I've Already Become a God, and Only Now You're Telling Me There Are Monsters in This World?

He then returned halfway up the mountain to increase the difficulty of the test.

He looked around the area.

He successfully found a nearly vertical drop.

It was a twenty-meter-high cliff.

"After activating Knotted Muscles, I probably weigh a hundred kilograms now."

"At this weight, if I free-fall twenty meters and slam into the ground, the force of impact probably won't be much different from getting hit head-on by a heavy truck."

"With that much force, I wonder if I can still come out completely unscathed."

With that thought,

Gu Qing leaped straight off.

He spread his arms and legs fully in midair.

He slammed down hard, his body horizontal as he fell.

Bang!

The instant he landed, the ground within a hundred meters trembled slightly from the impact.

For a moment, fallen leaves flew everywhere, and dust filled the air.

At the center of the dust cloud, Gu Qing stood up as though nothing had happened.

He carefully checked his body and found no injuries anywhere.

Mm, still completely unscathed.

With my current physical constitution, I should be able to take bullets from ordinary firearms without any trouble.

Even against something as lethal as a Barrett sniper rifle,

even if I can't take a hit without injury, I probably won't be killed in one shot.

You could say I'm a bulletproof, blade-proof superhuman now.

I just wonder how powerful those supernatural individuals hidden on the other side of the world really are.

Can I stand against them as I am now?

Countless thoughts ran through Gu Qing's mind.

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Chapter 48: Murder in the Air

After finishing his tests,

Gu Qing did not linger in the park and soon returned to campus.

With nothing else to do, he went back to his dorm for an afternoon nap.

When four in the afternoon came,

Gu Qing followed his usual routine and arrived at the sports field on time to practice martial arts with Xia Shuran.

He practiced for over an hour.

No text notifications appeared before his eyes at all.

Just as expected.

After successfully unlocking Knotted Muscles,

he could no longer gain attributes from Xia Shuran's [Martial Arts Grandmaster] tag.

Without any gains, practicing martial arts became dull and uninteresting.

"Let's call it a day."

Gu Qing stopped what he was doing and looked at Xia Shuran beside him. "Come on, let's get something to eat."

"We're done practicing?"

Xia Shuran was a little surprised.

They had always practiced for at least three hours before, yet today they were stopping after just over an hour.

How unusual.

Gu Qing said, "Yep, we're done. Let's get something good in the Living Area. My treat."

Xia Shuran's eyes immediately lit up, delight practically written across her face. "Then, Senior, I want pineapple rice and honey lemonade!"

On the way to the Living Area,

Gu Qing said, "Oh, right. I'll have things to take care of for a while, so I won't be able to practice martial arts with you in the afternoons for the time being."

Xia Shuran could not help feeling a little disappointed.

But she was sweet and understanding.

She responded with a bright smile, "Senior, just take care of your things. Don't worry about me. When you're done and have some free time, we can practice together again."

Gu Qing smiled. "Sure. I'll come find you when I have time."

Have time?

I'm afraid I won't have time anymore.

Since practicing martial arts can no longer earn me attributes, I definitely won't waste time on it in the future.

But finding time to share a meal or something

would still be fine.

After all, she has such a nice personality. This relationship is worth spending time maintaining.

Gu Qing thought to himself.

At seven that evening,

Gu Qing returned to the dorm after dinner.

He sat and chatted with his roommates for a while.

Then he took out his phone, opened WeChat, and sent Zhou Yuan a message.

[Gu Qing: Yuan, got a minute?]

Zhou Yuan replied almost instantly: [Want to team up? But I'm heading to my rental later to do experiments, so I don't have time for games. How about the weekend? I'll hit you guys up when I'm free then.]

[Gu Qing: What a coincidence. I'm not asking you to team up for League of Legends. I wanted to ask when you're going to your rental to do experiments. Count me in.]

[Zhou Yuan: Seriously? What a coincidence! Then how about we leave right now?]

[Gu Qing: No problem.]

[Zhou Yuan: Okay, let's head out now. Meet me at the entrance to Cafeteria Two.]

[Gu Qing: Okay.]

With the two of them immediately on the same page,

Gu Qing put down his phone, got up, and picked out a clean set of clothes to stuff into his backpack.

He knew Zhou Yuan stayed overnight every time he went to his rental to do research.

To farm more attributes from Zhou Yuan's [Biochemical Maniac] tag, he planned to spend the night at Zhou Yuan's rental and stay up doing research with him.

Not just tonight, either.

He planned to do this every night from now on.

Now that he had obtained Knotted Muscles, he suddenly had a lot more spare time.

To avoid wasting that spare time, he would just have to farm Immune to All Poisons with Zhou Yuan.

Let's set a small goal: get the Immune to All Poisons attribute within ten days!

Gu Qing thought to himself.

As his physical constitution continued to improve, his need for sleep had now been reduced to an absolute minimum.

He only needed two or three hours of sleep a day to stay full of energy.

Staying up all night conducting research experiments was no strain on him at all.

"I'm staying out tonight. Don't wait for me to come back."

After leaving his three roommates with those words,

Gu Qing shouldered his backpack, left the dorm, and headed to the cafeteria to meet Zhou Yuan.

His three roommates exchanged looks.

For a moment, they could not make sense of it.

"Staying out all night? What's going on with Gu? Has he really gone behind our backs and found himself some wild delinquent girl for a girlfriend?"

"I think it's that junior with the twin ponytails from our last mixer."

"Damn, isn't this moving way too fast? They've only known each other for a few days, and they're already getting a room together?"

The three chimed in one after another.

Gao Fei was surprised, Qian Duole was envious, and Chen Zijie was sour.

At the entrance to Cafeteria Two,

Gu Qing arrived first.

He waited several minutes

before he saw Zhou Yuan hurriedly jogging toward him along the campus road ahead.

"Sorry about that. I suddenly got a stomachache just as I was leaving and got held up."

Zhou Yuan jogged up to Gu Qing, panting, with an apologetic expression.

Gu Qing said, "It's fine. I only just got here too."

The two wasted no time and headed toward the campus gate together as soon as they finished speaking.

But just after they left, a rat darted out of the landscaped strip beside them and followed them from a distance, its movements nimble and stealthy.

This rat looked very unusual.

Its body was as small as a cockroach.

Its fur was extraordinarily dark.

As it crept through the shadows along the road at night, it seemed to blend into the darkness, making it difficult to see with the naked eye.

Half an hour later,

Gu Qing and Zhou Yuan entered the Urban Village beside the campus, carrying the late-night snacks they had bought along the way.

Then, after following the narrow paths through turn after turn, they finally reached the rental without incident.

The strange rat that had been following them the whole way arrived as well.

As it watched the two figures disappear into the stairwell and enter an old residence, a cold, sinister gleam that did not belong to a rat flickered in its tiny eyes.

Meanwhile,

inside a secluded detached villa on the outskirts of the city,

under the dim light,

several muscular figures sat in a circle.

"Found him."