229: Chapter 229 A Crazy Hotel Night (Part 2)

"Holy shit!"

Gou Fugui's hand, which had just grasped the doorknob, recoiled as if he had been electrocuted.

He stared at the room door in horror, the color draining from his face in an instant.

"Who is it?"

Xiang Batian's scalp also tingled, and he asked in a low voice, "It's the middle of the night, why is someone coming again?"

Now the two of them were instantly on high alert, their nerves taut. Was the person outside a new assassin? Or were they allies from Magic City Martial Arts University?

But neither of them dared to gamble on the person outside being an ally at a time like this. Moreover, what if the assassin hiding in the bathroom was a deranged lunatic who, feeling cornered, decided to throw caution to the wind and attack, cutting them down along with everyone else?

With their Tier 3 physical bodies, if they got caught up in a fight of this level, not even a scrap of them would be left!

Facing the "bathroom assassin" who could explode at any moment, Gou Fugui and Xiang Batian realized what it meant to be "stuck between a rock and a hard place" in this extremely cramped entryway.

"Hide! Quickly, hide!"

Driven by a strong desire to survive, Gou Fugui grabbed Xiang Batian's massive frame, and the two scurried around the room like headless flies.

Under the bed? No, that's too obvious. And what if they collapsed the bed later?

Finally, their gazes locked simultaneously onto the massive mahogany wardrobe in the corner of the room.

"This is it! Get in quickly!"

"Don't push me! You're too big!"

"Move your abacus away! It's digging into my pectoral muscles!"

Accompanied by a flurry of extremely slight, yet frantic commotion.

Two grown men managed to force themselves into the wardrobe just like that.

For the sake of safety, Gou Fugui thoughtfully left a tiny gap, and the two shivered in the darkness while peeking out to observe.

"Knock, knock, knock."

The knocking sound was exceptionally clear in the quiet corridor.

Outside the door, Principal Pang Ban was wearing an exquisite vintage long gown, holding that 50,000-word "Tactical Analysis Report" which was as thick as a brick, his face full of a benevolent "concern for the country and the people."

"Sigh, this child Jiang You, acting so over-the-top in front of the reporters during the day, he must have been trying to hide his inner nervousness."

"This is his first time traveling far away to play such a high-level game. As his principal, I must come to provide him with some pre-match psychological counseling, and by the way, make sure he memorizes these 50,000 words."

Principal Pang Ban waited for over ten seconds, but Jiang You's familiar voice did not come from inside the room.

"Could he have fallen asleep?"

Principal Pang Ban frowned. As a Tier 5 Grandmaster, his hearing was incredibly sharp.

He pressed his ear slightly against the door panel and listened carefully.

"Rustle, rustle..."

"Don't push me..."

The extremely faint sound of clothing rubbing together, along with whispers suppressed to the extreme, drifted out through the crack in the door.

Although he couldn't hear exactly what was being said, this was definitely not the kind of noise a person should make while sleeping!

Principal Pang Ban's expression changed instantly.

"Someone? And more than one?"

"In the middle of the night, who would be acting sneakily in Jiang You's room? Could it be spies sent by other schools to gather intelligence? Or perhaps..."

Principal Pang Ban subconsciously reached out to grab the doorknob, intending to force his way in.

As a result, the moment he applied force to his wrist, with a "creak," this smart door, which claimed to have a top-tier security system, was pushed open to reveal a crack with extreme smoothness.

"The door wasn't locked? The lock cylinder was even violently destroyed?"

In Principal Pang Ban's cloudy old eyes, two terrifying flashes of light erupted instantly. A powerful aura belonging to a Tier 5 Grandmaster surged within him, ready to unleash a thunderous strike at any moment.

He did not hesitate any longer; like a nimble cat, he pushed the door open and entered silently, then turned and shut the door tightly behind him!

The room was pitch black, with only the faint neon light filtering in from outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

On the large bed, the sound of Jiang You's steady breathing was clearly audible.

Meanwhile, inside the wardrobe, looking through that tiny gap, Gou Fugui and Xiang Batian saw Principal Pang Ban's old face, which appeared exceptionally cold and stern in the darkness, and were so scared they almost peed themselves on the spot.

Had even the principal been alerted?

It seemed the assassin hiding in this room was at least a Tier 5 powerhouse!

The two covered each other's mouths tightly, not even daring to let their heartbeats be too loud.

"There's an assassin!"

The moment Principal Pang Ban entered the room, relying on his grandmaster-level super-perception, he immediately detected the extremely chaotic and dangerous aura in the room.

"In the direction of the bathroom... there is an extremely overbearing fire-element pressure. Although it is suppressed very deeply, that quality of burning everything cannot deceive anyone!"

"Next to it, there is also a cold, bone-chilling killing intent, like a venomous snake! This is at least a Tier 5 assassin!"

"And... over by the wardrobe... there are faintly two extremely weak fluctuations of vital energy that are trying their best to hide!"

Principal Pang Ban was greatly shocked, cold sweat instantly soaking through the long gown on his back:

"Good grief! So many experts have infiltrated?"

"Is this because other schools have completely abandoned their dignity for the sake of winning the championship, sending top-tier experts to jointly assassinate our school's ace prodigy?"

"And they even have reinforcements ambushed in the wardrobe?"

"Very well! Such audacity!"

Principal Pang Ban laughed in anger within his heart. A grandmaster's pride made him yearn to shout "Die, you vermin!" right now, then blast the wardrobe to pieces with a palm strike to kill the small fry first, and then kick down the bathroom door to catch the enemy off guard.

But reason told him that now the enemy was hidden while he was exposed, the opponent's strength was not weak, and Jiang You was still sleeping on the bed like a dead pig, completely defenseless.

If he acted rashly and a Tier 5 level melee broke out, Jiang You, that "glass cannon," would definitely be torn to pieces by the aftermath of the battle!

"To protect this lone seedling, I can only humble myself for now!"

In order to catch them in the act, and also to deliver a fatal blow to the assassins at the critical moment, this dignified Tier 5 Grandmaster, the principal of Magic City Martial Arts University, performed an action that was extremely unbecoming of his status.

He saw Principal Pang Ban brace his hands against the floor, and his whole body, like a boneless loach, with a "whoosh," moved in an extremely smooth and silent posture...

He slid directly under Jiang You's big bed!

"I shall lie in wait here!"

Principal Pang Ban lay in the dark under the bed, mobilizing all his vital energy, holding his breath and focusing, thinking confidently:

"Once you vermin can't hold back and reveal yourselves, I will strike from under the bed, catch you all like turtles in a jar, and wipe you all out!"

At this moment.

There were two mutually hostile experts hiding in the bathroom.

There were two shivering Tier 3s stuffed in the wardrobe.

There was a Tier 5 Grandmaster lying under the bed, ready to strike.

Plus Jiang You, who was sleeping soundly on the bed, completely unaware.

In this originally spacious luxury room, a luxurious lineup sufficient for a small-scale local war had already gathered!

But this was still not the end.

Tonight at the Qianlong Hotel was destined to be a sleepless night of dancing demons.

Two minutes later.

In the corridor, a tall and straight white figure was holding a thick notebook, stopping with a deep gaze at the door of Room 2808.

It was Xie Fuyao, who had been beaten into enlightenment by Jiang You a few days ago and had decided to destroy and then rebuild himself.

After several nights of deep contemplation, Xie Fuyao felt that his state of mind had been greatly sublimated.

So today, he wrote a 30-page long "Profound Review of Defeat and Challenge Plan for the Next Three Years" overnight, wanting to personally slip it into the crack of Jiang You's door, to express his resolute heart of abandoning pride and seeking only the pinnacle of martial arts.

Xie Fuyao walked to the door and was just about to bend down to slip the letter in.

"Creak."

The door was pushed open gently by him.

Xie Fuyao was stunned.

"Why is the door unlocked? And... the lock cylinder seems to have been melted by high temperature?"

An extremely ominous premonition surged into Xie Fuyao's heart.

"Could something have happened to that guy, Jiang You?"

Xie Fuyao's eyes hardened, and without any hesitation, he pushed the door open and slipped inside.

As soon as he entered, Xie Fuyao's Peak Fourth-Order perception was fully activated!

The next second, he was struck as if by lightning, standing frozen in the entryway.

"This... what is going on here?"