The Crybaby Alpha is Actually Really Cool - Chapter 10

Gao Juntian still had some conscience left. He yelled, bringing everyone’s attention back, and then released the constraints on the spider worm.

“Two hours. Have fun, everyone.”

They somehow brought over two small folding stools. He and Sun Li each sat on one, with a small table set up between them, complete with melon seeds and drinks.

It was truly infuriatingly enviable.

The spider worm was suddenly released. The pent-up anger from its days of confinement burst forth all at once. It brandished its legs, kaka-ji kaka-ji, and charged into the crowd, kicking up grass and clods of earth along the way.

Everyone cried out and scattered, but two legs couldn’t outrun sixteen long legs. Soon, someone was knocked down by the spider worm, wrapped up like a mummy by the silk spit from its abdomen, and stuck to the concave part of its belly.

When the spider worm hunts, it always captures first and then takes everything back to the nest for communal eating. Moreover, although the silk is poisonous, there would be no problem if an antidote was administered within five hours, so Gao Juntian and Sun Li were not worried about causing death.

However, the new recruits didn’t know this. Their knowledge of the insect race was limited to pictures in textbooks and a few brief words of introduction.

Soon, several more people were caught and dragged away by the spider worm.

Ruan Qingyao was completely unaffected by the spider worm. He had dragged Cheng Shu away right from the start. As for his other four roommates, seeing the large bug, their battle-loving nature probably had them grinning from ear to ear.

With a pa-ji sound, Ruan Qingyao stumbled and fell onto his backside.

He cried, pa-ta pa-ta, tears falling. The first thing he did after getting up was clean his hands and clothes. Once clean, he tentatively kicked. Although he couldn’t see anything in front of him, something was definitely there.

Cheng Shu also bumped into it. He got up and felt the transparent wall with his hand. “It’s a restriction shield. It prevents the outside from being affected by the commotion inside and also keeps the people or the bug inside from running out.”

Ruan Qingyao pouted his lips and lightly kicked the shield twice: “This is too much. What are we supposed to do?”

Should he dodge around and wait for the training time to end, or should he fight the spider worm and kill it? Ruan Qingyao pondered. In any case, he wouldn’t seek the limelight. Staying safely for five years and then leaving was the right path. He just didn’t know if the instructor was reliable. This bug seemed quite powerful.

Wuwuwu, this was too difficult.

“Let’s just watch first. We’ll follow the crowd.” Cheng Shu took out his thermos cup again and took a sip of tea. He wanted to see the strength and potential of this generation of young people first.

“That’s true,” Ruan Qingyao nodded in agreement. When first entering an unfamiliar environment, following the crowd was the most appropriate. After the morning exercise, everyone else had been pig-headed, and his beauty had already earned him many unhappy, jealous glances.

Just as Ruan Qingyao thought, the four from Wen Yuchen’s group didn’t run far. Instead, they surrounded the spider worm, trying to find an opportunity to attack, but they were without strategy.

After being kicked away by a “divine leg” from the spider worm again, Xu Lingguang rolled several times on the grass before steadying himself. He looked up at the continuously increasing silk cocoons on the spider worm’s abdomen. For once, his expression contained no arrogance, only solemnity.

“This won’t do.”

“What good is your damn nonsense?” Wen Yuchen yelled at Xu Lingguang while dodging the spider worm’s legs. “Take out your lousy sword and cut off its legs!”

“Xiong Yan, and you! Why the hell are you so close? Don’t you know you’re a long-range fighter?!”

Xu Lingguang yelled back: “What do you stupid mortals know! If I could summon it, I would have taken it out already!”

For some unknown reason, his spirit artifact wouldn’t respond to his summons and simply wouldn’t come out.

Xiong Yan also yelled: “Me too! Can’t take it out!”

Wen Yuchen was stunned. He tried to summon his own spirit artifact and found that he couldn’t take it out either.

Sh1t, why is this happening?

Why else? The contamination of the spirit caused the spiritual domain to become unstable, so the spirit artifact wouldn’t come out.

Gao Juntian watched their panicked little faces and laughed heartily, ga ga ga, not even bothering to crack his melon seeds.

“I think I can.”

You Xiaoxi’s words were like throwing a stone into stagnant water. Everyone looked at the dark green long staff in his hand and asked one after another, “Sh1t, tell us how you got it out!”

You Xiaoxi said, “I just concentrated my mind.”

As he spoke, he rushed forward with the long staff, hitting one of the spider worm’s legs. The spider worm let out an angry howl.

As expected, even a low-level spirit artifact was much better than bare hands. You Xiaoxi gave everyone a shot of adrenaline.

After trying hard, Xu Lingguang and the others also successfully summoned their spirit artifacts.

“Let’s go together! Let’s kill this stinky bug!”

The scene was chaotic for a while. People kept rushing up, and people kept getting smacked away, but happily, there were many more wounds on the spider worm’s legs and body.

Seeing the Logistics Betas also bravely rushing forward, Ruan Qingyao took several deep breaths and said to Cheng Shu, “We should go over too.”

Cheng Shu raised an eyebrow in surprise. Qingyao didn’t look like the type to actively join in such things.

Immediately after, Ruan Qingyao took out a protective suit and a hood from his box, wrapping himself from head to toe. It was the kind used for dust and dirt prevention, completely useless against attacks.

“Cheng Cheng, do you want one?”

Ruan Qingyao didn’t want to get dirty. One of the things that most repelled Ruan Qingyao about fighting was that it would make him dirty and very messy.

Cheng Shu suppressed the urge to twitch the corner of his mouth and shook his head. “I won’t need it.”

As expected, a person couldn’t change their nature suddenly. It was a grassland now, which was fine, but what would happen later in a muddy or sandy area?

Ruan Qingyao mentally chanted encouraging slogans and rushed over, stopping next to Wen Yuchen. It could be said he was there to follow the crowd, not to fight the bug.

Wen Yuchen had just quietly taken his silver needle spirit artifact and jabbed the spider worm’s belly. He was smacked away by the enraged spider worm and was then helped up by Ruan Qingyao.

“Don’t you know how dangerous this is?! Hide quickly!” Wen Yuchen yelled irritably. What irritated him the most was realizing how incredibly weak he was.

Ruan Qingyao pouted and then pulled Wen Yuchen away from another kick from the spider worm. He softly explained, “Everyone is trying hard. I can’t run away. I’m just here to make up the numbers, and nothing will happen. Don’t worry.”

Although Yuchen had a short temper, his heart was truly kind. He would still care about him at a time like this. Ruan Qingyao was delighted. He was indeed the good younger brother he had chosen.

Wen Yuchen was confusedly “forced” to feel the speed of the wind. Ruan Qingyao held the fabric of his shoulder with just one hand, easily leading him to dodge the spider worm’s attacks.

He felt that he might need to clear his head. Qingyao only looked weak, had a soft temperament, and his spirit artifact was non-combat. But when it came to physical fitness, he might not lose.

Wen Yuchen suddenly recalled Gao Juntian being sent flying that morning. He must have been an idiot to believe that the wind blew him away.

Wen Yuchen’s mind was a mess, full of scattered thoughts, but the situation was pressing. He shook off irrelevant thoughts and continued to dedicate himself to the great bug-fighting business.

Although difficult, the balance was generally tipping in their favor. Ten of the spider worm’s sixteen legs were disabled, and its abdomen couldn’t spray any more silk.

Everyone tried to save the people captured by the spider worm. Although they were not yet close, they were now comrades and could not be abandoned.

The crowd stumbled into a cooperative battle. Some people attracted the spider worm’s attention, and some people went to steal the silk cocoons.

Everything was developing in a positive direction. The spider worm seemed to be trapped, just waiting to be slowly worn down to death.

The last silk cocoon was stolen, and the spider worm crashed to the ground. After a moment of silence, everyone cheered, shouting at the two instructors: “We didn’t feel any enthusiasm at all!”

“That was too weak!”

“We can crush the stinky bug with just a finger!”

Gao Juntian leisurely cracked a melon seed and shouted back sarcastically, “Oh, really?”

“Take a closer look, now.”

A ka-ba ka-ba shattering sound suddenly rang out. Everyone stopped their laughter and smiles, looking around in confusion for the source of the sound, and were shocked to find the sound was coming from the large spider worm itself.

Gao Juntian blew a loud whistle, reminding them, “The little cutie will be even more enthusiastic.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the spider worm’s shell formally cracked and fell to the ground. A spider worm half the size of the previous one crawled out of the shattered shell.

With a shua sound, a pair of sharp wings unfolded on its back, and it flew into the sky. Although its ascent was blocked by the restriction shield, it didn’t prevent it from upgrading from ground combat to air combat.

Everyone looked up in a daze. My god, when did spiders learn to fly?

Silk shot from the air descended like sharp arrows, making whistling sounds. Even when they missed their target, they turned into a puddle of venom upon landing on the grass, making the spot unusable and shrinking everyone’s survival space.

The longer this went on, the less space people had to stand.

“Sh1t, we have to shoot the damn thing down.” Wen Yuchen ran over and yelled at Xiong Yan again, “What are you doing? Where’s your bow? Shoot!”

Xiong Yan was also incredibly irritable and yelled back, “How can I shoot anything without spiritual energy? I’ve been drained dry!”

Long-range fighters were already few. The previous battle had left them exhausted. Their spiritual energy, or pheromones, were completely depleted; they couldn’t squeeze out any more.

Wen Yuchen grabbed his hair, angrily kicking away a mound of raised turf.

Ruan Qingyao was the calmest and most composed. He actively thought of a solution. “Xiaoxi, your flute music can speed up pheromone recovery, right?”

You Xiaoxi nodded, “But I don’t have any reserves left either.”

Ruan Qingyao pulled You Xiaoxi to squat down secretly.

“Open your mouth.”

You Xiaoxi instinctively opened his mouth and felt a cold, icy thing dropped onto his tongue. His tongue instinctively curled around it. It felt like a stone, but it shattered when he bit it.

Ruan Qingyao showed him his hands: “Food-grade gloves, see? Clean.”

Uh… You Xiaoxi wanted to say that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but before the words could leave his mouth, a massive surge of energy rushed to the pheromone processing plant—the internal gland—and an abundant supply of pheromones was continuously generated.

You Xiaoxi was shocked. What on earth was that thing?! It was too miraculous!

Ruan Qingyao smiled slightly, “It’s good for your body. Hurry and help everyone speed up their pheromone recovery.”

It might be uncomfortable for a while. Ah, I should have told Xiaoxi beforehand. I need to apologize after the training is over.

You Xiaoxi instinctively summoned his flute, held it to his mouth, and a wula wula noise immediately swept across the ground. He played with great absorption, his toes unconsciously tapping the beat, because the immense pheromones had directly broken through the spiritual artifact’s level limit, jumping straight from level one to level three.

The powerful force captivated You Xiaoxi.

Ruan Qingyao’s smile froze on his face. Oh my god, what is this devilish noise?

Everyone was torn between condemning You Xiaoxi for making noise and thanking him for helping them recover.