Douluo: Lin Dong Travels Through Huo Yuhao

Chapter 23 Xiao Hongchen's "Special Attention"

"Laugh, your title as the empire's greatest genius may have changed hands."

Looking at Meng Hongchen's playful expression, Xiao Hongchen pretended to be calm and said:
"What's wrong? He was just admitted to Mingde Hall as an exception. Well, this is indeed outrageous."

After all, since the founding of Sun and Moon, no one has been able to enter Mingde Hall in the second grade, let alone a freshman who has just been enrolled for a few days!
Thinking of this, Xiao Hongchen's expression became more serious, but he still shook his head, his face turned a little red, and he gritted his teeth and said:
"Impossible! I am invincible among my peers!"

Seeing that he was still being stubborn, Meng Hongchen smiled and continued:

"I heard that his research results have been classified as military secrets by Grandpa, the director, and Teacher Xuan Ziwen."

Looking at her sly smile, Xiao Hongchen said with some excitement:

"Meng, I can see that you think I'm in a too good mood today and you want to make things difficult for me?"

"You're too stingy. I'll just share with you the latest news about the person Grandpa asked us to focus on. Don't you think he's really quite powerful?"

Meng Hongchen twisted the ends of her hair with her fingers and said casually. Xiao Hongchen shrugged his shoulders pretending to be indifferent and said softly with a calm face:
"You know Meng, the reason why we are called geniuses is not because of our soul guides, but because we are 13 or 14-year-old quasi-soul kings. I will soon be able to obtain the fifth soul ring, and then I will be able to successfully become a fifth-level soul guide. How can ordinary geniuses compare with us?"

"But he is an eleven-year-old second-level soul engineer, and he has been exposed to soul tools for less than half a month. I think there is still a gap between you and a second-level soul engineer who is less than twelve years old, brother."

Xiao Hongchen's originally fair face turned even redder, the corners of his mouth twitched as he tried to suppress the bitterness in his heart, and then he said stubbornly:
"Okay, I admit that he is ahead of me in soul guides, but combat performance is the most important dream."

Meng Hongchen looked up in surprise, his crystal blue eyes narrowed, and then he said in a frivolous tone:

"Oh? But brother, I remember that when I was eleven years old, I didn't seem to have defeated a third-level soul master in three moves."

"Do you really have to say this, Meng! Fine, then wait until he becomes a level 4 soul master, and I'll have a sparring match with him. Isn't that what you want to hear?"

"Given his personality, even if you care about him a lot, he won't easily agree to your request."

Seeing Meng Hongchen's teasing expression, Xiao Hongchen's expression finally froze. Then his face flushed, he picked up the water cup beside him and took a gulp, saying loudly:
"Don't talk nonsense, how could I pay attention to him?!"

Meng Hongchen nodded with a smile, pretending to be puzzled:

"Really? Then why did I see you concentrating on reading someone's information sheet yesterday? Was I sleepwalking?"

Xiao Hongchen's face instantly turned red and heated up: "Don't give me that, I just want to better complete Grandpa's mission and see if he is worthy of it."

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Meng Hongchen made an expression that said "as long as you are happy", patted Xiao Hongchen on the shoulder, and said jokingly:

"Stay by yourself, lol. I'm going to go see what the person you're 'particularly paying attention to' is doing."

Only the angry Xiao Hongchen was left alone, patting the armrest of the chair fiercely:
"Impossible! I am invincible among my peers in Xiao Hongchen. No one deserves my special attention!"

Meng Hongchen was in a good mood and knocked on Lin Dong's door excitedly. However, there was no response for a long time, so he had to lower his hand in disappointment and muttered softly:
“This guy has been leaving early and coming back late since he joined Mingde Hall. I’m always missing. I don’t even have the chance to tease him. What a pity.” At this moment, Lin Dong was in Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory, facing the active questions from three “students” with fiery eyes.

This was the promise Lin Dong made to the three humble teachers in front of him. Every Friday, he would answer their questions about the core formation.

From morning till now, Lin Dong has been answering the three teachers' enthusiastic questions, but what surprised him was.

Judging from the questions they asked, Xuan Ziwen was actually the one who made the fastest progress among the three and was already trying to upgrade the formation to level three.

However, it seemed like it was just an attempt. By the time he figured it out, Lin Dong would probably be almost level 20.

Looking at the sun gradually setting outside, Lin Dong breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled at the three people in the audience who were still enthusiastic:
"Three teachers, I think we should stop here today. I should also take a rest."

The three of them could only nod with a sense of unfulfilled desire. Under Lin Dong’s strong opposition, the three of them did not follow him to the villa area as they did last time.

Without Lin Dong’s explanation, the three of them could only stare at the core magic formation for the time being, so the three of them now responded to Lin Dong’s request as a “good teacher”.

Lin Dong rushed back to the apartment before it got completely dark. As the door opened, a voice suddenly came to his ears:
"Where have you been? Why are you back so late?"

Lin Dong turned his head towards the voice and saw Meng Hongchen standing quietly at the door with one hand on the door frame. He then replied calmly:
"I don't think I need to report to you where I'm going, right Miss Meng?"

Meng Hongchen was stunned when he heard this, and said with some dissatisfaction: "I'm just curious, not interrogating you, why do you speak like this?"

Lin Dong was stunned for a moment, and could only force a smile and said: "I was overthinking, Miss Meng, the time you came out was too coincidental, I thought..."

"You thought I was spying on you, right?" Although Lin Dong did not say it explicitly, Meng Hongchen could still tell what he wanted to say from his tone and expression.

Seeing her somewhat resentful look, Lin Dong nodded awkwardly: "The dean asked me to go take care of something. Sorry, I misunderstood you."

Meng Hongchen waved her hand and said generously: "I am in a good mood today, so I will forgive you. This is in the college, and most of the students are very friendly. Why do you have to be so nervous?

Not everyone wants to harm you, okay? You'll easily lose friends if you do this. Besides, you're almost my grandfather's favorite now, who would dare to mess with you?"

Lin Dong looked at her chirping, nodded patiently, smiled and said softly: "Thank you Miss Meng for reminding me. I will pay attention to it."

Meng Hongchen nodded in satisfaction upon seeing this: "That's right, you look pretty when you smile. I rarely see you smile."

Lin Dong looked at the kind but overly talkative girl in front of him and smiled helplessly:
"Ms. Meng, I have to go back to practice, so I won't bother you with any more suggestions.

After saying this, he quickly closed the door without waiting for Meng Hongchen to reply. He had not absorbed today's thunder power yet. If they continued chatting, with Meng Hongchen's talkativeness, there was no telling how long it would take.

Meng Hongchen returned to the room and recalled the scene just now. He lay on the pillow and shook his head: "This guy, is he so obsessed with cultivation? His personality is so weird, no wonder Xiao is interested in you."

(End of this chapter)