"Hey! Let's see who's coming. ”

As soon as Archie stepped one foot on the bus, Justin, who was sitting in the middle window seat, got up from his seat and shouted loudly.

Obviously, Justin saw Archie standing at the station waiting for the train before the car stopped.

When Archie walked up, the children in the car began to heckle.

Whether it was a senior grade than Archie, or a member of the same grade, or even a junior student, they all cast sneering glances at him.

Puff –

A few seconds later, Archie, who had only taken a few steps forward, tripped and fell.

"Watch the way, loser~" The child who stretched out his foot and stumbled on him looked at him condescendingly, and said in a mocking tone.

Archie didn't say anything, just silently got up and reached for the paper bag that had fallen from his hand.

However, another child snatched the paper bag that had fallen to the ground before him, opened it as he spoke, and held it up and shouted, "Hey! Look, Archie's lunch is just two slices of dry bread and a plum candy! Hahahaha! ”

When his words fell, the car was full of laughter.

While there's nothing funny about a shabby lunch, that's not the point.

Many times, when people are in a particular environment, the facts themselves will be blurred, and people's behavior will be driven by the atmosphere and position.

Like here and now......

When all the "cool kids" and bullies in the school are looking for Archie's trouble, if you show displeasure or stand up for him, you may be the next to be bullied.

No one wants to end up in the same fate as Archie...... No one.

"Hey! Get out of my seat, little ghost! I don't have time to spend with you, and you, give me some peace! ”

After a few more seconds, the driver's grumbling came from the front.

As the only adult in the car, he didn't react much to these things, thinking that it was just a fight between children, and he didn't pay attention or care.

Like most adults, he hates his job, and this dislike is often proportional to the low hourly wage and the intensity of his labor......

In short, what the driver wanted was just to finish the bus quickly and go to rest quickly, and other things were not his responsibility; As long as these imps don't cause any accidents in the car, the rest is the school's problem.

Amid the cheers of the driver, the children restrained a little.

"Give it back to you, loser~ no thanks." The kid who snatched Archie's lunch handed Archie the paper bag to Archie and put Archie's plum candy in his mouth with a smug face.

When Archie reached for the paper bag, the child threw it back on the ground.

Archie had to bend down again to pick up his lunch, and walked briskly to a no-man's corner in the last row of the school bus and sat down.

At this point, the car started moving.

What has happened so far is what Archie has to go through every morning; In fact, today is not the most miserable, if you catch up with a bully in the same car who is in a bad mood, the other party will deliberately sit next to him, grabbing his hair, pushing his head, twisting his arm, etc.

How did it come to this? It all started a year ago.

Archie's name is Fang Xiangqi, and judging from his appearance and his usual performance, he is a very ordinary Asian elementary school student.

A year ago, he transferred to a public school in Kitchener.

His "parents" have rarely shown up since they enrolled him, citing "busy work"; Fortunately, the teachers at the school did not have much enthusiasm to interview his parents, and most of the time they only communicated with the parents through the school's official online communication tools, and this "communication" was required by the school, otherwise they would not have bothered to talk nonsense.

In the eyes of the teachers, Archie is a very annoying student; His grades are mediocre, his family doesn't have much money, and he never gives gifts to teachers during the New Year's holidays...... Of course, the vast majority of students are the same on these points.

In the hierarchical federation, this kind of public school that serves the bottom working class is naturally at the bottom of the supporting resources - the principal who only thinks about how to make more oil and water before retirement, but at the same time wants to protect himself; In addition to harassing female teachers and single mothers, the head of education who is always trying to kill the principal is crooked; I always feel that I am condescending to my position, but in fact I don't have any talent, and the level is very bad and I don't care about the students, teachers, etc.

It is foreseeable what will happen if a group of bear children from various troubled families who lack correct guidance are thrown into the hands of these people.

In addition to these "software" of teachers, the "hardware" of the school is also worrisome......

In public primary and secondary schools in non-poverty-stricken areas like this, there is almost zero funding from the outside world.

Whether it is buying a research project or cultivating a talent reserve for yourself, commercial sponsorship will generally look for institutions of higher learning; Those who donate money for the sake of "fame" are more inclined to donate to primary and secondary schools in poor areas.

As a result, the primary school where Archie attends is funded almost entirely by government grants.

The taxpayers' money is sent, but when it comes to "how to spend it", it is decided by a small number of people; What kind of person is the principal, I already said...... The hardware he got ranged from desks to blackboards, from school buses to school buildings, from decoration building materials to teaching supplies...... It's hard to put into words.

In short, Archie attends a school that sucks.

This "badness" is also one of the triggers for his current situation.

The reason why Archie annoys the teacher is that on the basis of the above points, he always "causes trouble".

So...... What does it mean to "get into trouble"?

It's very simple, for example, two children are fighting on the playground, and the fight is bloody, is it troublesome? Of course, the teacher has to deal with the trouble, and maybe the teacher will be scolded and deducted from his salary because of this.

For example, if someone is playing a prank on the toilet and getting filth everywhere, is it troublesome? It's also troublesome, the teachers still have to show up, and the school cleaners will ask for extra money when cleaning up this extra mess.

There are many things like that: Archie "falls" in the cafeteria again, soiling the floor; Archie's desk was thrown from upstairs, and a set of public property was reimbursed; Archie appeared in the hallway with a bucket of paint on his head, covered in paint......

Do the teachers sympathize with him? A little, but more disgust; Rather than what happens to others, what concerns them is what they focus on.

For example, A jumped off the building and died in front of B, and B was more concerned about being splashed with blood than feeling sorry for A, which was too unlucky.

Don't feel that this is indifference, this ...... It's human nature.

The teachers' feelings about Archie are roughly like this, whenever Archie "gets into trouble", even if it is for show, they have to ask who beat him and bullied him, but many times the person concerned will not admit it, and no witness is willing to stand up for Archie, so in most cases, there is no one to punish and blame.

Over time, the teachers came up with a set of solutions to Archie's affairs.

First of all, fighting, it's easier to catch the current situation, no matter who "fights" with Archie, punish two people to stay together, anyway, it's useless to ask them the cause, what is the reason for the fight? Adult's disputes may not be clear.

Secondly, for the matter of "falling" in the cafeteria, since the "prisoner" cannot be caught every time, then simply punish Archie to clean the floor by himself, so that the cleaner will not always complain; The logic of the teachers was that if he really didn't want to clean the floor, he would be "more attentive" when he walked.

There are other pranks that cause damage, and they are dealt with in a similar way; They've figured it out...... If Archie's parents come to question, they will respond with "children fight with each other, and both parties are responsible", anyway, Archie is just a child, if he really wants to argue, can he still talk about adults? Even if the PTA deals with the problem, doesn't it depend on which parent makes the most trouble during the meeting?

In this way, after a year, Archie has gradually changed from a "transfer student who is occasionally bullied" to a "punching bag for the whole school".

The child who still has good thoughts avoids him, for fear of getting involved with him or becoming the same existence as him; The other children see him as a casual object to vent their anger, sometimes teasing him for fun, because they feel that "it's Archie anyway" and "teasing Archie is a matter of course and there are no consequences" has become a tacit consensus.

And all kinds of ...... Although it would be a little puzzling to Archie, he never had a seizure.

It's not that he likes to be submissive or doesn't have the ability to resist, it's just that he has his own ideas.

He wanted to think of this experience as a kind of "training", a kind of training to exercise his will and heart.

Archie believes that adapting to life in this environment is one of the necessary conditions for survival in the treacherous "human world"; Only by learning patience can he safely blend in with the crowd and no longer have to worry that "the beast inside him" will break free from suppression due to mood swings.

And today, Friday on the 13th, is the most critical day of his "training".

For Archie and their "clan", every time they are "born with a vision", the latent power in their body will usher in an active period, if he can survive tonight's blood moon (i.e., total lunar eclipse) and "do not change", then this year's experience is not in vain.

With this in mind, Archie is in a pretty good mood today, even though he is still beaten, pushed, and abused in school...... He didn't really care.

Because it was a Friday, there were no classes in public elementary schools like theirs in the afternoon, so at noon, Archie got on the school bus and prepared to "go home".

said that it is a "home", but in fact it is an "empty shell"; The apartment where Archie lives is empty, not to mention the furniture, there are no basic living utensils, and even the water, electricity and gas have long been cut off, because ...... He doesn't need it at all.

Archie doesn't need a light, he can see in the abyss-level darkness himself.

Archie also does not need food or water, and although he can eat and drink human food, he does not derive much energy from it or feel full.

As for the parents...... The two people who show up at the school are actually "conjured" by Archie using spells; Although he wasn't very good at spells, it was no problem to use the trick for a short period of time.

However, there is one thing that Archie still needs, he has to "sleep"; In human form, he needs to "rest" more or less, and compared to "eating", he can get more energy in the form of cross-legged meditation, which does not have to be very long, and one hour of meditation will keep him energetic for the next twenty hours.

Therefore, what Archie does when he returns to his residence is generally to do his homework and meditate cross-legged; On those days when the school cafeteria does not provide lunch (such as school activities or half-day classes on Fridays), he will also go out to buy some food (the money is also changed by him, and it will disappear after a while, because he always goes to the big shopping mall to buy things, and he buys very little, so the little money will not attract much attention when settling), and take it to the school as a "lunch" to eat for others to see.

Today, on the school bus, Archie was already thinking about ...... As soon as he got home, he meditated, and after surviving tonight, he was considered to have completed the "entry".

In the next stage, he plans to change his "way" of dealing with others, trying to conflict with others in human form without changing his body.

Squeak –

As he was thinking this, the sound of sudden braking suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

It stands to reason that in terms of the technology of this era, it is difficult for the school bus, which should be the most reliable means of transportation, to roll over, but ...... "buying a school bus" is a big deal, and the bigger the transaction, the more oil and water can be squeezed out; Mr. Principal has obviously made a lot of money on the school bus, so this is ...... There was something wrong with the car's suspension.

In addition to the suspension, some of the seats inside the bus were out of order.

Eat rebate business, 99% of the phenomenon of shoddy, should be the use of one-piece light material seats, in order to save costs, can only be replaced by heavy cheap metal materials, anyway, as long as the outside of a layer of gum layer, the average person can not see the difference.

However, due to the specification of the material, the screws and parts at the seat joint cannot be tightly fitted, and some bears shake on weekdays, when the car rolls over, several seats are directly separated from the original position and fall out.

One of them, so immortal...... Slammed into Archie's head.

When the human form of the body is seriously or even fatally injured, Archie has no way to suppress the "poor Qi" in the body.

So, in this afternoon, Qiqi, who hadn't "eaten well" for a year, not only had a full meal, but also did a lot of exercise.

…………

3:40 p.m., North America, Lake Huron.

Qiqi roared through the air, and above the lake, the waves followed.

Its injuries weren't too serious, but it knew it couldn't stop moving, because the Federation's satellites were definitely still tracking its signal at the moment, and the "giant" could catch up at any time.

That's when ......

"Huh?" Qiqi was surprised to find that his body had changed.

It was still flying one second ago, but a second later it suddenly changed into a human form that couldn't even change back into itself, and ...... Begin to fall.

He just fell into the lake in mid-air, and the moment his head touched the surface of the lake, he lost consciousness.

When he woke up, he found himself lying on the edge of the lake.

I don't know who put him here, and left a bulging backpack beside him; Judging from the self-healing of his left eye and the injuries on his body, he speculated that he was only in a coma for about ten minutes at most.

After a slight sigh of relief, Archie looked around and saw no one or anything else unusual.

So, he opened the backpack......

The backpack contained a set of clean, child-friendly clothes and some medical supplies to help him cover up his wounds.

In addition, there is a written note, and a black card.

On one side of the card is a white reverse cross, and on the other side is a number "9".

The note read: "Hello, my name is Zilin, it was my companion who saved you just now, whether you are grateful or not, I will say you are welcome here." I know you're thinking right now, I've never known you all my life, so why should I help you? Did I cheat you? So I would like to state that your transformation has nothing to do with me, the person who hit the school bus is called Yan Wuxian, nicknamed 'Postman', and wants to seek revenge on you to find him. By the way, the giant you fought before could only fight for a minute, but if you hold on a little longer, he will disappear on his own, so you don't have to worry about him chasing him. But now...... I still advise you to leave quickly, although the satellites cannot locate you after the body is shrunk: put the card away, it will be useful in the future. ”