370: Chapter 370 Even the Heavenly Belt can't carry a useless teammate!

Half an hour later.

Inside the conference room of the Qianlong Hotel.

The atmosphere was stifling; even the air seemed permeated with an inescapable sense of frustration.

"Bang!"

The conference room door was shoved open violently. Principal Pang Ban walked in with a dark, aged face, his strides long and swift.

He plopped down into the main seat and reached for the teacup on the table, wanting a drink, only to find the tea cold. Furious, he slammed the cup onto the tabletop, splashing water everywhere.

"Shameless! It's an absolute mockery of the world!"

Principal Pang Ban pointed at the conference room door and began a frantic, spit-flying tirade at the air:

"That old geezer surnamed Zhao has completely disgraced Kuangsha Academy!"

"He was kicked out of the secret realm like trash, yet he still has the nerve to fight for first place? He's even threatening the Organizing Committee using our Magic City Martial Arts University's results from the first round!"

"This old bastard just gets more shameless with age. I should have slapped that full beard of his right off his face back in the day!"

The members of Class F below, watching the principal rage, sat up straight, not daring to even breathe loudly.

Gou Fugui adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses and muttered softly, "Exactly, those guys have absolutely no bottom line. At least Brother Jiang relied on his real skills to sleep until the end in the first round. What are they? They were all stripped to their underwear by the Faceless Man and kicked out. How can that count as surviving to the end?"

Xiang Batian also pounded his chest muscles indignantly: "Principal, you shouldn't have held me back at the time. My sandbag-sized fists have been itching for a fight; I really wanted to go up and beat that Kuangsha Academy team member to a pulp!"

"Alright, alright, everyone quiet down!"

Principal Pang Ban ranted for a full ten minutes, and most of the anger in his heart was finally vented.

He coughed twice, his expression gradually turning serious, and his gaze swept over each of the main team members present.

"Since the Organizing Committee has already made a preliminary decision on today's events, complaining here is useless."

"In the Great Xia Martial Arts World, it ultimately comes down to who has the bigger fist."

Principal Pang Ban curled his fingers and rapped hard on the marble tabletop, saying in a deep voice:

"I will now explain the situation ahead to you all."

"If the Organizing Committee makes the final call tonight and confirms Kuangsha Academy as the winner of the second round, then according to the special rules of the dual-tournament format, our Magic City Martial Arts University and Kuangsha Academy must hold a team tie-breaker to decide the final overall champion!"

Upon hearing the words "team tie-breaker," the air in the conference room instantly changed.

The previously dispirited group suddenly radiated a fierce, wolf-like glint in their eyes.

This was a team match!

Real blades and real guns; everyone facing each other and setting up a formation to duke it out!

No more chaotic brawls or mysterious robberies by the Faceless Man!

"A team match is great!"

A rare, bloodthirsty chill appeared on Xie Fuyao's handsome, perpetually depressed face: "Being chased and hacked at by dozens of them in the secret realm—I've been wanting to settle that score with them for a long time."

"That's right, we must make those guys pay the price!" Senior Ji Youyou toyed with a poison needle emitting a purple glow at her fingertips, her smile bone-chilling.

Lu Xingye even drew his long blade with a "clang," his slicked-back hair unmoved by the conference room's air conditioning. His tone was deep and chuunibyou:

"The gravel of the old order dares to try and block the steps of the abyss."

"When we are on that arena, I shall make that fellow named Helan Que taste the true wrath of the Black Flame Dragon! I will hack him into scattered sand!"

Watching this group of high-spirited "freaks" under his command, Principal Pang Ban nodded in satisfaction.

As long as morale didn't collapse, Magic City Martial Arts University still had a very good chance of winning.

"Very good! Since everyone has this fighting spirit, let's start discussing the team match tactics against Kuangsha Academy. Their main force is basically composed of Earth and Wind Supernatural Abilities, with astonishing defense, but their mobility is relatively..."

As he spoke, Principal Pang Ban stood up, preparing to write and draw on the tactical whiteboard behind him.

He habitually swept his gaze across the students on both sides of the long table.

Jiang You was leaning on the swivel chair at the very edge, his head bobbing as he dozed off.

Beside him were the fist-clenched Xiang Batian, the glasses-adjusting Gou Fugui, the sword-polishing Xie Fuyao, the poison-needle-fiddling Senior Ji Youyou, and the chuunibyou-afflicted Lu Xingye...

Counting them one by one, Principal Pang Ban's voice suddenly stopped.

His hand holding the marker froze in mid-air, and his brows slowly knitted into a tight knot.

"Strange..."

Principal Pang Ban counted from start to finish again, a deep sense of confusion flashing in his eyes.

He didn't know why, but he had a very discordant feeling.

It was as if an inconspicuous puzzle piece in this conference room had been plucked away out of thin air. The more he tried to think about it, the more he felt he had forgotten.

"Why does it feel like... we're missing a person on our side?"

Principal Pang Ban couldn't help but mutter aloud, his gaze sweeping over the few substitute members twice.

Su Nuonuo was eating potato chips, and the other two substitutes were taking notes.

"Missing someone?"

Upon hearing this, Gou Fugui immediately stood up, circled around counting, and then patted his chest with a determined face:

"We're not missing anyone, Principal!"

"The main forces from our Class F are all here. Every radish has its own hole, everything is perfectly in order. Are you having hallucinations because your blood pressure got too high from being angry today?"

"Is that so?"

Principal Pang Ban rubbed his throbbing temples and shook his head vigorously.

He tried to recall carefully for a long time, but his Brain felt like mush; he couldn't figure out what was wrong no matter how hard he tried.

That feeling was like having words on the tip of his tongue that refused to come out, scratching at one's heart.

"Forget it, maybe I'm just really tired."

Principal Pang Ban sighed long and hard and threw the marker back onto the table: "Since we can't decide on the tactics for the moment, and everyone has suffered quite a shock in the secret realm today, let's adjourn the meeting."

"Go back to your respective rooms and get some good rest, recharge your energy, and see what the Organizing Committee arranges for tomorrow!"

Everyone stood up one after another, pushing back their chairs to leave.

Gou Fugui had even started discussing with Xiang Batian what nourishing food to eat at the hotel's buffet downstairs later, to make up for their young, traumatized hearts from today.

However.

At this seemingly mundane moment, when everyone was preparing to disperse.

Jiang You's internal world, which had been in standby mode, had completely exploded!

[Organ Chat Group], the red warning exclamation marks were enough to blind anyone.

[Kidneys (shaking violently with rage)]: "A bunch of hopeless idiots! You can't carve rotten wood!"

"Even god-tier carries like us can't carry these pig teammates who are completely missing their Brain stems!!!"

[Right Hand (rolling up sleeves in a rage)]: "I'm dying of anxiety!"

"The food has been fed right to these people's mouths, and they can't even open their mouths to chew!!"

"Brother Brain, we can't wait any longer!"

"If we let them go back to sleep, and the Organizing Committee's ruling is issued tomorrow, the name of Kuangsha Academy's victory will be set in stone!"

[Brain] took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the urge to send that group of people outside back to the furnace to be remade.

Thinking back to their operations in Forbidden Zone No. 009, the organs had truly exhausted themselves.

At that time, everyone had controlled the Faceless Man to transform into black mist, wantonly looting the geniuses across the entire map and throwing everyone out like trash.

But when they were sweeping through a ruin, they had deliberately bypassed a transparent corner where even breathing was almost non-existent!

They had left that invisible person intact inside the secret realm!

This was supposed to be a trump card left for Magic City Martial Arts University to win!

But look at what happened!

These teammates didn't even realize someone was missing from their own team!