Chapter 33
Chapter 33: Beat Them Into Pig Heads And Ask If They Yield, Get Your Head Blown Off And You Still Lose Points, This Game Is Wild
Beat them until they are happy, beat them until they submit. That sounded great.
Jiang Tea Tea liked it: “Then it’s decided.”
Sui Xuan Chu said: “Okay, I’ll go talk to a few people.”
After just a few sentences, Sui Xuan Chu put together an eight-person team.
Two females, five beastman males, and one half-beastman male.
All eight of them were first-year students. Two were from the Pacification Division without supernatural abilities. One was from the Combat Department. One was from Reconnaissance. One from the Intelligence Division. One was a medical water element healer. One from the Camouflage Department. One from the Information Systems Division.
The next day, after a full day of classes, the eight of them agreed to meet at the training ground to get to know each other and practice working together.
The training ground was a bit far from the Pacification Division. By the time Jiang Tea Tea and Huang Da Zhuang arrived, the others were already there.
As soon as Huang Da Zhuang stepped into the doorway and saw the group sitting in a circle with Sui Xuan Chu, he turned into an excited little puppy: “Sister Tea, Sister Tea, don’t tell me those people sitting with top student Sui Xuan Chu are our teammates?”
Jiang Tea Tea glanced over: “What, did they beat you up before? Why are you shaking like that?”
Huang Da Zhuang almost choked on his excitement: “I wish they would beat me up once. But each of them is so special and proud that they can’t even be bothered to look at a weakling like me.”
They were all the top students of their own departments, every one of them had a supernatural ability, and none of their abilities were below Level S. He, a useless person with no supernatural ability, could not reach their level as a schoolmate at all.
Jiang Tea Tea turned to look him over from head to toe. Seeing his ears almost drooping, she comforted him: “Your beast form is tall and strong. You can fight mutant tigers. You’re not a weakling.”
Huang Da Zhuang’s doggy eyes lit up at once: “Really, Sister Tea? In your heart I’m tall and mighty like someone from the wolf tribe?”
Jiang Tea Tea coaxed him like a child: “Yes. So hold your head high and puff out your chest. If they don’t want to look at you, you don’t need to look at them either.”
Huang Da Zhuang barked once: “Okay, I’ll listen to you.”
Jiang Tea Tea took Huang Da Zhuang with her and walked toward Sui Xuan Chu’s group.
The training ground was very big. It wasn’t only their group there. Several other groups were also working on their teamwork, just like them.
When Sui Xuan Chu saw them coming in, he waved, then scooted to the side to make space for two people.
After Jiang Tea Tea and Huang Da Zhuang sat cross-legged, he, as the first person who formed the team, introduced the seven others to each other:
“Jiang Tea Tea, Pacification Division, no supernatural ability, pure human female.”
“Huang Da Zhuang, Pacification Division, canine family, dog tribe beastman male, no supernatural ability.”
“Cheng Xiao Ting, Reconnaissance Specialization, canine family, wolf tribe beastman, dual Level S swift wind abilities.”
“Yan Yu, Intelligence Division, canine family, fox tribe half-beastman male, dual Level S Blink Step abilities.”
“Cheng Lin Yue, Healing Department, rabbit family, mouse-rabbit female, Level S water element healing ability.”
“Orange Sparrow, Camouflage Department, feline family beastman male, dual Level S hypnosis abilities.”
“Zhang Ting Zhou, Information Systems Division, Zhang Yu species male with a Level S color-changing mutant ability.”
“Me, Sui Xuan Chu, red-black dragon clan beastman male with dual Level S lightning element affinity abilities.”
Huang Da Zhuang happily greeted them: “Hello, nice to meet you all. I’m honored to team up with you.”
As soon as he finished, the scene went as cold and quiet as leaves in an autumn wind. No one answered him.
Huang Da Zhuang’s smile froze on his face. He looked at Jiang Tea Tea in panic.
His pair of doggy eyes made Jiang Tea Tea think of the dog she had raised back in the demon clan. They could bully her, but how could they bully her dog?
Jiang Tea Tea slanted her gaze toward Sui Xuan Chu.
Sui Xuan Chu tilted his head and met her eyes. He acted like nothing was wrong, as if he was used to this, and cracked his knuckles with soft popping sounds.
Jiang Tea Tea understood. She stood up, rubbed Huang Da Zhuang’s head full of yellow hair, and spoke to the other five: “Huang Da Zhuang greeted you. Are the rest of you mute?”
Cheng Lin Yue raised her hand, her eyes a bit timid: “I’m not mute. I…I have social anxiety. I’m timid. I’m scared of the canine family.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s lips curled into a smile: “How strange. You’re afraid of this canine family member, Huang Da Zhuang, but not the wolf beside you. Tell me, who are you looking down on?”
Cheng Lin Yue waved her hands fast: “I…I’m scared of him too. But he’s my roommate. I’ve gotten used to being scared of him.”
The wolf tribe beastman Cheng Xiao Ting gave Jiang Tea Tea a proud, wicked smile. His expression was as punchable as it could be.
Zhang Ting Zhou and the other two were just like him, noses pointed at the sky, eyes on the top of their heads, looking at the heavens, the earth, and the show.
Jiang Tea Tea’s smile faded. She clenched her hands into fists. Her fist whistled through the air as she smashed it toward Cheng Xiao Ting’s rough, smug face.
Cheng Xiao Ting’s face changed. He shoved Cheng Lin Yue beside him and tried to dodge, but he was still a step too slow.
With a bang, Jiang Tea Tea’s fist landed on his face, and the back of his head slammed hard against the floor.
Ignoring the pain, Cheng Xiao Ting rolled to his feet and swung at Jiang Tea Tea.
Jiang Tea Tea’s leg moved as fast as wind and lightning. She kicked both his knees in quick succession.
With a thump, he dropped to his knees on the ground.
Jiang Tea Tea’s fists came down together. She punched that arrogant, proud, condescending face from left and right.
After several heavy blows, Cheng Xiao Ting’s face swelled up like a steamed bun. Blood kept flowing from his mouth. He couldn’t find even a single chance to fight back.
After she finished with his face, Jiang Tea Tea moved behind him in a flash and kicked his back, knocking him flat on the floor in front of Huang Da Zhuang. She stepped on his back: “Come on. Greet Huang Da Zhuang.”
“Screw your gra…”
Before the “-ndfather” could leave his mouth, he felt the foot on his back become as heavy as a thousand pounds and press him flat to the ground.
Jiang Tea Tea stepped on him and twisted his arm with a crack, snapping it: “Come on, say hello to Huang Da Zhuang. Hm?”
Cheng Xiao Ting’s teeth chattered from the pain. His whole body shook: “O-okay, okay. Schoolmate Huang Da Zhuang, I’m also very happy to meet you and schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea. I’m honored to be on the same team as you.”
Jiang Tea Tea let go of his broken arm, removed her foot from his back, and gave him another kick on the butt, shoving him even closer to Huang Da Zhuang.
Huang Da Zhuang jumped in fright, scrambled back, and stood next to Sui Xuan Chu. He stared at Jiang Tea Tea with excited worship.
[Sister Tea is awesome!!!]
Jiang Tea Tea did not rest after finishing with Cheng Xiao Ting. In the blink of an eye, she went straight for the fox tribe half-beastman Yan Yu.
As a half-beastman male, he was different from beastmen and beastman females who could use their human form to fully hide their beastman features.
Even after he transformed into human form, a bright red, fluffy tail still stuck out behind him and could not be hidden.
While Jiang Tea Tea was beating Cheng Xiao Ting so hard he had no way to fight back, Yan Yu had already been cracking his knuckles, eager to brawl with her.
He hadn’t expected her to come after him on her own. He activated his Blink Step ability and, in one step, appeared behind Jiang Tea Tea, whipping his big tail at her.
Jiang Tea Tea’s target was his big tail in the first place. She hadn’t expected him to deliver it himself.
She pressed down with her monster spiritual power and grabbed Yan Yu’s bright red tail. Then she swung him like a giant hammer and smashed him toward Orange Sparrow and Zhang Ting Zhou.
Orange Sparrow and Zhang Ting Zhou had thought she would fight them one by one. They never imagined that, in her eyes, they did not even deserve to be fought one by one.
When the half-beastman hammer that was Yan Yu came smashing toward them, they tried to dodge. Jiang Tea Tea swung the one-hundred-fifty-jin half-beastman in her hands again and again. Whether she hit them or not, she just kept pounding away.
Yan Yu’s beautiful red hair and his delicate, androgynous face became a bird’s nest in moments, and his face puffed up like a pig’s head.
Orange Sparrow and Zhang Ting Zhou were chased around until they were panting. The moment they slowed even a little, Yan Yu the half-beastman hammer smashed into them.
After twenty minutes, Jiang Tea Tea’s face was not red and her breathing was steady. Orange Sparrow, Zhang Ting Zhou, and Yan Yu, the three beastmen and half-beastman, had been beaten back into their beast forms. They lay there gasping, with no part of their bodies that didn’t hurt.
Jiang Tea Tea threw their three beast forms in front of Huang Da Zhuang: “Come on, you three. Greet Huang Da Zhuang.”
Now that they were in beast form, they had no human mouths to talk with. They could only stretch out trembling paws and Zhang Yu antennae, waving them weakly at Huang Da Zhuang as greetings.
Sui Xuan Chu gave Jiang Tea Tea a thumbs up. Then he pointed at Cheng Lin Yue: “She didn’t greet him either. Are you going to beat her too?”
Cheng Lin Yue looked at Jiang Tea Tea in horror: “Jiang…Jiang schoolmate, it’s not that I don’t want to greet you. I really have social anxiety.”
“Wuwuwu, you already beat them. You can’t beat me too. My beast form doesn’t even weigh two jin. I can’t handle one punch from you pulling out all my fur.”
Jiang Tea Tea clapped her hands: “Fine. You’re cute, so I won’t beat you. Next time your roommate, that wolf, tries to scare you, come to me. Besides beating people, I’m also good at skinning wolves.”
Cheng Lin Yue nodded like a pecking chick: “Okay, okay. Thank you, Jiang schoolmate. If your body ever feels unwell, come to me. I’m in the Medical Department. I handle healing. I won’t charge you.”
Jiang Tea Tea hummed: “Got it. You all keep doing your thing. Keep practicing, keep getting along. I’m going to eat.”
Huang Da Zhuang hurried to follow: “Sister Tea, I’ll go with you.”
Jiang Tea Tea left with Huang Da Zhuang, heads held high.
Cheng Xiao Ting and the other three beastmen and half-beastman only let out a long breath after Jiang Tea Tea was gone. Then they shamelessly started groaning and whining.
Sui Xuan Chu pulled up his light-brain wrist terminal, took a nine-grid photo of the four of them, one in human form and three in beast form, then squatted in front of them, gloating and kicking them while they were down: “I told you not to look down on people with dog eyes, not to judge people through a door crack. You just wouldn’t listen.”
“Now look at you. This is the lowest point of your lives. You got beaten back into your beast forms. So pitiful.”
Cheng Xiao Ting dragged his broken arm, his pig-head face pointed at Sui Xuan Chu as he raised his middle finger.
Sui Xuan Chu was bad to the bone. He grabbed that raised middle finger and bent it backward. With a crack, he broke it, then pretended to be shocked: “Cheng Lin Yue, your roommate’s finger is broken. Hurry, hurry, call the transport robots and have them carry these four to the Healing Department. Heal them fast. Don’t let them delay our chance to join the Thirty Military Academies Supremacy Tournament.”
Cheng Xiao Ting groaned in pain and knocked his head against the floor, playing dead. In his heart, he thought: [Next time Sui Xuan Chu falls into my hands, I’ll pluck off all his scales and break his dragon claws.]
Jiang Tea Tea and Huang Da Zhuang went to the school cafeteria and swept it clean again. After they had eaten and drunk their fill, they each went back to their dorms. They did not care about anything else, did not ask about anything else. They studied when it was time to study, and slept when it was time to sleep.
Registering their squad and choosing a squad name were all handled by Sui Xuan Chu and the others. The two of them did not lift a finger and had no opinions.
In the blink of an eye, the two days for personal team formation passed. The one day for the Monitoring System to form teams passed too. Two more days went by, and still there was no announcement about when they would leave the Academy.
Just when all the students were thinking the notice might come at any time in the next week, at three in the morning, while everyone was sound asleep, a shrill alarm suddenly rang in every dorm, followed by the loud, arrogant voice of a drill instructor.
“Darlings, dear schoolmates, little darlings, time to get up. The Thirty Military Academies Imperial Academies Supremacy Tournament has officially begun. You have thirty minutes to gather on the largest field in the Academy. Anyone late will lose fifty credits!”
All the students in every dorm were jolted awake. After hearing the drill instructor’s words from the alarm, they rolled out of bed, scrambling to put on clothes and shoes.
But before they could finish dressing, the voice came from the alarm again:
“Darlings, dear schoolmates, little darlings, I forgot to tell you. On your way to the field, the drill instructor team has prepared a special attack drill for you. Break a hand, break a leg, or break an arm, and you lose ten credits. If your head gets blown off, you lose twenty credits!”