"You make a pretty good point," Su Hang sighed with a bitter smile, thinking that this guy, Shuai Yu, always had something strange on his mind.
"What are you having?" Shuai Yu asked Su Hang.
Su Hang picked up the menu and chose the cheapest option, "Fried rice with mushrooms."
"Tch!" Shuai Yu sneered and shook his head, "Let me tell you, man, we only have so many encounters with mushrooms in our lives. The more you run into them at the table…"
"Enough!" Su Hang quickly cut him off, not wanting to hear what weird thing Shuai Yu would say next. "Boss, two pork chop rice bowls!"
Under Shuai Yu's influence, Su Hang reluctantly switched to pork chop rice.
...
"Whoa, you eat like a pig!"
Twenty minutes later, Shuai Yu stared at Su Hang, who was devouring his food like he hadn't eaten in days, his eyes nearly popping out of his head. Shuai Yu hadn't even finished his first bowl, and Su Hang already had two empty bowls stacked in front of him and was finishing a third.
"How hungry do you have to be to eat this much?" Watching Su Hang wolf down his food, Shuai Yu suddenly lost his appetite.
Su Hang hadn't expected himself to be this hungry. His stomach felt warm and comfortable, as if the food was instantly digested, filling him with a surge of energy that spread through his entire body. Checking his system, he saw his energy points rapidly rising. Three bowls of pork chop rice brought him up to 10 points.
Seeing his energy level increase made Su Hang even more excited. After finishing his third bowl, he raised his hand again. "Boss, two more pork chop rice bowls!" He barely acknowledged Shuai Yu, feeling that he could still eat more despite his already full stomach.
"Two pork chop rice bowls!"
At almost the same time, another familiar voice echoed from the door. Su Hang looked back, and his face darkened.
A guy and a girl entered. The guy was tall and handsome, dressed in a red basketball uniform with a ball under his arm. Beside him was a girl in a short skirt with short hair and a round face. She was about average height, around 1.6 meters, but in a tech university with a serious gender imbalance, she was considered quite a beauty.
The two were chatting and laughing, but their smiles froze when they saw Su Hang and Shuai Yu, whose faces also went dark. Su Hang's gaze turned complex as it landed on the girl.
This girl was none other than Tan Lili, Su Hang's high school girlfriend. After retaking his entrance exams for three years, he finally got into Rongcheng Polytechnic University, only to find out a month ago that she had cheated on him and been dating a new boyfriend—this basketball guy, Xu Feng—for two whole years.
Perhaps feeling embarrassed to see Su Hang, Tan Lili tugged on Xu Feng's shirt, trying to leave.
"Oh, fancy seeing you here. Must be quite the appetite to eat that much. Or could it be someone's heartbroken and trying to eat themselves to death?" Xu Feng didn't plan to leave and instead sat down at a table nearby, looking at Su Hang's bowls with a sneer.
Su Hang frowned, but before he could respond, Shuai Yu switched on his snark mode, "Bro, I might have misspoken. Eating too much pork chop rice seems to attract more pigs around."
Su Hang chuckled.
"Fatty, what did you just say?" Xu Feng stood up, enraged, and tossed his basketball aside.
"Who are you calling fatty?" The hot-tempered Shuai Yu slammed the table, getting up in a rage.
But just as he stood up, a sharp pain struck, and he immediately sat back down, clutching his lower back, his face scrunched up in agony.
"What's wrong, Fatty? Got hemorrhoids?" Xu Feng taunted, laughing at Shuai Yu's pained expression.
"Bullshit!" Shuai Yu glared back. If Su Hang hadn't poked him earlier, he would've already given Xu Feng a beating.
"Oh? Want to fight?" Xu Feng sneered and leaned forward, "Come at me!"
"Stupid punk, picking up my bro's leftovers and acting all high and mighty!" Shuai Yu was fuming.
"What did you just say? Say it again if you've got the guts!" Xu Feng kicked a chair aside, scaring the restaurant owner back into the kitchen.
"Who says I wouldn't? Hey, bro, show this punk a lesson!" Shuai Yu encouraged Su Hang with a gesture.
Hearing this, Su Hang looked over at Xu Feng.
Xu Feng met his gaze with contempt. "This loser thinks he can take me on? He's already forgotten the beating he took when school started?"
In the past, Su Hang might have swallowed his anger, but now things were different. With the Super Scholar System and a killer move he just learned, he wasn't about to back down.
"Things change. How about we spar?" Su Hang stood up, smirking.
He accessed his system and scanned Xu Feng.
...
Name: Xu Feng
Age: 23
Realm: None
Special Skill:: Basketball (F-rank)
Extract and Refine?
[Yes] or [No]?
...
The information appeared in Su Hang's mind. The system ranked talents from F to A, S, SS, and SSS, making a total of nine levels. Xu Feng's basketball skill was barely above average, nothing impressive.
Su Hang felt even more disdain.
Xu Feng laughed in anger. "Look who's grown a backbone. Think you can handle another beating?"
Tension mounted, ready to snap.
"Xu Feng, let it go. No need to stoop to his level," Tan Lili urged, pulling Xu Feng's arm.
To Su Hang, her words stung. He looked at Tan Lili, realizing she had changed so much in the past three years.
Xu Feng, however, misinterpreted her as siding with Su Hang and got angrier. He shoved Tan Lili aside and swung his hand to slap Su Hang.
Su Hang, already on guard, dodged the slap effortlessly.
"You dare dodge?" Missing the hit, Xu Feng felt humiliated and stormed forward, aiming a punch at Su Hang's chest.
"Bro, watch out!" Shuai Yu shouted, though he was too far to help in time.
"Secret Art—Millennium Strike!"
As Xu Feng lunged forward, Su Hang assumed a solemn expression, his hands forming a sign with four fingers pointing skyward.
With the skill activated, a warm surge of energy filled Su Hang's hands, guiding his entire body. In a flash, he moved behind Xu Feng.
"Snort!
Use all your strength to stab between Xu Feng's two strands.
Xu Feng a punch in the air, in front of has lost the trace of Su Hang, behind the wind, Xu Feng want to turn, but it is too late.