Jiang Nan was practically exploding with embarrassment.
I did not mean for this to happen. I hope this fools them.
That wall-breaking paralysis ring is too much of a trap. I should never have put it on in the car.
It has been over twenty minutes. Why can it still not come off?
Perhaps once the ring’s effect wears off, I can remove it.
Shan Mao’s face flushed red. She quickly stepped forward and pulled Jiang Nan’s hand back. “It is not about saluting on the left. It is about placing your left hand over your heart.”
Even if saluting on the left, you would use your left hand, right?
What kind of flashy move is saluting on the left with your right hand?
Bai Qianxun could not hold back her laughter. “It is the left hand. You are not supposed to keep your left hand in your trouser pocket. It should be placed over your heart…”
Shan Mao looked suspicious. Xiao Nan would not forget something this simple.
“Are you hiding some treasure in your pocket?”
Jiang Nan’s smile grew increasingly stiff. “Well… since things have come to this, I can only tell you all the truth.”
Everyone leaned in to listen.
Jiang Nan looked utterly serious. “Actually, I obtained a treasure. It is quite shy. The moment I pull it out, it runs away.”
Shan Mao: (๐≖_≖) Are you serious?
What treasure is shy and can run?
Are treasures that magical? Pokémon?
Your excuse is far too perfunctory.
Down on the ground, Ye Zhenguo’s old face darkened. Something is wrong. Very wrong.
This kid had his left hand in his pocket even in the car. Could he be hiding some unspeakable secret?
Yang Jian’s face darkened too. “Young man, what is there to hide? Just boldly take it out. We are not going to steal it from you.”
“If it runs, I will compensate you.”
With that, he stepped forward, reached into Jiang Nan’s pocket, and yanked the left hand out.
“Hey. Do not…”
Jiang Nan: ∠(˵¯͒﹏¯͒˵)-`凸´-
Seeing the golden middle finger Jiang Nan’s left hand was raising, still glowing with golden light, Yang Jian froze.
This is the treasure you were hiding?
You hid a middle finger from me?
Shan Mao and the others were stunned. Nan Shen has gone mad. That is Yang Jian. The Eye of the East.
Do not joke around on this occasion.
Jiang Bold really lives up to his name.
Yang Jian glared, instantly furious.
Well done, Jiang Nan. You dare flip me off?
Playing with me, are you?
Watch me snap that finger of yours.
His large hand reached out and grabbed Jiang Nan’s middle finger.
Jiang Nan: ∑(๐°口°)-`凸´-
“No. You must not grab it.”
Yang Jian’s eyes widened, bloodshot veins spreading.
His features twisted together in an instant, hair standing on end.
His whole body convulsed uncontrollably, muscles tensing. He hunched over, teeth clenched, face turning red.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
What is wrong with Brother Jian? Is he about to start clubbing or dancing?
He stayed rigid for over a second. Then Yang Jian threw his head back and let out a mighty roar.
“Holy crap. What the fuck. Yaaargh~”
He leapt into the air from sheer shock, startling Bai Qianxun into a shudder. She instinctively pressed the shutter.
The scene in the camera froze at that moment.
The agonised howl startled everyone. They stared in complete confusion.
Is Brother Jian that excited?
Yang Jian landed with a grimace, looking at Jiang Nan’s golden middle finger in horror.
“I am paralysed. I was actually paralysed just now.”
“What the hell is this thing? Hiss~”
He stomped his foot upon landing. The sensation was exquisitely sour.
Cold sweat poured down Jiang Nan’s forehead. “Um… well, actually I have a condition…”
Shan Mao: “A disease where he dies if he lowers his middle finger.”
Before Jiang Nan could finish, Shan Mao said it for him.
Jiang Nan looked dead serious. “Sister Shan Miao really understands me.”
Shan Mao covered her face.
You have used this ghost of an excuse countless times.
The moment you open your mouth, I know what you are going to say, okay?
It must be some weird prop again. Nothing in Jiang Nan’s hands is ever normal.
Yang Jian’s face darkened. “Stand properly, salute, photo.”
Jiang Nan quickly straightened up, saluted correctly, left hand over his heart. But for aesthetics, he opened a small space wormhole.
He poked his finger through it. At least from the outside, Jiang Nan was no longer flipping anyone off.
Yang Jian still looked shaken and suspicious.
He was a Star Shine expert, yet he had been paralysed stiff for over a second.
In a master duel, over a second is enough to do many things.
What kind of bizarre ability was this?
But Yang Jian had no intention of probing further. It was the same with the great strength and ginseng back in Yulong Town.
What Yang Jian valued was Jiang Nan himself. Everyone has their secrets.
Trust those you employ. Doubt those you do not. That was all.
Yang Jian thought far ahead.
Yet seeing the many Longyuan members below clenching their teeth, pinching their thighs hard to stifle laughter, Yang Jian’s old face flushed.
He glared fiercely at Jiang Nan.
My cold, dignified image. You have completely ruined it. Nothing good ever happens when I meet Jiang Nan.
At that moment, Bai Qianxun looked at the photo she had accidentally taken, burst out laughing, and saved it.
In the photo, the seven of them stared wide-eyed, mouths agape, watching Yang Jian leap into the sky.
The scene… hehehe!
Yet Ye Zhenguo’s gaze towards Jiang Nan could kill.
Bullshit about the seat being electrified. This brat poked me. He is treating me like a lab rat.
Watch me not beat you to tears later.
And introduce my granddaughter to you? Pfft.
Jiang Nan kept sweating coldly under Ye Zhenguo’s gaze, already planning how to escape later.
The group took photos on the platform.
Meanwhile, three new female Longyuan recruits who had just joined were sweeping snow in the courtyard.
All frowning, clearly unwilling.
“Ahhh. I really want to watch the medal ceremony. I want to see Nan Shen. Yue Yue and the others all went.”
“I am a Nan Shen fan. He has not posted much lately.”
“I heard he is even handsomer in person than in videos. He blew up Area 53 to rescue Boson. So manly~”
They swept snow while chatting, occasionally glancing towards the parade ground with longing.
At that moment, one girl with a bob haircut stared in surprise at something in front of her.
“What is this?”
A golden finger hovered eerily in mid-air, emitting a faint golden glow.
The ring on it was engraved with MB.
She instinctively reached out to touch it.
The next instant, her whole body was paralysed. She froze in place, convulsing, unable to move.
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“What what? Xiaoxiao, why are you not moving? Hey? There is a golden finger here.”
She reached out to touch it too.
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“Wow. Really. So magical, so realistic, so lifelike. Why are you two not speaking?”
She turned and saw both of them frozen in place, eyes wide, expressions ferocious.
“Mmm!!! Wuu yaa hum!”
The girl jumped in fright, stepped back, and was also poked by the golden finger.
“Ah ya!”
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Photos finished, Jiang Nan retracted his finger into his pocket, looking puzzled.
Just now, why did it feel like someone touched my finger?
How strange.
Yang Jian instructed, “Then head back to the academy for now. I will explain things to Uncle Xiao.”
“Do not go wandering again for a while. After this wave, who knows how many people want you dead. The United States has even listed you as priority kill target one. Just stay quietly in the academy for a period.”
Jiang Nan grinned. “Got it.”
He was saying goodbye to Shan Mao, Katrina, and the others. Tie Niu shyly sidled up.
Fingers twisting the hem of his clothes, body swaying bashfully.
“Nan Shen, can I go to the academy with you? I want to see my Xiong Xiong~”
Jiang Nan shuddered. Already calling him Xiong Xiong?
Progress this fast? Online romance no longer enough. They want to meet in person?
“Sure, why not? Let us go together. Hurry.”
The snow was falling harder. If they did not leave soon, Old Brother Ye might really kill him.
“Oh, right, Sister Shan Miao, help me look up Qian Benying’s home address. I need it.”
Shan Mao paused. “Why look up her home address?”
Jiang Nan grinned foolishly. “I owe her something I have not given yet. Need to repay it.”
Back in Area 53, Qian Benying had not let him down. She stalled Pierce for over twenty minutes.
Without her, Boson could not have been rescued.
When it was not his own affair, Jiang Nan would not shortchange hers.
If he had not stirred up so much trouble, with a whole underwear drawer of people wanting him dead, he would really have gone to Rainbow Country himself to cure Qian Benying’s odour.
And, incidentally, collect the ten billion USD the Sakura Group owed him.
Um, just incidentally.
It is definitely not that he does not trust the Sakura Group to repay the debt.
Given the current situation, Jiang Nan did not dare wander out. He could only mail it to her.
Zhu Ye, Jiang Nan, Tie Niu, and the others stepped out of Longyuan headquarters gate.
In the courtyard, three adorably silly snowmen stood in the snow.
Two half-squatting, one holding a snow shovel, one holding a broom, and one standing…
Jiang Nan smiled. “Who made these snowmen? So lifelike? So cute.”
Hong Long, who had come to see them off, looked puzzled. “Were there snowmen here before?”
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