Lu Mingfei: What? They're all real!

Lu Mingfei made gestures to communicate with the girl next to him. He didn't know sign language, so he just made random gestures, just like Kakyoin Noriaki and Polnareff underwater, communicating only through mutual understanding.

But what's amazing is that the girls on his left and right sides can connect with him on brainwaves.

"Don't act too relaxed, or you'll be noticed." That was his warning.

Xia Mi nodded emphatically, hanging on his left arm as he pulled her down. She leaned on his shoulder, grinning and laughing, but water seeped in through the gaps, and she quickly held her breath, creating a bubble. On the other side, Ling reached out and patted Xia Mi's arm, signaling her not to ruin things. Then she adjusted herself and began to splash around gently, just as Lu Mingfei had instructed, pretending to be in pain.

Lu Mingfei nodded in satisfaction and started kicking his legs as well, but he didn't control them very well, and it looked a bit like he was drowning. Xia Mi blinked and then reluctantly joined in the "drowning" performance. She was even more energetic than the other two, shaking incessantly, like a victim being dragged into a lake by a water ghost.

Then something very strange happened. The three of them were like a strange group jumping into the river to commit suicide together. Despite their struggles, they were dragged down by the large rock in Lu Mingfei's arms, as if they were about to be buried at the bottom of the water.

In reality, they have no such risk at all.

While it's true, as Xia Mi said, he should use his abilities with caution and restraint to avoid being noticed by certain people present...

But when he actually stood on the battlefield, he realized that their training level was just for show... Out of the thirty days in a month, they spent about fifteen days fishing, fourteen days wasted competing with Zero and Xia Mi, and the remaining day was spent training properly, but it was still far inferior to the others!

If you don't work hard when you're young, you'll regret it when you're old.

In this situation, Lu Mingfei decided to once again gamble with his dear and lovable parents and choose to use cheat codes.

As long as he's careful enough, no one will notice.

The water flow obediently made way, leaving an irregular, imperceptible column of air that led all the way to the shore. At the other end, all the air was expelled and entered the three people's nasal cavities, reaching their lungs. They were now somewhat like Japanese ninjas who had dived underwater with reeds, only needing to inhale and exhale.

However, such a dive still carries risks. In addition to breathing, the pressure difference between the inside and outside is another challenge, and it is difficult for a normal person to avoid injury during rapid changes in pressure.

But where are the normal people here?

Xia Mi, beneath her disguise, is a genuine female dragon, and Ling is no ordinary person either. Lu Mingfei once examined her body and discovered that it had been modified, most likely by himself...

The girl had unusual blood on her body; he could tell at a glance that it was his own blood… Although he didn’t know what had happened, he figured that something terrible must have happened between him and Zero during their escape…

However, this also has its advantages. In terms of strength, she is actually very strong, terrifyingly strong. Lu Mingfei is certain that Zero being rated only A-level is the result of her hiding her true identity... Such a dive is by no means a dangerous act for her.

Even Lu Mingfei himself doesn't need to worry about this problem. He can easily adjust his internal and external pressure without worrying about being detected, which is completely risk-free.

The three people quickly descended, like a cannonball fired into the water, far surpassing the other three groups.

Caesar was initially pleased with his perfect entry into the water, but in the blink of an eye, he witnessed Lu Mingfei's entire process from top to bottom and then almost disappearing from sight. Underwater visibility was not very good, but it was easy to estimate distances... He estimated that Lu Mingfei was now more than ten meters deeper than him, and his diving speed was probably four or five times faster.

He couldn't help but get a little anxious, which caused a flaw in his perfect rhythm.

On the other side, Chu Zihang maintained a good rhythm, but his deputies were getting impatient. The two of them pointed in Lu Mingfei's direction and shook their arms up and down, indicating that he had to think of a solution.

Only Ye Sheng and Jiu Deya, who were in the center, were unhurried. They knew very well that they were just there to make up the numbers, and they even knew who the winner of this "competition" would be... Please, if it weren't for Lu Mingfei, the principal wouldn't have postponed the Kuimen Project for him before he even enrolled.

They exchanged glances, treating this as just another ordinary training session... or perhaps, if necessary, they would need to take on the responsibilities of lifeguards...

The three groups were left far behind by Lu Mingfei.

……

Each person had a rope attached to their back, connecting to the water's surface. The operations team members, awaiting rescue, stood ready in case of any danger.

However, it seemed that none of the people present intended to go this far. The three groups were not very different from each other, with a vertical distance of only three meters, making it almost impossible to distinguish their performance in terms of depth. For them, time became the most important variable.

Everyone was trying their best to control their state in order to prolong their breath-holding time, but in addition to that, they had another synchronized behavior - everyone's gaze drifted in the direction where Lu Mingfei fell, wondering what depth he had reached.

And everyone clearly saw the struggles of Lu Mingfei and the others, and the same thought kept echoing in their hearts.

This guy... he's not going to die here today, is he...?

Until each of them was too exhausted to continue and had no choice but to float upwards, the three people in the abyss were still nowhere to be seen, and the rope hanging on their backs did not react at all.

Everyone couldn't help but recall the rumors circulating in the discussion forum, and they gradually became convinced... that these three people had most likely indeed committed suicide for love here...

Chapter 91 What a Big Fish

Chu Zihang was somewhat anxious. He sat on the side of the boat, staring blankly at the water with a blank expression.

He could hear Susie's constant apologies. She was the first of the three to lose her ability to dive, and although she wasn't exactly a burden—Lancelot was also forced to surface shortly afterward—she always hoped she could contribute as much as possible.

Chu Zihang gently shook his head and offered words of comfort to the somewhat disappointed team members. He usually did not blame his teammates, especially when he himself had not performed well enough.

He gazed at the water's surface, recalling how Lu Mingfei had dived earlier. He realized he seemed to know very little about this junior he often paid attention to... He had thought he knew this fellow student quite well...

“You’re very capable. I thought you would be restricted in the water,” Caesar called out to him from a short distance away. “Just like Sun Wukong in your Chinese mythology, who becomes weaker when he enters the water.”

"There's absolutely no connection, okay? Sun Wukong can't go into the water because he has to recite a water-repelling incantation, it has nothing to do with nationality!" Susie retorted loudly for Chu Zihang, seemingly disliking Caesar's condescending attitude. "Besides, all of you combined don't even have the president's results, so you lost this time."

"I admit defeat." Caesar nodded frankly. After all, Chu Zihang's performance was better than the combined performance of the three of them. He had nothing to say; he couldn't be a coward who refused to admit defeat.

But the problem now is—

Caesar added, “But you can’t really call it a victory, can you? The victors in the water haven’t made a move yet, and any one of them is already ahead of all of us combined. It’s a truly crushing defeat.”

Caesar was unusually disappointed.

"I'm more afraid they'll drown down there..."

Susie turned her gaze back to Chu Zihang and whispered, noticing a rare hint of worry on his face. He was looking at the safety ropes of Lu Mingfei and the others, which were now swaying incessantly.

……

Lu Mingfei encountered no danger whatsoever; he was merely acting as a mediator. In fact, today he was unusually not acting as a mediator for Ling and Xia Mi; he was now acting as a mediator between the fish.

Staying underwater is boring, and even light disappears fifty meters below. Lu Mingfei had previously heard Guderian say that some people's words of power can emit thousands of lumens of light, like the Solar Flare in Dragon Ball. He thought about it quietly and then felt that it was probably something like "Let there be light".

He made a tentative attempt and eventually succeeded in emitting a light the size of a light bulb. The faces of the girls on both sides were suddenly illuminated, and their true expressions were unexpectedly revealed to him.

Zero seemed to prefer staying in the dark, quietly gazing in his direction. She looked like she was thinking about something, perhaps because of the wonderful sleep she had taken a few days ago while clinging to him. When the light came on, her eyes lit up as well. She moved a little closer, gently blew, and sent out a bubble.

On the other side, Xia Mi completely lost her usual liveliness. She seemed to be unusually afraid of the dark. When the light first appeared, she even seemed to be trembling. When she realized there was light, she rushed towards him as if she had survived a disaster, like a moth drawn to a flame, clinging to Lu Mingfei.

Such a move undoubtedly triggered Zero's territorial instincts, but before she could even follow suit, other things surged toward their location.

It's fish.

Deep-sea fish avoid light because most deep-sea fish have evolved, or more accurately, degenerated, their visual organs. However, this is not the case for fish in lakes; they have retained their visual organs and are attracted to light.

Lu Mingfei had seen some documentaries about the ocean, and dancing with the fish in the sea was a wonderful thing. Being surrounded by schools of fish in the Tyndall effect beam of light, with the light and shadow constantly flashing, felt like sinking into the ocean with it.

But that's in the sea; this is a lake.

It's true that there are big fish in the sea, but those that gather around people are all small fish. In lakes, it's the opposite; those that dare to get close to people are all big fish.

What a huge fish!

Lu Mingfei is unable to speak right now. He struggles to exhale a bubble, almost canceling the "trachea" that has been maintained.

He condemned the scoundrels who introduced Asian carp to America, saying that now these carp, some over a meter long, are about to eat him up!

In the blink of an eye, the fish that had been attracted surrounded them. Fortunately, carp do not eat meat, so they did not attack directly. However, there were too many of them, and their tails kept slapping Lu Mingfei's face, making him feel irritable and his body swaying wildly. He was almost knocked unconscious by the fish tails.

Lu Mingfei could no longer bear it. He swung his arm fiercely in the water to create some space for himself. Then, a vacuum sphere expanded rapidly from a single point, enveloping the three of them. Above them was a trachea that ran from top to bottom.

The playful fish finally moved away from his face, but they still swirled around him. Lu Mingfei wanted to turn off the "Pandora's Light" he had unintentionally opened, but he felt that would be torture for the girl who hated the dark. So he could only maintain the status quo, secretly praying that the others would have to stay underwater for a shorter time...

He was completely unaware that the ropes connecting the three people were being violently stirred by the surging school of fish, transmitting the signal all the way to the surface of the water.

……

"I can't go on..." Ye Sheng exclaimed for the first time during a water-related sport. He floated to the surface, collapsed on the boat, and gasped for breath.

He didn't know what Lu Mingfei was going through, but Lu Mingfei's rope kept swaying, and he wasn't rising... This was clearly a distress signal.

Everyone present was worried about this. Chu Zihang was the first to go back into the water. This time, he also dived down while holding onto a rock. The rescue team from the executive department followed closely behind. They were well-equipped and even had scuba gear. Caesar thought for a moment and decided to lend a hand as well. Ye Sheng waved to the non-swimmer, Shudeya, and dived into the water again.

But they failed completely. Although carrying heavy objects could solve the problems of diving depth and speed, the internal and external pressure prevented everyone who wanted to dive from doing so. Dizziness and suffocation almost cost them their lives, and they had no choice but to surface, even the rescuers with scuba gear.

Despite the urgency of the situation, everyone couldn't help but admire the three men's genuine skills. Even if their bravado might lead to drowning, their ability to reach depths beyond what others could possibly access was enough to earn their respect.

"I'm going down." Schneider began to take off his clothes, saying he couldn't let a student die in front of him.

Mans also began making preparations.

The students had no reason to ask the old man for help, so the group set off again. But they had just endured the torment of air pressure and dizziness, and everyone was on the verge of collapse. Once again, they returned empty-handed.

Then, those reserve teams also had to be mobilized.

……

When Lu Mingfei surfaced, he was stunned by what he saw. Everyone was looking up at the sky, floating on the water, as if they had just experienced a massacre.

He blinked and thought for a moment, his first thought being that he should go back into the water.

Chapter 92 They will cry very loudly

The humiliating defeat of the Student Council and the Lionheart Society has become the biggest topic on the Night Watchers' discussion forum. No one could have imagined that these two long-established clubs would be so thoroughly defeated.

Although everyone previously thought that the Lionheart Club was an established club and the Student Council was a rising star, from this moment on, a new generation of rising stars emerged, and the new wave swept away all the predecessors.

The ubiquitous Kassel Press Service immediately released footage of the scene, with the post appearing as the first line on the Night Watchers discussion forum.

Everyone who went to Lake Michigan, including the lifeguards from the executive department, referee Schneider and assistant referee Mans, all floated on their backs on the water, as if attacked by some dragon king from underwater. The Lionheart trio was dizzy, the student council trio was groggy, and Ye Sheng and Jiu Deyaji were hanging upside down with only their legs above the water.

The paparazzi, trembling with fear, confessed that he almost peed in the lake. But after some calculations, he realized that someone hadn't surfaced yet. So, determined to get the shot, he waited in the reeds and finally captured the photo of Lu Mingfei emerging from the water.

To be honest, Lu Mingfei's image wasn't particularly striking—he sneaked out of the water like a thief hiding by the roadside, ready to shoot someone in the back. Especially since he surfaced again after coming out of the water, the camera only captured a blurry scene. Compared to the "floating corpses" around him, he inexplicably looked like a terrifying monster lurking in the water.

But no matter what, he was the one who stood until the end. The reporter from the news department stationed on-site today is a gentleman with an appreciation for art. He had been searching for the perfect angle, and after seeing Lu Mingfei's face and ruling out the risk of a dragon attack, he became even bolder. Finally, through tireless effort and waiting, he captured a decisive moment in a photograph.

Lu Mingfei stood by the boat, bent down, and pulled the platinum blonde girl's hand, struggling to drag her onto the boat. Another girl's head surfaced not far away, her hair tied up in a bun, and she pouted as she wrung out water. Sunlight peeked through the clouds in the sky, shining around their group and shimmering with phosphorescence.

The rest of the people in the shadows were almost all floating face up on the water. The contrast between the light and shadow and their images was so strong that someone in the discussion forum even made a sharp comment: "They are just a bunch of dead fish with their bellies showing." In the end, this guy was jointly offered a reward by the student council and the Lionheart Club, and he changed his tune to praise: "Chairman Kai and President Chu are heroes who fought to the very last moment."

However, this did not change the perception of most people at all. Although no one understood why they were competing in the end, the bloodthirsty audience had already begun to create a "coronation of the new king" and were looking forward to a scene of bloodshed.

And Lu Mingfei finally lived the life he had always dreamed of—

His inbox was flooded with emails from upperclassmen expressing their affection for him!

"How about it? Pretty good at being a pusher, right? Think about it, just five thousand US dollars, and I guarantee you'll become the most popular man in Kassel's history." Fingel grinned, "And if you pay now, you can get a 5% discount, honey~"

"Fifty dollars, no bargaining, or a late-night snack." Lu Mingfei offered a price that was practically a steal.

"Isn't that inhumane? So many people in our news department are just trying to make a living!" Fingel argued vehemently.

"I've already been very lenient by not asking you for the right to use my image. The sponsorships you've received this month because of my news have clearly doubled, okay?" Lu Mingfei winked shrewdly.

Perhaps he was a failure in other areas, but he never lagged behind when it came to computer-related issues. From the first day he learned about Fingel's news department, he immediately understood how the organization made a profit—through sponsorship fees from the masses who enjoyed watching the excitement.

So for Fingel, there is no such thing as conscience. He reports whatever news can grab people's attention, just like a capitalist who would rather sell the rope that hangs him. If there were a profit to be made, Fingel would even be willing to upload his own sleeping photos, but he doesn't do it because nobody sees them...

“We’ve been working at Kassel College for so many years, and we’ve never heard of anyone asking for permission to use someone’s image!” Fingel said indignantly.

"It sounds like you guys are the real evil organization!"

"So are you going to pay or not!" Fingel stretched out his devilish claws, threatening his junior roommate. "Let me tell you the truth, I'm so poor I'm about to rob a bank. Doing some bad things is no big deal for me, like telling all the girls on campus who have feelings for you that you've already laid your hands on the girls around you, and you're two-timing them at the same time! They'll cry their eyes out!"

"Alright then, what a pity. I was thinking of taking a good look at these love letters when I had some free time." Lu Mingfei shrugged.

"Damn it, don't provoke your senior brother with something like this!" Fingel complained, clutching his head.

“Well, I have good news for you. I’m willing to sponsor you with ten thousand US dollars—” Lu Mingfei’s tone changed.

His hand was suddenly grabbed, and Fingel, who pounced on him, had a burning light in his eyes.

“What a wise choice, junior brother. I guarantee that in three days, those daughters of dukes and tycoons will be begging you to kiss their hands.” Fingel assured him confidently. “Ten thousand US dollars, my goodness! In my eight years at this academy, I’ve never seen such a generous gesture. Everyone likes to praise Caesar, but I think that’s only because you haven’t shown up yet. You are the real nobleman!”

When he boasts about someone, it always makes people feel a little embarrassed, and their faces even start to burn.

"No, no, no, don't misunderstand," Lu Mingfei quickly explained.

"So you did this because you have feelings for your senior brother?" Fingel was shocked, then blushed. "Senior brother... I... I don't have that kind of inclination~"

"Get lost!" Lu Mingfei found it really hard to remain calm when talking to this guy. Looking at Fingel's awkward manner, he really wanted to punch him in the face.

“As long as you’re willing to contribute funds, I’ll even crawl out on my hands and knees.” Fingel’s eyes were filled with a love for money.

"I heard before that your news department's employees are all over Kassel, and even overseas?" Lu Mingfei cleared his throat, ignoring the heartfelt offer from his senior, Fingel.

"That's right! It's not something you can find overseas; it's a sea of ​​people, with drums and firecrackers going off everywhere—"

"Alright, alright, no need to make me watch the Spring Festival Gala again." Lu Mingfei waved his hand repeatedly, interrupting Fingel, who was clearly extremely excited.

His tone became serious, he moved closer, and lowered his voice, saying, "I'm paying you this money because I want you to help me find someone."

Chapter 93 You deserve to have girls who like you

"Looking for someone?" Fingel didn't quite understand. "Shouldn't you hire a private investigator for something like that?"