At this moment,
The four of them looked at Wei Wenshi with pleading eyes.
"Ahem..."
Wei Wenshi cleared his throat, frowned, and said,
"It was agreed before the competition started that it would last five days. Ending it early now seems a bit inappropriate..."
The four headmasters exchanged glances. Then, Headmaster Lan gritted his teeth and spoke up,
"We'll add an extra fifty percent to the usual rewards for the competition rankings!"
"Appropriate! Ending early is absolutely appropriate!"
Wei Wenshi instantly beamed with a wide smile and said,
"In that case, I'll notify the students right now."
As he spoke, he connected his virtual chip to the diving suit and addressed the participants underwater:
"Attention, all students! Due to special circumstances, the competition is ending early. Please return in an orderly manner!"
"Repeating, the competition is ending early. Please return in an orderly manner!"
At this very moment,
The students who were hunting Giant Star Sharks underwater all froze in surprise, then instantly understood.
The so-called 'special circumstances' were none other than Lu Xiaobai's outrageous score...
"Brother Lu is truly Brother Lu. Even though he loves to talk big, he's genuinely capable, to the point of forcing the competition to end early!"
Lin Lei'er was filled with admiration for Lu Xiaobai, completely won over.
He glanced at Lin Xue'er beside him and cautiously advised,
"Sis, maybe you should just accept his feelings..."
Thump!
Lin Xue'er directly knocked him down with a punch, her own eyes also filled with shock as she murmured,
"How on earth did you do it?"
She recalled her first meeting with Lu Xiaobai. The only impression he left on her back then was that of a profligate rich kid.
After all, what normal person would pay ten times the price for a stamina recovery potion?
But in just over a month, first the max-level body refinement technique, then scoring over twenty thousand points in the wilderness trial... this series of events had shocked her too much...
"Brother Lu, you're going to be famous!"
At this moment, Liu Quan and the other two wore bright smiles, their eyes full of flattery.
"If I successfully get first place, you won't be left out!"
Lu Xiaobai smiled slightly, making a promise outright.
Although the trio hadn't provided combat support, finding the Mechanical Octopuses efficiently was entirely thanks to their help...
Upon hearing this, Liu Quan quickly said,
"Being able to help Brother Lu is our good fortune. We dare not ask for any rewards..."
This was indeed his honest feeling. Compared to building a good relationship with Lu Xiaobai, any material reward was secondary.
Lu Xiaobai smiled and didn't say more.
At this moment,
Hundreds of students surfaced one after another, following the guidance from their diving suits, and soon saw the transport ship suspended high in the air.
After roughly half a day,
All five hundred-plus students had returned to the ship.
They stood as if petrified, staring intently at Lu Xiaobai ahead with complex gazes!
They wanted to know just what method he had used...
Even if they were to die, they should at least die understanding...
Lu Xiaobai knew what they were thinking. Wearing an inscrutable smile, he said nothing.
The bombs he deployed, although powerful, had a limited blast radius. Apart from those nearby, the others hadn't noticed much, especially since the Mechanical Octopus was just a basic model smart machine, and its energy core wasn't anything rare...
Just then,
The five headmasters approached the group.
Wei Wenshi, beaming, looked at Lu Xiaobai, gave a thumbs-up, and praised him in the simplest terms:
"Badass!"
"Hehe..."
Lu Xiaobai chuckled but didn't elaborate.
Right then,
Headmaster He from Guangwu High School stepped forward and was the first to speak:
"Student Lu, would you mind if we reviewed the full recording from your competition?"
Although he had doubts in his heart, his tone was quite polite, given the other's status...
"No problem, feel free to look."
Lu Xiaobai handed over his diving suit, which had a camera recording everything.
Headmaster He took it, connected it to his own smart chip, and projected the recording.
Hundreds of pairs of eyes looked over simultaneously, faces filled with curiosity.
They wanted to know how he had managed to get over twenty thousand points—that was equivalent to over a thousand Giant Star Sharks!
At that moment,
The virtual screen displayed Lu Xiaobai's experiences over the past few days.
When they saw him using the Mechanical Octopus to leech assists on the first day, everyone was stunned, and a look of admiration couldn't help but appear in their eyes.
It had to be said, this method was not only safe but also quite efficient for gaining points...
So this was how he managed to rank tenth on the first day.
However, the key to this method lay in how to release a large amount of blood.
The crowd didn't dwell on that question but chose to watch silently.
The main point they wanted to know was: how did his points skyrocket?
Soon,
The Pig, Cow, and Sheep Trio appeared on the screen.
After the trio said something, Lu Xiaobai burst into wild laughter. Once the surrounding Giant Star Sharks scattered, he reached out and touched the Mechanical Octopus's head.
The next second,
A scene that shocked everyone appeared.
Lu Xiaobai's hand was actually holding the Mechanical Octopus's energy core!
"How did he do that?!"
"Was the Mechanical Octopus violently dismantled? No, its shell doesn't have a single mark of damage!"
Everyone was astonished and fearful, their eyes filled with confusion and bewilderment.
Even the headmasters nearby looked completely baffled, unable to understand how he had done it.
Only Wei Wenshi's expression shifted slightly, as if he had thought of something, his eyes filled with surprise.
Clearly, he had recognized the special skill Lu Xiaobai had used.
"No, this isn't scientific!"
Headmaster He frowned deeply and replayed the scene.
The four headmasters stared intently at the screen and finally noticed a clue.
"His astral energy is flowing. It seems like he activated some astral skill?"
The four exchanged glances, each coming to a judgment in their heart.
However, they were ultimately just ordinary intermediate-level Star Warriors. Their knowledge was far inferior to the Know-it-all Principal's, so naturally, they didn't recognize this as the signature skill of the Interstellar Thief King!
Old Man Bi sighed and muttered to himself,
"To think there exists such a miraculous astral skill, stealing the energy core of a smart machine out of thin air... it's truly unbelievable..."
Seeing this scene, they could vaguely guess what happened next.
Sure enough,
They watched Lu Xiaobai find another Mechanical Octopus. Then, using its deterrent power and the lure of his own blood, he drew hundreds of Giant Star Sharks to follow him. Finally, he used the energy core to blow them all up, earning a massive number of points!
Witnessing the spectacular explosion,
The hundreds of students fell into a collective silence.
They had all been using cold weapons, hacking away at Giant Star Sharks one slash at a time. But this guy? He went straight for high-tech bombs!
Well then, what more is there to say? Just hand the championship over to you...
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
