3: Chapter 3: The cheat code arrives, quality evolves infinitely!

Su Ming's pupils constricted—he couldn't dodge it!

He had just awakened, and the side effects of "Increasingly Heavy" had already begun to manifest.

The heavy sensation in his body, combined with the precursors of Osteoporosis.

Made his neural reaction time completely unable to keep up with an S-rank Awakened's burst.

He gritted his teeth and violently crossed his arms to protect his face.

"Bang!"

The flaming fist slammed fiercely into Su Ming's arms.

The burning sensation tore through the skin of his forearms, and a teeth-grinding "crack" echoed from deep within his bone marrow.

"Ugh—" Su Ming let out a muffled groan.

His entire body was knocked back five or six steps by the immense force of the impact.

The sleeves of his worn-out school uniform instantly burned to ashes, the skin on his forearms turned bright red and blistered, and the excruciating pain of his ulna cracking made cold sweat pour down his forehead.

But he bit his teeth together tightly, stubbornly refusing to let out a scream.

Zhao Kuo flicked the flames off his hand and smiled cruelly.

"Your bones cracked, didn't they? Let's see how you block the next punch."

As he spoke, a basketball-sized lava fireball began to condense in his palm; he was clearly intending to kill!

"Stop!"

Only then did the homeroom teacher, Homeroom Teacher Wang Jianguo, who had been watching the show on the sidelines, finally step out with a pretense of intervention.

He wasn't doing it to protect Su Ming, but rather to press down Zhao Kuo's hand with a fawning expression.

"Young Master Zhao, please calm your anger. Using lethal talents in school violates school rules."

"The college entrance exam is coming up soon; it's not worth getting a disciplinary record for someone like this."

After saying this, he turned his head sharply and pointed at Su Ming's nose, cursing him roundly.

"Su Ming! You are truly an ungrateful wolf!"

"The school, considering you are an orphan, let you study for free for three years. Is this how you repay us?"

"Insulting classmates and provoking a martial arts genius!"

Su Ming also felt the anger rising within him now.

He clutched his fractured arm and looked at Homeroom Teacher Wang Jianguo coldly.

"Who did I insult? He attacked me first. Are you blind?"

"Bullshit! It was clearly you who insulted him first!"

Homeroom Teacher Wang Jianguo was blatantly twisting the truth.

"I now formally announce that Su Ming has a terrible character and extremely poor talent."

"Effective immediately, you are expelled from Class 2 of the third year! You don't even deserve the qualifications to take the college entrance exam!"

"And another thing!"

A flash of ruthlessness crossed Homeroom Teacher Wang Jianguo's eyes as he added one more thing.

"Additionally, I will apply to the Federation to cancel your monthly eight-hundred-yuan orphan poverty subsidy."

This statement was even more ruthless than Zhao Kuo's flaming fist.

For Su Ming, those eight hundred yuan weren't just for food; they were the money he used to buy high-calcium supplements to keep himself alive.

To kill someone, you don't need a knife; a single mouth is enough.

Su Ming stared fixedly at Homeroom Teacher Wang Jianguo, saying word by word:

"Article 17 of the Federal Law states that no one has the right to deprive an eligible Awakened of their qualifications for the college entrance exam."

"As long as I pass the written exam and the practical combat test, I can get a ticket to a martial arts university."

Hearing this, Homeroom Teacher Wang Jianguo was stunned for a moment, then sneered in his heart.

You bookworm, you've memorized the laws quite well.

But you've probably forgotten that even Tier 1 exotic beasts vary in strength!

When the time comes for the practical assessment, I'll arrange a Raging Armored Boar for you; I doubt you'll even leave a whole corpse behind.

Before his calculations could even settle, Zhao Kuo sneered and stepped forward.

"Since Student Su is so knowledgeable about the law, you must also know that the college entrance exam's practical assessment allows for arena challenge matches between students, right?"

He lowered his voice, like a cat teasing a mouse.

"I formally challenge you to the arena during the practical assessment in seven days. Once you're on the arena, life and death are up to fate."

"I want to smash every one of your remaining bones in front of the entire school."

Su Ming knew that in the face of an absolute gap in strength and status, making threats had no meaning other than giving the other party a bit of mocking pleasure.

If you have the ability, it's called posturing; if you don't, it's just being an idiot.

He took a deep look at Zhao Kuo, Liu Ruyan, and that snobbish Homeroom Teacher Wang Jianguo.

He etched these three ugly faces deep into his mind.

"Fine. See you at the college entrance exam in seven days."

After saying this, Su Ming turned around and, dragging his feet which felt slightly heavy due to the weight increase, strode out of the Awakening Hall.

Posturing done, run!

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Just as he walked out of the school gate, Su Ming felt as if his skin and flesh were filled with lead.

The side effects of "Increasingly Heavy" had actually arrived so quickly.

Su Ming looked up at the gray sky and let out a long breath.

From today on, he, Su Ming, would stop pretending.

Whatever aloofness, whatever top student, whatever carefree attitude—it was all fucking bullshit.

He was just a poor loser, a troll, and an unlucky guy who transmigrated only to be rubbed into the ground by fate.

But so what?

A trace of a smile appeared on his face; in that smile, there was self-mockery, relief, and just a little bit of—craziness.

If his life was truly worthless, then at worst, he would just be beaten to death by Zhao Kuo in the arena in seven days and delete his account to start over.

But if I have a chance to turn the tables, if I have the capital to become stronger.

Then all the words buried in his heart today, he would tell them everything, exactly as it was.

He stumbled all the way back to that cramped, low-rent apartment.

The moment he pushed open the door, Su Ming's body finally gave out completely.

His kneecaps made a dull thud, and Su Ming slammed onto the concrete floor, his forehead hitting it and bruising.

He tried to push himself up from the floor.

The excruciating pain in both his arms made him wince.

He could feel his body becoming heavier second by second.

This was his original talent.

Not becoming stronger, but being crushed to death by himself.

Three years since transmigrating, working diligently as a good student, it was supposed to be a content and mundane script.

But on Awakening Day, he was directly rubbed into the ground by fate.

His girlfriend ran away, the whole school mocked him, and he even obtained a talent that was a slow suicide.

If a web novel were written like this, the readers would definitely be cursing.

Those who are cursing must help me write a bad review for the Transmigrator Association!

At this moment, he had no mind to fantasize about those "thirty years east, thirty years west" power fantasies in novels.

He just lay there quietly on the rough floor.

His eyes stared fixedly at the cracks on the ceiling.

A low, deep laugh escaped his throat.

"Hahaha... Heavy, is it? Get heavier! Osteoporosis? Better get even looser!"

"As long as I don't die today, this world will have to tremble because of my 'weight'!"

This madness, bordering on collapse, seemed to touch the edge of some taboo.

Just at this moment, a cold, mechanical prompt sounded deep within his mind.

[Host's bone density detected to be severely deficient; body facing a mass collapse crisis. Activation conditions met.]

[Beginning analysis of host's talent "F-rank · Increasingly Heavy"... Analysis complete!]

[Matching with the Myriad World Origin Sequence Library... Matching successful!]

[Sequence compatibility 100%!]

[Beginning evolutionary upgrade... 10%... 20%... 100%!]

[Congratulations to the host, your talent has received an ultimate upgrade—]

[F-rank · Increasingly Heavy promoted to SSS-rank · Infinite Mass Evolution (Unique)]

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