Chapter 11: Can He Even Drive an Excavator?
In the corner across the alley!
Several young men sat on the ground, their faces bruised and swollen!
Jiangnan had one foot firmly pressed down on the hand that Qiangzi had used to grab Zhou Yuqing just moments ago.
He ground it... ground it...
Qiangzi let out a feeble wail.
"You're squealing louder than a pig being slaughtered for New Year's!"
Wang Qiang pleaded, "Little brother, stop hitting! We were wrong, aren't we good enough?"
Jiangnan raised an eyebrow. "You were wrong?"
Wang Qiang shook his head like a rattle drum.
"No, no, no! It's definitely our fault!"
"Stand up! On one leg! Hands behind your head! Smile for me!"
The underlings had no choice but to obey.
But for Wang Qiang, who weighed over two hundred jin, this was practically torture.
The moment he tried to stand on one leg, his body wobbled to the side.
As soon as his foot touched the ground, Jiangnan kicked him.
Finally, forced into a corner, he had to brace himself against the wall, balancing on one leg, forcing out a smile that looked uglier than crying.
"The meal money from earlier..."
"We'll pay! We'll pay!"
"The broken tables and chairs..."
"We'll cover it all!"
The underlings frantically dug out cash...
In no time, Jiangnan had seven or eight thousand in hand.
Satisfied, he said, "Mm, you know the drill!"
"Keep your eyes wide open. That stall is under my protection! I live right here!"
"If I ever catch you getting drunk and acting out again, you know the consequences!"
Qiangzi and his crew kept smiling obsequiously: "We'll remember, brother!"
Jiangnan grinned and turned back toward the stall.
Wang Qiang and his guys finally relaxed, collapsing to the ground.
Jiangnan turned back: "Who told you to put your legs down? Looking for a beating?"
So he turned around and gave them another thorough beating.
[From Wang Qiang's Resentment Value +999!]
...
Back at the stall, several warm-hearted guys immediately called out.
"Come on, little brother, have a drink! There aren't many young people with your sense of justice these days!"
"You've got some moves, kid. You're from the nearby Spirit Martial high school, right? Haha!"
"Be careful, little brother. They might come looking for trouble!"
Jiangnan scratched his head with a smile. "No worries, it's all handled!"
Aunt Zhou hurried over: "Xiao Nan, are you okay? You scared me to death! Who would've thought we'd run into something like this?"
"After beating them, they won't come back to cause trouble, will they?"
Jiangnan smiled. "No, I'll take care of this. Auntie, take this money. It covers their meal and the tables and chairs!"
"Oh my! That's too much! You don't need this much!"
Jiangnan insistently stuffed the cash into Aunt Zhou's hands: "Hehe, just keep it. Consider it next month's rent!"
"Sigh... you child. Yuqing, aren't you going to thank Xiao Nan?"
Zhou Yuqing, her eyes reddened, timidly stepped forward: "Thank you, Jiangnan Gege!"
Her heart was still pounding wildly. Jiangnan patted her head.
"Then I'll take Yuqing home now!"
...
Back at the small courtyard, Zhou Yuqing walked beside him, her pretty face flushed red.
Thinking back to Jiangnan's righteous intervention just now, her heartbeat quickened.
"Jiangnan Gege, can I be as strong as you?"
Jiangnan: "You started school early. You're only 15. You'll definitely awaken your ability when you're 16. Keep at it!"
The optimal age for ability awakening was 16, though there were prodigies who awakened before that, like Zhong Yingxue.
Jiangnan himself awakened at 16. Some awakened after that age, but it was rare.
"Mm-hmm, I'll listen to Jiangnan Gege!"
"Tom... tomorrow morning for school... can... can I walk with you?"
Zhou Yuqing asked, blushing, clearly mustering all her courage.
Jiangnan naturally nodded in agreement.
The little girl had just gone through something like this; she must be terrified.
Zhou Yuqing smiled excitedly: "Then I'll call you to get up tomorrow morning!"
As if suddenly remembering something: "Um... I'll knock on the door!"
Jiangnan: "......"
Great, he could never explain himself now.
Back in his small room, Jiangnan lay on the bed, scrolling through the Resentment Value list.
The Resentment Value from Zheng Wei was still refreshing?
This guy sure held a grudge!
Was he coming back to beat him up?
This time, Jiangnan felt that the stall fee was worth it.
The range of the vendor cloth activated invincibility mode for the stall owner?
Was this to prevent people from beating him up after he sold them junk?
The skill feature was pretty useful.
It seemed learning a skill required him to trigger it.
After a full day of effort, Jiangnan had earned over 300,000 Resentment Value!
Unable to resist his itchy fingers, he did three more 10-pulls.
...
The first ten pulls.
Only one Marrow Cleansing Fruit, nine "bottles" of Strength Potion.
The remaining consolation prizes had changed.
[Thank you for your patronage! Consolation prize: one jin of Detoxifying Soybeans!]
...
After twenty consecutive pulls!
[Detoxifying Soybeans!]
Effect: Can detoxify all deadly poisons! Crispy, chicken flavor!
Now he had twenty jin of Detoxifying Soybeans in his inventory!
[System Shop unlocked! Consolation prizes that have appeared can now be purchased in the System Shop!]
[Strength Potion! 100 Resentment Value per bottle!]
What did this mean? From now on, "Thank you" wouldn't give Strength Potion, just Detoxifying Soybeans?
A bottle of Strength Potion that cost only 100 Resentment Value to buy required 10,000 for a draw?
What kind of scam system was this?
And could these Detoxifying Soybeans actually detoxify?
Jiangnan dared not test it lightly.
After drinking a Strength Potion, he went bald, and his hair still hadn't grown back!
Who knew if these Detoxifying Soybeans had side effects?
He had learned his lesson!
Consolation prizes were all scams; only the genuine prizes were good!
He decided to test the Detoxifying Soybeans when he got the chance.
Having been burned once, Jiangnan wasn't about to eat them rashly...
If only he could collect his own Resentment Value!
Maybe it would have exploded by now?
Resigned, he ate the Marrow Cleansing Fruit, his aptitude improving again, and his cultivation rose to Black Iron Eight Stars!
"I wonder if there's a limit to aptitude improvement..."
"By now, my talent should probably be around A-rank?"
Jiangnan didn't want to overthink it!
Just go all out!
Previously, because of his poor talent, his cultivation was slow, and his Space System ability was completely useless!
Now that he had a chance!
It would be a shame not to compete.
Thinking this, he pulled out his domestic smartphone and started browsing. In the Spirit Martial Class 1 group chat, someone had @ him.
"What the hell, Nan Shen is famous again! The Weibo video has over a million views!"
"Jiangnan sets up a stall at the night market, opening bricks with his forehead!"
Someone had uploaded a short video of him breaking bricks!
In the video, Jiangnan was hawking his wares while smashing bricks with his head. It was intense!
"Is this guy seriously doing it?"
"Indestructible Iron Head Kid?"
"During the day, he blows up a testing machine with one punch; at night, he cracks red bricks with his forehead? Is my Nan Shen this busy?"
"@Nan Shen! Can your head crack a counterweight?"
Nan Shen: "I can not only crack a counterweight! I can also drive an excavator!"
"Holy crap! Hahahahaha!"
"@Li Xiang!"
"@Li Xiang!"
[From Li Xiang's Resentment Value +999!]
Jiangnan grinned at the screen.
Curious, he downloaded Weibo and registered an account with the name "Bald Guy."
He also used a picture of Saitama-sensei as his avatar.
Scrolling through, he found his brick-breaking video.
Over 1.5 million views and more than 10,000 comments.
"Leaving my mark!"
"I was at the scene! Real bricks!"
"I'm going to the night market tomorrow to see him!"
"Though he's bald, he's still handsome. He's my type!"
"Pfft, you've got no chance. I saw two gorgeous girls helping him sell stuff! Super hot!"
...
Jiangnan clicked on the comments and replied:
"Brother, you saw right! (Picture).iap"
The attached image was the one Xia Yao helped him take.
Jiangnan wasn't about to miss this chance to stir up trouble!
Let the Resentment Value roll in one more time, right?
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