316: Chapter 316 Even if you're using cheats, you still have to go up and throw a couple of punches, right?

Just as the geniuses of the entire arena were engaged in a terrifyingly deep reading comprehension of Jiang You's "abstract" behavior.

On the high platform.

The higher-ups of the Organizing Committee and the medical staff finally recovered from the shock of that apocalyptic sea of fire.

While arranging for personnel to comfort the traumatized and psychologically scarred contestants below, they gathered together to hold an emergency discussion, looking utterly helpless.

A moment later.

President Xia Yun of the Imperial Capital Martial Arts Academy walked to the front of the high platform, clutching a microphone with a complex expression on his face.

"Ahem..."

President Xia Yun coughed twice, his voice echoing throughout the entire competition center via the amplification array:

"Dear contestants, dear spectators. The Organizing Committee has fully grasped the emergency situation that just occurred within Forbidden Zone No. 009."

"Although the process... was extremely twisted and bizarre, even exceeding the scope of our control."

President Xia Yun swallowed hard, cast a resentful glance at Jiang You in his spongebob pajamas below, and bit the bullet, announcing loudly and reluctantly:

"However, according to the established rules of the Hundred Schools League melee!"

"The final result of the first round is determined by the last contestant remaining in the secret realm!"

"Since, after the sea of fire descended and everyone evacuated, Jiang You, the team captain of Magic City Martial Arts University, relied on his astonishing focus to persist until the very last moment before crushing his jade token to exit!"

"Therefore! I announce!"

"The final winner of the first round of this Hundred Schools League melee is—the Magic City Martial Arts University team!!!"

"BOOM!!!"

Accompanying President Xia Yun's frustrated announcement, a tsunami-like roar of cheers erupted from the hundred thousand spectators!

"Emperor Jiang is invincible!"

"Magic City Martial Arts University is awesome!"

However.

As the absolute focus of the arena, Jiang You himself, who had just won the championship.

Was standing rigidly among the F Class crowd, the question marks over his head practically reaching the sky!

Jiang You: "???"

"What the hell?!"

Jiang You was completely dumbfounded, his dead fish eyes widened larger than copper bells.

He looked at President Xia Yun announcing the results on the high platform, then at the geniuses from various schools around him who were filled with both awe and fear.

"What is going on?"

Jiang You let out a hysterical roar in his heart:

"I was just sleeping comfortably in a cave!"

"I woke up, found it too hot, and crushed my jade token to escape just to protect my rights!"

"How did I wake up... and become the champion who suppressed all the heroes and was the only survivor?"

Is this reasonable?

Does this align with materialist values?

Even if the protagonist in a novel cheats, they at least have to go up and throw a couple of punches to make it look like they did something, right?

He didn't even cast a single skill, didn't even see the enemy, and he got the championship just by lying there?

Watching Jiang You, who was extremely confused and even doubting life.

Qiu Yunan, Gou Fugui, and the rest of F Class opened their mouths, but didn't know where to start.

How to explain?

Tell him that because Gou Fugui cursed someone as a "roasted turkey" online, it incited Qin Zhuo's rampage?

Tell him that because Lu Xingye had a chuunibyou episode, spent 2.5 million to buy an experience card, but forgot to check the time and was instantly killed?

Tell him that because Bai Lan was protecting a bag of tomato-flavored potato chips, she went berserk and manually crafted a full-map coverage version of a nuclear sea of fire?

Everything about this was ten thousand times more abstract than a script written by a third-rate screenwriter!

Who on earth could explain this clearly?

The F Class crowd could only awkwardly look away, pretending to admire the scenery.

And at this moment.

Principal Pang Ban of Magic City Martial Arts University, sitting in the VIP box.

The expression on his wrinkled old face was practically a world-famous painting!

If you said he was happy, his team had indeed taken the first round championship with absolute crushing dominance, winning major face for Magic City Martial Arts University!

If you said he wasn't happy, the process of winning was just too bizarre, too torturous!

He had eaten a whole bottle of emergency heart medication in just one hour for this group of troublemakers!

Principal Pang Ban's mouth twitched violently as he looked at the "great contributor" Jiang You in his spongebob pajamas below, muttering with a strange expression:

"How did things develop... so weirdly..."

"I've been teaching students my whole life, how did I end up teaching such a group of... absolutely absurd lunatics..."

However, just as Principal Pang Ban was doubting life and Jiang You was completely bewildered.

In the plaza, after a brief silence, a highly discordant commotion and protests erupted like cold water dripped into a pot of boiling oil!

"This is unfair!!!"

The captain of a second-rate martial arts academy shouted at the top of his lungs, completely unconvinced:

"President Xia Yun! We strongly protest this championship verdict!"

"Why does Jiang You get to win just because he dragged it out until the end before crushing his jade token? You were the one who shouted three times on the broadcast for us to evacuate and save our lives!"

This captain's words instantly ignited the nerves of those proud geniuses who had been forced out of the secret realm by the "natural disaster" and felt extremely stifled.

That's right!

Everyone had come out only after listening to the official mandatory order!

Everyone was responding to the official call to avoid an irresistible natural disaster!

Why should this guy in spongebob pajamas get the first-round championship just because he dawdled for a moment and was a beat slower, falling so carelessly into the lap of Magic City Martial Arts University?

"Exactly! This is completely unconvincing!"

"We were responding to the evacuation order! He's just opportunistically taking advantage! If it weren't for that fire, if we had fought it out properly, who would win and who would lose wouldn't be certain yet!"

"Rigged! He just got lucky and stepped on the dog shit of the rules!"

For a time, the plaza was filled with righteous indignation.

The team captains who were wary of Jiang You's "peerless schemes" didn't speak, but they all tacitly remained silent, letting their team members and the contestants from smaller schools fan the flames crazily.

After all, no one wanted to watch the priority exploration rights to Dragon Fall Abyss fall into someone else's hands so absurdly.

Listening to the overwhelming protests and extremely nasty curses around him.

Gou Fugui, who had been hiding behind Xiang Batian, felt his face, which had been deathly pale, flush red instantly!

"Screw your mother... I have such a bad temper!"

Gou Fugui felt a ball of evil fire that had been suppressed for a whole hour in his chest, and at this moment, it could no longer be contained!

In the secret realm, he was chased and slashed across the map, burned by Divine Phoenix Fire, cut by Deep Sea Sword Qi, and rolled by sandstorms!

To save his life, he had played the coward the whole way, suffering all the grievances and humiliation of his life!

Now that they had finally come out, and finally won the championship!

These defeated generals who had run faster than rabbits in the secret realm just now, actually dared to spout nonsense here and criticize his Brother Jiang?

Could this be tolerated?