If you slap me, the whole world will suffer the same harm.

The group immediately responded.

"Support Shui Miaomiao! Kill him!"

"I'm going to burn him! I don't care! So what if I get hurt too!"

"I'll go too! Since it hurts anyway, I might as well beat him up to vent my anger!"

However, Hong Shaohuang's words silenced everyone.

"Uh, everyone, calm down. We're being watched by the teacher right now, we can't get out, and even if we did, hitting Lin Chen would be the same as hitting all of us... That punch just now hurt enough, I don't want to feel that pain a second time."

The group chat fell silent.

Then a girl sent a message:

"...So we just have to put up with it?"

"...Endure it."

"...Just fucking bear with it. (´-ι_-｀)"

In the infirmary, more than a thousand students leaned against the beds, chairs, and steps with expressions of utter despair, waiting for the next wave of pain to descend.

And their wait was not in vain.

Over the next few hours, they experienced the pain nine more times.

Each episode is accompanied by a burning sensation throughout the body, black grime oozing from pores, and intense pain in bones and muscles in a certain part of the body.

By the fifth time, Feng Ling'er was numb from the pain. She let the black impurities be expelled from her body, leaning against the hospital bed expressionlessly, like a salted fish that had given up struggling.

"It'll just keep leaking even if I wash it, so I'm not washing it."

Bingqing, standing next to him, had a cold expression, but her eyes twitched slightly: "Me too, let's shower together after it's completely over."

Only Hua Qianyu was still using her plant-based superpower to repel insects from the roses she had grown. While doing so, she said quietly, "Have you noticed that after each bout of pain, my body does seem to feel a little lighter?"

"I've discovered it." Bai Ye leaned against the wall, eyes closed. "My ability is functioning about five percent more smoothly than before."

"Me too! I thought it was just my imagination!" Hong Shaohuang said excitedly.

"And I think I've got muscles!" Another boy lifted his hospital gown, pinched his stomach which was covered in grime, and exclaimed in surprise, "Look! I didn't have a single ab before! Now it looks like I have five!"

"You only have four pieces, they're just covered by black mud so you can't see them clearly. I think I have six."

"I have eight pieces!"

The boys suddenly got excited and started comparing the number of abs they had.

The girls remained completely silent.

Shui Miaomiao looked down at her stomach, and under the cover of black mud, she could vaguely see a thin layer of muscle lines.

Her lips trembled, and tears silently streamed down her face.

"I...I have abs...I'm a girl, and I have abs..."

Feng Ling'er also looked at her abdomen and fell into a long silence.

Bingqing's lips twitched more frequently.

The rose in Hua Qianyu's arms suddenly withered.

"No!!!" Heart-wrenching cries of the girls echoed in the infirmary.

The sky finally began to lighten with the first hint of dawn.

After a whole night of effort, all the students stopped oozing black grime, and the pain completely stopped.

When the medical staff announced, "The situation is stable, you can go home," more than a thousand students covered in black mud rushed out of the infirmary like pardoned prisoners.

Of course, they didn't go home, but to the school's bathhouse.

That morning, both the boys' and girls' bathhouses at Shimizu High School were packed, setting a new record for the highest usage since the school was founded.

The sound of rushing water lasted for two whole hours, and the drain was clogged with black foam several times.

When the students of Shimizu High School finished showering and walked out of the bathhouse, they discovered a surprising fact.

The boys all had well-defined muscles; those who were originally thin had become muscular, and those who were originally chubby had become strong. They all looked like they had been trained by a fitness coach for half a year, looking refreshed and walking with a brisk pace.

More importantly, the operation of the superpower was smoother than ever before.

Hong Shaohuang raised his arm towards the sunlight, slightly activating his superpower. His muscles instantly swelled up, and the muscle fibers made a soft crackling sound.

"Holy crap! My strength-based superpower has increased by at least 20%! (°▽°)ノ"

"My fire-based abilities have gotten stronger too!"

"The lightning is much more powerful now!"

The boys' cheers echoed throughout the campus.

The situation is much more complicated for the girls.

After taking a shower, Shui Miaomiao stood in front of the mirror in the changing room, wearing only a bath towel.

She looked at her abdomen in the mirror, where two rows of neat muscle lines were clearly visible... not particularly obvious, but definitely not the flat and soft belly she used to have.

Tears silently streamed down her face.

"Abs... I have abs now... Waaaaah..."

Feng Ling'er stood to the side, her exquisitely beautiful face displaying an extremely complex expression.

Her silver hair was half-dry and draped over her shoulders. Her skin was whiter and smoother than before after the black mud was washed off, but the muscle outline of her abdomen was also visible.

"My waist... used to be 58 centimeters..." Her voice trembled.

Bingqing pinched her arm expressionlessly; the muscle definition there was more than twice as pronounced as before.

Her lips twitched slightly, and the surrounding temperature was slowly dropping.

"It's two centimeters thicker than before."

Hua Qianyu looked at her eight-pack abs in the mirror, her lips trembling. Roses frantically withered and regenerated in her arms, indicating that her owner was extremely emotionally unstable at the moment.

"I'm the school beauty... I'm supposed to be all delicate and fragile... What am I going to do if I wear a skirt and my stomach gets all pockmarked... (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)"

The other girls also started wailing.

"I don't need abs either! What do I, a support-type awakened being, need muscles for!"

"Waaaaah, I can't wear crop tops anymore!"

"If my boyfriend saw the muscles in my arms today, would he break up with me...?"

The girls' cries echoed throughout the locker room.

Meanwhile, the boys' group chat was already buzzing with excitement.

[Hong Shaohuang: (Image: Eight-pack abs photo) Bros, I think I've become a hunk. (◕ᴗ◕✿)]

[Long Xiaotian: (Image: Muscle photo) Heh, is that all? Look at mine.]

[Passerby A: (Image: Six-pack abs) Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! I woke up with fully developed abs! I feel like I could punch a bull to death!]

[Passerby B: I think my superpower level has broken through! The bottleneck I'd been stuck on for two years inexplicably disappeared last night!]

[Passerby C: Yes, yes, me too! Yesterday I couldn't control the lightning's trajectory, but today I can control it perfectly!]

[Hua Qianyu: ...]

Shui Miaomiao: ...

[Feng Ling'er: That's enough, ಠ_ಠ]

[Bingqing: Don't forget who caused all of this.]

The group chat went silent instantly.

[Long Xiaotian: ...Lin Chen.]

[Hong Shaohuang: Lin Chen was behind all this. Although the outcome doesn't seem bad, that bastard acted on his own without consulting us.]

[Feng Ling'er: Although he made us all stronger, I still want to settle the score with him.]

[Shui Miaomiao: Yes! We have to settle this score! I'm going to work on my abs until they disappear! He has to take responsibility! (╥﹏╥)]

[Hua Qianyu: Sisters, calm down, the college entrance exam is just around the corner. Having a little muscle is actually beneficial for the exam; it will make passing the physical fitness test much easier...]

[Feng Ling'er: I don't want muscles! I want my slim waist! (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)]

[Shui Miaomiao: +1! I don't want abs! I want to be a delicate girl again!]

[Bingqing: ...+1.]

In the group chat, the girls were united in their indignation, while the boys silently admired their new muscles.