Asui grew up in the Guwu Village. When he was six years old, he first practiced horse stance for three years to train his chassis, and then carried buckets for three years to train his leg strength. Later, he started to learn martial arts, which were all unavoidable basic skills.
Ah Sui was originally thinking about whether to teach those female insects to do horse stance. If he taught them, it would be too time-consuming, and if he didn't teach them, they wouldn't be able to get started. But when he tried out Quick's skills, he unexpectedly found that their stance was very solid, and they could stand firmly when he kicked them, so he could completely skip the basic stage.
Perfect, worthy of being the team member he handpicked! He was physically strong and had good bones, he was simply a natural martial arts genius!
Asui counted their number and found that there were thirty-nine of them, plus himself, which made forty. He stood at the front of the team with his hands behind his back, his temperament was cold and expressionless, which was quite intimidating: "My name is Asui, and I will be your leader from now on. I will take you to the mountains to hunt later. You can divide up the prey you catch. If you don't catch any prey, you will have to starve."
He pointed to Quick beside him and said, "He is the captain. You will listen to him when I am not around."
Quick was a natural lackey. Hearing that, he immediately stood up straight and raised his hand in a not-so-standard salute: "Yes! Big Chief!"
The rest of the insects had no objections, nor did they dare to have any.
The dense forest was too dangerous, and Asui was worried that he could not lead so many people at once, so he went to the next starship to capture Xu Cenfeng to help. In this way, a motley team took shape.
"Into the mountains!"
Following Asui's order, the team immediately followed him into the mountains. Brand didn't seem to be interested in hunting, but I don't know why he insisted on following. Xu Cenfeng was simply captured to do hard labor. He was wrapped up tightly, wearing a hat and a scarf, and at first glance, it was hard to tell whether he was a man or a woman.
Asui was the only one who worked seriously, keenly searching for traces of prey in the snow-covered forest. Brand was worried that the female soldiers would attack Asui, so he followed him all the time. Whenever Quick wanted to talk to Asui, Brand separated him intentionally or unintentionally.
"How to hunt?"
Ah Sui didn't force it after hearing that: "Okay, then you guys be careful."
Kuik had been trying to talk to Asui, his tone concealing hope: "Captain, we don't have weapons, how are we going to hunt later?"
There were more than a dozen armed pirates following the team, all of whom were sent by Black Fang. They were there for protection, but in fact they were there for surveillance because they were worried that the captives would escape.
When martial arts are practiced to the extreme, one can kill people by just picking flowers and leaves. Asui thinks this stick should be enough.
Asui noticed that Brand accidentally bumped into his shoulder several times, and turned back to ask in confusion: "Is the road difficult to walk on?"
He seemed to be expecting to touch a gun, but unfortunately Asui was a poor guy and there was not a single gun in the entire team.
As soon as he finished speaking, Ah Sui suddenly switched the long sword from his right hand to his left hand, and directly held his hand and said, "I told you not to follow me out. It's very dangerous in the mountains. Let me lead you."
Brand was stunned when he heard this, then he responded casually: "Well, the snow is a bit too thick."
Ah Sui swung his sword back and said to the female insect behind him: "If any of you still want weapons, pick them up yourself. I can help you sharpen them, and I will replace them with guns for you when there is a chance later."
The female insects looked at each other in bewilderment when they heard this. None of them were willing to come out to pick up dead branches. They kept shaking their heads and waving their hands, smiling awkwardly, "No... No need, Chief. We can just use our fists."
When Quick heard this, he exclaimed "Ah" in surprise, and wanted to say how to hunt with a stick, but he didn't dare to refute, so he could only take it hesitantly.
Asui looked around after hearing this, and finally let go of Brand, walked to the ground in front and picked up a dead ironwood branch. The dense forests in this world are very strange. At night, strange beasts will come out to look for food, and even trees will devour living things. Some woods are made of special materials and are as hard as steel.
He continued walking forward, and then he glanced at Brande, and held his hand again, admonishing him, "Walk slowly, don't fall."
Brande felt the warm touch on his palm and was stunned for a moment. He subconsciously wanted to pull his hand back, but Asui held it tighter, so he had to give up.
If these female insects really came from the military commando team as Brand guessed, they would most likely look down on such a small wooden stick and would rather fight with their own claws.
Brand glanced at the female insects behind him, frowning, and then he turned his gaze away and whispered to Asui, "Don't give them too many weapons. It's dangerous."
Brande couldn't possibly reveal the identities of those female soldiers, but he couldn't just watch Asui get surrounded. He could only warn him unnoticeably, hoping that Asui would be careful.
Asui was well aware of the fact that he was a poor bastard. He winked at Brande secretly and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, I don't have the money to buy them weapons. I was just fooling them by saying I was going to replace their guns~"
Asui picked up the pitch-black dead branch, scraped off the barbed leaves with the sword in his hand, sharpened the front end into a pointed shape, and then handed it to Quick, saying, "You can use this to hunt. If you see prey running out, just throw it out and stab it hard."
Xu Cenfeng followed with his hands in his pockets. Seeing this, he glanced at Asui, then calmly looked away. He asked nothing, said nothing, as if he had expected everything.
Brand: “…”
Who said Asui was stupid? He was obviously very smart and never made mistakes at critical moments.
The snow blocked the mountain, and it was difficult to find prey. The large group walked in the forest for a long time but did not find anything edible. The five senses of the southern female insects were always sharp. When Brand walked to a black rock, he suddenly smelled the odor of wild beast urine in the air. He subconsciously grabbed Asui's arm and said, "Don't go forward. There may be a giant beast in there."
They only wanted to catch a few small Lulu beasts, so there was no need to confront the terrifying big ones. Giant beasts usually mark their territory with the smell of urine, and the fire ants that came out to forage nearby would automatically turn around and leave when they approached, obviously fearing the smell in the air.
Although Asui wanted to hunt a big prey, he saw that Brande and Xu Cenfeng were a little wary, so he raised his hand to signal the team to stop moving forward and turn around to take another route. However, perhaps because of their large numbers and the strong strange aura on their bodies, a fierce and low roar suddenly came from the depths of the Black Rock Cave not far away, shaking the snow on the mountain to fall down.
Asui and the others were shocked when they heard this, and they all went into alert. While they were retreating, they nervously stared at the huge black shadow slowly walking out of the Black Rock Cave. After they saw it clearly, their faces all changed.
Because of the long-term pollution of Originium in Salilanfa, not only trees, but also animals have mutated. A snow-white animal resembling an elk walked out of the Black Rock Cave. It had a nearly five-meter-long dragon horn on its head, with a very sharp tip. It was panting heavily and spitting out a ball of jet saliva. The saliva fell on the snow, and then the land was corroded into black. It was obviously highly toxic.
Seeing this, Brand's fingertips flashed with cold light, and he immediately entered a half-insect combat state, and said in a deep voice: "It's a snow elk beast!"
Asui had never seen a snow elk beast. He simply thought that the beast's spitting looked like an alpaca. Hearing this, he subconsciously asked, "So should we run or not?"
It was obviously a little late for him to ask this question. As soon as Asui finished speaking, the snow elk suddenly let out a deafening roar, obviously feeling very angry about the invasion of its territory. It rubbed its four hooves hard on the ground, and then rushed towards them at a speed so fast that only a white afterimage could be seen.
"So fast!"
Asui cried out in surprise when he saw this, and was about to pull Brand to dodge, but he didn't expect the female insect to be faster than him. Brand's eyes flashed, and a pair of translucent wings with colorful lights suddenly spread out behind him, and a gust of cold wind was raised when they flapped. He grabbed Asui's shoulders tightly, and took him directly to the sky to avoid the attack of the snow elk beast, and temporarily hid in one of the trees.
The skin of the snow elk is extremely flexible and cannot be penetrated by ordinary bullets. At this time, experienced insects will not choose to shoot and provoke the other party.
When the female insects saw the snow elk beast rushing towards them, they spread their wings and flew up the trees to hide. Even Xu Cenfeng slowly climbed up a tall black rock to rest. However, the star pirates sent by Black Fang to follow them were frightened and instinctively raised their guns to shoot. The snow elk beast was stimulated by the pain and spurted out a rapid stream of venom from its mouth, shooting at them like bullets.
"Ah!!! My eyes!!!"
The pirates were caught in the attack and screamed in agony. They covered their corroded eyes and faces and rolled on the ground in pain, with blood dripping from their fingers. The snow elk saw this and lowered its head and rushed over quickly. It raised its long horns into the air and lifted them off the ground, piercing their abdomens with a "puff".
"Plop!" There was the muffled sound of corpses being thrown to the ground one after another. The originally white snow was stained with large patches of dark red. The air was filled with a lingering smell of blood. The surroundings were so quiet that the only sound that could be heard was the snow elk's panting.
As winter approached, most of the leaves had withered and fallen. The snow elk soon discovered Asui and the others hiding in the tree. It rammed the tree without hesitation. Its horns were so sharp that it cut the tree in half in just a few hits.
“Boom!”
Giant trees fell one after another, causing snow foam all over the sky.
Seeing this, Quick and his companions cursed softly and flapped their wings to escape. However, the venom shot out from the snow elk's mouth like a machine gun, sweeping the sky. Many of their insects were hit and fell from the sky like kites with broken strings.
Quick and his men had already entered a semi-insect combat state, but perhaps because of Asui's presence, they didn't want to expose their strength, so most of the time they were avoiding attacks, looking extremely frustrated.
Asui was hiding in a tree. Seeing this, he said to Brande, "Stay up there and don't move. I'll go down and take a look."
Asui originally wanted to draw his sword to fight the snow elk, but suddenly found that the ironwood branch he had cut for Quick was left in the snow. He paused in his sword-drawing motion and simply sheathed it and handed it to Brand: "Help me get it!"
Brand subconsciously caught his sword: "What are you doing?!"
Asui said: "Hunting prey!"
After he finished speaking, he jumped down from the treetop, picked up the flexible ironwood branch on the ground, tried a few moves, and swung it out with a whirring wind. He intended to let these team members see the power of the ironwood branch, which was much stronger than a gun.
Asui shouted to Kuik and the others, "Get out of the way," and flew into the air, rushing directly into the battlefield. He pulled out the wooden stick in his hand, hitting the spine of the snow elk beast exactly, and then the tip of the stick fell like raindrops, hitting the joints of the snow elk beast in just a few seconds. The iron wood branch contained internal strength, and each move was enough to break the tendons and bones of ordinary people.
Xu Cenfeng originally wanted to go forward to help, but he found that Asui was more than capable of doing it alone, and his Nine-Section Whip Technique had been practiced even more advanced than before, so he did not stop him from showing off and simply sat quietly on the black rock to watch the fun.
The nine-section whip will not leave too many scars on the skin and flesh when it is struck out, but each attack requires the whip holder to input internal energy. It will not hurt the skin and flesh, but it will hurt the lungs. When all forty-nine moves are used up, the enemy's bones will instantly fall apart like dominoes.
But the bones of the snow elk were obviously much stronger than those of ordinary people. Asui dodged the opponent's venom attack with agility, while holding the iron and wooden stick to find the opponent's vital points, and the fight lasted for a long time.
Kuik and the other insects saw that Asui had attacked for more than a hundred times, but the snow elk beast was still intact. They couldn't help but shouted anxiously: "Captain! Let's run!"
Is this male insect stupid? He goes to fight the strange beast with only a wooden stick. It would be strange if he can kill it!
However, Asui turned a deaf ear to it. He believed that martial arts training required perseverance and determination. If one whip technique didn't work, he would try it twice. If two times didn't work, he would try it three times. He would always be able to find a flaw.
On the fourth time, Asui finally discovered that the weakest part of the snow elk's bones was not at the neck like that of ordinary animals, but at the coccyx. Every time he hit it, the other party would become irritated and dodge.
Asui's eyes lit up when he saw this, and he nimbly avoided the attack of the snow elk's horns and used the Nine-Section Whip Technique again. For the last move, he turned over and jumped onto the opponent's back covered with barbs, and chopped the tail vertebrae with the wooden stick in his hand. There was a crisp sound, but it was not the wooden stick in Asui's hand that broke, but the bones of the snow elk were broken.
“Crack!”
“Crack!”
“Crack!”
Asui's last move was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. The hidden power he had applied in the previous few attacks finally took effect, like a domino effect. The snow elk suddenly knelt on its front legs and tried to stand up, but then its hind legs knelt on the ground again with a click, and its bones instantly fell apart, making a tooth-grinding sound of bone breaking. The snow elk screamed in pain, and then its huge body fell to the ground like soft noodles. It struggled in vain for a few seconds, and soon lost its breath.
Asui also jumped back and landed lightly on the ground. His clothes were soaked with sweat and his chest was heaving, which showed that the battle just now was not easy for him.
Quick and his companions stood nearby and witnessed the whole process. They were so shocked that their mouths opened wide and their eyes almost popped out. Insect God, did they see it right?! This male insect actually killed a snow moose with his bare hands?! And the weapon was a branch?!
The male insects of Salilanfa would fall ill if the wind blew, when did they become so strong? It's simply too good to be true! Where did Asui put these strong female insects?!
Kuik racked his brains but couldn't figure out how Asui could kill this high-level monster with just a small wooden stick. When he saw Asui finish the fight, he ran up to him and asked him about his well-being, "Great leader! You are so awesome! Are you tired? Are you thirsty? Do you want me to massage your shoulders and legs?"
"This stick is so heavy, how can I trouble you to carry it? Come on, let me help you!"
Asui wiped the sweat off his face with his sleeve, and without thinking much, he threw the stick in his hand to Quick: "Here you go!"
Quick caught it immediately, and immediately felt like he had found a treasure, his hands were shaking with excitement. The rest of the team rushed forward and surrounded him, scrambling for it, no one cared about the snow elk on the ground:
"Damn it! Quick, show me that stick!"
"The chief's kung fu is so amazing! No wonder he can become the chief!"
"If I had known, I would have asked the chief to help me carve a stick!"
Quick refused to show them his life, and held the weapon in his arms like a treasure: "Go away! This is a weapon given to me by the chief. If you want to find branches, go find them by yourselves. Don't try to steal mine!"
Brand witnessed the whole process from the tree. Logically he should have been surprised, but perhaps because there were too many unexpected things about Asui, he actually became accustomed to it.
Brand landed nimbly from the tree. He looked at Asui not far away and shook his head slightly. A hint of helplessness flashed across his light blue eyes. He handed the long sword back to him and said, "Hold your sword well. Don't throw it away next time."
He didn't think that the branch in Asui's hand could compare to the sword that he never left. It was most likely that the other party just wanted to demonstrate the power of the "Iron Wood Branch".
As Sui was about to reach out to take the sword, but when he looked up, he suddenly saw the dazzlingly beautiful translucent wings behind Brande. He was stunned and pointed behind him and subconsciously exclaimed: "Ah! Your wings!"
The situation was so urgent just now that Asui didn't have time to pay attention. Only now did he realize that Brand's wings were exposed. His eyes widened with curiosity, and he was surprised and happy.
Upon hearing this, Brand realized that he had not had time to retract his wings. He was not used to exposing his wings in public. His expression changed slightly, and he retracted his wings with a whoosh, so fast that there was no time to catch him.
Ah Sui exclaimed "Ah" when he saw this, and quickly walked up to him, asking curiously like a follower: "Brand, was that shiny thing your wing just now?"
Brand denied it flatly: "You are wrong."
Ah Sui is not blind: "I didn't see it wrongly. Your wings just appeared. They are sparkling and beautiful~"
Brandt said the same thing: "You are wrong."
Ah Sui realized belatedly that Brande seemed unwilling to show his wings to the public. He paused for a moment, then changed his tone and asked quietly in a low voice: "Then... if you don't want to show it to them, can you show it to me quietly when you go to bed at night?"
Brand: “…”
(End of this chapter)