Chapter 08 Cannibal Cosplay
Xu Yi stared at the boy, his brows deeply furrowed.
He knew the other party, Martin, the undisputed bully of St. Anna School and the captain of the football team, strong and robust.
Of course, the most important thing was that the other's mother was the vice principal of the school.
Maria sat on the ground, her head lowered, not speaking.
The people around were angry but didn't dare to speak up, let alone step forward to help, including Maria's plastic best friend Lily.
Could it be that her inferiority complex was caused by long-term bullying?
Xu Yi pondered, unaware of what Maria's family situation was like. Logically speaking, with her family's financial conditions being good, it would not have been possible for her to be bullied to this extent if she had told her family.
"What are you looking at, Mud loach!" Martin glared at Xu Yi.
Xu Yi was angered yet amused; he hadn't even started to settle accounts with the other party, and now he had actively come looking for trouble.
It wasn't just Maria who was bullied—Xu Yi, being Asian and having a reclusive personality, fully met the criteria for being bullied.
Images of being bullied flashed in his mind, and the more Xu Yi recalled them, the uglier his expression became.
"Can I" actually be bullied by this sort of trash?
But he didn't erupt on the spot; instead, he walked over to Maria.
"Are you okay!" Xu Yi squatted down, ready to help her up.
His hand touched Maria's arm, the skin soft yet carrying an indescribable coldness.
At the same time, the system notification sounded once again.
[Psychic entry experience +1, current progress: 11/100.]
Getting experience from touching someone? This system couldn't be encouraging more intimate contact, could it! Xu Yi cleverly shifted the blame onto the system.
"Thank you!" Maria looked at Xu Yi gratefully, not expecting anyone to be willing to help her.
"You..." Martin was burning with rage, ready to step forward and teach Xu Yi a lesson, when suddenly someone in the crowd whispered, "The teacher's coming!"
Martin had to stop, giving Xu Yi a hateful look, "You just wait!"
"Sure!" Xu Yi nodded with a smile.
Martin felt like his lungs were about to explode with anger. After taking several deep breaths, he managed to suppress his anger, gave Xu Yi a deep look, and quickly walked away.
The bell for class rang, and everyone rushed to their classrooms, leaving a circle of empty seats around Xu Yi—except for Maria, no one came to sit down.
He was obviously isolated, and it seemed that offending Martin had already spread.
If it had been a common high school student, they might have been quite anxious, but for someone like Xu Yi, an older man, it didn't affect him in the slightest.
With no one bothering him, he found himself in peace, free to grind for his experience.
[Scholar entry experience +1, current progress: 40/100.]
The progress for the Scholar entry was the fastest; presumably, it wouldn't take long before he could grind it out.
When he grew tired from reading, he started to draw, brushing up on the experience for the Artist entry.
All morning, Xu Yi kept himself very busy and fulfilled; he quite enjoyed this kind of life.
The bell signaling the end of classes rang, and the moment school was dismissed, Xu Yi picked up his bag and walked towards the door.
Under the green shade of the school gate, Martin looked at Xu Yi, who was hurrying away, and sneered coldly, "Mud loach, can you run away? We skipped class just waiting for you!"
"Follow him!" Martin threw away the cigarette from his mouth and called his football team to go after him.
A group of people followed behind Xu Yi. Martin was puzzled; Xu Yi was heading towards the secluded old town, perhaps thinking that the complex alleys there would aid his escape?
Martin scoffed inwardly, certain that such a plan was doomed to fail.
The old town was remote with a complicated layout, making it suitable for "special" activities; they had long since familiarised themselves with the terrain.
Xu Yi turned into an alley, and Martin's eyes lit up.
"Quick! Block his way!"
The dead end alley ahead was perfect for teaching the other party a lesson.
The crowd hurried into the alley, but Martin suddenly froze.
According to his imagination, Xu Yi should be shivering with fear now that there was no way out, but that wasn't the case. Xu Yi stood leisurely in the alley, a smile still on his lips.
"Why are you guys only coming now!" Xu Yi spoke with a casual tone as if chatting with an old friend he hadn't seen in a while.
Martin felt an inexplicable bad premonition in his heart.
In the time that followed, Martin felt as though he was living in a dream. His people lay in twisted heaps on the ground motionless, while the demon that caused all this was slowly approaching him.
"Don't come any closer!" Martin brandished a dagger in a panic, his expression terrified.
They were eight people in total, and within moments, all lay on the ground. He watched as the other party grabbed someone by the neck and twisted it forcefully... The other party was killing!
Martin trembled uncontrollably, his mind suddenly flashing back to rumors he had heard at school. Xu Yi had taken a leave of absence because he had been attacked by the Cannibal.
His mother was the vice principal of the school, so he had access to more reliable information; it wasn't just rumors, Xu Yi had indeed been attacked by the Cannibal and had even killed him in return.
Martin even began to suspect that Xu Yi was the real Cannibal, and the one who died was just a scapegoat!
"Good boy, you shouldn't play with knives!" Xu Yi snatched the dagger from Martin's hand and squatted in front of him with a smile.
"Where do you think I should start cutting?" Xu Yi roamed the blade over Martin's chest.
Without a doubt, Xu Yi was imitating the Cannibal.
After all, he was someone who had learned "lessons" from the Cannibal, his movements and demeanor carried a certain semblance of authenticity.
Of course, the people on the ground were fine; they were only temporarily unconscious.
Xu Yi wasn't so heartless as to kill these people; handling the aftermath would be a very troublesome affair.
As for "breaking necks," it was just a matter of perspective and technique, something he had intentionally let Martin see.
"I've heard that the heart tastes the best, what do you think?" Xu Yi's knife paused over Martin's heart.
"Please... let me go!" Martin's body couldn't stop shaking.
Xu Yi suddenly smelled a foul odor, looked down disdainfully, and backed away. Martin had been scared to the point of wetting himself.
Is this all the courage the school bully has?
Suddenly, a head peeked around the corner of the alley; Maria was panting and looking inside.
When school was dismissed, she wanted to stop Xu Yi, but he walked too fast. Chasing after him as best she could, she only managed to catch up now.
"Xu Yi, you're not..."
Maria suddenly stopped talking because the situation inside the alley completely overturned her expectations.
Knowing that he couldn't continue the cosplay act, Xu Yi stopped tormenting Martin and put away the switchblade. As he walked past Maria, he gave her a nod with a smile.
Maria's heart suddenly began to beat uncontrollably, not out of fear, but excitement.
Her face turned red with excitement.
"If only I could follow Xu Yi!" The thought flashed through her mind.
She didn't understand why she had this thought.
But just thinking about being by Xu Yi's side filled her with an unstoppable excitement.
If Xu Yi knew what Maria was thinking, combining his recent knowledge in Psychology, he might be able to determine the reason.
It was actually a form of admiration for the strong.
Maria had been oppressed by Martin for so long, she even believed that Martin was an invincible presence.
But now that the "mountain" had suddenly been overturned, it was natural for her to have emotions like "admiration" and "gratitude" toward the person who overturned it.
Xu Yi didn't know about Maria's thoughts. He needed to hurry back to school to pick up Lisa, and after taking Lisa home, he had important things to attend to.