Chapter 158 - 120: Wild Extraordinary Being

Chapter 158: Chapter 120: Wild Extraordinary Being

After dinner.

The two of them went for a walk in a nearby park.

There, they came across a rather interesting street challenge.

[PULL-UP BAR HANG CHALLENGE]

[TEN YUAN PER ATTEMPT]

[HANG FOR ONE MINUTE, WIN 100 YUAN]

[HANG FOR TWO MINUTES, WIN 300 YUAN]

[HANG FOR THREE MINUTES, WIN 1,000 YUAN]

"Senior, is this owner running a charity?"

Xia Shuran rose slightly on her tiptoes and whispered in Gu Qing’s ear, "With this challenge, anyone who works out even a little could make a killing."

Gu Qing’s gaze swept over the owner’s head, where he saw a [Scammer] tag. "It’s not that easy," he said calmly. "That pull-up bar probably rotates. It might even be electrified."

"Huh?"

Xia Shuran was taken aback. "Then isn’t this street challenge just a scam?"

Gu Qing smiled. "Pretty much. Why else do you think he has two huge guys standing behind him? It’s to keep him from getting beaten up after ripping people off."

Xia Shuran thought it couldn’t be that outrageous, so she stood and watched for a while as others took on the challenge.

And when she watched, she found it was exactly as Gu Qing had described.

The pull-up bar really did rotate!

And it really was electrified!

Several muscular gym enthusiasts who came to try were zapped, their bodies convulsing as they lost their grip and fell.

One of them landed at a bad angle and twisted his ankle.

The guy was furious and nearly started a fight with the owner right then and there.

But he was outnumbered and quickly forced to back down by the two huge guys behind the owner.

Xia Shuran watched with a deep frown, her little face filled with indignation as she said:

"No way. I can’t stand seeing people use these petty tricks to cheat people out of their money. I’m going to make him lose that one thousand yuan!"

"Go on, your senior supports you."

Gu Qing liked this kind of righteous junior.

He thought she was very cute.

Full of personal charm.

"Owner, I’ve transferred the ten yuan. I’d like to try once."

Xia Shuran said this as she stepped forward, having scanned the code to pay. She put on a pout and looked at the owner.

When the owner saw she was a delicate-looking young woman with fair skin and slender limbs, his fleshy face immediately broke into a wide smile:

"Go for it, little sis."

’With a girl like this,’ he thought, ’I won’t even need to use my secret tricks. An easy ten yuan.’

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd,

Xia Shuran calmly walked to the pull-up bar, leaped up lightly to grab it with both hands, and began her hang.

At first, the owner thought it would be amazing if a little girl like her could even hang for thirty seconds. The fleshy-faced thug looked completely unconcerned.

Until nearly fifty seconds had passed.

Seeing that Xia Shuran was still hanging perfectly steady, he finally started to panic.

He quickly stuck his hand into his pocket.

And secretly pressed the rotation button on the controller.

The moment he pressed it, the bar Xia Shuran was gripping instantly began to spin.

However, the scene the owner had expected did not unfold.

Xia Shuran didn’t lose her grip; her hands remained firmly clamped around the bar.

’What the hell?!’

’Is this little girl a monkey?’

’She can still hold on through that?!’

The owner was stunned.

After a moment, he came to his senses, now thoroughly panicked. He quickly pressed the electrification button on the controller.

It was time to give Xia Shuran some shock therapy!

The button was pressed.

The next instant,

A weak electric current immediately ran through the bar Xia Shuran was gripping.

The intensity wasn’t high, just a little stronger than the spark from a lighter’s igniter.

Its main purpose was to catch people off guard with a sudden jolt.

It was meant to make them instinctively let go after being shocked.

Unfortunately for him, Xia Shuran was no ordinary person. She was a powerful Extraordinary Awakened.

An insignificant amount of electricity like that couldn’t affect her at all.

She kept her hands firmly gripped on the bar.

seconds.

seconds.

seconds...

Seeing the hang time was about to reach one minute,

The owner grew desperate.

He threw caution to the wind and frantically cranked up the electricity, determined to shock Xia Shuran off the bar.

But his expectations were lush, while reality was skeletal.

No matter how much he increased the current, Xia Shuran’s hands were like they’d been glued to the bar, never letting go.

Time ticked by, second after second.

Amid the cheers of the crowd,

Finally,

Xia Shuran, who looked delicate and weak but was actually incredibly strong, successfully hung for a full minute and won the one-hundred-yuan prize.

"Little sis, you’re still hanging?"

The owner asked with a frown, seeing that Xia Shuran showed no sign of letting go.

"What else would I be doing?"

Xia Shuran blinked and said, "I still have plenty of strength, so of course I’m going to keep hanging."

’Holy crap!’

’This little girl is something else!’

’Where does she get this stamina?’

’Is it because she’s light?’

’But if she’s light, she should have less muscle mass too!’

The owner couldn’t figure it out for the life of him. He felt like he had truly seen it all now and was getting a profound lesson in not judging a book by its cover.

He didn’t dwell on how Xia Shuran was doing it.

He just wanted to cut his losses.

So, he took the initiative and proposed to Xia Shuran:

"Little sis, how about this? I’ll transfer you one hundred fifty yuan right now. Just stop hanging. It’s not easy for me to earn a little money."

"No way. One hundred fifty isn’t enough. I can easily hang for the full three minutes."

Xia Shuran hated scammers the most. Today, she was determined to make this group of street swindlers bleed.

Seeing that Xia Shuran wasn’t taking the bait, the owner decided to just flip the table and stop playing:

"Get down now!"

"Time’s up!"

"I’m closing up shop!"

As he spoke, he moved to pull Xia Shuran down and stop her from hanging any longer.

When the crowd saw this, they were not pleased:

"Hey, hey, hey, what do you think you’re doing? That’s no way to run a business!"

"Exactly! If you can only make money and never lose it, you might as well just rob people. Why even pretend to run a challenge?"

"I’m recording this right now! If you dare touch that little girl, I’m calling the police and telling them you’re molesting her!"