Chapter 1571: Don't Bully a Youth for Having Small Eyes
Little Walnut was stepped on, his head crushed and ground down!
But his single walnut eye still stared fixedly at the one-eyed cutie, his eye socket bloodshot, his face full of grief!
"I treated you so well! Why are you doing this to me? I can get stronger, I can become better!"
"He has 10 parts good, only gives you 1! I have 10 parts good, I can give you everything!"
"And you secretly went to give him eye exercises? Why?"
The one-eyed cutie's gaze flickered, but as she looked at Shuka beside her, the reluctance in her eyes finally dissipated, replaced by disgust and disdain!
"Enough! Stop bothering me! You can give me everything? Hah~ But your everything is worthless in my eyes! Not even a fraction of his goodness!"
"Lord Shuka can give me Origin Energy to make my eyes bigger! Can you? I don't want to live the bitter life of carrying bricks with you every day!"
"We were really close when we were kids, but your eyes have never grown since you were little! And I'm already a Tangerine Level existence!"
"You and I were never from the same world. I'll eventually become an Orange Level existence! Don't delude yourself—I'm not something you can have!"
Having said everything in her heart, the one-eyed cutie looked relieved, nestling into Shuka's arms!
Little Walnut gritted his steel teeth, pounding the ground in frustration, his eyes full of disappointment!
"Is the size of eyes everything? Years of feelings mean nothing compared to a single glance from him?"
Shuka sneered: "That's right! It is everything! Get stronger? What a joke! You were born a waste!"
"And you want to get stronger? Even if you force Origin Spark into yourself until you die, your eyes won't be as big as my fist! Hahaha!"
Little Walnut's gaze turned sharp: "Thirty years on the east bank, thirty years on the west! Don't bully a youth for having small eyes!"
Shuka squinted: "So what if I bully you? A piece of trash like you—crushing you is like washing away the shame of the Pupil Race!"
"A worthless Tangerine Level! Even if you die a thousand times, nobody cares!"
With that, he moved to crush Little Walnut!
But the one-eyed cutie still felt a bit reluctant, so she said coquettishly, "Lord Shuka, don't dirty your foot~"
"It's still early—why don't I go back and give you a full set of eye exercises?"
Shuka's heart grew hot: "Hahaha! Let's go! Let me see if your technique has improved!"
He kicked Little Walnut in the face, sending him flying like trash, smashing through several brick walls, then put his arm around the big-eyed cutie and walked away arrogantly!
Little Walnut was covered in wounds. He finally activated his super regeneration, repairing the fractures and ensuring he had at least basic mobility.
Now kneeling on the ground, he looked at his fists, covered in blood, his nails digging into his flesh without him even realizing it.
His eyes were full of disappointment and unwillingness.
The nearby One-Eyed Species buzzed with chatter.
"Just him, trying to reach 3838? What a toad lusting after swan meat! How does he have the nerve with those small eyes?"
"He got lucky to live—that was a patrol squad member! Could kill him with one finger!"
The foreman looked at Little Walnut with impatience.
"You barely did any work, and you're causing me trouble instead! The wall you smashed—double it tomorrow! Get lost!"
Little Walnut stumbled out of the construction site, dejected, heading toward his shack.
Qian Benying was furious: (งᵒ̌皿ᵒ̌)ง "Pfft! That 3838 is really something! Treating Little Walnut so coldly!"
"By the way, what does that 'eye exercises' they mentioned mean?"
At this point, Qian Benying was puzzled, watching Little Walnut's experience as if she were following a TV drama.
Jiangnan covered his face: (ﾉ)´-﹏-`) "I... I'm pretty curious too. Let's follow and see."
The three followed Little Walnut all the way back to his shack.
The shack had no roof, just bare walls.
The wounded Little Walnut lay on a stone bed, staring at the starry sky, letting tears stream down his cheeks.
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At the same time, he activated energy absorption mode. Although the far side of the moon was in night, he could still absorb faint starlight.
"Bang!"
He punched the bed, turned over, and got up, his eyes full of determination.
"No! That won't do! I have to work even harder!"
He got up and went to the yard.
He tied a rope to his eyelashes, hanging a huge stone block from it, feeling like his eyelids were about to be torn off!
Jiangnan and the others gaped.
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What... what was he doing?
Little Walnut let out a roar.
(งꐦᵒ̌ꐦ)ง "Ah-ha!"
He opened his eyes instantly, and using only his eyelids, he lifted the huge stone block!
"Ah-ha! Ah-ha!"
With each shout, the stone block tied to his eyelashes went up and down with his blinking.
Qian Benying, just watching, shuddered.
(ŐдŐ๑) "Sss... doesn't that hurt? Lifting a stone block with his eyelids? What a trick!"
"Is he trying to make his eyes bigger?"
Jiangnan looked amazed. This guy was something of a talent, wasn't he?
But are you sure that's going to make your eyes bigger? And not just give you swollen eyelids?
After practicing for a while, Little Walnut rubbed his sore, swollen eyes.
Then he hurried to a stone pot filled with black gravel.
His eyes resolute, he opened his eye membrane, revealing his single eye's true form.
He planted his stance, roared, and plunged his head into the pot, smashing his eye against the gravel repeatedly.
"Ah-hey! Ah-hey!"
His single eye was ground by the black gravel. It hurt so much that tears streamed down, his eye bloodshot.
But he didn't stop, repeatedly thrusting his eye into the pot.
Jiangnan almost spat blood.
(•'口'•۶)۶ "I've heard of Iron Palm, but never Iron Eye, dammit!"
"Not every body part can be trained like that!"
Jiangnan was stunned by Little Walnut's actions, but it was far from over.
After training his Iron Eye, Little Walnut started practicing visual lock-on, long-distance tracking, and other abilities.
He even used his single eye to do handstands, balancing on it!
Can this really work? If he keeps this up, he'll definitely go blind, right?
Jiangnan finally realized why Little Walnut hadn't used super regeneration to heal all his injuries—he was saving energy for training, wasn't he?
Qian Benying nudged Jiangnan with her elbow.
(′◔～◔`) "Hey hey~ Let's pick Little Walnut! He's so hardworking! He just needs an opportunity!"
Jiangnan still shook his head. "We have to be careful. This would require him to betray his own race."
"Little Walnut is indeed hardworking and has perseverance, but people like that have strong principles and beliefs. They're not easy to control."
"If he turns on us later and sells us out, it could directly affect the outcome of the counterattack."
"The future of humanity is in our hands right now. No amount of caution is too much."
Qian Benying had to nod: (´ﾟ～ﾟ) "Alright, I'll follow your lead."
Then Little Walnut finished training, exhausted. His single eye was red and swollen, tears streaming.
He hurriedly got a stone ruler to measure his eye, marking the diameter.
He looked at the mark expectantly.
But the mark was the same as before. He didn't know how many times he'd measured it, and it never changed.
Little Walnut snapped. He crushed the ruler, kicked the stone block to pieces.
He punched his own eye, making tears and blood flow.
"Why! Why is this! I've put in so much effort, and still there's no change!"
"Why are some people born to be glorious! Why does innate nature decide everything! The future should be in my own hands!"
"I can work harder than anyone! But it's all useless! All for nothing!"
Little Walnut fell to his knees, his bloodshot eye looking at the starry sky.
"Grandpa! I don't understand! I can't imagine the beautiful homeland, the mother planet you described to me!"
"Eyes shouldn't be used to decide everything! The Pupil Race shouldn't be like this! Waa—"
Little Walnut cried weakly, curling up in the yard.
Jiangnan glanced briefly, reached into the alternate dimension, rummaged around, then took something out and buried it under the gravel in the stone pot.
"Let's go, let's go. Half the time's up. There's still other information to gather."
Qian Benying curiously leaned in.
(๑◔◡◔ิ) "Hey~ You picked him, didn't you? You don't say it, but your body's honest! What did you hide in there?"
Jiangnan rolled his eyes: "I'm not telling you! Guess yourself!"
"Oh, come on—just tell me!"
"No, no!"
...
Jiangnan and the others continued their field reconnaissance.
Meanwhile, Zhang San had almost finished wandering through the entire City of Pupils.
He had a notebook in hand, a pen in his mouth.
The city map in the notebook was mostly drawn.
Now Gong Qi and Wu Zang were following behind Zhang San, their heads still buzzing.
Earlier, they'd followed Zhang San into the most heavily guarded warehouse in the city!
They even took photos! It was lawless!
The two felt like they'd seen a whole new world.
And now, the three of them had wandered into a very lively block.
It was the busiest place in the entire City of Pupils.
The streets were crowded, with all kinds of stone signs on both sides, written in Beimian Common Language.
The signs had all sorts of things on them.
"Dazzling Eyes Flagship Store!"
"Eye Disease Cure! Hands Fast! Quick-Eyed Wonder House!"
"Starlight Pupils Centennial Shop! Just to Meet You!"
"Big-Eyed Cutie Happiness House! New Techniques, Best Experience! Boss Super Pretty! Regret Not Coming!"
On the street, several one-eyed species girls blinked their eyes charmingly, laughing as they pulled Tangerine Level one-eyed species into the houses.
At that moment, Zhang San and the others stood with their mouths wide open, frozen in place.
(‧̣̥̇꒪ᗜ꒪)(‧̣̥̇◞Ŏ◊Ŏ)(っ°Д°;)っ
No way? The City of Pupils had places like this?
The three exchanged glances.
Zhang San: (•̆～•̆) "Go?"
Gong Qi: (◞•̀～•́)و "Go!"
Wu Zang: (#･ˇ～ˇ･) "Go!"
Sometimes, just one word is enough.
The three of them stepped straight into the Big-Eyed Cutie Happiness House. It was purely for gathering mission intel—no other purpose.
But Zhang San and the others had no idea that this step would open up a whole new world for them.