Chapter 130

He didn't get out of the water early because he was skilled; rather, if he had stayed underwater holding his breath any longer, he would have lost control and had to perform extreme maneuvers to come up for air.

There's Life Points bug, so he won't die.

But he tried it last night; he found that holding his breath underwater exceeded the limits of Earthling, and he couldn't control himself to maintain the perfect, conscious state he was in.

If he exceeds his limits and gets stuck on a bug, he will float to the surface in a way that is anything but elegant, and die completely.

Now, thanks to his experience while his classmates were inexperienced, the first round of frights has ended.

Qin Su hadn't forgotten the terrible situation he'd encountered before he came up: all the students he'd shot at were now pointing their guns at him.

I never imagined that the incident of 'tacitly pointing guns at him' could start with He Muzhi and spread like wildfire among the classmates.

In the next round, it's highly likely that the students he hasn't killed will also turn their guns on him.

Qin Su dared not gamble on the students' level of "eagerness to learn".

Rounding up, the students' "gang-up" against him, though late, is 99% likely to happen.

He couldn't waste time; he had to take this opportunity to carefully observe the students' actions underwater, adjust the underwater combat strength chart, select the next round of 'thirty lucky Viewers,' and, based on the students' strength and attack habits, plan in advance how to avoid them.

Within three or four seconds of emerging from the water, Qin Su analyzed the situation, casually smoothed his dripping wet hair, and in the brief moment between his lowered head and the hand that had been tucked into his hair, he had already styled it simply before looking back into the water.

Qin Su had practiced these movements several times in a swimming pool in the Real World. Before coming here, he had also used waterproof styling products to do some basic treatment on the roots of his hair to ensure that even if it rained, the roots of his hair would not droop stiffly and would maintain a fluffy state.

Without even looking in a mirror, Qin Su could be sure that he wouldn't emerge from the water with his hair plastered to his face and looking unsightly.

He was the first to emerge from the water, far surpassing the Interstellar People in his ability to hold his breath; he was now the only one on the azure surface.

Without needing to socialize or worry about being watched by others, Qin Su devoted himself entirely to observing the students below.

The current observation is crucial to whether he can maintain his first-come-first-served record in the following rounds, and whether he can avoid being hit by his classmates even once, thus maintaining the illusion of being a 'crushing powerhouse'.

Qin Su only spared a fraction of his attention for the comments section, focusing the rest on meticulous observation underwater.

[Shocking! Boss Su's stunning post-bath... ah no, post-watering picture (embarrassed)]

[Boss 1 suddenly bursts out of the rippling water, his hair pushed back by the water and his movement, revealing a smooth forehead and sharp eyebrows... even the water droplets from his black hair seem to sparkle like starlight, making him look radiant. He's so incredibly handsome! I'll always love this kind of strikingly handsome face with its perfect balance of features (blushing) (fingers) (eyes closed) (pouting) (sucking)]

[A good tongue deserves a reward!]

[Slicked-back hair is so cool! No wonder my mom has always liked me to comb all my hair back and show my forehead. My mom's taste is amazing!]

[A perfect face with flawless features from every angle and a slicked-back hairstyle is divine; if the hairline recedes even a little, it's just a bald patch on the head (laughing and crying)]

[(Laughs) It seems that no matter where you are, a slicked-back hairstyle is a hard standard for judging a handsome man.]

[Underwater combat is nothing to us, our Boss 1 can handle it with ease! He's got tons of experience!]

[Is this even a question? Just look at his posture and movements upon entering the water—without any technological aids, carrying so many heavy weapons, moving underwater as if on flat ground, and hitting the target with every shot. But that's not the most impressive part. The most amazing thing is that Qin Su fired with both hands almost simultaneously, each shot striking vital areas like the head, heart, and carotid artery. This starkly contrasts with the clumsy attempts of the other students to maintain their balance. How could he not be incredibly experienced?]

[Good news, Su Bao doesn't hit people in the face. Bad news, Su Bao only hits the spot where it's fatal (doge). Everyone should be thankful they're Su Bao's teammates and not enemies, otherwise, their fate would be like those Prisoners whose heads were cracked open and their brains were churned up.]

[Did you notice the details? Qin Su switched between all ten weapons he had on him and used them in turn. Sure enough, ten weapons weren't Qin Su's limit, but rather the limit of his classmates.]

Some distance away from Class 6) and Class 66), they did not understand what had happened to Qin Su. They only saw Qin Su fire several shots after briefly going into the water and then quickly surface.

"Never mind, let's learn first. The students from those two classes didn't go up, only Qin Su, who was in charge, went up, so I'm going up too. You guys stay down here, I'll go up and learn Qin Su's movements and see what's going on."

The other class Class Monitors said almost the same thing, and the students who were busy finding their balance underwater had no objection to it.

Underwater.

The students in both classes received the message "[Qin Su's kill count: 30]" on their Optical Brain. They belatedly realized that Qin Su had already completed the task first, and unconsciously looked up to watch Qin Su float to the surface.

Seeing that Qin Su had only been on the surface for a few seconds before looking down at them with sharp eyes, the group of people immediately lowered their heads and looked away, as if they had been caught doing something wrong by the teacher.

'We've been discovered!'

"Aaaaaah, hit me with that deadly strike!"

Bang bang bang...

Everyone is thinking one thing, but the trajectory and speed of the shell in the water are quite another.

They could only struggle to maintain their balance while carrying heavy loads and firing at those around them.

Having learned from their previous experience, and now knowing that their opponents wouldn't die but would only experience pain upon being hit, they no longer hesitated at the beginning. In order to complete the mission as soon as possible and become the second person after Qin Su to complete this round of missions, they all put in their best effort to kill.

What is the meaning of friendship between classmates? It's worthless before the words "a descendant of Qin Su".

Unfortunately, this was their first underwater mission, and without specialized underwater Combat Suits, they were willing but unable to perform the necessary tasks.

The longer they stayed underwater, the more oxygen depleted their abilities, affecting their actions and judgment. They could then deeply appreciate how remarkable it was that Qin Su had managed to complete the mission so swiftly and effortlessly in such a short time underwater, without any impairment to his actions, judgment, or operational capabilities.

Filled with admiration for Qin Su, the group exchanged glances and communicated with each other through their eyes. Then, they tacitly agreed to a temporary truce and swarmed to the surface.

They couldn't complete the task in one go, and facing Qin Su alone was too much pressure, so they chose to go in groups.

'At worst, we'll die together.'

[The images of everyone emerging from the water made me realize the truth: not everyone's surfacing photos are perfect (deathly smile)]

[Stop trying to look pretty; even your hair is wet and sprawling, looking strangely abstract.]

[Of course! Not everyone is as naturally beautiful as our Su Bao!]

[Anthony's hairline is receding a bit.]

Qin Su: "..."

There's no such thing as natural beauty; it's all about cheating in secret.

The students in Class 6) and (Class 66) breathed in large amounts of oxygen while glancing at Qin Su from time to time.

Seeing that Qin Su ignored their cautious actions and instead calmly watched He Muzhi, Sophia, and the others persisting underwater, their anxious hearts calmed down a little.

But...

They were wrong from the start; was he just being delusional? After Qin Su surfaced, his gaze swept coldly downwards. He wasn't actually monitoring them, but rather He Muzhi and the other group of students whose abilities far surpassed theirs.

"..."

Thinking this through their own logic, the group exchanged glances, took a deep breath, and, as if having made up their minds, plunged into the water before the time Qin Su had set, full of fighting spirit and single-mindedly focused on completing the shooting mission assigned by Qin Su as quickly as possible.

'Their strength is already inferior to Sheng Shuang and her group, yet they took so long to breathe after coming up? How can they even breathe!'

"..."

Out of the corner of Qin Su's eye, he saw a group of people dive down rapidly as if they had been injected with chicken blood after only a few seconds of breathing, and he felt envious again.

As expected of Interstellar People, not only is his breath-holding talent far superior to that of Earthling, but even the time it takes him to catch his breath and recover is better than that of Earthling.

Qin Su vividly remembered that when he came up, he seemed to be breathing steadily and did not look like he was about to suffocate at all. In fact, he was just holding on. With the Comic Capture Camera on, he took much longer to recover by looking down to cover it up.

'9...'

He Muzhi couldn't hold on any longer; just as he was about to suffocate in the water, he quickly kicked his legs and swam upstream.

Emerging from the water, He Muzhi, despite knowing he was in a sorry state, didn't want to appear too disheveled in front of Qin Su. He tried to control his breathing, trying not to be like Raymond in the distance, whose breathing was so loud that Qin Su could hear it from a great distance.

That's not respectable at all.

Sophia and the others weren't breathing as loudly.

Jeffrey and the others noticed He Muzhi's gaze and immediately slowed their breathing, appearing relaxed and at ease, not wanting He Muzhi, their strong competitor for 'second place,' to see that they were trying to maintain a respectable image in front of Qin Su and the other rivals.

There was an undercurrent of tension among the second group of people who surfaced for air; after a brief breath, they rushed to dive again.

As he descended, He Muzhi felt his body being suppressed by the weight of the weapons, which restricted his movement. He regretted carrying so many weapons at once, as it had unknowingly widened the gap between him and the second-place finisher.

Qin Su felt relieved that even He Muzhi couldn't kill thirty people in one go without taking a breath. At the same time, he calculated that He Muzhi's breathing time was shorter than that of the first group of people who took a breath. Moreover, even though He Muzhi's hair was wet, it wasn't as well-groomed as He Muzhi's, which was fluffy and styled as it was when it came out of the water. Qin Su once again felt envious of the Interstellar People.

But...

Do other classes need to learn how many students from their own classes made it to the top, and how many students from their classes also made it to the top?

Qin Su was numb.

They could only secretly rejoice that they were performing the same underwater operations, and that his actions this time wouldn't lead them into a ditch.

He Muzhi came up again to catch his breath and went back down, finally reaching thirty kills.

Seeing the notification from the automatic statistics on the Optical Brain, He Muzhi finally breathed a sigh of relief. Amidst the envious glances of the others in the water, he quickly surfaced and took second place, following Qin Su.

He Muzhi deliberately chose a blind spot behind Qin Su when he emerged from the water. He breathed heavily and silently behind Qin Su, inhaling oxygen as quickly as possible before habitually reporting to Qin Su, "Reporting, Class Monitor, He Muzhi has completed the first round of kills."

Hearing He Muzhi's voice behind him, Qin Su learned of He Muzhi's little scheme from the comments. He suppressed the urge to twitch his lips and simply hummed in agreement, his gaze remaining fixed on the underwater scene.

'As expected of the protagonist, the time difference between him carrying weapons and entering the water to complete his mission yesterday is not much. If this continues, what will become of him?'

"..."

Qin Su didn't want to be surpassed, nor could he afford to be, so he decided on the spot to continue secretly working on the project that night.

He Muzhi was well aware that he and Qin Su had completed their missions at vastly different times. Qin Su's indifference towards him, rather than blaming him for his performance, was already a sign of respect. He secretly made up his mind.

'If he doesn't practice until midnight tonight before going back to the dorm, he doesn't deserve the respect Qin Su is giving him now.'

[Practicing until the early hours of the morning? For Qin Su, our A-Mu is really giving it his all!]

No wonder Qin Su appreciates our Mu Mu; that's true talent.

Qin Su: "..."

The King of Scrolls Tournament?

Let's just crush him!

After a long time, the first round ended, and bubbles appeared on the water's surface, usually indicating a large number of people appearing in a short period of time.

The students from other classes didn't understand, but they were curious and tried to find out.

While the students went ashore to change or reduce the number of weapons, Qin Su quickly devised a summary of the first round of student underwater combat operations.

After summarizing, Qin Su looked at the top left corner of the bullet screen area, where a small process was running on the side, searching and counting the keywords that appeared in the bullet screen.

At the end of the first round, in the progress statistics he wrote about detecting the keyword 'Earth', not a single word 'Earth' was detected in the comments.

In other words, judging from his performance, not a single person in the live chat doubted that he was from Earthling, and no one from the Interstellar People could tell that he wasn't from Interstellar People.

His efforts paid off, and Qin Su's heart, which had been pounding with anxiety, finally settled.

There are no original Interstellar People here; it's just a carefully crafted, life-and-death disguise.

Finally, it was over. A group of people looked back on what had happened during the first round and belatedly sighed with emotion.

"How did Qin Su do that? It's amazing! He carried so much weight and still moved like a fish in water, completing the task without even taking a breath, and then went up to supervise us."

Alec touched his heart, still shaken. "What's even more incredible is that of the thirty people Qin Su killed, fifteen were from our (Class 66, and he fired with both hands simultaneously, one shell killing one person from the entire class?"

"... The legendary god of absolute power!"

"Support!"

The short break ended quickly, and the second round began.

In the second round, all the students except Qin Su, having gone through the first round, obediently stopped carrying the weight they couldn't bear underwater and switched to lighter, easier-to-handle weapons.

Everyone submerged into the water at the same time. Qin Su, using the weight he was carrying, was the first among his classmates to dive below them.

When Qin Su fell into the water, he did not control his weight and leaned his body underwater, facing his classmates.

As Qin Su entered the water, not far from his classmates, he saw that the moment their bodies were completely submerged, they didn't hesitate to look at him while unlocking their weapons, clearly intending to point their guns in his direction.

The other students who hadn't been hit by Qin Su didn't understand, but seeing He Muzhi, Alec, and the others staring at Qin Su as if they wanted to 'kill' Qin Su, they were terrified, but they believed it must be some kind of test from Qin Su.

For example, if they hit Qin Su, does that mean their strength has satisfied Qin Su?

In short, with He Muzhi, whom Qin Su values most, taking the lead, and so many people in Class 6) responding, they are sure to do the right thing if they follow his advice.

A group of people surrounded Qin Su.

Who gave them the audacity?

[Stimulate!]

[They have been diagnosed with consuming bear heart and leopard gallbladder]

Qin Su: "..."

He knew it!

Qin Su had expected this, but when he actually faced the bizarre and orderly scene of being "ganged up" on, he couldn't help but mutter to himself, "No wonder he's Interstellar People who loves to follow trends all his life, even 'killing' him is following the trend."

While inwardly grumbling, Qin Su calmly unlocked his device, pulled out a 50-centimeter diameter cannon, and aimed it at his classmates. Having already anticipated their actions, he was one step ahead, firing without hesitation amidst their terrified gazes...

Seeing danger approaching, the group instinctively scattered without even bothering to draw their weapons.

Bang bang--

Before avoiding the enemy He Muzhi and his group fired several shots in the direction of Qin Su.

Qin Su gave them no chance at all. He precisely magnetically attached the cannon barrel to his back with his backhand, and using the force of the still falling water, he pushed off the water, turned sideways, and flipped over. He smoothly swam around to avoid the direction of the incoming cannonballs. At the same time, he unlocked new weapons with both hands and hit the students in Class 6) and Class 66) who were ranked high in strength but were not selected by him in the previous round.

Boom!

Bang bang...

Qin Su held back and only fired two shots.

A blinding burst of light from the Particle Pulse Bomb exploding in the water rang out with the sound of gunfire, followed by four screams of agony.

The shell hit two different squads at once, and Qin Su's two subsequent shots had the same effect.

Upon hearing the noise, everyone instinctively looked toward the source of the sound and saw a student from Class 6) and a student from Class 66) screaming in pain in the water.

Taking advantage of the students' distraction, Qin Su switched weapons and targeted students not far from Alec and He Muzhi, firing at one student from each of the two classes in succession.

Watching the shells leave their trajectories in the water, He Muzhi finally realized that Qin Su had avoided the first wave of fire and chosen new targets instead.

He Muzhi: "..."

'It seems that even the chance to be killed by Qin Su is not a frequent one.'

A pang of regret crossed his mind, He Muzhi stopped being stunned. In the short time it took for Qin Su to enter the water, he swiftly and decisively took down six people. He couldn't waste any more time; Qin Su was too difficult to hit.

Not wanting to lose his position as "second only to Qin Su," He Muzhi quickly regained his composure, stopped targeting Qin Su, and instead turned his gun on the students closest to him, focusing solely on completing the second round of tasks as soon as possible.

Clearly aware that the gap between themselves and Qin Su was so great that even a 'gang fight' couldn't bridge it, everyone thought much like He Muzhi and each sought out an 'easy target' to attack.

' Qin Su is too tough; they can't resolve this by simply ganging up on him. They should take a look at the person in front of them!'

[Qin Su (cold face): Congratulations, you're all surrounded by me.]

[Boss Su: That's it?]

[Everyone: Oh no, we've kicked a steel plate (not really) (They've already behaved themselves, begging for mercy. jpg)]

As he watched everyone turn their guns around, Qin Su slowly let out a breath he had been holding.

Fortunately, he had planned and rehearsed countless times while observing from above, which enabled him to resolve the crisis of being 'ganged up and beaten'.

Now, the only remaining crisis is finding a way to breathe.

Qin Su had a clear goal: to systematically eliminate his chosen 'lucky guests' one by one, according to the pre-planned order...

"!"

Seeing this scene from a distance through the camera lens of the Optical Brain, the students from other classes understood! Their eyes turned to their Class Monitor, who were in the same 'command position' as Qin Su, and their expressions were eager to try.

Class Monitors. "?"

"Stop! All of you, stop!"

"Hey, are you guys crazy? I'm not Qin Su! I told you to do as I said, not to do everything!"

"Dear Class Monitor, if the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too. We all learn from you, so you must understand Qin Su's thoughts, right?"

"Exactly, we have no other way but to imitate and uncover the truth."

"Don't open it, ahhh--"

Qin Su completed the second round of the task and surfaced some time before he reached the point of near suffocation.

'Seventeen seconds faster than in the first round, one step further away from being held up and dying underwater under these rules!'

Qin Su silently gave himself a thumbs up in his heart, when he heard countless loud screams coming from different swimming pools in the distance from the Class Monitors.

Qin Su: "?"

'The secret to the sparse Interstellar People isn't actually because of insects, but because they're willing to learn anything?'

Qin Su was only momentarily speechless. He skillfully shifted his gaze to his classmates, opened a new page, and began recording their performance in the second round. This was to compare their progress and monitor their abilities to better suit his own performance.

There was only one Qin Su, and the Class Monitor of the other classes couldn't fight back as forcefully as Qin Su, so they were helplessly chased and beaten.

Just an hour later, the Class Monitors from the other classes couldn't take it anymore. After ordering their students to stop, they surfaced and privately exchanged glances, their eyes fixed on the direction where Qin Su was.

"..."

The Class Monitors ' gazes were so intense that it was impossible for Qin Su not to notice them.

He suspected the Class Monitors were condemning him with their eyes, but he had no proof.

Finally, when everyone from Class 6 and Class 66 surfaced, the Class Monitor exchanged glances and ran quickly toward Qin Su's location without delay.