The date is 6th April 2005, 2:20 pm.
Five days have passed since then, and Chengyu is ready to go home after given the all-clear for discharge by the specialist doctor. His parents are ready to take him home so that he can rest for another week before going back to school. After all the paperwork have been completed, he went out of the ward with his parents, but as he was about to exit that level by going through the entrance to that ward, someone in a motorised wheelchair passed by him, but he didn't notice take any notice of her at all!
The one sitting on the motorised wheelchair was actually the same girl Chengyu have helped 5 days ago. But it was only after he had left the lobby that the girl turned back and looked behind her, but he had already went inside the lift to the ground floor. The girl feels kind of sad to see him missing and held on to the key-chain tightly.
However, the consequence of the assault not only caused the 15-year-old Chengyu physical injuries, but more seriously, due to the repeated verbal, psychological and physical assaults over the past three years prior to this latest assault, his conscience was completely destroyed and an additional large wound was open in his heart – a wound with a icy thorn stuck inside him.
“Those bloody morons...... the only price that'll be enough to pay is their lives, sacrificed to pay for the loss of my only guiding light in my life!!”
The next day, he started to create a plaque in English and Chinese, similar to those that people pray to their ancestors, but he designed it in a computer screen in a PC that his parent bought for him to do school work. The wordings read: 'In painful memory of the conscience of Li Chengyu. Born: 20th October 1991; Dead: 29th March 2005'. The date of his conscience's death is the day he was
assaulted and sent to hospital. Because no shop will want to do such a plaque that he can offer incense to every year when the day comes. Therefore he can only do something like that to have this painful experience engraved in his memory so that the day he can anticipate the day that he can offer their lives for reviving the conscience once again.
The date is 13th April 2005, 7:30 am.
One week passed since then, and Chengyu is back in the secondary school he is studying for more than two years. The school that he is studying had absolutely no knowledge about his bone marrow donation, only knowing that he is hospitalised for physical injuries. Even the hospital also kept that secret of theirs guarded as much as possible. But it took less than half a day for him to meet the exact same situation that landed him in hospital.
“So you want another trip there, huh?”
“Not by a very long shot!”
“We'll see who gets to the graveyard first!”
However, his “best friend” was in a corner, watching from a distance, and
it seems Chengyu also noticed him not doing anything about this situation.
“I knew he had something to do with this...!”
But before the seven bullies even moved a finger, a strange shock-wave blasted them off their feet and slammed them onto the ground! The next moment, an orange-haired student wearing the same uniform as he is wearing jumped down from the roof of the covered pavement nearby. This also shocked the “best friend” of Chengyu's who is still hiding at that corner, and this mysterious student who helped Chengyu landed right between Chengyu and the bullies.
“You want to send him back to hospital, you have to get past me first!”
“What can you do, huh? Stop us with those tricks of yours?”
“Looks like you guys have not tasted enough of these, haven't you?”
The mysterious student gathers a powerful ball of air inside his right fist and punched it at their direction, unleashing seven powerful air knuckles that punched every one of those bullies and slamming them on the wall facing their backs, causing the walls there to have the imprints of their bodies. He then blast opens his fist, which sends a powerful air blast through each of the air-knuckles and slammed a heavy air blow on the bullies before they fell to the ground, their heads bleeding. Chengyu was completely stunned at his abilities.
“No way!! How the heck did he do that??”
The mysterious student then takes out his walkie-talkie.
“They're all yours for the taking.”
And almost immediately, twelve policemen coming from a police bus nearby dashed in and arrested the seven youngsters, among them were the head honcho of the teenage gang as well as his three deputies and three core members.
“All of you are under arrest for the charges of aggravated assault and rioting. Come with us to the police station for investigations.” The leader of the poilce team that arrested the gang told the gang's head honcho before pushing him down and handcuffed him.
All seven of those members were taken away by the police officers onto the police bus before driving out of the school compounds, clearly illustrating the serious nature of this incident.
“No way! Seven-against-one and all of them got thrashed like ants being stamped on with your foot! How I wish I had powers like that, then they'll be the ones that'll fear for their lives since those hooligans no longer listen to reason or words anymore......!”
But suddenly, the mysterious student ran off to another place without saying another word.
“Hey, wait!”
Chengyu couldn't have the strength to try and chase after the student as he has not completely recovered from his injuries, and the “best friend” shows up right after the mysterious student has left the scene.
“Hey, Chengyu! Are you all right?”
The “best friend” tries to extend his hand to Chengyu's back but was immediately brushed off hard, and Chengyu runs off to another block as well without even looking at him, tears in his eyes as he ran with all his remaining strength.
“You passed my already stringent Friendship Test but this incident will the the one that will allow me to give you a definite 'Policy Fail' for the charge of continual betrayal of trust! From now on... my friend count will start from zero all over again and will remain so for as long as I live!”
After school, his mother came to fetch him and tells him something that will affect the path that he will take in the future.
“From next week, you'll be transferred to another school, and should be able to avoid further trouble by the remaining teenage gang members in the future, okay?”
Chengyu didn't say anything. After all, he has closed his heart completely to any acquaintances from now on.
The date is 18th April 2005, 6:50 am.
Chengyu arrives at his new school, which will require a long bus trip from his current home, even if he moves into his new home, it would be a much longer trip, so he had to wake up at 5:00 am every weekday morning to reach his new school in time. However, if that could ease the pain in his heart a little, he is ready to make that sacrifice. But in order to be completely prepared for every single school day ahead of the new school schedule, Chengyu literally packed all the learning materials used for the entire week into his bag so that he doesn't forget if there's a need for study from those materials anytime. This made his bag four times as heavy, and put a noticeable strain on his back. But he knows he has to put up with this if he needs to stay on course to be able to sit for his 'O' Level Examinations next year.
But he also knew that the day he left his old secondary school, someone left him a handwritten letter on his desk that he believe is written by the one that saved him earlier against the bullies.
Dear Li Chengyu,
I'm sorry I won't be able to stop any more of this nonsensical system of ignoring bullying as just pranks of youth, but I was still able to save you from this madness of violence, even on my last day in this sad school. The police are now questioning them on the assault on you and will press charges very soon on the four responsible for that incident that landed you in hospital as soon as the paperwork is done. However, as I will be transferring into another school at the same time as you did, you'll have to find your own way out of future incidents should any crop up
after today.
However, I strongly believe you're not as powerless as you expect yourself to be. You just have not found the right methods and keys to activate those powers yet. I have more than enough reason to believe that when this power of yours is unlocked, you can do more than just stop those who attempt to do harm to you, but also find your true destiny and change your future for good. For now, try and keep living until the very day you can make a decision about your real future in this world.
When the time to change everything that will define your destiny arrives before you, we will have a chance to meet each other again. Just remember this: You actually have far more power than you yourself can imagine or wish to have. You just need to find the perfect method to properly utilise this true power that you actually have, not to hurt people but to protect people that are precious to you as well as yourself. This true power that you have have the immense potential to completely alter the way your destiny plans out for you when the time to use it actually arrives, for you to step up and create a brand new future for yourself. So before the destined time to change your future arrives, please stay alive and well and don't give up on yourself or your life just yet. If your life is over before the destined time comes, all the work that I have done will not have any meaning in helping you towards that path.
Good Luck on your journey ahead and stay strong,
Li Zhiwei
“I guess I have no choice but to keep on fighting for my life as a lone student in this new school, I really hope that I can survive until the day that I can grab hold of my own destiny and change it for the better. So until that day arrives, I will keep on fighting my own battles and take down any enemy that stands in my way! Hopefully I won't end up in a situation that I have to be forced to take anyone down just for me to move on in life before the destined day comes......”
Chengyu's life in the new school went on quite undisturbed since the teachers knew his problem to a certain extent, but other than the contacts necessary to progress on in his new school life, he essentially avoided all other contacts with anyone in school, reducing himself to a very quiet and guarded personality. And this continued until after he has completed his 'O' Level Examinations a year later. This time, he has avoided all contacts with anyone in the new school and got a decent score good enough to get into a neighbourhood junior college.
However, he has planned to find a way to stop the spread of undeserved violence by making a script for a two-dimensional video animation that portrays a very negative impression on school bullying and teenage gangsterism, which was inspired by the anime that he watches over the internet at home. The main objective for that animation is to help deter people joining such gangs in the search for recognition and spread the message that gangsterism only will pay them time in prison and destroy not only their own lives but those of others as well. He has hopes of doing something in that style so he knew the course that allows him to learn two-dimensional computer animation should be able to equip him with the skills needed for this. The only catch is that the two polytechnics that offers such courses are actually quite far away from his home. But he had already made up his mind to get those skills no matter how far away they are to reach.
“If that's what I need to get those skills to stop this vicious cycle, I have no other choice but to do it!”
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