Then Comes the Delivery

Jiu Ming shifted slightly, but the Large Net did not pass through his body. The specially made net prevented him from escaping even with the advantages of a Soul Body.

"Good! We got him!"

Seeing Jiu Ming caught in the net, the ambushing Campus Guards rushed in to capture him. Jiu Ming, trapped beneath the net, crouched slightly as his psychic power erupted in full. To everyone's astonishment, the Large Net was forcibly stretched apart and shattered!

"How is that possible?! How did he do that?!" one guard shouted in disbelief, immediately activating the weapon in his hand.

A gun?

After taking a light breath, Jiu Ming dodged the barrage of bullets. He pinched at a bullet grazing past him with two fingers, but it shot straight through them... Bullets were not very powerful against him.

Unlike that net, they could not hurt him!

His pinching fingers turned into a grasp, intercepting a bullet. Jiu Ming flung it away, instantly wrecking the weapon in a distant guard's hand that had fired the Large Net. As the other guards stood stunned, their bullets passed through the Night Raid intruder's body and struck empty space. What kind of ability was this?

This school's guards were rather formidable. After taking down several guards, Jiu Ming swiftly headed elsewhere.

"Ah-ha~ I hope you all sleep well tonight." Jiu Ming looked at the Memory Card in his palm and smiled faintly before turning to leave. As he moved, he fully displayed his inhuman traits, drifting unpredictably along the way. Even Large Nets fired from other directions kept missing him.

"Trying to leave? Stay right there."

Jiu Ming halted mid-stride and raised a fist to block the newcomer's attack. When their fists collided, a loud burst of compressed air rang out. Jiu Ming drifted backward as though the force had not affected him at all. Whew, that attack was strong enough to injure even a Soul Body through purely physical force.

He did not know how Soul Bodies worked elsewhere. Complete physical immunity?

Even immunity had its limits. Once a physical attack reached a certain level, it was no different from an energy attack. The sheer force generated by a powerful strike could injure an existence like a Soul Body. In other words, Soul Bodies could only ignore physical blows below a certain threshold. Below that threshold, anything that was not an energy attack could be completely disregarded. Beyond it... the flames and heat produced when powerful bullets scraped through the air... how could a Soul Body be immune to that?

So when facing powerful enemies, he still had to deal with them properly. He could not just try to save effort and trouble. Too many people had met their downfall because of that. They might possess only physical attacks, true, but the force field generated by their own strength meant even ordinary blows could injure Soul Bodies. Mm, Jiu Ming had died plenty of times for that very reason during training in the Mysterious Shop...

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" The man blocking Jiu Ming wore a combat suit. His brows were furrowed as he stared warily at Jiu Ming's somewhat flickering form. This person's ability was strange. His body was faintly transparent, and he could even ignore bullets.

"Just an innocent passerby. Could you let me leave? You people are overreacting a little."

"Don't want to talk? No matter who you are, you'll be staying..." Before the man could finish, Jiu Ming charged forward and threw a punch straight at his face.

The man was not about to back down. He snorted and kicked at Jiu Ming's arm. After fist and leg collided with a dull thud, the man was even more astonished. Jiu Ming's arm was as immovable as a mountain, firmly blocking his kick.

"You're strong!" Jiu Ming praised him, then pressed down with his arm against the man's leg, forcing it back at point-blank range!

Shock!

Such strength actually existed?! The man tensed his whole body, trying to erupt with power, but that arm continued pressing down with strength he could not resist.

Bang!!

His heel struck the ground, leaving a clear depression in the floor. The man's eye twitched slightly. His smashed-down leg had been jolted completely numb.

"You..." Unable to believe that he had lost to the other man in sheer strength, he widened his eyes. The muscles in both arms instantly swelled, and the explosive force tore his sleeves to shreds.

A series of explosive cracks followed in the wake of his punch.

Hm?

Jiu Ming was slightly surprised. The power his opponent unleashed this time was much greater than that earlier kick. He tilted his head slightly, and the thin mist across his face was shredded by the surging wind from the punch.

"Who...!?"

Jiu Ming's revealed face was far too young!

Someone that young possessed such strength? What kind of genius had produced him?

That unfamiliarity made the man certain that Jiu Ming was definitely not from this academy.

"An innocent passerby, like I said. You people really are making a mountain out of a molehill." Jiu Ming slipped around the man's fist, pressed down the attack from his other hand with one hand, and spoke calmly.

Again!

The man tried pushing against the arm Jiu Ming had pinned down. Whenever he unleashed his strength, he could always feel a force from Jiu Ming that was just the slightest bit stronger than his own, firmly suppressing him.

It would have been one thing if he had been crushed by overwhelming power, but this was simply unbearable. It was just that tiny bit! Just a little bit!!

Yet he could not break through that little gap...

When he saw Jiu Ming's faint smile, carrying the air of someone wrapping things up, every hair on the man's body stood on end. A needle-like pain stabbed into his chest. Two slightly separated fingers had already reached his chest. If Jiu Ming exerted force, the combat suit's defenses would not stop the attack. Those two fingers would definitely pierce his chest, slip through the gaps between his ribs, and crush his heart.

Was it over?

"Hm? Sorry, sorry. I got a little carried away. You're pretty strong too." Jiu Ming smiled without much sincerity, and the man was immediately sent flying by a tremendous force. "Let's have another match sometime. Your perfume is a little too strong."

"You..." The man's previously stern face immediately showed a hint of embarrassment. "Damn it, I've memorized your face! You'd better not have done anything bad, or I definitely won't let you off!"

After throwing out that threat, the man steadied himself and stopped. Watching Jiu Ming drift away in that unpredictable manner, he wondered if he should investigate him.

"Captain... is this really okay?" Several guards who had caught up looked at the stern-faced man radiating a stifling aura and asked cautiously.

"Hm? Did you hear anything just now?"

"Huh? Hear what?" Several guards looked confused...

The man nodded in satisfaction. The oppressive aura around him instantly vanished. "You did well. Come to my office tomorrow. Mm, was anyone hurt?"

"No, just a few people got knocked unconscious," one guard hurriedly reported.

"What about the other matter?" The man sounded somewhat helpless. Raiding the girls' dormitory area at night... if word got out... What exactly was that brat trying to do? Who would pass by that place in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?

"Nothing serious. Captain Wang, you've worked hard tonight." Sister Lan arrived with Zhou Jing. Seeing the signs of battle around them, she frowned slightly.

"Oh? Is that so?" Captain Wang pondered for a moment. "Tonight was our failure. I'll give you an explanation."

"That won't be necessary. With his strength and ability, it would have been easy for him to sneak in without being noticed..." Sister Lan shook her head slightly.

"A mistake is a mistake. In any case, I'll give you an explanation." Captain Wang spoke with a firm expression.

"Captain, shall we go too?" After Sister Lan and Zhou Jing left, one guard cautiously spoke to Captain Wang, who was still standing motionless with a stern expression. "We still need to take the unconscious brothers back."

"Mm! Then we'll withdraw. Be more alert at night from now on. You go ahead first!" Captain Wang declared grandly with a sweep of his hand.

"Captain, you're not coming with us?"

"..." Captain Wang's face twitched as he looked at the guard beside him, who seemed determined to wait for him. His expression turned vicious. "Damn it! My legs are numb, can't I stand here a little longer?!"

Heh heh heh...

Grinning, Jiu Ming swaggered into the dormitory building where Du Fei lived. The earlier commotion had lit up the academy, and many people were curious about what had happened. Some had even wanted to go outside and take a look, but the Dorm Supervisor had strictly forbidden it!

After all, this was a school for Ability Users. Dorm Supervisors had to possess a certain degree of fighting strength, lest they be suppressed by the students. Of course, some academy geniuses had been quietly allowed through by Dorm Supervisors who had received notice that the danger was gone.

Some of those geniuses were stronger than the Dorm Supervisors themselves...

Du Fei's roommates truly had nerves of steel. Aside from Du Fei, who could not sleep because he had other things on his mind, the lights were still off when Jiu Ming returned, and the other students slept like pigs.

The moment he saw Jiu Ming, Du Fei sucked in a breath and lowered his voice. "You were behind what happened at school?"

"Yep. I was just discovered by accident."

Du Fei's expression immediately turned horrified, and he even edged slightly farther away, as though afraid of being associated with Jiu Ming. "Then... then you still dared to come back?!"

"Don't worry, I'll be leaving soon." Jiu Ming smiled faintly and spread open his palm. "But we still need to complete our deal. Seventy photos, all in sleepwear. How about it?"

Looking at the Memory Card in Jiu Ming's hand, Du Fei could not help swallowing. But he noticed something that made his heart tighten slightly. He could finally confirm it: Jiu Ming's body really was somewhat transparent.

Uh, Ability Users were completely ordinary in this world, but ghosts... There were also rumors about such things in this world, like those ghost stories.

But he was not one, right? Mm, it was probably related to his ability. Didn't some people's abilities let them become Hollow and immune to certain attacks?

"Really?"

"Take it and see for yourself." Jiu Ming tossed the Memory Card to Du Fei. Catching it clumsily, Du Fei instinctively held it beneath his nose and sniffed it. Sure enough, it still carried no trace of Jiu Ming's scent.

Then he immediately regretted doing that. "I wasn't trying to record your scent!"

"Ah, don't worry about it. I don't really care anyway." Jiu Ming smiled faintly and sat on the windowsill. "Hurry up. I'll be leaving soon."

Du Fei nodded and quickly inserted the Memory Card into his phone. Looking at photo after photo of the goddesses in his heart, wild joy surged through him. He had photos no one else had. It felt like the distance between him and his goddesses had shrunk by a huge step!!

"So... deal complete?"