Chapter Fifteen: Astonished Once Again

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“Do you really dislike Guo Qingyuan?” Qin Anyi asked curiously.

“I wouldn’t say I dislike him. I just don’t like him,” Wang Yiran replied offhandedly, lifting her hand to flag down a taxi. “My home isn’t far from the school…”

Suddenly, Wang Yiran turned to face Qin Anyi. Both of them were sitting in the backseat, so the distance between them was minimal. With this sudden movement, their faces were nearly touching. For a moment, Qin Anyi felt a little nervous.

“A lot of people like me, but my heart is small—I can’t fit them all in,” Wang Yiran said lightly.

The taxi drove for a little over twenty minutes and finally stopped outside a luxury villa district. Changqing City was a coastal metropolis, located on the eastern tip of the Shandong Peninsula, boasting a prosperous economy and superb environment. Ever since the market opened up, real estate prices had remained high. Especially for these seaside standalone villas before Qin Anyi’s eyes—none could be had for less than thirty million, and among them, the most extravagant could fetch a price of over a hundred million.

“Your family must be…”

Qin Anyi nodded, watching as Wang Yiran disappeared into a nearby changing room. Only then did he begin to take in his surroundings with curiosity.

“Master, this training room is extremely crude, and the equipment could only be described as antique. Still, for your current level, it will be very helpful,” Qilin’s voice sounded in his mind. The moment they entered the basement, Qilin had conducted a comprehensive analysis of the environment, streams of data flowing through Qin Anyi’s mind, parsing the unfamiliar surroundings and scanning for potential threats—one of Qilin’s core abilities.

“Crude? Antique?” Qin Anyi looked at the high-tech gadgets before him, utterly speechless. Qilin’s standards were clearly too high; sometimes, its judgment should be taken with a grain of salt…

He curiously entered a nearby room with a transparent door, the whole chamber about ten square meters in size. Aside from a red button in the corner, the four glass walls were pocked with countless tiny holes, making Qin Anyi’s cheeks tingle with unease.

After observing the room for half a minute and confirming that it held nothing else, Qin Anyi reached out and pressed the red button. Instantly, a beam of light focused through one of the wall’s tiny holes. At the same time, a stream of information appeared in his mind:

“Low-level laser energy: 3. Threat level: 0. If hit, you will feel a burning sensation. Will reach target in 0.5 seconds. Sidestep 152 centimeters to evade.”

Although his brain immediately supplied a recommended course of action, Qin Anyi didn’t dodge, letting the laser beam strike him. A tingling sensation, like a mild electric shock, made him shiver. Suddenly, a loudspeaker blared in the transparent room:

“Evade ability test. Final grade: Beginner, Level One. Score: 0.”

“So, this is for training reflexes. I wonder how high a score I can get with Qilin’s computational help,” Qin Anyi muttered, pressing the button once more.

Another beam focused, but this time from the wall to his left. According to the instant calculation in his brain, Qin Anyi easily dodged the laser.

Although the energy coalesced in the form of a beam, its speed was nowhere near that of a true laser…