21: Chapter 21 Top 100 Nationwide! The Principal Wants to Adopt Him as His Godson!

On the screen, Lin Fan was skinning and disemboweling the dead snake.

His movements were as skilled as a butcher with decades of experience.

The numbers on the leaderboard jumped again.

[First Place: Lin Fan Team — Score: 3150!]

Three thousand points!

As soon as this number appeared, the teachers from the key classes in the Command Center, who were usually arrogant, were completely convinced.

"This kid... he has innate divine strength!"

"Look at his physical Defense, he's not even afraid of poison, and his strength is outrageously high. The scale Defense of a Scarlet Poison Python can't necessarily be cut even with an alloy blade, yet he smashed it open with his bare fists!"

"This is definitely not an F-Rank Talent!

The machine must have been broken when he awakened!

Or it's a mutated talent!"

Everyone was discussing it excitedly, their eyes filled with fanaticism.

This kid was a treasure!

Principal Zhang Dapao was no longer scolding Old Wang.

Instead, he was grinning from ear to ear.

The wrinkles on his face were practically blooming like a chrysanthemum.

He threw an arm around Old Wang's shoulder, acting as intimate as if they were brothers.

"Oh, Old Wang, it really had to be you! You have a discerning eye!"

"To think you could discover such an uncut gem beneath this F-Rank Talent exterior!"

"This kind of educational method—letting students develop freely and even using reverse psychology to get him to sign up—is brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!"

Old Wang looked bewildered, his eyes rolling back as he was choked.

"Huh? Is... is that so?"

"I don't think... that's what I said earlier, right?"

"Hey! Don't worry about the details!"

Principal Zhang Dapao waved his hand dismissively.

"Regardless, Lin Fan is now the signature student of our school!

When he comes out, I will personally present him with an award!"

"No! I want to adopt him as my godson!"

The more Principal Zhang Dapao thought about it, the more excited he became.

"With a godson in the national top 100, next time I go to the city for a meeting, let's see who dares to act cocky with me!"

"Quick, quick, quick! Broadcast this news to the whole school!

Let all the students still at school know! Let's bring some glory to our No. 3 High School!"

...

Meanwhile, at the camp on the outskirts of the Mist Forest, things were already in an uproar.

Those students who had dropped out early or been eliminated were gathered under the giant scoreboard, questioning their lives.

"3150 points?! Is this a score a human can achieve?"

"Who exactly is this Lin Fan? Why have I never heard of this person before?"

"I heard it's that masochist who gets beaten up on the playground every day..."

"Holy crap? A masochist is this fierce?"

"When I get out, I'm going to go to a massage parlor and get beaten up hard too!"

Just then, a rustling sound came from the jungle.

Li Hao emerged, looking disheveled, with his two lackeys.

They were covered in wounds, and their clothes were tattered.

They looked like they had just escaped from a refugee camp.

Li Hao had originally thought that since he had killed a few Wind Blade Wolves, he would at least make it into the top ten.

But when he looked up and saw the name in first place...

Pfft! He almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Lin Fan?! First place?! Three thousand points?!"

Li Hao's eyes were bulging, and he grabbed a lackey next to him and shook him.

"Am I seeing things?! Look, did they add an extra zero?!"

The lackey was about to be shaken to the point of vomiting.

"Hao... Brother Hao, it's real! He really is first! And it's still rising!"

"I don't believe it!!"

Li Hao's mentality collapsed.

He, with his dignified A-Grade Talent, was actually being trampled underfoot by an F-Rank Talent trash?

And that trash was currently with his goddess, Xia Wanqiu!

The two of them, a man and a woman alone in the deep mountains and old forests...

Thinking of this, Li Hao felt even more ashamed and angry.

"Cheating! He definitely cheated!"

Li Hao roared hysterically.

"I want to report him! I want to investigate him!"

The surrounding students looked at him as if he were an idiot.

Cheating? Cheating in this trial with all-around surveillance and spiritual power detection?

Are you questioning the military's technology, or everyone's intelligence?

"Tch, is it that hard to admit someone else is better?"

"Exactly, Lin Fan even dared to swallow a venomous python raw, why don't you do it if you're so capable?"

Someone started to Taunt him.

This is reality; whoever has the hardest fists is the boss.

Before, everyone fawned over Li Hao because he was strong.

Now that Lin Fan was ten times fiercer than him, everyone naturally started to switch sides.

Listening to the discussions around him, Li Hao's face turned the color of pig liver, and his fists clenched, cracking audibly.

"Lin Fan... you just wait!"

"When we get out of this trial and reach the actual combat arena, I will definitely beat you back to your original form!"

...

"Achoo!"

Lin Fan rubbed his nose.

"Which grandson is badmouthing me?"

He carefully put away the poison sac he had dug out from the venomous python.

This thing was good stuff.

Although he couldn't use it himself, if he took it to the black market to sell, it could fetch at least 200,000!

Plus the bear paws and monster cores from before, this trip would definitely net him over a million!

"My sister's medical expenses are covered, and I can even get a better house..."

Lin Fan felt happy inside.

"Here, Class Monitor, this snake skin is for you."

Lin Fan generously handed a roll of fishy-smelling snake skin to Xia Wanqiu.

"If you make this into leather armor, it's fireproof, theft-proof, and pervert-proof.

It's very comfortable to wear close to the body."

Looking at the lump of stuff that was still dripping mucus, Xia Wanqiu's mouth twitched.

"I don't... I don't want it! It's too disgusting!"

"Oh, stop being so pretentious!

Can't you just wash it and use it?

This is money too!"

Lin Fan shoved it directly into her hands.

"Take it! Captain's orders!"

Xia Wanqiu had no choice but to hold her nose and put it into her storage bag.

Looking at Lin Fan's money-grubbing appearance, she didn't feel any disgust at all.

Instead, she thought... he was kind of cute?

After all, he was working so hard to make money to treat his sister's illness, right?

Xia Wanqiu recalled the scene she had seen at the hospital earlier.

Her heart instantly softened completely.

This boy who looked unserious was actually more responsible than anyone else.

"Lin Fan, where are we going next?"

Xia Wanqiu's tone had completely turned into that of a little fangirl.

Wherever Lin Fan pointed, she would fight.

Lin Fan looked around.

Although his score was currently first, it wasn't stable enough.

After all, there were so many freaks in the country.

If he wanted to secure the top 100, or even aim higher, it shouldn't be that simple!

However, what he didn't know was that 3000 points!

Even nationwide, that was already enough to be in the top 30!

Every time he killed a BOSS, his ranking increased at an absurdly exaggerated speed!

"Let's go! To the core area!"

Lin Fan pointed to the deepest part of the forest, where there was a mountain peak shrouded in black mist.

"If I remember correctly, there should be a Level 3 big guy there!"

Xia Wanqiu's legs went weak.

Level... Level 3?!

That was an existence corresponding to a Level 3 Martial Master for humans!

"Are... are we really going to go to our deaths?"

"What do you mean go to our deaths?"

Lin Fan turned around.

"That's called... going to restock!"

"Re... restock?"

Xia Wanqiu felt that her train of thought couldn't keep up with Lin Fan's rhythm at all.

Calling a Level 3 monster "restock"?

Is this the world of the strong?

"Let's go!"

Lin Fan didn't waste words, directly pulling Xia Wanqiu's wrist and running towards the core area.

Xia Wanqiu only felt a warmth coming from her wrist.

Her heart rate instantly accelerated to 180 mph.

"Hand... hand..."

She wanted to struggle, but she couldn't bear to let go of this feeling of being protected.

In the end, she could only blush and let Lin Fan pull her as they sprinted through the jungle.

Along the way, for the Level 1 and Level 2 small monsters they encountered, Lin Fan couldn't even be bothered to look at them properly.

If they dared to block the path, he would blast them away with a single punch!