"It's Li Ran."
"Li An's sister is here."
Anyone who knows her will immediately tell her the name and identity of the round-faced girl, either blurting it out or introducing her to people around her.
"Brother - wuwu - brother - what's wrong with you?! Brother -"
Li Ran rushed to the ring in one breath, only to see Li An with blood on his head and face, being stepped on by Zhong Youwu. He didn't know whether he was alive or dead. He was so frightened that he cried loudly and tried to climb up to the ring, but he couldn't.
He was grabbed by a boy who was traveling with him.
The boy grabbed Li Ran tightly and shouted urgently: "Li Ran, this is a life-and-death competition, you can't get in."
Zhang Xiaozu and Yuan Taiping followed Li Ran all the way to the martial arts arena, but they did not come forward and just watched from a distance.
"I didn't expect the scene to be so tragic. It seems that Taiping Academy is not very peaceful either." Zhang Xiaozu said with a frown as he looked at the bloody scene on the ring.
Yuan Taiping said: "Wherever there are people, there will be disputes and grudges. How can there be absolute peace?"
"Yes." Zhang Xiaozu nodded and sighed.
At the edge of the ring, Li Ran was grabbed by a boy who was traveling with him and several other classmates present. He struggled several times and failed to get onto the ring, so he had to give up.
Life and death are decided in the life and death arena. No one else is allowed to interfere before life or death is decided. This is the default rule in the world.
So Li Ran's classmates held her back and refused to allow her to enter the ring.
Of course, the main reason is that Li Ran is no match for Zhong Youwu. Not only will he not be able to save Li An, but he will also risk his own life.
How could they watch Li Ran die in vain?
Seeing that he couldn't go to the ring, Li Ran had no choice but to give up. He stood on the edge of the ring and looked at Zhong Youwu with tears on his face. He cried and begged: "Brother, please let my brother go. My brother is a fool.
Your Lord has a lot of money. Please forgive his offense and let him go. Please, I kowtow to you."
"Li Ran!"
"Don't kneel!"
Li An's shout came, and he was about to faint, but he was brought back to consciousness by Li Ran's cry. When he heard that Li Ran was about to kowtow to Zhong Youwu and beg for mercy, he immediately tried his best, opened a pair of bloody eyes, and stared at Li Ran.
Li Ran has always been obedient, so when he heard Li An's shout, he immediately stopped bending his knees and cried out to Li An: "Brother——"
"Tsk tsk, Li An, your sister is getting better and better." Zhong Youwu smacked his lips, raised his voice, and laughed in a sinister voice.
Li An was furious when he heard this and cursed: "Zhong, if you dare to touch a hair of my sister, I will never let you go!"
"Hey, I'm not afraid of living people, let alone ghosts?" Zhong Youwu sneered, and then said: "Li An, you said that after you died, you were left with such a helpless sister, do you think you can rely on me?"
Can I do whatever I want to her with my own methods? Maybe one day in the future, I will go to your grave and call you uncle. Ah haha——"
"Zhong Youwu, you beast, you will not die well!" Li An's eyes were about to burst, but he could only curse a few times palely.
Zhong Youwu's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he said with a gloomy expression: "Li An, can you really bear to leave your sister to live alone? Thinking about her fear and helplessness when she was bullied and scolded, doesn't your heart hurt?
?As long as you admit that the people in the southern border are idle and do not care about farming, and the soldiers in the southern border are weak with wine and rice bags, which will embarrass and discredit our Great Su Empire, I will let you go."
"Zhong Youwu, don't even think about it!" Li An yelled: "You idiot, who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun, has no qualifications to point fingers at the suffering people and heroic soldiers in the south. You, including you -"
Li An stared at the group of people in the audience and asked: "Have you ever experienced a drought? Do you know how terrible drought is? Have you been on the battlefield? Do you know the cruelty of war? You haven't! You just know a few bird characters.
, read a few bird books, and then thought they were right and pointed out the country, but in fact they are just a group of idiots who only know their imagination. Bah!"
"Lee An, shut up!"
"Lee Ang!"
"fart!"
"What nonsense!"
"Zhuzi, it's not a pity to die!"
After hearing this, everyone in the audience looked at Li An angrily and scolded him loudly.
However, Li An ignored them and looked at Li Ran, whose face was full of tears. His eyes softened and said, "Ran'er, don't cry. I'm sorry for you, brother. I can no longer be by my side to protect you."
"No, brother, you can't die, I won't let you die, brother-" Li Ran was heartbroken and cried especially sadly.
"Li Ran, don't you want to kowtow to me and beg me to let your brother go? You kowtow, and I will spare your brother's life." Zhong Youwu suddenly said to Li Ran in a pleasant manner. He knew that he could not make Li An surrender.
, so he set his sights on Li Ran, and he wanted to use Li Ran to defeat Li An's self-esteem and pride.
"I -" Li Ran looked at Zhong Youwu and had the urge to bend his knees immediately.
"Li Ran, do you still remember what my brother often said to you?" Li An asked loudly.
"Yes, remember." Li Ran nodded in response, while tears flowed out like a bursting river, and said: "You said that people cannot be short-minded when they are poor, and they cannot be spineless. Being poor is not terrible, but what is terrible is having no soul.
"
"Okay, very good." Li An was very pleased and said, "Then you know that if you kneel down, you will not only lose the ambition and integrity of you and me, but also the ambition of millions of people and soldiers in the south.
You have strong integrity, so you must never kneel down, you know?"
Li Ran nodded and said: "Yes, I understand. I won't kneel, even if I break my knees."
After saying that, she picked up her sleeves and wiped the tears on her face, trying to appear strong and brave, but she couldn't wipe them away, and the tears flowed more fiercely, because she knew that if she didn't kneel down, her brother would be dead.
Li Ran pursed her lips hard to prevent herself from crying, then turned to look around, casting pleading eyes, begging for someone to help her and save her brother's life.
But wherever her eyes went, everyone avoided looking at her.
Some people even sneered at her.
"Li Ran, kneel down! Do you want to watch your brother die in front of you?!" Zhong Youwu shouted sharply on the stage.
"Kneel down. It's just a mistake. It's no big deal."
"Kneel down, you southerners are indeed at fault."
There were actually people in the audience speaking out to urge Li Ran to kneel down and admit his mistake, but some people's words changed their tone, and they vaguely regarded Li Ran's kneeling as a sign that the people from the south were admitting their mistakes and apologizing.
It was because Li An's words had offended them before, and they couldn't get Li An to admit his mistake and apologize, so they transferred their anger to Li Ran.
Li Ran looked away helplessly, feeling endlessly desolate in his heart.
She knew that no one here would help her brother and sister, not only because they were poor, but also because they were from the south.
These Central City students ostracized them and even blamed the Southerners for the disasters in the South. Therefore, they were picked on and bullied every day.
"The people from the southern border are not wrong, I won't kneel down!" Li Ran's small body burst out with a deafening roar with the strength he didn't know where he came from, silencing the voices of everyone on the field.
"Ran'er, good job!" Li An was very pleased to hear this.
"If you don't eat the toast, you'll have to drink the fine wine. If that's the case, then you can die!" Zhong Youwu's face was livid, and he was furious. Then his eyes suddenly turned cold, and murderous intent burst out. He raised his right foot high, then lowered it fiercely.
Stepping towards Li An's head.
The true energy quickly condensed on the soles of his feet. If this foot was solid, Li An would definitely have a head full of pain, and he would die or not.
"Brother——" Li Ran screamed miserably.
"Ha-ha-ha-" Li An opened his mouth and laughed wildly, without fear.
Everyone in the audience couldn't bear to look directly at him, so they turned their heads or closed their eyes.
boom!
There was a loud noise.
The air flow surged and gravel flew everywhere, but there was no dazzling blood.
Zhongyou's martial arts was empty.
Those who turned their heads or closed their eyes, hearing that something was wrong, turned their heads or opened their eyes curiously, wondering what was going on.
Then they discovered that there was a tall and tall figure on the ring, and Li An had escaped from Zhang Youwu's feet and was protected by the tall figure behind him.
Everyone's eyes immediately turned to the face of the tall figure, wondering who it was, but they found it was an unfamiliar face, and they couldn't help but look at it carefully.
Eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose—the facial features are ordinary, not handsome, but not ugly either.
On the contrary, he was wearing a dark red brocade robe, which perfectly accentuated his tall and straight figure, greatly improving his overall temperament.
If you just look at his appearance, this person seems to be young, probably around seventeen or eighty-nine years old, but there is an inexplicable sense of vicissitudes about him that makes people unsure of his true age.
"It's him!"
When everyone was wondering who the tall figure was, only Li Ran exclaimed in her heart, recognizing that the person was actually one of the two people she secretly brought into the academy.
Her breathing suddenly became rapid, and hope rekindled in her hopeless and helpless heart.
The tall and straight figure is none other than Zhang Xiaopou.
"Sir, please, save my brother!" Li Ran begged Zhang Xiaopou urgently, as if grasping a life-saving straw.
Zhang Xiaozu turned around and smiled at her to reassure her.
Seeing that Zhang Xiaopou actually agreed to save Li An, Zhong Youwu's face immediately turned cold. He looked Zhang Xiaopou up and down and asked angrily: "Who are you? Why are you openly breaking the rules of the life and death arena?"
"Southern Territory, Zhang Xiaozu." Zhang Xiaozu replied.
Zhang Xiaozu's heartwarming smile, and hearing the loud word "Southern Territory", Li Ran suddenly curled his lips and burst into tears.
The endless sorrow of living in a foreign land and being bullied, and the warmth of meeting people from her hometown who helped her when she was desperate, filled her little heart, and she could not calm down.
"A person from the South?" Zhong Youwu frowned slightly, then sneered and asked, "Are you here to kowtow for him and admit his mistake?"
"No!" Zhang Xiaozu shook his head and said coldly: "I'm here to ask you to kowtow to the people in the south and admit your mistake."
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he softened his tone and continued: "Since you are still young and ignorant of things, I will spare you for once. All you need to do is face the south, kowtow and salute, and say sorry to the people in the south.
That’s when the matter was revealed.”
This chapter has been completed!