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Chapter 21: Reforged in blood
Rats had eaten people?!
At this horrifying news, the other three in the dorm froze, their eyes filled with shock.
They recovered a moment later, and their chatter instantly filled the dorm.
"What do you mean? That sick cannibal didn't just eat people himself, but fed them to rats too?"
"Do you guys think all these rats suddenly appearing on campus lately could be that sick cannibal's doing?"
"Those two have been missing for so long, yet their tissue can still be detected inside the rats. That means they probably aren't dead, but are being held captive and fed to the rats alive."
They chimed in one after another, growing more alarmed as they talked.
Gu Qing hadn't said anything. He simply listened in silence.
After listening for a while.
He felt that everyone's focus seemed a little off.
So he looked up at Gao Fei and asked:
"You just said the professor from the School of Life Sciences dissected the campus rats to find out why they grew so big. Has he found anything yet?"
"I don't know about that. My girlfriend didn't tell me. I'll ask her now."
As Gao Fei spoke, he took out his phone and messaged his girlfriend without wasting a moment.
His girlfriend replied almost instantly, but her answer left Gu Qing somewhat disappointed.
The professor from the School of Life Sciences hadn't found anything unusual about those giant rats. Their internal anatomy was exactly the same as that of ordinary rats, with no signs of mutation.
Just then, Chen Zijie spoke up in puzzlement:
"Gao Fei, your girlfriend is just the head of the External Relations Department in our School of Foreign Languages. She shouldn't be this well-informed."
"You might not believe this, but her dad is the dean of our university's School of Economics and Management."
A smug smile curled Gao Fei's lips.
Qian Duole was stunned. "Holy shit, your girlfriend's actually that impressive?"
Chen Zijie was bitter. "Fuck, jealousy is tearing my cells apart."
Gu Qing felt nothing.
Ever since awakening his cheat, he had long since forgotten what envy felt like.
Seeing his roommates so surprised left Gao Fei feeling incredibly pleased.
He smiled and reassured Qian Duole and Chen Zijie, the two novices who had been single all their lives:
"There are quite a few single junior girls in my girlfriend's department. I'll find a chance to have her department get together with our dorm and give you two a shot at finding girlfriends."
"Godfather, accept my bow!"
"Gao, you're a god!"
The two who had been green with envy just moments ago were now practically worshipping Gao Fei as their ancestor.
As for Gu Qing...
From beginning to end, all three roommates had automatically left him out.
After all, with that handsome face of his, he could simply stand on a campus path and do nothing, and several girls would readily come asking for his WeChat.
Setting him up with someone would be the greatest insult to his good looks.
The next morning.
Friday.
It was a rare day with no early classes.
His roommates were still fast asleep under their covers.
Gu Qing, however, had gotten up early.
Before going to bed last night, he had set himself a task for today.
That was-to test his current combat strength.
As of today, his physical constitution stat had increased by a total of 35 points.
His strength, speed, defense, and everything else were all astonishingly powerful.
But he had never had a clear idea of exactly how powerful he was.
So.
Today, he would go out and conduct a comprehensive test.
He would find out exactly how strong he was now.
And how far he still was from his goal of refusing to eat beef.
After a quick wash.
He packed toothpicks, steel needles, toilet cleaner, nail clippers, and a bunch of other inconspicuous testing tools.
Gu Qing quietly slipped out and headed for a secluded park near campus.
Passing a breakfast shop along the way, he walked up and said:
"Boss, I'll take every egg in the pot."
"Coming right up!"
The owner deftly bagged the eggs. "Handsome, there are forty eggs in this pot. That's sixty yuan altogether."
Gu Qing scanned the code and paid.
While bagging the eggs, the owner asked curiously:
"Say, handsome, what are you buying so many eggs for?"
"For breakfast."
"Just for breakfast?"
"Yeah."
"How many people are there in your family, then?"
"They're just for me."
"You're eating them all yourself?"
The owner visibly froze for a moment.
Then he simply took it as a young man joking around. Handing over the bagged eggs, he said with a smile:
"Forty eggs in one sitting? Even the Egg God couldn't out-eat you."
"The Egg God's all talk. I'm the real deal."
Gu Qing took the bag, picked up an egg, and tossed it straight into his mouth without even peeling it, swallowing it in one gulp.
Holy shit, this kid...
The owner stared, dumbfounded.
Ignoring his surprise, Gu Qing turned and walked away.
One step, one egg swallowed.
In less than two minutes.
He had polished off all forty eggs.
He had eaten so much, so quickly.
Yet his stomach didn't feel full in the slightest.
If only I had senzu beans from Dragon Ball. One would keep me full for days, so I wouldn't have to eat huge amounts every day.
Gu Qing let his thoughts wander.
After walking for a few minutes.
He reached the park entrance.
Gu Qing wasn't in a hurry to go inside and find a testing spot.
Instead, he first bought a lighter at a convenience store.
Only then did he enter the park and head toward the wooded hills deep inside.
He climbed up along the mountain path.
After numerous twists and turns.
At last.
Gu Qing reached a weed-choked spot halfway up the hill.
It was relatively secluded, with few passersby, making it just right for testing his physical constitution.
He took out his phone and started recording.
He secured it to a large tree.
Then.
Gu Qing stripped off his upper-body clothing and recorded his physique in front of the camera so he could examine his back muscles.
The moment he took his clothes off, the surrounding mosquitoes caught his scent and flew over, swarming densely onto him and biting furiously.
Gu Qing's skin only looked delicate. In reality, its defense was maxed out, and it could take a hell of a beating.
No matter how the mosquitoes bit, they couldn't break through.
"Thin, soft little pieces of trash. You think you're worthy of biting me?"
Gu Qing looked at the furious mosquitoes around him and mocked them. "Go home and practice for another two and a half years!"
With that, he took down his phone and admired his muscles with relish.
In the video, his muscles didn't look particularly bulky.
Instead, they were tightly defined, with distinct contours, every inch brimming with concentrated explosive power.
Without a doubt, this was a lean, muscular body built specifically for real combat.
Gu Qing was extremely pleased with his physique.
He put away his phone.
He took the testing tools out of his bag.
The testing officially began.
He took out the nail clippers and scraped their sharp tip hard across his arm.
No matter how much force he used, he could leave only a faint white mark on his skin at most, without breaking it in the slightest.
He picked up a toothpick and jabbed it into his arm with all his strength.
There was a sharp crack.
The toothpick snapped clean in two.
He took out an extremely sharp steel needle, aimed it at his arm, and stabbed down hard.
His skin didn't budge.
He kept stabbing.
Targeting the same spot, he stabbed fiercely dozens upon dozens of times, nearly a hundred.
Finally, his skin couldn't take it anymore. Its defenses broke.
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