Starforce Warriors

Chapter 91: Listen To My Story

As the star of Longteng High School, Feng Yuzhen had enjoyed countless flowers and applause. She was beautiful, gifted, and possessed great combat strength. Her emotional intelligence was also high. She was almost as popular at school as Zheng Shou.

Feng Yuzhen had not become a member of the battle team of Longteng High School, a school with a long history of excellence, using luck. She had earned her spot by virtue of her strength. Even Zheng Shou treated her with kindness and respect.

She fought beside her teammates, enjoying countless honors and enduring many difficult moments. Feng Yuzhen felt that her heart had grown very strong. But at that moment, uncontrollable fear gripped her heart like the claws of a nightmare.

She suppressed the fear, took a deep breath, and gritted her teeth. "Come on, don't expect me to admit defeat. Longteng High School has never..."

Li Xiaofei did not listen to her nonsense as he picked up a broken vine from the ground. The green vine, stained with blood, was like a sharp weapon in his hand. As a medic, Feng Yuzhen could never be a match for Li Xiaofei. The green vine pierced her body in one move.

Li Xiaofei flicked his wrist.

Bang.

Feng Yuzhen's body was torn apart by the thrashing vine. This was also the way Ren Dong, the medic from Red Flag High School, had died. Data streams flickered. All the bodies disappeared.

Only Li Xiaofei remained on the battlefield. He gently pulled the beast fang dagger from his arm and casually tossed it aside. The weapon was a makeshift creation by Guan Guan, crudely made from a beast's tooth.

Li Xiaofei stood there without smiling, roaring, or showing off. It was as if he was deep in thought. It wasn't until the final system verdict arrived that his figure transformed into a stream of data and left the light core virtual battlefield.

When he emerged from the light core main cockpit, Longteng Stadium was as silent as a midnight graveyard. Countless eyes and cameras were focused on him. Li Xiaofei stood still, glancing around the stands. It was as if he had suddenly come back to his senses.

"Oh, sorry, did I disappoint you all?" He laughed.

Then, he cupped his hands around his ears.

"Is everyone satisfied now?" asked Li Xiaofei.

The young man smiled radiantly at the crowd. Such provocative words and actions easily ignited the anger of the home team’s audience. They instantly turned into furious, red-eyed bulls.

In no time, a deafening wave of boos formed a terrifying whirlpool of sound in the circular stadium. Miscellaneous objects were thrown towards the field like raindrops, but they were blocked by the energy shield.

Li Xiaofei shrugged as he casually walked towards the Red Flag High School preparation area. Everyone looked at him as if he were a monster. Fang Buyi, Bai Longfei, Ren Dong, and Liu Xiao all had complex expressions on their faces. They were ashamed yet excited; they didn’t know how to face their teammate who had turned the tide.

Li Xiaofei opened his arms and said, "What? I avenged you all, and I don't even get a hug?"

Bai Longfei was the first to react. He came up and bumped shoulders with Li Xiaofei, then leaned in and said, "You better not tell anyone how ugly I looked when I got beaten."

Li Xiaofei said, "You must be missing a few screws. It was a live broadcast, everyone saw it."

Bai Longfei wailed, raising his hands to the sky, "My reputation is ruined!"

Fang Buyi and the others also started laughing. One by one, they came up to hug Li Xiaofei.

Ren Dong jumped up and clung to Li Xiaofei's neck like a koala. "Why are you so strong?"

Fang Buyi said, "Xiaofei, I'm sorry, we dragged you down."

Liu Xiao, with his head deeply bowed, said, "I think I'm no longer fit to be part of the team. I want to quit."

Fang Buyi sighed and said, "I feel the same way. I don't deserve to stay..."

Everyone was shocked by these words. Li Xiaofei could roughly guess how they felt at that moment. If he were in their place, he might feel the same way.

"First of all, we are teammates," Li Xiaofei said solemnly. "It was my duty and responsibility to avenge you."

"Secondly, if you feel you're not strong enough, then train harder in cultivation," He looked very serious. "Maybe you feel like you can’t hold your head high after the shame of being crushed in such a match. But think about me. Do you know what I have been through and why I became this strong?"

Everyone looked at him in confusion.

Li Xiaofei's tone grew solemn. "You should know that I come from the slums. But do you truly understand what a slum is? Have any of you ever been there or lived there?"

Fang Buyi, Liu Xiao, and the others looked at each other and shook their heads.

Li Xiaofei continued, "I was an abandoned baby. From the moment I cried out upon entering this world in the winter of 2504, when the white cold mist shrouded the earth, I had to exert all my strength just to survive."

Everyone was shocked. It was the first time they had heard Li Xiaofei talk about his background.

"I called the kind-hearted person who took me in Little Aunt. At that time, she was no more than a child herself, not even ten years old. She was blind and lived a precarious life in the slum."

Sympathy appeared in their eyes. Even in a rule-of-law district, it would be incredibly difficult for a blind girl to raise a baby.

"I drank waste water, and ate grass roots and tree bark. I felt the pain of waste water nearly destroying my intestines, and the despair of my stomach bloating as if I was pregnant after eating clay. I once went three days and nights without eating anything, thinking I would die..."

"I fought desperately with others over a small spoonful of spoiled mixed nutrient porridge. I collected rainwater using every bottle and jar I could find... I lay among a pile of corpses for dozens of hours hoping to scavenge some edible scraps after everyone left......"

"I suffered my worst injury to protect Little Aunt and my sister, when my stomach was slashed open and my intestines started spilling out. At the age of eight, I joined a gang, wielding a small piece of metal, fighting those ruthless thugs because the gang gave out one-tenth of a box of mixed nutrient porridge every day. I would take it home, add some water, and feed Little Aunt and my sister so we could survive... Just staying alive took everything the three of us had. Do you wonder why I am so strong? The reason is simple. You cultivate to get stronger. But I cultivated to stay alive."

Li Xiaofei spoke slowly, his tone calm and even. But every word struck Fang Buyi and the others like a shockwave.