Kill fox—seeing that the boss had suddenly and proactively sent out a new message, Cold Star Liang slammed his hand on the desk and stood up abruptly.
This startled many students who were still attending class, and the Teacher was so shocked that he accidentally slipped, sending a piece of chalk flying straight at Cold Star Liang’s forehead.
However, the chalk did not hit Cold Star Liang’s forehead; the boy had already caught it in his hand and crushed it instantly.
Soon after, he realized what had happened and a faint look of embarrassment crossed his face.
He apologized repeatedly to the Teacher, who was staring at him wide-eyed and fearful. “Sorry, sorry, Teacher, I suddenly received a message that’s very important to me, and I got a bit too excited. I wasn’t careful…”
The Teacher’s mouth twitched involuntarily.
Cold Star Liang’s academic performance was famously excellent, and his attitude towards both classmates and teachers was humble and polite—completely the opposite of Le Zhengchu from Class 1.
But even such an outstanding student wasn’t without his flaws.
Cold Star Liang was far too straightforward, to the point of bluntness, always honestly expressing his thoughts and feelings, no matter the situation.
The Teacher remembered not long ago, right after the semester began, when a certain instructor made a minor numerical error on the board.
It was nothing serious and didn’t affect the lesson overall, but Cold Star Liang, completely unafraid of offending the teacher, pointed out the mistake without hesitation.
The teacher was so embarrassed they wished the ground would swallow them whole, and even some students couldn’t help but laugh at the teacher.
After that day, that particular teacher deliberately chose to teach other classes, refusing to ever come near Cold Star Liang’s again.
Cold Star Liang’s “honesty” had become something everyone dreaded encountering.
Once, a girl had an unfortunate accident during her monthly period and stained her skirt.
When Cold Star Liang saw it, he didn’t hesitate to point it out openly in front of everyone.
The girl spiraled into despair for a long time and even got bullied by other girls.
Yet Cold Star Liang was the first to notice, the first to step up, and he publicly called out the bullies by name and reprimanded them.
That caused those girls to immediately feel a shared sense of shame with the victim, and perhaps because Cold Star Liang’s method was so direct and uncompromising, none of those girls dared to continue bullying anyone.
Because of these incidents, everyone knew Cold Star Liang was not someone to be messed with—especially since he didn’t care about others’ opinions and did whatever he saw fit without compromise.
Everyone waited eagerly to see the chaos Cold Star Liang would cause when he targeted someone, but they also secretly hoped they themselves wouldn’t become his target.
Of course, the people Cold Star Liang was focusing on this time were not them.
His target was the boss of the strongest kill fox organization—Zero.
Zero was notoriously elusive, like a mythical dragon rarely seen.
Besides information about his name online, no one could uncover his true identity, even after deploying the entire kill fox organization to investigate.
He was like an ancient ghost in the network—no one could find him, and no one knew if he even really existed.
Many of the missions Zero assigned were things Cold Star Liang found ridiculous.
Some were completely nonsensical, like searching for a missing child in a regular family.
That was a trivial matter that the police or detectives should handle.
Their organization wasn’t supposed to waste time on such petty tasks.
Yet somehow, people still accepted those jobs, and often for free.
Cold Star Liang sometimes felt these tasks demeaned the organization.
He hadn’t joined kill fox to deal with trivial matters; his original goal was to challenge Zero himself.
But he failed.
Zero completely ignored his existence and didn’t treat him as anything important.
Apart from issuing missions, accepting members, leveling up members, and distributing rewards—basic routine tasks—Zero hadn’t been active since last year.
Zero seemed to be preparing to quietly withdraw.
Even the missions he personally took on were tasks that most kill fox members couldn’t complete.
As Number Twenty, Cold Star Liang wanted to confront Zero directly and ask what exactly he was thinking.
But without accepting a mission, he had no chance to communicate with Zero directly.
Even if he accepted a mission, there was no guarantee of direct contact; only after completing a task could there be brief communication regarding the reward.
Zero hadn’t released a mission voluntarily in a long time.
The kill fox organization was already capable of automatically issuing tasks and rewards.
Even major tasks were delegated to the managers rather than contacting their boss directly.
Now that Zero personally posted a task—and it was another inexplicable search mission—Cold Star Liang felt that if he mobilized his network, he could quickly find the target Zero had assigned.
This time, he was determined to point out Zero’s mistakes in front of everyone, to make him seriously reconsider those childish and boring missions.
If possible, he wanted all the missions that might damage kill fox’s reputation—those that made them look like a third-rate mercenary or detective group—removed from their task list altogether!
At this moment, Chang Fei, who was preparing to observe Le Zhengchu at school and uncover whatever secrets he was hiding, sneezed loudly.
He rubbed his nose, looked back with a dazed expression, and said, “Hmm… is someone cursing at me?”