Half an hour later, Jiang Nan stumbled out of the examination room in a daze, his face full of righteous indignation.
That big sister is definitely off!
Unacceptable!
Yet deep down he also felt a little thrill.
He was finally gold rank! The diamond-grade spatial spirit beads he had prepared earlier could finally be used!
Brilliant!
Inside the examination room, Li Bing had a lollipop in her mouth and was staring at Jiang Nan’s test report, her big eyes sparkling.
“This kid is no ordinary rising star! These numbers are way too strong!”
“I wonder if those old fogeys can stay seated after this!”
“Heeheehee, things are going to get fun! So happy~”
*pop!*
He made his way to the training ground. By now most of the new trainees who had finished their interviews and physicals had already gathered here.
Originally there had been three thousand new trainees; now only a little over 2500 remained!
And from Jiang Nan’s high-school graduate group, fewer than a hundred were left!
Even so, they still drew every single gaze.
Because there was a brother lying on a stretcher, covered in blood, completely unconscious!
Nosebleeds were still shooting more than three metres into the air like a human fountain, gushing non-stop!
Who else could it be but Qin Shou? They had carried him here in this sorry state!
“Tsk… he’s been spraying for over an hour! This guy has way too much blood!”
“I’m genuinely impressed!”
“I heard he just looked at a pretty nurse and this happened! Tsk tsk tsk…”
“How pent-up do you have to be to explode like that?”
“This dude must’ve never seen a woman since the day he was born!”
“Eww, that’s gross!”
Loads of people were gossiping, while the girls all looked utterly disgusted!
Jiang Nan covered his face.
Brother! You didn’t even manage to act cool properly!
Your four years of youth haven’t even started and they’re already over?
The moment Jiang Nan arrived, Zhong Yingxue and the others froze.
“No way? Gold… gold rank already?”
“How did you do it? We only haven’t seen you for a few hours!”
Jiang Nan grinned. “A sneaky frog kissed my belly and I broke through!”
Zhong Yingxue and Xia Yao were dumbfounded!
What the hell? Kissed by a toad?
They’d heard of getting bitten by a spider and mutating!
They’d heard of kissing a frog and the frog turning into a prince!
But they’d never heard of being kissed by a frog and breaking through!
Is it really that casual?
[Resentment value from Zhong Yingxue +333!]
[Resentment value from Xia Yao +521!]
[Resentment value from Lin Chen +1000!]
[From…]
Jiang Nan blinked. The kid’s awake?
On the spectator stands outside the training ground, a bunch of senior students had come to watch the show!
The senior girls had arrived even earlier and were waiting!
“Oi oi oi! Heard the news? Brother Chen tried to flirt and got his head cracked open by a newbie!”
“No way? Sen Luo’s Lin Chen? Isn’t he meant to be a big shot? How did he…”
“Big shot my arse! One bottle and the newbie floored him. Took him over half an hour to wake up!”
“Which newbie? That savage?”
“Jiang Nan! The space-type one! He’s also the guy who cracked open our dean at the school gate! Absolutely feral!”
“Hah??? This guy wants to ascend to heaven or what?”
Standing nearby, Lin Chen’s face was twisted with rage. The skin on his philtrum was broken, and two bright red palm prints still glowed on his cheeks!
He no longer looked even slightly handsome!
He had become famous overnight!
All three hundred-plus senior students who had shown up were here to watch Jiang Nan’s drama!
After all, nobody had ever managed to crack open both the dean and a senior on the same day!
Even more old men and ladies stood at the edge of the field with their hands behind their backs, munching on melon seeds!
A burly man with a square jaw and a scar at the corner of his mouth stepped onto the stage. His diamond rank was blindingly obvious!
“Pioneer Academy has been open for fifteen years! We recruit a new batch every three years! You are the sixth cohort!”
“I’m Guan Hu! Code name: Charging Tiger Down the Mountain! I’m the representative instructor for your year!”
“Next up is the attack power test! Scoring starts at 0, full marks are 10!”
“Anyone who scores below 3 points is eliminated! No chance to take the later comprehensive test!”
The moment he said that, the whole place erupted!
“No way, seriously? I’m mobility type! My attack power is trash!”
“You’re fine! I’m a tank! How am I supposed to do damage?”
“This isn’t fair!”
“Close-combat and elemental types are laughing!”
“Heh! We might struggle, but those silver ranks are even worse! They probably can’t even scrape together 0 points!”
Guan Hu narrowed his eyes, his expression ice-cold. “Quiet!”
“Don’t talk to me about fairness! There’s no such bloody thing as fairness in this world!”
“On the battlefield, will you tell the enemy you’re a tank or a controller and they’ll spare you?”
“Bullshit! Show me the will to fight for your life! Anyone who can’t hit 3 or above, get the hell out!”
“You are here to become pioneers! To become the vanguard of this era!”
“Individual strength is everything! We want monsters! Maniacs! People who can drag the entire era forward single-handedly!”
“Understood?”
Everyone roared in unison, “Understood!”
“Did none of you eat breakfast?”
Another thunderous roar!
“Understood!”
“I didn’t eat!”
Amidst this second unified roar, one voice declaring “I didn’t eat!” rang out especially loud!
So confident, so righteous!
Every single gaze instantly locked onto Jiang Nan!
The entire field fell deathly silent. You could hear a pin drop!
Jiang Nan looked confused. “You all ate breakfast?”
“We had blood drawn for the physical! If you ate breakfast, wouldn’t the blood test be pointless? The results wouldn’t be accurate, would they? It was written on the notice! Didn’t you read it?”
[Resentment value from Guan Hu +1000!]
[From Guan Hu…]
Didn’t bloody eat!
Is that what I meant?
I finally hyped up the atmosphere and you ruined it with one “I didn’t eat!”
What kind of weird brain circuitry do you have?
Guan Hu finally understood Jiang Nan’s special talent first-hand!
He could infuriate people to death without taking responsibility!
Leave you speechless, yet somehow still be in the right! Absolutely no counter!
Nearby, Xiao Chuihuo was laughing his head off.
Finally someone understands my pain!
Guan Hu’s face darkened. “Rank doesn’t matter! Ability type doesn’t matter! Your score will affect the later comprehensive test!”
“So! Push your limits!”
Jiang Nan grinned mischievously. I’m dead serious about farming resentment points, okay?
Clearly, Pioneer Academy wanted trainees with more balanced, all-round strength!
They were deliberately cultivating well-rounded development!
At this moment, everyone’s expressions turned serious, secretly competing with each other!
Just then, a bald old man wearing a little vest strode onto the platform!
White eyebrows, white beard! Eyes squinted, smile kind and gentle!
Nearly two metres tall, his massive frame radiated overwhelming pressure!
What shocked people most was that this bald grandpa had no outer ears! It looked a bit terrifying!
Everyone froze!
What’s going on? Isn’t this the attack power test?
Why is an old grandpa coming up?
Yet at that exact moment, the old man’s squinted eyes suddenly snapped wide open!
Every muscle on his body bulged!
“Ah~ ha!”
*Riiip!*
His vest tore to shreds! Revealing rock-hard, explosive muscles!
Covered in scars! Claw marks! Bullet wounds! Burns! Tears! Bite marks!
Horrifying to behold!
Every scar told a story, a brush with death, an indelible badge of honour!
The old man grinned. “Grandpa here is eighty-eight this year! Pioneer Academy vice-dean, Zhao Dezhu!”
“Code name: Golden Bell Zhao!”
“I will personally conduct your attack power test!”
“Come! Hit me head-on!”
Jiang Nan: ∑(°口°๑)
A… a human punching bag?
Do you have to be this hardcore!
Eighty-eight years old and still this ripped? This physique is basically Power Potion 2.0 in human form!
If we gave grandpa a sip of Power Potion 2.0, how insane would he get!
Grandpa will always be grandpa!
Nearby, Wu Liang’s eyes shone with golden light, utterly thrilled!
This was meeting a kindred spirit in a foreign land!
Muscles are justice!
Wu Liang let out a mighty roar, “Ah~ ha!”
Next instant, his top ripped apart!
Revealing a set of explosive muscles!
Zhao Dezhu: (͡°ڡ͡°)✧
Wu Liang: (๑•̀ㅂ•́)✧
Their eyes locked!
Yes! This feeling!
