"Hey! Look at who is here."

As soon as Archie stepped onto the school bus with one foot, Justin, who was sitting by the window in the middle, stood up from his seat and shouted loudly.

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

When Archie walked up, the children in the car started to cheer.

Whether it was Beache's senior, the same grade, or even the lower grade, they all sneered at him.

Poof

After a few seconds, Archie, who had only walked forward a few steps, was tripped.

"Look at the road, loser~" the child who stretched his feet to look down at him, saying in a mocking tone.

Archie didn't say anything, but just got up silently and reached out to pick up the paper bag that fell from his hand.

However, the other child snatched the paper bag that fell on the ground first, opened it when he talked to himself, and raised it up and shouted: "Hey! Look, Archie's lunch only has two slices of dry bread and one plum candy! Hahahaha!"

As he finished speaking, there was another burst of laughter in the car.

While a shabby lunch is nothing funny, it's not the point.

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

Just like this, at this moment...

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

No one wants to end up like Archie...No one.

"Hey! Little kid, get up to the seat! I don't have time to waste time with you, and you guys, just give me some peace!"

A few seconds later, the driver's complaints came from the front.

As the only adult in the car, he did not react much to these things. He thought it was just a fight between children, and he did not pay attention to it or care.

Like most adults, he hates his work, and this level of annoyingness is often proportional to the low hourly wages and the intensity of labor...

In short, the driver was just to finish the bus as soon as possible and go to rest quickly. Other things were not his responsibility; as long as these little guys didn't cause any accidents in the car, the rest would be school problems.

The children calmed down a little amid the driver's shout.

"I'll give it back to you, loser~ no thanks." The child who snatched Archie's lunch handed the paper bag to Archie, while putting Archie's plum candy into his mouth with a proud face.

And when Archie reached out to pick up the paper bag, the child threw the paper bag back to the ground.

Archie had to bend down and pick up the lunch himself, and quickly walked to an uninhabited corner on the last row of the school bus.

At this time, the car started driving.

What happened so far is the daily life that Archie has to experience every morning; in fact, today is not the most miserable. If he catches a bully in the same car in a bad mood, the other party will deliberately sit next to him, grab his hair, push his head, twist his arms, etc. along the way.

How did things develop like this? It started a year ago.

Archie's name is Fang Xiangqi. Judging from his appearance or his daily performance, he is a very ordinary Asian elementary school student.

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

His "parents" rarely appear since they completed the admission procedures for him, because they were "busy in work". Fortunately, the teachers in the school did not have any enthusiasm to talk to his parents. Most of the time, they only communicated with their parents through the school's official online communication tools, and this kind of "communication" is required by the school, otherwise they would be too lazy to talk nonsense.

In the eyes of teachers, Aqi is a very annoying student; his grades are mediocre, his family has no money, and he never gives gifts to teachers during festivals... Of course, most students are the same in these articles.

In the federal federal with distinct hierarchical systems, the supporting resources of this kind of public school that serves the working class at the bottom are naturally the principals who are thinking about how to make more money before retirement every day, but also want to protect themselves; in addition to harassing female teachers and single mothers, they are always trying to kill the principals and leading the principals. They always feel that they have given up their talents in their posts, but in fact they have no talents, and teachers who are very poor and don’t care about students, etc.

What results will be predictable if a group of naughty children from various problem families lacking correct guidance into the hands of these people.

In addition to these "software" of teachers, the school's "hardware" is also worrying...

Public primary and secondary schools in non-defensive areas have almost zero funding from outside.

Whether buying research projects or cultivating talents for yourself, commercial sponsorships usually look for higher education institutions; while those who donate money for their "fame" tend to donate to primary and secondary schools in poor areas.

Therefore, the funding source of the primary school where Archie studied was almost all government funding.

The taxpayer’s money is sent, but it is decided by a small number of people when it comes to "how to spend it"; I have already said what kind of person the principal is just now... The hardware he got, from desks to blackboards, from school buses to school buildings, from decoration and building materials to teaching supplies... is hard to describe.

In short, the school Archie attended was awful.

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

The reason why Archie makes the teacher annoyed is that based on the above points, he always "came trouble".

So...what does it mean to "cause trouble"?

It's very simple. For example, if two children fight on the playground, they are all in trouble. Is it troublesome? Of course, the teacher has to deal with it. Maybe the teacher will be scolded and deducted salary.

For example, if someone makes pranks in the toilet and gets dirty everywhere, is it troublesome? It's also very troublesome, and the teacher still has to come forward. The school cleaners will ask for extra money when cleaning up this extra mess.

There are many things like this: Archie "falls" in the cafeteria again, dirtying the floor; Archie's desk was thrown off the upper floor, and a set of public property was reimbursed; Archie appeared in the corridor with a paint bucket on his head and covered in paint...

Do teachers sympathize with him? One thing is, but it is more disgusting; compared to what happens to others, what involves themselves is their focus.

For example, A jumped off the building and died in front of B. Compared to feeling sad for A, B cared more about him that he was inexplicably splattered with blood, which was so unlucky.

Don’t think that this is indifference, this... is human nature.

The teachers' feelings about Archie are roughly like this. Whenever Archie "caught trouble", even if he acted, they had to ask who beat him up and bullied him. However, many times the parties involved would not admit it, and no witnesses were willing to stand up and talk to Archie, so in most cases, they could not find anyone to punish or take the blame.

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

First of all, fighting is easier to catch the current situation. No matter who "fights" with Archie, he will punish the two of them to stay together. Anyway, asking them the cause is useless. What are the reasons for the little kids fighting? The adults may not be able to explain clearly.

Secondly, if you "fall" in the cafeteria, since you can't catch a "criminal" every time, you might as well punish Archie to clean the floor by himself, so that the cleaners will not always complain; the logic of the teachers is that if he really doesn't want to clean the floor, he will be "more careful" when walking.

There are other pranks that cause losses, and they deal with them in a similar way; they have already thought about it... If Archie's parents ask questions, they will respond with the response "both fights between children, both parties have the responsibility." Anyway, Archie is just a child. If you really want to argue, can he still talk about adults? Even if PTA deals with the problem, it is not enough to see which parent makes the most violent fuss during the meeting?

In this way, after a year, Archie gradually became a "punching bag for the whole school" from the beginning, which was "an occasional bullying transfer student".

Children who still have good intentions avoid him, for fear of being involved with him or becoming the same existence as him; other children regard him as the object of venting their anger at will, and sometimes they tease him simply for fun, because they think that "it's Archie anyway" and "tasting Archie is natural and there will be no consequences" has become a default consensus.

And all these things...although Archie felt a little puzzled, he never had any attacks.

He doesn't like to accept it or have no ability to resist, but he has his own ideas.

He wanted to regard this experience as a kind of "training", a kind of training to train his will and mind.

Archie believes that adapting to life in this environment is one of the necessary conditions for survival in the sinister "human world"; only by learning to endure can he integrate into the crowd with confidence and no longer have to worry that "the ferocious beast in his body" will break free from suppression due to emotional fluctuations.

And today, Friday the 13th, was the most critical day for his "training".

For Aqi and his "clan", every time they are "born strange phenomena", the hidden power in their bodies will usher in an active period. If he can survive tonight's blood moon (i.e., total lunar eclipse) and "not transformed", then this year's experience will not be in vain.

With this idea, Archie was in a pretty good mood today. Even though he was still beaten, pushed, and insulted in school... He didn't care much.

Because it was Friday, there were no classes in the afternoon for public primary schools like them, so at noon, Archie took the school bus and prepared to "go home".

It is actually a "home"; the apartment where Aqi lives is empty, let alone furniture, there are no basic living utensils, and even water, electricity, and gas have been cut off long ago because... he doesn't need it at all.

Archie doesn't need lights, he can see things in the darkness of the abyss level.

Archie doesn't need food or water. Although he can eat and drink human food, he cannot get any energy from it, nor can he feel full.

As for his parents... the two people who appeared at school were actually "changed" by Archie using spells; although he was not very good at spells, it would be fine to use tricks in a short period of time.

However, there is one thing Archie still needs, he has to "sleep"; in human form, he needs to "rest" more or less. Compared with "eating", he can get more energy by meditating cross-legged, but it doesn't take long. Meditation for an hour can keep him energetic for the next twenty hours.

Therefore, what Archie does when she returns to her residence is usually doing homework and meditating cross-legged; on days when the school canteen does not provide lunch (such as activities in the school or half a day of classes on Friday), he will go out to buy some food (the money is also changed by his slut, and it will disappear after a while because he always goes to large shopping malls to buy things, and he buys very little, so the less money at the settlement will not attract any attention), and takes it to the school as a "lunch" and eat it for others to see.

Today, when he was on the school bus, Aki was already thinking... he meditated as soon as he got home. After enduring tonight, he had completed the "entry".

In the next stage, he plans to change his "way" of dealing with people, and try to conflict with others without changing his mind in human form.

squeak

Just as he was thinking about this, a sudden brake sound suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

Logically speaking, with the technology of this era, it is difficult to overturn the school bus, which should be the most stable means of transportation, but... "buying a school bus" is a big deal. The bigger the transaction, the more oil and water it can be squeezed out; the principal obviously made a lot of money in the school bus, so... there are some problems with the suspension of the car.

In addition to suspension, some seats inside the school bus have also been in trouble.

99% of the deals that take rebates are inferior to the good. They should have used light-shaped seats with integrated light materials. In order to save costs, they can only use heavy cheap metal materials instead. Anyway, as long as a layer of colloid is wrapped outside, ordinary people can't see any difference.

However, due to the specifications of the materials, the screws and parts at the seat connection cannot be tightly fitted. In addition, some naughty children shake on weekdays, when the car overturns, several seats separate directly from the original position and fall out.

One of them was so desperate... that it hit Aqi in the head.

When the human body is seriously injured or even fatal, Aqi has no way to suppress the "Qiuanqi" in his body.

So, on this afternoon, Qiongqi, who had not had a good meal for a year, not only had a full meal, but also did a lot of exercise.

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3:40 pm, Lake Huron, North America.

Qiongqi whizzed through the sky, and waves followed closely above the lake.

Its injuries were not too serious, but it knew that it could not stop moving, because the federal satellites must still be tracking its signals at this moment, and the "giant" could catch up at any time.

Just then...

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

It was still flying the previous second, but after a second it suddenly became a human form that could not even change back to itself, and... began to fall.

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

When he woke up, he found himself lying by the lake.

I don’t know who put him here and left a bulging backpack next to him; judging from the self-healing of the injuries on his left eye and body, he speculated that he had only been in a coma for about ten minutes at most.

After a little breath, Archie looked around, and saw no one, and there was no other abnormality.

So he opened the backpack...

There is a clean set of clothes for children in the backpack, as well as some medical supplies, which can help him cover up his wounds that have not yet healed.

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

One side of the card is printed with a white counter-cross, and the other side is a number "9".
Chapter completed!