253: Chapter 253 The Uncontrollable Hand of a Salted Fish!

Just then, a female prodigy wearing the water-blue skirt uniform of a certain university, looking extremely sweet, and wearing a ring inlaid with a top-grade ice-blue spatial source stone on her hand, happened to pass by Jiang You while holding a glass of red wine.

She seemed to take an interest in a delicate little cake on the buffet table, leaned over slightly, and reached out her slender, jade-like hand—the one wearing the top-grade ring—to pick up the tongs.

In that lightning-fast moment!

"Hum—!"

Without any warning!

Jiang You discovered in sheer terror that his right hand, which had just put down a roasted lamb leg and was still covered in cumin and chili powder, had suddenly completely escaped his control!

Like a venomous snake that had been lurking for a long time and suddenly struck to hunt, it lunged with an extremely swift yet incredibly lecherous trajectory, domineeringly grabbing towards the fair, delicate hand of the female prodigy next to him!

"Holy shit!!!"

Jiang You was so scared that his soul nearly left his body; every hair on his body stood on end at that moment, like a startled hedgehog!

"Oh no, my hand moved on its own!"

"What am I doing! Trying to touch someone's hand in public?"

"Isn't this acting like a pervert in public!!!"

Seeing that the "Salted Fish Hand," reeking of cumin, was less than two centimeters away from the girl's jade-like hand.

Jiang You thought fast in his desperation, instantly unleashing the extreme reaction speed of eighteen years of being single, along with an intense desire to survive!

"Slap!!!"

A crisp, loud sound like a firecracker suddenly exploded in the quiet corner of the buffet table!

Jiang You swung his only controllable hand—his left—and mercilessly slapped his own right hand, which was attempting to "ambush the girl"!

The force of this slap was so great that it instantly left a bright red handprint on the back of Jiang You's own right hand!

The sudden, crisp sound instantly startled the female prodigy next to him.

She turned her head sharply, still holding her wine glass.

Then, she saw an extremely abstract scene that would be enough to give her nightmares for three days.

A boy wearing the black-and-gold uniform of Magic City Martial Arts University, his mouth stained with grease from the roast meat, was holding his own right wrist tightly with his left hand in an extremely twisted posture.

And the fingers of that right hand were still, in an extremely lecherous and unwilling manner, clawing at the empty air in her direction!

Jiang You was covered in cold sweat, so embarrassed he wished he could use his toes to dig a three-bedroom apartment into the floor and bury himself in it.

He desperately used his left hand to press back his right hand, which was still struggling wildly and trying to reach for her spatial ring, while bowing and scraping, apologizing frantically with a terrified expression:

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry, miss!"

"It's a misunderstanding! A huge misunderstanding!"

Jiang You was so anxious that tears were almost falling, and he explained incoherently:

"I... my hand has a mind of its own! It's an independent lifeform! It just went crazy, I really didn't want to molest you!"

"I swear! I absolutely did not want to touch your hand! It's all this hand's fault! I have a localized form of sleepwalking while wide awake!!!"

"..."

The female prodigy stood there, stunned.

She looked at Jiang You's greasy right hand, which was still struggling and clawing at the air, and then at Jiang You's face, which looked somewhat contorted due to extreme terror.

Then, she recalled the news article that had been spreading like wildfire on the forum earlier that day: "The Mad Dragon of Magic City: Everyone Here Is Trash."

The female prodigy swallowed hard.

In her eyes as she looked at Jiang You, the awe she had previously felt for an expert was gone, replaced only by extreme fear and disgust, as if looking at a "severe schizophrenic and super pervert"!

"You... you psycho!!!"

The female prodigy let out a shrill scream, abandoned the red wine glass in her hand, threw it directly on the table, lifted her water-blue skirt, and fled in panic on her high heels as if she had seen a ghost.

As she ran, she shouted to the security guards in the distance: "There's a pervert here who tried to touch me!!!"

"..."

In the corner, Jiang You was suddenly left all alone.

He maintained the weird posture of his left hand tightly gripping his right, while still holding half of a half-eaten roasted pork knuckle.

The surrounding air seemed to have frozen.

Several other university contestants not far from the buffet table heard the scream and cast looks of extreme disdain, strangeness, and even a hint of disgust in his direction.

Jiang You felt these gazes, which felt like needles pricking his back.

He closed his eyes in despair, and a clear tear slid from the corner of his eye.

"It's over..."

Jiang You let out a blood-curdling wail in his heart:

"This damn sleepwalking condition..."

"Sooner or later, it's going to get me thrown into a maximum-security prison in the Great Xia!!!"

Just as Jiang You was performing a "self-slap" in the corner to restrain his uncontrollable "Salted Fish Hand," successfully scaring a female prodigy out of her wits.

In the very center of the Zhaixing Tower hall, beneath the most brilliant, giant crystal chandelier.

Numerous team captains from some of the top universities across the Great Xia were holding wine glasses, forming an exclusive high-end circle that no one dared to approach.

And standing in the center of this circle was none other than the new captain of the Magic City Martial Arts University second team, Lu Xingye!

At this moment, Lu Xingye had his signature black trench coat open, revealing the well-tailored black-and-gold team uniform underneath.

He had one hand in his pocket, while his other hand—wrapped in "nine-point-nine-yuan shipping included mysterious rune bandages"—gently swirled the crimson wine in his glass.

Although he had two dark, bruised panda eyes, under the aura he had deliberately cultivated of "having experienced the vicissitudes of life and bearing sins," these two dark circles actually gave him a sense of brokenness, like a "battle-damaged, cool male god."

"Everyone, do not let your eyes be blinded by this false prosperity."

Lu Xingye lowered his voice, using a bass-heavy tone as if chanting from the abyss, and spoke indifferently to the experts around him:

"Beneath this glamorous banquet, I smell... the stench of the old order decaying. Only a blade that cuts through all bonds can carve out a bloody path to the throne in this impending War of the End."

"..."

The top prodigies around him, who usually spent their time in deep mountains and old forests or in closed-door cultivation in gravity rooms, had never seen such a display.

Hearing Lu Xingye's inscrutable speech, filled with high-level vocabulary like "End," "Old Order," and "Throne," right now.

The copper bell-like eyes of Northern Border Military Academy's Zhao Zhenlei were instantly filled with deep awe, thinking, "Although I don't understand what he's saying, this kid feels really awesome!"

The other captains of prestigious schools also nodded one after another, completely bluffed by Lu Xingye's "Righteous Round Table Arbiter" demeanor, feeling that this person was deeply calculating and not to be underestimated.

However, just when the atmosphere of this high-end gathering was extremely harmonious.

A captain from a key martial arts academy in the south seemed to recall something and asked curiously, probing:

"Captain Lu, when I saw you arrive just now, how come you were... ten meters away from that Jiang You from the first team of Magic City Martial Arts University?"

"Logically speaking, aren't you two life-and-death brothers from the same class?"

"How did you suddenly become the captain of the second team? Could it be... that inside Magic City Martial Arts University, it's really as the rumors say, and the Twin Stars have broken up?"