Starting from the Dragon Tribe!

Chapter 18

Starting From the Dragon Tribe

Chapter 18: What Happened to the Grade S Student?

However, Lu Chen wasn’t aware that Chu Zihang had received the same message from Schneider.

They were new to the college, so they didn’t know that the Lionheart Club was basically an incubator of new talents for the Executive Department, which was why Schneider wanted his students to join the club.

Having been rejected, Caesar was neither dejected or furious, and he was able to resolve the embarrassment with ease. “Whatever the case, the student union will always welcome both of you. I’m really glad to have made friends with you today. Even if we become opponents in the future, it means that our college life will be less boring.”

Caesar was sincere when he said that. He was a proud man, so he would be glad if they were willing to join the student union, but he was fine with them joining the Lionheart Club as well. He was more than happy to have such brilliant opponents.

Upon finishing his words, Caesar left the place. He had wanted to stay there to have a chat with them and try out the free food in the canteen, but upon seeing that the table was covered with dishes, he knew that there was no room for him to put down his food, so he decided to leave the place. We will meet again in the future anyway.

After that, Chu Zihang asked, “Mr. Lu, how do you find him?”

Lu Chen was surprised that Chu Zihang called him ‘Mr. Lu’ now, but he still replied calmly, “He’s a charismatic man, so he must be popular among the girls.” Then, he shifted his focus to Chu Zihang. “However, I’m sure that you had many admirers in your previous school as well, right?”

He was sincere when he complimented Chu Zihang. After all, Chu Zihang was a handsome man, and it seemed that he was from a rich family.

“I don’t know.” Chu Zihang really didn’t know because no girls had confessed their love to him before—they were all his secret admirers.

“How do you find Caesar, then?” Lu Chen asked.

After a moment of silence, Chu Zihang gave a weird reply. “I don’t think we’ll be compatible.”

Lu Chen found his reply a little funny. Indeed, they’re not compatible. Caesar is like a pompous Roman emperor while Chu Zihang is like an ascetic monk in the medieval times. One is like an ever warm sun, and the other is like a permanently frozen land in Siberia.

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After the meal, they returned to their respective rooms. The textbooks for the new semester had been sent to their hostel, so Chu Zihang wanted to go through them first. Meanwhile, Lu Chen decided to lie on the bed and space out.

Although he appeared to be spacing out, he was running an inner energy technique a grandmaster taught him in his previous life.

The circulation of his blood was restrained by the pressure in his muscles, which then made his heart pump his blood through the circulatory system harder. By doing so, he was able to increase his physical strength slowly. He had already reached the maximum level of this technique, so it was difficult for him to achieve any breakthrough. However, he wouldn’t want to waste any of his time.

In the evening, he was disrupted by Finger’s shouting. “Chen! Chen! Wake up! You’re famous now!” Finger yelled as he stared at the laptop.

“What happened?” Lu Chen was puzzled.

“Come here to have a look.” Finger beckoned to him.

After getting off the bed, Lu Chen approached him and gazed at the screen. That was the Night Watchman Forum of the college. There were some pinned threads on the forum at the moment. Finger refreshed the page several times and realized that the views and replies were increasing rapidly.

‘Shocking news! A new student has broken the record of the physical test. He might be the next Grade S student!’

‘5.981 seconds. Do you see the difference between you and him now?’

‘The new student, Lu Chen, and the current leader of the student union, Caesar Gattuso, stared fixedly at each other in the canteen. Was it hostility or something else?’

‘The Lionheart Club and the student union are fighting for talents. Will the student union take the lead? Which club will the Grade S student join?’

‘Reward: I want detailed information about Lu Chen before he joined the college.’

‘Discussion: Lu Chen was recruited to the college. Let’s guess how he was discovered.’

‘Let’s make a bet on whether Lu Chen will turn out to be a Grade S student after the 3E test.’

Lu Chen had a headache scrolling through the threads, which were not familiar to him as it had only been one week since he got his smartphone, so he still didn’t understand how an online forum worked.

Despite that, he knew that he was now the center of attention on this college forum. In just one afternoon, he had become one of the most popular people in the college. After giving it a thought, he asked, “My physical test’s result might be outstanding, but how are they so sure I will be classified as Grade S?”

“The physical test is just a small part of the blood lineage assessment, but you’ve broken a record, which was achieved by the previous Grade S student.” Finger appeared to be excited.

“Are there no fast runners among the Grade A students?”

“7 to 8 seconds are not fast enough? The fastest Olympic sprinter will never be able to achieve that. If he saw your result, he might retire and go back to his hometown immediately.” Finger was agitated and thought that Lu Chen was so unfamiliar with worldly affairs.

“Does physical strength correlate with blood lineage?”

“That’s not necessarily true, but we’re talking about Grade B, C and D students here. Their blood lineage will give them different advantages. Some of them possess physical strength that’s on par with that of Grade A students. Some of them are cleverer. However, there’s a limit to these advantages. At the maximum, Grade B students can achieve 7 to 8 seconds in a 100m sprint. It’s also difficult for the Grade A students to achieve a breakthrough unless there’s a significant increase in their physical strength.”

“So—”

“So, you’ve broken the record achieved by the previous Grade S student. It goes to show that you’re even stronger than he was. No Grade A student can ever achieve this result.” Finger made the conclusion. Initially, many people on the forum said that Lu Chen might be Grade S, but they all directly regarded him as Grade S in the end.

As long as nothing wrong happens during the 3E test, Norma would declare that Lu Chen was Grade S, even if he made some mistakes when answering the questions.

Hearing that, Lu Chen fell into his thoughts. He intentionally broke the record because only the best students could obtain the best resources. That was what he had learned in his previous life. However, he didn’t expect that Grade S was so rare in this college. He thought that he would get a reward for breaking the record at most.

“By the way, the Grade S student you mentioned must have graduated by now, right? Has he joined the Executive Department?” Lu Chen asked. If possible, he would love to observe the power of a real Grade S person.

“He’s gone.” Finger was tapping on his keyboard as he was chatting with some people on the forum.

“What do you mean he’s gone?” Lu Chen questioned.

“He went mad some time back and killed himself with a gun,” Finger replied and flashed a smile at him. “But you don’t have to worry. I don’t think you’ll ever kill yourself with a gun.”

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