Chapter 48: The Superhuman of Wudu and the Underachiever

Xu Bancheng covered his eyes.

Xu Bing’s face flushed red as well and she hurriedly turned her head away.

“I am the Superhero of Wudu! The world’s peace depends on me!”

As the starlight faded, Liu Changfeng, now armored, appeared in a superhero costume. He even wore his large underpants on the outside. On his chest gleamed a large, ornate and flamboyant character—“Madness.” Draped in a crimson cape, with a sly smile curling beneath his mask, anyone who looked at him would feel the urge to teach him a lesson.

He truly was the embodiment of arrogance.

Just for this look alone, he deserved to be dragged into a dark alley for a thorough beating.

“Alright, you win, Superhero of Wudu,” Xu Bancheng said, then strode away. He simply could not stay here any longer. If he continued to linger with this fool, his intelligence would surely plummet.

“You, with your deadpan face, are the most devoid of fun!” Liu Changfeng shot him a disgruntled glare. The “Madness” costume he wore swiftly changed into a well-fitted suit.

“A genius!” Lin Qiu, in the fish tank, gazed at him with renewed admiration. This Liu Changfeng truly was a rare talent! He had just armored up and could already switch between multiple forms. Especially impressive was when he lifted his wrist, and a watch appeared—inside it was water, and in the water, a miniature white shark swam.

Lin Qiu gasped in astonishment. Liu Changfeng was truly a prodigy! He could even achieve this. After forming a contract with a creature, one could, according to the spirit and mysterious power of the pact, create an object to carry their contracted partner with them.

Liu Changfeng achieved all this immediately after armoring up. In contrast, his own contract partner, Songua, still looked utterly bewildered.

“It’s maddening to compare oneself to others!” Lin Qiu groaned in misery, submerging himself again. If he didn’t compare, it was fine, but once he did, his future seemed hopelessly out of reach!

“My intuition was right after all!” Liu Changfeng murmured, his clothes constantly changing—sometimes a suit, sometimes ancient battle armor, sometimes that outrageously flamboyant superhero outfit. Sometimes he was even Spider-Man!

Xu Bing stood transfixed, amazed that such things were possible.

“Liu Changfeng, how do you do that?” Xu Bing couldn’t help but ask.

“That’s just how you do it!” Liu Changfeng looked at her with some suspicion, surprised she couldn’t manage it.

“Uh…” Xu Bing answered awkwardly.

The group had grown up together. Liu Changfeng’s grades had always rivaled her elder brother's, all the way from elementary school through graduate studies. She and Feng Baobao, on the other hand, were always at the bottom of the class—Feng Baobao first, she second. It had always been so. Whenever the two of them joined a class, those who had always been at the very bottom wept tears of gratitude.

So, sometimes beauty comes at a price—Heaven is fair and takes away some talent. That was Lin Qiu’s source of suffering. This woman really was too hopeless!

Liu Changfeng looked at the blush creeping over her cheeks and suddenly understood. How could he have forgotten that the woman before him was a thorough academic dunce?

He managed an awkward smile. “Come, let me teach you!”

“Like this… and this… and then like this…”

Liu Changfeng instructed her personally. After ten minutes, with a roar, he ended the unpleasant tutorial: “Get out! Just get out!”

Liu Changfeng’s face was contorted. He had never encountered someone so dense. He had tried a hundred different ways to teach her, but the woman hadn’t grasped a single one.

His patience as a senior had completely crumbled.

“Hmph! What’s so great about it?” she snorted, glaring at him resentfully. “I’ll figure it out myself!”

With a wave of her hand, Lin Qiu in the fish tank vanished in a burst of starlight.

“Oh, Heaven, send a bolt of lightning and strike this woman down—it would be a mercy!” Lin Qiu muttered in agony as he disappeared into Xu Bing.

Xu Bing began to armor up. The next moment, Lin Qiu, startled, thought, “She’s not quite as hopeless as I thought!”

“I did it!” Xu Bing exclaimed. Instead of appearing in Mulan-style armor, she wore a perfectly tailored black Lolita dress.

“Beautiful! Who would have thought Bingbing could be this stunning—absolutely gorgeous!” The anger vanished from Liu Changfeng’s face, replaced with a look of utter infatuation.

After her gene modification, Xu Bing now stood at 1.75 meters—tall, with striking curves. Already famed as Wudu’s beauty, the transformation made her even more breathtaking. The short Lolita skirt fit her perfectly.

Estimating those smooth, flawless legs, they must have been at least 1.2 meters long. Especially with the pair of translucent crystal shoes—her delicate toes, painted with red nail polish, gleamed with a mysterious luster under the research institute’s lights. Anyone with a certain inclination would have instantly fallen to their knees.

Xu Bing, oblivious to Liu Changfeng’s dazed, lovesick expression, spun around with a tinkling laugh. As her short skirt twirled and a flash of white appeared, Liu Changfeng shivered and quickly turned away.

“I can’t look anymore—she’s truly a siren!” His heart trembled.

Lin Qiu’s heart trembled as well. He feared that on a whim, this woman might armor him into underwear or something worse. Then he wouldn’t need to wait for Xu Bing to commit seppuku—he’d end it himself.

Xu Bing raised her wrist, starlight gathering to form a ladies’ watch. On the dial, an adorable little dolphin spun with the second hand.

“This woman…” Lin Qiu, now the watch’s hand, spun round and round, tears welling in his eyes.

“This is no way to treat a fish.”

“Why can’t you learn from Liu Changfeng and make a water watch? Would it kill you to let me swim around?”

Lin Qiu was completely crushed. Having formed a pact with someone like her, his future seemed utterly bleak.

“What a sin! What a sin!”

“System, you’ve set me up!” Lin Qiu howled internally.

“Host, don’t speak like that. Returning to the ocean isn’t impossible.”

“Return? Really?” Lin Qiu’s heart thrashed wildly. He couldn’t bear to stay another moment. This was pure torment—he was on the verge of collapse.

“Of course you can return! As long as you purchase the Clone Skill from the system’s shop, you can leave a clone behind while your true body returns to the ocean. With the spiritual contract bond, you’ll be able to travel freely between the human world and the ocean.”

“Haha! Heaven hasn’t abandoned me after all!” Lin Qiu burst out laughing and immediately entered the system’s shop, pulling up the skill page.

“What the—ten upgrade points?!”