Chapter 198
Night fell, but the summer heat had yet to dissipate.
On the sports field of Qing University, under the dim yellow lights, the formations from various colleges sat in circles.
This was the traditional repertoire of military training—the sing-offs.
"One, two, three, four, five, we're tired of waiting!"
"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, we're losing our patience!"
Deafening roars rose and fell, hormones fermenting in the night.
For these college freshmen who had just been liberated from the endless sea of high school homework, relaxing through group activities wasn't the point; the secret social carnival was.
The boys roared at the top of their lungs, but their eyes kept sweeping over the adjacent girls' formation.
Unfortunately, in this era where smartphones were just becoming popular and WeChat was nowhere to be seen, hitting on someone relied entirely on shouting, and getting contact info required thick skin.
The efficiency was outrageously low.
"Brother Gu, Brother Gu!"
Li Ming sneaked up to Gu Ran like a thief, looking incredibly eager.
"That... that godly tool you had last night that can shake out a goddess..."
He pointed at the Foreign Languages College formation next door and gulped.
"I see several girls over there playing on their phones. If I give it a shake right now, do you think I can add them?"
Gu Ran sat cross-legged on the grass, looking at the restless pubescent males around him, a knowing smile curving his lips.
Social starvation.
Wasn't this the perfect entry point?
"Wanna try? But to shake and find someone, you need the installation package."
Hearing their conversation, the surrounding boys were drawn over, their eyes wide as saucers.
Gu Ran took out his phone and shared the installation package with them.
After a three-second countdown.
Under the gaze of dozens of eyes, he flicked his wrist sharply.
Click-clack—
The crisp, hard, and mechanical sound of a gun being cocked suddenly exploded in the noisy sing-off scene.
The sound was too distinct.
It was like a loaded sniper rifle, striking right at the core of every boy's inner action hero.
Two seconds later.
Buzz—
The phone vibrated violently.
A profile picture popped up on the screen.
[Zhang Qi]
[Distance: 1 meter]
"Holy shit!!!"
Li Ming let out a weird yelp, almost jumping off the ground.
"It actually found him?! This is too accurate!"
Zhang Qi also held up his phone, his face full of disbelief.
"Amazing! I really shook and found Brother Gu! This is a god-tier app for social butterflies!"
No need to know their number, no need to hit on them face-to-face.
Just one shake, and you could find an equally lonely soul right next to you.
The thrill of the unknown instantly ignited everyone's passion.
"Brother Gu! I want to play too! How do I download it?"
"Send the installation package! Hurry, hurry! Turn on your Bluetooth!"
"Me too! Share a copy with me, godfather!"
Gu Ran didn't hide it. He turned on his Bluetooth sharing and asked Zhang Qi to pass the package to the people around them.
One passed it to ten, ten to a hundred.
The green bubble icon began lighting up crazily on the screens of Qing University freshmen.
Before long, the Economics and Management formation was filled with the rising and falling sounds of "click-clack."
The sound was like some mysterious secret signal, rapidly spreading in all directions.
The girls from the adjacent Foreign Languages College curiously peeked over.
"Hey, what are you guys playing? What's that sound?"
Li Ming, feeling emboldened now, held up his phone and waved it triumphantly.
"Beauty, this is a destiny tester! As long as we shake at the same time, we can find the person we are most destined for! Wanna try?"
"Really? Send it to me, let me try!"
The viral spread quietly erupted on this hot night.
Gu Ran retreated to the edge of the crowd. Looking at the user data skyrocketing exponentially in his phone's backend, he narrowed his eyes in satisfaction.
The first batch of seed users was secured.
And it was the college student demographic—the one with the highest user stickiness and the most raging hormones.
He was going to feast on this wave of traffic dividends.
He really was the man!
The sports field was filled with "click-clack" sounds, accompanied by the croaking of frogs.
Just as everyone was playing passionately, the drill instructor's sharp whistle suddenly blew.
"Fall in!"
Everyone reluctantly put away their phones and quickly returned to formation.
The stern-faced instructor stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze sweeping across the crowd like a torch.
"I've received notice that for the military training exhibition in six days, each formation needs to select two squad leaders, one male and one female!"
The instructor's voice was loud, piercing the night sky.
"The leaders not only need to have good looks and a great presence, but their movements must also be standard, representing the spirit of our formation! This is also an important honor that will count towards your comprehensive assessment bonus points!"
Hearing the words "assessment bonus points," a commotion immediately broke out in the crowd.
Lin Yu, who had been shrinking in the corner, suddenly raised her head.
Looking at the instructor, a plan suddenly formed in her mind.
Squad leader...
This was her best chance to show her face in front of all the freshmen in the school!
As long as she could secure this position, she could overpower that bitch Ye Zhenzhen.
Lin Yu bit her lower lip hard, staring at Ye Zhenzhen's silhouette, a cold sneer curling her lips.
Just wait. The squad leader position this time will definitely be mine. No one can compete with me!
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nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
