The second day of September.
The morning breeze carries the fresh scent of grass and dew.
Outside the campus of West State City, one can hear the distant sound of military training.
"Attention—"
"One-two-one!"
"One-two-one!"
Bai Mo rides a small electric scooter, enjoying the cool headwind and the fresh scent of plants, feeling free and happy.
"Hehehe."
What is freedom and happiness?
Other students are dressed in thick military uniforms and rubber shoes, shouting "one-two-one" during military training, while he is wearing newly bought thin jeans and a short-sleeve shirt, riding his little scooter — that's freedom and happiness!
On the back seat of the scooter.
The fox apprentice, Star Ear, sits steadily, with its front paws grabbing its master's clothes, eyes wide open, sotis gazing at the blue sky, sotis at the asphalt road. It has been a long ti since it last ca to the mortal world, and now its large bushy tail wags with joy, its sparkling big eyes filled with happiness as well!
Suddenly, a traffic policeman whistles at Bai Mo by the roadside.
Wooo—
Bai Mo quickly slows down, rides the scooter over.
"Officer, what's up?"
The policeman looks puzzled, glancing behind Bai Mo. Just now, he saw a fiery red big tail wagging behind Bai Mo's scooter! Now, as he looks closely, he sees a round, chubby fox wearing a round helt, wagging its big tail, hugging Bai Mo's waist, and looking over at him.
"Um... this..."
Bai Mo furrows his brows.
"Is there a problem?
"Isn't the scooter allowed to carry soone?"
The policeman appears a bit conflicted.
"It is allowed..."
Bai Mo turns back, pats the helt on Star Ear's head. This children's helt is the largest size, costing him several hundred bucks, and was quite hard to find.
"It's wearing a helt too! So it complies with regulations, right?"
The policeman is stumped... How to respond?
In recent years, incidents involving immortals have increased, but many regulations haven't followed suit.
The policeman furrows his brows, puckering his lips.
"Fine, go ahead, after all, it's an immortal beast."
With a smile, Bai Mo thanks him, then rides the scooter, carrying Star Ear, into West State University.
After passing through the main road inside the campus gates, he turns a corner, finds a bike shed behind a building, parks the scooter inside, and together with Star Ear, takes off the helt and puts it into the basket.
"Let's go, start working!"
Placing Star Ear on his shoulder, he heads to the entrance of the sports field, eting up with Master Chong and the other six mbers of the Immortal Technique Committee. They begin today's patrol work.
Turns out, Bai Mo, being a freshman, doesn't need to undergo military training because of his status as an expert... He needs to patrol here with Master Chong to prevent incidents involving immortals.
Walking on the soft grass of the sports field, the group observes each newly enrolled class in military training.
On the first day of military training, students either practice military stances or stationary marching.
Wearing large sunglasses, Master Chong watches the miserable students, his old face smiling like a chrysanthemum.
"Ah, this military training, just looking at it seems unpleasant.
"Look at that little boy, standing in military stance, his legs are starting to tremble.
"Hehe."
"That girl swaying around, clearly her physique is lacking."
Bai Mo walks with hands in pockets, tall and leggy, attracting several girls stealing glances.
"Haven't they just started military training? Why are they already faltering?"
Master Chong explains.
"West State University's military training is quite tough, every morning starts with a run. After exhausting their energy, the training continues!"
Bai Mo suddenly understands, showing a grin of relief and schadenfreude.
During their patrol, Master Chong casually chats.
"Nowadays, high schools and universities are major hotspots for incidents involving immortals!
"Most incidents have been reported.
"But there might be unreported ones.
"Even though our job is easy, we still need to keep our eyes peeled."
Bai Mo nods.
His work ethic has always been very serious!
This patrol job offers a subsidy of four thousand bucks, which he has already spent on buying the scooter. He absolutely will earn every penny of those four thousand bucks and definitely honor that scooter.
After two rounds on the sports field, as the sun rises, the air becos hot again!
Bai Mo and Master Chong, switching from patrolling to standing guard... Head to the shade under a tree next to the sports field, sit cross-legged, eating waterlon while standing guard.
Bai Mo holds a slice of waterlon single-handedly, casually taking bites, watching the students in the distance, wearing military training attire and hats, their faces and necks already sweating, even glistening with oil from sun exposure.
"It was quite hot initially, but seeing them sweating and glistening, I feel cooler again."
"Hahaha."
"Hehehe."
Next to him, Master Chong and the Immortal Technique Committee mbers burst into laughter.
Star Ear sits in its master's arms, holding a big piece of waterlon, "slurp slurp" devours it! Its waterlon-eating technique is superb, sucking all the juice into its mouth as it eats, without dirtying its mouth or paws.
This waterlon isn't particularly good... nowhere near the waterlons on Fox Mountain. But sitting in its master's arms eating it makes it the sweetest waterlon in the world!
The Immortal Technique Committee mbers are all new recruits, fairly young.
Gradually getting familiar with Bai Mo and Master Chong, they start chatting about gossip.
"…Recently, many criminals lost their fingers, everyone said it was West State's behind-the-scenes boss who did it.
"Later, there was inside news from the Committee, actually it wasn't!
"There's another Sequence Seven, causing trouble in West State City!"
Skinny Huang Peng lowers his voice, speaking mysteriously.
"Apparently, the two Sequence Sevens secretly had a fight.
"Yesterday's newly captured criminals, fingers were kept intact, no one broke them.
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