When system cheat becomes rampant!

After a while, he looked up again and said to Xiang Beifei, "I really envy you."

"Envy me for what?"

"Your girlfriend trusts you a lot. She never thought about killing you to escape from there and always believed you wouldn't lay a hand on her. You're luckier than me, having met the right person," Liu Gui said.

Girlfriend?

Xiang Beifei turned to look at Lu Zhiwei, who was earnestly discussing something with her dad.

He stroked his chin thoughtfully as he observed Lu Zhiwei.

It's not like he paid much attention to this girl's attire before, since they knew each other for so long. Perhaps it was the familiarity; no matter how she dressed, to Xiang Beifei, it all seemed the same.

But if you really thought about it, Lu Zhiwei was a girl with an amazing figure, just that she was quite careless, to the point that even her father didn't treat her as a girl.

As for the girlfriend thing...

"She's got a strong sense of justice normally, so naturally she wouldn't hurt me," Xiang Beifei said with a shrug.

Liu Gui gave a bitter smile and shook his head slightly, "I used to think Xiao Yun was a kind person too, with a strong sense of justice, speaking up against injustices in life. But who would have expected such a thing to happen at a life or death moment? What a person is really like, how they normally act, it doesn't matter. True character only shows during tough times."

Looking at Lu Zhiwei, Liu Gui saw her and He Yun, both girls, as worlds apart in his eyes. He envied the trust between Lu Zhiwei and Xiang Beifei.

"Anyway, thank you," Liu Gui expressed his gratitude, "I hope the two of you will be happy."

Unexpected blessings?

Xiang Beifei raised an eyebrow; they hadn't confirmed any relationship and were just pretending to be a couple to catch criminals.

But whatever, he couldn't be bothered to explain.

—

Lu Hong walked over, planning to escort Zhu Xinjue back personally to avoid any mishaps on the road. Since Xiang Beifei had come on Lu Zhiwei's motorbike, he had to take the motorbike back to school.

"Drive safely on your way back," Lu Hong instructed before leaving.

"Sure, don't worry! Beifei is so badass, even two cruiser assassins wouldn't stand a chance!" Lu Zhiwei boasted energetically.

On the highway, only Lu Zhiwei and Xiang Beifei were left.

"The power you wielded when you fired your gun just now was very strong; I underestimated you before. Have you given it a name?" Xiang Beifei asked seriously.

"Going all out, I call it 'Going All Out,'" Lu Zhiwei chuckled.

"With that ability, hunting desolate beasts is too easy. You'd definitely excel as a pioneer!" Xiang Beifei commented.

Everyone's awakening abilities are different, and so are their areas of expertise. Lu Zhiwei's ability wasn't for fighting alone but was more suited for group battles.

As long as she was powerful enough, when facing a horde of desolate beasts, Lu Zhiwei's fully unleashed ability could send them into a crushing defeat.

"Stop it, you're making me blush," murmured Lu Zhiwei, "I haven't even qualified to venture outside to the wilderness yet, and you've already been around and back."

After a pause, Lu Zhiwei asked, "Is Liu Gui okay? He seemed really down. Were you consoling him just now?"

"Anyone in his situation would feel terrible," Xiang Beifei replied.

"That He Yun is too much! If she truly liked him, she'd never hurt him! It's outrageous, killing someone just to save herself—what kind of girl does that!" Lu Zhiwei raged indignantly.

Xiang Beifei leaned against a tree trunk by the roadside, resting his chin on his hand while looking at Lu Zhiwei.

Feeling self-conscious under his gaze, Lu Zhiwei asked, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"I don't know, sometimes I forget you're a girl," Xiang Beifei admitted.

Lu Zhiwei's eyes widened, "Hey! What do you mean by that! How do I not look like a girl? Just because I like to fight! Are you saying girls who like to fight aren't girls anymore?"

"I never said girls can't fight."

"Then what are you looking at?"

"You look pretty today."

Xiang Beifei stood up and casually turned to walk toward the motorbike.

Lu Zhiwei paused for a moment, glanced at her clothes, and touching her chin, she wondered, "What's he mean by that? Why is he saying I look nice today? Was I not good-looking yesterday?"

It's weird, the outfit I wore yesterday looked pretty good on me too!

"Hurry up and take me back to school!"

Xiang Beifei put on his helmet and shouted next to the motorcycle.

"What's the rush, keep it up and I might just leave you here in the middle of nowhere..."

Lu Zhiwei kicked a stone on the ground and grumbled as she followed.

——

After the highway cruiser killer incident was resolved, Xiang Beifei couldn't be bothered to pay attention to the aftermath.

The new semester was approaching, summer vacation was ending, and more and more students were returning to school. Many were discussing this year's freshmen, and rumors had it that Liangzhou University had recruited a total of fourteen SR-level newcomers!

Fourteen SR Awakeners!

Elite universities were never short of geniuses. S-level Awakeners were relatively rare in ordinary high schools and could garner a lot of praise, but they were a dime a dozen at elite institutions.

Normally, during the freshman enrollment season, the SR Awakeners would receive unprecedented attention.

However, this year, the one who still garnered the highest level of attention was N-level Awakener Xiang Beifei!

As the only student in the entire school who fought his way into admission as an N-level student, he had been the talk of the town all summer long.

The incident with Yu Lei writing articles over summer break had caused a stir, putting Liangzhou University in the hot seat on social media and subject to much criticism, leading many Liangzhou University students to remember the high-scoring N-level candidate Xiang Beifei.

Then it was rumored that Xiang Beifei actually passed the entrance assessment, officially becoming a member of Liangzhou University! This was enough to fill everyone with boundless curiosity about this N-level student. After all, he was the only N-level student Liangzhou University had admitted in the ten years since Shang Tianxiong had left.

At the time of the entrance assessment, Liangzhou University was on summer break. With thirty thousand students enrolled at Liangzhou University, only a little over two hundred showed up that day. Many didn't come to see the assessment, and since the assessment video was kept confidential, other students could only speculate based on hearsay.

All of them were elites, full of pride, and there were many who didn't believe Xiang Beifei could be that impressive. Hence, various theories and speculations abounded, and some became quite bizarre.

Initially, the rumor was that Xiong Meng had given Xiang Beifei a hard time but got punched away by him. This then morphed into a tale of Xiong Meng sparring with Xiang Beifei during the assessment, ending up being punched away by Xiang Beifei. Eventually, it turned into Xiang Beifei being a charm-type System Awakener, manipulating Xiong Meng to go up against Yuchi Shen, who was the one who punched Xiong Meng away!

In the end, the rumor became that Yuchi Shen fought with Xiang Beifei, who resorted to trickery, infuriating Yuchi Shen so much that he punched Xiang Beifei flying into the lair of the Three Souls Desolate Snake...

Only a mere two hundred or so knew the truth, but when the story spread among over thirty thousand Liangzhou University students, it mutated into various versions. There were even claims that the reason Xiang Beifei passed the entrance assessment was that he had encountered Shang Tianxiong in the outer desolate fields, and Shang Tianxiong had helped him catch a bunch of snakes to fulfill his admission requirements!

After the story circulated for half a month, there were all sorts of versions out there, and nobody knew exactly how these rumors had started.

When Xiang Beifei sat in the cafeteria eating his meal and overheard two girls at the next table confidently declaring that he had awoken the "Old Snake Brogue System," which allowed him to control all serpent desolate beasts, thus luckily completing the assessment, he too was dumbfounded.

"Could this be some guy who awoke the 'Rumor-mongering System' and is deliberately causing trouble?" Xiang Beifei calmly ate his food, not too concerned.

He didn't want too much hassle on the first day of school, so while eating, he wore a hat. With so many students around and everyone dressed casually, no one would pay too much attention to his appearance. After eating, he returned to his dorm to find a piece of paper stuck to the door listing the inhabitants of the dorm.

He was staying in a university dormitory, a four-person room, but since Xiang Beifei had moved in half a month earlier, he had been living there alone. Now, with the start of the new term, it meant he was going to have three new roommates.

The dormitory list read:

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Room 404 students:

SR-level Li Zimu

SR-level Long Guocheng

SR-level Meng Yuekai

N-level Xiang Beifei

——

Huh?

Xiang Beifei was surprised to find that his roommates were three SR-level Awakeners!

Good grief! There were only fourteen SR-level freshmen this year, with three in the Liberal Arts College and eleven in the Martial Arts College.

That meant, out of eleven SR-level martial artists, his dorm had just happened to be assigned three?

One didn't need to think too hard to realize something was amiss.