Jiang Nan placed his hand on it and poured in spiritual energy!
Sure enough!
The red glow from the ruby grew even brighter. It definitely reacted to spiritual energy!
Confirmed: genuine spirit-containing material!
Jiang Nan’s smile became dazzling!
He remembered that Wei Teng’s famous spirit blade, Ghost Brake, was forged from spirit-containing material!
Immensely powerful, incredibly tough, and ridiculously rare!
With this massive lump, how many weapons could he make?
How much money would that be worth?
He had struck gold!
Jiang Nan hugged the ruby and walked straight up to the Cang Dragon King!
“Where did you swallow this from? Got any more?”
Cang Dragon King: ……
I’ve already been completely hollowed out by you! What more could I possibly have!
It couldn’t even remember where it had eaten the thing!
All it recalled was that its stomach had started hurting ever since it swallowed it…
Seeing the Cang Dragon King looking half-dead, Jiang Nan’s big eyes spun rapidly!
“I won’t kill you! Next time, go eat a bunch more from the lake for me, alright? I’ll come back later to collect!”
“If I come next time and there’s nothing in your belly, I’ll turn you into fish soup. Got it?”
Cang Dragon King: (;´༎ຶᯅ༎ຶ`)
Next time?
How exactly do you plan to collect next time?
By ripping my stomach open again? You monster!
Can’t you consider my feelings for once?
Still, it struggled to nod!
Surviving was better than dying!
Jiang Nan smiled with satisfaction, then pulled out ten Vitality Little Ginsengs and stuffed them into the Cang Dragon King’s mouth!
As expected! I’m still the clever one!
If I come back next time and there’s more after I open him up again, I profit once more!
How much is a single platinum-grade spirit bead worth, anyway?
After swallowing the ten Vitality Little Ginsengs, the Cang Dragon King began bleeding from all over, but its wounds were gradually healing!
Jiang Nan licked his lips!
He instantly teleported to the lake surface and started checking the stomachs of the dead Cang Dragons for more rubies! He also harvested their spirit beads while he was at it!
No luck!
Jiang Nan rubbed his chin: “Should I gut every single one of the Cang Dragon horde to see if there are more treasures?”
Cang Dragon King: !!!
Its face went white with terror. It thrashed on the shore, then plunged into the lake and swam away frantically!
Run, little brothers!
Otherwise our whole species is done for today!
All the volunteers and spirit warriors were speechless!
As expected!
The word “devil” was no longer enough to describe the person in front of them!
Look how terrified he made the Dragon King!
Ears shut to everything outside, eyes only on money!
They had retrieved the core fragments, yet the Thousand Island Lake spirit surge hadn’t stopped. The exact cause could only be determined after studying the cores later!
Mission perfectly accomplished!
Jiang Nan immediately radioed Huang Wei to send helicopters for pickup!
When Huang Wei received the call, his brain blanked out!
Because less than 14 hours had passed since the nursing home volunteers had entered the area!
Zero student casualties, all core fragments recovered, even the hard-to-manage rogue spirit warriors had been rounded up!
What kind of terrifying efficiency!
A team of absolute legends!
Jiang Nan walked straight over to Xiong Er and handed him a set of clothes!
“Xiong Er! You’re about to enter the human world! And the human world has rules!”
“If you want to come with me, you have to follow a few rules. Listen carefully!”
Xiong Er hugged the clothes, face full of excitement, and nodded seriously: “Blue thin you say!”
Jiang Nan’s little face darkened: “Big guy! Teach Xiong Er to speak later! Start with pinyin!”
Wu Liang grinned wide: “Leave it to me!”
Zhong Yingxue and Xia Yao couldn’t help giggling!
Jiang Nan cleared his throat, face deadly serious: “First! From the moment you leave here, humans are no longer food! They are your fellow people! No eating humans, this is iron law!”
“Second! Without my permission, absolutely no killing people!”
“Third! If someone maliciously harms you or your family, the second rule no longer applies!”
Xiong Er: (｡˘•㉨•˘｡)
Although he frowned, struggling to fully understand everything,
he engraved Jiang Nan’s three sentences deep in his heart and nodded heavily!
Zhong Yingxue and the others all smiled!
Clearly, Jiang Nan wasn’t treating Xiong Er as a pet or spirit beast!
He was holding Xiong Er to the standards of a person, as a friend, as family!
The volunteers were stunned. Jiang Nan was really bringing Xiong Er back to the academy?
They thought it was a joke! Who knew he was serious?
“I just want to see Dean Xiao’s face when he sees Xiong Er. Will he leap out of his wheelchair?”
“Hahaha! Attack on Titan Bear! Epic!”
“We’re unstoppable! But writing this mission report is going to be tough!”
“How are we even getting him on the plane?”
Jiang Nan grinned. There’s always a way!
He pulled out the old panda mascot costume from his alternate space!
He ripped the entire back zipper clean off, then took out a bottle of 502 super glue!
“Come here, Xiong Er! Big bro is gonna make you something nice!”
Xiong Er nodded excitedly!
To the current Xiong Er, everything was awesome!
Jiang Nan parted Xiong Er’s fur and used the whole bottle of 502 to glue the panda costume zipper strip straight onto Xiong Er’s back!
He clapped his little hands, fully satisfied!
“Done!”
Everyone’s jaws nearly hit the floor!
Xia Yao laughed herself insane: “Pffthahaha! Xiao Nan! You absolute genius!”
Zhong Yingxue’s face went red from holding in laughter: “Is this really going to work? So half-arsed!”
“God Nan, what kind of insane brain hole is this? Too slick!”
“You think it’s a person cosplaying a bear, but actually it’s a bear cosplaying a person?”
“Reverse cosplay, love to see it!”
Xiong Er scratched his back, his chubby paws reaching behind but unable to feel the zipper: “Feels weird!”
Jiang Nan sniggered: “Deal with it! Put the clothes on quick! The helicopter’s almost here!”
“You can’t just wander around outside in a tiny triangle!”
Xiong Er put on the clothes Jiang Nan gave him, looking deeply wronged!
Casual trousers! White hoodie! Baseball jacket on top!
A pair of trainers, plus a baseball cap!
Everyone stared at the fully dressed Xiong Er and fell into stunned silence!
Apart from the bear face, he basically looked exactly like a human, right?
That round, protruding belly was way too cute!
This bear was about to defy the heavens!
Xiong Er was sprinting down the road to becoming human, never to return!
Soon the rescue helicopters arrived!
Everyone boarded and flew back to the base. Xiong Er’s eyes sparkled the whole way, face bursting with excitement!
His bear mouth stayed wide open the entire time!
At the base!
Qi Yu and Ye Xinghe had returned ages ago. Right now they were sitting on the wall, picking their noses, looking melancholic, staring into the distance!
“Ahh~ so bored!”
“We got one mission, pushed 16 islands, got caught by gorillas, trampled by cows, then came back?”
“We basically did nothing~”
“Tch! How do we even write the mission report!”
At that moment, people were still being evacuated trip after trip!
The volunteers had also returned, every one of them buzzing with excitement and heated discussion!
“Hahaha! This field mission was way too epic, right?”
“No kidding! More thrilling than the movies! Totally worth it!”
“Next time I’m definitely teaming up with God Nan again! Insane!”
“I don’t think 20,000 words will be enough for the mission report!”
Qi Yu and Ye Xinghe on the wall were full of question marks!
We were definitely on the same mission, right?
After dozens of helicopter trips, everyone was finally evacuated!
The moment Jiang Nan’s volunteer group stepped out, they instantly drew massive media attention!
Cameras and microphones swarmed over. Xiong Er kept his hood up, head low, squatting among the crowd!
His shiny black bear eyes darted everywhere, full of curiosity!
Right now every eye was on the nursing home volunteers!
President Shen Hong had been waiting here with his people for ages!
The moment he saw Jiang Nan emerge, he rushed forward, grabbed Jiang Nan’s hands, and shook them vigorously, thrilled beyond words!
“I knew it! The moment Brother Jiang makes a move, the mission is done in one night! Legendary! Huang Wei already told me everything! You guys were a massive help!”
Jiang Nan smiled shyly: “Brother Shen, you’re too kind! It was nothing!”
Shen Hong swallowed hard: “So the core fragments… you brought them all out, right?”
Jiang Nan blinked: “What core fragments?”
Shen Hong’s brain short-circuited: “The core fragments! Didn’t they say…”
Jiang Nan looked utterly confused: “What’s a core? What strange thing are you talking about? I don’t understand at all!”
Shen Hong: “But Huang Wei told me…”
Jiang Nan waved cheerfully: “Oh, no need to feel awkward! I totally get it! When people get older their ears don’t work so well! Mishearing things is normal! Don’t blame yourself!”
Shen Hong: (•́ω•̀)¿¿¿
At this moment, the volunteers behind them nearly popped their eyes out!
He doesn’t want to hand them over, does he?
He definitely doesn’t want to hand them over, does he?
Lesson learned! You call that lying through your teeth?
You’re straight-up peeling prawns with your eyes wide open!
