Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

“Caesar,” Lu Mingfei said.

"Did he come to challenge you to a duel because you insulted him?" Su Xiaoqiang joked.

“No,” Lu Mingfei shook his head, “he came to thank me.”

Su Xiaoqiang: ? ? ?

193. Chapter 192 Norton House

Lu Mingfei's dormitory at Kassel College.

"Brother Fei, I misunderstood you!" Fingel held Lu Mingfei's hand with tears in his eyes. "I thought you wanted to trick me, but it turns out you saved me."

Lu Mingfei pulled his hand away with a look of disgust.

“Most of the people who participated in the day of freedom ended up with either mature female voices or loli voices. Only a few of us in the entire school were spared. I heard that many people were protesting in front of the equipment department, so the equipment department had to provide everyone with another free equipment upgrade service to quell the students’ anger,” Fingel said.

Lu Mingfei twitched the corner of his mouth—strictly speaking, he could actually be considered an accomplice of the Equipment Department in this matter, since he was the one who represented the Equipment Department to persuade Senior Brother Chu and Caesar, and then got these two presidents to personally mobilize people from the two major clubs to participate.

Fortunately, not many people knew about this, so he was not subjected to the students' firepower.

“There will probably be very few people on campus these next couple of days,” Fingel said gleefully. “Most of the people who have changed their voices will probably stay in their dorms and not come out. A friend of mine who works in the cafeteria said that last night, the cafeteria’s delivery orders surged, and most of them were ordered by text message.”

"You seem very happy?" Lu Mingfei asked, a little puzzled.

"Because my creditors shouldn't be calling to urge me to pay back the money these next couple of days," Fingel said, looking quite pleased with himself.

"Didn't Deputy Director Carl promise to pay your credit card bills?" Lu Mingfei asked, puzzled.

“He only helps me pay my credit card bills, but I have to pay back the money I owe to other people myself,” Fingel said with a pained expression.

"...How did you, a half-blood, end up like this? I heard you were an A-level student when you enrolled." Lu Mingfei's eye twitched.

The student's grade evaluation is calculated based on a combination of bloodline level, daily performance, and task performance. Newly enrolled students have zero data for the latter two, and only bloodline is used as the evaluation standard. Being rated as an A-level mixed-race means that the bloodline is quite excellent, at least a level higher than that of Senior Brother Ye Sheng and Senior Sister Jiu Deya.

Most of the time, the changes in students' ranks are inspirational stories of "lower bloodlines gradually advancing to higher ranks through hard work". There was even a legendary story more than ten years ago of a C-rank hybrid who was promoted to A-rank and joined the executive department when he graduated from school after four years.

Due to the advantage of bloodline, it is very rare for an A-grade bloodline to fall in rank. The case of Fingel, who repeated a grade for four years and fell all the way from A-grade to F-grade, can be said to be unique.

“A true hero doesn’t dwell on past glories, junior brother. When Wu Song first started out, he dared to fight a tiger after drinking a few bowls of wine on Jingyang Ridge, but after losing an arm, he had no choice but to become a monk at the Liuhe Temple in Hangzhou,” Fingel said.

“He captured Fang La with one arm even though he was missing an arm,” Lu Mingfei retorted. “And where do you get the confidence to compare yourself to Wu Song? You’d be scared to death if you saw a tiger.”

Lu Mingfei was just making a casual remark. He had just witnessed Fingel's brute strength when he grabbed Caesar yesterday. This guy's physical fitness was at least A-level. Moreover, Deputy Director Karl also said that although almost all of his grades were terrible, he was at least very good at math, which proved that Fingel's intelligence level was not low.

Lu Mingfei could only attribute his constant level drops to his deliberate slacking off because he didn't want to slay the dragon.

“What’s there to be afraid of? I have a unique way of dealing with tigers!” Fingel patted his chest confidently.

"What method?" Lu Mingfei asked curiously.

“I can kneel down and recognize a tiger as my godfather. I’ve heard there’s a Chinese idiom, ‘Even a tiger wouldn’t eat its cubs!’” Fingel said, puffing out his chest.

“I think this move is risky,” Lu Mingfei shook his head. “Have you ever heard of another idiom?”

"What idiom?" Fingel asked curiously.

"Like father, like son," Lu Mingfei said leisurely.

"Junior brother, are you indirectly insulting me?" Fingel sensed something was wrong.

"No." Lu Mingfei shook his head decisively.

"Oh, you didn't scold me?" Fingel scratched his head.

"No, there's no beating around the bush," Lu Mingfei said sincerely.

"Let's die together! I have dignity too!" Fingel lunged at Lu Mingfei.

"Lunch is on me today," Lu Mingfei said.

Fingel, who had lunged at Lu Mingfei, slumped down and grabbed Lu Mingfei's leg, saying, "My dignity has a price!"

Lu Mingfei: ...

"Tuk-tuk-tuk-"

There was a knock on the door.

Fingel released Lu Mingfei's leg: "I'll hide in the closet for a bit, Junior Brother, you go open the door."

"Why are you hiding?" Lu Mingfei asked, puzzled.

“Anyone who comes to the dorm is either looking for you or me. Those who come to me are usually creditors.” As he spoke, Fingel deftly opened the wardrobe and prepared to crawl inside.

"Why don't you go to the bathroom? The closet is too crowded." Lu Mingfei asked, puzzled.

“Judging from your appearance, junior brother, you’ve never been chased by debt collectors before. You’re too naive,” Fingel said as he crawled into the closet. “Hiding in the bathroom will only get you into trouble with the creditors. By hiding in the closet, I can slip away when they come to the bathroom to look for me.”

As he spoke, Fingel reached out and closed the wardrobe door.

Lu Mingfei: ...

Lu Mingfei sighed and went to open the door.

After opening the door, a boy who didn't recognize Lu Mingfei was standing in the doorway.

The newcomer appeared to be Indian, with a handsome face, jet-black curly hair, and clear black and white eyes, like a male star from a Bollywood musical.

Oh no, he might really be here to collect a debt. After all, this guy looks so innocent, it seems quite normal for him to be deceived by Fingel's sweet talk and lend him some money.

Before Lu Mingfei could speak, the boy outside the door introduced himself: "Hello, my name is Qi Lan, president of the freshman association. Lu Mingfei, it's nice to meet you. Can you sign your name for me?"

His words were all very proper in tone, expression and content, showing that he was quite cultured. The only slightly incongruous thing was that he spoke in a sweet, loli-like voice.

While suppressing a laugh, Lu Mingfei was completely bewildered: "Looking for my autograph? Brother, are you sure you haven't got the wrong person?"

He did indeed do some pretty big things, such as slaying a dragon in Vianaburg and incidentally killing a high-ranking member of the Solomon Temple, and not long ago covering Ye Sheng and Jiu Deyaji's retreat in the Three Gorges Bronze City.

However, the latter is a very important mission, and its internal details are highly confidential, known only to those involved in the mission.

While the former is too influential to be kept completely secret, it shouldn't be so widely known.

“That’s right. You are the only S-class student in the school in the last fifty years. Moreover, you defeated the student council president Caesar on the day of freedom as soon as you entered the school, and even overpowered the Lionheart Society president Chu Zihang, causing him to surrender without a fight,” Qi Lan said with the admiration of a fan girl looking at her idol. “Now you are a famous figure in the whole school.”

If you close your eyes and don't look at the person speaking, but only listen to that sweet, childlike voice and adoring tone, it would probably greatly satisfy a normal person's vanity, as if there really is a sweet and cute little girl expressing her admiration for them.

But Lu Mingfei only felt something was off, and inwardly cursed the Equipment Department as a scourge, while also having some doubts.

The details of the decisive battle on the day of freedom were not disclosed to the public, but both Caesar and Chu Zihang frankly admitted that they were defeated by Lu Mingfei. With the endorsement of these two parties involved, the truth of the rumors became unshakable. Who didn't know that Chu Zihang and Caesar were people of their word at school?

Since things had come to this point, Lu Mingfei had no choice but to sign an autograph for Qi Lan. He had heard of the "Freshman Association" before; this club had appeared at the beginning of the semester and was competing with the Student Union and the Lionheart Club for members, attracting many new students. However, his knowledge of the Freshman Association was limited to this, so he didn't recognize Qi Lan at first.

To be honest, as someone who founded a club as soon as he entered university and tried to challenge the student council and the Lionheart Club, Qi Lan can be considered a "prominent figure".

Such a person wouldn't stoop to using his signature to swindle or deceive.

Lu Mingfei signed the notebook that Qi Lan handed him with both hands. Qi Lan took the notebook back from Lu Mingfei and carefully put it away.

"Is there anything else, Qi Lan?" Lu Mingfei asked.

He didn't think Qi Lan was just there to ask for an autograph.

“Lu Mingfei, I hope you can join the freshman social club,” Qi Lan said.

Lu Mingfei suddenly realized—they were here to poach his employees.

"Sorry, brother, I've already joined the Lionheart Society," Lu Mingfei said decisively.

Putting aside his own connection with the Lionheart Society, just considering his relationship with Senior Brother Chu, it's impossible for him to switch sides. Moreover, with Senior Brother Chu and Senior Sister Su protecting him in the Lionheart Society, he could comfortably be a lazy bum. But if he went to a newly established club, he would have to work like a slave to build it up.

To prevent Qi Lan from giving up, Lu Mingfei said directly, "Moreover, the president of the Lionheart Society is from my hometown. After I join, I can choose any position, such as vice president or minister."

The implication is that you should give up. Even if you can offer the same position, how can the same position in the new organization be the same as the one in the Lionheart Society?

Qi Lan said, "Actually, I wanted to invite you to be the president of the freshman association. The Lionheart Club and the Student Union are both recruiting members from among the freshmen, but we freshmen shouldn't be scattered. I've always believed that we will bring a fresh atmosphere to this campus. It's just that we lack a leader like Caesar or Chu Zihang. I'm not capable enough, but you can! With your current influence, as long as you raise your arm and call, most of the freshmen will join on their own initiative!"

Lu Mingfei was stunned.

The development of this story reminded him of something his senior brother Chu had told him—when Chu joined the Lionheart Society in his freshman year, he had already become famous throughout the academy. After the then president Lancelot personally "tested" Chu, he directly gave up his position as president of the Lionheart Society and voluntarily stepped down as vice president to assist Chu. The reason was that he believed that only in this way could the Lionheart Society regain its glory and be able to compete with the student council led by Caesar.

An ancient term to describe this act is "abdication".

So now Qi Lan wants to hand over the position of president of the Freshman Societies to him, so that he can develop the Freshman Societies into a club that can compete with the Student Union and the Lionheart Club.

Lu Mingfei first realized, then shook his head frantically: "Brother, you've misjudged me. I'm not leadership material. If you ask me to lead a club, all I'll do is take everyone to play games and socialize. Besides, there's no necessary connection between high bloodline and being suitable for leadership."

What a joke! Developing a club is exhausting just thinking about it. Lu Mingfei has no time to waste on such things.

“I see…” Qi Lan’s tone was somewhat low. “I understand. Sorry to bother you.”

After a pause, before Lu Mingfei could say anything, Qi Lan continued, "By the way, besides inviting you to be the chairman of the freshman social association, I have something else to ask you."

"what?"

"A friend of mine asked me to ask your roommate, Senior Finger, when he's going to pay back the money he owes." Qi Lan smiled sheepishly.

Lu Mingfei: ...

So it turns out he's still the creditor!

……

In the afternoon, in the Lionheart Society president's office.

After Lu Mingfei complained to Chu Zihang about how inconvenient it was that the office didn't even have a sofa and coffee table for receiving guests, a sofa and coffee table were installed in the chairman's office. At this moment, Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang were sitting on the sofa.

"Congratulations, junior brother," Susie said with a smile as she walked over carrying a stack of documents. "You're now dominating the school's Night Watchers forum, defeating Caesar and Chu Zihang in a one-against-two battle. You've created a legend right after entering S-class."

"Shouldn't the students who participated in the war have suddenly turned into mature women and lolis overnight?" Lu Mingfei complained.

“There’s nothing we can do. Who would have thought the Equipment Department would be so shameless? Almost the entire Lionheart Club participated, and as a result, almost all of them got caught. These are all the leave forms they submitted, saying that they are not able to participate in club activities these two days,” Susie put the documents on the coffee table and couldn’t help but laugh. “Even another vice president, Lancelot, got caught.”

Even Chu Zihang couldn't help but smirk, as if he had thought of something happy.

"Oh right, and Nuonuo too, she got it too, her voice turned into a little girl's voice. I even secretly recorded it." Susie laughed very loudly, which shows that she and Nuonuo are indeed best friends.

……

Meanwhile, Nono, who was forced to stay in her dorm room playing games to relieve her boredom, sneezed violently.

"Damn it! It must be Su Xiaoniu talking bad about me. When she gets back, I'm going to pinch her butt until it's swollen!" Nono's sixth sense kicked in.

……