Chapter 52

Chapter 52: Insectoid Race Is Hunting, Hurry and Tell Little Brat’s Dad

Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu each went to stir up the military academy students and the drill instructor teams. In total they gathered 167 people, all of them with at least B grade supernatural abilities. One on one, not a single one of them could beat any of the four Army Corps commanders and twenty-eight elite troopers.

But when 167 people attacked without holding back, swarming them, blocking every escape path, and throwing out every kind of supernatural ability like it was free, the commanders and elite troopers could only dodge and run. They did not dare fight back at all.

In no time, the scene turned crazy. Shouts and battle cries filled the air: “Don’t let those thirty-two big bosses get away! Block them, farm them, kill them! Fifty points each, that’s 1,600 points in total! Charge! Kill!”

“Quick, quick, quick, block the left, block the left! Set fire, set fire! Burn them! Even if we lose after farming them, we can still split the points!”

“Ahhh, one of the big bosses fought back at me! He died, he lost, my fifty points are in the bag!”

While the battlefield was a total mess, Jiang Tea Tea’s group of eight had already pulled back to the outer circle. They spread out, picked their own positions, and began launching sneak attacks to hunt them down.

Sui Xuan Chu held his gun steady. His grip was stable, his aim was sharp. Every time a colored artillery shell flew out, it hit a head. One shot, one hit. He almost never missed.

Orange Sparrow was a feline family beastman. Trees were his natural ambush points. Gun in hand, he could quickly leap from one tree to another, find the perfect sniper spot with a wide view, and shoot down from above, blowing heads open.

Yan Yu, a Level S Blink Step ability user and a half-beastman, used her supernatural power to blink from the outer ring straight to the backs of the Army Corps commanders, ambushing them from behind.

Cheng Xiao Ting, a Wolf Tribe beastman with a Swift Wind ability, also took advantage of the chaos to sneak attack. Some elite troopers died without even knowing they had been ambushed.

Cheng Lin Yue and Huang Da Zhuang stayed close beside Jiang Tea Tea, helping her and stopping others from escaping. Jiang Tea Tea snapped off branches and shot them out like bullets at their necks.

In less than half an hour, their sneak attacks successfully took down three Army Corps commanders and twenty-three elite troopers, and they also hunted the fifty-three drill instructors who had been lured over by them.

Once they almost finished their hunting, they did not get greedy. They quickly pulled out and ran. The military academy students left behind had no idea that the drill instructors who had fought alongside them had already been hunted down. They thought they had won and cheered happily.

They shouted: “We won, we won, we won! We won! Sixteen hundred points! With 167 of us, each person gets almost ten points. This is awesome!”

“With ten more points added to my score, I’ll have one hundred and twenty. There is no way I’ll be at the bottom. I can definitely hold out until the Supremacy Tournament ends.”

“Cooperation, cooperation. Drill instructors, it was great working with you. Come on, shake hands, shake hands. Next, let’s keep working together, go find the other big bosses, and farm them dry.”

They were still cheering and happy when, all of a sudden, a voice like thunder mixed with ice shards exploded from above their heads.

“Congratulations to the eight members of the ‘Kill the Other Twenty-Nine Military Academies’ squad. They successfully incited and tricked forty-eight military academy students from four squads of Star Defense Science Park, along with ninety-seven drill instructors from the Third Army Group, the Eighteenth Army Corps, and the Twelfth Army Corps, into helping surround and block the enemy. With their help, they hunted down the commanders of the First Army Corps, the Twenty-Ninth Army Corps, and the Eighteenth Army Corps, as well as twenty-three elite troopers at their sides, and killed fifty-three members of the drill instructor teams.”

“We hope the military academy students present can learn from them, draw lessons, take their strengths to make up for your own weaknesses, create new glory, and earn good results.”

“We also hope the Army Corps commanders, drill instructor teams, and elite troopers can take down those eyes you are so proud of that you wear on top of your heads, wipe them clean, and open them a bit wider. Stop only chasing others. When someone walks right up to your door, you do not even see them.”

What is a bolt from the blue?

What is empty joy?

What is a harsh wake-up call that hits you right on the head?

What is working yourself half to death and still getting zero points, all wiped clean?

This is it.

This is it.

This is it.

Everyone present was completely dumbfounded.

The first four Army Corps commanders who had been killed and eliminated earlier, with paint smeared all over their faces and looking totally miserable, boarded the command flagship.

Waiting to greet them was the Commander in Chief, who made them squat in a row and watch the giant screen that played their death scenes over and over in a loop.

They would rather be trained by the Commander in Chief until they vomited blood and broke their bones than watch this shameful black history on endless repeat.

Staff members bustled back and forth on the command flagship. Not only did they glance at the commanders with special attention, even with paint all over their faces, they still called out each of their surnames accurately and greeted them.

The Commander in Chief had given them an order: whenever someone greeted them, they had to answer the greeting.

Look at how this was going. Look at how much face they had lost. They wished they could dig a hole right into the flagship, crawl in, and bury themselves.

As the days passed one by one, the four eliminated Army Corps commanders were joined by the commanders of the Fifth Army Corps and the Seventh Army Corps.

With these two new commanders arriving, the first four no longer had to squat in a row. They were allowed to sit on the floor.

However, they not only had to watch their own wonderful elimination scenes. They also had to watch the scenes of the Fifth and Seventh Army Corps commanders getting killed, and then write summaries and reflections to send to the Commander in Chief.

Over the course of eleven days, Jiang Tea Tea’s group of eight used the same tricks of sweet-talking, fooling, picking up the scraps, and ambushing. In total, they wiped out twelve Army Corps commanders and eighty elite troopers. They surpassed the target and ended the first round of the Supremacy Tournament ahead of time.

They were picked up from the Primeval Forest by a military flying device. After three hours of flight, they arrived at the Extreme North of the Tropical Primitive Planet.

When Jiang Tea Tea stepped off the flying device and looked at the endless snow-white world, with huge snowflakes falling on her, she froze in place.

She was a Green Tea Girl tree spirit. She did not fear the cold or the blizzard.

But snow fell on her head, there was snow under her feet, and under the snow were thick, hard layers of ice. Under the ice was salty, bitter sea water.

Dragging a tree like her to a place with only snow, only ice, and only salty sea water, where she could not feel even a bit of soil… only that Big Loach could come up with something like this.

“Sister Tea, Sister Tea, the rest assembly point is over there. Why are you taking out the flying device?”

Huang Da Zhuang had noticed that after Jiang Tea Tea got off the flying device and saw the snow falling, she just stood there in a daze. He thought the little girl was simply enchanted by the snowy view. He did not expect her to pull the flying device out from her spoils of war, open the door, and try to get back in. He quickly stepped in front of her to stop her and asked.

Jiang Tea Tea grabbed the flying device’s door and said: “Big Dog Huang, let go. This is the kind of place where even birds do not bother to poop. There is not a bite of food anywhere. I cannot stay here even one second. I want to go back to the tropical rainforest and hunt aberrant beasts to roast and eat.”

Big Dog Huang let out a sound and pointed casually: “Sister Tea, who said there is nothing to eat here? The whole sea is full of food. If you don’t believe me, ask Sui Xuan Chu and the others.”

Sui Xuan Chu and the others had just gotten off the flying device when Big Dog Huang called them out. They hurried to back him up: “Yeah, Sister Tea, we are standing on a huge ice sheet. Under the ice is the sea, and there is so much to eat in the sea.”

“Roommate, you took out the flying device from the spoils of war because you were afraid of going hungry and wanted to fly away from here? Who are you looking down on?”

“I, I…” Sui Xuan Chu said, “I’m Dragon Clan. Going into the sea to grab a fish is as easy as a flick of my tail. How could I let you go hungry? I will stuff you full!”

“Isn’t that right, Sister Tea? Did you forget me? My beast form is a Zhang Yu, from the deep sea Zhang Yu family. Even though I live on land now, my memories of the ocean are carved deep in my soul and bones.”

“I will say it right here. If I cannot get seafood for you after going into the sea, then I am the seafood. I’ll chop off my own tentacles for you to roast and eat.”

Jiang Tea Tea: “…”

Sui Xuan Chu and Zhang Ting Zhou were making sense. There was no soil, but there was seafood.

What was seafood?

Natural high-protein organic fertilizer. If she gorged on it for more than ten days, she could forgive this place for not having any soil.

Jiang Tea Tea put the flying device away and said: “Fine, I’ll listen to you. Let’s go take a look at the assembly point first, then we’ll go catch seafood.”

Huang Da Zhuang and Sui Xuan Chu had thought they still needed to comfort her some more. They did not expect that as soon as they promised Sister Tea she’d have food, she would flip her mood faster than turning a page. All the comforting words they had lined up had nowhere to go.

The buildings at the assembly point were already covered by thick snow. Quite a few eliminated or withdrawn military academy students were staying there. Each room held twenty people. The rooms were kept at a constant twenty-five degrees, and all basic facilities were there. They just had to solve food and drink on their own.

Jiang Tea Tea’s group was too outstanding to have to squeeze in with other squads. Their eight people got two rooms: one room for the six males, and one room for the two females.

They went into their rooms, washed off the grime, and changed into light combat suits and combat boots that protected against both cold and heat. The guys were handsome, the girls were pretty. They were full of energy and youth.

When the eight of them came out of their rooms, they were immediately surrounded by the first group of eliminated and withdrawn military academy students. The others did not know that these eight had ended the first round of the Supremacy Tournament early and had come here to rest and move around freely.

They thought Jiang Tea Tea’s group was the same as them. When they saw eight people with two rooms and a snowfield flying device parked in front of their doors, they opened their mouths and said: “Hey, hey, hey, which academy are you from? Are you going out to look for food? We came here early and we know the area well. We can show you the way.”

“But when you find food, you have to share some with us. Not much, just one third of everything you get.”

“Yeah. There are Dragon Clan people in your squad. When a Dragon Clan goes into the sea, it’s like entering an empty place. Catching fish and shrimp and hunting aberrant beasts in the sea is easy for them. Giving us one third of the food is not too much.”

Jiang Tea Tea herself was still hungry, and lately she had been getting hungry especially fast. She did not even know where the food was yet, but these beastmen were already thinking about her share. They really had no shame.

Jiang Tea Tea pointed at the people surrounding them and started talking: “You, look at the two horns on your head. You’re Dragon Clan too, right? Why don’t you go into the sea yourself to catch fish instead of eyeing us?”

“And you, the scales on your neck are showing. You’re a snake beastman. If a snake goes into the sea, you’ll drown yourself. Yet you’re here dreaming, saying you’ll show us the way and then want one third of our food?”

“No wonder you got eliminated early. Turns out you’re all delicate babies with no survival skills at all, only able to open your mouths and wait for others to feed you.”

As soon as the crowd heard that, they all jumped up: “What kind of words are you saying, little girl? It’s fine if you don’t want us to show you the way or share your food, but why are you attacking us personally?”

“We got eliminated, and since you can stay here, you must be eliminated too. What are you so proud of?”

“Let me tell you, if it weren’t for the fact that you have a snowfield flying device, who would bother coming to you to help you?”

“Exactly. Without locals like us leading the way, finding the sea entrance will be harder than reaching the sky.”

You had to admit, that Big Loach really knew how to play.

These people who had quit or been eliminated looked relaxed, but in fact, other than a temperature-controlled room and the basic facilities, they had nothing.

They were given no tools. Food and water were up to them to solve. Wasn’t this just another way of training their wilderness survival skills?

Of course, this was true for their group of eight as well. The first round had ended early for them, so they did not have to worry about drill instructor teams chasing them anymore, but they did have to worry about filling their own stomachs.

Jiang Tea Tea smiled and said: “I’m not attacking you. You’re just too sensitive. Alright, please make way. We’re going to look for food and we will come back to slap your faces with it.”

“You…”

“Move, move, move, don’t block the way, don’t block the way!”

Sui Xuan Chu and the others started reaching out their hands to drive away the people surrounding them.

The people around them had no choice but to back off.

The eight of them got onto the snowfield flying device and whooshed away.

The eliminated military academy students who had surrounded them watched them leave and were very confused. They had also been eliminated or had quit, so why did they have to live in a twenty-person room with no tools to look for food and only their two legs to rely on, while those eight had a vehicle and much better rooms?

Could it be that they had backing?

But whose backing could be bigger than Commander in Chief Chong Ming?

The Crown Prince?

Was that Dragon Clan male in their group actually the Crown Prince in disguise?

As soon as that thought came out, it spread wildly through the elimination assembly point.

Before Jiang Tea Tea and the others even found the sea entrance, the military academy students at the elimination assembly point were already thinking about how, when the Crown Prince came back, they could cozy up to him, act better in front of him, and leave a good impression.

The snowfield flying device could carry ten people and had a top speed of five hundred kilometers per hour. Inside there was a navigation and monitoring system with the coordinates of the sea entrance.

Following the navigation coordinates, Jiang Tea Tea and the others found the sea entrance on the endless ice sheet.

The entrance was a round hole five meters in diameter. A layer of ice and snow covered the hole. Without the coordinate display, even if the snowfield flying device drove right over it, they would not have noticed this hole.

Sui Xuan Chu and Zhang Ting Zhou cleared away the ice and snow at the mouth of the hole, and bright blue sea water appeared. They said: “The six of you wait up here. We’ll go catch seafood.”

Jiang Tea Tea’s stomach growled with hunger. She urged them: “Okay, hurry up. Get a lot of seafood with more meat and fewer bones.”

When Sui Xuan Chu heard her stomach growl, he glanced at her belly. He really could not understand how someone so small could eat more than any of them and get hungry faster than any of them.

Zhang Ting Zhou shifted into his beast form, a Zhang Yu, and was the first to jump into the sea entrance. He disappeared without even a splash.

Sui Xuan Chu jumped in right after him.

Jiang Tea Tea asked the others in confusion: “Why didn’t Sui Xuan Chu change into his beast form before jumping in?”

Cheng Xiao Ting and the others blinked: “We don’t know. Other than those two black horns on his head, we’ve never seen his dragon form.”

“Maybe he is very happy with his human form and thinks he can catch the freshest fish in the sea without using his dragon form, just to feed us.”

Jiang Tea Tea swallowed her saliva. She was almost starving: “You’re right. We’ll wait here and wait for them to bring the fish up.”

The heavy snow kept falling. Their combat suits could automatically adjust the temperature, so in the Extreme North, where it was dozens of degrees below zero, they did not feel cold at all. Instead, they felt warm.

But as they watched, an hour passed. A thin layer of ice had formed again over the sea entrance, and there was still no sign of Sui Xuan Chu or Zhang Ting Zhou.

Cheng Lin Yue asked worriedly: “Sister Tea, why aren’t they back yet? Could they have run into aberrant beasts at the bottom of the sea?”

Jiang Tea Tea asked: “Are the aberrant beasts at the bottom of the sea very big?”

Cheng Lin Yue nodded quickly: “The aberrant beasts at the bottom of the sea are huge and super fierce. They are very sensitive to blood. Once they smell blood, they will chase you and never let go…”

Before Cheng Lin Yue finished speaking, there was a loud splash. Zhang Ting Zhou shot up from the sea inlet. His eight tentacles had been cut off, and he had returned to human form, covered in blood. He shouted: “Sister Tea, it’s bad! The Insectoid Race has appeared at the bottom of the sea. They are hunting Sui Xuan Chu. Hurry and notify Commander in Chief Chong Ming!”