In an instant, Li Jiayu's heart leaped into his throat. He suddenly understood why everything had deviated from his predictions.
It turned out to be because he had killed the Scythe Beetle King!
It must have been the mournful cry of the Scythe Beetle King before its death that caused the Venomous Spiders to arrive early, and even attracted three Scythe Beetles seeking revenge!
Damn it... The Scythe Beetle King truly was troublesome, leaving behind so many problems even after death!
"Buzz buzz"
A whistling gust of wind suddenly swept past. The three Scythe Beetles had already charged over rapidly from outside the window. Their speed was terrifyingly fast. The remaining three boys felt their souls leave their bodies, desperately trying to dodge, but their efforts were still futile. Only a cruel storm of blood awaited them!
With a sickening squelch, a massive bloody gash opened across one boy's waist. Nearly half his abdomen was torn open by a Scythe Beetle rushing past. Colorful intestines, kidneys, bladder fragments, and other internal organs instantly splattered all over the floor!
This boy's eyes bulged wide open, blood pouring from his mouth like a faucet. He looked down in disbelief at his mangled body, then knelt down and stopped breathing!
The second boy's fate was also extremely tragic. He was slightly luckier when dodging, only having an arm bitten off by a Scythe Beetle!
Compared to the boy who was nearly cut in half, he was already quite fortunate. But before he could even clutch his severed arm and wail, a Venomous Spider pounced on him, landing on his face. Its hairy barbs riddled his face with countless holes. The next moment, the Venomous Spider's blood-red maw covered his nose, actually biting his nose clean off, leaving a bloody hole through which his skull could be seen!
As for the third boy, the one holding the fire axe, Lin Zhibin, he was clever enough. He immediately did a donkey roll, managing to escape the Scythe Beetle's mandibles, only suffering a gash nearly half a meter long on his back. But he should be content; at least he was still alive.
The first wave of attack from the three Scythe Beetles was breathtakingly fast, leaving two dead and one injured among the boys in just two or three seconds. Now, besides the Dark Octopus, there were no other usable forces in the classroom – could the Dark Octopus hold off three Scythe Beetles and two Venomous Spiders?
Clearly impossible!
True to its self-proclaimed title of "gallant protector," if it were an ordinary person facing five ferocious insects, they would have long since fled in terror. But the Dark Octopus did not retreat, because it had sworn to protect all beautiful females!
In its eyes, the most beautiful females were human goddesses!
And those four female classmates had also given it fun, nice-smelling stockings and underwear, whose strong feminine scent intoxicated it. As the saying goes, repay a drop of kindness with a gushing spring; the Dark Octopus also possessed a spirit of chivalry!
"You... have guts... come... at me... don't... hurt... pretty... females!"
The Dark Octopus, shielding the four girls behind it, mustered its courage, its eyes bloodshot. It simultaneously used ten tentacles to pick up ten desks, swinging and smashing them around with great momentum, actually managing to intimidate the three Scythe Beetles and two Venomous Spiders for a moment!
However, the situation worsened again!
Three more Venomous Spiders crawled in through the window!
Thus, there were now five Venomous Spiders and three Scythe Beetles in the classroom. The enemy's combat power increased greatly, instantly inflicting numerous injuries on the Dark Octopus. Many of its suction cups were severed, and it was poisoned all over. Just then, a Venomous Spider seized the opportunity, slipped past the Dark Octopus's defense perimeter, and headed straight for one of the girls!
That girl was the one who had taken off her underwear, wanting to seduce Li Jiayu. Her name was Hua Xiaolu, a very pretty beauty. She was usually bold in her ways and flirted with many boys. She was also the class's entertainment committee member, sang beautifully, and was quite popular.
During freshman year, she was utterly smitten by the fair-skinned, weak-natured Li Jiayu, saying he was her favorite type and she wanted to conquer him. She launched a month-long offensive against Li Jiayu, even telling him, "Although I'm not a virgin, if you accept me, I'm willing to give you my 'backdoor flower's' first time." However, Li Jiayu had no interest in romance and firmly rejected her. Still, the two maintained a friendly relationship, and Hua Xiaolu persistently invited Li Jiayu to be her sex partner.
However, she probably wouldn't get another chance to conquer Li Jiayu, because her life was nearing its end. The barbs on the Venomous Spider's front legs pierced into her calf!
The spider's barbs also contained extremely potent toxins. Even if not as concentrated as the venom in its mouth, it was still enough to cause death within thirty seconds!
Hua Xiaolu was almost certainly doomed!
"Awoooo—"
The Dark Octopus completely erupted!
It watched helplessly as the "pretty female" it guarded was harmed by the monster! How could it bear this!
The Dark Octopus, as if it had eaten dynamite, turned red all over. It no longer cared about being poisoned or not. One tentacle fiercely wrapped around that Venomous Spider, and with a violent exertion of force, actually crushed the spider that bit Hua Xiaolu into mincemeat!
Like popping a balloon, crushed into twisted fragments!
However, the potent toxins from the Venomous Spider's entire body also surged into that tentacle of the Dark Octopus. It seemed this tentacle was now useless too.
Stimulated by Hua Xiaolu being poisoned and injured, the Dark Octopus exploded with 200% combat power, its tentacles whipping around fiercely. But it was ultimately no match for the enemy's superior numbers. After stalling for only two seconds, another Venomous Spider seized an opportunity, nimbly darting across the floor, bypassing the Dark Octopus, and leaped up, aiming for the neck of the second girl!
"It's over!"
Han Xiaoqi's pupils constricted, her face losing all color. Watching the Venomous Spider lunging towards her, she was terrified to the extreme. The only thing she could do was shut her eyes tightly and wait for death!
"Splat—"
Han Xiaoqi didn't feel death arrive. Instead, she heard a dull thud next to her ear, like a watermelon being smashed open. Then, an extremely intimidating chill suddenly enveloped her, freezing even the tips of her ears numb!
(I... I'm not dead? How could...)
Han Xiaoqi secretly peeked open her eyes, only to see a five-foot-long silver sword gleaming brilliantly amidst a magnificent icy blue mist. In her eyes, it was a soul-shaking combination of splendor and beauty, like a meteor streaking across the dazzling night sky.
Such a beautiful longsword!
"Sorry to keep you waiting!"
A low voice, sounding soft and gentle, a uniquely magnetic tone, very pleasant to hear. However, Han Xiaoqi clearly detected an irrepressible, overwhelming, fierce anger within it!
She whipped her head around, only to see that behind her, an unfamiliar man holding a longsword had appeared at some point!
Amidst the swirling ice mist, a head of brilliant snow-white hair, soft as silk, flowed down from the dark fog. A face as picturesque as a painting, a pair of ice-blue eyes shimmering with light, seemingly cold, yet actually blazing like fire!
Han Xiaoqi's heart trembled at the sight, and she quickly averted her gaze, afraid her mind would become completely immersed in those ice-blue eyes, losing herself.
But the moment she looked away, Han Xiaoqi's delicate body jolted!
What was on the ground?
Heavens, it was clearly a Venomous Spider covered in a layer of frost!
From head to tail, sliced clean in two!
The Venomous Spider, dead! Died tragically, dismembered!
Wait, this... is this real?
She simply couldn't believe that the Venomous Spider which was clearly about to bite her to death was suddenly split into two halves. That was a Venomous Spider, not a fruit!
Just... just what kind of power could instantly slice a Venomous Spider with its hard carapace in two?
Although the Venomous Spider's carapace was far inferior to the Scythe Beetle's, it wasn't weak either. When those boys smashed it with desks with all their might, they didn't leave a single mark, showing it was at least as hard as granite...
Also, according to scientific theory, instantly freezing something solid requires temperatures of at least minus two hundred degrees Celsius, right? What caused the insect's corpse to freeze instantly?
The strangest thing was... where did Li Jiayu go? Who was the man behind her? Could it be Li Jiayu? He was wearing Li Jiayu's clothes, yes, but his hair, eyebrows, and eye color had all changed, and his face was almost unrecognizable...
"Li, Li Jiayu? Are you..."
Countless questions flashed through Han Xiaoqi's mind like lightning. But at that moment, the snow-haired figure had already flickered, like a stream of light, charging directly forward and colliding with a Scythe Beetle!
"Bang!"
Ice shards scattered, cold mist swirled.
The power of ice flowed like water. An invisible force of frost erupted from Hyorinmaru, forcibly slicing the Scythe Beetle, which was the size of a wild boar, in half down the middle! Blood, organs, viscera – all splattered out, but before hitting the ground, these things completely froze solid!
The Scythe Beetle, just like that, dismembered into two pieces, as easily as chopping vegetables!
Han Xiaoqi, along with Sun Weiwei and Zhou Jiamin, the three girls, watched dumbfounded!
Lin Zhibin, half-dead not far away, stared wide-eyed, as if seeing the most incredible thing imaginable, his eyes filled with horror:
"Holy crap, that's too awesome!"
This... was this still the vicious, arrogant Scythe Beetle?
The Scythe Beetle that had pushed them all to suffer heavy casualties, nearing collapse... how could it suddenly be as fragile as paper?
Simply... simply like killing a chicken! No, not killing a chicken, but as easy as crushing an insect!
That's right, the Scythe Beetle was just killed as easily as a small Earth bug!
If memory served correctly, when Li Jiayu fought the Scythe Beetle earlier with the fire axe, he had exerted immense effort, hacking dozens of times just to barely kill it. But now, with just a light wave of the hand, the Scythe Beetle became a ghost under the blade?!
After killing this Scythe Beetle, the figure flicked his sword, locking onto another Scythe Beetle that was currently tearing at the Dark Octopus's head. Before it could react in any way, he had already charged forward like lightning. Hyorinmaru's blade, cold as hell, suddenly slashed down, landing heavily on the Scythe Beetle's body. The fierce force chopped off its pride-and-joy mandibles!
"!!!"
This Scythe Beetle, having its mandibles severed, seemed extremely terrified. It wanted to screech to vent the pain of its broken mouthparts, but found it couldn't make a sound, because it discovered the cold energy from the wound had already traveled through its blood vessels, destroying its vocal organs!
"Swish!"
Another slash. This Scythe Beetle was also dismembered, into left and right halves. Adding the severed mandibles, that made three pieces of insect.
All of this happened within just five short seconds!
Two Scythe Beetles, one Venomous Spider, without exception.
Dead! Died tragically, dismembered!
After finishing this, the figure didn't pause at all. Pushing off with his foot, he once again rushed towards the location of a nearby Venomous Spider...
Amidst blooming ice mist, the small classroom was swept by wave after wave of bloody carnage.
The figure moved like a dragon, his sword flashing like lightning. Another Venomous Spider fell under his blade as easily as smashing rotten wood!
No hesitation, nor any need for hesitation!
Beautiful snow-light flowed from every sword strike, each strike aimed at the fatal weaknesses of these insects. Blood froze in mid-air. The heart-wrenching screams of the insects only served to further ignite the battle lust in someone's heart!
"Swish!"
One slash, and an insect's wail would inevitably be cut short.
"Swish!"
One slash, and an insect would inevitably be dismembered, then frozen into a fresh specimen.
"Swish!"
One slash, only to find just one Venomous Spider left, trembling!
The Venomous Spider's human-like eyes were filled with horror and fear. It frantically twitched its spider legs, trying to slip away through the window, but how could it possibly escape?
This Venomous Spider had its abdomen pierced by Hyorinmaru. Its body rapidly froze, eventually stiffening and dying, sealed within hard ice.
"If I let you escape, wouldn't I lose face?"
Someone's translucent ice-blue eyes emitted a cold light, his words carrying heavy pressure amidst a calm tone:
"That was truly a terrifying minute... Heh heh, even I thought I was definitely going to die. But next... shouldn't I at least collect some debt for certain deceased classmates?!"