Chapter 203 - 135: Family’s Extraordinary Transformation

Chapter 203: Chapter 135: Family’s Extraordinary Transformation

Gu Qing had been in this Japanese female instructor’s class all throughout his junior year.

Every class, she liked to walk over to him, stop, and call on him to answer questions about Japanese literary history.

He had always thought it was because he was a relatively attentive student, which was why she liked to call on him.

Now, it seemed she was after him specifically.

She was likely using the questions as an excuse to interact with him more, to see if they could develop some kind of... relationship.

’This instructor is up to something. I hope her husband keeps a close eye on her, so she doesn’t end up cheating on him big time.’

Gu Qing mused idly.

His gaze quickly shifted away from the Japanese instructor.

He began observing the labels on other people instead.

He scanned hundreds of labels in a row but didn’t see a single trace of an Extraordinary one.

All he could conclude was that Extraordinary Beings were far rarer than he’d anticipated; they didn’t just pop into existence.

’Perhaps it will take some time after the Spiritual Energy Recovery for everyone’s Spiritual Qi to accumulate to a certain point. Only then would a quantitative change lead to a qualitative one, slowly giving rise to Extraordinary Beings.’

"Gu Qing, quick, look! There’s a really fat rat under that mango tree by the lake."

Xia Shuran patted Gu Qing’s arm, pointing toward a mango tree by the lake laden with green mangoes. She spoke in a slightly hushed voice.

She seemed afraid a loud noise would scare the fat rat away.

Gu Qing followed her pointing finger.

He quickly spotted a rat the size of a football.

The rat was hiding under the mango tree, frantically tearing at a palm-sized tilapia.

As it tore at the fish, it let out a series of squeaks:

[Fish! Stinky! Disgusting!]

[Endure! Endure! Endure!]

[Tomorrow! Eat human flesh!]

[Human feast! Human feast! Human feast!]

[Rat King! All hail!]

Tomorrow?

Human feast?

Rat King?

Gu Qing latched onto those three crucial terms, and his expression immediately turned grave.

Without the slightest hesitation.

He shot forward, instantly appearing in front of the rat.

Before the rat could even react.

With a mere thought, he retrieved a tiny tracking device from his Storage Pouch and precisely inserted it into the rat’s body.

The rat felt a sharp pain and, with a squeak, fled in a panic.

It dove into a patch of grass and disappeared without a trace.

The tracker was planted.

Now, he just had to monitor the rat’s movements.

He would see where it went.

But first, Gu Qing pulled out his phone, dialed Lin Tianyang’s number, and relayed all the information he had just acquired.

He told him that the followers of the Rat God Cult might be planning something for tomorrow.

He asked him to get his Security Officers ready.

After the call, Gu Qing opened a tracking app on his phone.

He began monitoring the fat rat’s movements in real time.

"Come on."

Gu Qing strode back to Xia Shuran’s side and said calmly, "We need to hurry and follow that rat. Let’s see where it leads us."

Xia Shuran replied, "OK!"

And just like that.

The two followed the app’s directions all the way to the university’s athletic field.

After that.

The rat they were tracking stopped moving.

It was hard to tell if it had stopped to rest or if it had already reached its destination.

But Gu Qing wasn’t in a hurry.

He simply found a spot in the bleachers and sat down.

He’d just wait for the rat below to make a move.

If the rat moved, he would move.

If the rat stayed put, so would he.

It was all about keeping it company.

Xia Shuran did the same, perceptively sitting down next to Gu Qing to wait with him for the rat to move.

While they waited.

Xia Shuran gazed at the familiar athletic field, feeling a pang of nostalgia for the days they used to practice martial arts.

Back then, she and Gu Qing would practice on this field almost every afternoon.

When she got tired from practicing, she would have Gu Qing give her a massage.

Life had been full of simple pleasures.

As she thought about it.

Xia Shuran turned her head to look at Gu Qing and asked:

"Since we’re just sitting around, why don’t we go down there and practice some Ancient Martial Arts?"

"No. We should stay focused on the investigation."

Gu Qing replied coolly, "We might get too absorbed in practice and forget about the rat."

Xia Shuran sounded a little disappointed. "That’s true."

Just as the two were chatting idly.

Down on the soccer field ahead.

Several members of the school’s soccer team were in the middle of a high-intensity tactical drill.

A girl in jeans stood on the sidelines, cheering for one of the players with a ponytail.

Her voice was gratingly cutesy as she repeatedly shouted, "Brother Yu, you’re so amazing!" enough to make anyone cringe.

Gu Qing glanced at the people on the soccer field and recognized the girl in jeans and the guy with the ponytail.

They were the same scumbag couple from the mixer the other night.

One who went to a mixer right after a breakup.

And one who was already in a relationship but still hitting on other girls.

’How have two such ridiculous scumbags not broken up yet?’

’Is this a case of two negatives making a positive?’

Gu Qing found it bizarre.

As he watched the field, the guy with the ponytail noticed him too.

"Hm?"

’Is that the pretty-boy bastard from the other department?’

’Perfect timing!’

’Last time, your volley kick knocked the wind out of me. I was curled up on the ground for ages!’

’This time, I’ll pay you back a hundred times over. It’s my turn to land a hard one!’

The ponytail guy muttered to himself.

He immediately kicked a nearby soccer ball to his feet.

He raised his leg, taking aim at Gu Qing in the bleachers.

In the last few days, he had discovered his legs had become much stronger.

A full-power kick now would definitely be enough to knock Gu Qing off his feet, even all the way up in the bleachers. He would finally wash away the humiliation of being knocked down by Gu Qing last time.

’Go eat dirt, you bastard!’

The ponytail guy’s eyes turned vicious. The next second, he swung his leg, kicking the ball with a loud THWACK. It shot straight toward Gu Qing’s handsome face.

Gu Qing had heard his muttering and seen him deliberately aim the ball at his face. He couldn’t help but smile.

’With that little power, you think you can knock me down?’

’You’re dreaming.’

WHOOSH—!

The soccer ball, carrying immense kinetic energy, rocketed toward Gu Qing in the bleachers.

It moved so fast that it tore through the air with a deafening whistle.

’If this ball hits his face, it’ll instantly swell up like a pig’s head!’

The ponytail guy thought to himself.

Just then, the speeding soccer ball reached Gu Qing, less than a meter from his face.

Gu Qing didn’t even spare the soccer ball a single glance.

He simply raised one hand.

And with a loud SMACK, batted it back the way it came.

Struck with immense force, the soccer ball shot back toward the field like a cannonball.

Before the ponytail guy could even react.

The next second.

BAM!!!

The ball slammed viciously into the ponytail guy’s face, launching him into the air.

A full two seconds passed.

Before his body crashed back to the ground with a heavy THUD. He was completely motionless, knocked out cold.

Even in the final moment before losing consciousness.

He couldn’t comprehend how he, whose physique had improved so dramatically in recent days, could be knocked out by a ball that Gu Qing had casually slapped back.

"Brother Yu, don’t scare me!"

The girl in jeans was terrified and rushed to check on him.

Xia Shuran, sitting beside Gu Qing, was also completely baffled, having no idea what had just transpired.

She had been engrossed in her phone and had missed the ’friendly interaction’ between Gu Qing and the guy with the ponytail.

At that moment.

Gu Qing’s phone buzzed.

He looked down at his phone screen and found that messages were constantly popping up from his family group chat.

[Gu Mingbo: Strange, my chronic back pain hasn’t been acting up at all the last few days. My whole body feels great.]

[Wen Wanyi: Something’s definitely been strange these past few days. I don’t know if it’s just psychological, but every other day when I look in the mirror, I find that the fine lines on my face seem to have faded a lot. I look much younger.]

[Gu Yao: Dad, Mom, my brain has been super sharp lately. Before, I couldn’t make heads or tails of the last question on the big math problems, but lately I can solve the final, toughest questions on the college entrance exam practice tests with no problem.]

[Gu Yao: @Gu Qing, Hajiqing, you only got into Hai City University, so mediocre. I’m definitely going to do better than you. For the college entrance exam, I’m aiming straight for the number one school in the country, Jinghai University!]

After reading the messages from his parents and sister,

Seeing that his family, all ordinary people, were also enjoying the benefits of the Spiritual Energy Recovery as their bodies imperceptibly improved, Gu Qing was in a great mood.

’I hope that as the Spiritual Energy Recovery continues, Mom, Dad, and Silly Yao can all transform into Extraordinary Beings.’

’That way, I’ll be able to provide them with Extraordinary Resources.’

’Yes. I’ll work hard to create the strongest Extraordinary family in history.’

Gu Qing thought to himself.

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