The Crybaby Alpha is Actually Really Cool - Chapter 11
Gao Juntian looked expressionless and turned his head to Sun Li: “We should find a music teacher to tutor this kid, or his teammates will probably have short lives.”
Sun Li: “Huh? What did you say?”
The sonic attack was too severe; Instructor Sun had already put on noise-cancelling earplugs.
Gao Juntian: “Damn it, you old fox, you don’t play fair!”
He reached out to pull Sun Li’s earplugs, and the two wrestled in a heap. Fortunately, the soldiers under their command were too busy to watch them, or the instructors’ dignity would be completely gone.
The number of long-range fighters was truly too small, only five out of sixty people, so everyone became a projectile thrower, throwing anything they had—swords, spears, axes. The scene was chaotically comical.
Cheng Shu looked at the thermos cup in his hand, and Ruan Qingyao thought of his precious box-box, and they both fell silent.
An unnamed brother, seeing the two of them stunned and spacing out, couldn’t help but roar, “What are you staring for? Attack it!”
Cheng Shu reached out and offered the steaming thermos cup toward the big brother.
The big brother was confused: “I’m not thirsty!”
Cheng Shu was silent: “My Spiritual Artifact.”
The big brother also fell silent, then stubbornly suggested after a moment: “Put the lid on and use it as a brick.”
With that, he turned to look at Ruan Qingyao: “I remember you. Nie Wan said your box could also be used as a brick.”
Ruan Qingyao quickly retreated: “Impossible!”
The Spider Worm’s silk darts interrupted the communication between the three. Ruan Qingyao took the opportunity to pull Cheng Shu away from this frantic brother.
After running far, far away, Ruan Qingyao finally breathed a sigh of relief and quietly muttered, “He doesn’t have an ounce of chivalry. He actually wanted my darling to do such a thing.”
Cheng Shu always felt that this sentence sounded a bit strange.
Ruan Qingyao looked at the Spider Worm in the sky, then at everyone who was dodging clumsily while trying to attack, and felt that the situation was bad. A hint of anxiety appeared in his heart.
“Class is almost over,” Cheng Shu suddenly said.
Ruan Qingyao checked the time on his optical computer and suddenly realized, Oh, yes, all he had to do was wait for the class to end. He had actually had the impulse to go up and blast the Spider Worm down just now. That was not good.
He couldn’t be infected by the bad emotions of these Alphas. Thinking this, Ruan Qingyao leaned closer to Cheng Shu again.
Gao Juntian, watching the fight, was also looking at the time. He sighed with some disappointment: “I thought they could force out the Spider Worm’s third form.”
Sun Li said, “It’s not bad. The original intention was just to let them feel the difference. After all, they are still a group of recently differentiated kids who can’t even hold their Spiritual Artifacts steady.”
Despite saying that, Gao Juntian hadn’t held much hope initially, but the appearance of the second form had given him a taste of success. People couldn’t help but expect more.
“How about we occupy lunchtime and take another look?” Gao Juntian pointed at You Xiaoxi and said, “Look how vigorously he’s blowing.”
After listening for a long time, he just felt numb, but his ears hurt.
Sun Li also fleetingly considered the idea, but seeing You Xiaoxi, he gave up on it. “Then you stay here and keep an eye on things.”
“Impossible!”
The two exchanged glances and finally reached an agreement.
Gao Juntian took out a bone whistle and blew it. Invisible sound waves transmitted from the bone whistle and reached the Spider Worm’s brain. This imitated the Zerg’s sound waves and could make the Spider Worm calm down.
The Spider Worm received the command and roared angrily twice.
Gao Juntian saw this and thought, Oh, my goodness, it’s not obeying, is that right? He continued to blow the whistle hard.
The Spider Worm struggled but eventually submitted to the command and descended from the sky.
Ruan Qingyao finally felt relieved seeing this. Once relaxed, he felt uncomfortable all over. He needed a bath and a change of clothes!
However, many people hadn’t noticed Gao Juntian’s actions and thought they had finally defeated the bug, so they rushed over excitedly to hack and stab the bug again.
This behavior extremely provoked the Spider Worm, making it erupt directly despite not wanting to follow the command. A large amount of spider silk shot out in all directions like falling blossoms.
Quite a few people were hit. The spider silk immediately burned through their clothes, corroded the skin and flesh, and caused immense pain.
This included Ruan Qingyao, who had no defenses at all. Ruan Qingyao stared blankly at the fingernail-sized piece of spider silk on the back of his hand, then let out a massive scream: “Ah—”
Tears streamed out like a floodgate opening.
Unfortunately, the painful and distressed scream attracted the Spider Worm’s attention. In its tiny brain, this sound represented weakness, and it swung its long legs to bully Ruan Qingyao.
Ruan Qingyao was angry and in pain, and he punched the Spider Worm with reddened eyes.
At the same time, Gao Juntian and Sun Li, who noticed the Spider Worm had lost control, also rushed over and quickly subdued the Spider Worm.
Ruan Qingyao looked at the ugly bug lying on the ground as if dead, and angrily gave it another kick.
The Spider Worm did not move.
Wen Yuchen and the others quickly rushed over when they heard the scream, only to see Cheng Shu carefully peeling off the clothes stuck to Ruan Qingyao’s skin. The spider silk had corroded and glued the two together.
Ruan Qingyao twisted his head, not daring to look, and tears kept falling, making people incredibly distressed.
“I’ll do it!” Wen Yuchen quickened his pace, a white ball of light appearing in his hand, moving closer to Ruan Qingyao’s injury.
“Ah—” The pain made Ruan Qingyao scream again. He quickly tried to pull his hand back, forgetting that Cheng Shu was pinching the fabric, which instantly tore away with the pull.
A patch of blurry, bloody flesh immediately appeared on the back of his pale hand, emitting a faint black aura.
Wen Yuchen was at a loss: “W-what’s wrong?”
Cheng Shu frowned: “The spider silk is poisonous. It must be that your rank is not high enough, Yuchen, to directly dissolve and heal it.”
In an instant, Wen Yuchen seemed to have had his spirit and energy drained, his mind repeatedly asking himself why he was so useless.
Cheng Shu also didn’t bother to comfort Wen Yuchen and went to Gao Juntian to ask him to find a higher-level healer.
Gao Juntian smiled and refused: “If you can’t even endure this small injury, why come to the military tower? Instead of asking for a healer, why not let your treatment slowly work? It’s not like it can’t be cured.”
Wen Yuchen could cure it, but the process would be very painful because his low rank prevented him from instantly killing the spider silk’s toxicity.
Cheng Shu gave Gao Juntian a deep look and turned back.
Others who also wanted to ask for a high-level healer also returned disappointed.
By the time Cheng Shu got back to Ruan Qingyao, he found that the injury on the back of Ruan Qingyao’s hand was already healed, and the four people including Wen Yuchen were also fine.
Cheng Shu scrutinized Wen Yuchen from top to bottom.
Wen Yuchen’s face turned beet red, and he growled: “It wasn’t me!”
Ruan Qingyao pulled Cheng Shu close and whispered, “It was the medicine I brought. I just tried rummaging in the box and found it.”
Cheng Shu nodded without changing his expression, but he was incredibly puzzled inside. Due to the existence of healing-type Spiritual Artifacts, the modern medical industry focused on internal human diseases, and there were no highly effective external trauma medicines at all.
Moreover, they looked as if they had never been injured, as if their lost spirit and energy had been completely replenished. Even a miracle drug wouldn’t have this effect, right?
Cheng Shu decided to ask Ruan Cheng if a Spiritual Artifact capable of producing trauma medicine had emerged. Currently, healing-type Spiritual Artifacts all required an initial attack to convert the damage into healing power before treatment could begin, which was very inconvenient.
Everyone was exhausted, and the injured people were still in great pain and only wanted to go back and rest. However, the ruthless instructor said no, they could only rest after eating the prescribed lunch food.
In the cafeteria, the section where the new recruits ate was extremely bizarre. Everyone was like a soulless zombie, mechanically and numbly stuffing food into their mouths.
Only the table for Dormitory 201 was wonderfully different.
Although they still had to eat the unpalatable solid nutrient paste, combined with the fragrant roasted suckling pig and beef chili sauce, they were extremely happy.
Especially under the envious, jealous, and hateful gazes of the people around them, their appetite was even better.
When Ruan Qingyao was looking for medicine, he found a vacuum-sealed bag of roasted suckling pig, which shocked him. Not wanting this kind of thing to stay in the box-box, he took it out for everyone to share as an extra meal.
Finally, someone couldn’t resist and humbly came over to beg for some chili sauce. They didn’t dare ask for meat, only wanted some sauce to go with their food.
Ruan Qingyao saw the Beta who had given him the sticker yesterday among the six people. Since the Beta had shown kindness to him, he gave them a bottle of chili sauce.
As soon as they returned to their table, they were surrounded by people from other dormitories. No one dared to provoke 201 because of the four intimidating figures, and the people at this other dormitory’s table looked quite easy to bully.
Xu Lingguang clicked his tongue and commented: “Foolish mortals are never satisfied.”
Opening this door would lead to more people coming to beg. This time it was chili sauce, next time it might be more, until the person was completely emptied out.
Ruan Qingyao smiled slightly and winked playfully: “With Lingguang, Yuchen, Xiongxiong, and Xiaoxi here, I’m not afraid.”
Xu Lingguang was very satisfied that Ruan Qingyao included him in the protective group.
Wen Yuchen was very dissatisfied: “He is completely useless.”
Xu Lingguang: “What did you say?!”
The two started arguing again.
Cheng Shu turned to Ruan Qingyao: “What about me?”
Cheng Shu regretted asking immediately. How old was he to act like a child? Had he gone crazy?
Ruan Qingyao puffed out his small chest upon hearing this and smiled: “I’ll protect Chengcheng!”
Cheng Shu himself was stunned, and Xu Lingguang, who was arguing with Wen Yuchen, was also stunned.
Cheng Shu only responded softly after a long time, “Then thank you, Qingyao.”
Xu Lingguang shivered with disgust.
While they were happily eating here, Gao Juntian at Field No. 1 was pulling his hair out in frustration.
He squatted opposite the Spider Worm, looking at its corpse, completely baffled: “How did it die?”
He tried to shift the blame to Sun Li: “It must be that you didn’t control your strength well. How could I have killed it with such a light touch?”
Sun Li scoffed: “Hmph. How it died is not important. What’s important is how we explain it to Old Chen.”
The Spider Worm was raised by Chen Chi for Zerg research. Gao Juntian had impulsively and secretly stolen it.
Thinking of that lunatic, Old Chen, Gao Juntian’s eyebrows furrowed together in distress, and he muttered, “How did it die? How could it have died?”
Even if he refused to accept it, the fact was that the Spider Worm was dead. Gao Juntian and Sun Li had no choice but to take the corpse back to Chen Chi.
In the basement, Chen Chi watched coldly as Gao Juntian and the two others pulled the Spider Worm onto the dissecting table. “You can get out now.”
The two felt as if they had been granted a general amnesty and tried to sneak away quickly.
Chen Chi’s haunting voice came from behind: “If I don’t see ten Spider Worms tomorrow, you two just wait.”
The two froze and quickly answered: “Yes, yes, yes.”
And rapidly slipped away.
It was true that Chen Chi cherished the Spider Worm, but it couldn’t be brought back to life after death, so it had to be used to its full potential. That was why the Spider Worm’s corpse was on the dissecting table.
He first performed a general examination of the Spider Worm. Chen Chi looked at the report with some confusion: “The fatal injury was this punch?”
He looked at this area of the Spider Worm’s corpse but couldn’t see any wound. It was hard to imagine that starting from here and moving inward, the inside had already been shattered into a pulp.