Chapter 132
Chapter 132
Huo Xinran was feeling a little unhappy.
With nothing else to do, he opened Clear Spring Academy’s campus forum. Qin Lan’s face stared at him from the featured section of the front page.
At first, Young Master Huo thought he was hallucinating.
Only after opening several posts in a row and finding every one related to Qin Lan did he have to accept the tragic reality.
Staring at Qin Lan embracing Su Xiaoyue in the video, Young Master Huo suddenly felt a sorrowful sense that life was nothing special after all.
How long had it been?
Not even a day, right?
He’d actually won her over already?
Huo Xinran touched his own face and muttered, “He’s not that much more handsome than me… Are Anomaly Hunters really that popular?”
Still, a young master was a young master.
His infatuation with Su Xiaoyue had ended before it even began, and she might never have heard his name. Even so… Young Master Huo swiftly adjusted his mindset.
As the saying went, plenty of fish remained in the sea, so he could simply find one and screw her…
To relieve his grief and anxiety, Young Master Huo immediately arranged a date with a girl through a social app, ready to vent his anger thoroughly.
The melon might not be sweet, but it would quench his thirst.
The moment they met, Young Master Huo stated his request.
“Let’s skip the hotel and do it in these woods.”
Young Master Huo was in a hurry.
“Oh, you like doing it wild?” The underclassman in a miniskirt and exquisite makeup gave a soft laugh. “Surely Senior Huo knows these woods are a popular place for walks. One careless moment and a passerby might see us.”
Huo Xinran’s face darkened. “You work in this business and still care about that?”
The girl smiled suggestively. “Not really… but it’ll cost extra.”
Extra money meant nothing to Huo Xinran.
Without hesitation, he took out his phone and transferred the payment. The girl’s eyes lit up when she received it, and she took his hand of her own accord, leading him deeper into the trees.
“Come on, Senior Huo. I know a tree that’s just the right height…”
Two minutes later, the rustling of clothing came from within the grove, accompanied faintly by the sound of a zipper.
And then…
A white werewolf fell from the sky and crashed heavily into the woods.
“AAAAAH! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!”
Huo Xinran’s shrill scream followed.
Bare-assed, he scrambled into his pants and fled the woods in disarray, his fragile psyche badly traumatized.
The disheveled girl chased him out and shouted from behind.
“Senior! Don’t leave!”
“You still have to pay even if you run away!”
The werewolf that had flown in from parts unknown lay inside a crater in the ground.
It stood over two meters tall, powerfully muscled and exceptionally imposing.
At the moment, however, it lay unconscious with eyes rolled back and drool leaking from the corner of its mouth.
Its fur rapidly fell away as its body shrank, revealing its original form.
A buzz-cut young man covered from head to toe in tattooed patterns.
Back in the nearby training ground, Qin Lan clapped his hands with an easy expression.
“All right, he’s made his regrettable exit.”
“Who will be our next lucky contestant?”
The entire arena fell silent.
Everyone’s body tensed. Not one person dared underestimate Qin Lan any longer.
Only a few seconds separated their original indifference from their current total vigilance.
Just moments ago, when the buzz-cut youth transformed using his Talent, Qin Lan had grabbed Duan Tianpeng by the scruff of the neck with one hand and hurled him away like a discus. No one knew where he had landed.
Even though his physical attributes had increased several times over after transforming, a fall from that height had likely left him unable to fight again.
What terrifying strength!
“Duan Tianpeng’s Talent isn’t an ordinary werewolf transformation. He’s a Silver Moon Werewolf with demonic blood, and even he couldn’t resist at all…”
Only one word could describe him in everyone’s mind.
“Monster.”
They had assumed Qin Lan was merely someone with a special Talent and a few mental skills.
They never expected his close-combat ability to be equally terrifying.
The Qin Lan before them wasn’t particularly tall or covered in bulging muscle. In fact, he looked perfectly harmless…
No one dared volunteer second.
“Ahem…” Xu Minghu’s voice came from the spectator stands. “No one wants to move? Then I’ll call names.”
“Li Qing.”
The named girl trembled and turned a pleading gaze toward Su Xiaoyue.
“Xiaoyue, he’s your boyfriend, right?”
“Can you ask him to go easy on me?”
Li Qing had no other option.
Her Talent was [Air Manipulation]. It sounded impressive but was actually very simple–ever heard of the Kamehameha? Hers was a knockoff version.
Li Qing could condense compressed air into attacks similar to air cannons, or solidify the gas in a particular area to bind a target.
In truth, she had already tried once the instant her name was called.
Under her Talent’s effect, the air around Qin Lan hardened, forming an “air prison.”
Then Qin Lan reached up and picked his ear right in front of her.
Clearly, her air prison did absolutely nothing.
And it hadn’t “failed.”
Only Li Qing herself understood that the air prison had successfully formed. Qin Lan’s strength was simply so astonishing that he could move freely despite the omnipresent pressure.
How the hell was she supposed to fight that?
Su Xiaoyue comforted her softly. “It’s all right. He knows his limits. He won’t go too far.”
“Really?” Li Qing looked nervously toward Qin Lan… Huh? Where was he?
Qin Lan, who had been standing there moments ago, had vanished at some point.
Li Qing looked left and right but couldn’t find him. Just as confusion set in, a slight chill crept up her back.
She thought she knew where Qin Lan had gone.
Thump.
Li Qing fainted and collapsed. Qin Lan had put her to sleep with one simple, brutally direct chop to the neck.
The second challenger was down.
Then came the third.
Before Qin Lan, these “outstanding students” were lambs that had fallen into a tiger’s jaws. They could do nothing but tremble, utterly incapable of resistance.
They revealed every trump card and displayed all manner of Talents, but achieved almost nothing.
Never mind Qin Lan’s curse resistance… His base attributes averaging over seventy were enough on their own to make him invincible.
This also demonstrated that Qin Lan had long since reached the absolute peak among his peers.
In every respect, he was unquestionably one of the “strong.”
He only seemed less impressive because the opponents he normally encountered were even greater freaks.
“What a monster… Just what is that kid’s Talent?”
Xu Minghu sat in the stands eating popcorn, his eyes wide. Even the popcorn in his hand no longer tasted good.
He knew Qin Lan was powerful, but he hadn’t expected this degree of power.
In Xu Minghu’s original estimation, Qin Lan might win easily, but it should still take at least some effort…
Instead, all he saw was a massacre.
An indisputable massacre.
The last time something like this had happened was during Luan Zimo’s meteoric rise.
Putting down his popcorn, Xu Minghu decisively called a halt.
“Wait!”
“Su Xiaoyue! You’re up!”
At Xu Minghu’s voice, Qin Lan paused mid-motion.
He turned his head and happened to meet Su Xiaoyue’s eyes.
“Are we really fighting?”
Qin Lan felt conflicted, wondering whether he should simply surrender.
Su Xiaoyue had no such hesitation.
The shadows on the ground gathered beneath her feet like a tide.
As she poured out her curse power at full force, they transformed into savage beasts and lunged toward Qin Lan.