The door suddenly opened, and a girl of about twelve years of age barged into the room with some bundle of newspapers in hand, her waist-length black hair cascaded down like a silken waterfall and her tender and smooth skin made her look like a porcelain doll.
"Mei?? How many times have I told you not to barge into my room like that, what if I was..., You know, changing" he scowled.
Xue Fang was on the verge of opening the door when Mei barged in, the door almost slammed into his face but with his reflex, he managed to dodge at the last minute.
"Brother Fang, is that a way of repaying someone who just did you a favor?"
Mei scowled back at Xue Fang, Xue Fang was like a big brother to her, Wang Mei was a newspaper deliverer to old men in this locality, and Old Li was one of her customers, since both were orphans, Xue Fang had known her since the time she had started her work as a delivery person.
"Which favor? I don't remember owing you anything"
Xue Fang's face contorted scornfully.
"Well, if you meant your daily expenses, Don't worry about that, your big brother will soon start to shoulder it all"
Mei started looking at Xue Fang puzzlingly.
"In fact, you would soon stop this work"
Xue Fang's voice was filled with confidence.
"Wait, brother Fang, hope it isn't that you wanted to become a rogue"
Mei's voice was filled with mock as she placed her hands akimbo.
Rogues were ordinary people who hadn't awakened their Soul Will and would buy Soul avatars in the market section of BlackNet called Black Market to do all kinds of bad activities against citizens.
The reason why Mei said so mockingly was that Xue Fang didn't even have enough money to buy Soul Avatar as they were costly for people like him, he only had Old Li's Yang Spirit tea farm to live on ever since he completed his compulsory education a year ago.
"And didn't you say all the farming robots need repair? Big brother"
Mei teased, "I know you wanted to act like a proper big brother but don't do what you will later regret"
She warned, shouting at Xue Fang at the top of her voice.
Suddenly, Mei's gaze fell on the hole in the wall.
"Brother Fang, what do you have that was so precious only to attract rogues"
"Or by chance, did Old Li give you his heirloom?"
Mei gazed at Xue Fang with her wide beautiful eyes.
"Rogues?? I did that, and besides, why would rogues rob people in the outskirts, we are all poor in this locality, remember?"
Xue Fang smirked.
Mei was speechless.
Xue Fang noticed this and said.
"Look at me"
Taking a steady stance, Xue Fang willed something in his mind.
Suddenly, an intimidating aura seeped out of his body and spread all over him, it was color purple, a deep one.
At that moment, Xue Fang was like a hyperpredator, he felt so confident, like he could do all things.
Seeing Wang Mei's restlessness, Xue Fang quickly dispelled his aura.
Mei stuck tight to the wall, for a moment, she thought she was about to be preyed on, her heart started racing and her primitive survival instinct of fear was activated, although she didn't see the aura, she felt the intimidating presence, in non-awakened language, it is called presence, while in hunter's language, it is called an aura.
"I'm sorry Mei" Xue Fang rushed toward her and hugged her tightly, reassuring her.
"Congratulations, brother Fang"
She said in an almost squeaky voice.
"Yeah," Xue Fang replied, scratching the back of his head embarrassingly.
"Goodbye, brother Fang, I'm off to other customers, I just said I should check on you this morning"
Mei said hastily and left.
Clutching the pack of newspaper tightly, Mei blushed slightly while in a thought as she walked hastily along the corridor.
"Stupid big brother, why did he have to scare me like that, phew..."
She heaved a sign of relief.
Xue Fang landed with a thud on his bed, "Oh..., Almost overdid it"
He smiled sheepishly.
Exuding an aura like that in the company of civilians was against the law, although Xue Fang wanted to show that he could harness his Soul Will, the aura exuding had caused plenty of harm to civilians including situations where they could even enter a state of shock.
So exuding aura was semi-regulated in the human world, unless used as self-defense, it shouldn't be used anyhow.
Xue Fang could remember what Mei said earlier ~ all the farming robots need repair ~
Lately, Xue Fang had been working manually on the Yang Spirit tea farm, and he could feel all his bones creaking like a worn-out machine.
"I need to earn money"
Xue Fang thought.
In order to enter the HighRealms, one needs to pass the hunter exam and receive the World's Licence, and the exam had just been held the previous month.
"Damn, why am I a late bloomer"
Xue Fang gnashed his teeth angrily, hunter examination is held every two years, which means, He would have to wait for two years before he could take the exam and be permitted to enter the HighRealms, according to statistics, most of those who have the highest chance of surviving in the HighRealms during their first time were teenagers to people in their late twenties, people who were hunters in their thirties upward had either start their adventure into the HighRealms during their teenage years or in their twenties, awakening Soul Will in thirty years upward is susceptible to Will degrading, a phenomenon where the power wouldn't ever reach the normal potential according to world research institute.
As Xue Fang went to close the door, his gaze caught something on the floor.
It was a newspaper.
"She dropped one of them when I scared her"
Xue Fang knocked his head with his knuckle, "Her sales won't be complete, what a stupid big brother I am, I will try to trace her to her customers later"
Xue Fang picked it up and went to sit down on the bed while reading through the newspaper.
His eyes widened as he saw the headline printed in bold.