Xiao Wu noticed Dai Mubai's gaze and asked, "I've noticed you've been staring at that girl behind us. What, are you trying to prey on her again?"
Dai Mubai instinctively furrowed his brow, then subconsciously glanced at Zhang Tianyu before patiently explaining, "Don't make things up. What do you mean, prey on her? I just feel that her Martial Soul's aura is very similar to mine, like they complement each other..."
"So you're saying that girl's Martial Soul must be a tigress?"
Dai Mubai smiled awkwardly. "Ah, maybe."
When they reached the line for the second test, Ning Rongrong was already waiting in it.
Dai Mubai said, "Wait here. I'll go take a look and be right back."
Dai Mubai quickly left. He'd barely gone when Oscar came pushing a cart over.
"Hot sausages for sale! Oscar-brand sausages, delicious and sweet, cheap and plentiful! Only five copper coins apiece! Eat an Oscar-brand sausage, and you're sure to have an easier time passing the entrance exam!"
They took a look, but none of them bought any. They'd all eaten breakfast already.
After hawking his wares for a few rounds and seeing that no one was interested, Oscar's head drooped in dejection. He looked completely listless.
Look at Oscar. What a loser!
He was a Support-type Soul Master, yet he was this listless.
He looked like he'd gotten heatstroke, so why not take him for a ride!
"Notice: Quest activated: [Sausage Home Visit]. Quest requirements: Pull one over on Oscar once. No restrictions on methods or means, and no limit on consequences. Do not reveal your identity. Quest reward: +50 reward points."
Oscar's sausages didn't have much flavor, so to sell them, he'd specially made this sausage cart. It had a volcanic-rock grill inside, and he grilled the sausages while sprinkling them with spices. That was how they turned out fragrant and ruddy, enough to set your heart racing.
"Ah, my grilled sausages look so good—fragrant and ruddy. I use the finest volcanic rock and roast them slowly over a low flame, so why won't anyone buy them?"
Oscar sat beside his sausage cart, looking back at the steaming sausages inside. The more he thought about it, the less he understood.
Zhang Tianyu quietly raised a hand, concealed it in his sleeve, and casually flicked a finger in Oscar's direction.
"Notice: Item [Concentrated Essence] used successfully!"
Just then, Dai Mubai brought Zhu Zhuqing over. He was about to greet Zhang Tianyu and the others when he looked up and saw Oscar. The smile on his face immediately froze.
Then he strode over to Oscar and said in a low voice, "You're really bringing shame to the academy. I've warned you more than once not to sell sausages inside the academy! Do you want everyone to throw up?"
Oscar's face turned pale. "Uh, Boss Dai, I just wanted to come out and see the junior students!"
"If you wanted to see the junior students, why bring your cart out here? You haven't even shaved your beard—you look like an old man! What, do you want everyone to see an old man pushing a cart?"
Pfft!
Zhang Tianyu couldn't hold back a laugh. Damn, Dai Mubai could be pretty funny sometimes. An old man pushing a cart—now that was something!
Oscar looked awkward.
Xiao Wu asked curiously, "Why won't you let him sell them? What do you mean, make everyone throw up? These sausages smell pretty good to me."
Dai Mubai shrugged, then said to Oscar, "See? The junior sister asked. Make a sausage so the junior students can have a look."
Oscar looked even more awkward. "Uh, Boss Dai, maybe we shouldn't! There are so many people watching..."
Dai Mubai glared at him. "Hey, you know it's embarrassing, then? Hurry up!"
Oscar was just about to speak when his expression suddenly changed. Oh no! Another powerful burst of gas had gathered inside him. Ah! He couldn't hold it in!
Pfft! Pfft!
Two soft sounds rang out.
Everyone froze, then covered their noses and looked at Oscar with disgust.
Dai Mubai pinched the bridge of his nose and shook his head repeatedly. "You really are bringing shame to the academy..."
But—
It was far from over!
Zhang Tianyu was putting on a show. What fun was there in just letting out a fart?
There'd be a chain reaction next!
Dai Mubai had barely finished speaking, and Oscar hadn't even had time to reply, when—
Whoosh!
A fierce burst of flame shot up from inside the sausage cart behind him!
Now that was what you called "Concentrated Essence"!
Everyone knew that farts were flammable, and that they burned very efficiently.
The [Concentrated Essence] item could select something inside a person or animal and condense it into an essence for them to expel!
If it condensed blood, then what came out would be [Essence Blood].
And if it condensed a fart, then what came out would naturally be a highly concentrated flammable gas!
Oscar was standing with his back to the sausage cart.
His lower back was positioned right in front of the exhaust vent for the volcanic-rock grill!
So!
In that instant,
Flames shot more than two meters into the air from inside the sausage cart!
Dai Mubai, Zhang Tianyu, and the others hurriedly jumped away in fright!
"Whoa!"
"Good heavens!"
"What a fierce flame!"
"Is that a Fire-type Soul Master?!"
In an instant, everyone else waiting in line started exclaiming in admiration!
Oscar hadn't realized what was happening at all. By the time he came to his senses, the air was already filled with the smell of something burning.
He whirled around to look at the grill—
"Oh! No! My sausages!"
The flames had been so fierce that every one of his sausages had burned to charcoal!
"No! My lovely, fragrant Big Sausages! No! Aah!"
However—
The moment he turned to look at the sausage cart,
The air around them suddenly fell silent.
Everyone stared blankly at the back of Oscar's head.
A huge patch of it had been burned bald!
Nearly all the hair on the back of his head was gone!
It was completely black now!
"Pfft!"
The first person who couldn't hold back wasn't anyone else—it was Ning Rongrong.
Xiao Wu was the second to crack, and she burst out laughing too.
Then more and more people lost it, one after another, their laughter rolling like a thunderous drumbeat.
"Notice: Congratulations! Quest [Sausage Home Visit] complete! Quest reward received: +50 reward points!"
Hearing the laughter, Oscar turned to look at everyone. "What are you laughing at?"
Dai Mubai was still his good friend, after all. Laughing as he walked over, he said, "Reach back and feel the back of your head."
Oscar reached back and touched it. His face changed dramatically!
"Ah! My hairstyle! My handsome, dashing hairstyle! No!"
With a string of anguished screams, Oscar fled, his eyes burning with tears.
Watching Oscar run off, Zhang Tianyu didn't feel sorry for him.
Because Oscar was the same kind of person as Tang San: extremely devious and cunning, and a master schemer!
A lot of people thought Oscar was a simp.
But would a simp say to his goddess, "You're not the type I like. You're not the tree that could make me give up the whole forest"?
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