IT's not easy to be a man after travelling to the future(199-250)

C240: Leiting's Intentions?

Chapter 240: Leiting's Intentions?

Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr

"It shouldn't be. The Thunder King is in Closed Door Meditation right now, preparing to advance to ace operator — he should not have the spare time to bother with this sort of trivial thing," Xie Yi suddenly cut in to say.

News of the Thunder King's Closed Door Meditation to advance to ace operator was pretty much known throughout the whole First Men's Military Academy. Even they as new students had also heard a thing or two about it. After all, such a super talent emerging from the military academy — the news was worthy of being widely promoted.

A thought stirred in Ling Lan's mind at those words. She said hurriedly, "Wait, let me think. This may be an opportunity for us to develop."

Ling Lan's words made the group's eyes light up. They suppressed the excitement in their hearts, afraid that they would disturb Ling Lan's train of thought if they spoke up.

Mind you, the new cadet regiment seemed to be doing well right now, without being especially pressured by the other factions. But in reality, those factions were like a sword hanging above their heads — they were constantly under threat. Because they could not know when those factions would decide to make a move to apply pressure on them, to force them to have no choice but to join those factions in the end.

The students of the Central Scout Academy had always been a bunch of extremely talented students, hence they were all extremely prideful. They were unwilling to go against their personal wishes due to external pressure — this was why they had so quickly reached a consensus to establish the new cadet regiment.

Initially, the Central Scout Academy faction which Zhang Jing-an represented would have been a great haven for them. Unfortunately, the grade that Zhang Jing-an represented was the one who had been defeated by them back then in the grand armed melee. Thus, the new cadets did not want to let someone who had once fallen by their hands to lead them now. At the heart of it, they did not think much of Zhang Jing-an — this was also one of the reasons why Zhang Jing-an had failed to convince anyone to join his faction.

Of course, Ling Lan's existence was another reason why they were unwilling to join Zhang Jing-an's faction. If Ling Lan had not been around, many of them would have at least temporarily joined Zhang Jing-an's faction for security due to the pressure. However, Ling Lan had come to the First Men's Military Academy. In the new cadets' eyes, Ling Lan who had led them to victory in the grand armed melee, and who had successfully snatched the administrative rights of the spaceship, was undoubtedly much more worthy of their trust. This was also one of the reasons why the new cadet regiment was established so successfully.

"Jijyun, tell me, the other side being so open with their provocation, without even trying to hide which faction they came from ... is it really only to make an example out of us?" Ling Lan began to suspect the other's motives.

Typically, in order to achieve greater deterrent effect, one side would create a moral high ground for themselves, pushing the responsibility of instigating the conflict to their opponent. In the end, they would further prove their superiority with a one-sided victory — at that moment, riding on the wave of that success, they would find it much easier to attract some exceptional new cadets into their ranks ...

However, Leiting had acted in a rather impatient manner this time. They were obviously trying to incite the anger of the new cadets as quickly as they could — their methods crude and rough. Even if they won in the end, Leiting would still incur the bad reputation of picking on the weak and bullying the freshmen. This may end up making the other uninvolved new cadets grow worried, afraid that they would be bullied as well, and would instead negatively affect Leiting's efforts in recruitment. It just did not make sense no matter how Ling Lan thought about it.