"Lately, there's been a lot of talk about ranking battles. ”

At the dining table in the cafeteria, Luo Shen glanced diagonally ahead, turned his head and smiled at Du Mu.

In the seats in that direction, four first-year students were discussing the ranking battle with great interest.

This is arguably the hottest topic in the first grade lately.

Hearing this, Du Mu nodded disappreciatively.

To be honest, at the moment when he was at full strength and could fight with a four-star martial artist, he was no longer interested in the ranking battle of the first grade.

No matter how strong the first-year student is, the two-star martial artist will be able to break through the sky, and he doesn't even need to use the Extreme Breaking Blade, with his strength in his normal state, he can sweep almost everything.

It's not challenging at all, so it's not fun.

Luo Shen glanced at Du Mu in surprise, and said suspiciously: "It seems that you don't seem to care much about the ranking battle?"

"Can you get a good ranking if you care?" Du Mu shrugged, "Improving your strength is the most important thing, isn't it?"

"That's too. ”

Luo Shen smiled, and immediately seemed to remember something, and muttered: "Speaking of which, Lei Kai seems to have been promoted to a two-star martial artist a few days ago. ”

Du Mu was stunned, and then remembered that Lei Kai was one of the four major families, a direct descendant of the Lei family, and he had shown a terrifying speed as fast as lightning in the entrance test.

In addition, it seems that he has been designated as a new member of the Shepherd Society, and he will officially join as soon as the next semester arrives. ”

It's a shepherd again!

Du Mu frowned slightly when he heard this, he didn't expect the other party to move so quickly, and he recruited Lei Kai to join in the first semester.

However, it is rumored that Lei Kai was originally a supremacist, so it is not surprising that he would choose the Shepherd Society to join. Luo Shen continued, "He is the fastest student to be promoted to a two-star martial artist in our class, and many people think that he must be the leader of the first grade!"

Even the outside gambling game offered him odds of 1:0.5. ”

"Gamble?"

Hearing this, Du Mu suddenly became interested.

"What gamble?"

"A bet on who gets the first-year chief. ”

Luo Shen took out his mobile phone and handed it to Du Mu after some operations on it.

"The bookmaker has screened out the students who are most likely to win the top position this year, and opened the corresponding odds for the students to bet on. ”

After taking the mobile phone, Du Mu took a look, but it was a betting interface, which listed seven or eight names, as well as the corresponding odds.

Lei Kai 1:0.5

Gu Huaqing 1:1

Chi Xiang Zhen 1:2

Jing Lei 1:3

Du Mu 1:3

Locke 1:3

......

It's all familiar faces.

Among them, Du Mu also saw his name, and the odds were still 1:3.

Seeing this odds, I inexplicably have a complicated feeling. Du Mu sighed.

Luo Shen smiled: "In the final analysis, the odds are only opened by the dealer himself, and it does not represent the true strength of the students. ”

"Speaking of which, isn't the school against this kind of gamble?" Du Mu asked.

"No, this gamble only supports Xingyuan betting, and does not involve points, so the academy will naturally not interfere. ”

"Also, do you know who the dealer is behind the gamble?"

"Who is it?"

A meaningful smile appeared on Luo Shen's face: "Shepherd Society." ”

"Is it!?" Du Mu was surprised, and finally understood why the odds gap between himself and Jing Lei, Chi Xiangzhen, and Gu Huaqing, who were also students who had cleared the Tower of the Stars, would be so big.

This is clearly discrimination against civilians!

"These guys are small enough to deliberately raise the odds just to make us unhappy? If the civilians take the lead in the end, wouldn't they lose a lot of ......money?"

Speaking of this, Du Mu's heart moved, and he suddenly fell into contemplation.

After a moment, he looked up at Luo Shen and asked, "Is the payout of the bet guaranteed?"

Luo Shen nodded: "In order to attract students to bet, the Shepherd Society has specially invited people from the coordinating committee to witness and supervise, so there is no need to worry about fairness and security." ”

"That's good. The corners of Du Mu's mouth slowly hooked.

Luo Shen's expression moved: "You plan to bet?"

Du Mu bowed his head.

He's really short of money these days.

Ever since Fanxing had successfully started his career, he had instead begun to practice the Bailuo Breathing Method.

After all, the stars will only improve their physical fitness at one time when they light up the stars, and the cultivation on weekdays is just the process of lighting up the stars, and it has no strengthening effect on the body.

In his daily cultivation, Du Mu's speed of lighting up the stars was ridiculously slow, so he decided to light up the stars by consuming nightmare energy in the future.

As for normal times, he practices the Bailuo breathing method to subtly strengthen the body.

No better than other people's entry-level Bailuo Breathing Method, Du Mu's Bailuo Breathing Method has been promoted to the proficient level, and the effect is no worse than the ordinary advanced Breathing Technique.

With a two-pronged approach, physical fitness can improve quickly.

Of course, if you want to practice the Bailuo Breathing Method, you will naturally have the support of resources.

It's a pity that now Du Mu's points are basically used to rent the perception cultivation room, and he has no spare energy to exchange for qi and blood elixirs, and now the cultivation consumes the part that Xu Dongjie lost to him, but it is almost exhausted.

Without planning to waste time doing the integral task, Du Mu could only use Xingyuan to buy desolate beast meat to fill the vacancy of qi and blood elixirs.

However, he only had more than 100,000 star yuan on hand, and if he bought desolate beast meat, saving a little would be enough to cultivate for a week at most, which was better than nothing.

Therefore, we have to find a way to earn more stars.

And right now, there is such an opportunity to make a lot of money in front of him!

"It's a pity, the odds of 1 to 3 are still not high enough!" Du Mu said secretly in his heart.

Originally, he planned to apply for the two-star martial artist promotion assessment today, but now it seems that he has to postpone it later, otherwise once the news of his becoming a two-star martial artist spreads, the odds may fall immediately.

While thinking about it, Du Mu suddenly noticed a malicious gaze, turned his head to look, and four or five people not far away were looking at him.

The leader is two tall young men, one of whom is burly, with an indifferent face, but his eyes are as sharp as thunder, making people dare not look at him.

The other was a young man with a slightly pale face and a flirtatious face.

Seeing that Du Mu looked at them, the frivolous young man turned his head and said a few words to Lei Kai beside him, and then walked towards him with a group of people.

"That person is Cao Haoxuan!" Luo Shen also discovered the existence of the young man and his group, and whispered to Du Mu, "In the entrance test, it was he who made a bet with Sister Yao, and he lost a bottle of strengthening medicine. ”

Du Mu suddenly shook his head, he didn't know what he thought, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Isn't this Du Shuang's younger brother, Du Mu?"

Coming closer, Cao Haoxuan's gaze swept over Luo Shen, and finally stopped on Du Mu, with a false smile on his face.

"I heard that you and Jing Lei went to the west to carry out an actual combat mission before, but they ran back in disgrace after only one day, isn't the mission a failure?"

Hearing this, Du Mu was stunned and looked at Luo Shen, who blinked his eyes and did not speak.

Du Mu's heart was clear.

It seems that this guy is not aware of the discovery of new ruins on the western border.

However, it is also not long after the ruins were discovered, and they are still in preliminary exploration, and under the control of the military's intelligence, it is estimated that only the high-level of the big family can know about it at this time.

The thoughts in his mind turned rapidly, but on the surface, Du Mu showed an annoyed and angry look, and glared at Cao Haoxuan: "What's the matter with you?"

"It seems to be true. The corners of Cao Haoxuan's mouth curled slightly, and a sneer flashed in his eyes, "With Tutor Xia Zhi leading and four elite students dispatching, it is really a shame for Star Luo Academy to mess up the task!"

"By the way, speaking of which, there is Jing Lei in the team, plus you have a total of two civilians, maybe you are dragging the team back, right, Luo Shen?"

When Cao Haoxuan said the last sentence, he turned his head to look at Luo Shen.

As early as the beginning of the conversation between the two, Luo Shen had been looking at Du Mu with a strange expression, and when he saw Cao Haoxuan turning his gaze to him, his face immediately changed, contrary to the usual smile, a trace of gloom flashed on his face, and his eyes flickered and he bowed his head and was silent.

Seeing this, Cao Haoxuan became more and more proud in his heart.

"Some time ago, Xu Dongjie was injured by you and lost the duel, presumably you used some despicable means!"

As if he had been told something in his heart, Du Mu's expression sank, and he said angrily: "Becoming a king and losing, losing is losing, you are making so many excuses now, you don't want to get back the bet, right?"

Du Mu's performance made Cao Haoxuan more and more sure, and he was about to laugh back with a sneer, but was interrupted by Lei Kai on the side.

"Gone. Lei Kai glanced at Du Mu lightly, "It's just a civilian, it's not worth wasting our time." ”

Hearing this, Cao Haoxuan smiled: "Yes, let's go!"

After that, he glanced at Du Mu with disdain, turned around and left with Lei Kai.

It wasn't until a few people walked away that Du Mu turned around and glanced at Luo Shen, and the two of them showed meaningful smiles at the same time.

......

on the school road.

Not far away, Cao Haoxuan couldn't help but sneer: "Originally, I saw that Du Mu performed well in the entrance test, but I thought he was a genius, but I didn't expect it to be just a showman!"

"Now that I think about it, when he climbed the Tower of the Stars, the strength he showed was very strange, it is likely that he used some kind of explosive martial arts, and it is estimated that he used the same method when he duel with Xu Dongjie!"

"His true strength should not be as strong as rumored by the outside world!"

"That's right!" Someone next to him immediately said: "We also set a 1-3 odds for him, and now it seems that we overestimated him."

"You're reminding me. ”

Cao Haoxuan touched his chin and sneered.

"When I go back, I will propose to the vice president to increase Du Mu's odds, preferably to 1 to 10, and lose the face of Du Shuang's little lady once!"

"That's right! Anyway, with Lei Kai here, Du Mu has no hope of winning the chief at all!"

"That's right, hahaha!"

The group laughed proudly, but Lei Kai looked indifferent and didn't say a word.

Noticing Lei Kai's demeanor, Cao Haoxuan stopped smiling and wondered: "What's the matter, Lei Kai, shouldn't you be happy if you have one less competitor?"

Lei Kai shook his head and said lightly.

"The more competitors there are, the more challenging they are. ”

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