The night wind was very cold.
After resting for a while, the two decided to keep moving.
Staying in place made it easy for other Star Beasts attracted by the explosion to sneak up on them.
As they walked, Tang Li sized up Jiang Wangzhi.
"Hey, Big Miss."
"What?" Jiang Wangzhi asked weakly.
"The way you calculated the spider's weakness earlier, along with your reactions on the spot, you don't look like a rookie who has never been on a battlefield at all."
Tang Li narrowed her eyes, full of suspicion.
"Are you really a second-generation rich kid who's been freeloading and waiting to die at home all this time?"
Jiang Wangzhi's heart skipped a beat.
But her face didn't show it at all.
"What else?"
She sighed righteously.
"My family makes mechs, you know."
"The mecha actual combat test videos I've watched since I was a child are more than the meals you've eaten."
"Even if I haven't eaten Star Beast meat, haven't I seen a Star Beast run?"
Tang Li thought about it.
This reason was surprisingly well-founded.
The educational resources of a wealthy family were indeed incomparable to what people on a poverty-stricken star like theirs could access.
"Fair enough." Tang Li hoisted the heavy blade onto her shoulder. "Your brain works well enough, but this body of yours is no different from useless firewood."
"..."
Jiang Wangzhi endured it.
To avoid increasing her points, if she had to be useless deadwood, then useless deadwood it was.
Dawn was breaking.
The morning on the Desolate Star exuded a damp chill.
The two shuttled through the woods, trying their best to avoid open areas.
Suddenly.
A violent crashing sound came from ahead.
"Bang!"
"Bang bang!"
It sounded like two giant boulders colliding.
Accompanying it was an exceptionally excited shouting voice.
"Don't run!"
"Hit me again! That hit just now wasn't satisfying enough!"
Jiang Wangzhi and Tang Li exchanged glances.
The two carefully parted the bushes in front of them and poked their heads out to look.
In the clearing ahead.
A yellowish wild boar, standing half a person tall, was running wildly.
Rock-armored Pig.
Soldier-rank Star Beast.
Its whole body was covered with a thick rock-like stratum corneum, and its defense was astonishing.
Its temperament was usually considered mild, but once provoked, it would turn into a rampaging bulldozer.
This bulldozer was being chased and made to run by a person.
The one chasing it was a boy with a buzz cut.
He was wearing the uniform tactical gear of a military academy, but his sleeves were rolled up to his shoulders.
He held neither a knife nor a gun in his hands.
He only raised a black half-body metal shield.
Not only did he run faster than the Rock-armored Pig, but as he ran, he even used the shield to ram the pig's butt.
"Clang!"
The Rock-armored Pig was knocked into a stagger.
It turned back and let out an angry howl.
It turned around, lowered its head, bared its sharp tusks, and charged fiercely toward the boy!
The boy didn't dodge or evade.
Instead, he laughed out loud.
"Well-timed!"
His legs bent slightly as he braced the shield firmly, meeting the Rock-armored Pig's charge head-on.
"Boom!"
The wave of air kicked up a ring of dust.
The boy's feet slid backward half a meter in the muddy ground.
Then, they stopped.
Relying purely on physical strength, he had actually blocked a Rock-armored Pig charging at full speed!
Not only did he block it.
He also patted the shield excitedly.
"Good strength!"
"Again, again! I feel like I've just warmed up!"
The Rock-armored Pig shook its dazed head, its mung-bean-sized eyes filled with terror.
It wasn't going to charge anymore.
It turned around and ran.
The boy lifted his shield and continued chasing while shouting.
"Don't go! I haven't had enough fun yet!"
In the bushes.
Tang Li watched in dumbfounded shock.
"This buddy... his physical fitness must be at least A-rank or above, right?"
Even though she could also forcefully resist Spike-armored Spiders, she had borrowed the force of the heavy blade, and she was even shaken to the point of vomiting blood.
This person used just a shield to take it head-on without even gasping for breath.
Jiang Wangzhi, however, was expressionless.
She quietly loosened her grip on the bushes she was parting.
She turned around and walked away.
Tang Li was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly followed.
"Where are we going?"
"Leaving this place."
"Why?" Tang Li asked, puzzled, "That guy looks very strong, and he can take damage. If we can recruit him to our team..." Get faster updates on novelping.com.
"Recruit my ass."
Jiang Wangzhi didn't stop her steps, walking very fast.
"My intuition tells me that guy's brain is definitely sick."
What normal person goes head-to-head with a pig?
And chases the pig to ram it?
Once mixed up with this kind of person, it would definitely be a huge trouble.
It would definitely stir up even more monsters.
Right now, she just wanted to quietly be a zero-point good-for-nothing.
The further away from this kind of psycho, the better.
However.
Reality often goes against one's wishes.
Just as Jiang Wangzhi had walked only a few steps away.
An earth-shaking tremor suddenly came from the woods behind them.
"Rumble—"
Even the soil under their feet was shaking.
Jiang Wangzhi abruptly stopped in her tracks.
Looking back.
The Rock-armored Pig that had been driven to a dead end earlier let out an unusually shrill scream.
Immediately after.
A dozen adult Rock-armored Pigs, larger in size and with thicker rock armor, rushed out roaring from the nearby woods.
They had heard their companion's cry for help.
Instantly entering a berserk state.
With red eyes, they stared closely at the buzz-cut boy holding the shield.
The boy finally stopped laughing.
He looked at the dozen Rock-armored Pigs in front of him that resembled heavy trucks.
He swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
"Uh... misunderstanding."
He silently pulled his shield back a bit.
Turning around.
He happened to lock eyes with Jiang Wangzhi and Tang Li, who had just poked their heads out from the bushes not far away.
The boy's eyes lit up.
As if seeing his own kin, he brandished his shield and sprinted wildly toward their direction.
Running and shouting at the top of his lungs:
"Fellow students!"
"Help—!!"
Jiang Wangzhi looked at the herd of pigs kicking up dust all over the sky behind him.
Took a deep breath.
"Tang Li."
"Hmm?"
"Is it still too late for me to apply to quit the team right now?"