Chapter 42 Crisis Approaches
As Su Jiu’s words fell, Zheng Meng lowered her head slightly. It was a snow-white slender hand, holding the blade in reverse, and the bloody smell on the dagger continuously stimulated her nostrils.
Instantly, a chill spread from her toes to her spine, daring her not to speak any more frivolous words.
How did that elf-like girl do it?! I have the Guangling Cat, an intermediate stage warrior with a bloodline, and she reacted faster than me. Is she an advanced stage warrior?
Except for Li Yi, that martial arts fanatic, it’s impossible for a student to reach this level, so…
Licking her slightly dry red lips, Zheng Meng tentatively asked, “Are you the instructor leading the Huayang team? If an instructor gets involved in conflicts between students, isn’t that bullying the weak?”
“Oh? From your words, it seems you are dissatisfied with my decision?”
Su Jiu asked back indifferently, then she glared at the nearby Huawen students and reprimanded, “Are you not going to dispel your avatars? Do you want to watch your class leader die?”
The surrounding students were all stunned by this scene. They could fight, but Su Jiu’s fierce approach was something they wouldn’t dare to do even with ten thousand times the courage.
Seeing the Huawen students who remained motionless, Su Jiu frowned and slowly pressed down on the dagger with her hand, creating a blood line on the other party’s swan-like neck. A few small drops of blood “plop” onto the blade.
Zheng Meng felt a sharp pain in her neck, her pupils suddenly widened, and a suffocating sensation of approaching death surged into her heart.
This girl meant what she said!
She would really kill herself!!
Students couldn’t possess such an oppressive aura; she must be the instructor!
Putting aside her pride, Zheng Meng glanced at Li An, subtly hinting for him to find their instructor, and shouted, “Haven’t you heard? Hurry up and dispel your avatars!”
Upon receiving the order, the Huawen people exchanged glances and instantly dispelled their avatar skills, throwing the weapons in their hands to the ground with a “crackling” sound.
The male student named Li An quickly dialed his uncle’s number. Their city’s instructors were trained by the military, and their Li family naturally took on this responsibility.
“Instructor, please speak calmly. This is Dragon Country… killing without special circumstances is punishable by imprisonment.” Zheng Meng also dispelled her avatar, adopting a very humble posture, trying her best to remind herself not to anger Su Jiu, and wore a fawning expression:
“Let me go, and I can transfer tens of thousands of yuan to you…”
“You want to find my information through a bank transfer? Piss off!”
Without waiting for Zheng Meng, Su Jiu gave her a disdainful glance and a mocking smile, then kicked her rather soft butt. She then intended to leave with her group.
The sky was getting dark, and she really had no interest in wasting time with this person. Moreover, Bai Qianyu had already taught the other party a sufficient lesson.
Zheng Meng, who had fallen face-first into the dirt, lost all her goddess demeanor. Her hair scattered everywhere. She propped herself up, her fists tightly clenching the dead grass on the ground, her teeth gnashing so hard they were about to break.
Damn it!
This possibly twenty-something elder lady is pretending to be young and bullying me!
“Vice Class Leader, are you alright?”
Li An, seeing that the Huawen people around them were all frozen, slowly approached Zheng Meng, squatted down, and whispered into her ear, “My uncle, he seems to have received an order and has already started rushing to the location we provided. He should be here in about five minutes.”
Zheng Meng looked at Su Jiu and her group, who had already walked several meters away, and with a cold smile, she got up and asked:
“Alright! I remember your uncle, Mr. Li Gang, is an expert at the advanced stage, right? He should be able to handle that woman who’s pretending to be a young girl, shouldn’t he?”
The reason she helped Li An was precisely because his uncle was Mr. Li Gang.
“Of course. Our Li family has unique combat techniques. Among those of the same level, apart from people from big cities, places like Huayang are easily crushed.” Li An helped Zheng Meng up, leaning in slightly and taking a bit of advantage.
Zheng Meng glanced at him but said nothing, as she needed his help. Looking at the people around, she cursed them as “a bunch of cowards” in her heart, then shouted, “Let’s follow them! Uncle Li Gang will be here soon, and he’ll get justice for us!”
After they left, more than a dozen pairs of eyes with blood-red pupils suddenly appeared. They moved swiftly and organized themselves to search for something. The figure at the forefront was incredibly tall, even larger than the Crimson Flame Wolf King Su Jiu had faced before. It wore an unknown metal pendant around its neck.
They slowly approached along the path Zheng Meng and the others had taken. Under the moonlight, a tattered school uniform, seemingly from Zhiyuan High School, fell to the ground, with faint bloodstains on it.
However, they seemed to be searching for something in this area and temporarily had no interest in the lagging student less than ten meters ahead.
…
The lights flickered in the evening darkness. The Huayang group quickly moved away from the water source area teeming with monsters. Su Jiu led the way at the front, using her phone to illuminate the path ahead. Following the GPS, they headed towards another direction to the meeting point.
She no longer had the students manage the thorny vines. Their strength had been exposed anyway, so she let them carry things in the back to save energy, while she used her sword techniques to chop through large patches of thorny vines.
“When we get back, I must vindicate Sister Su Jiu. Huayang’s number one talented individual is Sister Su Jiu.” The girl whose contract beast had been killed looked at the figure walking in front with admiration.
Seeing the others nod, Bai Qianyu couldn’t help but chuckle. She spoke softly in a hushed tone, “Sister Jiu doesn’t care about such false fame. She’s…”
“Stop!”
Suddenly, at a certain spot, Su Jiu made a stopping gesture, slowed down, and slowly bent down to look at the ground.
“Sister Jiu, what’s wrong?”
Bai Qianyu asked in confusion. The others also stopped cheering about how Su Jiu had scared the Huawen group and gathered around.
“Footprints, plum blossom-shaped footprints. They belong to a large feline monster.”
Su Jiu pointed to the scattered animal footprints below the thorny vines, looked around, and continued in a deep voice, “The footprints are messy and vary in size. I fear it’s a pack!”
“A pack?” The surrounding students showed looks of confusion. Isn’t it just a few more monster beasts teaming up? What’s so scary about that?
Upon hearing the word “pack,” Bai Qianyu’s expression immediately became serious. She felt fortunate that they hadn’t wasted time with those people earlier. “Packs often have lords. Those lord monsters are far more powerful than those of the same level. At the same level, they can often overwhelm humans.”
Hearing Bai Qianyu’s words, the faces of these students immediately turned pale. They were just undergoing training; why would they encounter something like this?
If a lord-level monster of the advanced stage appeared, wouldn’t they all be incapacitated?
“Chin up, everyone! We’re not resting tonight. This area is not safe,” Su Jiu shouted loudly. At the same time, she kept messaging Liu Hong but found that for some reason, it had been displaying “loading” since a while ago.
She frowned, turned to look at the others, and asked, “Can your phones send messages?”
The crowd was slightly taken aback. Then they picked up their phones and found that the signal was completely gone. A sense of inexplicable fear began to surround them.
Su Jiu understood what had happened by looking at their expressions. There were only two possibilities for this: either a monster that could interfere with magnetic fields, or it was done by humans!
Now, no matter which it was, the primary task was to lead these students safely out of here!
“Sister Jiu, come look here. There’s a different footprint, not plum blossom-shaped… two oval ones.” Bai Qianyu suddenly broke Su Jiu’s train of thought.
Su Jiu followed the light from Bai Qianyu’s phone and her eyebrows furrowed again. These footprints were larger than the plum blossom prints they saw earlier, resembling… deer tracks?
Are these felines looking for deer?
