Chapter 874: Prostrating in Admiration?
Zhong Yingxue and Xia Yao watched Jiangnan spinning in place with anxiety, his face almost turning a dark purple color!
Their eyes were full of worry!
Was this... was this because he choked on a chicken leg?
You stuffed such a huge chicken leg entirely into your mouth? Do you really need to guard your food that much?
No wonder you choked!
Zhong Yingxue quickly patted Jiangnan on the back, but it was completely useless!
Wu Liang rushed over in a hurry: "Let me! I've got strength! Hang in there, Brother Nan!"
As he spoke, he slapped Jiangnan on the back with a loud "Boom!"
The pain made Jiangnan scratch at his back, his face turning white!
Brother, you really love me too much!
But the chicken leg was still stuck tight. Wu Liang roared, his fists like drum hammers, smashing wildly, making the ground tremble with each hit!
Zhong Yingxue watched with a pained expression: "Stop hitting! Yao Yao? You do it!
"Hurry! Heimlich maneuver!"
Xia Yao rushed behind Jiangnan in an instant, wrapping her arms around his waist!
She made a fist with her left hand, using the thumb side of the fist to aim at the spot below Jiangnan's sternum and above his navel, and suddenly jerked upward with force!
~ Gag (ʘεʘ||)❛ั益❛ั∗)
But still, the chicken leg was stuck!
She kept thrusting several times, even using her hip to push against Jiangnan!
Pfft ꉂꉂ(꒪ͦε꒪ͦ٥)❛ั口❛ั∗)
Finally, the chicken leg was dislodged, falling onto the lunchbox, with rice grains sprayed everywhere!
Jiangnan gasped heavily, looking terrified!
Choking on a chicken leg? What the hell was going on!
Meanwhile, Charles and Brother Leopard watched this scene and burst out laughing!
"Serves you right! You ate our chicken legs, and now you're getting what you deserve!"
"Why didn't you choke to death? Heaven has no eyes!"
Jiangnan curled his lip and handed the lunchbox to the two of them.
"Still want to eat? If you want, I'll give it to you both!"
Both their faces stiffened.
Eat? Forget it! The thing was covered in your spit and rice grains!
Who could eat that?!
[From Charles's grievance value +1000!]
Just then, Zhong Yingxue handed Jiangnan a bottle of cola and gently rubbed his back: "Here—drink some cola to wash it down. Drink slowly!"
Jiangnan looked at Zhong Yingxue and Xia Yao with a tender expression—they were so good to him!
He casually twisted open the cola bottle cap.
But the moment he opened it, the cola erupted like a volcano!
Jiangnan: !!!
Who the hell shook this thing?!
He tried to screw the cap back on, but his hand slipped, and the cap fell off somewhere!
Seeing the cola spraying toward him, Jiangnan instinctively put his mouth to the bottle opening,
trying to seal it with his lips!
His cheeks puffed up like a hamster's from the pressure, and cola shot straight out of his nose!
(◦˃᷄ཀ˂᷅◦) Pfft—
Jiangnan leaned on the ground, coughing uncontrollably, tears streaming from the irritation!
Zhong Yingxue and Xia Yao stared blankly at this scene, completely baffled!
Xiong Er rushed over: "Brother Nan! Here's some tissue! Wipe..."
Jiangnan: (٥°˃᷄~˂᷅)
Before Xiong Er could finish, Jiangnan's features twisted in pain.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Jiangnan covered his face: "Xiong Er, didn't you notice something soft under your feet? You're stepping on my hand!"
Xiong Er was startled and quickly moved his foot away. Jiangnan's fingers were red from being stepped on!
He blew on them in front of his mouth.
(٥ಥ3ಥ)ฅ Hoo~
At that moment, Jiangnan shuddered!
Da—damn! This familiar feeling, this sense of being abandoned by the world!
Had the Lucky Little Cherry's time run out?
Had the Heaven's Chosen Jiangnan successfully been promoted to Heaven's Doom Jiangnan?
At that moment, Xia Yao's pretty face turned pale, as if she realized something.
She scooped up Zhong Yingxue, grabbed Xiao Mila and Xiao Jiuwo, and ran several hundred meters away!
Little Nan had started to have bad luck!
Over on the other side, Charles and Brother Leopard were in hysterics!
"Pfft hahaha! 'Dragon sucking water'? Seriously? I wish I'd filmed that with my phone!"
"Yeah, right? I could use that as a screensaver and laugh for a whole year!"
They didn't need to eat any more dinner—just seeing this was enough to fill them up!
But Jiangnan, who never lost a verbal sparring match, surprisingly didn't fight back this time.
Instead, he grabbed his lunchbox, dashed out of the training room, and ran into a deserted small grove away from everyone!
Staying away from people was staying away from sources of danger!
This time, it wouldn't drop a meteorite on me or something, right? I hadn't done anything too outrageous—
just won two rounds of rock-paper-scissors! Having witnessed the true power of the Lucky Little Cherry, Jiangnan was very cautious this time!
Everyone watched Jiangnan disappear and looked confused.
He ran off with his lunchbox to eat? Was he that protective of his food?
Who would steal it from you?
Standing in the small garden, Jiangnan was on high alert, eyes and ears wide open,
fully vigilant against any danger that might come at any moment!
But the more he guarded, the less happened. Still, Jiangnan didn't dare let his guard down easily!
If something went wrong, it could cost him his life!
...
Back in the training room, they stopped waiting for Jiangnan since he hadn't returned for a long time.
After all, there was a knowledge contest in the afternoon!
Martin, Tom, and the others, who had lost three rounds in a row, were all fired up!
The knowledge contest tested the students' knowledge reserves, not their strength.
It was about how well each country had developed Spirit Martial arts. Since Martin and his team had proposed it, they were naturally well-prepared.
Especially Sean, who, as a data demon, was like a human search engine, an encyclopedia of everything.
When it came to brainpower, they were confident.
The rules were quickly set!
Each side would come up with 10 questions. The 30 questions would be mixed and asked randomly, with the three sides competing to answer first.
A correct answer earned one point, a wrong answer lost one point.
If the question was asked by one side, that side couldn't answer.
That meant each side could score a maximum of 20 points.
Whoever had the most points won.
Everyone moved to the multimedia meeting room. Even though a third of it had collapsed, it was still a room, barely usable.
To show their confidence, Tom and Martin even allowed all Pioneer Academy students to participate in the answering.
That way, if they won, it would look good.
If they lost, it wouldn't be embarrassing—they could blame it on the large number of Pioneer Academy students.
Perfect!
So the three sides started coming up with their questions, huddling together in deep discussion.
Just then, a terrified scream rang out in the meeting room!
Yu Qingqing's pretty face was pale. She closed her eyes and started swinging a stool wildly!
(｡°˃᷄口˂᷅)ﾉ╧╧Σ(#)≖3≖)
"A head! A floating head! There's something unclean here!"
[From Yu Qingqing's grievance value +1000!]
She smashed the stool to pieces with two swings, then grabbed the main beam of the meeting room and yanked it off!
Still with her eyes closed, she swung it at the head!
"Boom!"
A loud crash. The concrete beam shattered, and the meeting room, having lost its support, collapsed another third. Concrete slabs fell,
burying the head!
Xia Yao: (•́ω•̀٥)...
"Doesn't that head look like Little Nan's? Is he splitting up again?"
Zhong Yingxue: (⇀‸↼‶) "It is Little Nan..."
Qin Shou: (´-﹏-`；) "Look, everyone—this is what they call a 'delicate girl who can't open a bottle cap'!"
Glasses Bro said with a serious face.
(｡ᓂ‸ᓀ) "Indeed, can't open a bottle cap, but opening a skull is no problem at all!"
Du Yue: (ꐦ⌒◡⌒) "Honey, want a craniotomy? One-handed kind?"
The next moment, Jiangnan appeared in the meeting room again, his face covered in dust and a big red bump on his forehead!
"Don't! Don't hit me! Qingqing, how much did you eat for lunch? Can you hit any harder?"
When Yu Qingqing saw it was Jiangnan, her face flushed bright red. She dropped the beam and started picking at her fingers in the corner.
(٥•̆~•̆) "So... sorry, Nan Shen!"
Jiangnan shook his head. Given his current streak of bad luck, even if Yu Qingqing hadn't hit him, someone else would have beaten him up anyway.
At that moment, Sean, Charles, and the others saw that Jiangnan had only brought his head and flinched.
What kind of stunt was this again?
Was this the legendary "no-body delivery"? (pun on "prostrating in admiration")
"Can you be any more cowardly? You only sent your head? Ready to run away at any moment?"
Jiangnan curled his lip: "What's wrong with just sending my head? Isn't this a knowledge contest?
"We don't need our bodies for this. To deal with you guys, I only need to send my head!"
[From Charles's grievance value +1000!]
You really can talk some crap!
The three sides spent a full half-hour researching, finally finishing their 10 questions each.
They wrote them on A4 paper and handed them all to Zhao Dezhu, who shuffled the order.
Zhao Dezhu held the question cards, cleared his throat: "Everyone ready?"
At that moment, everyone in the meeting room focused, ready to listen to the questions.
Zhao Dezhu: "This is a Saint Knight Academy question. The other two sides compete to answer first.
"As everyone knows, the Spirit-Restoring White Sesame, as a rare spirit fruit, has the effect of restoring spirit energy and is recognized by all Spirit Martial artists internationally.
"Question: What is the true origin of the Spirit-Restoring White Sesame?"
As soon as the question was out, the entire classroom burst into heated discussion!
Charles pondered: "It's from the E Country's Bell Spirit Ruins, right? Definitely!"
Brother Leopard shook his head: "No, wait—I remember the Yu Country's Wheat Island Spirit Ruins also produces it. Where is it? This question is really tricky."
Over on Jiangnan's side, there was also fierce debate.
Zhong Yingxue, the academic: "The Spirit-Restoring White Sesame has three major origins—three spirit ruins in Mi, E, and Yu countries. But the plant varieties were all transplanted there.
"They aren't the original locations. I glanced at it before—I think it was a small spirit ruin in the Ying Country."
Xiao Zhen scratched his head: "I remember it's the Heisenberg Spirit Ruins? Or maybe the Stonehenge Spirit Ruins?"
Mo Tian frowned: "Are you sure? If we answer wrong, we lose points!"
At that question, Xiao Zhen got conflicted again.
Sean watched the discussion with a cold sneer.
Guess away. You'll never get it.
The Spirit-Restoring White Sesame in Heisenberg and Stonehenge were also transplanted.
The true origin was the Ying Country's Golden City Spirit Ruins. When it was first discovered, due to spirit energy reasons, the white sesame was almost extinct.
So it was transplanted to other spirit ruins and gradually spread worldwide.
Just then, Jiangnan's expression turned serious!
"You're all too superficial. There are many origins. This question isn't just asking about the original location. No matter how you answer, you'll be wrong!
"This question itself is a trick question, swapping concepts. Such little tricks? They're things I've already left behind. I saw through it at a glance!
"Leave it to me! I know the real answer!"
Everyone's eyes lit up. That's our Nan Shen!
He could even see the hidden trick in the question?
Awesome!
So they immediately pressed the answer buzzer!
Charles was stunned. Damn? Hua Xia figured it out so quickly?
Even Sean panicked, seeing Jiangnan's confident expression.
Jiangnan knew the answer? Was his experience that rich? As far as Sean knew, Jiangnan had never been to the Ying Country!
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