Can He Even Operate an Excavator?

At the corner across from the alley!

Several young men crouched on the ground, their faces bruised and swollen!

Jiang Nan had one foot planted hard on the hand Baldy Qiang had just used to grab Zhou Yuqing.

He ground it down... and down...

Baldy Qiang let out a feeble wail!

"Even a pig being slaughtered for New Year's doesn't squeal as loudly as you!"

Wang Qiang: "Little brother, stop hitting us! We were wrong, okay?"

Jiang Nan raised an eyebrow. "So you admit you were wrong?"

Wang Qiang shook his head like a rattle drum.

"No, no! We were the ones who were wrong!"

"Stand up! Balance on one foot! Put both hands on your head! And smile for me!"

The lackeys could only do as they were told!

But for Wang Qiang, who weighed over two hundred pounds, it was a bit of a tall order.

As soon as he tried to stand on one foot, he tipped to the side.

The moment his foot touched the ground, Jiang Nan kicked him...

In the end, with no other choice, he balanced on one foot with his back against the wall, wearing a smile uglier than a grimace.

"The bill for the food just now..."

"We'll pay it! We'll pay!"

"The broken tables and chairs..."

"We'll cover those too!"

The lackeys hurriedly pulled out money...

Before long, Jiang Nan had seven or eight thousand in his hand.

Only then was he satisfied. "Good. You know how to behave!"

"Keep your eyes peeled. I'm the one looking after that stall! I live right here!"

"If I catch you getting cocky again after a few drinks, you know what'll happen!"

Baldy Qiang and the others grinned obsequiously. "We'll remember, brother!"

Jiang Nan grinned and turned toward the stall.

Only then did Wang Qiang and the others breathe a sigh of relief and collapse on the ground.

Jiang Nan looked back. "Who told you to sit down? Looking for another beating?"

Then he turned around and gave them another thorough beating...

[Wang Qiang's Resentment Points +999!]

Back at the stall, several friendly older men hurried over to greet him.

"Here, little brother, have a drink! There aren't many young people with a sense of justice like you these days!"

"Judging by your skills, you must go to a nearby spiritual martial arts school, right? Haha!"

"Little brother, be careful. They might come after you later!"

Jiang Nan scratched his head and smiled. "It's fine. I took care of it!"

Aunt Zhou hurried over. "Xiao Nan, are you all right? You scared me half to death! Who would've thought something like this would happen?"

"You beat them up. What if they come back and cause trouble here?"

Jiang Nan smiled. "They won't. Leave it to me! Auntie, take this money. It's for their food and the tables and chairs."

"Oh my! Why is there so much? We don't need this much!"

Jiang Nan insisted on putting the money in Aunt Zhou's hands. "Hehe, just keep it. You can count the extra as next month's rent!"

"Honestly, what a kid... Yuqing, aren't you going to thank Xiao Nan?"

Zhou Yuqing, her eyes still red, came over timidly. "Thank you, Brother Jiang Nan!"

Her heart was still pounding. Jiang Nan patted her on the head.

"I'll walk Yuqing home first!"

They made their way back to the little courtyard. Zhou Yuqing walked beside him, her pretty face flushed red.

Thinking of how Jiang Nan had stood up for her, her heart started racing all over again.

"Brother Jiang Nan, can I become as strong as you?"

"You started school early. You're only fifteen. You'll definitely awaken an ability by sixteen. Keep at it!"

Sixteen was the ideal age for awakening an ability. Some exceptionally talented people awakened theirs even earlier, like Zhong Yingxue.

Jiang Nan had awakened his ability at sixteen. People could awaken theirs after that age, too, but it was rare.

"Mm-hmm! I'll listen to you, Brother Jiang Nan!"

"Um... tomorrow morning, when I go to school... could I walk with you?"

Zhou Yuqing asked with a blush. She had clearly worked up a lot of courage to say it.

Jiang Nan naturally agreed.

The girl had just been through all that. She must have been terrified.

Zhou Yuqing smiled excitedly. "Then I'll come wake you up tomorrow morning!"

As if she suddenly remembered something, she added, "Um... I'll knock on the door!"

Jiang Nan: "..."

Great. There's no explaining my way out of this now!

Back in his little room, Jiang Nan lay on his bed and checked the Resentment Points list.

Why are Zheng Wei's Resentment Points still going up?

That guy really holds a grudge!

Is he going to come back and beat me up?

This time, Jiang Nan felt that paying the Stall Fee had been worth it!

The Stall Owner gets invincible mode inside the Stall Cloth's range?

Is that to keep people from beating me to death when I buy junk?

The skills section seemed pretty useful.

Looks like I have to trigger the skills myself!

After all that running around, Jiang Nan had earned over three hundred thousand Resentment Points!

Unable to resist, he made another three Ten Consecutive Draws!

The first ten draws.

There was only one Marrow Cleansing Fruit and nine "bottles" of Strength Potion.

The consolation prizes had changed, though.

[Thanks for your patronage! Consolation prize: one jin of Detoxifying Small Yellow Beans!]

That same prize came up twenty times in a row!

[Detoxifying Small Yellow Beans!]

Effect: Can neutralize every poison in the world! Crunchy, with a chicken flavor!

Then twenty jin of Detoxifying Small Yellow Beans appeared in his inventory!

[System Store unlocked! Consolation prizes that have appeared can now be purchased in the System Store!]

[Strength Potion! 100 Resentment Points per bottle!]

What does that mean? From now on, instead of Strength Potions, I get Detoxifying Small Yellow Beans whenever I see "Thanks for your patronage"?

Damn, a bottle of Strength Potion costs only 100 Resentment Points, but a draw costs 10,000?

What a rip-off of a system!

Speaking of which, can these Detoxifying Small Yellow Beans really neutralize poison?

How could Jiang Nan risk trying them?

The Strength Potion had made him go bald, and his hair still hadn't grown back!

Who knew if the Detoxifying Small Yellow Beans might have side effects?

He understood now!

The consolation prizes were all rip-offs. Only the proper prizes were any good!

He decided to try the Detoxifying Small Yellow Beans if he got the chance!

After getting burned once, Jiang Nan didn't dare eat them...

If he could collect his own Resentment Points, maybe they'd already be off the charts!

He swallowed the Marrow Cleansing Spirit Fruit despite his reluctance. His aptitude improved again, and his cultivation rose to Black Iron Eight Stars!

"I wonder if there's a limit to how much my aptitude can improve..."

"My talent should be an A now, right?"

Jiang Nan didn't want to dwell on it!

I'll keep taking them until I hit the limit!

His poor aptitude had made cultivation slow, and his Space ability had been completely useless!

Now he had a chance!

He couldn't let it pass without a fight.

Thinking this, he took out his Domestic Divine Machine and scrolled through it. Suddenly, someone tagged him in the Spiritual Martial Class One group chat.

"Holy crap, South God is famous again! His video on Weibo has over a million views!"

"Jiang Nan's setting up a stall at the night market and smashing bricks with his head!"

Someone had uploaded the short video of him smashing bricks...

In the video, Jiang Nan was calling out to customers while smashing bricks! It was quite the spectacle!

"What the hell, he really does it?"

"Is he an invincible iron-headed kid?"

"He blew up the testing machine with one punch during the day, then smashed red bricks with his head at night? Is South God really that busy?"

"@South God! Can you smash a weight too?"

South God: "I can do more than smash weights! I can even smash excavators!"

"Holy crap! Hahahahahahaha!"

"@Li Xiang!"

"@Li Xiang!"

[Li Xiang's Resentment Points +999!]

Jiang Nan chuckled to himself as he looked at the screen.

Curious, he downloaded Weibo and registered an account called "Bald Guy."

He even used Teacher Saitama as his profile picture.

After looking around, he actually found the video of himself smashing bricks.

It had over 1.5 million views and more than ten thousand comments.

"Claiming a spot!"

"I was there. Those were real bricks!"

"I'm going to the night market tomorrow to watch him!"

"The guy's bald, but he's still handsome. He's totally my type!"

"Forget it, you don't stand a chance. I saw two gorgeous girls helping him sell stuff! They were stunning!"

Jiang Nan opened the comments and replied:

"Bro, you saw right! (Image)"

The attached image was the one Xia Yao had taken while helping him.

How could Jiang Nan pass up a chance to stir up resentment?

Let's get another wave of Resentment Points!