Chapter 441: Old Classmate (3k)
The others also looked in that direction but dared not make any superfluous movements. The female instructor leaped down onto the rock below. A white light suddenly appeared in her hand, revealing a lantern-like weapon with a faint, yellow glow.
Holding the handle, she walked towards the darkness, her faint light illuminating the patches of darkness.
As they got closer, everyone found that there were only a few of them and breathed a sigh of relief. However, the female instructor did not relax her guard. She scanned the ground behind her, looking at the arm-width bloodstains on the ground that looked like they were made by a wooden stick, and fell into contemplation…
These monsters are injured?
“Was it attacked by a powerful monster?”
For a moment, the scene seemed to fall silent, and fear began to spread like the surrounding boundless darkness. The ten-person squad, except for Su Jiu, formed a small circle.
“Just small bugs of low level… but they seem a bit flustered, what’s wrong?”
As if knowing who had arrived, Su Jiu casually sat down on the rock again, picked up a candy, and started eating it, showing no sign of nervousness.
“It’s normal to be this close to Hundred-Year Demon Mountain and have snake demons… Judging by their size, there shouldn’t be any high-level monsters around.”
The female instructor frowned and muttered to herself. Then, she slowly stood up and, with a rather influential smile, said to the frightened students,
“Don’t be too scared, everyone. These snake demons are generally around the Warrior Class. You can form teams of two or three to kill them.”
The high school students, hearing her words, looked at each other. Their previous fear subsided, and they reacted. They took out flashlights from their storage bags and began to search for the snake demons.
Every time they encountered one, they attacked with all their might. The long-legged snake demons were like logs, completely unable to dodge the brute force attacks of these students. Soon, everyone had killed nearly a small pile of snake demons, and the points were rolling in.
“Bang!”
Using his military boots to crush a low-level warrior-class snake demon, letting the blood splatter on his pant legs, Chuan Guang looked at Su Jiu, who was still sitting on the rock, and asked with a slight frown, “Aren’t you earning points? Even if your strength is really strong, if you don’t earn points, you might not be as good as your classmates who are intermediate stage warriors.”
“There will be more monsters later, right? We’re not in a hurry at all.”
The latter glanced at her, smiled, and shook her head, her gaze still fixed on the depths of the mountain. She probed with her mental power; she could feel many low-level monsters surging towards this direction along this path, driven by something, their movements chaotic and panicked.
Could it be the Ancient God Sect?
Only by going forward to explore would she know. If it was the Ancient God Sect, it would be normal to follow the clues to find those who were imprisoned. She still had a card on her that could contact that Black-clad Bishop. There was no rush to find the imprisoned people and then capture the Black-clad Bishop.
Thinking this, Su Jiu looked at those who had almost finished dealing with the snake demons, slowly stood up, and walked towards the female instructor. She whispered beside her, “Instructor, are we going to keep going? The snake demons here are almost cleared out.”
“Still going forward??”
“No, please. We have already gained a lot of points. If we take another step and encounter danger, what then?”
“Tsk, you’re acting like a clown by yourself, not coming to kill snake demons and score points together, and you even want us to step into danger.”
Upon hearing this, everyone’s expression changed slightly. According to the instructor’s explanation, that was the path leading to Hundred-Year Demon Mountain. If they continued forward, they might encounter many unknown dangers.
“This…”
The female instructor looked at Su Jiu with some surprise. She had seen this girl, who had a connection with Teacher Yu, not participating in the snake demon hunt before. Now she wanted to advance, which was somewhat puzzling.
However, with her Half-King Level strength, she was not afraid of causing trouble. Not to mention advancing a few hundred meters, even a few kilometers was not a problem, as people often cleared out groups of monsters before.
As if sensing the female instructor’s confusion, Su Jiu smiled, pointed to the road ahead, on which there were blood-stained crawl marks, and then turned to the students and said softly, “Everyone, look over here. You should be able to understand that these monsters are all injured, right?”
“There might have been a monster melee or other people fighting in front, which caused this. However, the rules don’t say we can’t attack these injured monsters, so killing them can also count towards points.”
At first, everyone didn’t understand Su Jiu’s words until later, when they suddenly came to their senses, their eyes flashing with anticipation. As the team leader, Chuan Guang quickly raised a question: “But battles that can injure Warrior Class usually mean the leaders of High-Rank Battle Generals are fighting each other, we…”
Before she could finish, Su Jiu’s lips curled, she slightly turned her head, looked at the female instructor who was still watching the show, and chuckled, “Isn’t our instructor Half-step War King Level? She will act if there’s danger. If we stay in place, we might only get points from these snakes…”
The female instructor was slightly stunned. Looking at Su Jiu’s back, she felt that this young lady seemed to be different from these “young ladies and masters”—
Does this Miss Jiusu seem to have truly experienced combat?
After a pause, before the instructor could refute, Su Jiu narrowed her eyes, like a fox, and muttered to herself, “Don’t you guys want to kill a War General Level monster? The points obtained will be multiples higher.”
The female instructor fell silent, obviously tacitly agreeing with Su Jiu’s words. The students who were initially worried that she wouldn’t agree started to cheer up, already eager to move forward.
Seeing the students about to move forward, Su Jiu did a backflip and landed steadily in front of everyone. She reached out forward, and a cluster of somewhat grayish flames ignited, illuminating the road ahead as she advanced quickly.
She had a feeling that these injured monsters might have another reason, and the captured people had a high probability of engaging in a battle with the Ancient God Sect.
The others, seeing this, used their flashlights to illuminate the surrounding road, guarding against the attacks of poisonous snakes. Along the way, they occasionally picked up some stray monsters, which made many students laugh. They looked at Su Jiu ahead with a much better impression.
This young lady certainly knows how to handle things.
After about half an hour, everyone had been harvesting along the way and arrived at a place five to six kilometers away. They stopped slightly. The terrain suddenly rose, and the surrounding karst landforms became more and more obvious. Various strangely shaped rocks replaced the large rocks on the flat ground, and trees began to appear.
If they went any further, they might really encounter War General Level monsters. Chuan Guang had already come to Su Jiu’s side. She looked at the girl who was not tired at all and suggested, “How about we stop here? Going further would mean entering the edge of Hundred-Year Demon Mountain, where there are traces of King-Class Demons.”
“Look at the sky, the person who sent us gifts…”
Su Jiu responded with a “hmm,” put out the flame in her hand, and looked up at the distant woods. Her eyes reflected three streams of light that flew by rapidly, like lightning streaking across the night sky, but they were faintly luminous.
Chuan Guang also looked along and slowly, a look of disbelief appeared on her calm face.
In this place close to Hundred-Year Demon Mountain, someone was actually fighting privately. Those streams of light were people, and behind them, there seemed to be several more…
Gray streams of light.
In the night sky, various explosion lights flickered. Suddenly, an explosion spread to the ground, kicking up wisps of smoke and ripples not far away. The three being chased felt like they were about to collapse.
“Quick, look, there are powerhouses fighting in the sky!”
“Could the leftovers we picked up be caused by them? Should we leave now?”
Soon, the students also noticed the lights in the sky. They were a little worried, but since Su Jiu and Chuan Guang, the two team leaders, did not give any indication, they could only look at the female instructor who was responsible for them.
The female instructor did not speak either. She turned to look at Su Jiu, who was still looking at the sky, and narrowed her eyes. She had been paying attention to this young lady before.
This place was actually brought here by her. Did she know that a battle would happen, or was it a coincidence…
“Gray external qi, as expected, it’s them… However, the pursuers are all some Battle Generals. Perhaps those priests are not nearby or are in the shadows—these three probably paid a great price to escape.”
“I cannot act rashly; I can only be a trump card.”
Muttering inwardly, Su Jiu withdrew her gaze and pointed to the sky at the female instructor, blinking her eyes and saying, “Instructor, shouldn’t you save those being chased? It seems two of them are also wearing military uniforms?”
Hearing Su Jiu’s words, the female instructor was slightly stunned. She quickly used her avatar, her eyes turning into vertical pupils as she looked. Her body trembled, and she suddenly exclaimed, “It’s Young Master Xiong Er and Miss Wen!!”
“How could they be here?! We can’t delay; they are about to collapse.”
Immediately, without thinking why Su Jiu knew their clothes, her expression became serious. Her Half-King Level aura instantly surged out, and with a “whoosh!” sound, she rushed towards the sky.
“Are these the military officers from the army camp that Su Xiao Yu was said to have taken away?”
“How did they appear here, and they’re even being chased?!”
Hearing the instructor’s voice, the students erupted in exclamations. Even if they were out of touch with the world, they knew that the people being chased in the sky were the true “Second Generation” of this military region.
The female instructor was Half-King Level. Facing the Ancient God Sect members, whose strength was at most Shadow Level, it could be said that just throwing that lantern would cause them to explode with blood.
Chuan Guang did not look up at the sky like the ordinary students, nor did she watch the female instructor display her power. Instead, she looked at the girl secretly eating candy in her eyes and finally couldn’t help but ask, “Do you know what’s going to happen here?… Who exactly are you?”
Hearing Chuan Guang’s voice, Su Jiu turned her head, looked at the short-haired girl, let out a chuckle, patted her shoulder, and said, “Don’t be silly, how could that be? You read too many novels. I’m just an ordinary student.”
Soon, the pursuers were all cleaned up. Four figures, two by two helping each other, landed on the ground. A group of students immediately swarmed over, surrounding these two Second Generation individuals and making various sounds:
“It really is them. It is said that these two, who are only slightly older than us, are already experts close to High-Rank Battle General.”
“Is this genius…”
Su Jiu also looked over, her gaze sweeping across…
Apart from the instructor, there were two girls and one boy. The one with long black hair wearing a dress, judging by the dusty look on her face, was probably the so-called Miss Wen. And the tall young man was Xiong Er, probably that Man Xiong’s brother.
Finally, Su Jiu’s gaze fell on the fiery red-haired figure. She was slightly stunned. The person’s identity was not as important as the previous two, and few people were looking at her. As Su Jiu looked at her, the person also looked over.
After a moment of silence, Su Jiu pushed through the onlookers and came in front of the red-haired woman. Looking at the several sword wounds on her body, a hint of green appeared on her fingertips.
“Who are you?”
Under the woman’s confused expression, she smiled softly again:
“Zhiyuan High School, Senior Year Class A, Su Jiu.”
