Become a Knight Across the World

Chapter 343

Time flies by, and the second semester of my junior year of high school slipped away quickly amidst intense studies and occasional ups and downs.

The tense atmosphere of final exams once again enveloped the campus. For Lin Yue, this exam seemed to hold an additional layer of significance.

After all, she'll be a senior in high school after this summer vacation.

Therefore, she devoted more time to her studies than ever before, and even proactively reduced the time she spent reading novels in coffee shops, burying herself in her studies at home more often.

After the final exams, the results were announced. Lin Yue ranked 18th in her class and 55th in the grade. Not only did she maintain a solid position within the top 25, but her ranking even improved!

The moment Lin Yue saw the report card, she breathed a barely perceptible sigh of relief, and the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.

Li Yuetian remained the top student in his class and the top student in the grade. He seemed to sense Lin Yue's gaze, turned around, met her eyes, paused for a moment, then seemed to remember something, a very unnatural blush quickly flashed across his face, and his eyes flickered and looked away.

Lin Yue thought to herself, "This is inexplicable."

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With the arrival of summer vacation, Z City soon ushered in the sweltering heat of midsummer.

This summer vacation, Yunyi and Jiang Feifei often went to the library to do their homework and to the newly opened amusement park, where they would spend an entire afternoon together.

Yun Yi mentioned Jiang Feifei to Lin Yue much more often, and each time he would deliberately pretend to be nonchalant, but Lin Yue couldn't hide his little thoughts from him.

That's fine, Lin Yue is happy to have some peace and quiet.

In mid-July, Z City experienced its hottest period of the year, with cicadas chirping desperately in the trees, making the air seem to be on fire.

That evening, Lin Yue had just finished shopping at the supermarket, carrying a bag of chilled drinks and groceries, when her phone suddenly started vibrating urgently.

It was an unfamiliar local number. She frowned slightly and answered the phone.

"Excuse me, is this Lin Yue?" A somewhat familiar female voice, tinged with panic and tears, came from the other end of the phone.

"I am. Who are you?"

"I...I'm Su Xiaowen! I'm...I'm the one who took pictures with you on the last spring outing..." The girl's voice trembled. "Oh no! Yunyi...Yunyi got into a fight! It's...it's over at the old basketball court in the west of the city! There are so many of them, and they're carrying weapons! I...I'm scared..."

Lin Yue's eyes instantly turned cold.

The old basketball court in the west of the city?

Several possibilities flashed through her mind instantly. Although Yun Yi had a fiery temper, he wasn't the type to deliberately cause trouble; he had most likely encountered some kind of trouble.

"Please specify the exact location, how many people are on the other side, and the situation." Lin Yue's voice was calm and even, but her pace quickened as she turned into the nearest alley.

"It was right there, at the open-air basketball court next to that abandoned factory in the west of the city! We were playing basketball there with Feifei, but then a few people came and insisted on taking over the court. They were saying really nasty things, and... they even touched Feifei inappropriately... Yunyi argued with them, and then a fight broke out! There were five or six of them, and they seemed to have been drinking. They were carrying sticks and bricks... Yunyi was all alone... Waaah..." Su Xiaowen was incoherent, clearly terrified.

"Okay. I'll be right there. Find a safe place to hide and call the police." Lin Yue said, then hung up the phone.

She glanced at the shopping bag in her hand, placed it next to a clean trash can by the roadside, intending to come back for it later, and then disappeared into the depths of a deserted alley.

After confirming that no one was around, a fierce glint flashed in Lin Yue's eyes. Activating the dimensional barrier ability required precise coordinates and mental positioning. Although she knew the general location of the old basketball court in the west of the city, it wasn't precise enough.

However, this did not stump her.

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An open-air basketball court next to an abandoned factory in the west of the city.

This place was originally a recreational area for workers from nearby factories. As the factories closed down, it gradually fell into disrepair, with cracked ground and rusted basketball hoops. Usually, only some idle teenagers or unemployed people would come here.

At this moment, the atmosphere on the basketball court was tense.

Yun Yi shielded Jiang Feifei and Su Xiaowen behind him. His face was already bruised, his mouth was cracked and bleeding, and there was a bruise on his forehead. His T-shirt was torn and covered in dust.

His eyes were fierce as he stared intently at the five or six people opposite him.

The other party looked like a typical street thug, all of them were young, around teens, wearing vests or shirtless, revealing either thin or chubby bodies.

They were all drunk, their faces full of hostility, carrying wooden sticks and half-bricks they had picked up from the side, and one of them even had a rusty bicycle chain lock.

The leader was a skinny, short man with dyed yellow hair. He pointed at Yun Yi with a wooden stick, spitting as he shouted, "You little brat! You think you can fight? You dare to touch me? If I don't cripple your leg today, I'll change my surname to yours!"

A blond thug next to him leered at Jiang Feifei, who was being protected behind Yun Yi and looked pale with fright: "Brother Sun, why waste words with this senior! Let's take this senior away and have some fun! Her looks, tsk tsk..."

"How dare you!" Yun Yi roared, his fists clenched so tightly they cracked. He had just used all his strength to take down two of the opponents, but there were more of them. Although they all looked younger than him, they were ruthless. He was, after all, just one person, and his stamina was greatly depleted. He had also taken several blows and was now at his limit.

"I've already called the police! They'll be here soon!" Jiang Feifei's voice trembled slightly, but she forced herself to remain calm and loudly rebuked the group of ill-intentioned people in front of her.

"Call the police?" Yellow Hair seemed to have heard something extremely ridiculous. He exaggeratedly picked at his ear and exchanged a mocking look with his companions behind him. "Oh my, I'm so scared!" He deliberately put on a high-pitched voice, which made his accomplices burst into laughter.

Suddenly, the laughter stopped abruptly, and the blond-haired boy's face turned cold: "Big sister, who are you trying to scare? These are just kids who haven't even grown their hair yet fighting. If the police come, they'll just give them a scolding! Besides—"

He drawled, pointing his thumb backwards at his nose, "I'm only fifteen this year! Understand? By the time those cops leisurely stroll over, we'll be done and out the door! What can you do about it?"

The thugs behind him joined in the jeering, yelling, "That's right! Invincible!"

"Come on, tell them what will happen?" Yellow Hair turned his head smugly.

"No~ punishment~!" the boys shouted in unison, drawing out the words as if they were reciting some kind of medal of honor, before bursting into an even more unrestrained burst of laughter.

"Damn it!" Yun Yi trembled with rage, his blood rushing to his head, and his vision blurred. It wasn't just anger; there was also a profound sense of powerlessness.

He was disgusted by the other party's shamelessness and legal ignorance, but what worried him even more was the safety of Jiang Feifei and Su Xiaowen.

He regretted coming to such a remote place to play ball today, and he regretted even more not inviting more friends.

"See if I dare!" Yellow Hair lost his last bit of patience, a flash of ferocity crossing his face. He suddenly waved his hand, "Brothers, stop dawdling! Attack together! Beat them to death! Drag the women away!"

The remaining three thugs who were still standing, along with the two who had just gotten up, made up a total of five people. They let out strange noises, brandished sticks and bricks, and rushed forward again like hyenas that had smelled blood!

This time, they clearly intend to eliminate Yun Yi completely.

Yun Yi's pupils contracted, he gritted his teeth, and squeezed out the last bit of strength in his body, ready to protect the person behind him even at the cost of his life.

At this critical moment——

"boom!"

A dull, heart-stopping sound of flesh colliding suddenly rang out!

The thug with the pot-lid hair who was charging at the front and holding half a brick was hit head-on as if by an invisible battering ram. His feet left the ground instantly, and his body flew backward in an unnatural arc!

“Bang—!!!”

His back slammed hard against the rusty basketball hoop pillar three or four meters away, producing a sickening metallic clang. The entire basketball hoop shook violently, and a lot of rust fell off.

Before he could even let out a proper scream, the man with the pot lid slid down the pillar like a lump of mud and fell unconscious. The brick in his hand fell to the ground with a thud.

This sudden and completely incomprehensible scene caused all the thugs rushing forward, including Yun Yi who was about to fight to the death, to stop abruptly as if a pause button had been pressed.

Time seems to have frozen.

All eyes, filled with shock, bewilderment, and disbelief, were turned in unison to the direction from which the bowl cut had flown, before suddenly shifting to the person who had suddenly appeared in the arena.

A figure appeared silently between Yun Yi and the group of thugs, as if she had been there all along.

The person who arrived was wearing a simple white cotton T-shirt and slim-fit leather pants, which accentuated their tall and well-proportioned figure.

Her long, jet-black hair was tied into a neat ponytail at the back of her head, revealing her smooth forehead and slender neck. Her face was delicate and her skin was fair, as if it were gilded with a faint golden edge in the afterglow of the setting sun.

It's Lin Yue!

She didn't even look at the dumbfounded thugs. First, she turned her head slightly, her cold gaze quickly sweeping over Yun Yi's bruised face and disheveled figure, then glanced at Jiang Feifei and Su Xiaowen behind him, who were still in shock and had red eyes.

"Are you okay?"

"Sister Lin, Sister Lin Yue!" When Yun Yi saw Lin Yue, his tense nerves suddenly relaxed like an overstretched rubber band, and a huge sense of security surged into his heart, almost causing his legs to buckle and he to collapse to the ground. But he immediately became anxious again, enduring the pain in his body, and shouted, "Why are you here?! Quick! Take Fei Fei and Xiao Wen away! There are many of them, and they are carrying things! Don't worry about me!"

Jiang Feifei and Su Xiaowen, as if grasping at a lifeline, cried out in tearful voices, "Senior!"

Lin Yue ignored Yun Yi's words telling her to leave, and didn't even look back at them. Her gaze, like two sharp blades soaked in icy water, slowly turned to the group of thugs who were frozen in place, and finally settled on the face of the boy with dyed yellow hair.

"Who was it that said they wanted to cripple his leg?"