Chapter 21: Reforging with Blood

Chapter 21: Chapter 21: Reforging with Blood

The rats are eating people?!

Hearing this horrifying news, the other three in the dorm all froze, their eyes wide with shock.

After a moment, they came to their senses, and the dorm was instantly filled with discussion.

"What do you mean? That perverted Cannibal Giant doesn’t just eat people himself, he feeds them to rats?"

"You guys think this sudden explosion of rats on campus could be the work of that perverted Cannibal Giant?"

"Those two have been missing for so long, and now their tissue is being found inside rats... This means they’re probably not dead, but were imprisoned and fed to the rats alive."

The more they talked, each chiming in, the more horrified they became.

Gu Qing remained silent, just listening quietly.

After listening for a while, he felt they were getting a bit sidetracked.

He looked up at Gao Fei and asked,

"You just said the professor from the School of Life Sciences was dissecting the campus rats to study why they’ve grown so large. Have they found anything?"

"I don’t know about that. My girlfriend didn’t tell me. I’ll ask her now."

Gao Fei said this and pulled out his phone to message his girlfriend without a moment’s hesitation.

His girlfriend replied almost instantly, but the content was a little disappointing to Gu Qing.

The professor from the School of Life Sciences hadn’t found anything abnormal in the giant rats. Their internal structure was identical to that of ordinary rats, showing no signs of mutation.

Just then, Chen Zijie asked doubtfully,

"Gao Fei, your girlfriend is just the head of the external relations department for the School of Foreign Studies. How could she be so well-informed?"

"You might not believe this, but her dad is the dean of our university’s School of Economics and Management."

A smug smile crept onto Gao Fei’s lips.

Qian Duole was stunned. "Holy shit, your girlfriend is that much of a big shot?"

Chen Zijie was sour. "Damn it, the jealousy is tearing me apart."

’Gu Qing felt nothing inside.’

Ever since awakening his golden finger, he had long forgotten what envy felt like.

Seeing his roommates so shocked, Gao Fei felt incredibly satisfied.

He chuckled and comforted Qian Duole and Chen Zijie, the two virgins who had been single since birth:

"My girlfriend’s department has a lot of junior girls who are still single. I’ll find a chance to have her department hold a mixer with our dorm and create an opportunity for you two to get girlfriends."

"Godfather, please accept my bow!"

"Old Gao, you’re a freakin’ god!"

The two who had just been consumed by envy were now practically worshipping Gao Fei like an ancestor.

As for Gu Qing...

From the very beginning, his three roommates had tacitly excluded him.

After all, with a face as handsome as his, all he had to do was stand on a campus path and he’d easily attract several girls asking for his WeChat without doing a thing.

Setting him up on a date would be the greatest disrespect to his good looks.

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「The next morning.」

It was Friday, a rare day with no morning classes.

His roommates were still fast asleep under their covers.

But Gu Qing was already up early.

Before bed last night, he had set a task for himself today.

That was—to test his current combat strength.

As of today, his Physical Strength Attribute had accumulated an increase of 35 points.

Whether it was strength, speed, or defense, everything had become astonishingly powerful.

But he still didn’t have a clear idea of just how powerful he had become.

So, he was going to go out today and conduct a comprehensive test.

To find out exactly how strong he was now.

And how far he was from achieving his goal of giving up beef.

After a quick wash-up,

he gathered a pile of inconspicuous testing tools: toothpicks, a steel needle, toilet bowl cleaner, nail clippers, and so on.

Gu Qing left quietly and headed to a secluded park near the university.

On the way, he passed a breakfast stall and walked right up.

"Boss, I’ll take all the eggs in the pan."

"You got it!"

The owner deftly packed the eggs. "Young man, there are forty eggs in this batch. That’ll be sixty yuan."

Gu Qing scanned the code to pay.

As he was packing the eggs, the owner asked curiously,

"By the way, young man, what are you going to do with so many eggs by yourself?"

"They’re for breakfast."

"Just for breakfast?"

"Yep."

"Then how many people are in your family?"

"It’s just me."

"You’re eating them all by yourself?"

The owner was visibly taken aback for a second.

Then, assuming the young man was just joking, he handed over the bag of eggs with a laugh.

"Forty eggs in one meal? Not even the Egg God himself could eat as much as you."

"The Egg God is just a legend. I’m the real deal."

Gu Qing took the bag, picked up an egg, and without even peeling it, tossed it into his mouth and swallowed it whole.

Holy shit, this kid...

The owner stared, completely dumbfounded.

Ignoring the man’s astonishment, Gu Qing turned and walked away.

One step, one egg.

In less than two minutes,

he’d finished all forty eggs.

He had eaten so much, so quickly.

Yet his stomach didn’t feel the least bit full.

’If only I had Immortal Beans from Dragon Ball,’ Gu Qing mused. ’One of those would keep me full for days, saving me the trouble of eating so much every day.’

After walking for a few minutes,

he reached the park entrance.

Gu Qing didn’t rush in to find a testing spot.

Instead, he first went to a convenience store and bought a lighter.

Only then did he enter the park, heading deep into the woods on the mountain.

He climbed up the mountain path.

Winding and turning,

he finally arrived at a weed-choked spot on the mountainside.

The area was relatively remote and rarely visited, making it the perfect place to test his Physical Strength.

He took out his phone and started recording.

He propped it up against a large tree.

Then, Gu Qing took off his shirt, recording his physique for the camera so he could observe the muscles on his back.

The moment his shirt came off, mosquitoes, drawn by the scent, swarmed over and began biting him frantically.

Gu Qing’s skin only looked delicate; in reality, his defense was maxed out, and he was incredibly tough.

No matter how hard the mosquitoes bit, they couldn’t break through his defense.

"You flimsy little weaklings think you’re worthy of biting me?"

Gu Qing looked at the exasperated mosquitoes around him and jeered, "Go back and practice for a few more years!"

With that, he picked up his phone and began admiring his own muscles with great interest.

In the video, his muscles didn’t look bulky.

Instead, they were lean and well-defined, every inch radiating condensed, explosive power.

Without a doubt, this was a powerful, lean physique built for real combat.

Gu Qing was very satisfied with his body.

He put his phone away and took out the testing tools from his bag.

The test officially began.

He took out the nail clippers and scraped his arm hard with the sharp tip.

No matter how much force he used, it only left a faint white mark on his skin, not breaking it in the slightest.

He picked up a toothpick and jabbed it at his arm with all his might.

With a sharp SNAP,

the toothpick broke in two.

He took out an extremely sharp steel needle and stabbed it forcefully at his arm.

His skin remained completely unscathed.

He kept stabbing.

He stabbed the same spot dozens, even hundreds of times.

Finally, his skin couldn’t take it anymore. His defense was broken.

A tiny hole was forced open, and a bead of blood seeped out.

As he pulled the needle away,

the bleeding wound began to heal rapidly.

In just a moment, it clotted and closed up.

’My healing ability is pretty impressive,’ Gu Qing thought, his heart warming slightly as he looked at the completely healed wound. ’If I keep evolving like this, maybe one day I’ll be able to regenerate from a single drop of blood.’

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