Chapter 159
The Fourth Military Academy Class 6, which was advancing in an orderly and neat formation, stopped abruptly.
Qin Su pointed out the direction. "One kilometer away at seven o'clock."
Upon hearing Qin Su's voice again, everyone in Fourth Military Academy Class 6 turned to look at him.
"What did the Class Monitor want us to see?" Anthony asked his classmate in a low voice, looking at the snow-covered world.
He strained his eyes so much he almost went blind; he couldn't see anything from that far away.
"Is the Thermal Imager off?" the person being asked asked in a low voice. "Looks like you haven't died enough times in the snow map. If you don't turn that thing on, what are you looking at in this place full of Glaciers? They all look the same color. The Class Monitor's training for you has been a waste. You even need the Class Monitor to remind you of this. Take my advice, you're not suited to be a member of the Fourth Military Academy Class of 26 Class 6."
Based on Qin Su's training of changing maps several times, they should automatically adjust to the appropriate mode upon reaching the corresponding location without Qin Su wasting time reminding them.
Anthony: "!"
"It's my fault, it's all my fault. Please don't let this get out, I'm begging you. Didn't you like my equipment? I'll give it to you when we get back." Careless Anthony, faced with the choice between being caught slacking off by Qin Su and sacrificing his own equipment, didn't hesitate to choose the latter.
"What did you just say?" The person being questioned looked blank. "I think I've been hearing loss lately, I can't hear anything, I can't hear anything at all!"
"Love you!"
Whether someone is powerful or powerless, Anthony no longer cares. If someone had told him before Qin Su appeared that he would one day sincerely say such mushy things to someone living in a slum, he would have twisted that person's head off and used it as a football. Now, as long as the other person doesn't 'tell on' Qin Su, he can act cute with them.
"Get out of here! How disgusting!"
Having received the answer he wanted, Anthony smiled with relief and looked in the direction Qin Su had indicated by adjusting the Visual Helmet to the appropriate mode.
What appears in the Visual Helmet is a crisscrossing pattern of different shades of red, which wriggle and churn together, making it difficult to identify the type of insect in this mode.
In extremely cold regions, heat Detector can accurately detect living creatures. To prevent them from being mistaken for insects and killed due to incomplete observation, the Combat Suits worn in such situations can shield the body temperature. Personnel responsible for Purge these creatures can know each other's location by using the markings on their Combat Suits.
Normally, this only applies when everyone is wearing the school's uniform Combat Suit. People like Onion, who wear their own Combat Suit, will not be noticed if they don't scan their Combat Suit into the Combat Suit point. It's quite difficult to find them if they stray too far from the group unless they find their way back.
The authority to publish Location Maps remains with the class Class Monitors.
Normally, during the Purge operation, the Class Monitor would post Location Map showing the locations of each other so that everyone could easily see each other's positions.
Without enough money to move to high-rise buildings, and lacking resources and income, many residents are forced to maintain their ancient way of life. Those living in nearby Ice Hut are also accidentally injured during the twice-yearly Purge because they lack Military Academy Combat Suit, and are forced to move out of the Purge Zone the day before the Purge.
The students around Anthony overheard their whispers. Some watched with amusement, while others looked in the mirror, feeling guilty that their reaction time wasn't any faster than Anthony's. They quickly composed themselves without saying a word.
Qin Su had too many training programs. Even those of them, like Sophia He Muzhi, who were placed on the first tier, had made mistakes. This kind of 'blindness for money' was common in their (Class 6. They tacitly kept this common secret from Qin Su.
[Everyone knows that every student in Fourth Military Academy Class of 26 Class 6 has an unspoken secret: it's okay to make mistakes, but if they find out, they can correct them secretly and not make a scene in front of Qin Su.]
[He's truly a great cook; his words alone have created a more intimate atmosphere.]
[Although each word looks normal, for some reason, when read together, it always feels a bit strange. Is this kind of language really suitable for Qin Su and Class 6)?]
[Like watching a fairy's painting, your eyes instantly become like an eight-times zoom lens; enjoy listening, eating, and talking!]
Qin Su: "..."
Is this the power of text?
Despite enjoying the comfortable body temperature inside his Combat Suit, these texts gave Qin Su goosebumps.
Just as everyone had about thirty seconds for personal observation, Qin Su resisted the urge to mimic the 'subway. Elderly person. Looking at phone. jpg' pose and numbly gave different specific Purge routes to the designated groups. "Five minutes. Take your positions according to the plan."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Su steered the Warship toward the very top of the iceberg.
Onion didn't hear what Qin Su said, but he clearly saw from his Visual Helmet that Qin Su suddenly stopped and raised his hand, and the Fourth Military Academy behind him stopped in unison.
"!"
The chance to escape has come!
Without a second's hesitation, Onion steered the Warship forward at his fastest speed.
The others in First Military Academy Class 6 also saw what happened behind them, and those who were playing with Onion and their 'servants' had to follow.
In the end, only a small number of people remained to observe the movements of the Fourth Military Academy.
'With Qin Su's strength, how could he not have noticed Onion's underhanded tactics? Qin Su even took Onion's Warships, would he let Onion go? They don't believe it. Rather than waiting for Qin Su to settle scores later, they'd better behave themselves.'
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"Yes!"
"Receive!"
Upon hearing Qin Su's voice, the Fourth Military Academy Class 6, regardless of whether Qin Su present or not, instinctively responded after carefully reading the content he had sent.
To make himself stand out, Qin Su faced the camera... that is, he looked up at himself from He Muzhi's position, stood on the top of the iceberg, lowered his eyes, and switched the viewing mode, observing the iceberg in front of him with his naked eyes as if he had a magnifying glass.
Although he had carefully observed the iceberg at noon based on the transmitted video, and even made group assignments based on the number of Qiangbingman that needed to be eradicated on the iceberg.
Now, seeing with his own eyes the Qiangbingman wriggling and intertwined on the cone-shaped iceberg, Qin Su felt a chill run down his spine.
The Qiangbingman is snow-white overall, with a circular body in the center. Around the circle grow segments of varying lengths and sizes, each several times longer than the central circular body, which, upon closer inspection, are about twenty to sixty centimeters long.
Each Qiangbingman's extended limbs are intertwined with those of other Qiangbingman, making it impossible to distinguish which tangled Qiangbingman belong to with the naked eye unless they are manually separated.
They blend seamlessly with the color of the iceberg, yet possess a fleshy quality. As they move toward the heat source, their limbs pulsate and writhe, creating a bizarre and eerie sight.
Qiangbingman move towards heat sources, which is comparable to a locust swarm passing through the area where humans and other normal animals move. They not only dismantle and devour any heat sources that their flexible limbs can reach, but also continuously burrow their limbs into the Glacier as they climb and move.
From Qin Su's perspective, he saw that although the exterior still maintained an icy appearance, the inside had actually been 'eaten' to the point of 'rottenness' by the repeated penetration of countless wriggling limbs.
The hollow iceberg is supported entirely by the limbs of Qiangbingman embedded inside. Once they leave and move on to the next iceberg, the iceberg will collapse rapidly.
Even for the safety of local residents, the cleanup must be carried out. The bombing during the Purge will be used to push down the icebergs that have been eaten away and are now hollowed out in various ways, posing a danger to the local residents.
As Qin Su observed, he noticed out of the corner of his eye that during the time it took for him to stop and then reach the summit of the iceberg, some members of the First Military Academy continued to run forward as if fleeing, while others lingered in the middle, glancing occasionally at Onion and the others who had left ahead, and then at the small group left behind who were looking at them with various expressions as they approached the Fourth Military Academy.
Having confirmed that someone from the First Military Academy was no more than 500 meters away from his classmates, Qin Su made no attempt to stop Onion and the others from leaving.
The school's rule is that the distance between two classes should be within 500 meters, but it does not require them to move together, nor does it require that all students of the First Military Academy be within 500 meters of them.
They could encounter Qiangbingman in large numbers that had hollowed out an entire iceberg on the outskirts, let alone the area that Onion and his group were rushing towards regardless of everything.
What does it have to do with him that a group of people he categorized as 'high-risk' are rushing to their deaths?
After the students finished checking, they were heading in his direction. Qin Su silently opened the Location Map the Fourth Military Academy Class 6, so that everyone could clearly see each other's movements.
(Class 6 finished checking, they rushed to their destination while secretly taking pictures of Qin Su standing on the top of the ice mountain looking down from a high place.
Everyone took their positions. It wasn't time for Qin Su to give them yet. The Class 6 members looked down at the situation under the iceberg. In the Full-Band Communication, some people spoke in hushed tones, while others, bursting with curiosity, secretly took off their helmets to feel the temperature here.
"Although Qiangbingman are a rare delicacy, people still come to this godforsaken place to hunt them. Aren't they afraid of dying before even getting a taste? After all, they've pierced the entire iceberg with holes; someone with poor eyesight might bury themselves in the process."
"Many families are so poor that they live in ice caves and are barely surviving. What's a little hunting in an iceberg? Do you think everyone has the freedom to control their own temperature like you, generating heat through movement without consuming expensive energy for body heating? If you manage to hunt one and sell it, you can earn enough to buy more energy. Even if you don't sell it, you can still eat it to sustain your life."
"Is the amount of heat generated by exercise enough? Why don't you take off your Combat Suit and try it out?"
"Ouch, I bet you guys don't try this! I was wrong! I used to think I hated the heat, but now I'd rather be hot than cold. My neck almost froze off just now. Luckily, I was quick enough to take off my helmet in less than a second to let the temperature circulate. Even so, my neck is still chilly, like it's frostbitten."
"Alright, alright, stop arguing. Have you noticed there are fewer people at the First Military Academy?"
"No specific location, uncertain."
"There are probably less than a hundred people there, what's the point of looking at any spots?"
At the same time, Onion led most of the students in First Military Academy Class 6 to successfully get out of Qin Su's sight.
"Call..."
The moment he stopped, Onion let out a deep breath. Seeing the message his father had sent not long ago, his heart finally settled, and he had time to say to the people following him, "Who's missing? Take a count."
He is the Class Monitor of Class 6. Everyone who betrays him must pay the corresponding price. Otherwise, if someone transfers to Class 6 to make up the numbers, they will become arrogant and take advantage of him.
Qi Yishuo didn't follow.
"Fang Jinhuai too..."
The students of First Military Academy Class 6 were busy following Onion and his group to find the 'traitor', and no one cared about the situation around them.
[No offense to you guys, but why don't you take a look down?]
[You should really be more careful, you idiot!]
[They're already popping champagne and trying to wipe out the 'traitor' halfway through before it's even over? Hilarious!]
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Time's up. Once everyone is in position, Qin Su's voice, transmitted via Full-Band Communication, reaches the ears of every member of the Fourth Military Academy Class 6: "Groups 1 to 13, inject P-wsa Model Ammunition into the main body of A, B, and C specification Qiangbingman."
"Groups 14 to 28 are responsible for..."
Qiangbingman too many long and varied limbs to determine their exact size. Instead, they are classified into Five Grades: A, B, C, D, and E, C, D, E) based on the size of their central body, from largest to smallest. The first three levels are for Purge dung beetles, while the last two levels are for hunting by local residents.
Upon hearing Qin Su's words, the group members who were mentioned by Qin Su looked at their own Warships and belatedly realized that they were all carrying target weapons.
After responding with "Yes," the team members began to carry out their respective actions according to Qin Su's different orders.
Qiangbingman are the same color as ice and snow, making them difficult to distinguish under normal circumstances. When shooting them, it is necessary to switch to thermal imaging mode.
Because of the Qiangbingman' intertwined nature, in Thermal Imager mode, only countless tangled red modules can be seen. Qiangbingman require weapons with specific lethality to kill them. After firing 1 to 13 sets of special ammunition, the hit area will be stained with a pure black color, forming a mark.
The members of groups 1 to 13 are the students with the highest shooting accuracy among all students in Class 6), and their eyesight is far superior to that of other students.
Once they fired the designated shells into the bodies of the Qiangbingman within Purge designated area, the members of groups 14 and beyond didn't need to bother distinguishing which types were safe to kill and which weren't. They simply needed to indiscriminately shoot at the black-marked areas.
This method increases the difficulty for groups 1 to 13 who need to identify the specifications, while the efficiency of other groups who mindlessly kill enemies doubles, and all the kill points go to them. Anyone can tell that this is unfair.
(Class 6, regardless of which group they were in, knew that this arrangement was not friendly to some people, but they said nothing and firmly believed that no matter what Qin Su did, he would never treat them unfairly.
The sounds of different weapons firing continued, and as one by one the large Qiangbingman were killed, the beautiful, slightly blue color of the hollowed-out interior of the iceberg was revealed.
The group left behind by the First Military Academy dared not get too close, maintaining a certain distance as they watched. After observing for a while, they thought about it and, without Onion's presence, they took matters into their own hands.
Shoot the Qiangbingman that escaped from the Fourth Military Academy Class 6.
Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and the hollowed-out iceberg collapsed as the Qiangbingman continued to die.
Meanwhile, the smaller Qiangbingman, still entangled, struggled violently, pulling at their limbs as they scattered and fled.
They were in the air, and unlike the local inhabitants, they had no Warships or weapons, so they were not in danger when facing the Qiangbingman.
Seeing the Qiangbingman scattering in all directions, and having mostly cleared out the larger ones, Qin Su spoke up at the opportune moment, "Ten-minute break."
Ten minutes later, they had to rush to the next Purge site; the Qiangbingman were just an appetizer.
The remaining members of the First Military Academy, not far away, saw Qin Su and his group stop moving. They looked at the collapsed iceberg, then at the Qiangbingman constantly darting past beneath them, and hesitated, unsure of what to do.
"Are they going to stop too?"
"We don't know. We're used to absolute obedience to Onion. Now that he's not here, how are we supposed to know what to do?"
"I'm starting to regret it. I should have gone with Onion. Judging from Qin Su's expression, he has absolutely no intention of chasing after us..."
"Shh, shut up, they're coming at us!"
Seeing the Fourth Military Academy students approaching them, and especially noticing their furrowed brows, the students from the First Military Academy shut up and huddled together.
"No, why do they specifically target non-venomous insects? Aren't those the kind of insects that the local residents prey on to sustain their livelihoods?"
The students from the Fourth Military Academy, who had just finished their training, belatedly realized what was happening and, with incredulous expressions, looked at the small Qiangbingman on the snow as they moved toward them.
"What's so strange about that? As long as they're listed in the Zerg 'family tree,' it counts as kills. Isn't bullying the weak and fearing the strong always their forte? Although... before Qin Su came, they were always the dominant party."
"Ugh... I can't stand it, I absolutely can't stand it! The Class Monitor specifically told us to only kill the large-scale killers, so while we're over there struggling to leave enough food for the locals, they're here killing all they want?"
"Since I'm just killing time anyway, I might as well go over and chat with them."
"Let's go, let's go."
After deliberately discussing the matter in full-screen communication, (6) people secretly glanced at Qin Su and found that Qin Su was looking in the direction Onion had left with his back to them and did not intend to stop them. Only then did they control the Warship to move towards the few people from the First Military Academy.
Fearing that the people from the First Military Academy might not admit it, they even picked up the small Qiangbingman that had been shot dead on the ground as evidence, striving to be reasonable and well-founded.
Those who come later will see those who come in front make suggestions, and then they will make suggestions themselves.
As the Fourth Military Academy Class 6) passed by the students of the First Military Academy, each of them had a small Qiangbingman that they had let go.
[They're so obedient even though there's no need to reason with them, it's really... I'm dying of laughter]
Perhaps it was this unintentional charm that made Qin Su so irresistible to them.
[? Is this how you use "Can't Stop"? I suggest you retake the Chinese course]
[Does the Boss 1 know what happened over there with Onion and his group, which is why he's keeping an eye on things over there?]
[That's it, no wonder they didn't stop them at first, it turns out Brother Su was just watching them court death.]
Qin Su: "..."
He didn't know, but he could guess.
"These..." Jeffrey tossed the half-human-sized insect carcass he was carrying in front of the First Military Academy students, "Interesting?"
The others followed suit, and within seconds, the First Military Academy people were in front of them.
A group of people from the Fourth Military Academy, their faces grim, threw a pile of bloodied Qiangbingman corpses at them.
The students from the First Military Academy all retreated in unison. "..."
"What... what does this mean?"
"What else could it mean? It's obviously Qin Su's idea. He thinks we're not dying fast enough killing small insects, so he wants to use the insect blade to kill us."
"Yeah?"
"Be confident, absolutely."
[People with heart conditions see everything as dirty]
[Scaring myself~]
The students of Fourth Military Academy Class 6 were surprised to see the students of the First Military Academy, who were rumored to be arrogant and domineering, suddenly retreat because of them.
They've gotten better off, even climbing above people at the First Military Academy. When this got out, people doubted the extent to which they were spreading rumors.
"Why aren't you saying anything?" Raymond asked, puzzled.
A student from the First Military Academy was shoved forward, stammering, "I... we..."
Before he could finish speaking, a tremendous earthquake shook the ground, causing countless cracks to appear. Everyone looked over in astonishment and uncertainty.
Upon hearing the commotion, Qin Su immediately steered his Warship toward the source of the noise.
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The moment the Pheromones were released from the Glands, the students of Class 6, who were running to block Onion's path, froze, and the next second they knelt on the ground, their faces pale.
Some people stared at Onion with bloodshot eyes in disbelief, while others opened their mouths to beg Onion to stop. Onion ran along the road that had widened under the suppression of his Pheromones.
Looking at the hand reaching out to her, she pleaded with her tear-reddened eyes to ignore it.
His mind kept replaying everything related to Qin Su, his only thought was to escape this dangerous situation as quickly as possible and hold out until rescue arrived. What did the lives of others have to do with him? If anyone was to blame, it was their own inferior Pheromones.
Boom--
Suddenly, the road in front of Onion collapsed, and his body plummeted downwards.
Just before he fell, Onion grabbed an ice spike to catch himself. Looking down in terror, Onion instinctively suppressed his Pheromones. Before his horrified gaze had even left his body, he commanded those he had just passed, "Hurry up..."
Before he could finish speaking, Onion looked up and saw the person standing above him.
"Qin Su?!" Onion felt a chill run down his spine as he looked at the figure that suddenly appeared before him.
If it were anyone else, even if Onion had just refused to help them, the group from First Military Academy Class 6 would have already used all means to threaten and coerce him into helping Onion.
But the person standing in front of Onion was Qin Su who had no weaknesses, no handles, and no interests to tempt him.
Even knowing that Onion absolutely could not die if they wanted to have a good life, no one dared to utter a sound.
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Happy National Day! (National Day is a happy day, so tomorrow I want to... [shy])