Chapter Thirty-One: Challenging the Flag

  "They will definitely not just help me this once, and later they will continue to lend a helping hand" I chuckled.

  "You wouldn't really want to introduce Qiang Ge to Xu Long and Rubin, would you? Jie Ge, if you were to actually let them meet and succeed in setting them up, then we would lose all our usefulness." Liu Shuai reminded me.

  "Don't worry, I'm not that stupid. I'll give them a little sweetness to taste, but absolutely won't put the whole cake in front of them. Otherwise, Xu Long and I might become enemies instead of partners." I furrowed my brow and said, "Don't forget, we're supposed to be campus overlords together. Xu Long's goals are aligned with ours, so it's only a matter of time before we turn against each other and become enemies. He wants to use me, but why shouldn't I want to use him too?"

  I smiled slyly. "Xu Long thinks he's so clever, thinking I'm stupid, and that everything is under his control. That's his weakness. We can use this weakness to quietly rise up. Since he thinks we're foolish, let's pretend to be foolish too. When our team grows stronger, then we'll reveal our ambition." I chuckled to myself, Liu Shuai is my good brother, these words, I would only tell him alone.

  The exam results are out, and everyone's mood is not very good. Of course, I'm talking about my brothers here. Many people look quite unhappy, but some have already gotten used to it and don't care anymore.

  Zhang Kun's challenge letter was at Nan Shan, I sent a friend to keep an eye on Zhang Kun and his men, the rest followed me to Qing Yun Shan, this is where He Shuai and I agreed to meet.

  Because this is my first appointment, I have little experience. We prepared a lot of sticks and it depends on He Shuai's team at that time. They all hold sticks, we also hold sticks. If their people only have a few holding sticks, then we will also send a few to hold sticks.

  But I have prepared an axe for myself.

  Before He Shuai's action, I had already sent someone to follow him and confirmed that He Shuai did not bring any helpers. That's why I came to the appointment alone. Now with so many brothers under my command, I naturally have to take responsibility for them.

  "You came really early" I smiled at He Shuai and said "You arrived almost half an hour earlier than the agreed time"

  "You're not late either, it seems we can start ahead of schedule. It's been a long time since my brothers and I have had a good fight." Hehe smiled, behind him were about ten people, but they all looked very capable.

  "You little scoundrel, I heard you've also issued a challenge to Zhang Kun. Now that guy Zhang Kun must have been lured by you to the South Mountain, right?" He Shuai asked me with a tone of schadenfreude, which seemed to carry some praise for me.

  "Zhang Kun is so clever, if he finds out you've fooled him, he'll definitely not let you off," He Shuai laughed.

  "Haha, that declaration of war wasn't written by me, it was yours, written in my own handwriting. I didn't trick Zhang Kun, someone else did." I smiled and said "Zhang Kun is a despicable person to begin with, many people have tricked him before. Today he got told off by someone else, it's a kind of retribution."

  "I've always despised people who resort to trickery. We're all from the same school, no need for knives and guns. Put away that mountain knife, it's something only used in society. As for those baseball bats, you can choose three people to hold them on your side, we'll have four on our side, one more than you because there are twice as many of you as us. How about that?" He Shuai said.

  "They say you're arrogant, but it seems that hearing is not as good as seeing. I sneered and said, "That time my people and Xu Long's people had a conflict, Xu Long said to let the lower-level people solve it themselves, but Xu Long specially emphasized that the number of people who take action will absolutely not be more than ours, only less."

  "Alright, stop provoking me with Xulang." He Shuai furrowed his brow.

  "I may be arrogant, but I'm not stupid. You have twice as many people on your side as we do. If I didn't bring more guys than you, it would be a clear case of bullying. The challenge letter said it was going to be a one-on-one duel between us, but that guy in the gray tracksuit is a senior, and he's been brought into this by you. You're cheating!

  He Shuai furrowed his brow: "You've broken the rules. By rights, I should turn around and leave, but I'm in the mood for a fight today, so I didn't expose you. But I didn't expect you to be so shameless, not even willing to give an inch."

  "Brother, you two just watch from the side"

  "But—"

  "Don't worry, I'll go talk to San Jie about it," I said in a low voice.

  Now that the truth has been exposed, these two people's words will definitely lead to gossip. If I win against He Shuai and successfully challenge the flag, then another day He Shuai will surely speak out about my shameful behavior, and Gao Tianwei will even take advantage of the situation to rally Wang Jian and others to attack me, at that time it would be a bit not worth it.

  I said to He Shuai, "Third sister doesn't trust me, so she had to call them over to keep an eye on me. I didn't plan on letting them take action anyway."

  "You don't need to explain so much, I understand. If even Zhang Kun can be played with and clapped at, I won't believe it." He Shuai sneered and smiled lightly. "Anyway, there are too many people on your side, and you must have also found helpers. Although I can't point them out one by one, so I'll add a stick, shouldn't be excessive, right?"

  "But" My face sank, who said He Shuai was brave but had no strategy? I think his brain is absolutely useful!

  "Remember, no hitting the head, that's the rule. Second, in hand-to-hand combat, you can't hit ***, that's a man's fatal spot, and you can't grab hair like women do. You're new here, so let me tell you the rules. If half of your people run away or fall down, then you lose, which means you fail to take the flag." He Qiang said calmly to me.

  "Why isn't it considered a failure until everyone runs away or falls down?" I frowned and asked, to be honest, I didn't have much confidence in the people behind me. At first, I just thought about recruiting more soldiers to expand my power, so I recruited a few more, but who would have thought there were such useless people?

  "It's just a joke, we're not fighting for territory, it's just a competition. Why do you have to make it a life-or-death struggle? What if some of you are determined not to back down, and won't recognize or fall? And besides, knocking everyone down is exhausting. Do you think having more people means you have an advantage? Idiot." He Shuai looked at me disdainfully. "Wait a minute," I suddenly furrowed my brow, afraid that if we really started fighting, someone would run away from behind me.

  In the army, it's not about the troops, but about the soldiers. When we fight, if someone suddenly starts running away when the battle begins, then there will definitely be people on my side who will start to complain and lose morale.

  It's better to get rid of such pests as soon as possible.

  He Shaoyan glanced at me with disdain, then said casually, "Alright, you have ten minutes to choose the warriors you want to send out. Don't bother sending out any trash that will just get defeated by us, that's an insult to us."

  I turned around and took a look at Liu Kai Shi, Liu Shuai and those people. These people are definitely not a problem, even if the enemy is strong, they will not retreat.