Chapter 660 Waiting for Rescue (3k)
“What are Teacher Lin and the pirates talking about? Why can’t we understand them at all?”
The conversation between the two naturally fell into the ears of the students nearby. They had surprised expressions on their faces. What did the Redbeard’s pirate flag have to do with them being surrounded?
At this moment, Su Ze reacted. His face showed a trace of fear as he looked at Lin Chujiu’s back in front of him. He understood something horrifying from her words…
He looked up incredulously and said solemnly, “Teacher Lin, are they trying to use a borrowed knife to kill someone?”
Glancing back at the latter, Lin Chujiu smiled. Her lazy pupils seemed to have become a little more serious as she spoke, “That’s right. These people want to eliminate all of us and then frame Redbeard. Their purpose is unknown.”
Hearing Lin Chujiu’s analysis, Su Ze couldn’t help but feel a little heavy in his heart. Just as he was about to speak, the bearded pirate opposite him patted the thick knife in his hand and grinned sinisterly, “So what if you know? The defense of this ship can’t hold out for long. By the time the Sakura Navy discovers the anomaly and rushes to support us, your corpses will probably be cold.”
As his words fell, another round of ship cannon fire and skill bombardment. The colorful cannon fire hit the energy shield, creating ripples. Even the entire large ship swayed, and the students on the ship showed expressions of horror.
“Uncle, we are all adults. It’s a bit too ridiculous to say such threatening words. Even if this sea dragon-class cruiser can’t hold out for long, an hour of support time is more than enough.”
With a casual pat, Lin Chujiu steadied the swaying ship. She chuckled and took out a metal pipe from her sleeve, holding it in her mouth and exhaling blue smoke rings.
She didn’t show any panic. She knew that the only thing she could do now was wait, quietly waiting for the support brought by Su Ze’s cousin.
She was just a little curious. That self-made girl shouldn’t have any power. Could it be support from other forces?
The pirates also stopped talking and just sneered as they controlled the magic crystal cannons and the main ship cannons on each boat, spraying brilliant light towards the giant ship.
Everyone could only see explosions on the pale blue water screen supported by the large ship. The rumbling sound came from the energy shield like the beating of a war drum, making their hearts tremble.
However, most of these students were top students in their fourth year or first-year graduate students, and their strength was generally above the High-Rank Battle General level. Faced with such a momentum, they didn’t panic for long before stabilizing themselves and preparing for the energy shield to be broken. Alchemists and priests also began to set up corresponding defensive formations.
“Heh heh, Teacher Su Ze! You just contacted the outside world, and I heard you mentioning [Su Jiu]. Was that her answering the phone just now?”
As the long period of resistance began, a nonchalant voice came from behind Su Ze. If Su Jiu were here, she would recognize it as Chen Qianyun, who had fought with her.
After her fight with Su Jiu, she thought nothing would happen. However, when she returned home, the sky had fallen. Her position as the “Young Family Head,” which she had grasped, was taken away by her grandfather, who spent all his days drinking tea and teasing birds.
It was given to Chen Jia’er, a “mud-legged person” whom she had always looked down upon!
Later, for some unknown reason, that person borrowed all her manpower and invested it in Bear Country to help someone named [Su Jiu], even ignoring the succession battle with her. This was originally a good thing.
But just when she thought that person was simply asking for trouble, the reversal and slap in the face came very quickly. A month later, she returned with a group of guest officials, and the attitudes of the guest officials in her family had changed drastically. It seemed they had already tacitly agreed that Chen Jia’er was the Young Family Head.
As for what exactly happened during that trip to Bear Country, Chen Qianyun had been investigating. In the end, she found nothing other than the largest-scale siege battle in modern history, the “Thirteen City Battle.”
It couldn’t be that her half-sister gave up university and led people to participate in this battle where she could die at any moment, and was even a key member of the siege, and had made significant contributions, right? Otherwise, she couldn’t explain the attitudes of those guest officials.
These people who followed Miss Lin to gain experience might have a chance if they found some information about ancient monsters. At least some elders in the clan still supported the eldest legitimate son inheriting the position.
Since she couldn’t find out anything, Chen Qianyun resented the World Championship winner “Su Jiu” and even transferred her anger to her cousin.
Looking at Chen Qianyun, Su Ze knew that her attitude towards him was not good, but after all, she was the young lady of the Chen family, so he couldn’t show any other emotions. He nodded and said, “It is indeed my sister. She said she would send someone to solve the problem here.”
“She, send someone?”
Chen Qianyun was stunned for a moment, her eyebrows raised, and she let out a faint sneer. “Even if she’s a World Champion, in society, she’s just a freshman. Does she have any way to solve the current problem?”
She had investigated Su Jiu. With the Chen family’s intelligence network, she easily obtained Su Jiu’s personal information.
On the surface, she was the daughter of a mayor in a southern county-level city. Her family environment was not good. She might have had some fortunate encounters and grew rapidly during her summer vacation in her third year of high school.
Her covert identity was even covered by a Gold-level Exorcist and a Grand Priest of the International Red Cross. In reality, she was the Adventurer King of the Adventurers Guild…
But!
These identities of hers were not enough to make up for the current situation. What they were facing now were several High-Rank Battle Kings, and even stronger individuals.
“Teacher Lin said your cousin might have her own ideas?”
Su Ze didn’t refute the young lady’s opinion. He could even say that he thought the same way. Su Jiu did explode in the World Championship to face the very powerful successor of the Suzuki family.
However, what awaited them now were hundreds and thousands of pirates, as well as several High-Rank Battle Kings. This was not something that a World Champion among students could solve.
“Her own ideas? Are so many of us here going to die because of her own ideas?”
Chen Qianyun glared at Su Ze, then shifted her gaze to Lin Chujiu. However, the young lady’s arrogance had lessened considerably, as her status was almost the same as hers. She took two steps forward, cupped her fists, and said, “Teacher Lin, that communicator should still be on. We should immediately ask the other side to notify the Sakura authorities and report the pirates’ attempt to kill us and frame Redbeard.”
“Here, but the person on the communication is a Sakura person and doesn’t understand international English. Have our foreign language faculty help translate.”
Hearing this, Lin Chujiu tilted her head slightly and size up the other person. She casually threw the alchemy communicator to her, her amber pupils staring intently at the position of the bombardment.
“No need, I’ve learned some Sakura language myself.”
Chen Qianyun smiled faintly, took the communicator, and narrowed her eyes. Although she hated Su Jiu, she wouldn’t act up when her own safety was involved. She coughed twice and then spoke in Sakura language, “You immediately notify the Sakura government to support us. The situation here is not something that your War General level cats and dogs can solve.”
Chen Qianyun’s words caused a moment of silence on the other end of the phone before a faint reply came, “About half an hour left. Please rest assured, Boss’s cousin.”
Seeing that the communicator was giving a non-committal answer, Chen Qianyun became angry. She said in a low voice, “I’m telling you to contact the Sakura official immediately. Don’t you understand human language? Are you human?”
The other side fell silent again. After a long time, a faint voice came, “No.”
Everyone on the scene went silent.
“I……”
This answer made the somewhat arrogant young lady deflate. The other party was like cotton; when you hit it, you felt nothing, and they were very stubborn…
“Still thirty minutes, this ship can only last fifteen minutes. I hope Miss Su won’t disappoint me.”
Listening to the words on the phone, Lin Chujiu flicked away the metal pipe and held a slender, prismatic staff in her hand. She lightly stepped forward and planted the staff upside down on the deck. She said loudly, “Water element external Qi users, output external Qi with me. Support will arrive in thirty minutes!”
Immediately, a magic array spread out from where she stepped, and water element external Qi supplemented the external Qi shield from the staff. The students who were water element users also reacted and imitated her, continuing to support the energy shield.
Chen Qianyun, like a deflated balloon, looked at the already dimming defensive external Qi, then looked at the figure in the long dress. She found a place to lean against and couldn’t help but mock herself, “Teacher Lin is useless. Her subordinates are just some smelly shrimp. Instead of wasting external Qi to resist, it’s better to save strength and run away as soon as the energy shield breaks.”
Her words were neither too loud nor too soft, and almost everyone on the ship could hear them. Su Ze frowned slightly, clearly feeling that such words of abandoning comrades in times of crisis were not suitable to be spoken directly.
Some students’ eyes flashed with a hint of sharpness. Some water element students even quietly stopped supplying, causing Lin Chujiu to need a greater supply to hold on.
Seeing this, Lin Chujiu turned around and looked at Chen Qianyun. Her eyes drooped slightly. Her usually soft voice suddenly became stern, with a hint of coldness: “Student Chen Qianyun, I hope you don’t mislead the classmates here. If the pirates break through the ship, I can guarantee that no one will survive. Hasn’t the outside been arranged with formations after so long?”
“Can we live by uniting? Teacher Lin, do you like to be a dream girl?”
Facing the teacher, who was also a young lady, Chen Qianyun felt a little chills. She rarely saw this usually gentle teacher speak so coldly.
Lin Chujiu looked at her coldly but did not respond. Instead, she scanned the other students. She paused, then waved her staff, stirring her long skirt, and said loudly, “Although my assessment of you is in the scope of exploring ancient monsters, this emergency situation should better reflect that. Those who want to abandon their companions and flee privately can huddle in a corner. I won’t blame you…”
“Those who are willing to assist will be rated excellent in this assessment! An additional five Beginner Magic Crystals will be awarded!”
