novelraw Chapter 614: Terrifying Beyond Measure
Chapter 614: Terrifying Beyond Measure
There was a commotion outside——
Ji You, Xuzhou, and Zhang Ye, all holding their cards, suddenly came to a stop. Shen Changqing, Chu Jiaojiao, Yue Qiguang, and the others turned their heads toward the direction of the cave entrance in an instant...
Everyone looked at each other with a spark of excitement in their eyes, especially Xuzhou and Zhang Ye, who now looked at the Rag Queen with a peculiar glint in their eyes:
Could it really be this accurate!
Three rounds!
Only three rounds and there’s already something happening outside! Could this Rag Queen really be that mystical?
Or is it just like a blind cat running into a dead mouse?
...
Xuzhou and Zhang Ye both had mixed feelings, even forgetting the heartache of losing 150 points each to Ji You right now.
On this side.
In a short while, they earned 300 points—how many ribs meals is that? Ji You couldn’t help feeling delighted inside. Sensing the gazes of Xuzhou and Zhang Ye, the corners of her mouth lifted involuntarily, revealing a wicked smile, as she said softly, "Don’t be infatuated with me, I’m just a legend."
Xuzhou, Zhang Ye: "..."
Everyone carefully listened to the noise outside. Faintly, they could hear the roar of beasts and the sound of human mecha gunfire from afar. This was——
Combat!
Yue Qiguang, seeing the Rag Queen showing off and boasting in front of Xuzhou and Zhang Ye, couldn’t help but ask, "Since you’re so capable, then, what do you think we should do now? Fight, or continue to hole up in this godforsaken place?"
Ji You stroked her chin, putting on the air of a big shot, and said, "We don’t fight, nor do we wait. I think what we should do now is——"
At that moment——
"Roar——"
A massive roar blew over like the wind, coming closer and closer to the cave entrance——
Everyone’s expression tensed.
Ji You opened her mouth and said, "What we should do is, is——" But upon hearing the approaching roar, her expression darkened and she changed the subject, asking, "How much Stinky Grass juice do we still have?"
"Quick!"
"Apply as much as we can!"
Sheng Qingyan jumped up, huffing, "Do you think we’re not stinky enough? I, for one, refuse to apply it."
Shen Changqing, with pursed lips, said, "There’s still 20 jin and 3 liang."
Ji You: "Give me 5 jin!"
Shen Changqing nodded, "Okay!"
Shen Changqing immediately handed Ji You 5 jin of Stinky Grass, and she swiftly took it, wasting no time in spreading it all over herself, head, face, neck, hands, feet... she really didn’t miss a spot.
Not only on herself, she also applied a layer on her mecha.
Though everyone was somewhat speechless watching this scene, they knew the Rag Queen was not one to harm herself. Chu Jiaojiao was the first to react, taking 1 jin of Stinky Grass juice from Shen Changqing.
Then came Yue Qiyuan.
Followed by Yue Qiguang.
Next were Xuzhou, Zhang Ye, Lou, Lance...
Sheng Qingyan backed away repeatedly from the stench, protesting all the while, but her actions were extremely swift, even faster than Chu Jiaojiao, as she finished applying...
Ji You couldn’t help but tease, "Didn’t you say you wouldn’t apply it?"
Sheng Qingyan pinched her nose and replied, "I don’t want to, really, but I’m afraid of dying, and a certain poor dead ghost won’t protect me, so I have no choice but to protect myself."
Ji You hummed, "Then stop talking, your breath is stinky now."
Sheng Qingyan’s face instantly crumpled like a bun.
In the audience seating.
Audience A: "I can smell that stench through the screen."
Audience B: "To begin with, I thought this team was shameless and cold-hearted, but now I truly admire them. Those willing to sink themselves in a cesspool just to stay alive, how can you not respect that?"
Audience C: "Cough... This might be even smellier than soaking in a manure pit."
Audience D: "Can you stop talking about it, please? I’m gonna throw up."
...
In fact, inside the narrow cave, the stench of the Stinky Grass had already made everyone dizzy and close to passing out on the spot. However, as the beast’s roar drew nearer, everyone still held their breath and dared not even let out a sigh.
second.
seconds.
seconds.
...
The approaching roar of the beast suddenly paused as it neared the cave, then seemingly changed direction and sprinted away toward the other side—
The roar of the beast grew more and more distant, but the sounds of the Particle Cannons continued to bombard with crackling noises.
As everyone squeezed at the entrance of the cave, peering through the slight cracks to witness the scene outside, they couldn’t help but gasp in shock:
This Flame Beast was incredibly large, almost the size of half a hill. As the Flame Beast went into a frenzy, the breath it exhaled instantly corroded a Mecha.
That Mecha, along with the pilot inside, was corroded into a pockmarked wreck in the blink of an eye, and in just a few seconds, the system declared the player eliminated from the match.
Watching this scene unfold before their very eyes, Ji You and the others all opened their mouths wide: "..."
How—
How are we supposed to fight this?
This—
This is simply impossible to fight.
And that was that.
In the few minutes the Flame Beast went berserk, the 10 members of the team, despite presenting a united front, were still eliminated one by one, unable to withstand the attacks of the Flame Beast.
The reason the Flame Beast is called so is not because it breathes fire, nor because it has flames all over its body, but because it contains a potent corrosive substance within. Moreover, the higher the level of the Flame Beast, the stronger the corrosive power of this substance becomes. For example, the one before them could completely corrode a Mecha with less than impressive defensive strength.
Even the mechas with strong defenses, such as Po Jun, were unable to fully withstand the corrosion of the Flame Beast—
Terrifying.
So terrifying...
Not just the competing players, but even the onlooking audience were clicking their tongues and expressing their amazement upon witnessing this spectacle:
Audience A: "What’s going on? I feel like the difficulty of this year’s freshman group matches is unusually high."
Audience B: "I feel like these 10 teams are going to be wiped out."
Audience C: "I also think they’re going to be wiped out."
Audience D: "This level of difficulty is suited for third-year students. Can first-year students really overcome this? Could there have been a mistake by the competition committee?"
...
Ji You, Shen Changqing, Chu Jiaojiao, Yue Qiyuan... As they watched everything happening outside, the relaxation originally on their faces completely vanished. Everyone was furrowing their brows tightly, contemplating the same question:
How are we going to fight?
After a while, Shen Changqing said: "We can’t engage in close combat."
Close combat would be a sure path to death.
Yue Qiguang frowned and asked, "If we don’t engage in close combat, how can we kill it?" Knowing that the Flame Beast’s thick hide was tough, ordinary Particle Cannons wouldn’t scratch it at all – how could they hope to kill it with long-range attacks?
Difficult!
Moreover, the Flame Beast was very fast, almost matching the speed of the mechas. Hoping to hide from a distance and snipe was impossible! Maybe by the time you fired one shot, it would have already caught you.
Wasn’t that what happened to the team that just got wiped out?
Then—
How are we going to fight?