Chapter 120: The Thief (Bonus for Alliance Leader PureRedApple) (Fifth Update)

Although Su Ming and the others were very curious where Mia was taking them in the middle of the night, they didn’t dare to ask much, seeing how mysterious she was being.

An hour later, Mia led them, winding this way and that, avoiding patrolling security guards, and entered the Royal Court Academy’s central training building through the underground garage.

“This way.”

Mia quietly led them to a door with no markings.

This door was still secured with an old-fashioned mechanical lock.

Mia pulled a specially made metal wire from her pocket and began fiddling with the old mechanical lock on the door.

When Su Ming saw this, his expression was incredibly colorful.

Rhine and the others were even more thunderstruck, speaking in flustered and uneasy tones.

“Teacher, what are you doing?”

“Picking the lock!”

Mia replied without thinking.

“Teacher, isn’t this inappropriate?”

“You’re not going to make us act like thieves, are you?”

“Teacher, how about we just go back? We don’t want to be expelled from school tomorrow!”

Rhine and the others were extremely flustered; it was obvious at a glance that this was a restricted area of the academy.

“What are you afraid of? If anything happens, I’ll take the blame.”

Mia replied carelessly.

Su Ming listened to Mia’s words and felt that she was truly too reckless; he was about to say something.

Click!

The mechanical lock was opened by Mia.

Su Ming decisively swallowed the words he hadn’t spoken; it was too late to say anything now, the lock was already open.

Mia excitedly pushed open the door and waved to everyone, saying,

“Come in!”

Su Ming and the others could only steel themselves and walk inside.

It was very dim inside, making it impossible to see clearly.

However, at this moment, Mia pressed a switch on the wall.

Bang~

Rows of lights lit up.

Su Ming and the others stared at the scene before them, instantly stunned.

They were now in a very special training room. In the corner of this training room were two enclosed changing rooms.

In the central area of the training room, there were rows of cylindrical pools sunken into the ground, and nothing else.

Su Ming and the others looked at the training room, completely bewildered.

“Teacher, what is this for?”

Elu politely asked.

“Don’t ask so many questions. There are changing rooms over there with training uniforms inside. Everyone go change!”

Mia carefully closed the door, then said to Su Ming and the others.

Although Su Ming and the others were utterly confused, they still obediently went to the changing rooms.

Soon after, Su Ming emerged, wearing shorts similar to boxer briefs, his upper body bare.

“Wow, Class Leader, you actually have so many abs! No wonder you’re so strong.”

Zhang Yi chuckled and teased.

“Let us see, Class Leader, how do you train? Your abs look quite perfect, not that dead muscle type.”

Shi Wushan and the others excitedly crowded around.

“Alright, stop messing around! We’re in class right now!”

Su Ming said with a black line on his face.

“Stop looking at the Class Leader, what’s so good about that? Look at the girls in our class!”

Mandy shouted excitedly.

Su Ming turned his head to look, only to see Anqi, Elu, and the others all wearing tight training suits. The clothes clung to their skin, perfectly outlining their figures.

“Wow!”

Zhang Yi and the others shouted excitedly.

Elu and the others all rolled their eyes at Zhang Yi and the others, but they didn’t say anything.

Soon, everyone had changed and lined up in front of Teacher Mia.

Mia scanned everyone present and said to them,

“Do you see those individual training pools in front?”

“We see them.”

Rhine and the others responded.

“Everyone get in, and hold your breath!”

Mia simply instructed.

“Huh? Why are we practicing this? What’s the use of lung capacity?”

Anqi and the others discussed, very confused.

Su Ming also felt something was off; what exactly was Teacher Mia trying to do?

Unfortunately, Mia was too lazy to explain. She said impatiently,

“Why ask so many questions? One training pool per person.”

Su Ming and the others could only unconditionally obey Mia’s arrangements. They walked to the training pools.

The cylindrical training pools were filled with a viscous green liquid that didn’t look like clear water.

“Get in!”

Mia shouted at everyone.

Su Ming took a deep breath, then jumped into the training pool.

Splash!

Su Ming’s entire body sank. The training pool wasn’t deep, only about 2.5 meters, and the buoyancy was quite strong; he could float up with just a little struggle.

Seeing Su Ming take the lead, everyone else also bravely jumped in.

Mia then took out a professional stopwatch and pressed it.

Time ticked by, second by second. When the stopwatch reached 3 minutes and 29 seconds,

Mandy was the first to give up, surfacing first and gasping for air. Immediately after, students surfaced one after another.

Mia looked at the surfacing students, her brows tightly furrowed.

An ordinary person, with training, can hold their breath underwater for four minutes. But what was in these training pools wasn’t ordinary water, but a special liquid used for NOCY training.

These training liquids themselves contained oxygen, which could penetrate the body through the skin, thus allowing people to hold their breath for longer.

But now, after just over three minutes, they were already struggling.

Mia patiently continued to watch.

As time went on, more and more students surfaced.

When the time reached six minutes and twenty seconds, Rhine emerged from the training pool, breathing heavily.

“Phew~”

“That’s good, Rhine! Held your breath for so long?”

Zhang Yi and the others praised him.

“Not bad, am I the longest?”

Rhine asked excitedly.

“Uh, not exactly, the Class Leader hasn’t come up yet?”

Zhang Yi explained to Rhine.

“No way?”

Rhine was also a little surprised. He turned his head to look at the nearby training pool; Su Ming indeed hadn’t surfaced yet.

Mia walked to Su Ming’s training pool with the stopwatch, her expression tense as she watched the time.

Inside the training pool, Su Ming tried his best to relax and reduce his metabolism, so he could hold his breath for a longer time.

At this moment, he also noticed a slight problem: his condition today seemed a bit too good; he had held his breath for so long and still hadn’t reached his limit.

However, Su Ming didn’t dwell on it much; he calmly continued to hold his breath.

Above the training pool, Mia watched the stopwatch. The time had reached 19 minutes and 31 seconds, and her expression grew increasingly solemn.

Rhine and the others were all stunned, saying in disbelief,

“Are you kidding me? The Class Leader has been down for almost twenty minutes, right?”

“Almost.”

“That amazing?”

Just as everyone was discussing, Su Ming in the training pool began to reach his limit; he felt very uncomfortable.

Of course, it wasn’t that his mind couldn’t take it, but that his body had reached its limit.

So Su Ming decisively pushed off the bottom with his toes and floated upwards!

“The Class Leader is coming up.”

Zhang Yi shouted excitedly.

But just then, Mia suddenly extended her fair leg and directly stepped on Su Ming’s head, pushing him back down.

Su Ming, who was surfacing, was also stunned; he had actually been pushed back down.

However, Su Ming quickly reacted, realizing that this must have been Teacher Mia’s doing, perhaps thinking he hadn’t reached his limit yet.

So Su Ming endured, continuing to hold his breath.

But as time passed, Su Ming felt increasingly uncomfortable, his face contorted, and his lungs felt as if they were hollowed out.

Su Ming tried to float up again, but Mia kicked him down again, simply not letting him surface.

For a moment, bubbles continuously rose to the surface of the training pool.

Rhine and the others were startled when they saw this scene. They all climbed out of their training pools and rushed over, shouting at Teacher Mia,

“Teacher, what are you doing?”

“The Class Leader is going to drown!”

“You can’t do this.”

“Shut up!”

Mia shouted back at them irritably, still firmly stepping on Su Ming’s head, not letting him rise.

At this moment, Su Ming struggled even more fiercely in the training pool, and bubbles continuously rose.

“Teacher, the Class Leader will die! You’re intentionally targeting him!”

Rhine was also enraged and was about to pull Su Ming up.

Anqi and the others all stepped forward, ready to help.

But then Mia’s eyes suddenly turned incredibly scarlet, and she turned her head, scolding fiercely,

“Everyone stop right there! Yes, I am targeting him, so what? Any of you dare to come try it, don’t blame me for being impolite.”

Rhine and the others were immediately intimidated by Mia; no one dared to take another step forward.