Chapter 629 — A Thorough Loss of Face
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Hearing Shen Yushu's words, An Liwen was instantly overjoyed. Gu Mengyao liked brave people? It seemed Su Taizao's question had hit the mark after all! Then he would have to give a proper performance! So he said, "Once I was at a seaside bathing beach, swimming, when suddenly I heard screams and cries for help from not far behind me! I turned around and saw a huge shark swimming toward us fast! At that moment, what I thought of was not fleeing, but saving these tourists from danger, so I swam quickly toward the shark. Seeing me swim over, the shark thought I was coming to offer myself up as a meal, and was overjoyed, about to swim up and eat me—little did it know that the one offering himself up was really the shark itself!"
"Wow, Brother Jianwen, you're so brave!" Shen Yushu exclaimed.
"It was all right!" Hearing Shen Yushu's praise, An Liwen grew even more excited, and with the help of the liquor he began to spin his tale. "I smashed my fist into the shark's mouth, shattered its teeth outright. In an instant the shark had no teeth left, turned into a toothless tiger that couldn't eat me, and it was stunned! Then it turned to flee, but how could I let it get away? Frighten people and then just run off—was it that simple? So I grabbed the shark's tail and swung it round and round, and with a bang it crashed onto the sand and got a concussion from the fall!"
"Holy crap!" Shen Yushu's eyes went wide with disbelief. "Brother Jianwen, you're amazing! I've heard shark teeth are the strongest animal teeth in the world, and you can smash them—that's incredible!"
An Liwen was slightly taken aback. How would he know whether shark teeth were hard or not? He had only ever seen living sharks in an aquarium—when had he ever touched a real shark? He had just been making up a story, only to show off his bravery, without thinking that far!
But now the words were out, and there was no room to take them back. He could only tough it out and say, "It was all right, not really that amazing!"
"Oh, Brother Jianwen, I have a keychain made from a shark's tooth here. Why don't you show us how you smash it?" As she spoke, Shen Yushu took out a keychain and set it on the table.
This was a tooth Shen Yushu had cut from the shark Wei Zhao had killed last time and brought home; bored and with nothing to do, she had made it into a keychain.
"Gah?!" An Liwen's eyes went wide, and his face nearly cramped. He had not expected Shen Yushu to actually produce a tooth and ask him to smash it—was this some kind of joke? Never mind that shark teeth were the hardest teeth in the world; even an ordinary tooth, he could not smash!
An Liwen's face was turning green. How was he supposed to explain this? Was this not just a joke? How could he possibly smash a shark's tooth? But if he refused, he would need a reason—otherwise he would lose face completely! Yet what reason could there be?