12dz Chapter 110 : Chapter 110
Chapter 110 : Chapter 110
Chapter 110: Heard You Were Looking for Me
Early the next morning, Li Mu was jolted awake by a rapid pounding on the door.
Thinking something serious had happened, he sprang out of bed, rushed to the door, and yanked it open.
His cousin Chen Jiaqi stood there with her small face flushed red with anxiety.
“Cousin, something’s happened! Look!”
As she spoke, she thrust her phone in front of him.
Li Mu’s brows immediately knit together.
It was a livestream from the official account of a tabloid media outlet.
And the footage was from the front gate of Blackwater High School.
It was still early. The school had not even opened yet.
But a huge crowd of students had already gathered at the gate.
They were all dressed in matching white clothing.
Holding up massive white boards, they marched back and forth along the street.
Written on the boards were:
“Li Mu is jealous of talent and ability and tried to murder an SS-grade talent user!”
“Song Yan is severely injured and still unconscious!”
“Protect Yan-baby! Severely punish Li Mu!”
And as the marching crowd went back and forth, they shouted their slogans in unison:
“City champion, without honor or virtue!”
“A twisted heart! Gravely injured a prodigy!”
The thunderous chants startled passersby, making them turn their heads one after another.
And with everyone dressed in the same white clothing, the group gave off an especially strong sense of cohesion and pressure.
Because of the livestream, the protest quickly spread across the internet and stirred up a storm throughout the city.
There had not been many people at yesterday’s match.
So for a great many people, this really did seem like fresh news. It turned out the city’s number one spot had already been decided. And it was not that girl with the SS-grade talent.
It was Li Mu, who had apparently also seriously injured that SS-grade talent user.
That alone was already excellent material for spreading.
And these so-called true fans were not complete fools.
They were obviously demanding justice for Song Yan, yet they also knew to frame Li Mu as someone with a dark and twisted heart who had grown jealous of Song Yan’s dual SS-grade talents and had therefore deliberately beaten her nearly to death.
In one stroke, they had turned Li Mu into a loathsome figure.
But when Li Mu saw all this, he merely let out a scornful laugh.
Chen Jiaqi immediately punched him once.
“Cousin! You can still laugh at a time like this? They’re smearing you like this. What are you going to do?”
“Isn’t this ruining your good name?”
Chen Jiaqi was on the verge of tears.
Her cousin fought for his life in the Abyss, only to be treated like this after coming back up. The thought of it made her furious.
Li Mu tapped the furrow between her brows with a finger and smiled.
“Strange. Don’t you follow idols? Can’t you understand the anger of these devoted fans?”
Chen Jiaqi said speechlessly, “Understand my ass. These aren’t devoted fans. They’re clearly brain-dead idiots.”
“They gave everything to their idol, including their brains!”
Li Mu laughed.
“Haha. Well then, since they’re a bunch of brain-dead idiots, how about your cousin goes over there in a bit and beats them all up?”
He said it seriously, not as if he were joking in the slightest.
“Th-that wouldn’t be good, would it? In broad daylight?”
Chen Jiaqi did not doubt her cousin’s strength, but if he really dared do something like that in front of the media, he would definitely get arrested.
“What’s wrong with that? And after I beat them, I’m going to arrest them too!”
“Then I’m going to hold them accountable. Believe it or not.”
Li Mu smiled.
“Ah?” Chen Jiaqi was completely dumbfounded.
“You little brat, just wait and watch the news.”
With that, Li Mu smilingly pushed Chen Jiaqi outside and began getting dressed.
Li Mu truly was not afraid of any nonsense about the crowd being too large to punish.
For these people to make a fuss like this at a moment like this was practically asking to die.
If all they had done was accuse him of being twisted and injuring a prodigy, that would have been one thing.
But these people were so eager to make sure Song Yan knew they were standing up for her that they had written things like “Protect Yan-baby” on their boards.
That made things much more interesting.
At the same time, at Blackwater High School, the hour for morning classes arrived, and students began coming to school one after another.
The moment they saw that these marchers were cursing Li Mu, almost none of them went inside.
Instead, they all gathered in front of the school gate, staring coldly at that group.
Each time the marchers passed by the gate, the students of Blackwater High School would step forward on their own.
They looked very much like they were ready to kill someone the instant the other side dared bump into them while walking.
The protesters had only come to wait for Li Mu, so they had no intention of clashing with Blackwater High School’s students either.
As more and more obsessive fans joined the march, more and more students from Blackwater High School gathered as well.
By the time both groups were massed outside Blackwater High School, there were already several thousand students there.
The entire street was packed tight.
The spectacle was so intense that it looked like the eve of a gang war, every side drawn taut and ready to erupt.
People from the Law Enforcement Department also arrived to keep order on the scene, terrified that a fight might really break out.
And just like that, the matter kept growing larger and larger.
At the very front of the march, the one holding the sign that read “Protect Yan-baby” was the flat-headed, acne-scarred boy.
By now, he was already shouting himself hoarse, fists clenched tight.
His eyes were bloodshot. Clearly, he had not slept all night.
He had probably cried all night too...Now, seeing that it was already past ten and Li Mu still had not appeared, he suddenly raised an arm and shouted, “Hand Li Mu over!!”
“Make Li Mu get out here!!”
The students of Blackwater High School stood above them at the school gate.
A tall student looked down at him coldly and shouted, “Take a good look at your own pathetic face, you piece of shit!”
“And you think you’re worthy of demanding Li Mu come out?”
“You only dare bark like that because Li Mu isn’t here.”
“If Li Mu really showed up, you’d be the first bastard to piss yourself!”
Those words, aimed straight at the heart, instantly pierced the soul of a shut-in obsessive fan.
The flat-headed, acne-scarred boy roared, “What did you say?!”
The marching crowd immediately exploded as well.
A whole group pointed at that student and looked ready to start fighting.
And the Blackwater High School students behind him were not pushovers either. They surged forward as one, standing tall with their chests out, just waiting for the other side to make the first move.
“Li Mu! Coward! Get out here!”
“Li Mu! Coward! Get out here!”
The flat-headed, acne-scarred boy began shouting again, and the entire marching crowd took up the chant in perfect unison.
The three tabloid media outlets arranged by Zhao Yi immediately livestreamed the scene across the entire city.
The viewer counts in those livestream rooms were astonishing.
But no one noticed that while the protesters were chanting, out among the outer ring of onlookers surrounding the marching crowd, quite a few plainclothes officers were quietly dispersing the spectators.
They were separating the protesters from the people just there to watch.
Those plainclothes officers gradually formed a massive circle, completely replacing the onlooking crowd.
Then someone in the marching crowd suddenly shouted, “Li Mu is here!”
The entire scene went still.
Following the direction of the speaker’s finger, everyone looked over.
And sure enough— at some unknown moment, Li Mu had already appeared within the inner circle of the crowd.
He stood there in the open space, looking at them with a half-smile.
The people who had just been shouting for Li Mu to get out all fell silent at once.
The marching crowd looked at one another, each signaling desperately for someone else to be the first to speak.
But the scene had sunk into an eerie silence.
And the quieter it became, the less anyone dared to shout.
Li Mu let out a mocking laugh and slowly walked over to the steps before Blackwater High School’s gate.
Looking down arrogantly at the marching crowd below, he spoke coldly:
“You were looking for me?”