Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 210: Accepting Punishment
The dim sky before dawn was shrouded in a suffocating rain curtain. The sound of the pouring rain made the entire academy feel a terrible silence at dawn.
Tang Zheng was running step by step, not very fast. There was faint starlight under his feet, which was the light of his footwork and martial arts.
However, the martial arts footwork that originally allowed him to move at great speed was controlled by him at a pace that was almost impossible for an ordinary person to control. He just ran slowly... slowly... along the academy.
"Let's go down too." Jiang Wuyan watched Tang Zheng's figure gradually disappear into the distance, and jumped off the carriage.
"Yes." Tang Xiaotang also jumped down, "Sister Fenghua, please send Xiao Lingdang back first. You don't have to wait for us."
Meng Fenghua glanced at Xiao Lingling, nodded, and said to the stunned driver: "Let's go first."
The driver turned around and looked at Meng Fenghua: "No... just ignore them? You'll catch a cold if you do this, right? In a few days, we'll be heading to the Star-Seeking Tower, right? Nothing can happen at this time!"
Meng Fenghua shook his head: "Don't worry, they are all sensible people."
"Oh..." After hearing Meng Fenghua's answer, the coachman started the carriage again and drove towards the academy.
Meng Fenghua said this, but the hand that was touching Xiao Lingling's head couldn't help but tighten.
If she didn't have a sister, she would have gone down into the mausoleum with them just now, and now she should have joined them and run laps with them, right?
"Sister, what are they doing?" Little Lingling lifted the carriage curtain and was splashed with raindrops on her face. She quickly shrank back.
"If you've done something wrong, accept your punishment." Meng Fenghua's cold voice echoed in the carriage.
The driver outside heard this and felt even more confused.
Although he was not quite sure what happened in the academy today, judging from the reactions of the important figures, Tang Zheng and his team should have performed a great feat, discovering and preventing something that could have caused great harm in a timely manner, right?
How could they have done something wrong?
However, as long as the students can graduate successfully, they will be at least three stars and enter the ranks of the strong. What happened to the three-star warriors is not something that he, a coachman, can interfere with.
So, he buried his doubts in the deep rain and increased the frequency of swinging the whip. For him, the most important thing now was to send the two little sisters in the car back to the dormitory as soon as possible and not let them get sick from the rain. This was his responsibility!
…
"One lap, it's much faster than I thought."
"Li Xiaoren... Instructor Li, if you have the guts, stand up and see if I am trustworthy."
"Oh, since you've caught me, fifty laps is fifty laps. I promise not to give any discounts, okay?"
Tang Zheng and his friends quickly ran around the academy and stood at the main entrance again. After a short rest, they immediately started running the second lap.
As Tang Xiaotang ran, her eyes became a little blurry. She didn't know if it was because the rain was too heavy.
It had actually been only a short time since they entered the Yisu Academy...
"Are you the Star-Favored One Tang Zheng who has been causing a lot of trouble in the outer streets recently?"
"Don't think you can rest easy just because you entered Yisu Academy..."
"You are abnormal! I will keep a close eye on you in every assessment from now on, so you'd better remember this. Don't do anything inappropriate in Yisu Academy!"
"If I find out that you are up to something else, I will imprison all of your star powers and make you run around the academy fifty times!"
"Be careful, don't let me catch you..."
After running around in circles, Tang Zheng and his friends realized that Li Xiaoren, who was always a man of few words, had left them with very few memories.
The rain was getting heavier, but it didn't have much impact on the warriors who were already at the middle and high level of two stars, or even at the peak of two stars.
The silent raindrops washed the bluestone road surface, making it even brighter. The faint blue light seeping through the ground made the rain curtain look a little blue.
There were not many pedestrians on the inner street outside the academy.
However, many students in the academy have already gotten up.
Many of them originally wanted to see the heavy rain, which was extremely rare in late autumn. However, when they were standing in the corridor and by the windows of the dormitory building, they saw the figures of Tang Zheng and other two running around the academy.
"Aren't those the freshmen this year?" Several students who were in the same class as Leng Zhan were the first to discover Tang Zheng and his friends because they lived in the highest building.
“Freshmen are so energetic. They get up before dawn…” another student answered.
"But even if you get up, there's no need to run around the academy in such heavy rain, right?"
In the light gray and slightly blue rain curtain, the silver star power fluctuations under Tang Zheng's feet were very conspicuous.
Many students looked at the star power under his feet, and most of them thought thoughtfully: "Oh, practicing footwork and martial arts in the rain is very effective? How about I try it too?"
However, they still changed their clothes, washed their faces, rinsed their mouths, and ate breakfast before doing their morning routine.
The sky gradually brightened, but because of the dark clouds and heavy rain, Feishi City was still gloomy. The inner and outer streets had been cleaned last night and were much quieter than usual.
"What are they doing?" On the tallest tower of Yisu Academy, Liu Ruiqi, the then commander-in-chief of the Red Tassel Army, narrowed his eyes and looked at Tang Zheng and his companions who had already run five or six laps around the academy.
"General Liu, I'll go ask right away." A personal soldier beside him turned around without saying a word.
"Wait a minute." Liu Ruiqi shook his head. "Forget it, there's no need to disturb these little guys. Ask the brothers to take turns to have breakfast."
"Yes." Faced with Liu Ruiqi's change of instructions, the personal soldiers did not ask any more questions and directly followed his latest instructions.
Liu Ruiqi, who was left alone on the tower, continued to stare at Tang Zheng and the others' steps with a pair of hawk-like eyes, and moved little by little.
The three figures running around the academy were all so young, but the rhythm of their steps and the evenness of the star power under their feet made people almost think that they were mature warriors in their thirties or forties.
Basic skills that make people feel scary just by looking at them!
"Especially the one running in the front..." Liu Ruiqi's eyes were fixed on Tang Zheng. "His footwork should be a speed-type martial art, but he forced it to be so slow. This is not something that can be achieved by ordinary star power control ability."
…
As more and more students got up, some rumors about what happened yesterday gradually emerged.
After all, no matter what happened last night, it was no small matter - the Red Tassel Army leader personally came to the academy to take charge, the academy announced a temporary suspension of classes, and at night, almost all the students in the academy heard the sound of the curfew being enforced in the inner streets...
Many students couldn't help but wonder, could it be that the demons had crossed the Tulun Pass and marched straight into the Emerald Stone City?
The sky was getting brighter and brighter. Although the rain did not decrease at all, more and more students noticed Tang Zheng and his two companions who had been running around the academy all morning.
"Hey...what the hell is going on? Someone go get them back."
"How many laps have they run?"
"It's been at least 20 laps. It seems like that girl can't hold on any longer."
"Nonsense. Cultivation requires gradual progress. I'm going to call them back. If they keep running away like this, they won't be able to go to the Star-Seeking Tower, and that will be a huge disgrace to our academy."
"Where's the doctor? Call the doctor over too..."
Most of the deacons and instructors in the academy had gone to the City Lord's Mansion, so there was no one to inform.
Although there are senior military officers stationed in the academy, the military cannot control the school's affairs, let alone such a small matter.
Therefore, several older seniors made a prompt decision immediately.
It was a break today, and the military guards did not allow them to go out casually. It was not difficult for a few older students to find a group of idle people in the school, and they took dry clothes and blankets and rushed directly to the entrance of the academy in the rain...
However, just as they were about to leave, they were stopped by the garrison troops: "The president has issued an order that students of the Yisu Academy are not allowed to leave without a written order."
"We are not going out, we just brought them back." A group of seniors from Yisu Academy hurriedly explained.
"No." The guard still shook his head.
"What do you mean? It started like this last night. What on earth did our Yisu Academy do wrong?"
The few guards remained silent.
Their attitude further infuriated the students: "Are the Red Tassel Army planning a rebellion? What's the point of surrounding the academy?"
"If you won't let us go out, then you can help us bring those students back, right?"
"Aren't they not allowed to go out? Then why are they running outside?"
In terms of strength, these guards at the door are no match for the students of Yisuli Academy. Faced with such a situation, they also look very bitter.
However, military orders are difficult to disobey.
The order they received was not to allow any student without a handwritten order to go out, and they had to obey it no matter how noisy the students were.
The attitude of the guards at the entrance and exit of Yisu Academy made the students, who already felt that something was happening, become increasingly out of control.
Until a majestic voice sounded behind them: "Do you have any questions?"
"Mr. President!" All the guards saluted immediately.
All the students looked at Liu Ruiqi walking towards them with firm steps, and suddenly there was silence.
It was the first time for most of them to see in person the highest-ranking officer of the Red Tassel Army stationed in Jade City!
Liu Ruiqi repeated in a steady voice: "Any questions? If you have any, you can tell me."
