Chapter 48
Chapter 48: Little Brat’s Dad Knows How to Dote, Turning on the Lights So Little Brat’s Mom Can Beat People
Sui Xuan Chu and the others had been beaten half to death. Their whole bodies hurt and they were hanging on by a thread. But the moment they heard they had caught a drill instructor and could beat him up to farm points, every one of them came back to life like they had just been injected with chicken blood.
Huang Da Zhuang and Cheng Xiao Ting shifted straight into beast form with an ear-splitting howl, then lunged at Ye Lang as he fell from midair.
One pinned Ye Lang’s legs and pressed down on them. The other pressed down on his stomach. One opened its mouth to bite his leg, and the other opened its mouth to bite his chest.
Ye Lang had just been whipped and kicked by Jiang Tea Tea. His supernatural abilities once again felt like they had been drained dry for a short time. He crashed to the ground and his movements slowed. Before he could react, a dog and a wolf pinned him down and bit him, making his whole body tremble from the pain.
Medical restraints made specially for supernatural ability users and beastmen were tossed over by Cheng Lin Yue to Zhang Ting Zhou and Sui Xuan Chu. They used them to tie up Ye Lang’s hands and feet.
Orange Sparrow and Yan Yu curled their fingers into fists. You punch once, I punch once, and they took turns beating Ye Lang’s face left and right.
Smack!
In the command room, Ye Ying reached up and covered his eyes with a slap of his hand. He did not dare open them. He hoped this was just his imagination. That useless thing Ye Lang had capsized in the same ditch twice. Not only had he lost all face for the First Army Corps, he had also lost all his own old face.
“Hahaha.”
The other twenty-nine Army Corps commanders watched like they were at a show. While they watched Ye Lang get violently beaten up, they also roasted Ye Ying nonstop.
“Old Ye, your subordinate is pretty cute. He knows to go right back to where he fell. Look at those ‘Kill the Other Twenty Nine Military Academies’ squad members. From beating him, to tying him up, to taking him down, their methods are exactly the same as back at the Royal Military Imperial Academy.”
“How does that saying go again? First time strange, second time familiar. They tied him up once, then did it again. Now they are old acquaintances. They don’t even bother changing their moves.”
“Brother Ye, you really deserve to be number one among the Army Corps. Your subordinate is too cute. Unlike my eternal runner-up subordinate. Even when he gets surrounded, he only gets a few scratches. When he wants to deliver himself to the rookies to give them free points, the rookies are not interested. They just run and run like they only just grew legs and only know how to run for their lives.”
“Exactly. Commander Ye trains his rookies so well that he produced a whole squad of excellent rookies. We are so jealous that our eyes have gone red. We also wish we had a squad of outstanding rookies in our own units, to abuse us, to beat us up, and to use us to farm points!”
“Hey, why are the rookies in our own melon patch so weak, and why am I so fond of the melons in Commander Ye’s patch?”
“Exactly, Commander Ye. Your subordinate has given us such an amazing scene. Hurry up and edit it and post it on the internal net so the other drill instructor groups can enjoy it too and properly praise your leadership.”
Ye Ying’s molars ground together so hard they creaked. He wanted to crawl through the screen and tear those other twenty-nine Army Corps commanders apart, then roast Ye Lang while he was at it.
Don’t be mad, don’t be mad. He was the graceful commander of the First Army Corps. As long as he could get all these good seedlings into his own Army Corps in the end, however much mockery he took now, he would get that much envy back later.
“This little girl is pretty fierce.” Hu Ban Lan had hunted and killed a mutant giant crocodile and run back. Seeing Jiang Tea Tea knock Ye Lang flat, he did not hold back his praise at all.
Jiang Tea Tea stepped on the mutant giant crocodile’s head. Using the moonlight, she looked straight into Hu Ban Lan’s eyes and said: “You’re not bad either, little cat. You killed a mutant giant crocodile in one minute.”
To her, a Great Demon stage cultivator, a huge striped tiger beastman like him was just a little cat.
Hu Ban Lan repeated Jiang Tea Tea’s words: “Little cat. What a distant name. I haven’t heard that in so many years. Little girl, you are very brave.”
Jiang Tea Tea rubbed her eyes and answered: “Thanks for the praise. I’ll try to take you down in one minute too, so you can go keep that drill instructor down there company.”
Late at night, she should have been buried deep in the ground, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth to nourish her body, cultivating to restore her spiritual power, not fighting here.
Colorful paint covered Hu Ban Lan’s face. He grinned and said: “Then I’ll try to take you down in half a minute so you can join your teammate.”
Jiang Tea Tea smiled back: “Sure, let’s see who is faster.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she took the initiative to attack. The more than one-meter-long branch in her hand swung like a flexible whip toward Hu Ban Lan.
“Deputy Officer Ai, turn on artificial lighting.” Chong Ming gave his order to Deputy Officer Ai. “Aim it over Jiang Tea Tea and the others. Light up a range of a thousand kilometers.”
“Yes, Commander in Chief,” Deputy Officer Ai answered.
Jiang Tea Tea had just rubbed her eyes, and the Commander in Chief was already turning on the lights for her.
Very good. If this pure human little girl kept staying this outstanding, going head-on against the drill instructor group and taking them down, the Commander in Chief really would treasure this talent. He would specially recruit her and bring her under his command to train.
An artificial little sun that covered a radius of a thousand kilometers floated out from a super invisibility warship. It slowly rose into the air and hung more than three thousand meters up, shining bright light down.
The primeval forest that had only faint moonlight before became as bright as day in an instant. The drill instructors and military academy students in the forest squinted at the sudden light stabbing their eyes, then quickly started running and chasing again.
S-level lightning element ability user Hu Ban Lan faced Jiang Tea Tea’s attack with calm confidence. He did not even move his feet. He did not use his supernatural ability to call lightning at all. He directly reached out bare-handed and grabbed the branch she lashed toward him.
The twig was about one meter and thirty centimeters long. He grabbed one end, and Jiang Tea Tea still held the other. The corner of her mouth lifted and she yanked hard.
Confident Hu Ban Lan, who had not bothered to use his supernatural abilities, did not expect Jiang Tea Tea to be so strong. The slender branch sliced open his palm and was ripped out of his grip.
He turned his hand over and opened it. Under the light that was as bright as day coming from the sky, he could see even more clearly. Blood flowed from the wound in his palm. It was deep enough to see the bone.
Jiang Tea Tea had not expected the dark night with only a bit of moonlight to suddenly brighten like this. She asked: “Sui Xuan Chu, what is going on?”
Sui Xuan Chu lowered his head from staring up at the sky, looked at Jiang Tea Tea, and replied: “It should be the highest field commander of this Supremacy Tournament, Commander in Chief Chong Ming, giving the order to turn on the lights. It makes it easier for you to fight and easier for him to watch.”
Jiang Tea Tea snorted: “In this Interstellar Space era, with such fast technological development, I thought that with his status, using a surveillance system on us would make night the same as day.”
Sui Xuan Chu said: “In fact, it’s just like you said. For the real-time surveillance the Army Corps commanders have on us, there is no difference between day and night. Everything we do, as long as they want to see it, they can.”
“As for turning on the lights, I guess he wants to see your real strength. He is also hoping you will crush the drill instructor group so he has an excuse to scold and dismiss the thirty Army Corps commanders.”
Inside the surveillance system feed, the thirty Army Corps commanders were all like: “???”
Jiang Tea Tea let out a light “oh”: “Oh. He’s pretty perverted.”
Sui Xuan Chu paused, then agreed: “All big shots are perverts.”
Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Xiao Ting, and the other six all turned their accusing gazes on Sui Xuan Chu at once. How could he say their idol and heartthrob idol was a pervert, just like Sister Tea did? Right now he himself was charred black from being struck by lightning and was only wearing a pair of shorts. He was the real pervert here, okay?
The other thirty-two people from the drill instructor group, who had been chased by mutant giant crocodiles, had finished killing the crocodiles following them and came back now too.
They each took a position on one side, looking at Jiang Tea Tea and Hu Ban Lan standing in the center. No one moved. All their eyes were full of interest and a wolf-like gleam. Not a single one of them meant to save Ye Lang.
Jiang Tea Tea flicked the blood and flesh off her branch and made a sharp sound with her mouth. The only mutant giant crocodile that was still alive and lying there among them heard the sound. It went berserk and swung its huge tail at Hu Ban Lan.
Hu Ban Lan had not expected her to still be controlling a mutant giant crocodile in the middle of the fight. Faced with the huge tail whipping toward him, he staggered to the side to dodge and called down lightning.
At that moment, the sound coming from Jiang Tea Tea’s mouth did not stop. The mutant giant crocodile acted like it had heard an order. It did not fear the rolling thunder at all. It opened its bloody jaws wide at Hu Ban Lan and bit toward him.
Hu Ban Lan chose to fight head-on. He flipped his hand and pulled out an iron staff. The tip of the staff turned into a blade and slashed toward the giant crocodile’s open mouth.
Jiang Tea Tea seized the chance. She dashed forward at extreme speed. The branch in her hand was as fast as lightning. With a loud smack, it lashed across Hu Ban Lan’s back.
His combat suit, made from high-density hard materials that could regulate body temperature and protect against cold and heat, split open under that hit. Hu Ban Lan’s back was beaten until the skin split and flesh tore open.
The blade in Hu Ban Lan’s hand jammed in the mutant giant crocodile’s mouth. The crocodile let out a roar of pain and thrashed wildly.
Hu Ban Lan could not pull his blade free and almost got flung into the air by the crocodile. He had to let go, then called lightning again, striking toward the giant crocodile.
While he was calling lightning, Jiang Tea Tea kicked at the rotting leaves and dirt on the ground, sending them flying toward him.
Hu Ban Lan used one arm to shield his face from the rotten leaves and used the other to call lightning. One, two, three, four bolts crashed down toward Jiang Tea Tea.
From the way he threw lightning, he clearly was not treating her as a pure human without supernatural abilities. He was treating her as a tough opponent he had to defeat.
Chong Ming and the other thirty Army Corps commanders in their own command rooms sat up straight as they watched the real-time surveillance feed of the fight. They held their breath and did not even blink. They were all watching to see if Jiang Tea Tea could dodge the lightning.
When the four giant bolts of lightning came crashing down at her, Jiang Tea Tea’s body flashed to the side. She moved directly behind a drill instructor who was standing there watching the show. She kicked the drill instructor right in the butt.
The drill instructor had not noticed anyone behind him at all. He was kicked forward and flew out right under the four giant bolts.
The four S-level bolts smashed into the drill instructor. His hair and clothes were instantly charred and blown apart. He was also knocked out by the lightning.
“Ahhh!” Huang Da Zhuang and the others changed back to human form and let out shrieks like marmots. “Sister Tea, v5555, you are my god!”
“Sister Tea, forgive my poor word choice. I hate that I haven’t read more books. I only know the word ‘awesome’ to travel the whole Interstellar Space. You are really awesome, awesome, awesome!”
“Sister Tea, you are the best, you are amazing, I love you the most. Heart, heart!”
“Sister Tea, beat him to death! Let them act arrogant. Let them force us to use forfeit grenades and give up, stepping on our heads and our faces.”
Jiang Tea Tea made a hand gesture at them that meant everything was fine, it was all a small matter. Then she walked out and kicked the drill instructor who had been struck unconscious by lightning over toward Sui Xuan Chu and the others.
They were as happy as if they were celebrating the Beast God Festival. They tied the unconscious drill instructor and Ye Lang together.
Hu Ban Lan followed along with Jiang Tea Tea’s movement, his gaze on her. Besides measuring her, his eyes were also full of fighting spirit. He said: “Jiang Tea Tea schoolmate, you are not a pure human without supernatural abilities. You have supernatural abilities. You have Blink Step speed and a beast-taming ability. Your supernatural ability level is very high, even higher than my S-level.”
Jiang Tea Tea did not even look at him. She did not take his positioning into her eyes at all. She replied to him in a cocky tone: “If you’re weak, train more. Don’t make excuses. If you admit you’re weak, I won’t slap your face!”