Chapter 43: Exorcist, Su Jiu
In the now completely silent night, the Huayang group advanced trembling along the定位, but as they left the river, the faint fishy smell gradually lessened, and the air was filled with the fresh scent of the gradually withering芒锯.
After an unknown period of time.
They entered a valley, and seeing the sporadic strange grass emitting a verdant glow all around, they stopped again, surveying the seemingly tranquil scene.
Many small insects resembling fireflies were constantly hovering above the strange grass. When a girl wanted to step forward and touch them, Su Jiu coldly stopped her, “If you want to live, don’t touch anything randomly…”
Everyone looked at Su Jiu in confusion. Su Jiu didn’t speak but quietly looked at a strange grass, and then with a casual flick of her wrist, she cut its roots with a drawing of her sword. The next moment, the strange grass let out a “screech!” and its roots burst with green sap resembling blood.
“Corpse Pasture Grass, highly toxic to humans. It can only be cultivated with large amounts of monster corpses, and it’s a favorite among some vegetarian monsters.”
Su Jiu picked up the Corpse Pasture Grass with her dagger, examined it up close, and said in a deep voice, “With such thick leaves, it seems to be newly cultivated. We might have stumbled into a dangerous place.”
“We need to leave quickly… This training camp is very wrong!”
Just as she was about to tell everyone to leave, Su Jiu suddenly looked up at the canyon, her light blue pupils emitting a faint glow, and shouted, “Who?!”
“Is there someone else?” Bai Qianyu looked confused, only to see a pitch-black expanse, and everyone else also showed confusion.
Su Jiu didn’t hesitate any longer and slashed twice. Two cold glints shattered a piece of rock, and only a black shadow slowly descended. It was a middle-aged man in a military uniform. He grinned, “Little girl, don’t be so hot-tempered.”
“Someone from the military? Did you cultivate these grasses?” Su Jiu’s gaze fell on the military insignia on his chest, and she asked coldly.
Vice-company level? That should correspond to an Advanced Stage Warrior. That’s not a problem.
“Grass?” Li Gang was slightly stunned, what was she talking about? He had only received a call from his nephew and came to support them. He immediately chuckled and said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about, but it’s a bit inappropriate for you, as an instructor, to attack people from our class, isn’t it?”
As he spoke, he stomped on the ground slightly, and the highest-level Warrior Class aura erupted from him, even stronger than Liu Hong!
Blocking the gust of wind with her hand, everyone immediately knew that Li Gang was likely the one Hua Wen and the others had called to support them, and someone immediately felt indignant:
“It was they who first wanted to outnumber us…”
“Don’t talk about these irrelevant things.”
Before he could finish speaking, Li Gang waved his hand to stop him. He slowly put away his smile, looked at Su Jiu’s face, and said faintly, “You should know that in the wild, it’s always the one with the biggest fist who speaks, right?”
As he was speaking, more than twenty people suddenly swarmed in from the other side of the canyon. they were from Hua Wen. They wore mocking expressions, especially Zheng Meng at the forefront. Seeing Su Jiu’s solemn little face, the urge to cruelly torment her became uncontrollable.
Zheng Meng crossed her arms and sneered at Su Jiu and her group, “I just discovered that the signal is gone. If you still want to go back alive, each of you had better break an arm.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the young man named Li An chuckled, his unwanted gaze falling on the girl who had wanted to contract the Spirit Seeking Fox. He said, “Of course, if cute girls don’t want to break their arms, you can just chat with me tonight.”
“You! You’re shameless!”
The Huayang group was first angry at the other party’s words, and then fell into a deep sense of powerlessness. Some girls even started to quietly shed tears.
After all, they were just high school students who had been living an easy campus life a few days ago. Now they had to face a life-or-death choice.
Seeing this, Bai Qianyu frowned and stepped forward, glanced at Li Gang’s uniform, and said coldly, “Are you worthy of this military uniform by doing these things?”
Li Gang obviously did not expect anyone to ask him such a question, but Bai Qianyu’s words clearly hit a sore spot. He was the kind of person who idled around all day and got into the military through family connections, a little hooligan.
At this moment, Li Gang’s face suddenly fell. He glanced at Su Jiu and the others and said fiercely, “I originally planned to make you suffer a little less, but it seems you won’t be able to go back without losing some parts.”
The sinister nature of humanity was vividly displayed at this moment.
“These people are really pushing their luck.”
Su Jiu glanced at the Corpse Pasture Grass beside her, sighed softly, turned around, and quietly ordered Bai Qianyu, who was not far away, “You take them away…”
It was too dangerous here, not because of these useless people from Hua Wen, but… because she didn’t know who had cultivated the Corpse Pasture Grass, and everything was filled with strangeness.
There was no time for them to stay with her, otherwise, it could be fatal for them.
Without waiting for Bai Qianyu to speak, the square-faced young man immediately came to Su Jiu’s side and said in a deep voice, “Class Leader Su, although I, Wu Yong, am not a hero, I absolutely cannot do something that would leave you to face more than twenty people alone.”
Following Wu Yong’s words, those students had more or less prepared themselves for battle. They were young and therefore feared death, but also because they were young… they were even more unwilling to be cowards.
Bai Qianyu also cast a worried glance at Su Jiu. If she were to abandon Su Jiu and run, it would be more unbearable than killing her. Just as she was about to say something.
“Go! I don’t need you to stay here!”
Su Jiu’s cold snort broke everyone’s fervor. She slowly took her small satchel from Bai Qianyu’s hand, and the dagger in her hand shone brightly under the surrounding green light.
Seeing this, Zheng Meng suddenly laughed, her voice echoing through the canyon, sounding somewhat noisy: “Tsk tsk, where’s your previous arrogance? Why are you cutting off your own arm now?”
“Annoying!” Su Jiu snorted coldly, her aura instantly permeating the entire canyon.
Zheng Meng was intimidated by this cold snort, her expression fluctuating, but for the moment, she didn’t dare to say anything else.
Then, Su Jiu turned her head again and looked at those fearful yet somewhat stubborn faces. She rarely showed a feminine tenderness, and gently comforted them, “Don’t worry, wait for me at Instructor Liu’s place. I will be fine.”
“Class Leader…”
The tall young man, Wu Yong, wanted to say something more, but Su Jiu shook her head and interrupted him. She smiled looking at the worry on Wu Yong’s face, and said with an exceptionally serious expression, “Promise me, protect them for me. You have some kind of earth-type bloodline, you know.”
Then Su Jiu turned to Bai Qianyu and said with a smile, “Trust me, take them and go quickly, the farther the better!”
“Take care, Sister Jiu…”
Taking a deep breath, Bai Qianyu gave Su Jiu a deep look. The other’s power was deeply etched in her memory. With a blink of her eyes, she turned and took the first step towards the exit: “Let’s go, trust her!”
Everyone, with sighs or calls of “take care,” followed Bai Qianyu with their heads down, occasionally looking back at the figure facing the dense crowd of enemies from a distance.
After tonight, perhaps that small figure would be their true hero.
Those from Hua Wen did not stop them. In their eyes, defeating Su Jiu was a matter of time. Dozens of people watched with mocking eyes as Su Jiu took something out of her backpack.
Li Gang looked at the mask Su Jiu was holding with confusion and scoffed, “Do you really think you can survive by holding a mask?”
Without speaking, Su Jiu gently put on the mask, then put on the black windbreaker and slowly looked up at Li Gang and the others.
Her eyes were no longer emitting blue light but a black and red Bloodlight, and an aura several times stronger than Li Gang’s instantly poured out from her.
A bone-chilling voice suddenly rang out.
“Exorcist, Su Jiu, greetings to all.”
