Chapter 47: Invulnerable

Chapter 47: Chapter 47: Invulnerable

"Gu Qing, what are you doing in there?"

Chen Zijie got up, walked to the bathroom door, and stopped, asking with a puzzled expression.

Gao Fei and Qian Duole didn’t follow him, but they both turned to look, their faces equally confused.

The moment Gu Qing got back, he had rushed into the bathroom and slammed the door shut with a BANG, leaving the three of them dumbfounded.

"Nothing. I was just feeling itchy all over, so I wanted to jump in for a cold shower to relieve it."

Gu Qing explained as he walked out of the bathroom.

The moment he stepped out,

his three roommates were dumbstruck. They all stared at him with wide eyes, thinking they were hallucinating.

"Dude, what’s with your clothes? Why are they so tattered?"

Chen Zijie asked, sizing up the clothes on Gu Qing that looked like they had burst at the seams, his face full of confusion.

Gao Fei stood up, walked over, and offered a bold guess.

"Don’t tell me..."

"You went behind our backs and found some wild little delinquent for a girlfriend, and you two were just going at it in the woods behind the school."

"But then you got careless, both tumbled down the hill, and tore your clothes to shreds?"

"..."

Gu Qing was speechless. He couldn’t help but roast him, "Are you writing a novel? Your imagination is running wild."

Qian Duole ambled over. "So what did happen to you to end up like this?"

Gu Qing gave a mysterious smile. "It’s a secret."

’Since I can’t think of a reasonable explanation, I might as well not explain at all.’

’Roommates are just roommates, after all.’

’They aren’t Security Officers specializing in interrogation.’

’They’re not going to beat the ’truth’ out of me.’

Not wasting any more time, Gu Qing grabbed a clean set of clothes and went back into the bathroom to shower.

「Ten minutes later.」

When he came out of the shower, he saw Qian Duole weighing himself.

The moment Qian Duole saw that he had somehow gotten fatter again, he let out a wail.

"I give up! I’ve been eating way less white rice these past few days, so how did I still gain weight?"

"Sigh, I’m so jealous of you three. You can eat whatever you want and never get fat."

"Unlike me, I gain weight just by drinking water."

Qian Duole said with a long face, feeling that life was truly unfair.

Everyone was human, yet he was the one stuck with a body that would get fat from eating just about anything.

It was just too cruel.

Gu Qing glanced at the obviously freshly opened soda and snacks on Qian Duole’s desk and almost lost it.

’Good grief.’

’So when you say you ’just drink water,’ you mean you only drink ’Happy Fat-Guy Juice,’ huh?’

’And eating less white rice means stuffing your face with fries and potato chips, right?’

Gu Qing shook his head, speechless.

’According to the law of conservation of energy, no one in the world can gain weight while on a diet.’

’There are only fakers who secretly binge-eat and then lie with a straight face, claiming they gain weight from drinking water.’

’As for people who can eat a ton and not get fat...’

’Unless they have a metabolic problem.’

’Otherwise, it’s impossible.’

’Well, to be precise, I have to exclude cheaters like me.’

’Because I possess the Devouring Attribute, the way my cells store energy has fundamentally changed. Right now, I really can eat a ton without gaining weight.’

Without thinking any more about it, Gu Qing dried his hair and got into bed, ready to sleep.

He had just laid down and glanced at his phone when he saw a WeChat message from Xia Shuran, sent a few minutes ago.

[Xia Shuran: Senior, you left in such a hurry just now. Is everything okay?]

[Gu Qing: I’m fine. I just had to come back to deal with something urgent, but it’s been handled.]

[Xia Shuran: That’s good. I was a little worried you’d run into some trouble.]

[Gu Qing: Thanks for your concern. It’s almost midnight, so it’s getting late. I’m going to sleep. You should get some rest too.]

[Xia Shuran: Okay, I’m going to sleep now too. Good night, Senior.]

[Gu Qing: Good night.]

...

「The next day.」

「Morning.」

Gu Qing went to class as usual, sitting with the [top student] Yang Yuntong to grind through practice questions for the graduate entrance exam.

[Learning Ability +1] x4

[Cumulative Learning Ability +66]

「After class.」

Gu Qing didn’t go to the cafeteria with Chen Zijie.

Instead, he left the school and headed for the park where he had last tested his Physical Strength.

After many days of effort, he had finally managed to acquire the Muscle Knots attribute last night. He had to test his current power.

Soon, Gu Qing arrived at the park.

Following a familiar path, he went deep into the mountain forest.

He made his way to a lush, tree-covered spot halfway up the mountain.

After making sure no one was around, Gu Qing immediately took off his clothes and, with a thought, activated his Muscle Knots attribute. His body instantly swelled, becoming as burly as a small mountain.

Next, he scanned his surroundings and locked his eyes on a large tree as thick as a water bucket.

"I choose you."

Gu Qing walked slowly to the large tree and wrapped his arms firmly around its thick trunk.

The next moment,

the veins on his arms bulged and his muscles tightened abruptly as he heaved upward with all his might.

"CRACK—!"

"BOOM—!"

A deep, tremendous noise echoed out.

In an instant,

dirt flew and roots snapped.

A towering, twenty-meter-tall tree was effortlessly uprooted by Gu Qing.

It left two shocking craters in the ground.

One was where he himself had sunk into the earth.

The other was the hole left by the uprooted tree.

The scene was absolutely stunning.

Gu Qing was very satisfied with his strength.

After shoving the giant tree back into its hole and finding a few huge rocks to press down on it, completely securing its trunk,

Gu Qing began the next test:

—testing his durability.

The method was incredibly simple and crude.

Jumping off a cliff.

Gu Qing walked to the edge of a cliff. Seeing that the slope wasn’t too steep, he didn’t hesitate at all. He simply dropped his body low and started rolling down the slope.

He bumped and crashed all the way down, snapping bushes and slamming into scattered rocks, creating a terrifying commotion that sent birds and beasts fleeing in a frenzy.

When he reached the bottom of the cliff and stood up, he dusted himself off to find not even a single scratch on his skin.

’My Physical Strength is already at the level of ’bronze skin and iron bones,’’ Gu Qing muttered to himself.

He then returned halfway up the mountain to increase the difficulty of the test.

After looking around the area, he successfully found a nearly vertical rock face.

It was a twenty-meter-high cliff.

’After activating the Muscle Knots attribute, I probably weigh around one hundred kilograms now.’

’At this weight, free-falling from a height of twenty meters... the impact force upon landing is probably no different from being hit head-on by a large truck.’

’With an impact that great, I wonder if I can still emerge completely unscathed.’

With that thought, Gu Qing leaped straight off.

He fully spread his limbs in mid-air,

smashing down hard in a horizontal falling posture.

"BANG—!"

The moment he landed, the ground within a hundred-meter radius trembled slightly from the impact.

For a moment, fallen leaves flew and dust filled the air.

In the center of the dust cloud, Gu Qing stood up from the ground as if nothing had happened.

He carefully inspected his body but found no injuries whatsoever.

’Yep, still completely unscathed.’

’With my current Physical Strength, I should be able to easily tank bullets from ordinary firearms.’

’Even against a high-powered weapon like a Barrett heavy sniper rifle...’

’...even if I can’t tank a hit without getting hurt, I most likely wouldn’t be killed in one shot.’

’You could say I’m a superhuman who’s impervious to blades and bullets now.’

’I just don’t know what the level of those Extraordinary individuals hidden from the world is.’

’Can I compete with them as I am now?’

A myriad of thoughts raced through Gu Qing’s mind.

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