Chapter 15: The Fifth Base’s “Multi-power” Camera System
– What he did for Class K, the others could not be compared with. (Class I)
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In contrast to the bustling atmosphere of Room Nine, the atmosphere of Room Four, no, it should be said that the atmosphere of an individual bedroom in Room Four, was incredibly bleak.
Colley stared blankly at the ceiling of the bedroom, a few images of the afternoon moved in his mind.
After being defeated by Angus and Class K, Hawley did not accept his failure but lead all Class I students for a talk with their homeroom teacher Fred.
Facing with Hawley's accusation, Fred frowned: "You think that there was some teacher of Class K deliberately against the rule, teaching Angus power control before the time?"
Did not wait for Hawley's reply, Fred continued with a smile, "I didn't teach you, but you're still able to use it!"
Hawley was a bit surprised. He did not expect Fred to say so frankly. But before Hawley could react, a freshman of Class I behind him quickly countered Fred: "Hawley is a genius! Of course he doesn't need you to teach him!"
"Oh, really?" The smile on Fred's face got deepened.
A stream of cold air suddenly ran along Hawley's spine. He bowed in panic before bowing to Fred: "Sorry Teacher, I never have that thought in my mind. Jesper, say sorry!"
After the moment when his mouth was faster than his brain, Jesper was also trembling at Fred's deep smile. Hearing Hawley's order, he immediately bowed his head: "I, I'm sorry teacher, I was wrong..."
After Pacific was official unified as a nation, all the members of Hawley's mother side withdrew from the Army and served in Politics. Hawley's mother then became a famous female politician in the province of Alluvium. And Hawley's youngest uncle was once in the group of the youngest PhDs in the country, currently holding an important position in the Government, living and working in the capital of Aurora.
The ones working as politicians, always brought about the feeling of intellectual, courteous, elegant, and humble people. Even when they were teasing, mocking, criticizing, or beating people – still evoked the feeling of the most elegant acts in the world.
Hawley inherited these qualities from his maternal family, becoming a friendly and elegant young dragon whenever and wherever he was. He seemed not either arrogant or bossy about his talent.
What happened today was just because he had lost so many rounds in a row, and was defeated by Angus in front of everyone, so he was determined to find out everything.
But it did not mean that he looked down on the teacher!
He was forever a polite and elegant young dragon!!
"Alright, just forget it." Fred said blandly, "About the case of Class K Leader... We'll altogether see what happened, via the camera system of our base."
Then Fred and three teaching assistant took Class I to a classroom equipped with a huge LCD TV screen. In just a moment, the scenes obtained from the dense camera system in the base gradually appeared.
The opening was the day of the fourth match of the month – The day that Angus officially took over the position of a Team Leader.
On the screen, after Angus took the Team Leader's armband and rolled it around his arm, he started talking.
"Starting from now, I'll be the Team Leader."
Angus' cold voice sounded, followed by a quick look around all the faces of Class K. Despite being separated by a screen, a few members of Class I unconsciously took a deep breath.
Some of them coincidentally shared the same thought: It seemed like Angus' saying did not simply announce that he was the Leader of the fourth match, but it was a statement.
He was stating that, not just this round, but from that moment to all the following rounds, he would always be the Leader. Let no one think of taking this position from his hand!
After that, Class I saw Angus calmly speaking out the plan and assigning tasks to the team members, finally giving the task of capturing the flag to Iris – a member without any special thing apart from the Sixth place on the Base Ranking on those days.
At the same time, Class I was aware of one thing: It turned out the tactic that Hawley tried to implement in the eighth round, Class K had implemented it from the fourth round and already succeeded!
The screen switched to dinner time, when the Class K members surrounded Angus and asked why Iris was chosen for the capturing flag mission.
As the Leader who had just lead the class to win the battle, Angus had the right to refuse to respond to "subordinates", just keeping the tactics for his own. However, he did not do so. What he did was simply speaking out the reason, and then seeing that the others did not believe, he suggested all to come to the training ground for a race with Iris.
The screen then changed to the scene Angus knocking on Eugene's room door.
Hawley widened his eyes.
It was this moment!
So... It was not that Teacher Eugene approached him, but it was him who approached the teacher first.
Hawley tried to strain his eyes, staying focused as hard as he could.
On the screen, Angus bowed slightly as a greeting, then said: "Teacher, I would like to borrow two sports whistles, two walkie-talkies and two stopwatches. Can you lend me?"
Eugene asked, "Oh, may I know you use them for what?"
Angus calmly replied: "For the running race of my class."
Eugene seemed surprised: "Race? At this time?"
"Yes." Angus answered shortly, without any detailed explanation.
Eugene touched his chin: "Well... I can lend you those stuffs, but in return, I want to join."
Hawley frowned. Hmm? So it was the teacher who actively demanded to join?
On the screen, Angus also looked at Eugene with surprised eyes.
Eugene smiled, "I'm the homeroom teacher after all, so maybe it's not a problem to go and look at my class for a while, huh? I'm sure that I'll just watch, not interfere."
Angus agreed. Eugene gave the whistles, walkie-talkies and stopwatches to him, and then the two walked to the training ground.
The situation then was exactly like Eugene said: He did not give any instruction or comment about the race, just sitting on a chair and watching as a spectator.
By the way, Eugene was the only one to sit on a chair, while Angus and all the Class K members were standing. Nobody knew where he got the chair from???
Did not know how long it had passed, the familiar sound from the screen again: "Another round."
"My gosh! He made them run again!"
"And they still followed his order! Were they stupid?"
"Cannot understand!"
Seeing how Angus coldly ordered for another round after each run, and seeing how tired of the six runners, even the ones who only watched the replayed scenes like Class I also started to fidget impatiently. However, all of Class K – especially the six people who were "suffering" from Angus – showed no signs of frustration or anger.
There was only one time – Someone asked how many rounds they had to run, then Angus gave her a vague answer, and then everyone were headlong into running again.
Like fools.
In a place where no one could see, Hawley clenched his fist. Why? Why they were so obedient to Angus like that?
Coincidentally at that time, a student of Class I voiced up: "It's understandable! Because he ranked first at this base!"
Another new student added, "And he also lead them to win the battle!"
When the seventh round was going on, Eugene suddenly asked Angus: "What do you want to see?"
In return, Angus only took one look at Eugene and then dropped his eyes to the ground, did not give any answer.
All Class I crowd gaped. He... dared to ignore the teacher question? Was this so arrogant? Even Hawley did not dare to have such an attitude whenever standing in front of the teacher!
On the screen, Eugene did not seem to get angry at Angus' attitude, just casually looking at him.
Angus looked up again. The two people face to face.
Five seconds later, Angus compromised: "I have a feeling that Iris can run even faster. Much faster than current. I want him to expose that..."
Eugene was silent for a moment and then rummaged in his pockets, taking out a black cloth and giving it to Angus.
Angus seemed to be waken up: "You mean..."
Eugene nodded. Then the two of them no longer said anything to each other.
The next story was as everyone saw.
Angus asked Iris to cover his eyes and run. And Iris actually ran in a blindfold like that, running at an incredible speed, running as if it was the last time he could run.
Looking at Iris' results from the speed shooting system, the expression of Class I was not much different from Class K's at that time.
After that, the screen continued with a series scenes of Class K in team competition rounds, including the scenes where Angus gave out the strategy, the whole class asked questions, then how they used the plan and coordinated in combat, and also at the end - gathered to summarize lessons learned.
Fred did not forget to show some scenes where Iris ran and captured the flag.
As if being turned on some kind of switch, ever since the "blindfolded run" with such an incredible speed, each step of Iris became faster and faster, the movement of dodging opponent's attack became increasingly free.
"No wonder... how suddenly Iris was rising so fast on the ranking! It's all thanks to Angus!"
The words of a student of Class I made everyone dumb.
Reflecting on the whole process, Hawley always smiled, and often use nice words to encourage everyone, making them feel that he was really nice and approachable.
Compared to Hawley, Angus looked too silent and less friendly. Moreover, the way he talked to his classmates was somewhat like giving orders, making people feel uncomfortable – Class I always had that feeling.
But after tonight, they all realized that: What he did for Class K, the others could not be compared with.
The screen now showed the scene in the canteen.
Firstly, it was Edelina who curious to ask Angus if he transformed at the age of twelve, Angus denied. Then Neil explained for his sayings, finally was the official answer of Angus.
"Not at twelve years old... It was at ten years old."
Hearing this, Hawley widened his eyes.
The screen stopped playing. Fred was the one who pressed the stop button.
The light from the screen gradually dimmed and turned into black, and the light in Hawley eyes also followed that to disappear. He unconsciously dropped his body backwards. His back smashed on the back of the chair, making a loud sound, but he felt nothing.
Looking at class I whose faces were in different expressions, Fred raised his eyebrow: "Now all of you got the answer. It's nearly ten o'clock! Go to the canteen to warm up your dinner, finish it, and then return to sleep."
"Ah, the National Ranking has been updated, you guys can take a look at it."
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After checking the rankings, Colley was shocked to realize that: The Fifth place on the Base Ranking that he was so proud of now had become Twenty Fifth, and the national ranking from Forty-Ninth was down to One Hundred Seventeenth!
Colley was sleepless.
He recalled the time he was going with Hudson and Gilmar.
Unlike Hudson who often caught his mistakes or did not allow him to do this and this and that, Hawley did not get too involved in the personal affairs of the classmates. This made his swagger become worse and worse, finally making Hawley unsatisfied and once reprimanded him in front of the whole class.
Previously he had already been hated by many students when going with the Hudson group. Then when he changed to Hawley's side, there was nothing better, plus the time he was reprimanded in front of the class – from that day on, he started to receive the very first collective bullying in his life.
Perhaps some of Class I did not like Hawley, but no one could deny that Hawley was the best-performing students of their class, often holding the position of Team Leader and Vice Team Leader, so they had to listen to him – whether they wanted it or not.
But what about Colley, what did Colley have?
Team competition category was not good. Decreased physical strength due to being bullied often, so the points for the physical categories also dropped, which could not make up for the team competition category that was already tragically low due to continuous defeated by Class K.
Decreases in rankings were inevitable.
Colley finally knew that –
Perhaps all Hudson, Gilmar and him were wrong right from the beginning. But Hudson realized that sooner, while he still kept wandering in the darkness...
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