Chapter 19

Guanyunxuan, Su Lie's home.

After climbing the mountain and returning, before entering the house, Su Lie heard two more breathing sounds in the house. Hearing Gao Lan and one of them talking and laughing, Su Lie kept his expression unchanged and pushed the door open and walked in.

"Lielie is back? Come over and say hello to your aunt."

As soon as they entered the door, Gao Lan called Su Lie over. Only then did Su Lie look at the woman sitting opposite Gao Lan. She looked to be in her forties, dressed in ordinary clothes, with traces of time engraved on her ordinary face.

Noticing Su Lie's gaze, the woman revealed a simple smile.

"Hello, aunt." Su Lie called out.

Of course he knew the aunt in front of him. From the time he was a baby until now, although this aunt had only come a few times, she had the purest purpose among all the relatives who came every time. Unlike other relatives who were mixed with the pursuit of interests, she just came to chat and reminisce.

"Well, I didn't expect Lielie to have grown up so big. He is such a handsome boy, unlike our Mingxuan who has only grown in age but not in height." Li Xiaojuan praised, with a hint of sadness in her eyes when she talked about her own child.

As if she had seen this, Gao Lan said to Su Lie, "Lie Lie, I asked Mingxuan to go to your father's study. Go play with him."

Nodding, Su Lie walked towards the study.

The study is usually Su Wen's studio, where he usually broadcasts live. However, Lao Su is not here now, and it is obvious that he must have gone fishing.

Entering the study, Su Lie saw a thin figure sitting upright at the desk, reading a book with great interest.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Gao Mingxuan looked up, and when he saw Su Lie, he immediately stood up awkwardly and walked out of his seat, shouting, "Hello, cousin."

The voice was so faint that it was barely audible. Su Lie looked at his cousin's embarrassed expression and his expression relaxed a lot.

"You sit down, I'll take another chair." Su Lie casually picked up a book and sat down to read. He had already read all the books in the study, but facing this obviously embarrassed cousin, he didn't know what to say, so he simply calmed down and turned to study the system.

It’s not clear whether it was the “convex lens” he built on the top of the balcony that worked, or whether it was because he absorbed more sunlight as he grew bigger.

Compared to the past, his awakening progress is now obviously much faster, and the values ​​can be seen changing several times every day. At this rate, Su Lie estimates that he will enter the third stage when he enters his second year of high school. By then, not only will his strength increase again, but he will also awaken new abilities.

As far as he knows about superhuman abilities, the only ones left are the body of steel, the super brain, and the biological force field. And no matter which of these three abilities is awakened, it will be of great help to Su Lie.

Just as Su Lie was immersed in the fantasy of awakening his abilities, suddenly a very faint smell of blood was detected by his sense of smell.

Frowning, Su Lie tracked the source of the smell of blood. After a while, he found his target, who was his cousin sitting opposite him.

Gao Mingxuan was immersed in the ocean of knowledge at this time and did not notice Su Lie's gaze at all. He put his hands on the desk, but the posture of his right arm was a little weird, as if he did not dare to touch the desk completely.

"Are you hurt?" Su Lie's voice woke him up.

"Ah?" Gao Mingxuan obviously hadn't reacted yet, and his expression suddenly changed after a few seconds.

"No, no." He hurriedly denied it, but it seemed that his movement was too big and affected the wound, and the expression on his face became ferocious.

Without asking any more questions, Su Lie turned on his perspective and looked through his cousin's clothes to see that his chest and stomach were covered with bruises. There was even a wound near his shoulder that was obviously caused by a sharp weapon, and there was a blood scab. It was obvious that these injuries could not be caused by self-injury, but by someone beating him. "Didn't you tell your aunt about all these injuries?" Su Lie asked, but when he saw that his cousin was silent, he knew that he definitely didn't tell her.

"Can you tell me how you got these injuries?" Su Lie motioned his cousin to sit down and asked again.

Gao Mingxuan had been bullied for a long time and didn't dare to tell his parents. He had cried secretly for many times. Now that someone was willing to listen to his grievances and anger, he was naturally happy. So after struggling for a few times, his cousin told him about his experience like pouring beans.

Su Lie listened quietly, and in the process he also understood the reason why his cousin was injured. In summary, he was beaten by a classmate who collected protection fees from the same school.

Protection fee, this is a word that is very old to Su Lie. In his previous life, he was also charged protection fee when he was in school, and he was even beaten for it.

Although his cousin's experience made him angry, Su Lie's heart was not disturbed at all. With his super senses, he learned about many things every day that made him more angry and desperate than this. Now he has trained himself to be calm.

However, his aunt gave him a very good feeling, so he was happy to get involved in this matter.

"I'll go to school with you tomorrow. You'll be staying here for a few days."

"Ah?" Hearing that his cousin was going to school with him, Gao Mingxuan felt a little warm in his heart. He knew that his cousin was going to help him. But what did his cousin mean when he said he would stay here for a few days?
Full of doubts, Gao Mingxuan was about to leave when he heard his mother tell him to stay at his cousin's house for a few days.

……

The next morning, after breakfast, Su Lie went out according to Gao Lan's instructions.

My cousin is studying at Huifeng Middle School, which is not far from Jinlin Junior High School, only three kilometers away. Compared with Jinlin Junior High School, Huifeng Middle School is slightly inferior. That is why the students there are mixed, some are serious students, but there are also some who skip classes all day and like to bully their classmates.

Outside an alley one hundred meters away from Huifeng Middle School.

"Cousin, are they all your classmates too?"

"Don't worry, we're here to reason with your classmates." Su Lie patted Gao Mingxuan on the shoulder.

"But..." Gao Mingxuan was a little worried. What would happen if so many people started fighting?
But while he was thinking, Su Lie had already walked into the alley.

In the alley, several teenagers were sitting or standing together. Although they were all wearing school uniforms and had short black hair, each of them held a cigarette between two fingers. They did not look like students at all, but instead had the temperament of young people in society.

Seeing Su Lie's unfamiliar face, the teenagers frowned at first. When they saw Gao Mingxuan behind Su Lie, they looked at each other and then sneered.

"Gao Mingxuan, did you bring helpers with you?" One of the young men with a bowl-cut haircut walked up, glanced at Su Lie, and then said to Gao Mingxuan with disdain.

Seeing that Gao Mingxuan didn't say anything and just lowered his head, the contempt in the boy's eyes became even stronger, and then his gaze continued to fall on Su Lie.

"Brother, I don't know who you are to him, but..." The young man wanted to do some ideological work on Su Lie and see if he could get more living expenses. However, before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Su Lie.

"You are not worthy of being my brother."

(End of this chapter)