Good thing I never gave Grandpa Wang the Teletubbies invisibility cloak!
Otherwise the Seven Great Mysteries would probably have three entries already!
Jiang Nan exited the post and slipped into “The Curse of Night Demon” to check again.
The comments had refreshed once more.
“Waaah, another senior sister vanished last night while going to the toilet!”
“Another disappearance? How many this time?”
“Eight! I hid under my blanket crying all night. So scared~”
“We can’t stay in the girls’ dorm anymore! There are fourteen huge holes in the walls, wind howling through. It’s freezing!”
Jiang Nan swallowed hard.
What? Eight more missing? Night Demon is getting way too lawless!
He kept scrolling.
“I heard the mentors found the seniors who disappeared the night before!”
“What what? Really? Are they okay?”
“They’re physically fine, but it’s super weird!”
“They were found alright, but the closest one was in Yang City, eight hundred kilometres away!”
“When they were discovered, they were only wearing pyjamas, feet pitch black, soles of their slippers completely worn through! So pitiful!”
“Oh my god! Eight hundred kilometres? No way!”
“Exactly. They’re on the train coming back right now…”
“Night Demon is terrifying!”
Jiang Nan: (´⊙ж⊙`)
His back instantly soaked with cold sweat!
This… this has to be because they wore my super-speed slippers…
I’m done for!
When the kidnapped seniors return, will they beat me to tears?!
No wonder a few people have been constantly adding resentment points to me these past days!
Should I go hide for a couple of days?
If this keeps up, every senior who went to heaven will end up “kidnapped” by Night Demon!
If there’s really no choice, I’ll just put on the Teletubbies invisibility cloak and steal all the slippers back!
Ning Youyou rubbed her red eyes: “South God, why are you sweating so much?”
“Huh? Oh, nothing! The cotton trousers are too thick. I’m just hot!”
Ning Youyou kept rubbing her eyes: “South God… can I stay at your big villa for a few days? I’m too scared to stay in the dorm!”
Jiang Nan paused: “Sure, plenty of rooms, it’s just…”
Leng Yan: “C-could I come too?”
Yu Qingqing: “Sister Yao! I want to stay with you!”
Hua Ling: “Can you take me as well?”
Rabbit Bunny: “Me me me, and me!”
“South God, please! I’ll sleep on the sofa! The floor is fine too!”
In an instant, more than twenty girls in the class all applied at once!
Zhong Yingxue laughed: “Then everyone come! There should be enough space!”
Xia Yao: “Hehe! With Xiao Nan at home, Night Demon won’t dare show up!”
Jiang Nan: !!!
But Night Demon is literally me!
Still, seeing so many girls wanting to stay at his villa, Jiang Nan decided the slipper-retrieval plan could be postponed a little.
Yep! No rush, no rush!
*Crunch, crunch*
At that moment, all the boys turned red-eyed!
Some ground their teeth! Some scratched the desks! Some head-butted the radiators!
[Resentment from Zhang Huaiyu +666!]
[From…]
Why don’t we have the big villa?!
Unacceptable!
Tao Xinyi walked in hugging her folder, dark circles even worse, covering her mouth as she yawned!
“Hawoo~ Alright everyone, class is starting!”
…
Principal’s office!
Xiao Chuohuo sat in his wheelchair gazing at the academy panorama through the window, his face full of worry!
“Sigh~”
The office door opened!
Zhao Dezhu, wrapped in bandages and covered in bruises, wheeled over to the window and joined him in looking into the distance!
“Sigh~”
Two long sighs, filled with endless sorrow!
“This year has been anything but peaceful.”
“Indeed not peaceful… woo woo~”
Xiao Chuohuo: “The fortune teller said I’d face a great calamity at ninety-one! I feel the calamity… has arrived!”
Zhao Dezhu rubbed his eyes: “Since when do you believe in fortune-telling? About the White-Toothed Ghost…”
“I’ve sent people to investigate. Waiting for results!”
…
Nursing home district!
Guan Hu was going door to door holding a photo of seven teeth!
“Hey~ Grandpa Zhou! It’s your Fourth Fat Tiger! Come on, give us a big smile!”
Guan Hu looked at the photo, then at Grandpa Zhou!
“Hmm~ eleven teeth. Good, good! Remember to brush regularly!”
Then he moved on to the next grandpa!
Meanwhile, Grandpa Wang, whose skin had returned to normal, paced frantically inside his room!
He was losing his mind!
“Achoo~ *sniff*”
Rubbing his nose, Grandpa Wang peeked through the door crack. They were getting closer to him!
“Damn it! I got careless! Want to catch me? Not happening!”
He walked to the mirror, pulled pliers from the drawer, clamped one of his lower teeth, and yanked hard!
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“Arghhh! Ptoo! Haha! Now it’s symmetrical! Let’s see you catch me now! Hehehe~”
He gave himself a mental thumbs-up for his genius!
*Knock knock knock* “Grandpa Wang? It’s Fourth Fat Tiger! Open up and smile!”
Grandpa Wang grinned, revealing the six sturdy teeth left, like reefs in the ocean!
Guan Hu paused, looked at the photo, then at Grandpa Wang!
The positions… kind of matched, especially that gap!
But the count was wrong. Must be coincidence!
“No fourth tooth, Grandpa Wang! Caught a cold? Wear more clothes!”
Grandpa Wang: …
After closing the door, Grandpa Wang let out a long breath of relief!
Still six teeth left! Plenty of chances!
Guan Hu happily moved on to the next grandpa!
Every grandpa had fewer teeth than him. He had no idea why, but it made him happy!
Haha!
…
Another full morning of specialised classes left Jiang Nan’s brain fried!
After lunch, the trainees thought they were heading back to the training hall to get mercilessly thrashed by River-Crossing Dragon and Downhill Tiger again!
But instead, Tao Xinyi led everyone to a massive oval building that looked like a turtle shell!
The sign at the entrance read: Gravity Training Room!
All the trainees’ eyes lit up with joy!
Finally no more beatings?
Jiang Nan felt a tiny bit disappointed!
No more cute little punching bags?
Tao Xinyi smiled: “This is the Gravity Training Room!”
“Before entering, remember to put all personal items in the storage lockers, or accidents may occur!”
Everyone prepared and followed Tao Xinyi inside!
The interior resembled a Roman coliseum!
Except the floor was made of 2m×2m square metal plates!
Each plate was covered in densely engraved runes!
Above was a layer of special reinforced glass!
The moment they stepped onto the metal plates!
Everyone felt their bodies sink!
Double gravity pressed down on them all!
If your normal weight was 70 kg, now it felt like 140 kg!
Even Jiang Nan was surprised and instantly recalled Jiang Yun from Qianhu Island Spirit Ruins!
His ability was gravity control!
The gravity boost here must be artificially created using layered runes!
Yu Qingqing asked curiously: “Sister Xinyi, what’s the point of gravity training?”
Tao Xinyi explained: “It massively improves physical strength!”
“Normal bone density should be 1.228 g/cm³!”
“Muscle density 1060 kg/m³!”
“But in high-gravity environments, the human body adapts by spontaneously increasing bone strength and muscle density, making itself stronger!”
“This has been scientifically proven!”
“Imagine this: if you can move freely under ten times gravity, what happens when you return to normal gravity?”
At that moment, everyone’s eyes sparkled!
The training facilities at Pioneer Academy were absolutely insane!
“Brother Hu trained his bulletproof body here. Even element-type users can build powerful physiques if they work hard!”
“So! Work hard, everyone! And don’t casually walk deeper in. Gravity gets stronger the further you go!”
“This first row of squares is double gravity! The next is triple! Then quadruple!”
“All thanks to Sister Menglu! She’s the one who created the weight-increasing runes!”
Jiang Nan’s eyes lit up!
He immediately pulled out his fifty-catty gold bricks!
Sure enough! Under double gravity they instantly became a hundred catties!
Jiang Nan swallowed, looked at the runes on the floor, then at the gold bricks in his hands!
“I… I might have just struck it rich!”
