Chapter 47
Chapter 47: Driving Beasts to Hunt Instructors, Farming Points Off Them
Facing the giant bolt of lightning falling toward him, Sui Xuan Chu tried to roll and dodge on instinct. But his ability was spent, his spiritual power empty, and his body slow. He could not possibly escape the bolt that seemed to have eyes.
With a thunderous boom, the lightning struck him. His hair stood straight up, giving off black smoke. All the clothes on his body were burned to char, leaving only his underpants.
His whole body from head to toe was charred black like a lump of coal. He stood there stiffly, body twisting in pain, groaning.
Ye Lang nudged the tall, strong instructor and said: “Hu Ban Lan, take it easy, take it easy. He is level 2 S lightning, you are level 4 S lightning. Do not kill him, or the report will be hard to write.”
Hu Ban Lan gave Ye Lang the middle finger and looked at him with open contempt: “You think I am you, stupid enough to give them a chance to take me out as soon as I appear?”
The story of Ye Lang getting taken out by a rookie the moment he appeared had been posted on the internal network of all thirty army corps. He had become someone anyone in those thirty corps could come and tease.
When others mocked him, he could not talk back. He could only swallow his anger and swear to get his lost pride back. He waved his hand and said: “Fine, fine, you Hu Ban Lan are the strongest, the most awesome, okay? Happy now?”
Hu Ban Lan snorted: “As long as you know I am awesome. That little girl who beat you the hardest is still not awake. What is going on?”
The other instructors also asked: “Yeah, that pure human little girl. I checked her out, she is the peak of fighting power in their squad. All her teammates have been knocked down by us, but she is sleeping way too soundly.”
Someone said: “Do you think maybe she killed more than one hundred three-headed giant pythons earlier and collapsed from exhaustion? Maybe she is not sleeping, but in a coma?”
Another replied: “Whether she is asleep or in a coma is easy to check. Come on, rock-paper-scissors. Whoever loses goes over and wakes her up, and then we will know.”
Someone laughed: “Right. Even if that little girl has no ability, I still want to test fists and feet with her.”
Another instructor said: “You guys are so childish, still playing rock-paper-scissors. I have no time. These two little dogs, as soon as they put out the fire, they bared their teeth and attacked me. I just stomped their dog heads into the mud.”
Huang Da Zhuang and Cheng Xiao Ting, one dog and one wolf, with scorched, burned-off fur, kept attacking and resisting. The instructors easily stepped on their beast heads and pushed them into the rotten leaves and mud, their butts sticking up as they clawed at the ground with four paws, struggling.
Hu Ban Lan said: “Fine, I will go myself.” He saw Sui Xuan Chu collapse weakly after the lightning strike, then raised his hand and called down another small bolt on him.
The level 4 S-class giant lightning bolt had already left Sui Xuan Chu in such pain he almost wanted to cry uncle and beg. Now the extra small bolt made him foam at the mouth, half dead.
Ye Lang and the other instructors turned their faces away, unable to watch. Men and women with lightning abilities were all irritable and full of killing intent. The Commander in Chief was like that, and so was Hu Ban Lan.
Cheng Lin Yue wrapped her arms around Jiang Tea Tea’s sleeping body and shielded her with her own upper body, staring at Hu Ban Lan as he came toward them and asking: “What are you, you, you doing?”
Hu Ban Lan, his face covered in paint, squatted down in front of Cheng Lin Yue and said: “You really are a strange little girl. I am from the instructor group. What else would I be doing? Of course I am here to force you to forfeit and…”
Cheng Lin Yue screamed: “Ah ah ah, go die, go die, get away, get away, I am not forfeiting, I am not forfeiting…”
Before Hu Ban Lan could finish the word “forfeit,” Cheng Lin Yue pulled out an insect-killing spray, shouting as she sprayed it right into his eyes with perfect aim.
The spray hit Hu Ban Lan’s eyes dead on, a real shipwreck in the gutter. He covered his eyes with one hand, but with the other he grabbed Cheng Lin Yue by the collar without missing and lifted her up.
Lifted by one hand, Cheng Lin Yue was scared out of her wits. She activated her ability, gathering a column of water and smashing it toward him.
Hu Ban Lan could not see for the moment, but his reactions were still sharp. He dodged her water column in an instant and slammed her hard onto the ground.
Yan Yu, nearby, endured the sharp pain and activated his Blink Step ability to attack Hu Ban Lan. He did not expect Hu Ban Lan to throw a backhand punch that hit his stomach and sent him flying into a tree again.
Someone burst out laughing: “Ha ha ha ha!”
Ye Lang and the other members of the instructor group burst into loud laughter. Ye Lang laughed the loudest, and his laughter echoed through the whole forest.
Ye Lang shouted: “Hu Ban Lan, I told you not to be so reckless. They are very sly. You did not believe me. Do you believe me now?”
Another instructor said: “Yeah, this squad of little babies is really tough. Look at that little mouse girl. You scared her almost into beast form, yet even while she is afraid and crying, she still uses hidden weapons to keep shooting at you.”
Hu Ban Lan took a bottle of water from his space knob storage device and poured it over his eyes to wash them. His eyes still burned fiercely, but he could barely see the surroundings again.
He turned his head and scolded Ye Lang: “Laugh, laugh, what are you laughing at? Are all your ears blasted by cannons? Can’t you hear the giant crocodile herd already running this way?”
Ye Lang and the others stopped laughing at once. Their eyes turned toward the direction of the crocodiles, and someone said: “Less than twenty meters. The giant crocodile herd will be here in less than twenty meters.”
An instructor asked: “What about these little rookies? Do we leave them here and let them live or die on their own and forfeit, or…”
A sudden voice cut in: “You should care more about yourselves.” Jiang Tea Tea’s voice suddenly sounded, picking up the instructor group’s sentence and cutting them off as she reminded them: “After all, the crocodiles are coming for you.”
In the primeval tropical forest, there were so many rotten things, so much rich nutrition. She could not eat the three-headed giant pythons, so she had finally taken root in the ground to absorb the essence of Mother Earth.
But what a twist. Her squad members happened to run not far from her while escaping for their lives. The sounds of fighting and shouting exploded by her ears. There was no way she could keep absorbing any essence. She could only pull herself out of the ground, pat the dirt off her butt, and sneak over, hidden.
She did not expect that in the short time it took her to come over, all six teammates had been knocked down.
Her body, transformed into tree branches, had been tightly held by Cheng Lin Yue, so she had no chance to reveal herself and could only wait. She waited until Cheng Lin Yue was thrown away. When all the instructors’ eyes were drawn away by the sound of the giant crocodiles running, she finally had a chance to appear, finish their sentence, and face them head on.
When the instructor group heard Jiang Tea Tea’s voice, their eyes all snapped toward her. She looked like she had just woken up, yawning, like a fragile little flower whose neck they could snap with one hand.
When Sui Xuan Chu, Huang Da Zhuang, and the others saw her awake, it was like seeing a life-saving straw. Each of them wanted to break free from the instructors holding them down and run to her side.
Jiang Tea Tea pretended to finish her yawn. Holding a Green Tea Girl leaf in her hand, she stood up, patted her butt, walked to Sui Xuan Chu, grabbed him from the ground, and gently tossed him toward Cheng Lin Yue.
After tossing him, she walked toward Huang Da Zhuang and Cheng Xiao Ting. She said to the instructors stepping on their heads: “Could you please lift your feet?”
The instructor stepping on their heads said: “Student, you want me to lift my foot? Sure, beat me first…”
Jiang Tea Tea pointed and said: “The giant crocodiles are coming. Let us finish farming the crocodiles first, then we can farm you, okay?”
The mutant giant crocodiles were already in sight, charging toward them. If they did not lift their feet now, once the crocodiles crashed into them, they would have to scramble to hunt them.
The instructors lifted their feet and said: “Fine, we will let you go for now.”
Jiang Tea Tea bent down once and reached out twice, tossing both Huang Da Zhuang and Cheng Xiao Ting over to Cheng Lin Yue. Right after that, she tossed Orange Sparrow and Zhang Ting Zhou over as well.
Then she slowly backed up, stepping in front of the seven of them. She glanced at them from the corner of her eyes and said: “Classmates, hold your breath. Big sister will get your pride back.”
Sui Xuan Chu and the other seven were full of question marks.
They thought: [She is going to get our pride back?]
They thought again: [Can she beat thirty-four instructors by herself?]
[For real? No way, right?]
Ye Lang and Hu Ban Lan called out: “Student, you are not afraid the wind will break your tongue? The mutant giant crocodiles are already here…”
Jiang Tea Tea answered them: “I know. The ones who should be afraid are you.” Then she put the Green Tea Girl leaf to her lips. In an instant a sharp sound rang out in the primeval forest and echoed through the night sky.
The mutant giant crocodiles weighing several tons that were running toward them heard the sound. They seemed to go mad, roaring as they charged straight at the instructors.
The faces of the thirty or so instructors changed. As they dodged, someone blurted out: “Jiang Tea Tea, you can use Beast Taming Art?”
Jiang Tea Tea had the Green Tea Girl leaf in her mouth and could not answer them. She kept blowing. The sound grew louder and sharper and spread farther and farther.
Birds in the forest were startled awake. Aberrant beasts of all sizes tumbled and roared. Even the three-headed giant pythons that had not died in the distance flipped out of the river, their bodies writhing as they moved toward the sound.
Someone in the command room cried out: “Oh my, Commander in Chief, student Jiang Tea Tea can tame beasts. This is unbelievable. In the Cold Weapons Era, she would have been an irreplaceable god.”
Deputy Officer Ai could not believe it. He was seeing the legendary Beast Taming, and she was taming mutant giant crocodiles. Those things were cold-blooded, not like mutant tigers or mutant leopards.
Chong Ming’s golden eyes stared at the leaf in Jiang Tea Tea’s mouth on the screen as it made sound and he said: “Even though this is not the Cold Weapons Era, her Beast Taming still makes her an irreplaceable existence.”
He had asked the First Army Corps to give their squad special attention, to drill them and push them past their limits. He had never expected such a big surprise from her, that she also knew Beast Taming.
Any other supernatural ability could be replaced or copied by someone else. Only Beast Taming could not be replaced. It was truly one of a kind.
The instructors were not afraid of the mutant giant crocodiles. After being scattered by them, they activated their abilities and began to hunt.
Jiang Tea Tea narrowed her eyes, rolled the Green Tea Girl leaf into her mouth, chewed it up, and swallowed. She hooked a branch on the ground with her foot and flipped it into her hand, then sprang up on the spot, shooting straight toward instructor Ye Lang.
Ye Lang was in the middle of hunting a mutant giant crocodile. He did not expect Jiang Tea Tea to come at him, so he activated his ability and rushed toward her.
In midair, Jiang Tea Tea twisted her body to the side, dodging. The wave of power brushed past her eyelashes as the branch in her hand lashed toward Ye Lang.
Ye Lang tried to dodge the swinging branch, but he was still a step too slow.
With a smack, the branch hit his forehead, leaving a bloody mark. His brain buzzed, went blank for a second, and his ears rang into silence.
Right then, Jiang Tea Tea flipped her body in the air, slammed both feet into Ye Lang, and kicked him out of the sky. She shouted down below: “Sui Xuan Chu, Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Lin Yue, grab the instructor, beat the instructor up, start farming points!”