70: Hey, I want to check your body too.

Chapter 70: Hey, I Want to Examine Your Body Too

About an hour later, Dick and Xiao Nai left Donald's wooden house, having finished signing the Magic Contract for teaming up in the Underground City Championship.

Although Xiao Nai was full of words of resistance, constantly complaining that Dick was being a hooligan, she was extremely agitated.

But when the Magic Contract was placed before her, Xiao Nai still read it carefully and then signed her name.

The Underground City Championship is spearheaded by the Adventurers Guild, with a long history, even longer than most countries in the north.

Therefore, it is very mature in all aspects, ensuring absolute fairness, justice, and transparency, where money and power cannot interfere with the rules.

First are the tracks; based on the composition of participants, there are three main tracks: Adventurer Group, Amateur Group, and Youth Group.

The teams in the Adventurer Group are all professional high-level adventurers, sponsored by great nobles and wealthy individuals, making the competition incredibly fierce.

The Amateur Group is much more relaxed, mostly consisting of mid to low-level adventurers who spontaneously form teams to participate, focusing on leisure.

As for the Youth Group that Dick signed up for, it's somewhat special; most participants are students from magic academies in various countries, almost all of whom are children of nobles.

Anyone in their youth from any race, whose magic profession level exceeds ten, can sign up for the Youth Group, regardless of status.

This leads to an unavoidable situation: the Youth Group is a mixed bag, and the strength gap between teams is incredibly wide.

You can see commoner children who just reached level ten, participating with a playful attitude, forming teams with three to five friends, focusing on participation.

You can also see Academy Department Heads at level dozens, determined to win the Championship, forming luxurious lineups, focusing on competing fiercely.

Some teams in the Youth Group are even heavy favorites to win if placed in the Adventurer Group.

This world has never lacked geniuses, even in the most barren lands of the north.

In every Underground City Championship, you can see some super strong teams in the Youth Group!

For example, high-level teams with an average level of thirty...

Teams composed entirely of Department Heads...

Professional teams built with great expense...

Those aiming for the Youth Group Championship are all formidable individuals; every one of them is at least a C-level adventurer team!

Next are the team requirements; regardless of the track, each participating team is required to consist of five members, with no restrictions on profession.

Therefore, Dick and Xiao Nai still need to find three more people to form a team.

Almost without thinking, candidates popped into Dick's mind: Mina, Alice, and Beyonce.

Of course, among the three, besides Beyonce, the former Head of the Swordsman Department, Alice and Mina are not the optimal choices in terms of strength.

But it doesn't matter; when Dick chooses teammates, he never considers strength, only whether they can follow arrangements.

If not for the World Task's arrangements and the competition system requirements, Dick would have even planned to participate alone, as the Championship is 98% his anyway.

In a small competition in a mere barren land, if he can't even secure first place, then the accumulation from a hundred lifetimes of rebirth would be for naught.

Finally, there are the rules of the Championship, which are somewhat similar to a marathon.

The Underground City where the Championship is held has a total of five levels, each with a checkpoint; the first to check in on the final level is the champion.

This seems very simple, as if it's just a pure speed race; whoever is faster is the champion.

But in reality, each level of the Underground City has a large number of Beasts, and there are also many traps, and the terrain is extremely complex, making it easy to get lost.

In previous Underground City Championships, casualties are unavoidable, but 80% of the deaths are not caused by Beasts or traps, but by humans.

In order to compete for rankings, the teams are not friendly with each other, with violent brawls, malicious teaming, and killing incidents occurring endlessly.

Some people aren't even there to compete; they specifically ambush noble children, plundering magic items and wealth; in short, they are bandits.

The Underground City Championship is a microcosm of the entire world, where all sorts of ugliness are fully displayed.

But Dick felt like a fish in water; he could finally let loose, without worrying about the Academy's rules or the Empire's laws.

As soon as he entered the Underground City, Dick arrived at his home ground; those little brats could see what true evil is.

On the way back to the dormitory, the two remained silent; Dick was thinking about another World Task, 'Secret News of Terror in the Past'.

The System's introduction was very simple, too simple!

The previous 'Seven Great School Ghost Stories' at least had some direction, and he could find someone like Xiao Nai, a know-it-all, to lead the way.

But what is this 'Secret News of Terror in the Past'? There are almost no clues; when he asked Xiao Nai, she was also completely bewildered.

If it's not specifically indicated, does that mean everything suspicious could be a secret news item, and he needs to investigate them all himself?

For example, Anberer'er, who has been trapped in the Academy.

She had long since let go of the bullying she suffered in life and couldn't be bothered to seek revenge, so what kind of resentment could trap her for ten years? Even Anberer'er herself didn't understand.

There's also Old Tom's wife, who died of illness fifty years ago.

This was a high-level brewer, a magic profession that extends lifespan; dying young, and from illness at that, is clearly extremely illogical.

And the strangest is the intermediate Demon, Kun.

It was born in the Academy, which is the biggest anomaly itself; not just anywhere can nurture a Demon, unless it's a place of great Yin and evil.

Dick had already discovered these illogical points when investigating 'Former Terrifying Tales', but he didn't pay attention to them.

Dick was too lazy to do anything that brought no benefits.

But now, Dick had no choice but to put effort into investigating, after all, this could grant him three levels and reward him with a colored Blessing.

As they neared the dormitory, Xiao Nai still followed behind Dick, wanting to speak several times but hesitating.

Clearly, Dick was not going to take responsibility for the hooligan act of 'examining the body'; he could come up with ten thousand legitimate reasons to absolve himself of blame.

But thinking of Dick's matter-of-fact expression, Xiao Nai became furious.

He had clearly done such an excessive thing to her, yet how could he still act as if nothing happened? Did he really think she was easy to bully?

Thinking this, Xiao Nai clenched her little fists, sped up to walk in front of Dick, and said aggressively, "Hey, I want to examine your body too."

"Just... just like you did to me just now!"

Hearing this, Dick raised an eyebrow and quickly nodded, saying, "Alright, let's go to my room. I need to take off my clothes and take a bath anyway."

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Two days, rating increased by 0.2, happy, so updating early.

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