Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
After registering their names, the other students were somewhat energized, as if it was an honor to come downstairs.
That was how people were sometimes—not worrying about scarcity, but rather uneven distribution1.
After finding out that the people upstairs might be treated worse later, everyone had a little more joy on their faces.
However, the sound of the door pounding soon knocked them back to reality.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Perhaps smelling the “food” getting closer to them, the black beetle on the other side of the door struck even harder.
The powerful banging was like a big drum of life, striking the hearts of the crowd.
The students, except Du Gang, involuntarily moved away from the iron door.
“Guys, grab some heavy furniture from the first floor dorms and move them over here!”
Du Gang said, going up to the iron door and observing its condition. He knew that these people were afraid to approach the door, so he took the initiative.
The lock is fine.
The door is fine.
But the hinges connected to the door frame… There are four nails on each side. On the left, two nails have buckled and on the right, three nails have buckled. Looks like the remaining three nails will buckle soon too!
Made in China…
He glanced and couldn’t help but feel thankful that it was made locally and of good quality!
However, he wasn’t distracted for long as two students moved a meter-tall tin cabinet over.
“Put it over here!” Du Gang pointed to the side of the door frame and said.
The two students who carried the cabinet stopped in their tracks and looked over hesitantly. They glimpsed the black beetle’s legs through the doorway, which immediately made their bodies shiver.
Soon after, the others who moved furniture also came to a halt. They were also afraid to go close to the iron door. Although they knew that those black beetles couldn’t enter through the door for now, they were still terrified.
Du Gang witnessed the situation and didn’t force them. Instead, he went up and lifted the furniture himself, which turned out less heavy than expected.
His body strength had indeed been strengthened as well. Even though he wasn’t as strong as he would be after transformation, his current strength was still far beyond that of an ordinary person’s.
After having a feel of his strength, he walked to the door with a cabinet in each hand.
Ptui!
Looking through the gap of the middle doorway, Du Gang spat at the insects outside, before placing the cabinets down on the left and right of the entrance.
Then, he stood in the middle of the doorway and held his hands against the door, turning back and saying: “I’m holding them off. Hurry up and move!”
By doing so, the students became less timid.
Although there was still a lot of banging from the outside, the students could no longer see the black beetles and felt less afraid. One by one, they went forward and moved the heavy furniture.
“We don’t need those clothes! Why did you bring a cup of water here? You want to quench my thirst?”
Du Gang stood in the doorway and reprimanded: “Heavy things, you know? Heavy things! Get the bigger stuff and if there isn’t any, then grab some books!”
The two cabinets by the doorway were empty, but after stuffing them with books, they were significantly heavier.
As soon as the students heard his words, they ran about fetching books and stuffing them into the cabinets with their bodies bowed.
In just a short while, the two tin cabinets were filled to the brim.
And outside the door, the black beetles went berserk as they sensed the “food” close at hand. Instead of ramming into the door one by one like a lady, they swarmed ahead at once.
Although the door wasn’t wide and its area to withstand impact wasn’t large, there were too many insects on the other side. The total force by the mutual impact of the insects caused the door to waver, despite Du Gang pressing against it using his body.
“This won’t work!”
Du Gang found that without transforming himself, he wouldn’t be able to guard the door with his strength. He quickly snapped: “Bring a bed over!”
“Okay!”
The crowd hurriedly put down the things in their hands and frantically carried a bed over.
“Push it against the cabinets!” Du Gang said, standing toward the side and vacating a position for the bed.
Soon after, the crowd worked together to push the double bed against the door.
“Push!”
Without the need for Du Gang’s shouting, the students consciously pushed the bed with force.
“We don’t need too many people pushing the bed; just four to five of us will do. The rest of you continue to move things over. Grab books and throw them onto the bed!”
Du Gang instantly jumped on the cabinet, holding the door and shouting: “Bring me two more cabinets. Pass them through the middle of this bed!”
The tin cabinets were only a meter tall, so there was no issue stacking two of them on the doorway.
With the support of these furnitures, the students grew braver. A few of them carried the cabinets over and passed them to Du Gang.
Du Gang opened the two cabinets’ doors and stacked them on top of the other two cabinets.
This time, there wasn’t a need for him to speak as the other students swiftly grabbed books and stuffed them into the two cabinets above.
After some effort from the crowd, the iron door on the first floor had been completely secured and blocked.
At the end, even without them pushing the bed against the door, the door could no longer be shaken.
At that moment, the area was filled with a mountain of books and at a glance, books were everywhere.
“Just how many books are here?”
Du Gang let out a sigh of relief and casually asked.
The crowd’s expression at that moment also relaxed. Although their faces were drenched with sweat, all of them put up wide smiles.
“Maybe a few thousand!”
“There must be! We cleared out all the books on the first and second floor and also grabbed quite a lot of them from the third floor too!”
Du Gang smiled and nodded, praising them: “Good job, everyone!”
At that moment, some of them were still a little worried.
“Du Gang, is this strong enough?”
“Yeah. We’re not going to be here all the time to hold it up, are we?”
Although the door was blocked, the thought of being just a wall away from the insects sent chills down their spines.
The corners of Du Gang’s lips lifted into a smile as he explained: “School textbooks normally use two-side offset papers, and a single page of A4 paper weighs 80 grams. School textbooks have an estimated three to four hundred pages, which makes them almost seven to eight hundred grams and equivalent to a little more than a pound…”
Everyone looked at him, dumbfounded.
Du Gang glanced at the mountain of books, and in the midst of the bewildered looks of the crowd, he plainly explained: “If there are 3,000 books in this pile, it has a weight of nearly two tons. The iron door is almost two meters wide and high, with an area of four square meters. According to the size of the “cockroach”, we know that the point of impact is its head, which means that the area of force against the door is one square meter at the very most. The formula for impact force is Ft = Mv. Judging from my contact with them earlier, v = 12.34 m/s, M = 500 kg, and t = 0.5 seconds. With that, F = 12340 N and 1 kg = 9.8 N, resulting in an impact force of 1259.2 kg from the “cockroach”. In other words, it has a force of 1.2 tons. Our school’s iron door, according to the standard, can withstand a minimum impact of two tons. Plus, we have an addition of nearly two tons of books here. So do you think it is strong enough?”
“What? You’re insane!”
“Du Gang, I didn’t know you were a star student!”
The crowd looked at him with admiration.
“Heh, heh!”
Du Gang chuckled and didn’t say anything else.
Star student? Haha!
The things he just said were all nonsense and just meant to reduce their fear toward the “cockroaches”.