The puppets' stage play

Chapter 407 Parting Hook

"I've said it before. As long as I have the invincible power of friendship, it can be easily solved. If you still don't believe it, now you understand."

Anri raised his eyebrows provocatively, and the expression on his face looked extremely proud.

"..." Qi Xiu stared at him wordlessly, and at the same time, an unusually vivid memory suddenly came to mind.

("So, you don't have to work so hard, I'm not incompetent.")

There was a tone mixed with disgust and meaninglessness. Of course, I didn't care at that time.

He was focused on practicing at that time, but the extremely noisy voice kept ringing in his ears, one after another. As a last resort, he had to turn around and leave as if running away.

...That's how it goes.

"Oh." Qi Xiu said emotionlessly, not even bothering to show his expression.

Anli paused, and the corners of his originally high-spirited eyes suddenly dropped. His dangerous eyes stared in this direction, with a look of grief and anger on his face.

"You-"

"No need to try again, we won't recruit you here." A cold and solemn voice suddenly sounded, like a thunder interrupting the rebuttal that Anri was about to say.

The two of them immediately looked towards the place where the sound came from, and other students who came to report also looked there with interest.

But in front of the place that resembled a qualification test, he saw an unwilling boy standing in front of him. Opposite him, the man in charge of 'gatekeeping' had an indifferent face and didn't even bother to look at him.

His stern eyes turned and then were pointed here. At that moment, Qi Xiu couldn't help but stepped back. The man sneered, and his cold gaze was directed towards the other person.

"It would be better for you to pass on your responsibilities to me and enjoy your leisure time by yourself. Isn't it fun, Anri?"

Anli looked away without a trace, showing a nonchalant look, and even smiled at Qi Xiu, as if the other party was talking about someone else.

Qi Xiu took a deep look at Anli, but he knew in his heart that the man probably wasn't lying. This man could really do that kind of thing.

"Hand over immediately. I have something else to do and I don't have time to wrangle with you." The man looked at him coldly, not hiding his dislike for him at all.

Anli smiled contemptuously, stepped forward, and blocked Qi Xiu behind him, with an evil smile on his face.

"Haha, Hanako, how can you frame others out of thin air? Please be reasonable. Since I gave it to you, it is your responsibility. Be careful and I will report it to you."

Anri slapped him down, and in turn accused the other party. His tone was like giving alms, which made the man opposite him take a deep breath and laugh out loud.

"Anli, hand over." The man's expression gradually became indifferent, and there was no wind on his body. An increasingly cold aura rolled up from the ground, covering the body that was not strong.

The man's eyes became dark, and his entire face gradually became transparent, with tiny black lines inside. However, the original skin was like a layer of foil. At this moment, it became more and more 'shaky'.

It seemed as if it would be blown away in the next moment, revealing the 'real' face underneath.

The expressions of the students who were watching the show changed drastically, but their bodies froze in place. Boundless fear emerged from the bottom of their hearts, trying to drag them into the quagmire.

The man was shaking, his expression became more and more blank, and he just looked here with a cold face.

Anri sighed and shook his head helplessly.

"Hua Qiansheng, Hua Qiansheng, sometimes I really doubt that you are stupid because of your mental training. You really have the courage to use force here."

"Remember, you can't imitate him in the future." Anli turned his head and warned Qi Xiu solemnly.

Qi Xiu looked at each other, then at Anli, his expression became subtle, and he nodded with complicated emotions.

"Let's solve it quickly." Anli showed an impatient expression and waved his hand forward casually.

In the next moment, Hua Qiansheng's eyelids rolled up, his whole body lost the evil aura, and he fell to the ground like a normal person.

The students couldn't help but take a breath of air and looked here in astonishment.

Anri smiled softly, showing an expression of implicit confidence.

"It's a small matter, it's a small matter, let's continue to enroll in school." He moved his hands outward, raised his lips and smiled, a very bright smile.

"........"

Click.

The iron door shook slightly, and a figure slowly emerged in the air.

It was a figure wearing a white hat, a fashionable light green crew-neck shirt, and a pair of soft trousers. The appearance looked like an 'old man'.

As for why it is a question...

Qi Xiu looked over there, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

Excessive white hair grew from the depths of the pores, covering the eyes, nose, and mouth. Even from the outside, even the face could not be seen clearly, just a mass of thick white hair.

The hair extended and hung down to the waist. Only then was the 'old man' lifted it up. His dexterous fingers moved in the air. In an instant, the white hair was tied around the waist, giving him a barely human appearance.

The visitor sighed, his voice sounding extremely decadent.

"That's true of you. The old lady doesn't mean any harm. She has complained about you behind your back a few times at most. You treat him like this and it gives me a headache."

The young man brushed away the hair on his face, revealing a melancholy face.

"One code equals the other. As his senior person in life, if I don't teach him a lesson, how will others think of me in the future." Anli glanced sideways at the other party.

Hua Qiansheng still fell to the ground motionless, with no brilliance in his dark eyes, as if he was dead.

The young man felt a headache and scratched his head. Soon, the hair fell down again, blocking his face, and a dull voice came from below.

"...You're right, okay, let me do it, Fang Zheng, I'm used to cleaning up this kind of mess."

The young man turned around and walked in front of Hua Qiansheng, raised his foot and kicked forward. Hua Qiansheng then rolled away. The young man changed the intensity of the kick from time to time to ensure that the opponent was moving in the correct direction.

Soon, there was only a bang, and Hua Qiansheng hit the table leg nearby. The young man sighed, turned around and sat aside.

"Continue the entrance ceremony." The slightly dull voice sounded.

The students hesitated for a moment, and the young man stopped talking and just sat there silently.

However, soon, led by some anxious students, the students began to move in an orderly manner again.

".........Is that the solution?" Qi Xiu murmured in a low voice, with a hint of doubt in his voice.

"Dink has always been lazy. He probably just planned to wait for Hua Qiansheng to wake up before telling him the specific situation. This is his way of handling it. You don't have to worry about it." Anli's words rang out from the side.

Qi Xiu turned his head, and the latter still had the same indifferent expression, but he would look somewhere from time to time, with a trace of thought in his eyes.

He followed the other person's line of sight and saw an 'independent' figure in the crowd.

Wearing slightly worn leather clothes, his thin body looked frail, and his exposed skin looked dark, and an unconcealable 'rustic' air overflowed.

The man stood there, gritting his teeth several times and trying to step forward, but finally stopped where he was.

The new 'gatekeeper' was sitting there with no intention of talking to him.

Top students from all over the world walked past that figure. Although they did not show contempt on their faces, they did not say anything to him. They just glanced at him lightly and then turned away, as if that person did not exist at all.

"Ha." Anli looked at that scene, a chill flashed in his eyes, and he burst into laughter.

However, even he still stayed here and did not step forward to inquire about the other party's situation.

"Those are the clothes from the patrol team." Qi Xiu looked at the figure and told him the clothes he was wearing. Because of his past experience, he still had some understanding of it.

"...Hmm." Anri was silent for a moment and responded in a low voice.

"The Federation does not have a clear hierarchy. In the eyes of the world, as long as you can practice, you will be able to reach a high position sooner or later. Therefore, they will not care about the temporary trough, and no one will look down on others because of it."

"Power is a very complex thing. It can be fair or unfair. The federation, which relies entirely on the ideas of the strongest to decide the way forward, is essentially like those dynasties of the old era."

Qi Xiu looked at the person in front of him, and the other person's slightly nagging words made him fall into silence.

"What is right, what is necessary, what should be done and what should not be done, everything must be considered in detail, otherwise someone will definitely die because of it. The choice itself is a double-edged weapon."

"When one person achieves happiness, the other person will fall into misfortune. Trying to save both parties will eventually lead to both parties dying together. For this, a choice must be made."

"Qi Xiu, let me ask you." Anli looked forward, his bright eyes that always smiled in the past were a little dim now. He had his hands behind his back, and there was a trace of deep fatigue in his eyes.

"Is it more important to give up or to persist?"

Qi Xiu raised his head and looked at the helpless figure in the distance. For a moment, he thought that the other person was asking him what he could do better.

.....No, he shook his head heavily, a flash of blood appeared in his eyes, and then he suppressed it. He didn't need that kind of thing now, and a touch of determination appeared in his eyes.

"It depends on himself." He opened his mouth, but finally changed the topic and took the words in another direction.

"Yes." Anri sighed softly, with that familiar smile on his face again.

Qi Xiu looked away. He knew very well what kind of person Anri was, so he wouldn't say anything now.

The two of them stopped talking and looked at the man together.

The figure of the student disappeared immediately after crossing the iron gate.

After a while, the number of students gradually dwindled, and the man stepped forward again, blocking the sight of the gatekeeper Dink. He no longer hesitated and opened his mouth to speak.

"I think--"

"No, you don't want to, and besides, you don't have the qualifications." Dink rejected him mercilessly, but his tone was slightly gentler than Hua Qiansheng's. After all, the latter was unwilling to do such a thing, and his tone was also Naturally it will look a lot more explosive.

Dink lifted the hair on his mouth and stared at the figure in front of him through the thick hair.

"Perhaps you don't know that the First Federation Academy was not born to save others, but to further enhance the foundation of the Federation, and from now on, try to cultivate more outstanding people."

"Do you know where the students from the First Joint Institute are from?"

"Unlike you, an ordinary person who has not even mastered his strength, they are often the best in various schools, countless geniuses who can shine brightly in the development of the Federation, and those who work hard to achieve their own determination."

"They have opened the door to the First Union Hospital with their talents and hard work. We are also happy to cultivate those children who are motivated, but what about you?"

Dink's head shook slightly, his thick hair swaying, and his tone became colder.

"Actually, I have met you, but now it seems that you have probably forgotten me."

The man raised his head suddenly, with deep astonishment in his eyes.

"Yang Zizai, we had high hopes for you and invited you to join us several times. However, you wasted your talents and only wanted to live a safe life. You even lied to your fellow villagers, saying that we were trying to abduct you."

Dink's tone became softer and softer, and his voice seemed extremely cold.

"Look, you are so eager to be 'ordinary'. We are not evil people, so we naturally allow you freedom. If you don't want to do anything, we can't force you to do it."

"That's just enmity. We're not that mean."

"So, go back and live your ordinary life. The First Academy does not reject geniuses, but there are rules everywhere. The rule of the First Academy is to only recruit outstanding graduates from major universities."

"And you are not."

Yang Zizai stood there with a pale face, his body was swaying, and he looked like he was about to fall.

Dink smiled, but did not make any sarcastic remarks. Instead, he looked at the other student who had just walked over normally and continued to start the review process.

As far as he is concerned, he will not do those despicable things, everything will only be done according to procedures.

Qi Xiu looked at Anli, who whispered.

"Dink used to be a member of a certain fringe sect, but later that sect disbanded and he ended up here." Anri just said it lightly, but did not elaborate on the specific situation.

Qi Xiu could certainly hear it, but he also did not continue to ask.

puff.

There was a loud noise, and the two looked again, and a strange scene appeared in front of them.

Dink looked ugly, and the hair on his face floated up, revealing the withered bark-like skin underneath, but he didn't pay attention here, but looked at the humble figure in front of him.

"Yes, I was wrong, I was blind, I failed your kindness, I was wrong..."

The boy's lips trembled, and his body trembled with it, but even so, he continued to apologize, with a hint of pleading in his eyes.

Dink looked at the figure in front of him, and couldn't help but think of that confident figure with disdain on his face. At that time, they thought they had the hope of finding the school, and their hearts were agitated by it. Even the guys who usually didn't like it were also excited. All smiles.

They look forward to one day, relying on the hope in front of them, to return to the center of the Federation and regain its former glory.

However, everything was shattered in that light word.

"Pfft, what the hell, I won't do it, I won't do it, I won't do it."

After carefully taking care of the other party for several months, I tried to get an acceptable answer from the other party. However, the man refused with a smile, and even took out the teaching materials that the leader of the faction had worked tirelessly and worked hard for many days to make fun of.

"Haha, what the hell are you asking me to learn this talisman, unless I lose my mind and go crazy."

The man turned around and laughed happily, but they could only watch blankly. The boy walked away, leaving behind the 'teaching materials' that were thrown casually on the ground.

It was at that moment that every time when everyone was discouraged, he would shout loudly that there is still hope and we should not give up. Even though everyone found it annoying, he would always show excitement, just like a mascot pie. The Lord became quiet.

He subconsciously picked up the textbook and looked at the faction leader, as did everyone else.

The faction leader shook his head, with a hint of relief in his eyes.

"Yeah, it should have been over a long time ago."

So, on that day, the faction disbanded.

He thought about killing the guy, but in the end, he left there.

But now, Dink lowered his eyes and looked at the figure silently.

It was a figure that was prostrate to the ground, looking extremely pitiful from a distance.

but.

The humble man bows to the ground, but so what?

He thought coldly in his heart.

"Then, let me tell you a supplementary rule."

The boy raised his head in surprise, the corners of Dink's mouth slightly raised, hiding the trace of pleasure in his eyes, imitating the memory that had been swirling in his mind, and 'presenting' the traces again.

Yang Zizai's eyes gradually became dull. When he looked at the other person, he seemed to see another version of himself, a self that was arrogant, contemptuous of others, naughty and ruthless.

"Use the reputation of one admitted student and two teachers as a guarantee, and let them be the targets who can be punished for you if you make a mistake and choose to escape. As long as you can find them, you can enroll."

'Dink' looked over here with a smile, a meaningful smile on his face.

"After all, you don't have to bear any responsibility."

Yang Zizai's pupils trembled, and he suddenly fell into silence.