Chapter 45: The Demonic Genius

  In the end, Chen Chufan only received a warning penalty and the matter of being expelled from school was dropped.

  No one brought it up again, and it seemed that the school had never intended to give him a dismissal penalty. Perhaps the only change was that Yang Tao's identity became more mysterious in Chen Chufan and Meng Wei's eyes. Of course, neither of them went out of their way to investigate anything, and they continued to live as usual. Especially with Yang Tao's careless personality, it was hard for the two to feel any reverence towards him.

  Yang Tao started to reform Meng Wei, confiscated his chess and chess books, took him around the campus every day, often playing pranks, forcing Meng Wei to apologize and chat with the girls, in short, Yang Tao was having a blast, but the effect was also obvious, Meng Wei was much more cheerful than before, even able to chat with the girls for a few sentences.

  It's surprising that Zhang Peng, who used to be very arrogant, has become much more honest lately. Occasionally, when running into him at school, he would even flash a smile at the three of them, although it looked uglier than crying. Without a doubt, he was releasing a signal of reconciliation. Of course, Chen Chufan didn't care about his reconciliation or not, but having one less person to constantly butt heads with made his school life much more peaceful.

  Or the only one that made Chen Chufan feel depressed was Professor Wang, the head of the music department. This head of the music department seemed to have a lot of free time. He even specially found a course schedule for the second year of the history department, and as long as Chen Chufan didn't have class, he would be called by Professor Wang to train in basic music theory. Sometimes Ye Siying would also accompany him on the side, so the days passed somewhat more enjoyably, after all, there was beauty accompanying him.

  Sometimes it was just Chen Chufan and Old Wang, studying with a music theory book and a piano. Under Professor Wang's torture, Chen Chufan's progress in music was also gradually improving, perhaps before long, he would be able to find a part-time job as a pianist, at least that's what he thought.

  Accompanying Professor Wang every morning and evening also made Chen Chufan realize that he had not seen the teaching director of the history department for more than a year after enrolling. It turned out that although the position of teaching director in each department was very idle, it was not something that ordinary students could see at will. Of course, if you have gained their recognition in your professional field, it's hard to avoid seeing them even if you want to.

  There is depression, of course, and there is joy. Or it's the daily date with Han Xiaoxi that is Chen Chufan's happiest time every day. The two have already reached an understanding. Every day after dinner, Chen Chufan would honestly run to the small courtyard outside the girls' dormitory to wait for Han Xiaoxi, and then the two would stroll around Nanhu Lake, the playground, and the main street. In short, the two people were like wandering souls, darting through every corner of the campus.

  At first, Han Xiaoxi kept pestering Ye Siyue every day to join their "Double Tour" combination, but Ye Siyue was adamant and declared that she would come to teach during the day, and at night, she should be left to Han Xiaoxi to deal with.

  In this way, more than a month passed quickly, and the calendar turned to mid-May. W City officially entered summer. Although it was still early summer, W City did not disappoint the reputation of being a "furnace city" given by people all over the country. The whole city had already been baked by endless heat waves. People living in this city changed their daily greetings from "Have you eaten?" to complaints about the scorching weather.

  The fan in the dormitory also started to work overtime for 24 hours, but it was unable to bring a bit of coolness to the students. Because the wind blown out by the electric fan is almost the same as that of a hair dryer.

  As Yang Tao said, you can't buy raw eggs in all of W city. Why? Because they are all cooked.

  But Chen Chufan was not bothered by the scorching weather, or rather, he didn't have the mood to be bothered by the weather, he had more bothersome things.

  His troubles came from his body, and in just over a month, he found that the clothes that had originally fit him perfectly were no longer suitable. Especially his pants, which had been just the right length, now became 7/8-length pants when he wore them, an entire section shorter.

  He was forced by Yang Tao and Meng Wei to measure his height, originally 176 cm tall, after more than a month of growth became 183 cm, an increase of 7 cm. Chen Chufan, who was originally shorter than Meng Wei, is now basically the same as Meng Wei. It shocked Yang Tao and Meng Wei.

  Chen Chufan had no choice but to go out and buy a few sets of clothes that fit him, after all, he couldn't always borrow Meng Wei's clothes. What made him even more depressed was that his certain important part seemed to have grown along with his height, and it had visibly enlarged, to the point where his underwear also needed to be changed, otherwise it would be very uncomfortable.

  If it were just the growth in height and the increase in a certain place, Chen Chufan might not be so depressed, and he should even feel secretly delighted. But another discovery about his body is the root of his troubles.

  It all started with a watermelon, this sinful watermelon was bought by Yang Tao on a sweltering afternoon and brought back to the dormitory. Chen Chufan volunteered to cut it open, but because of his clumsiness, he ended up cutting his own finger with the fruit knife. The force was so great that Chen Chufan thought his finger might be permanently separated from his left hand. However, it turned out that such a strong force only left a shallow blood mark on his finger. Not even the imagined intense pain came, but just a faint dull ache.

  This discovery made Chen Chufan feel terrified, to prove that it wasn't a coincidence, Chen Chufan immediately ran to the bathroom and used the fruit knife in his hand to cruelly cut himself, from the initial gentle probing to the final hysteria, only leaving some shallow blood marks on his body, which would fade away by itself after a while.

  Chen Chufan was very stimulated and even blurted out a foul language: "I fuck TMD!"

  He stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom, his eyes wide open, and furiously asked: "What are you?" Unfortunately, there was no response. After the madness passed, he had to accept a fact - he had become a monster, at least one that couldn't be harmed by a fruit knife.

  Later, he also tried even more terrifying weapons, such as sharp paper cutters, the small hammer from next door's dormitory, the saw of a senior student upstairs, and all sorts of sharp metal objects he could find. The conclusion was that he had become invulnerable to knives and guns.

  He didn't dare to mention this matter to anyone, but once he couldn't bear the doubts in his mind, he ran to an internet cafe and posted a question on a large forum, "Why did I suddenly become immune to swords and guns?"

  The internet is indeed a good thing, but within half an hour, Chen Chufan received at least over a hundred responses.

  "The landlord forgot to take his medicine when he went out today, identification is complete!"

  "Could it be that the owner of this building is the 89th generation descendant of the Shaolin Martial God?"

  "Kid, less masturbation and more injections!"

  "I told you martial arts are harmful! The government is doing nothing about it, sigh!"

  It's not easy to wait for a reliable message, "Brother, finally found a like-minded person!" is a long reply, can't see the follow-up content, Chen Chufan hastily and excitedly clicked in to take a look.

  "Fellow, I've been waiting for so long, finally found you! Remember to come find me, let's conquer the world together. My address is Qing Shan Mental Hospital 3rd floor XXX room! If you really can't find it, dial 110 and shout three times, I am the Cosmic Superman, my little brothers will find you and send you to meet with me."

  Unable to find answers online, Chen Chufan felt somewhat downhearted. Even when meeting with Han Xiaoxi, he seemed listless and unenthusiastic.

  "What's wrong with you lately?" Han Xiaohui stood on the school playground, stopped in her tracks, and looked at Chen Chufan standing beside her with a puzzled expression.

  "What? What?" Chen Chufan was clearly still in a daze.

  "You've been absent-minded on our recent dates, I'm angry and the consequences might be severe. To be honest, have you found someone new?" Han Xiao Xi said with a serious tone.

  "What's going on? You're overthinking it, I'm just feeling a bit uncomfortable lately!" Chen Chufan hastily explained.

  "Oh? What's wrong? Tell me!" Han Xiaohei asked, seemingly concerned. But in fact, Chen Chufan was standing right in front of her, looking perfectly healthy! If there was anything abnormal about him, it would be that the guy in front of her seemed to have entered his Nth growth spurt, having grown way too fast recently. It seemed like just last time they kissed, she didn't need to stand on tiptoes, but yesterday she discovered that if she didn't stand on tiptoes, their kissing posture would be too awkward.

  When Han Xiaoxi asked, Chen Chufan hesitated and asked out his concerns: "Xiaoxi, what would you do if I became a monster?"

  Han Xiao Xi's response was very kind, very innocent and very inclusive, which made him feel very relieved.

  "Monster? Then can you transform? Transform for me to see! If you can transform as cool as Ultraman, I'll approve you to go find two more..."