I Am Not The Machine King - Chapter 33
Chapter 33: Hundred-flower Snake!
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
This heart-wrenching scream made the already nervous people’s hair stand on end!
“Oh my God…”
“Don’t scare me!”
Wu Di wanted to cry but had no tears. He followed closely behind Lin Yuan.
Jiang Yining and Jiang Lu, two girls with the same surname, were also leaning against each other tightly.
Han Yu suggested with a trembling voice, “Could there be a ferocious beast? Do you want us to wait for daybreak before we set off?”
Lin Yuan took a torch from Han Yu’s hand and said, “It’s meaningless. The route in Hundred Flowers Forest is very long in distance. We won’t be able to leave without three days.”
“We need to reach the Ten Thousand Beasts Canyon in at least seven days.”
“All of you must be prepared to spend the night in the forest and swamps.”
Ever since the moment they applied for the military academy, these freshmen had voluntarily given up on their superior cultivation and living environment.
This was a process that they had to go through.
Lin Yuan looked at the four people who were still nervous and turned his head to analyze seriously.
“Remember, there won’t be any ferocious beasts that are beyond our capabilities in this forest.”
“If we can’t pass, then the other teams won’t be able to pass it.”
Hearing Lin Yuan’s analysis, Han Yu and Wu Di both nodded, feeling much less nervous.
“Hiss…”
“That makes sense.”
“Now that you say it, it seems to make sense.”
Just as Han Yu and Wu Di were gradually establishing a psychological defense line, Jiang Yining suddenly raised her hand and said, “Shh…”
“Listen, what’s that sound…”
At this moment, the five of them completely fell silent.
Hiss…
Hiss…
Waves of creepy sounds surrounded the top of the group. Lin Yuan took a deep breath, and his heart began to beat faster. He gradually lifted the bright torches into the air.
Colorful vipers coiled around the trunks of the ancient trees.
Many of the vipers were sticking out their tongues and showing their fangs. Their eyes were glowing with a green light as they stared at the five people below.
“Ah!”
“Ah!”
A few screams sounded almost at the same time. Jiang Lu burst into tears as she fell to the ground and kept moving backward.
Wu Di, Jiang Yining, and Han Yu’s tensed strings seemed to have snapped.
Their faces were pale, and half of their bodies had gone limp.
Even Lin Yuan had goosebumps all over his body.
“Sob, sob, sob…”
Jiang Lu hugged her knees and cried, not daring to look at the countless venomous snakes around her!
“Lin…”
“Lin Yuan…”
Wu Di’s hand was already on his grade three spiritual weapon, Sparrow Moon Longsword, ready to draw out a bloody battle at any time.
Lin Yuan took two deep breaths and suppressed the fear in his heart. He reached out his hand to stop Wu Di who was about to make a move.
“Don’t touch them.”
“Hundred-flower snake.”
“Extremely poisonous.”
Upon hearing the name hundred-flower snake, Jiang Yining steadied her heartbeat and looked carefully at the hundred-flower snake in the air.
“It really is the hundred-flower snake…”
Jiang Yining looked at Lin Yuan in surprise. This kind of knowledge was covered in high school liberal arts.
The hundred-flower snake was a level two fierce beast. Its strength was about the ten meridians level of a human. However, one had to know that this was the strength of a hundred-flower snake.
The hundred-flower snake lived in groups and was highly poisonous. As long as it bit a martial artist, a level two martial artist would definitely die within two hours.
Even if it was a level three martial artist, facing so many hundred-flower snakes, it was difficult to guarantee that the hundred-flower snake would not bite him.
“Hundred-flower snakes?”
Seeing that Jiang Yining had calmed down, Wu Di didn’t dare to continue embarrassing himself.
The hundred-flower snakes were fierce beasts that would not take the initiative to attack. They would only counterattack when they were attacked.
In other words, as long as they didn’t take the initiative to provoke them, they wouldn’t pose any threat to the group.
“No wonder it’s called Hundred Flowers Forest.”
Lin Yuan thought to himself.
Then, he raised the torch to see if there were any fangs in the mouths of the hundred-flower snakes.
“What are you looking at?”
Seeing that there was no danger, Han Yu gradually calmed down and asked Lin Yuan.
“I’m looking for fangs. There will definitely be a team that will provoke them in a panic.”
“If they are besieged, their lives will definitely be in danger.”
Jiang Yining helped Jiang Lu up. She also understood what Lin Yuan meant.
The military academy would definitely not be so cruel. They would not kill them before they even entered the academy.
“You mean…”
“Is this the military academy’s bluff?”
Lin Yuan nodded. “It’s possible.”
“But we don’t have to try. We just have to move forward.”
“Wu Di, you go to the rear. Be careful.”
Wu Di’s heart sank. He gulped and pointed at himself.
“Ah… Me?”
Lin Yuan gestured for him to go first. “Why don’t you take the lead?”
“I can go to the rear, too. You choose.”
Wu Di quickly waved his hand. “Forget it, forget it. I’ll go to the rear.”
Among them, Han Yu was the youngest, less than seventeen years old. From his reaction just now, he was not mature enough to face danger.
Although Wu Di was panicking, his first reaction was to draw his sword and fight.
There were two girls, and the physical stress of this assessment was the greatest.
In a high-stress situation, a person’s physical strength would decline at an accelerated rate. Wu Di was most suitable for the task of covering the rear.
“Let’s go.”
“I’m afraid there will be more terrible things than this in the future. Be mentally prepared.”
Lin Yuan lit up his torch and turned around to move forward. His sturdy back made the remaining four feel a little more at ease.
Screams in the Hundred Flowers Forest were incessant on that night. There was even a battle!
However, the team advanced steadily under Lin Yuan’s lead.
As the sun rose, the countless hundred-flower snakes in the Hundred Flowers Forest gradually appeared around them, constantly flicking their tongues.
It was as if they were walking in a natural snake cave.
The more they advanced towards the center of the Hundred Flowers Forest, the more hundred-flower snakes there were.
The hissing sound of their tongues also became louder, filling all the freshmen’s eardrums.
After advancing for twenty hours, the team finally stopped to rest when they were near the center of the forest.
As they confirmed that there weren’t too many other dangers in the forest, they started a fire.
“How are we supposed to sleep at night?”
Han Yu listened to the terrifying hissing sounds around him.
He felt as if a snake was crawling on his face the moment he closed his eyes.
Jiang Lu circulated her spirit energy and cast a recovery spell on Lin Yuan.
In an instant, warm and gentle energy flowed through Lin Yuan’s body, and the fatigue he felt after traveling for twenty hours lessened significantly.
Lin Yuan looked at Han Yu and Wu Di and said, “The three of us will take turns keeping watch.”
“Everyone needs to rest well. This is only the first day.”
“Trust each other. Otherwise, no one will be able to sleep well.”
Han Yu and Wu Di nodded. “No problem.”
Under such circumstances, if they could trust their teammates…
Then they would be able to react immediately even if there was danger at night.
However, they had been afraid of the hundred-flower snakes all night, afraid of unknown dangers.
Then it was impossible for them to enter a state of rest.
…
In the military base, all the instructors were paying attention and recording the situation of each group.
Zheng Yin crossed her hands and looked at the group in the middle of the screen in front of her.
Some temperaments could be cultivated, and some could not.
On her record sheet, she wrote a comment for Lin Yuan: “Leadership temperament, quick thinking”.
This was the potential of a future team leader.
To be able to unite several people in a short period was an ability.
The core of Hundred Flowers Forest was “how to overcome psychology”.
The core of Flowing Cloud Swamp was “how to overcome the environment”.
These were all things that a warrior must overcome!
