novelbin Chapter 25 Do you guys at Funeral Parlor match?
Chapter 25 Do you guys at Funeral Parlor match?
Tianwangzhou Middle School, teaching building.
The corridor was so quiet that only the lingering buzz of the broadcast had ended could be heard.
The students in each classroom were still crowded around the windows, looking out.
"Look everyone! Teacher He Quan destroyed that military mech!"
"That's incredible! Teacher He Quan is even hugging Yuzuriha Inori!"
"I'm so envious of Inori Yuzuriha!"
"I want to be Teacher He Quan's dog!"
The students had just seen GHQ's most advanced military mech smashed into scrap metal by He Quan's fist.
The mech didn't even have time to swing its weapon once.
Kusama Kanon's hands were still pressed against the glass, her lips slightly parted.
From the moment GHQ announced its intention to execute teacher He Quan, her heart was clenched with anxiety.
She considered many possibilities: the teacher would be taken away, interrogated, or even injured in the chaos.
But she never imagined that the teacher would lead Yuzuriha Inori by the hand out of the school building, walk towards that mecha, and then smash it to pieces with a single punch.
The image kept replaying in her mind: Teacher He Quan appeared directly in front of the military mecha, and then his punch shattered the mecha.
So handsome...
I'm so envious of Inori Yuzuriha...
I wish it were me being held by the teacher instead...
Souta Tamagatsu's notebook lay on the floor, but he didn't pick it up. He was leaning over the windowsill, his mouth agape.
"That's... EndRave! I've seen it in military magazines. One unit costs as much as all the buildings on our school combined."
He shouted excitedly, "Teacher He Quan smashed it with his fist! His fist!"
Han Chuan Gu Xun leaned against the wall, arms crossed, his brow furrowed ever since GHQ announced the encirclement of the school.
He was thinking about it. He had felt something was off about He Quan from the very first day he arrived at Tianwangzhou Middle School. A 25-year-old graduate from a prestigious foreign university, an all-around athlete, with an impeccable appearance and demeanor, coming to an ordinary middle school to be a physical education teacher—that in itself was abnormal.
He just hadn't expected that He Quan's abnormality would manifest itself in this way.
He shattered the military's mech with a single punch.
This goes beyond being described as merely "abnormal".
Shu Ouma stood by the window.
He didn't exclaim in surprise like the other students, nor did he discuss the scene he had just witnessed with anyone.
He just watched.
I watched as Teacher He Quan put one arm around Yuzuriha Inori's waist, pulled her into his arms, and then disappeared.
The next second, it appeared directly in front of the military mech and punched down.
Shu Ouma wondered, if he were standing there, could he hold Inori Yuzuriha's hand and walk out of the school building? Could he stand in front of a military mecha? Could he smash a mecha with his fist?
He already knew the answer.
But this realization made him feel uncomfortable.
He couldn't help but fantasize about being Teacher He Quan.
GHQ soldiers were still standing next to the armored vehicle, their gun barrels pointing downwards.
Their mission was to surround the school, control all entrances and exits, and wait for Lieutenant Daril's mech to capture the target.
They had witnessed the ultimate roar crushing enemy armored forces on the battlefield, seen the sparks of high-frequency bayonets slicing through the frontal armor of tanks, and seen rapid-fire machine guns turning an entire building into a sieve...
But they had never seen Ultimate Roar get smashed by a punch.
A soldier's hand was trembling.
He gripped the gun, the muzzle pointed at the ground, but his finger trembled violently outside the trigger guard.
"What exactly is that person?"
No one answered him, because no one knew the answer.
Another soldier crouched next to the tires of the armored vehicle, his helmet off and held in his arms.
"I'm here to be a soldier, not to fight monsters."
"Who wants to fight a monster like that!"
His voice was low and hoarse with a sense of resignation: "The intelligence said the target was a physical education teacher and a female student."
"Where's the Major of the Hush World? Did he already know?"
"have no idea."
Several soldiers simultaneously looked up at the top of the command vehicle.
Xu Jie stood there, his military uniform swaying gently in the morning breeze.
......
Ayase asked, "What do we do now?"
Although the GHQ's encirclement has temporarily stopped, the armored vehicles are still there, the soldiers are still there, and the helicopters are still circling overhead.
Dong immediately chimed in, "Run! Before they can react, go out the back door. We know the cordoned-off area well; let's find a safe house and hide for a few days."
She looked at He Quan: "You're so skilled, why don't you just join the funeral home? We have a base, weapons, and an intelligence network..."
"Join a funeral club??"
He Quan asked with disdain, "Do you guys run a funeral home?"
The thrush immediately turned reddish-brown.
"A group of high school students dreaming of saving the world."
He Quan tilted his head: "Don't you think this looks like playing house?"
Tsugumi's face flushed even redder: "What do you know! The Funeral Parlor is an organization that opposes GHQ! We have our own principles! We have our own code of conduct!"
He Quan repeated, slowly and deliberately, "Playing house."
Dong opened her mouth, wanting to refute, but He Quan interrupted her.
"I will continue to teach at the school. You must also stay at the school and continue your studies."
He Quan said, "It's time for outdoor community activities like those organized by funeral homes to come to an end."
Tsugumi was stunned: "What did you say? The GHQ is ready to arrest you! You still want to continue being a teacher?"
He Quan calmly replied, "It's alright, GHQ will apologize to me soon."
I haven't had a proper conversation with Yuzuriha Inori and the others at school yet!
How can this be allowed?!
Anyone who disturbs my in-depth conversations with them at school must die!
That's right, He Quan came to the school as a teacher so that he could have in-depth exchanges with them!
Dong wanted to ask more questions, but the next second, He Quan's figure disappeared from sight.
Xu Jie stood on the roof of the command vehicle, holding a walkie-talkie in his hand.
After He Quan shattered Ultimate Roar with a single punch, his first order was "Everyone stand by, no firing allowed."
It's not because he's scared, it's because he's reassessing.
Destroying the Ultimate Roar with a single punch—this is not a power granted by the Void Genome.
The Void Genome's function is to extract the "Void" and materialize the human heart into weapons. If He Quan was injected with the Void Genome, the abilities he exhibited should be related to the "Void."
But that punch didn't leave any trace of emptiness.
This is not the power of a "king".
This is something else.
Hush tapped his fingers lightly on the edge of the walkie-talkie.
Then, another person appeared in front of him.
He Quan appeared in the command vehicle.
Morning light streamed through the narrow windows of the command vehicle, casting varying shades of shadow on his face. A smile, enigmatic and enigmatic to the world of skepticism, played on his lips.
The pupils of the Hush Realm contracted slightly.
It took his brain about 0.5 seconds to process the scene before him. He Quan had just been at the edge of the playground, standing in front of the wreckage of the Ultimate Roar.
The command vehicle was more than 500 meters away from the edge of the parade ground, with three rows of armored vehicles and two rows of soldiers in between.
He heard no footsteps and saw no movement.
He Quan appeared before him just like that.
The shudder stopped, his fingers still tapping the edge of the walkie-talkie.
"Mr. He Quan."
His voice remained steady, the smile on his lips undiminished: "Your speed is even faster than I expected..."
He Quan didn't let him finish speaking.
He stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of several soldiers in the command room. The gesture was casual, like calling on a few students to answer a question in class.
The next second, several fully armed soldiers vanished from the spot, replaced by several shabby, trembling stray dogs.
They let out terrified whimpers, and their claws were comically covered with half-torn combat gloves.
One crashed into the edge of the control panel, another huddled in a corner trembling, and the third lay directly on the ground with its tail tucked between its legs.
They still had fragments of GHQ uniforms hanging on them, and the logos on the collars were still clearly visible despite the torn fabric.
The sound of boos was stuck in his throat.
He looked at the dogs, at the pieces of their uniforms hanging on their bodies, and at the extreme terror in their eyes that only humans could have.
A smile still lingered on his lips, but it had frozen on his face.
He Quan turned around and faced the window of the command vehicle.
He raised his hand and pointed to the sky.
I didn't understand the situation.
His gaze shifted from the cowering dogs to He Quan's fingers.
What does He Quan mean? The sky? The sun? The clouds?
Why is he pointing to the sky?
The next moment, He Quan disappeared.
Just like when it appeared, there were no warning signs.
Only a few cowering dogs and Xu Jie himself remained in the command vehicle.
Xu Jie stood rooted to the spot, his white military uniform back soaked with cold sweat. His gaze was fixed on the cowering dogs, his mind racing, trying to understand the mechanism behind this phenomenon.
Matter recombination? Concept distortion? This has completely transcended the scope of the void genome!
A smile still lingered on his lips, but it was now completely distorted, a mixture of extreme fear and excitement: "This...is...truly wonderful..."
He muttered to himself almost unconsciously.
At the same time, everyone was wondering what He Quan meant just now. Was it a threat? An implication? Or just a simple action?
Before he could even process what was happening, an urgent voice came through the communicator: "Major Hush! White Blood Cells! All three White Blood Cells! All out of contact!"
The pupils of the Hush Realm contracted sharply.
White Blood Cells, GHQ's orbital attack system deployed in low Earth orbit. Three units, arranged in a triangle covering the skies over Japan.
Each unit is equipped with a high-precision ground attack module, which can carry out a devastating strike on ground targets within seconds of receiving an order.
This is one of GHQ's ultimate trump cards in suppressing Japan.
"When?"
The boos were kept very low.
"Two minutes ago! All three devices lost signal almost simultaneously! The time difference was no more than three seconds!"
The voice on the communicator trembled noticeably: "Orbital observation station confirms that the target has...has completely disintegrated. It's not a malfunction, not a signal interruption, it's physical destruction. Debris is falling into the atmosphere."
The fingers of the booing crowd began to tremble.
Two minutes ago, He Quan pointed to the sky in front of him.
Then it disappeared in less than two minutes.
Three white blood cells were physically destroyed in near-Earth orbit.
It turns out that He Quan was informing the world what he was going to do, then doing it, and then coming back.
Xu Jie braced his hands on the edge of the control panel, his forehead covered in cold sweat.
He has seen many monsters.
Apocalypse virus infected individuals, out-of-control EndRave pilots, and even the biological weapons created by the GHQ laboratory.
But no monster can do that.
Within two minutes, from the ground to near-Earth orbit, three space-based weapons were destroyed.
This is a natural disaster, a divine punishment.
In the corner of the command vehicle, the dogs were still trembling.
Two minutes ago.
Low Earth orbit.
The moment He Quan burst out of the atmosphere, the air behind him was torn apart into a blazing white trail.
【Soaring Through the Sky】is a talent obtained by fusing with the Bamboo Dragonfly. After becoming a talent, it underwent a certain change, just like when it was fused with the Vitality Sandwich Cookie.
The flight speed underwent a qualitative change; it was as if the speed limit had been removed. As long as he continued to accelerate in the air, his speed would continue to climb.
The moment he broke the sound barrier, a faint golden light shimmered on the surface of his body.
The bio-force field is automatically activated during ultra-high-speed flight, reducing air resistance to almost zero.
Fifty times the speed of sound.
As he swept across the stratosphere, the surrounding air molecules were ionized before they could be displaced, leaving a pale blue plasma trail behind him.
One hundred times the speed of sound.
Upon entering the middle layer, the temperature plummeted, and a bio-field formed a constant-temperature barrier on his body surface, so that even the sub-zero temperatures could not change the temperature of his skin surface.
150 times the speed of sound.
He rushed into the thermosphere, and the starry sky above him turned from deep blue to pure black, with the Milky Way spreading out on either side of him.
Two hundred times the speed of sound.
Three white blood cell units were deployed in near-Earth orbit, arranged in a triangle. The silvery-white bodies gleamed coldly in the solar wind, and the solar panels spread out on both sides like wings.
The high-precision ground attack module is hidden in the fuselage, and each one is equipped with enough firepower to destroy a city.
They are the sword of Damocles hanging over Japan's head.
Without pausing, He Quan smashed through the first machine; his physical body was his strongest weapon.
The titanium alloy armor of the white blood cells tore apart like paper.
The internal structure of the machine deformed instantly under the pressure of the force field, the fuel tank ruptured, and liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen mixed in the vacuum to form a deadly cloud.
Then came the sparks. The entire white blood cell exploded behind him into a blazing white fireball, with fragments scattering in all directions, leaving countless tiny streaks of light in the near-Earth orbit.
He did not slow down; the second white blood cell was less than ten kilometers to his right.
He crashed into the second one.
The way the machine shattered in front of him was exactly the same as the first one. The titanium alloy armor was dented like an eggshell, the internal structure was twisted and deformed under the pressure of the force field, the fuel tank exploded, and the sparks ignited the mixed gas. The entire machine turned into an expanding fireball in a silent explosion.
All three white blood cells disintegrated.
The debris formed a small, artificial meteor belt in near-Earth orbit, shimmering with tiny silver sparkles in the sunlight.
He Quan was suspended in the vacuum, looking down at the Earth beneath his feet.
The Japanese archipelago appeared and disappeared beneath the clouds, while the Pacific Ocean shimmered with a deep blue luster in the morning light.
Then he began to descend.
The air in front of him became viscous again, and the bio-force field pushed away the plasma generated by re-entry into the atmosphere, forming a pale golden cocoon of light around him.
Temperatures outside the force field rise to thousands of degrees, but inside the force field, the temperature remains constant, like springtime.
Inside the command vehicle, Xu Jie remained propped up on the edge of the control panel.
His gaze fell on the dogs huddled in the corner, their short, tan fur drooping, their ears drooping, and the fear in their eyes still lingering.
They were GHQ soldiers just minutes ago.
Then He Quan casually pointed, and they turned into dogs.
The next second, He Quan reappeared in front of him, in the same spot as before, as if he had never left.
Xu Jie's hand slid off the edge of the control panel. He opened his mouth and cautiously asked, "Was...did you do this?"
"Um."
He Quan's tone was as if he were confirming something trivial.
Xu Jie's knees bent slightly; his legs were trembling, and he wanted to kneel.
Three space-based weapons in near-Earth orbit were all destroyed by the enemy within two minutes.
Should I kneel down before him now?
What does the "power of the king" amount to in the face of such pure violence?
"I plan to continue having fun at school."
He Quan said, "Tell the person behind you not to bother me."
After saying that, he disappeared.
......
Daliru lay slumped in the remote cockpit.
The connection had long been lost, and the screen was now completely black.
His fingers were still gripping the lever, in a forward-pushing position. He didn't want to let go, because letting go meant he had to accept reality: his ultimate roar had been shattered by a punch.
He had to accept that what he had just experienced was real.
The cockpit door was opened from the outside.
Daliru raised his head.
He Quan stood at the doorway, the morning light shining in from behind him, casting a long shadow on the ground.
Daryl's fingers finally loosened their grip on the lever.
He wanted to say "Don't come any closer," he wanted to say "Do you know who my dad is?" He wanted to say so many things.
But the sound was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't utter a single word.
He Quan glanced at him and commented indifferently, "You're like a pig or a dog."
After saying that, Daryl disappeared.
Instead, a dog appeared. It had short, pure white fur and was a size smaller than the previous tan dogs.
It was curled up in the driver's seat, its four legs tucked under its belly, its tail tucked tightly between its legs, and its whole body was trembling.
It raised its head, its eyes reflecting He Quan's image, and let out a small, trembling sob.
It wanted to scream.
It wanted to ask a question.
What did you do to me?!
Why did I turn into a dog?!
Why can't I move?!
Why can I only make this disgusting sound?!
Change me back! Change me back!
But it couldn't speak. Its tongue could only dangle from its mouth, emitting muffled whimpering sounds.
It watched as He Quan disappeared, and watched as the cockpit door closed again.
Darkness descended once more, and it huddled in the driver's seat, trembling.
The edge of the playground.
Tsugumi grabbed Ayase's arm: "Where did he go? How could he suddenly disappear and then suddenly reappear?"
Ayase shook her head; she didn't know either.
Then, He Quan appeared before them, just as without warning as when he disappeared: "The matter is settled, we can continue our campus life."
Dong paused for a moment, then asked, "Finished? Finished what?"
Then, the loudspeaker came on.
The sound of boos came from the loudspeaker.
His voice remained steady, but a closer listen revealed a slight tremor that, despite his best efforts to suppress it, still managed to escape.
"To all teachers and students of Tennouzu Middle School. This is Major Hush of the GHQ Antibody Unit. Regarding today's operation, after further verification, GHQ has confirmed that the previous intelligence contained significant errors."
"Yuzuriha Inori is not a member of the terrorist organization Funeral Parlor, nor has she participated in any illegal activities targeting the GHQ laboratory. Professor He Quan's act of taking Yuzuriha Inori in is a normal teacher-student interaction and there is nothing inappropriate about it."
He paused.
"GHQ sincerely apologizes for the inconvenience caused to the teachers and students of Tennoju Middle School by this action. We deeply regret the misunderstanding caused to Mr. He Quan and student Yuzuriha Inori. All surrounding troops will withdraw immediately, and the relevant follow-up work will be handled by a designated person in coordination with the school. Once again, we extend our sincerest apologies to Mr. He Quan and student Yuzuriha Inori."
The loudspeakers went off. The entire school fell silent for a moment.
Then it exploded.
"I knew it! How could Teacher He Quan possibly harbor terrorists!"
"Yuzuriha Inori doesn't seem like a bad person at all!"
"What's GHQ doing? Such a big fuss only to turn out to be a misunderstanding?"
"Weren't they just arrogantly saying they wanted to execute Teacher He Quan? Now they're apologizing?"
"Did you see that mech? Teacher He Quan punched it to pieces! GHQ must be scared to apologize!"
"He punched a mech to pieces... Just who is Teacher He Quan...?"
Handsome, mysterious, powerful... Teacher He Quan is becoming increasingly unfathomable in their hearts.
At the edge of the playground, Dong opened his mouth, pointed at the broadcast, and then pointed at He Quan.
"GHQ apologized?! How did you do that?"
Her voice rose: "What were you doing for those few minutes you disappeared?!"
"We destroyed three GHQ space-based weapons and turned some of their soldiers into dogs."
He Quan pinched Dong's little face and answered truthfully.
Tsugumi's face was slightly distorted from his pinching, and her voice escaped from her squeezed lips: "Let me go!"
Unable to break free from He Quan's grasp, Dong could only resign herself to having her cheek pinched. She exclaimed, "You mean white blood cells? How could that be? Those things are in space!"
Ayase stood to the side, watching He Quan pinch Tsugumi's cheek and watch Tsugumi struggle by waving her arms, and the corners of her mouth curved slightly.
Yuzuriha Inori stood beside him, as quiet as a plant transplanted into the sunlight.
Ayase withdrew her gaze and looked at the armored convoy retreating outside the school gate. GHQ soldiers were closing in formation, and the sound of engines rose and fell.
The wreckage of the Ultimate Roar still lay on the parade ground, emitting wisps of black smoke, and was being salvaged by soldiers.
She knew that from this day forward, many things would be different.
(End of this chapter)