can’t ignore .”
Zhan Yanling, “......”
Zhan Yanchao had even begun to imagine the future. “If he doesn’t agree, I’ll bring my quilt and squat at his doorstep.”
Zhan Yanling was so utterly flustered and exasperated that he simply left his useless younger brother behind and strode away.
Zhan Yanchao also felt like he wouldn’t be able to talk this through with his older brother, so his leaving was just nice.
He finished up a plate of lon seeds and drank a cup of tea to the sound of the piano. After listening until his interest waned, only then did he get up and walk out of the exchange. When he turned his back, he found that there was a tea-sign-esque noticeboard by the entrance, on it written eight words.
“The rchandise is fragile, please handle with care.”
Who this “rchandise” referred to was obvious.
For so reason, when he saw these words, Zhan Yanchao beca very angry. Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, he folded up the sign, placed it under his arm, and straightforwardly carried it off with him.
He had already burned his beloved whip and that damned coffin. If Ji Zuoshan were willing to treat him like that, he wouldn’t mind buying another set for himself.
Anyways, Ji Zuoshan wouldn’t be able to ignore him.
Ten years of being together was truly too long a ti, to Zhan Yanchao, it was a lifeti.
Hence, when, in the cha tournant a few months later, Zhan Yanchao drew Ji Zuoshan as his opponent for his final round, others’ gazes towards him were full of sympathy and ridicule, but he was truly, sincerely happy.
He didn’t allow himself to lose to anyone other than Ji Zuoshan, so he gave his all in every match, and his accumulated energy was already enough for him to transform into an Alpha.
If it would make Ji Zuoshan happy, he could take it all.
Compared to Zhan Yanchao’s loud, triumphant progress, Ji Zuoshan’s path through the tournant seed a little dull.
Despite him having torn apart a cha solely with his hands, scoring first in his grade, and his excellent result of ranking second in the sumr training on “The Scar”, Ji Zuoshan only pursued a “close victory” in every match, only a single level higher than his opponent from start to finish.
......Just like the last ti he’d participated in this tournant.
With regards to these results, there were of course people who made statents subtly criticising him: “They even called him what, our hope for the future? He’s only got this bit of skill.”
Such doubts were also voiced on the school forums by so people, but they were imdiately utterly refuted.
Soone had thrown up the official statistics, of the accurate strike data of Ji Zuoshan against every one of his opponents so far.
From the first to the fifty-second opponent, no matter whether the opponent was a weakling or an elite, the number of attacks he made was forever kept to exactly 710.
After 710 attacks, the opponent would inevitably lose all ability to attack, as well as the will to attack. This was because in the course of the match, everyone would notice, Ji Zuoshan was aiming at their weak points...... It was a teaching match.
He would even whisper to the other during the match, “You aren’t controlling the strength in your knee well enough, you should fear tripping you like this the most.”
Then he made him trip and fall with a crash.
The other party was naturally unresigned. As a result, Ji Zuoshan, following the sa pattern, tripped him more than 70 tis.
On the 75th try, he finally found the key to the problem and kept said leg from stumbling, but soon, Ji Zuoshan said, “You’re leaving a gap by doing this.”
Then, following that, he stepped forward and made a clean counterstrike, flipping the person into a golden, upside-down hook in the air, and throwing him to the ground face-first.
The opponent, “......” Fuck your mother.
He did his best to point out all the holes he noticed in the 710 moves to his opponents, and then in the final hit, ended the match with a single punch.
Once, there was even the strange occurrence of an opponent climbing out of their cha, dazed and dizzy, then shaking Ji Zuoshan’s hand and saying “thank you”.
One ti after taking back control of the body, Chi Xiaochi asked Ji Zuoshan, “Why is it always 710 moves? Is there any special aning?”
Ji Zuoshan obediently answered, “There’s nothing special about it. I was born on 7/10.”
Chi Xiaochi, “......” Alright.
As soon as that data ca out, those clucking their tongues had no choice but to give up.
The competition organisers also expressed one after another that they had seen matches where one beat up everyone present, they had seen matches where no one lost, but they had never seen people using the tournant to do on-the-spot teaching.
But Ji Zuoshan kept doing this, no matter who advised him against it.
With him doing things this way, it inevitably lead to discussion: Would Ji Zuoshan have enough energy to turn into an Alpha by doing this?
Ji Zuoshan was very popular in his school now. There would be a group of fans waving flags and screaming at the base of the stands at every match, so those people naturally didn’t dare to do anything rash, only daring to mock him in private.
......Let him act tough!
If he couldn’t successfully transform into an Alpha, and couldn’t drive a military-grade cha, they would have their laughs then.
The author has sothing to say:
Ji Zuoshan’s path through the tournant can be summarised as such: A Challenger player smoothly gliding through Bronze.
I’ll update a little more tomorrow. If nothing unexpected happens, we’ll get up to Liu-laoshi and Xiaochi’s first kiss qwq
sere: not sure where ZYC even gets his hallucinations from
baum: to avoid anyone getting their hopes up: I checked. The kiss doesn’t happen next chapter
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