Rulu left the secret house in the cemetery forest and wandered aimlessly around the urban area of Blue Sea City. By now, Blue Sea City was not as heavily guarded as it had been recently. The number of soldiers patrolling the streets had been reduced by half, and the patrolling soldiers had become extremely lax. Rulu walked around the urban area of Blue Sea City for more than an hour without encountering a single soldier's inspection.

  "What should I do now? Should I really go assassinate Prince Su Wen?" Rulu pondered this question as he walked. Prince Su Wen was the enemy who had killed his mother and sister, and he couldn't wait to go to the Governor's mansion to kill him.

  But Rulu was also worried that he might not return. If he was injured, captured, or even killed, then only Nana would be left alone, and there would be no one to take care of her.

  Rulu was indecisive. Because he had just quarreled with C.C., he didn't want to go home for the time being, so he continued walking aimlessly in the city.

  Unconsciously, Rulu arrived at a place in the urban area of Blue Sea City where many tall, distinctive buildings stood. On a stone tablet in front of a nearby arched gate, the words "Blue Sea City Sanctuary Imperial Higher Academy" were engraved.

  "That's right, this school is where I used to..." Seeing this stone tablet, Rulu paused. He remembered that before Mayor Qiao ran into trouble, he had been attending this school.

  "This school was funded and built by the Sanctuary to cultivate talent for the Sanctuary. Many people who graduate from this school join the Sanctuary to serve it. This academy is also the most prestigious academy in Blue Sea City. The people studying here are either rich or noble, or they are Ultra-capable with special abilities.

  I used to study here to have a chance to return to the Sanctuary and take revenge on those who killed my family. Since Uncle Qiao got into trouble, I couldn't return here anymore. This path is no longer viable."

  Rulu gazed into the interior of the academy through the gate, lost in thought. Perhaps because of the recent unrest in Blue Sea City, the academy was on vacation, and the iron gates in the archway were open.

  "Since I have nothing to do, I might as well go in and take a look." With this thought, Rulu entered the academy through the open iron gates of the arched passageway. Inside the academy, there were some scattered young people. Rulu knew most of them were students of the academy.

  Rulu had studied at this academy for several years and didn't want to meet people he used to know. So he deliberately avoided crowded places, specifically choosing secluded, unpopulated areas to walk. Soon, he came to the forest on the back hill of the academy.

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  This forest was often frequented by delinquent youth from the academy who would fight and bully the weak, resulting in few people coming here usually. Rulu walked in this quiet, deserted forest, clearing his mind.

  "You monster, something like you is worthy of studying here? Get out of the way, hahaha." Suddenly, abusive laughter came from somewhere in the forest. Along with this voice, several more people's unbridled laughter echoed through the forest.

  "Looks like someone's causing trouble here. Wonder who's going to be unlucky this time?" Thinking this, Rulu flew to a large tree in the forest, then flew through the big trees, heading towards the source of the sound.

  After a while, Rulu arrived beside a clearing in the forest. Standing on a tree, Rulu looked at the clearing and saw about a dozen young men and women surrounding it. These young people had mocking smiles on their faces as they stared at a strange creature in the middle of the crowd.

  "Hmm, what is this..." Rulu looked closely at the strange creature and saw that it was an adolescent lion. Like a normal lion, this creature had four strong limbs and a long tail.

  Although this creature had the body of a lion, it had a human face—the face of a boy about fifteen or sixteen years old. In addition, on the back of this creature grew a pair of eagle-like yellowish-brown feathered wings. All in all, this creature was a monster with a lion's body, a human face, and wings on its back.

  "Hahaha, look at this monster. It has a human head, an animal's body, and bird-like feathers. It's so damn weird!" A tall, strong, chubby white man about twenty years old pointed at the monster and laughed loudly.

  "Hey, you monster, how were you born? You're not a hybrid of a human, a lion, and a bird, are you? Hahaha." A short, thin, fair-skinned boy went behind the monster, raised his leg, and kicked the monster's butt hard, then laughed uncontrollably.

  "I am called Sphinx, not a monster." The human face of the monster spoke. He was crouched on the ground like a lion, his whole body trembling, looking around at the surrounding people with fear-filled eyes.

  "His voice is so strange. It's neither human nor beast. It scares me." A plain-looking young woman looked at this lion-bodied, human-faced, winged monster with disgust and made a nauseating sound.

  "Don't be afraid, baby, I'm here." The tall, chubby white man pulled the woman into his arms, kissed her on the face, and then fiercely said to the monster called Sphinx: "Did you hear that, you monster? You scared my woman. Kneel down and apologize to her immediately."

  Sphinx, either out of fear or for some other reason, lay on the ground motionless, not speaking. The skinny boy came up to the chubby one and said, "Hey, Wang, this monster has four legs. If you want him to kneel, should he kneel on his front legs or his hind legs?"

  The chubby man said without thinking: "Who cares? Just kneel on all four legs."

  After saying this, the chubby man picked up a tree trunk about as thick as a bowl and two meters long from nearby. He walked up to Sphinx with a ferocious face and said: "You monster, how dare you come here to study. Let me tell you, this is a school for us humans, not a place for monsters like you. Get out of the school immediately, or I'll beat you to death. Do you hear me?!"

  Sphinx trembled. He raised his head, looking at the chubby man with terror, and stammered: "But I have nowhere else to go except here. People outside are afraid when they see me. As soon as I go out, I'll be held at gunpoint and arrested by soldiers. Only this academy can shelter me and give me food to eat."