Chapter 46
Chapter 46: Heads Trampled, Faces Ground In, Bodies Roasted
Orange Sparrow muttered: “No way. From this far away, you two dogs… you one dog and one wolf can tell they are not holding color-shell guns, but iron rods?”
Orange Sparrow, this feline beastman, was really shocked by Huang Da Zhuang and Cheng Xiao Ting’s hearing. In the pitch-black primeval forest, with sixty or seventy meters between them, they could tell what kind of weapon the others were holding. It was like they were using cheats.
Cheng Xiao Ting and Huang Da Zhuang said: “What can we do, our hearing is just that good.”
They added: “You, feline beastman, need to learn from us more, train your ears whenever you can.”
Orange Sparrow grunted: “Fine. So what do we do now?”
Zhang Ting Zhou, that big octopus beastman, could not stand it anymore. He poked Orange Sparrow’s shoulder and said: “What do you mean, what do we do? Look over there,” and he signaled him to look to the left.
Orange Sparrow followed the gesture and looked over, then jumped up and cursed: “Holy crap, when did they get here? They are like ghosts, not a sound at all.”
By a few giant trees they could not wrap their arms around, the drill instructors who were supposed to be sixty or seventy meters away were now standing there in dark protective combat suits, faces covered in camouflage paint. They raised the iron rods in their hands and waved at them in greeting.
One instructor joked: “Dear students, little babies, how can you talk like that? This is the interstellar era. With technology so advanced, where would ghosts come from? There are no ghosts. We have to believe in science, don’t spread scary rumors.”
Another laughed: “Right. We speed-type ability users are fast and light on our feet. If you want to welcome us, just welcome us, but don’t be so superstitious and treat us like ghosts.”
One instructor said: “I am telling you, you see the iron rods in our hands, no need to be scared. As military academy students, the pillars of the nation’s future, getting hit a few times with some iron rods is no big deal.”
Another instructor grinned and said: “If you really are afraid of pain, we are reasonable people. Just tell us, we will hit lighter. We will not blow your heads open, at most we will break an arm or a leg.”
Someone else added: “Handsome boys, pretty girls, you kids like to look cool and pretty, and we uncles also like good looks. Relax, we will not hit too hard. We will not aim at your faces.”
Sui Xuan Chu and the other seven were speechless.
They did not feel reassured at all. Reassured, their foot. Listening to these instructors taking advantage while pretending to be kind, it was clear they were attacking their mental defenses, trying to make them give up and use their forfeit grenades.
They were not going to forfeit.
The seven of them moved closer together, back to back, watching out for instructors on their left, right, and front. Their mouths showed no mercy as they shot back: “Instructors, you really said what we were thinking. We also want to break your arms and legs to farm points.”
Someone added: “Yeah, instructors. Tie up one of you and the squad gets 10 points, and the individual gets 10 points. If we take down about thirty of you, we can win while lying down.”
Another said: “So as the instructor group, don’t be so arrogant, don’t be so full of yourselves. No one knows yet who will fall in whose hands.”
An instructor laughed and said: “Lying down to win, ha ha ha, like that little girl you are holding in your arms. She lay there, lay there and fell asleep, and you call that lying down to win?”
Another said: “You want to break our arms and legs to farm points? Oh my, little babies, among all the students I have trained, you are the boldest and have the wildest ideas. I just love you, the way you are young, ignorant, and arrogant.”
The instructor group burst into loud laughter. Holding their rods, they walked toward them step by step, like cats playing with mice instead of eating them.
One instructor called out: “Come on, come on, cut the nonsense. You want to win while lying down, want to break our arms and legs? You should first ask if the iron rods in our hands agree.”
Another said: “Keep it down, keep it down, don’t scare the Empire’s little flowers. Little flowers, how about listening to me? Just forfeit and surrender. We will not hit you, we will fly you in a luxury aircraft straight to the rest point.”
Counting the sleeping Jiang Tea Tea, Sui Xuan Chu’s side only had eight people. Some had no supernatural abilities, some were not strong fighters. The instructor group had three teams, thirty-four people in total.
To take down even one instructor, they had to work together as a team. Now they had to face so many at once, and there were large aberrant beasts in the rear. How were they supposed to break this situation?
Sui Xuan Chu turned and pushed Jiang Tea Tea into Cheng Lin Yue’s arms: “Cheng Lin Yue, if you cannot wake her up, just keep an eye on her. If her life is in danger, forfeit.”
Cheng Lin Yue sat on the ground holding Jiang Tea Tea and said: “Okay, okay, you all be careful.”
Sui Xuan Chu said to the other five beastmen: “Military academy students are soldiers too. If they want us to forfeit, there is no way. Brothers, charge for me.”
Cheng Xiao Ting, Huang Da Zhuang, and the others, five in total, did not hesitate at all. At the order of their temporary captain, they shot out like arrows and charged straight at the instructor group.
At the moment they charged out, Sui Xuan Chu activated his supernatural ability, calling down lightning toward the instructors to buy the others time and a chance to attack.
But earlier he had struck more than one hundred three-headed giant pythons with lightning. His ability had been heavily drained and had not recovered, so the lightning was much weaker now.
Even if the instructor group members were only level 2 S-class ability users, anyone who had survived in the First Army Corps and come here to be an instructor had been drilled countless times, had gone to war, had hacked up insectoid races and aberrant beasts, and had faced storm after storm.
To them, Sui Xuan Chu’s weakened lightning was something they could easily dodge. Every instructor could avoid it.
More than once, the lightning he called almost hit their own squad members instead.
With a thud, something hit.
Yan Yu used his level 2 S-class Blink Step ability to flash behind one instructor, ready to launch a sneak attack.
He did not expect that the instructor being ambushed seemed to have eyes in the back of his head. The man spun around, lifted his long leg, and kicked, hitting Yan Yu right on.
Yan Yu flew like a kite with its string cut, slammed hard into a huge tree, rolled down the trunk, spat a mouthful of blood, and could not get up for a long while.
Cheng Lin Yue was patting Jiang Tea Tea’s face while dragging her toward Yan Yu. She was so anxious she was almost in tears, thinking: [Sister Tea, why are you still not awake? Sister Tea, please wake up, our squad members are all going to be beaten to death.]
Orange Sparrow, this feline beastman, had no chance to use his hypnosis ability at all. In just a few moves, the instructors stepped on his head and pressed his face into the dry leaves and branches, grinding him into the ground.
Zhang Ting Zhou was not doing well in human form, so he shifted into beast form, turning into a huge octopus. He used his eight tentacles to whip and attack the instructors.
But the rods in the instructors’ hands could also turn into blades. They sliced right at his tentacles. Octopus tentacles could grow back.
After cutting them off, they did not waste anything. They picked up the severed tentacles, threw them into their space knob storage devices, and said arrogantly: “The deep sea octopus clan has been living on land for many years now. I wonder if these octopus tentacles taste as good as they did in the ocean.”
One instructor added: “I am telling you, octopus balls, grilled octopus slices, stir-fried octopus, sprinkle some chili powder and cumin. That flavor will hit you right away, crazy good.”
Half of Zhang Ting Zhou’s eight tentacles had been cut off. He turned back into human form, covered in blood, and the instructors kicked him into the dirt like a piece of trash, discussing how to cook him right in front of his face.
Cheng Xiao Ting and Huang Da Zhuang, the two canine beastmen, one wolf and one dog, one with an ability and one without, were beaten back again and again, unable to defend. They shifted into their beast forms, baring their teeth as they attacked.
They did not expect the instructors to be so vicious. The iron rods in their hands not only twisted into blades, but could also spray fire.
The instructors wickedly set Huang Da Zhuang and Cheng Xiao Ting’s fur on fire. Their thick fur caught fire at once, and in a boom the two of them became fireballs.
To save themselves and put out the flames, the wolf and the dog fell to the ground, rolling all over and howling. They were as miserable as if someone had hung them by the neck and was about to skin them.
Sui Xuan Chu’s speed-type lightning-calling ability grew slower and slower. The lightning’s power grew weaker and weaker, his ability was being used up more and more, and his face was getting paler and paler.
Finally, he could not call down even a single bolt. He had to fight with his bare hands.
But he did not expect that a tall, strong instructor would walk up to him and call down a giant bolt of lightning, smashing it toward him: “Kid, your ability is used up, you have no power left. Good. Come, try this lightning from my level 4 S-class lightning ability. See if it is more powerful and more fun than that little lightning you call.”