Feasibility of Mermaids Infiltrating Qilin

"What did you say?"

Su Xingze glared at the child, anger rising in his clear, beautiful green eyes.

Zhang Shenglin didn't understand why he was so angry, so he obediently repeated, "The punishment for failing the assessment has been announced. I have to go to the training ground for training these few days."

Su Xingze knew there would be punishment for failing the assessment, so he took a deep breath and calmed down.

"It will take a few days."

"Ten days."

Hearing the child's indifferent answer, Su Xingze's anger, which he had just suppressed, immediately reignited, and he couldn't help but curse loudly.

"Why does this punishment have to happen now! The New Year is almost here, and not only do they not give you a holiday, they make you train in the martial arts field. That old geezer must be doing this on purpose!"

Su Xingze was very angry. The Spring Festival holds a special place in the hearts of Chinese people. Unless it is a major event, everything has to give way to the Spring Festival, even hundreds of years later.

You see, back then, even the supernatural wouldn't cause trouble during the New Year, except for those supernatural beings that had lost their minds.

Now that old geezer at the clan school is actually making the kids train during the Lunar New Year, for 10 days straight! How could Su Xingze not be angry?

Normally, no matter what Su Xingze thinks in his heart, he still respects his teacher on the surface. But now he's so angry that he's started calling that over 100-year-old but still young clan school teacher a "decrepit old man".

Zhang Shenglin looked at him with a puzzled expression, seemingly unaware of why he was angry.

"I failed the assessment."

The punishment for failure was predetermined, and it wasn't just him; everyone else faced the same punishment.

The child's behavior of treating punishment as normal filled Su Xingze with an inexplicable anger.

"That's the Lunar New Year, not any other time. Even if there's to be punishment, it can be carried out after the Lunar New Year."

Chinese New Year...

This word, which kept appearing in the little mermaid's mouth, made Zhang Shenglin understand why he was so angry.

"It's okay not to celebrate the New Year, it doesn't matter. I never celebrated the New Year before."

There was no festive atmosphere in the Zhang family. His maternal family was alright, but the cold, high-walled mansion inside the main house was completely devoid of any holiday spirit. Before being adopted by his current foster father, he often sat in a daze at the entrance of the orphanage, and later he would just find another place to daze.

For him, the Lunar New Year was just a day that marked the arrival of a new year. As for what it meant, he didn't understand, nor did he have the chance to understand.

It was because he saw through the child's thoughts that Su Xingze couldn't control his anger.

At this moment, in Su Xingze's eyes, the Zhang family was even more bizarre than the supernatural, like an invisible shadow lurking here, a terrifying tale that devoured those young and energetic teenagers, twisting them into unrecognizable forms.

Su Xingze snorted and turned back into the house: "If you want to train, then train. I'll go to the market by myself, and you'll be all alone in the training ground. I'm not going to check on you. You'll just exhaust yourself."

Zhang Shenglin quietly watched his angry departing figure, remaining motionless in his original posture.

After a long while, his eyelashes fluttered, and he took one last look at the silent bedroom before turning and leaving the courtyard.

Most of the teenagers from the clan school arrived at the training ground on time. The teenagers from the clan school had not been exposed to the art of disguise for long and had no acting skills to speak of. It is conceivable that almost all of them failed in this assessment.

The only two who escaped were Su Xingze, who was just there to make up the numbers, and a boy who didn't have a strong presence in the clan school.

This boy was also an orphan from the same clan, about three years older than Zhang Shenglin. He was usually very low-key at the clan school, and his grades were above average. In this disguise test, his disguise was perfect, as if he had completely transformed into the person he was impersonating, without a single flaw. Even the person in question would have doubted whether they were the imposter.

Throughout the entire process, only the person being disguised knew he was fake, but knowing wasn't enough; the score was only achieved if the person who was disguised was identified.

Su Xingze thought he was a natural actor. In addition, he was an orphan like the child, and his life in the Zhang family was not very good. Even though he recognized the other party through Lingbo, he did not write down his name.

The punishment the clan gave to the boys who failed the assessment was extra training, which meant doubling their usual training content. Since academic classes were suspended, the training started in the morning.

Endurance, lightness skill, martial arts, sparring, the "grave-slaying finger" technique, bone-shrinking skill...

By the end of their training, the boys were soaked in sweat and looked like mud figures. After practicing the bone-shrinking technique, they collapsed on the ground, too exhausted to get up.

Zhang Shenglin lay on the ground, his whole body aching as if his bones had been disassembled. He didn't even dare to breathe loudly; if his chest rose and fell even slightly, his chest would ache.

"What a mess." Su Xingze bent down and peered over his head, his white hair falling down and tickling his face.

Zhang Shenglin raised his hand and grabbed that strand of hair. His clear black eyes stared blankly at Zhang Shenglin's clear and bright eyes, as if asking him why he was here.

Su Xingze pursed his lips, snatched the hair back from his hand, and carefully examined his body. No bones were broken.

He was already very skilled at disassembling and reassembling all his bones.

"I've come to pick up a certain idiot and take him home, otherwise I'm afraid this idiot will have to stay at the training ground tonight."

He said he wouldn't come to the training ground to see him, but Su Xingze was still worried. This was different from regular classes. During class, the clan school teacher would be there to watch over him, and any accidents would be noticed immediately. But now it was a holiday, and he didn't know if anyone would be watching the training ground.

Given the child's inherent good fortune, major accidents are unlikely to occur, but injuries are certainly unavoidable.

"Xing, Xingze!" A clay figure next to him stretched out his hand shakily, revealing Zhang Shengchun's weak face. "This is too much. You only care about that kid Shenglin. At least comfort me a little."

Su Xingze glanced at him: "Still have the energy to act silly? Looks like the training intensity isn't high enough."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Shengchun nearly choked, his face filled with grief and indignation: "Not enough? How can it not be enough? Today's training volume is three times the usual amount! Three times!"

"One time is enough to give us trouble, three times is simply unbearable! And this is going to continue for three more days, it's terrifying!"

Su Xingze's eyes flickered, and he asked, "Is your punishment only for three days?"

Zhang Shengchun wailed, "What do you mean only three days? Even one day is deadly!"

Su Xingze then asked Zhang Heshan, who was standing next to him, with curiosity, "And you?"

"It's also three days."

Zhang Heshan doesn't talk as much as Zhang Shengchun, or rather, after a day of training, there are very few people who can talk as much as Zhang Shengchun.

Su Xingze asked a few more people, and most of them said they would be in three days, with only a few saying they would be in one or two days.

After hearing the boys' answers, Su Xingze's expression changed. He was now certain that the children were being targeted by the teachers at the clan school.

Three days later, it will be the 30th of the month, which means that everyone except children will be able to celebrate the New Year.

Su Xingze was very angry, but he knew that if he questioned the teacher, the teacher would not admit that he had targeted the child, and it would only make the child's situation at the clan school worse.

As a teacher at the clan school, he had a natural advantage. If he wanted to make things difficult for a child, it would be incredibly easy for him.

Just like the punishment for failing this assessment, no one can find any problems.

But that doesn't mean he'll just let the child be bullied like that.