Chapter 34
Chapter 34: Saying You Want Little Brat’s Mom Right in Front of His Dad, You’ve Got Nerves
“Damn, this is too much. Breaking hands, breaking legs, breaking arms isn’t enough, they even blow up heads now. Is this the Supremacy Tournament? Bullshit, they’re just playing with us and fighting over our heads!”
“Yeah, even if it’s not live ammo, it’s still color artillery shells. They hit your head and explode on your head. Your whole head is covered in paint. It’s not about pain, it’s about shame.”
“Exactly. The drill instructor group just wants us to walk around with our heads covered in bright colors. It’s to humiliate us and remind us that we’re just muggles, weak and easy to crush.”
All the students in the school heard the announcement from the alarm system. They started cursing one after another while they rushed to pull on clothes and shoes with shaking hands.
“Perverts, total perverts. What kind of normal Supremacy Tournament doesn’t train people on the training ground, but starts training in the dorms?”
“I bet it’s not ‘reach the grand parade ground in thirty minutes.’ It’s ‘let them beat the crap out of us for thirty minutes, then dock our credits after we’re done.’”
“The drill instructor group is too much. They dock 10 credits, 20 credits, 50 credits at the drop of a hat. We only have 200 credits total. We haven’t even earned them all yet and they’re already taking them back. When are we ever going to graduate?”
“Stop whining. Hurry up and get dressed, get out of the dorms, find a way to dodge their attacks, and reach the grand parade ground in thirty minutes.”
“My precious, my dear Sister Tea, I want to apologize for how I treated you the first time we met. I didn’t even look at you properly and I ignored you. Lord, please don’t hold it against a petty little guy like me. Please don’t argue with this weak, pitiful little cat like me.”
“Yeah, sis, you’re my real big sister. You’re better at scouting than me, an intelligence division guy, better than Old Zhang from the information systems division, and better than Old Wolf from reconnaissance specialization. Your scouting is sharper and your intel is more accurate than all of us!”
“When we first met, we were blind idiots. We were trash. If you’re still mad later, you can beat us up again. We promise we won’t fight back.”
The members of Jiang Tea Tea’s squad, especially the feline family beastman male Orange Sparrow, pressed his hands together and apologized loudly to Jiang Tea Tea.
Reconnaissance specialization beastman Cheng Xiao Ting and information systems division beastman Zhang Ting Zhou reflected on themselves too. When they first met her, they really had looked down on her like dogs looking at people. They had no manners at all. Thinking back now, they wanted to slap themselves a couple of times. They really had been blind.
Jiang Tea Tea glanced at them, acting wild as ever: “Since you know you’re weak chickens, next time keep your eyes in your eye sockets. Don’t stick your noses up at the sky. Be a little humble.”
She was a tree spirit with only about twenty percent of her spiritual power awakened for now. At night she had to stretch her branches out the window to absorb moonlight and trace nutrients from the air. The second the battleship arrived over the academy and hadn’t even fully stopped, she already knew something was wrong.
She used her fastest speed-type ability to bang on Sui Xuan Chu’s door and told him what she sensed, then quickly went to notify the others.
Except for Huang Da Zhuang, the others she warned were doubtful but, for the sake of the team, they still trusted her halfway. It took them less than three minutes to run out of their dorms, get out of the dorm area, and gather in the bushes outside the academy’s signal shielding room.
They had just gathered and hadn’t even caught their breath when they saw two battleships appear in the dark sky over the academy.
The belly hatch on one of the ships opened. Countless avian-type drill instructors flew down, and at the same time, countless small military flying devices shot out.
They flew straight toward the dorms. As soon as they surrounded the dorm buildings, the alarm sirens went off.
If Jiang Tea Tea hadn’t warned them and told them to run out of the dorms, they would have been caught like turtles in a jar.
So when Jiang Tea Tea called them weak chickens, they didn’t get angry. They weren’t even upset. They felt like she was right, she was sharp, and her insults were actually kind of awesome.
Cheng Lin Yue asked in a small voice: “Everyone, what do we do now? Are we running to the grand parade ground?”
Reconnaissance specialization student Cheng Xiao Ting said: “Right now, the straight-line distance from us to the grand parade ground is over 15,000 meters. That’s about 15 kilometers.”
“My running speed-type ability can reach up to 200 kilometers per hour at top speed. Fifteen kilometers is nothing; I can cross it in a blink. But…”
Sui Xuan Chu picked up his words: “But we can’t run there in a straight line. There are obstacles. We’ll have to go around them, which adds about 5 more kilometers.”
“Judging by how drill instructor groups usually act during military training, their main force will surround and attack the dorms. But they’ll also have other troops hiding in unexpected places, waiting to deal with strays like us who slip through the net.”
“We need to think of how to break through in the shortest time and…”
Jiang Tea Tea cut Sui Xuan Chu off in a simple and rude way: “What are you thinking so much for? We just charge.”
Everyone’s eyes snapped onto her at once as they demanded: “Just charge? What if we run into the drill instructor group?”
Jiang Tea Tea clicked her teeth together, made a biting motion, and said in a cute but fierce voice: “If we run into the drill instructor group, we beat them up. It’s not like they ever said only they’re allowed to blow up our heads, break our arms and legs, and dock our credits, and we’re not allowed to hit them back.”
Because of Jiang Tea Tea’s words, the eyes of Sui Xuan Chu and the other six males lit up like wolves. The idea of beating the drill instructors back was exciting. It fired them up.
They all nodded in agreement: “Sister Tea, you’re right. Why should we just stand there and wait for them to blow up our heads? Why can’t we go blow up their heads?”
“If we take down one, we earn one. If we take down two, we earn two. If we want to win the championship, we have to catch them off guard.”
“Do it, do it, do it. We’ll follow Sister Tea’s plan. Whoever tries to stop us, we blow up their head. Whoever gets in our way, we take them down. We’re going in like we don’t care about our lives.”
“Yan Yu, you’re a Level S rank 2 Blink Step supernatural ability user. You go first. Scout the enemy. If you see anyone from the drill instructor group, call us so we can work together and take them out.”
Sui Xuan Chu started giving out tasks.
“Cheng Lin Yue, Old Zhang, your speed-type abilities aren’t great. Change into your beast forms and make them as small as possible. Cheng Xiao Ting, you carry one. I’ll carry the other.”
“Jiang Tea Tea, you…”
Jiang Tea Tea refused and urged them on: “I don’t need anyone to carry me. Focus on your speed-type ability. I can already hear gunshots, shouting, and mocking voices.”
The students who came out of the dorms, whether they climbed out of windows or walked through doors, all had their heads blown up with color artillery shells. Bright, colorful paint exploded on each head. Every hit dyed a new head.
Some students had already turned into living targets. Except for their heads, their whole bodies were covered in paint from the color shells.
The drill instructors’ mocking laughter echoed over the students’ heads, loud enough to make ears ring.
They stopped hesitating and left the cover of the bushes. Other than Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu, everyone turned into their beast forms.
Yan Yu flicked her big tail and used Blink Step to dart off. Cheng Xiao Ting clamped his jaws around Cheng Lin Yue’s beast form and followed close behind. Huang Da Zhuang and Orange Sparrow ran after them. Sui Xuan Chu grabbed Zhang Ting Zhou and quickly followed too.
Jiang Tea Tea yanked a half-meter-long branch from the bushes, thinner than her pinky. She leaped, landed beside Huang Da Zhuang, and ran with them.
“Oh-ho, looks like there really are fish slipping through the net.”
The commander of the First Army Corps, dressed in a green combat suit, stared at one of the many screens in front of him. With a surprised sigh, he spoke up and immediately tried to claim someone from Chong Ming.
“It’s one thing to have people slip through the net, but among them there’s even a pure human female. Her face isn’t red, she’s not out of breath, and she’s running alongside a canine family beastman.”
“Genius. Commander in Chief, she’s definitely a talent. Our First Army Corps is reserving her in advance. No matter how this pure human female does in the Supremacy Tournament, our First Army Corps wants her!”
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