My wife is the stand-in.

Therefore, when heroes from all over discover evil spirits, their first thought is to kill them as soon as possible, so as to minimize the harm caused by the evil spirits and at the same time prevent other heroes from helping them and seeking to share the credit.

Therefore, in addition to practical training, the teaching of new martial arts masters in various branches did not provide enough experimental subjects for everyone to study in the theoretical classes. They could only repeatedly play the videos and supplement them with a lot of detailed and professional text and picture explanations.

The locust-like demons in the video are actually long dead. Scholars have cut them into pieces to study the demons, and now only these tragic videos prove that they once existed.

"This is good stuff." Amanosaki read it carefully for about ten minutes, then put down the A4 paper with great interest and began to listen to the lecturer, staring at the video with amazement.

The full title of this course is "Detailed Explanation of the Classification of Heretical Sects". Based on the broad classification of heretical sects, it mainly teaches how to suppress heretical sects and how to handle corpses and crime scenes to minimize subsequent impacts.

The corresponding practical course for this course is the most popular one, jokingly referred to as "physical education class," called "Practical Application."

The video shows the third locust demon being dealt with. The demonstrator, holding a dagger, simulates dodging attacks from the locust's limbs, slowly and deliberately inserting the dagger tip into the gaps in the locust's exoskeleton, gently lifting it up to reveal soft, milky-white flesh.

Amanosaki wanted to call on Rin Tohsaka to study together. On the podium, the lecturer was explaining the operating procedures of the demonstrators in an extremely loud tone, while repeatedly emphasizing the taboos that had been tested with the lives of countless heroes.

He believed that Rin Tohsaka would really enjoy this rigorous, academic course, which was similar to learning magic.

Of course, she, known for her muscular physique, would definitely prefer "physical education class".

Unfortunately, the branch is not allowed to release supernatural abilities without reason. In fact, Amanosaki violated the rules when he fought the JK girl and Li Junzi.

However, since Kohaku's disciple also violated the rules, and since Kohaku's disciple was not held responsible, Amanosaki naturally escaped punishment.

The course ended with the female lecturer's repeated and stern instructions, and the students, who had been diligently recording the seniors' experiences on thin A4 paper, suddenly relaxed.

Some of them greeted each other with clasped hands, while others met up with friends on the spot to practice their spontaneous inspiration from class, their short weapons already clashing together.

At first glance, it looks like I've traveled back to the ancient martial arts world.

Amanosaki had never liked these formalities, and since he wouldn't get paid for doing so, he continued to slip away through the back door.

"Give way."

Lin Shuyu called out coldly from behind Amanosaki. Amanosaki hurriedly stepped aside. Lin Shuyu, who was a head shorter than him, tossed her long hair and left. The faint scent of perfume wafted into Amanosaki's nose.

"This way." Lin Shuyu spoke sparingly as she walked deeper into the teaching area. When she bumped into acquaintances along the way, she immediately greeted them with a pleasant expression and tone.

"This excitement belongs to them, I have nothing." Amanosaki repeated Zhou Shuren's famous quote with self-deprecation, hanging far behind Lin Shuyu who was busy greeting everyone. He looked around aimlessly and gradually understood why the eighteenth underground floor had gone to such lengths to build a garden.

It's so monotonous: uniform white corridors, uniform overhead safety nets to prevent pipes from falling and injuring people, uniform lighting, uniform temperature.

Apart from the white signs with black lettering on the road, this place is a huge maze. The so-called districts are like national borders, without any real physical boundaries. They only exist on the map, and to Amanosaki, they are all the same.

He couldn't stand being away from greenery for even a few hours.

In a daze, he stepped aside to let the passerby pass, but his shoulder was still bumped by the passerby. The person had shoulder-length hair that was messy, and his glasses couldn't hide his dark circles. He looked like he might die at any moment.

"Sorry." The person's eyes were vacant, seemingly immersed in their own imaginary world, and the apology was merely an instinctive response, as if they had become accustomed to this kind of life.

Amanosaki waved his hand dismissively and continued following Lin Shuyu.

A passerby with messy hair staggered to the corner, sat down against the wall, hugged his head with his arms, and fell asleep instantly.

"It's confirmed...it's him...should we do it?"

The passerby muttered to himself, his eyes rolling back.

"This way." Lin Shuyu walked into another classroom with the words "Moral Chivalry" hanging on it, and sat down in the last row at the very back without making a sound. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Amanosaki sitting on the outside of the long table. As soon as his butt touched the chair, he tilted his head back, clear drool dripped from the corner of his mouth, and he kept snoring softly.

The speed was so fast that it seemed as if the previous mental state was all a facade.

Lin Shuyu glanced at Amanosaki, then at the drowsy students in the front row of the classroom, and felt quite helpless.

The course "Moral Chivalry" is a required course for chivalrous heroes, but compared to those fancy courses, this course, which is most like traditional school education, is more painful than killing for most chivalrous heroes who are not good at thinking.

"Ignorant and incompetent." The young woman felt a mixture of disdain and self-reproach. "Why would you dream of such a good-for-nothing lecher last night? Morality and chivalry are the guiding principles for a hero's self-discipline. No matter how powerful a hero is, if his thinking is backward or even feudal, he will inevitably harm the people in the end."

'Shuyu, Shuyu, you are excellent, and your husband must also be an excellent person, useful to the country and the people. Amanosaki is not the right man for you. He's just a somewhat capable, lazy, lecherous glutton!'

The girl patted her chest and took a heavy breath, as if she wanted to expel all the strange thoughts she had about Amanosaki.

Completely unaware of the repeated changes in his image in Lin Shuyu's mind, Amanosaki was sprawled on the chair, fast asleep. Countless pixels emerged from the gaps in his clothes, his body hidden by the table.

Rin Tohsaka emerged from the pixels, reached out to check Amanosaki's breathing, and after confirming that he was indeed just asleep, she crushed the gem and became invisible under magic.

Rin stood up and silently adjusted Nozaki's sleeping position to prevent his spine from being compressed and hurting during sleep. Then she pushed open the back door of the classroom and retraced her steps.

She roughly knew whose side was behind the action.

Chapter Thirty-Six: The Brotherhood and the Whetstone

The new generation of the Yushan branch actually spans a huge age range of more than ten years, including both martial arts practitioners and support staff like Li Junzi, JK Girl, and Lin Shuyu, who are still cultivating. There are also martial arts practitioners who have already completed their training and are active in Yushan Province.

And naturally, there are also those who form small groups to seek political status.

Mr. Chili is that kind of person.

Within the community of chivalrous heroes, those who have earned a regional reputation for chivalry are traditionally addressed by their chivalrous titles. This practice of addressing someone by their chivalrous title is essentially a method of classifying people and their strength.

Because Li Junzi and JK are still cultivating and have not yet obtained the title of chivalrous hero, everyone in the Yushan branch calls them by their given names.

The secret society that Mr. Chili founded was the same new generation organization that Lin Shuyu had previously solemnly reminded him of.

This group of people were mostly those who were neither capable of winning in the battle for chivalry, but had some skills due to their family background and early years as chivalrous figures. They often bullied newcomers and ganged up to threaten older people who had chivalry titles but little social fame, much like the纨绔子弟 (spoiled brats) of ancient times.

Mr. Chili, thanks to this secret society, stands out among the scheming young generation.

However, Mr. Chili was not as arrogant as usual today. Instead, he was smoking at the front desk of the teaching area on the fifteenth basement floor, looking rather melancholy.

He's here to cause trouble.

Yesterday, while Mr. Chili was indulging in a nightclub on a bustling street outside the branch headquarters, he received a call from Amber's secretary. The call lasted for about ten minutes. The gist of it was that Amber wanted his newly formed gang to act as a whetstone for Amanosaki.

Yes, a whetstone.

The secretary made it clear that this was the case.

In addition, the secretary revealed that Amber Gong intended to test Mr. Chili's control over the Gelaohui. If he was satisfied, a branch in Chongqing Province was in dire need of a group of chivalrous heroes and might choose him and the Gelaohui as the recipients.

I won't say anything else.

Mr. Chili is not qualified to know the intentions of the branch's higher-ups.

"Dates and sticks."

Mr. Chili, with his hair styled in a high, reddish-brown tuft like chili pepper tips, muttered bitterly as he smoked a cigarette, "The whetstone itself must be used to sharpen the knife. What talk of self-control? It's just dissatisfaction with the Gelaohui's practices..."

"Brother, what are you muttering about?"

"That's right, brother. Don't wait here any longer. Let's hurry up and catch that sleeping idiot, give him a good talking to, and teach that fool some manners."

Unlike Mr. Chili, who was beginning to ponder the actions of the bigwigs above, the members of the Pao Ge Association (a dialect term for brothers) were all incredibly excited.

They're finally going to teach that slacker Amanosaki a lesson.

If we're talking about which new hero has caught the most attention at the Yushan branch this year, it has to be Amanosaki.

At the peak of his career, he defeated more than ten evil spirits, and for a time his fame overshadowed that of the branch-level hero, Oriental Leaf Hero.

Then he appeared in the same frame as Jie Laobin, the number one swordsman in China, and was even rumored to be a possible candidate for his personal disciple.

Although these two topics only garnered national attention for a day or two, they remain popular topics of conversation in Chongqing Province and Chongqing City.

No one in the Gelaohui (a secret society) could achieve such a level of fame.

What's even more infuriating is that this guy's superpower is a rare type of intelligence, and he can also transform into a beautiful woman every day to accompany him, whose looks and figure are all above average.

Yesterday, it was revealed that Li Junzi, a disciple of Amber Master, had twice been exposed for his accusations.

The entire branch is now spreading the word that Amanosaki has come from behind to surpass others, and it's very likely that from now on, the branch's publicity department will have to focus on Amanosaki for all its promotional activities.

Even if Amanosaki were to actually walk right past them, none of them would recognize him, but that doesn't stop him from becoming a minor celebrity.

If the previous glorious deeds were still tolerable to the Gelaohui, then the rumor that Amanosaki would monopolize the publicity of the branch hit a nerve.

What do modern-day heroes need?

The large rock outside [Qunxia Mountain] has it clearly engraved:

"Having accomplished his task, he left without a trace, spreading his fame and reputation far and wide."

The greatest heroes are those who serve their country and its people, but the lesser heroes active throughout China seek only fame and fortune.

The propaganda efforts of the Yushan branch are roughly equivalent to the propaganda efforts of an entire province.

Ding Zhen, the "Pure Knight" of the "Shu Branch," was selected as a spokesperson by the Shu government last year, and announcements, advertisements, and cooperation projects have poured in. Now she has considerable popularity throughout the country.

How could the members of the Gelaohui not be envious of such a thing?

The noisy shouts of the crowd around him sounded particularly jarring to Mr. Chili.

The words "whetstone" and "control" kept swirling in his mind.

'This is probably why Lord Amber is unhappy with me,' he thought to himself, glancing sideways at the gangsters surrounding the front desk, who had the staff too terrified to move. 'If I could truly have the authority to dictate to these spoiled brats, I probably would have already secured the overseas assignment.'

"Hey, big brother!"

An impatient member of the gang patted Mr. Chili on the shoulder. His neck and face were flushed from the shouting earlier, making him look even hotter than Mr. Chili. "Are you waiting for the wine or the food? If we don't get started soon, the security guards will catch us from our drowsy state, and we'll all be in trouble."

Mr. Chili watched as the half-finger-long ash in his hand was pushed away, revealing the orange-yellow cigarette butt. His face contorted with rage. He shoved aside the gangster who had patted him and waved his hand dismissively:

"Come with me!"

A dozen or so members of the Pao Ge Society stormed into the teaching area. Passersby in the corridors quickly moved aside, pressing against the walls to avoid them.

That attitude was several times more disgusting than seeing a cockroach or a rat.

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In the corridors of the teaching area, people occasionally walk by carrying laptops and tablets; these are mostly staff members. Those who casually carry A4 papers are often the true heroes.

Rin Tohsaka rolled up her sleeves and walked lightly along the invisible threads.

Amanosaki "woke up" the moment she was forced into a dream. Since the person who did it didn't care about the rules set by [Heroes Mountain], she just ignored it.

Using magic to scout out the enemy's location, Rin Tohsaka did not rush to capture them.

After confirming that the target had not moved, she began to circle around the target's location, wandering around nearby intersections, while quietly setting up the magic trick.

A magician is a completely different being depending on whether he is prepared or not.

If Rin Tohsaka two minutes ago was like a bee fluttering in the forest, carefree yet carrying a poisonous stinger.

So now she is like a poisonous spider hanging in its web, with its prey nowhere to hide.

Ready.