The simulated combat assessment will last three hours. It’s a team battle, and the team that kills the most beasts gets the highest score.

“It’s that simple and brutal,” the invigilator explained. “The main purpose of this assessment is to see the results of your learning over the past month. The rules are very simple: you cannot intentionally harm classmates. Other than that, you’re free to use any method to kill more beasts.”

Someone raised a hand: “Does that mean the more people in our team, the higher our score?”

The invigilator replied: “The scores are evenly distributed among the team. I don’t mind if all of you form one team, but in that case, everyone’s score will be the same. You need to consider that yourself.”

Everyone looked at each other.

In that case, they could just latch onto a big shot and coast to victory!

But the invigilator’s next sentence shattered their illusion.

“The AI will record your individual performance and give a comprehensive score, which will then be multiplied by your team’s score to get your final grade. Even if your team gets the highest score, if you’ve been lying around doing nothing, your score will be zero.”

Everyone: “…”

The older, the wiser.

They couldn’t help but look at Rong Shi simultaneously.

What about the old slacker? Were they about to witness the chairman’s first duck egg?

Honestly, they were a little excited!

At 8:55 AM, everyone entered the preparation area to test the simulated combat network.

The military academy’s simulation system was more realistic than Star Wars, and it was even connected to pain nerves, making it almost indistinguishable from reality.

If someone got stabbed in the game, they might actually pass out from the pain.

Just as Rong Shi was about to log in, 01’s voice suddenly rang out.

[Warning! Little Master and Dad are in trouble!! Pouring cold water on them in such cold weather, that’s just too damn bullying! 01 requests to be deployed!]

He had just finished listening when he saw Song Yu walk out with a grim expression.

“Song Yu, where are you going?” the invigilator called out, but couldn’t stop him.

Not yet understanding the situation, Rong Shi also ran after him.

“Rong Shi! Get back here!” the invigilator was anxious.

If these two didn’t participate in the assessment, the average score would drop significantly.

Rong Shi continued to walk out without stopping: “Sorry, I need to deal with something. I’ll be right back.”

Outside the examination hall, he caught up with Song Yu in a few steps: “Where are you going?”

Song Yu’s eyes were unusually cold: “Cola got hit.”

Inside the examination hall, people were panicking—

“They don’t look good. What happened?”

“Why did something go wrong at such a critical moment? Do they not want to take the exam?”

“It doesn’t look like it. It feels like something big happened.”

“There are only three minutes left. How can they make it back in time?”

Zhang Yi sat in the corner, watching them leave one after another, a joyful smile welling up in his eyes.

As long as they walked out of this examination hall, they would lose this exam.

Lu Ming, sitting diagonally in front, retracted his gaze. He saw Zhang Yi’s smile clearly.

He wouldn’t do such a thing, but since someone did, he had to make good use of this opportunity.

Half an hour ago, Central Military Academy Kindergarten.

Mianmian pulled Cola out of the covers and urged him to get dressed and wash up.

Cola rubbed his eyes sleepily, his little face bitter: “Why do I have to go to school? I don’t really want to go to school.”

Mianmian clumsily pressed down his bedhead: “An illiterate person can’t make mecha.”

Cola: “Illiterate? Is it tasty?”

Mianmian: “…”

The two dawdled for about twenty minutes before leaving.

Walking downstairs, a cold wind blew, and Cola finally woke up.

Although they shared a dorm, they weren’t in the same class.

Cola had art class in the morning, and Mianmian had music class, so their classrooms were not in the same building.

“You don’t need to see me off.” At the fork in the road, Mianmian told him to go to the art classroom.

Cola: “No, I said I’d protect you.”

The two walked to the small garden. A little beta from Mianmian’s class ran over and said crisply, “The teacher said no singing, we’re playing with building blocks.”

“I want to play with building blocks too!” Cola was envious, “Can I join you guys?”

The little beta frowned: “No, you’re not in our class.”

After the little beta ran off, Cola held Mianmian’s hand and walked towards the labor class classroom, complaining as they walked: “What’s wrong with letting me play for a little while? So stingy.”

A gust of cold wind blew, and Mianmian coughed lightly a couple of times, looking towards the labor class classroom, but said nothing.

Passing through the small garden, they walked to the bottom of the teaching building, but there was no one on the first floor.

With a glance, he saw a figure flash by the window of the labor class classroom. Cola furrowed his small brows and thought for a moment.

“Mianmian, you stand here and don’t move.”

“No need to go.” Mianmian tried to pull him back, but was too weak to hold him.

Cola walked to the door, stood on his tiptoes to reach the doorknob, and pulled the door open.

Just as he opened it halfway, a basin of cold water was poured over his head, making him shiver.

“Cola!”

Mianmian screamed, too weak to run properly, he tripped halfway and was stuck on his butt for a long time.

Inside the door were two older kids, with mischievous smiles on their faces. After splashing the water, they cheered excitedly.

“Nya nya nya, so dumb! Hahahaha!”

“Wet chicken, you’re a wet chicken! Hahahaha!”

Cola subconsciously pulled the door back a bit, then turned to Mianmian and said, “Mianmian, go call the teacher!”

Mianmian finally stood up, and upon hearing that, immediately turned around and ran towards the nearest teacher’s office.

After splashing the water, the two older kids tried to squeeze through the door crack to escape.

Cola used all his strength to push them back inside, while also kicking fiercely.

The two older kids didn’t know he was so strong. One of them accidentally got pushed over and fell flat on his face, immediately bursting into tears.

Cola then knocked down the other one and started raining punches on his face.

“Dare to splash cold water on Mianmian, I’ll beat you!”

The older kids reacted, crying and wrestling with him.

But Cola’s punches were really painful, and the two older kids were soon beaten until snot and tears streamed down their faces.

However, Cola himself had also been hit, and his face was throbbing with a little pain.

“Who’s fighting there?!”

Hearing the teacher’s voice, Cola retracted the fist he was about to throw, hurriedly got up from the older kid, and looked innocently at the doorway.

As soon as he saw Mianmian in the teacher’s arms, he couldn’t help but burst into tears, crying even louder than the older kids lying on the ground.

“Mianmian, they bullied me and hit me, boohoohoo—”

Mianmian struggled to get the teacher to put him down, then ran over in a few steps: “Cola, your face got hit? Does it hurt?”

“It hurts so much, it hurts so much.” Cola hugged Mianmian and cried.

The teacher took a towel to wipe him, but he snatched it away while crying and stuffed it into Mianmian’s hand.

Cola sobbed: “I want Mianmian to wipe it.”

Teacher: “…”

The two older kids were so beaten up they couldn’t get up, pointing at Cola and crying to the teacher: “He, he hit me!”

Cola flinched and hid behind Mianmian: “You guys splashed water on me, and you hit me!”

As he spoke, he cried even louder.

Mianmian: “Teacher, I saw them splash Cola with my own eyes!”

The teacher was used to this kind of scene where kids blame each other after a fight.

However, Cola was completely wet, so what he said wasn’t entirely false.

He calmly helped the two older kids up, intending to take them to the infirmary for a check-up first, and then notify the parents of the two older kids for a talk.

Just as they walked out of the classroom, a stylish new hover car descended before their eyes.

Song Yu and Rong Shi got out of the car, their faces cold, one after the other.

The teacher was stunned.

These guys were so damn handsome!

Rong Shi knelt in front of Mianmian to check, suppressing his agitated emotions, and asked softly, “Who bullied you?”

01 said Mianmian was splashed with water, but his clothes were dry.

Mianmian shook his head, holding Cola’s hand and saying, “They wanted to splash water on me, but Cola blocked it for me.”

Rong Shi turned his head to look at his foolish apprentice.

Compared to Mianmian, he did look a bit miserable: a towel on his head, noticeable water stains on his clothes, and one side of his chubby face was red.

Rong Shi pressed his head and rubbed it roughly: “Thank you, go change your clothes quickly.”

He was praised!

Before Cola could be happy, he was lifted up, and Song Yu’s stern face quickly appeared before him.

Song Yu poked the red spot on his face: “Was that from those two things?”

Cola hurriedly covered his face: “What are you doing? It hurts so much!”

“Excuse me, are you Cola and Mianmian’s parents?” the teacher asked.

Song Yu wrapped the towel tightly around Cola, stepped aside to block the wind, and said coldly, “Please immediately notify the parents of those two things. If they dare to bully a child of our Song family, this matter is not over.”

The teacher was startled by his gaze.

This intimidating aura was even more terrifying than the school leaders!

Rong Shi picked up Mianmian, stood up, and said in a deep voice, “If the other party cannot give us a reasonable explanation, we will pursue this to the end.”

The teacher was forced to take half a step back, his face slightly pale.

“Okay, okay, I’ll contact them immediately. Now, please come with me to the infirmary first.”

[Relevant audio and video evidence has been saved.]

[It’s that stupid bastard Zhang Yi! He came up with such a sinister trick just to delay the Master’s exam!]

In the dean’s office, Xu Feng’s face was grim.

When Mianmian transferred, Qian Fan personally asked him to handle it, and he also took the opportunity to investigate Rong Shi’s situation.

Military and political background, full marks on admission, an outstanding student in a million.

He had been teaching for so many years, and he admired this kind of student the most, which also made him pay more attention to Mianmian.

But this child actually had a problem right under his nose!

“I’m very sorry, it was my dereliction of duty.” Xu Feng’s lips were tightly pursed. “The parents of those two children are already on their way. We will definitely investigate the specific situation thoroughly.”

Rong Shi had Mianmian sit next to him: “There’s also a beta in Mianmian’s class named Chen Xiao. Please also call his parents over.”

Xu Feng was surprised: “What does that have to do with him?”

Mianmian: “He was the one who told us to go to that classroom.”

Xu Feng didn’t dare to be vague and immediately asked the homeroom teacher to contact Chen Xiao’s parents.

Half an hour later, the parents of all three children arrived.

The parents of the two older children were immediately enraged when they saw their children’s faces bruised and swollen.

“Who hit them so hard?! Is it him?! Why isn’t such a bad child expelled?!”

“How do you manage this school?! My good child comes here and ends up like this?!”

A barrage of words made Rong Shi’s ears buzz.

He picked up Mianmian, pulled up his foolish apprentice, and walked away without saying a word.

“Don’t leave! What do you mean?! You want to leave without clarifying things?!”

“If you don’t apologize to my child today, I’ll make sure you regret it!”

Song Yu put down his water glass and looked over, his voice leisurely but each word laced with ice. “I haven’t even pursued your responsibility, and you’re already blaming me?”

Xu Feng was very good at judging people. When he first saw Song Yu, he knew this young man was not to be trifled with.

Moreover, Song Yang was backed by the Gu family, a family that no ordinary person could afford to offend.

Seeing that the two parents over there still didn’t understand the situation, Xu Feng hurriedly began to explain.

After explaining, he looked at the two children who had started crying again: “Why did you splash cold water on Mianmian?”

One of the children: “I didn’t! I didn’t splash!”

The other one: “He hit me!”

Upon seeing this, the parents sternly said, “See? The child said they didn’t! Why are you so sure it’s my child’s fault?!”

Song Yu: “It’s simple to find out. Just check the surveillance.”

The parents were momentarily speechless. They turned to look at their child and saw the child’s eyes darting around, constantly hiding behind them, and immediately understood what was going on.

As soon as they heard about checking surveillance, one of the parents immediately softened: “These are all small matters. Children playing around don’t have much sense of proportion. Later, let my child apologize to your child.”

The other parent immediately echoed: “That’s right, children play and then forget about it. We adults don’t need to take it too seriously.”

“Small matter? Don’t need to take it seriously?” Song Yu stood up, a smile on his lips. “Alright, no need for an apology then.”

Seeing him being so easy to talk to, the two parents breathed a sigh of relief.

Indeed, younger people are easier to fool.

“There was a fifteen-minute interval from when my child was splashed with water until he changed clothes.” Song Yu looked at them. “Since it’s a small matter, let’s punish them by having them stand in the hallway, soaking wet, facing the wall for fifteen minutes.”

One parent suddenly stood up, disbelieving: “What did you say?!” The other parent: “Are you sick?! How can you punish children like that?!”

Song Yu snapped his fingers, and two people walked in from outside, grabbed the children, and left.

“I think you’ve got it wrong. I’m not discussing this with you.”

The two crying children were forcibly taken away, scared into loud sobs. The parents couldn’t stop them, neither by hitting nor scolding, and finally appealed to Xu Feng.

Xu Feng had a terrible headache. If this matter was handled this way, his position would be gone.

He stood up and walked over, just about to speak, but was stopped by Song Yu.

Song Yu said coldly, “I advise you not to get involved in this.”

The two crying children were taken to an empty space outside the dean’s office, drenched with a bucket of ice water. They were cold and scared, sobbing uncontrollably.

Song Yu stood in front of them: “Who told you to do this? If you tell us, you won’t be punished.”

The children’s father was blocked and couldn’t get through. The two children were already terrified. Hearing that they wouldn’t be punished, they desperately pointed at Chen Xiao.

“It, it was him! Boohoohoo—”

“He, he said he’d give us snacks if we splashed, splashed water!”

Song Yu looked at Chen Xiao’s father, who was standing not far away, preparing to flee.

As soon as Chen Xiao saw Song Yu looking over, he immediately cried, gripping his father’s clothes tightly, just afraid of being pulled over and splashed with water too.

“Dad, Dad made me do it!”

Rong Shi sent Mianmian and Cola back to the dorm and returned.

Seeing Chen Xiao’s father sternly deny it, he directly pulled out the surveillance video.

Rong Shi looked at Xu Feng: “I will send you the relevant evidence. I hope this matter can be handled fairly.”

Xu Feng and the teachers who had gathered to watch were stunned.

They had already retrieved the surveillance video in such a short time!

Song Yu looked at Rong Shi, wanting to say that he wasn’t going to let this go.

Rong Shi seemed to know what he was going to say. He walked to Song Yu’s side and whispered, “We’ll deal with the follow-up later. Let’s go back now.”

Song Yu: “Go back and do what?”

Rong Shi raised his eyes: “I haven’t hit anyone in a long time, my hands are itching.”

Author’s note: 

Song Cat: Alright, you’re not stupid.

Cola: Only an idiot wouldn’t protect his wife. [Hands on hips]

Song Cat, Bunny Rong: …The idiot is actually me.