On the other side of the playground.
With the crisis resolved, the surrounding students excitedly began to discuss the spectacle they had just witnessed.
Meanwhile, Xiao Wu was still immersed in the lingering fear from moments ago.
She was about to pat her chest to calm herself down and exhale the suffocating feeling she had felt.
However, as soon as she moved, she realized something was wrong.
Her hand seemed to be welded to something?
She looked down.
She saw her soft, boneless little hand being tightly enveloped by a large, warm hand.
Not only were they holding hands, but their fingers were interlocked!
"Ah!"
Xiao Wu let out a low cry and tried to pull her hand back as if she had been electrocuted.
But the grip of that large hand was strong, like an iron pincer, and she couldn't pull away at all.
The warm sensation of palm against palm traveled up her arm and flushed her face.
"Um..."
Xiao Wu's face was as red as a ripe apple; she lowered her head, her voice as faint as a mosquito's buzz:
"The crisis... the crisis is over."
"Why are you still holding onto my hand?"
"Didn't you say it yourself... men and women should maintain a proper distance..."
Hearing this, Dante didn't let go; instead, he pushed his luck and squeezed the soft little hand.
He turned his head and looked at the rabbit in front of him, who was so embarrassed she seemed about to smoke, with a self-righteous expression:
"Yeah, I did say that."
"But you were the one who held my hand first."
"I'm a rather passive person. Since you took my hand, I have to take responsibility and protect your safety."
"Who knows if that Old Monster in the sky will double back?"
Xiao Wu:???
That's actually his excuse?
Xiao Wu felt that Dante was being a bit of a rogue!
"But... but everyone is watching!"
Xiao Wu looked around frantically. Although everyone was discussing the events in the sky and few were paying attention to them,
the feeling of holding hands in public still made her embarrassment levels skyrocket.
"Let them watch."
Indifferently, Dante shrugged, leaned close to Xiao Wu's ear, and chuckled:
"They all know I'm a 'pervert' anyway. What's wrong with a pervert holding someone's hand?"
"As for you, Xiao Wu."
"Your palm seems to be sweating."
"Is it because you're too nervous?"
Boom!
Xiao Wu felt a buzzing in her head.
This bad man!
It's clearly because he's holding on too tight, okay!
She wanted to argue back, to stomp on his foot.
But for some reason, hearing that teasing voice in her ear and feeling the warmth from his palm,
her frantically beating heart inexplicably felt a hint of sweetness.
"Hmph... rogue!"
In the end, Xiao Wu could only scold him with a coquettish pout.
But the hand being held honestly stopped struggling.
And Dante, quite shamelessly, led Xiao Wu by the hand back to Dormitory Seven.
On the way back, he took advantage of this free time to write today's diary entry.
[I didn't expect Spirit Hall to be so fast. It's only been five days since I sent the anonymous tip, their efficiency is quite high!]
Meanwhile, in the Supreme Pontiff Palace, Bibi Dong looked at these words, a playful cold smile curling at the corners of her mouth.
"High efficiency?"
"Little guy, you're still too naive."
Bibi Dong's slender fingers lightly tapped her scepter.
"That anonymous letter only reached my hands today."
"The reason I could send people five days in advance was purely because I read your diary and planned ahead."
"After all, if you really ran away and went into seclusion with that hundred-thousand-year rabbit, how would I get the diary rewards?"
To keep Dante, this "spoiler cheat," she had to play along with his script.
Over the past few days, Dante had been writing about his daily cultivation routine, as well as Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Xiao Wu.
Others were mentioned occasionally, but less frequently.
Even though the System said that being mentioned the most didn't guarantee a reward,
even so, over these five days, Xiao Wu definitely received rewards more often than any of the others!
This actually caused dissatisfaction among many people.
Some hadn't received a single reward yet!
For example, a certain little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, and Dugu Bo's granddaughter, Dugu Yan.
Of course, the System couldn't give good things every time; over these few days, Xiao Wu had only received some Gold Soul Coins and some experience for the Shadowless Kick to assist her training.
The diary content continued.
[The lineup that came this time is quite interesting.]
[Besides Bibi Dong's personal Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo, there's even one who uses a Snake Lance Douluo.]
[If I'm not mistaken, that should be the Snake Lance Douluo Snake Spear, who has been undercover in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace as 'Xue Qinghe's' bodyguard, right?]
[Tsk tsk, it seems even that tsundere Young Lord, Qian Renxue, can't sit still anymore.]
Qian Renxue looked at the diary; she wasn't surprised that Dante recognized Snake Spear.
On the contrary, this raised her level of trust in Dante by another notch.
"Since you can recognize Snake Spear, it means you were indeed at the scene."
"And Snake Spear's presence there also indirectly confirms the fact that Tang Hao is in Nuoding City."
"Dante..."
A sharp light flickered in Qian Renxue's golden eyes.
"It seems the prophecies about the future written in your diary aren't just groundless rumors."
At this moment, both Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue
felt their trust in Dante's diary reach the 60% threshold.
They no longer viewed it as a joke but began to seriously examine its intelligence value.
Of course, except for some unacceptable "emotional gossip."
For instance, that Yu Xiaogang approached Bibi Dong with an ulterior motive.
On this point, Bibi Dong still held reservations.
"Although Xiaogang's theories are a bit extreme, his character..."
Bibi Dong frowned slightly, a glimmer of hope still remaining in her heart.
However, Dante's subsequent combat analysis immediately poured cold water on the actions of these three Titled Douluo.
[I just don't know if these three Titled Douluo can keep Tang Hao there.]
[The Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo have the Two-Level Stasis Field at least; I just hope they aren't too stingy to use it when the time comes.]
[If they think Tang Hao was seriously injured in that battle years ago and has internal ailments that will prevent him from showing his full strength, they are dead wrong!]
[Tang Hao is someone who excels at exploding with power in desperate situations!]
[Don't assume Tang Hao can't use Ring Explosion and the Great Sumeru Hammer just because of his old injuries; he actually used them during the finals of the Soul Master Competition in the original story.]
[In the original story, during the finals of the Soul Master Competition a few years later,]
[Tang Hao, with his broken body, managed to smash through Spirit Hall's defenses right in front of Bibi Dong and several Titled Douluo!]
[The power of that hammer strike could be described as world-shattering!]
[The spirit power barrier jointly set up by Bibi Dong and several other Titled Douluo was like paper, shattering instantly!]