Chapter 93
Chapter 93: That Stinky Loach, That Old Mud Loach, Just Wants the Little Cubs’ Mom Dead
Cheng Xiao Ting cursed out loud: “Damn, the drill instructor team is clearly targeting us. They almost said our names.”
Yan Yu agreed: “Yeah, they’re coming right at us. Looking at all those rules, they are telling us that if we want to slack off in the Third Round of the Supremacy Tournament, forget it.”
Sui Xuan Chu nodded: “Yeah. The First Two Rounds lasted two months, and we spent less than one month hunting and more than a month resting.”
“Now in the Third Round of the Supremacy Tournament, our activity range is only within a thousand kilometers. That is their way of telling us not to think about wandering around everywhere like in the Second Round to avoid fighting.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes turned sharp: “There are thirty big military academies, more than one point eight million people in total. Even if they all stood still and let us slit their throats one by one, we still couldn’t finish in thirty days, not to mention having to hunt them down one cut at a time.”
“This time, the drill instructor team does not want us to rest at all. They want us on the killing field for this whole month, to see where our physical limits are.”
[Just hearing the idea was enough to know it was that Stinky Loach Chong Ming’s doing. He could not stand seeing her slack off even a little. A dragon like him did not deserve dragon cubs, did not deserve a partner, and should stay single for his whole life.]
The drill instructor team’s broadcast sounded again, this time calling out Jiang Tea Tea’s squad by name: “Squad that wants to kill off the members of the other twenty nine military academies, you are absolutely right. The goal of the Third Round of the Supremacy Tournament is to push your physical limits to the breaking point and give the other military academy students a chance to kill you.”
“In the First Two Rounds of the Supremacy Tournament, your personal points and squad points were far ahead of every other squad and person. If someone kills one member of your squad, they will get ten thousand personal points. If they wipe out your whole squad, their personal points will go up by ten thousand and their squad points will also go up by ten thousand.”
“Darlings, schoolmates, little darlings, a very special reminder: you may use beast form to escape for your lives, but you may not attack in beast form. Only slitting throats in human form counts.”
“You are not allowed to grab the drill instructor team’s sand buggies, flying devices, or weapons. Now please get off the ship. You have three hours to escape and find a place to hide.”
“Three hours later, at six thirty in the morning, it will be time for you to fight and slit each other’s throats. We hope each of you gets good results and wins the championship, so you can have a private meeting with your idol, your heartthrob idol, Commander in Chief Chong Ming.”
As the drill instructor finished speaking, thirty ships slid into place side by side, and each ship opened several doors at once.
More than one point eight million people, all empty-handed, were driven out of the ships like a swarm of flies and pushed onto the pitch black ground where they could not even see their own fingers.
They had already felt the heat while still on the ship. After they got off, it was not only hot air; the sand under their feet was soft and burning.
No wonder they were given three hours to run. A normal person walking in the desert for three hours could at most make fifteen kilometers.
In Jiang Tea Tea’s squad they even had a piece of seafood, Zhang Ting Zhou, whose beast form was an octopus. For his Zhang Yu clan, living on land already went against their nature. Now having him walk in the soft, burning sand was no different from walking on the tip of a knife. He had not even walked for half an hour before he started to dehydrate.
Cheng Lin Yue used her water element ability and poured a column of water over him, easing his dehydration a little.
Seeing this, Jiang Tea Tea said: “This won’t work. Cheng Lin Yue’s water element ability cannot keep pouring water on Zhang Ting Zhou like this. It will drain her and make her exhausted.”
Zhang Ting Zhou spoke weakly: “Maybe I should just quit…”
Sui Xuan Chu cut him off: “Quit what? We are in the same squad. There is no way we throw you away and walk off on our own.”
Huang Da Zhuang agreed: “Yeah. We are one squad. We move forward and fall back together. We can’t just drop you because you’re dehydrated.”
Orange Sparrow said: “Let’s think of a way…”
In the darkness, Jiang Tea Tea shot them a blaming look: “Exactly. I spoke up because I want to find a way, not because I dislike Brother Octopus. What are you all misunderstanding?”
Drenched all over, Zhang Ting Zhou said, “So…”
Jiang Tea Tea said: “Didn’t the drill instructor say this planet is eighty percent desert and twenty percent ocean?”
“Our activity range is within a thousand kilometers. Is it possible that this thousand kilometers includes the edge of the ocean?”
Huang Da Zhuang, Sui Xuan Chu, Cheng Xiao Ting and the others slapped their thighs: “Right! If we find the edge of the ocean, Brother Octopus can use his natural advantage to help us find food and drag other people into the sea to kill them.”
“Sister Tea, you’re good. You really know how to make use of everyone.”
“But here comes the problem. Where is the ocean? We are in the dark, we know nothing, and we can’t tell east, west, north, or south.”
Jiang Tea Tea smiled and said: “To know where the ocean is, we should ask our Brother Octopus. He’s a sea creature. Even though he’s living on land now, but…”
Before she could finish, Zhang Ting Zhou said: “Wait a bit. Cheng Lin Yue, stop pouring water on me. Let me feel for it.”
Cheng Lin Yue cut off the water column and moved to stand next to Jiang Tea Tea. In the pitch dark night, she relied on her good night vision ability to watch Zhang Ting Zhou.
Zhang Ting Zhou called up his supernatural abilities and spread out his spiritual power, feeling the air and trying to catch the smell of the sea in it.
After about ten minutes, Zhang Ting Zhou opened his eyes and raised a hand to point: “That way. There is the smell of the sea over there…”
Jiang Tea Tea said right away: “Change into beast form, shrink a bit, and we’ll wrap you in your wet clothes and carry you.”
Zhang Ting Zhou answered okay and turned into a palm-sized Zhang Yu. His little body was wrapped in his wet clothes with only his head sticking out.
Cheng Lin Yue poured water over him once more.
Sui Xuan Chu slung him, clothes and all, onto his back and started walking.
Walking in the desert was really slow. Every step they took sank down into the sand all the way to their calves.
Then they had to pull their legs out and step again. It was extremely hard.
Close to five in the morning, the sky began to lighten. The temperature suddenly dropped, and the sand suddenly turned cold.
If not for their combat suits that protected them from both cold and heat, this sudden swing in temperature would have knocked them all flat.
As it grew brighter and they could see farther, Jiang Tea Tea and the others saw quite a few people walking toward the same direction as them, and many people following behind them.
Every one of them looked fierce, rubbing their fists and itching to fight, as if they were just waiting for six thirty to come so they could rush up and kill them all.
Jiang Tea Tea gave a small cough and changed their formation.
Before, they basically had no formation and were just helping each other walk.
Now, with eight people, Sui Xuan Chu carried Zhang Ting Zhou and walked at the very front.
In the middle were Huang Da Zhuang and Cheng Lin Yue.
On the two sides were Orange Sparrow and Yan Yu.
At the back, holding the line, was Jiang Tea Tea.
Cheng Xiao Ting changed into his beast form, a huge wolf, and circled around their formation to patrol and guard against sudden changes.
As it got closer and closer to six thirty, they used their speed-type abilities to move faster. The people following behind them and heading in the same direction also sped up.
At six twenty eight, drill instructor teams appeared above them, three people to a group, riding flying devices and drifting through the sky.
While they were still looking up at the drill instructor teams overhead and had not yet pulled their gazes back, another group of drill instructors suddenly popped up out of the sand.
Four to a group, wearing combat suits the same color as the sand and fully armed, they drove sand buggies and held loudspeakers, shouting in a plain tone: “Darlings, schoolmates, are you ready? There is one minute left before six thirty, the time for killing!”
“Oh, and to all the squad members who want to kill off the squads from the other thirty military academies, you eight are worth ninety thousand points. If someone kills you, even if they don’t get first place, they can still make the Top Ten!”
“Oh dear, look at my mouth. How could I just say your squad’s name out loud like that? My bad!”
Jiang Tea Tea shot back: “It’s okay, drill instructors. You just happened to catch a good time, since we’re not allowed to hunt you. Otherwise, once six thirty came, the first people we would kill would be you.”
Cheng Xiao Ting chimed in: “Exactly. In the First Two Rounds of the Supremacy Tournament, the drill instructor squads who died in our hands add up to at least a company, if not a whole battalion.”
“Even the thirty army corps commanders died in our hands. Tsk, tsk, tsk…”
The drill instructors had just been looked down on and openly provoked.
What could they do about it? Nothing. They were only in charge of the students’ safety and handing out food in exchange for points. They could not kill students, so they could only enjoy talking trash.
Just as they were about to remind everyone that it was six thirty and the killing time had begun, they saw the squad that wanted to kill the other thirty military academies start hunting.
The beastman from the Fox tribe of the Canine family who had the Blink Step ability used Blink Step to appear behind the people closest to them. With a flash of his red blade, he slit their throats.
The beastman from the Wolf tribe who had a swift wind ability ran and stirred up clouds of sand, first blinding his enemies, then cutting their throats.
Behind him followed Orange Sparrow, the beastman from the Feline family. They hunted together, killing people before they could react, leaving them no time to fight back.
Jiang Tea Tea went even further. She kicked at the sand under her feet, and in the cloud of dust, her kick sent out a dead yellow tree branch more than a meter long and as thick as a finger.
She grabbed the branch and started whipping it at the people who were attacking them, hitting anyone who came near.
Anyone she hit, whether male or female or pure human, would go crashing to the ground.
Huang Da Zhuang, Sui Xuan Chu, and Cheng Lin Yue then rushed in to slit the throats of the people she had hit. They moved fast and worked together in perfect sync.
Most of the military academy students they attacked were A-level, S-level, or had two S-level abilities. There were very few like Sui Xuan Chu, who had three S-level abilities.
The people who had followed them and wanted to surround them had underestimated their fighting power. By the time they realized how terrifying their strength was, it was too late. They could not escape and their throats had already been cut.
After about ten minutes, Cheng Xiao Ting used his swift wind running ability to whip up a sandstorm that covered the sky and blocked out the sun.
Taking advantage of the sandstorm, Jiang Tea Tea and the others stopped lingering over the hunt. Everyone who could change into beast form changed and started running.
Sui Xuan Chu turned into a red and black dragon more than ten meters long. Not only was he still carrying Zhang Ting Zhou, but with a sweep of his tail he let out a loud dragon roar.
Jiang Tea Tea used the force of his swinging tail to jump onto his back. She bent at the waist and reached a hand down to Cheng Lin Yue: “Cheng Lin Yue, give me your hand.”
Cheng Lin Yue quickly reached out to grab Jiang Tea Tea’s hand. She was just about to catch it when the sand under her feet suddenly collapsed. Her body dropped down, and she missed Jiang Tea Tea’s hand.
Jiang Tea Tea’s face changed. She jumped down from Sui Xuan Chu’s dragon body to save Cheng Lin Yue, but out of the sand shot a very long, forked tongue. It wrapped around Cheng Lin Yue and dragged her down into the sand…