273: Chapter 273 The whole audience is cheering, and Pang Ban is looking for nitroglycerin!

Principal Pang Ban's breathing quickened instantly. The hand holding his teacup trembled violently, and he didn't even notice when the tea spilled all over his crotch.

His aged face darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning so black it seemed ink could drip from it, and the corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably!

If others didn't know what kind of character this guy was, how could he, Principal Pang Ban, not know?!

So-called patience of a top-tier hunter! So-called brilliant tactic of stillness to control movement! It's all complete bullshit!

This little bastard clearly landed, saw that the cave wasn't just hidden but also incredibly cool and refreshing, and just crawled inside, covered himself with his clothes... and laid flat to sleep like a log!!!

"Brother Pang, why is your complexion looking a bit off?" a friendly principal nearby leaned in with a chuckle. "Are you stunned by the astonishing tactical composure of your Jiang You? Oh my, for such a young man to possess such calm, remaining unflustered even if Mount Tai were to collapse before him, he is destined for greatness!"

"Pfft... cough, cough, cough!"

Principal Pang Ban forcibly swallowed a mouthful of old blood, nearly suffering a Brain hemorrhage on the spot.

He forced a smile that looked worse than crying, his back molars grinding with a creak: "Yes... his 'composure' truly has... opened this old man's eyes!"

Principal Pang Ban let out a desperate roar in his heart:

"Jiang You! You just wait for me! Once the competition ends, if I don't hang you from the gates of Magic City Martial Arts University and whip you for three days and three nights, I'll stop going by the name Pang!!!"

Meanwhile. The perspective cuts back to the secret realm of [Forbidden Zone No. 009].

In that hidden cave, hailed by the 100,000 people outside as a "top-tier tactical fortress."

"Hoo... ru..."

Jiang You slept extremely soundly, even happily rolling over in his dream, pulling the black and gold team uniform covering his stomach further up.

However, at the very moment Jiang You's main consciousness fell into a deep slumber, the [Organ Chat Group] inside his body immediately became lively!

[Legs (shaking crazily, as anxious as if working a sewing machine)]:

"He's asleep, he's asleep! This Slacker Ruler has finally fallen dead asleep! Brother Brain, is it my turn to shine? I've been holding it in all morning. This secret realm map is so huge, it's a top-tier track tailored just for me! Let me go out and run a few laps; I guarantee I'll run faster than the wind. The cameras outside won't even be able to catch my exhaust!"

[Brain (adjusting reflective glasses, cold data streams flashing in its eyes as it strategizes)]:

"Calm down, Legs. You do need to go out, but not to run around aimlessly."

"Everyone, remember our ultimate strategic policy for the first round: stay low and farm!"

[Kidneys (rubbing hands lecherously, eyes shining)]:

"Hehehe, understood! Let those self-important prodigies go kill each other first and scavenge for treasures across the map for us! Once they're all fat and juicy, we'll wipe them all out in a single key battle in the next round and get rich!"

[Brain]:

"Exactly! For this first round, we stay put in this cave and focus all our energy on deciphering its spatial laws and broadcasting arrays!"

"Once we reach the ultimate melee in the second round, and these prodigies have fattened up the sheep, we'll seize the highest authority of this dungeon! By then..."

"Turn off the lights! Cut off the broadcast signal to those 100,000 spectators and cameras outside!"

"In absolute darkness and shielding, Right Hand, you can then let loose and give them a shopping spree of zero cost in the physical sense! By then, even the victims won't know who robbed them. Isn't that perfect!"

[Right Hand (gasping, its five fingers twitching wildly in excitement)]:

"Hehehe... just thinking about it makes me want to scream with excitement!"

[Brain]:

"All organs, heed my command! First match, enter silent decryption mode! Concentrate all energy on analyzing the dungeon laws. Do not act until we have obtained authority! Hand over full surface control of the body to that snoring Slacker Ruler!"

Whoosh! As the organs entered "background AFK hacker mode" with perfect tacit understanding, Jiang You's main consciousness comfortably immersed itself in deep sleep.

In the cave, only his extremely peaceful, even somewhat sweet snoring remained.

Meanwhile. In a dense forest dozens of kilometers away from Jiang You's peaceful cave.

"Boom!" A ball of pure golden Divine Phoenix Fire shot into the sky, burning several Tier 3 demonic beasts that attempted a sneak attack into sky-filling ashes.

A "female bandit" wearing a black baseball cap, oversized sunglasses, and a thick medical mask stood panting in the center of the scorched earth.

Qin Zhuo's mood today was irritable to the extreme!

She couldn't stand the sight of anyone right now. Any living thing that appeared in her line of sight was immediately subjected to an indiscriminate high-temperature bombardment!

"Scumbag... psycho... pervert..."

"Because of you, I haven't even dared to show my face! I have to disguise myself in this embarrassing getup!"

Qin Zhuo muttered through gritted teeth while stepping on the charred corpses of the demonic beasts, her mind filled with the inescapable, ultimate social death scene in the hotel restroom.

"Jiang You! You better hide well! Don't you dare let me find you in this secret realm, or this young lady will definitely burn that annoying face of yours into a frying pan!!!"

"And that 'Boss Gou' person, don't let me see you!"

"Go to hell, all of you! All of you go to hell for this young lady!!!"

Qin Zhuo transformed into a human-shaped walking nuclear bomb, rampaging through the forest.

Whether she encountered demonic beasts or prodigies from other schools, as long as they dared to appear in her line of sight, they were all cruelly burned into white light by her Divine Phoenix Fire!

"Hiss—!!" At the commentator's booth outside, the commentator looked at the "bandit" on the screen trailing sparks and lightning all the way, swallowing hard:

"Imperial Capital Martial Arts University's team captain, Qin Zhuo, her state today... is simply killing gods if gods stand in her way, and killing Buddhas if Buddhas stand in her way! Has she turned the melee into a place to vent her anger? Who on earth made her this angry?!"

Meanwhile, in a dried-up riverbed not far from the forest where Qin Zhuo was wreaking havoc.

The "logistics duo" from Class F of Magic City Martial Arts University—Gou Fugui and Xiang Batian—were crouching, hiding extremely lecherously behind a huge riverbed rock.

To say these two could end up together in this vast secret realm, it could be said that they were severely favored by fate.

Just a few dozen minutes ago.

Xiang Batian had just been randomly teleported into this dried-up riverbed and was preparing to take off his shirt to test the biomechanical effects of this otherworldly air resistance on his bicep exertion.

As a result, in the void less than a meter above his head, a blinding white light representing spatial teleportation suddenly lit up!

Before Xiang Batian could strike his bodybuilding pose, just as the ball of white light stabilized, a figure was actually "spat" out by the teleportation array in an extremely miserable manner!

Because this guy Gou Fugui had been kicked into the light gate by Qin Zhuo from the outside, this extremely rigorous level teleportation gate had actually "thoughtfully" preserved his initial physical inertia from when he entered!

Only a piercing and incredibly brainwashing scream was heard coming from the white light:

"Buy second-hand... go to Boss Gou... ouch, holy shit!!!"

"Bang!"

Gou Fugui, who had just spawned, didn't even have room to buffer. Face down, he slammed solidly into Xiang Batian's rock-hard, freshly engorged pectoral muscles.

The two of them, in this extremely abstract and dramatic way, completed the hardest "perfect start rendezvous" epic achievement in the melee mode.