Chapter 40
Chapter 40: What Temperature Does a Monster Have? To a Three-headed Giant Python, Trees Are Just Something to Coil Around
“What?” The few people running in front of Jiang Tea Tea suddenly stopped, turned around, and stared at her in shock. Someone shouted: “Sister Tea, are you crazy? You want to go fight those three-headed giant pythons all by yourself?”
Another person hurriedly explained: “Sister Tea, three-headed giant pythons are Level 6 mutated pythons. The area under the waterfall is their nesting ground. That means at least fifty kilometers around here is their territory. Right now there are more than ten of them chasing us. If you kill even one, the blood from that giant python will attract the rest to hunt us down.”
Someone cursed under their breath and said: “With our eight little bodies, even if we all lay down here, it wouldn’t be enough to fill the gaps between their teeth…”
Sui Xuan Chu’s voice suddenly drowned everyone else out. He shouted: “If we’re not enough to fill their teeth, then we just won’t be their food. We’ll kill them and farm points! Come on, we’re on the same team as Jiang Tea Tea. There’s no way we leave her here to cover our retreat and face those three-headed giant pythons alone.”
Huang Da Zhuang agreed and said: “Yeah, Sui Xuan Chu is right. We’re one team. If we leave, we leave together. If we stay, we stay together. If we really can’t beat them, we can just forfeit. We already earned so many points anyway, what’s there to be scared of?”
He had no supernatural abilities, but it didn’t matter. He had a strong body and sharp teeth. There was no way he would leave Jiang Tea Tea alone at the rear.
If even Huang Da Zhuang was not afraid, the others had nothing to be afraid of either. They all went crazy together, picked up their weapons without a second of hesitation, and rushed back.
Jiang Tea Tea was speechless.
[This is so ridiculous. I just wanted to have a meal. Now they’ve gotten involved. How am I supposed to eat properly like this?]
None of them had hot weapons. They only had cold weapons: iron rods, daggers, wrenches, retractable batons, insecticide, and so on.
The bodies of the three-headed giant pythons were thicker than a water barrel, covered in scales. They sensed heat by flicking their tongues and chased after any living thing whose body temperature was higher than theirs.
Because Sui Xuan Chu and the other seven turned back, they became living targets. The dozen or so three-headed giant pythons slithered right past Jiang Tea Tea and cut around to surround them.
Inside the invisible super battleship’s Commander in Chief room, Chong Ming suddenly sat up straight. He turned his golden eyes to the head of the Information Department in charge of the surveillance system and said: “Minister Cai, use the 360-degree, no blind spot surveillance system to lock onto all members of the ‘Kill the Other Twenty-nine Military Academies’ squad, especially Jiang Tea Tea. I want every fluctuation of supernatural ability on her body, and her heat signature.”
“Yes!” Cai Xi Chao answered. She didn’t even sit down. She stayed standing as she pulled up a virtual keyboard. A data and code screen appeared in front of her, and her fingers flew over the keys.
In the blink of an eye, the giant screen in front of Chong Ming lit up clearly. Every member of the “Kill the Other Twenty-nine Military Academies” squad appeared on it. The screen showed what supernatural abilities they used, what moves they used to fight, and how they awkwardly dodged the three-headed giant pythons. Every detail was captured.
A separate frame for Jiang Tea Tea took up one third of the giant screen. The system did not catch any supernatural ability fluctuations on her, but it did capture her body temperature.
Her temperature fluctuated between 35.5 and 37.5 degrees, a bit lower than a pure human’s average body temperature. If you insisted on comparing, it still fell within the normal range.
Logically, with a temperature like hers, she should have been a walking heat bomb in the eyes of the three-headed giant pythons, the main target they wanted to chase and devour.
But the three-headed giant pythons acted like they couldn’t feel her heat at all. They rushed right past her and attacked other people.
If only one three-headed giant python missed her, that would be one thing. But two, three of them in a row slithered right past her and attacked others instead. That was not normal at all.
Chong Ming narrowed his golden eyes at the screen and called out: “Deputy Officer Ai.”
Deputy Officer Ai answered at once: “Yes, Your Highness.”
Chong Ming ordered: “Go compile a complete list of all supernatural ability types in the M31 Star System, including the Insectoid Race. I want everything, especially the rarer kinds. Do not skip even the smallest detail.”
Deputy Officer Ai replied: “Yes, Your Highness.”
On the planet’s surface, Huang Da Zhuang had transformed into a big yellow dog and was being chased by a three-headed giant python. He ran while howling. Yan Yu used his blink step supernatural ability, blinked onto the python’s body, grabbed his dagger, and stabbed down.
Sparks flew where the dagger hit. The three-headed giant python’s scales were so hard that the dagger couldn’t pierce into its body at all.
The stabbed python abandoned Huang Da Zhuang. All three of its heads opened wide at once and lunged at Yan Yu instead.
Yan Yu’s expression changed. He quickly activated his supernatural ability, blinked off the python’s body, appeared next to Huang Da Zhuang, grabbed him, and blinked them both to a safer place.
He had just steadied his feet when he heard Huang Da Zhuang barking anxiously in the direction of that same three-headed giant python: “Woof woof woof!”
Yan Yu turned his head and stared.
Jiang Tea Tea was gripping a tree branch. She had already pierced straight through the three-headed giant python’s hard scales. The branch stabbed in below the three heads. She dragged it down in one clean motion. That ordinary-looking branch suddenly seemed like the sharpest blade, slicing open the python’s belly and cutting all the way down its middle until the body split open and the giant python sagged.
Jiang Tea Tea flicked her wrist. With one hook of the branch, she lifted out a snake gall the size of an egg. She caught it in her hand and squeezed it.
The gall burst. The liquid flowed over her palm. She absorbed everything that was useful to her as fertilizer. Whatever was useless, she flicked off with one shake of her hand until it was completely clean.
The three-headed giant python’s belly was split open and its gall was gone, but it still wasn’t dead. It roared and whipped its tail, opening its three mouths to attack Jiang Tea Tea all at once.
Jiang Tea Tea did not dodge. She pushed off the ground and jumped straight up. The branch in her hand swung down and smashed against the spot under the python’s heads. With a crisp crack, its heads and body were almost knocked apart, hanging on by only a thin layer of skin.
A loud thunderclap exploded. Sui Xuan Chu’s call lightning slammed into another three-headed giant python that had been tangled up with Zhang Ting Zhou, the big Zhang Yu.
Zhang Ting Zhou took the chance to use his tentacles and tightened them hard around the python’s body. Rotting leaves stuck all over him.
Jiang Tea Tea flashed over. Her speed-type ability was even faster than Yan Yu’s blink step Beastman ability. The branch in her hand stabbed straight into that python’s belly. She dragged it down toward the gallbladder. Then she reached in and dug the snake gall out, saying calmly: “Zhang Ting Zhou, let go.”
Snake blood splashed all over Zhang Ting Zhou. When he heard Jiang Tea Tea, he quickly took back his tentacles and shrank his body down, turning from a big Zhang Yu into a small Zhang Yu. He rolled over to Sui Xuan Chu’s feet.
Jiang Tea Tea left the branch lodged in the gallbladder’s position inside the python’s body. She did not pull it out. Instead, she wrapped spiritual power around the branch and slashed back with force, cutting that three-headed giant python cleanly in half.
The python that had been cut in two was not fully dead yet. Its body twisted and writhed. It hissed angrily again and again.
Jiang Tea Tea crushed the gall in her hand again, then jumped without a running start. Holding the branch like a sharp sword, she landed on the three-headed giant python that was fighting against Cheng Xiao Ting and Cheng Lin Yue.
The python could not feel the heat from her body at all. It only felt a tiny weight land on it, but by the time it tried to whip its tail or snap at her with its mouths, it was too late.
The branch, sharper than any sword, stabbed into the python’s belly just like before. She dragged it down, slicing straight to the gallbladder.
With a third snake gall in her hand, Jiang Tea Tea once again cut that python in two.
The others shouted orders:
Someone yelled: “Cheng Xiao Ting, Yan Yu, you two go lure more three-headed giant pythons over here! Lure a lot more for her to kill!”
Another shouted: “Orange Sparrow, Zhang Yan Zhou, you two protect Cheng Lin Yue and Huang Da Zhuang. Sui Xuan Chu, you use your lightning to strike the three-headed giant pythons. I’ll cut them open, take their galls, and split their bones!”