271: Chapter 271 But so what!

Gou Fugui looked left and right, seeing that the people from Class F had already entered, and the team from Imperial Capital Martial Arts University hadn't fully caught up yet, creating a perfect "five-second camera vacuum period" in between.

This was a massive business opportunity!

This was a free advertising slot during a nationwide primetime broadcast!

Gou Fugui was trembling with excitement; he whirled around and slammed himself right in front of the highest-definition camera lens with pinpoint accuracy.

His gold-rimmed glasses were reflecting light crazily, and he spoke so fast it sounded like he was reciting a mantra:

"Hey everyone! Families in front of your TV screens!"

"If you're looking to buy second-hand spirit artifacts, high-grade pills, or even sell your own personal idle items, look for the 'Honest Boss Gou' brand! Place your order now, mention Brother Jiang's name, and get a two percent discount!"

"Remember! For second-hand, go to..."

Gou Fugui hadn't even finished his brainwashing advertisement.

"Get in there, you!!!"

A sharp, incredibly irritable shout, mixed with new grudges and old hatreds, suddenly boomed from behind!

Looking towards the direction of the Imperial Capital Martial Arts University team, Qin Zhuo—who had originally wrapped herself up like a masked bandit, wearing a mask and sunglasses because she desperately didn't want to attract attention—had completely lost her composure!

As the saying goes, if you endure for a moment, you only get angrier the more you think about it; if you take a step back, you only feel more cheated the more you think about it!

Qin Zhuo had made up her mind to keep a low profile today, absolutely refusing to have any physical or visual contact with this bunch of plagues from Magic City Martial Arts University.

But when she saw Gou Fugui's incredibly punchable face up close, the string in her mind called "reason" instantly snapped!

It was this dog of a man wearing gold-rimmed glasses!

He had spent three hours arguing with her on the forum yesterday, and he had witnessed her experiencing the darkest, most socially humiliating moment of her life in Jiang You's bathroom last night!

"Even if I lose my lady-like image today, I have to shut that money-grubbing mouth of yours!"

Blood rushed to Qin Zhuo's head; she didn't even care about concealing her aura anymore.

She launched into a ferociously violent sprint. Her long, toned legs kicked up, and the expensive, custom-made combat boots on her feet landed solidly on Gou Fugui's butt!

"Ouch, my advertising fees!!!"

Accompanied by Gou Fugui's heart-wrenching, shrill wail, he followed in Lu Xingye's footsteps, carving a tragic parabola through the air, flailing his limbs before being kicked ruthlessly into the deep blue teleportation portal.

"Phew..."

Qin Zhuo retracted her long leg, feeling incredibly satisfied. Even through her thick medical mask, one could still hear her gnashing her teeth, her voice trembling with rage as she cursed:

"Magic City Martial Arts University... what on earth kind of lunatics are these people!!!"

The other teams nearby who hadn't entered the dungeon yet watched this scene, swallowed hard, and silently increased their distance from the Imperial Capital Martial Arts University team.

They couldn't afford to provoke them; the big shots this year had tempers that grew more volatile by the minute—even the ones dressed like celebrities were kicking people!

...Meanwhile. Inside Forbidden Zone No. 009.

Jiang You only felt a sudden, intense sensation of weightlessness hit his Brain, as if the space before his eyes had been tossed into a washing machine and churned wildly.

By the time the dizzying sensation faded and his feet were back on solid ground, the world around him had undergone a complete transformation.

This was an incredibly vast fragment of an otherworld, filled with an aura of wild, ancient times!

Jiang You looked around and discovered he had been randomly teleported to the mountainside of a tall mountain.

The surroundings were desolate and perilous, while beneath his feet lay a dense, primitive forest shrouded in thick miasma.

In the far distance, he could even vaguely see a huge, glistening lake, as well as the ruins of an ancient, dilapidated otherworld architectural complex.

A breeze brushed past, carrying the killing intent and wildness of the primordial era.

Jiang You took a deep breath of the otherworld air, which was filled with high concentrations of spiritual energy.

Perhaps it was because the atmosphere in the stadium with one hundred thousand people before entering was too intense, or maybe his own "measuring the heavens and earth" emperor-like speech had made him get too deep into character.

Standing on the cliffside of the mountainside, looking down at the primitive forest filled with unknowns and danger, Jiang You felt an unusually surging, passionate fighting spirit rise in his chest!

"Phew... bring it on!"

Jiang You clenched his fists tightly. In those iconic dead fish eyes, a raging fire named "Protagonist" was burning!

"I am a transmigrator! I have the SSS-grade talent Eye of Tianshu, the god-level skill Inverse Blood Flow Technique, and there's a high probability that an Old Master with a remnant soul lives inside me to fight on my behalf!"

"I am the captain of the Magic City Martial Arts University team! I am the hope of the entire village!"

"Principal Pang trusts me so much! Perhaps this Hundred Schools League, this trip to the Dragon Fall Abyss dungeon, is the starting point for me, Jiang You, to overturn the world and create an eternal legend!"

The more Jiang You thought about it, the more his blood boiled; he was even moved by himself.

He waved his arm violently and roared in his heart towards the vast, primitive forest: "I, Jiang You, will carve a bloody path in this Forbidden Zone No. 009 today! I will let..."

He hadn't even finished his grand declaration in his mind.

In order to strike a cooler pose standing alone against the wind, Jiang You turned around with great flair.

Then... his movements froze abruptly.

Directly in front of his line of sight, inside the cliff wall covered with ancient vines, there appeared a hidden cave—only about the height of a person, dark and dry, with a 22-degree, all-natural cool mountain breeze blowing out slowly.

Deep inside the cave, one could even vaguely see a huge piece of bluestone that was so flat it looked like a natural Simmons single mattress.

"..."

The fighting spirit on Jiang You's face, his emperor-like demeanor, and that raging soul of a protagonist were all extinguished the moment he saw this cave, as if a bucket of liquid nitrogen at minus fifty degrees had been poured over his head, leaving not even a single spark.

Jiang You's expression went blank for a full three seconds.

"Whoosh!" He suddenly turned his head back, staring intently at the primitive forest below. His breathing became rapid, and cold sweat even appeared on his forehead.

"An illusion... this must be a spatial illusion caused by the teleportation just now!"

Jiang You frantically tried to build up his mental defenses in his heart, slapping his cheeks desperately, forcibly brainwashing himself:

"Jiang You, oh Jiang You! Wake up! You are the hope of Magic City Martial Arts University! How can you be unable to move just because you see a cave?!"

"Even... even if that really is a cave! Even if its location is incredibly hidden, with vines blocking the top, making it hard for others to notice... even if it's extremely cool and refreshing, and the moss inside is as soft as a high-end mattress, where you could sleep comfortably for a dozen hours without being disturbed once you lay down..."

"But! So! What!"

Jiang You puffed out his chest righteously, his face filled with integrity and unyielding determination:

"Does doing this live up to Principal Pang's kind gaze from last night?! Does this live up to the grand vow I made outside the door just now?!"

"I, Jiang You, a dignified man of seven feet, possessing peerless talent, am absolutely incapable of wallowing in depravity!"

"Right!"

Jiang You slapped his thigh, his eyes flashing with an incredibly "wise" light as he instantly found a flawless, perfect excuse:

"Since this cave looks so strange, it might be hiding some dangerous high-grade demonic beast, or it could be an ambush trap set by a genius from an enemy school!"

"As the team captain, I must uphold the spirit of exploration: 'If I don't go into hell, who will?' I must enter this cave first to thoroughly scout it for the other students! To confirm if it's really as suitable for sleeping... ah no, as dangerous as I imagined!"

"That's right! This is tactical reconnaissance! It is an extremely noble scouting act! I'm just going to take a look; in any case, I will definitely not wallow in depravity!"

With that, Jiang You crouched down with extreme agility, like a slippery loach. He expertly lifted the mutated vines at the cave entrance and dove headfirst into the dry, cool cave.