Chapter 134
Chapter 134: The Iron Wall Squad's Magic Pill
Huaxia Second Base, Medical Department.
Inside Special Care Ward No. 3, screams rang out one after another.
"No!!!"
"Why?! On what grounds am I being barred from tonight's Tiger-Grade Trial?!"
A blue-haired young man lay in bed, both legs encased in plaster.
He flailed his arms wildly, throwing a tantrum.
"On what grounds are you stripping me of my qualifications to go to Eerie Island?! I refuse to accept this! I refuse!!!"
Beside the bed, a middle-aged man sat with his legs crossed, picking at his feet.
Ji Fengchun, Head of the Medical Department, universally acknowledged as the laziest S-Grade Extraordinary One in the base.
His ability was the S-Grade 【Cell Activation】
Its function was to place a continuously regenerating HP buff on a person until they were fully healed.
Used in stacks, it could accelerate the speed of HP recovery.
As long as there was still a single breath left, he could pull you back from the brink.
But right now, he clearly had no intention of using any ability whatsoever.
"Alright, stop howling, Tang Sirui."
"Who else is there to blame?"
"Who told you to go looking for trouble when you had nothing better to do, and pick a fight with Chief of Staff Zhao?"
"When that man was cutting his way through the Canglan Continent, you were still in split-pants diapers."
Ji Fengchun picked at a toe, held it under his nose for a sniff, then nodded with satisfaction.
"Now the orders have come down from above. Chief of Staff Zhao will personally take over your 2 assignments."
"The merit points will still be credited to you. Stay home and enjoy a couple of easy days."
He flicked a piece of dead skin onto the bedsheet and added,
"I heard that Eerie Island is packed with underhanded Cursed Creatures. Other people would rather run away than go there."
"Noooooo!!!"
Tang Sirui let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered.
"I don't want that old geezer's charity!"
"What is this even supposed to be?"
"All I did was run my mouth and say 'if you've got the guts, break my legs'!"
"And then he actually went and broke my legs to satisfy my little request!"
"This is clearly bullying me, a comrade who's only just turned 18!"
"Deliberate usurpation of power!"
"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west!"
He slammed a fist into the bed, and the plaster casing crackled loudly.
"Don't look down on a young man just because he's broke right now!!!"
"Just you wait until I reach S-Grade—we'll have a rematch!"
Ji Fengchun's eyebrows shot up and down, his expression utterly priceless.
‘Not gonna lie, little bro...your legs are in this bad a shape.’
"Even if nobody's looking down on you for being broke, how exactly are you planning to walk to Eerie Island on your own?"
"Heh."
"Legs?"
Tang Sirui suddenly stopped his powerless rage.
He looked down at his 2 legs wrapped in plaster.
"If legs are the problem..."
"Then can't I just not use my legs?"
Ji Fengchun froze. "Not use your legs? Then how are you going to move?"
"Are you going to scoot around on your backside like a cat or a dog?"
"You'll turn yourself into a fire-powered Magic Orb that way."
"Simple!"
Tang Sirui smiled with serene composure. "I just won't walk at all!!!"
With that, the aura around him was no longer suppressed—it surged outward, fully revealed!
The medical equipment in the ward clanked and rattled, and the window glass trembled!
Ji Fengchun nearly tumbled off his chair.
"What the—?!"
His eyes went wide.
"Weren't you still A-Grade when you took that beating?"
"How are you at peak A-Grade now?"
For an instant, the ward fell silent once more.
"I am peak A-Grade! Who dares mess with me! Who is even capable of messing with me!!!"
Tang Sirui reached out his right hand and seized the bamboo pole standing beside the bedside cabinet.
The next second, under Ji Fengchun's horror-stricken gaze—
Tang Sirui's veins bulged. He gripped the bamboo pole and drove it hard against the bed board!
Boom!
He launched himself high into the air!
Then, gripping the pole with both hands, he completed an inverted handstand pole-vault position in midair.
Thud!—the tip of the pole slammed down onto the ward's tiled floor!
The floor cracked apart in all directions!
Tang Sirui, balanced upside-down on the bamboo pole, recited the proclamation he had long since been plotting:
"Cold wind blows through the Medical Department's hall, from Ward 3's bed returns a god standing tall! Ten years of pole-training, both arms worn and sore, I cast off my patient's gown and head northward once more! Fate destined this crippling, a burden I wear, both legs may be ruined—but I have no despair!"
By the final line, he was even balancing on one hand, freeing the other to snap off a salute.
"Farewell, everyone!!!"
As the words fell, Tang Sirui erupted with force!
Boom!
The floor was punched clean through, leaving a gaping crater!
The entire building shook!
"What the—! What are you doing?! Tang Sirui!"
"Don't you dare pull something crazy! This is the Medical Department!!!"
Ji Fengchun scrambled up from the floor, shouting in alarm.
"Relax, Director Ji!"
Tang Sirui's wild, carefree voice already echoed through the open air above.
"This is a spiritual-instrument bamboo pole forged from a hundred-year-old hollow bamboo!"
"It possesses the ability to vault me up to a maximum height of five hundred meters!"
"Combined with my S-Grade ability, Infinite Combo!"
"And finally, calculated with perfect precision by my brilliant brain's ballistic computations!"
"With precisely 333 perfect mega-jumps!"
"I can cross the open sea directly and air-drop right into Soul-Return Town on Eerie Island!"
"Tell my Iron Wall Squad teammates not to wait for me!"
"I, Tang, am taking the lead!"
"See you all at Soul-Return Town!"
“W~a~i~t~i~n~g~ f~o~r~ t~h~e~m~!!!"
Clang! Clatter-clatter-clatter!
The sound grew more and more distant, until it finally vanished into the wind.
Ji Fengchun ran to the window and stuck his head out.
In the far distance, a black dot was leaping repeatedly in a multi-jump chain, streaking away toward the northeast.
Cold wind poured back in through the shattered window.
Ji Fengchun stood in silence for 3 seconds.
Then—
"Oh my god!!!"
He slapped his thigh hard.
"What in the absolute hell is going on today?!"
"This isn't a troublemaker!"
"This is literally a demon king made flesh!!!"
He spun around and sprinted for the door, one slipper flying off as he ran.
"I need to inform the Commander and Chief of Staff Zhao immediately!"
"Both legs in plaster and he's still daring to vault-jump solo to Eerie Island to open up the map—this little bastard is about to blow the sky wide open!!!"
The ward was left in total wreckage.
A shattered window. A cracked floor.
And on the bedsheet, that one flicked piece of dead skin.
The evening breeze poured in through the broken window, lifting the corner of the bedsheet.
In the distance, the black dot grew smaller and smaller, until it vanished beyond the horizon.
Bunny-Bunny