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Star Rank Hunter - Chapter 242

Published at 8th of July 2018 06:19:54 AM


Chapter 242

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Chapter 242: We’re Leaving Man Take Care! [Part 1]

 

Everyone stared at the giant snake that could easily swallow all four of them whole if it so wished. If Cillin hadn’t told them to put their trust in Wheeze they would’ve run off already, and even if they did, they were currently too close to the snake to have a good chance of success. It was impossible for them to beat a snake this big, and not all of them were going to escape intact even if they focused all their efforts into running away.

 

This is the good-tempered friend the cat mentioned?

 

Walley absolutely refused to believe it after seeing its eyes.

 

Snake couldn’t blink because it had no eyelids. Therefore, the glare coming from the snake’s seemingly cold, cruel and absolutely frosty eyes made them felt like a hail was raining on their faces. Their hearts felt ice cool to say the least.

 

Cillin didn’t feel the same way though. Although the giant snake’s eyes were very cold, he could see that it treated the gray cat fairly well. It was clearly not staring at them with coldness nor detachment either.

 

The gray cat happily climbed up the giant snake’s jar-sized body with its tail raised before standing on top of its slightly raised head. It patted the giant snake’s head and said, “Look, this is my new friend, the giant snake Boa!”

 

“It’s Anaconda.” Boa added.

 

Boa’s voice was slight raspy, and every timbre in its voice sounded naturally cold. It was obviously unlike King Kong’s baby voice. However, it was clear that the giant snake was trying express friendliness towards them.

 

“Eh, it’s the same thing.” The gray cat went on to introduce Cillin and everyone else to Boa.

 

“Hello.” Cillin walked over and greeted Boa. The closer he was to Boa, the colder he felt.

 

Thanks to the gray cat, the giant snake agreed to take them out of the swamp forest. Without Boa’s aid, it would’ve taken them a lot of effort to leave this place safely, not to mention that there other traps inside the swamp and the forest. Only an idiot would turn down the offer.

 

And so a giant snake fetched five people and a cat away from the swamp forest under the dim starlight.

 

The giant snake’s body was very cold, and its scales had a metallic feeling to it. Walley couldn’t help but rub them for a moment, but a quick tail slap stopped the behavior quickly.

 

“I’ve never come so close to a big fellow like this before.” Libero sighed.

 

“Me too!” Teita’s eyes shone excitedly. He had ridden on King Kong’s shoulder before, but King Kong was a mammal, and Boa was a reptile. The feeling gave off by two different species were pretty different from each other.

 

While Cillin’s team made their way boldly across the swamp forest atop the snake, another team hiding in the swamp noticed this unique combination of species.

 

They were wary of the giant snake since the beginning and had moved cautiously until now. When they saw the giant snake moving swiftly towards them, some people moved faster to escape the swamp forest while others decided to hide in the surroundings because they didn’t think they could escape its pursuit.

 

However, they soon discovered that the giant snake wasn’t pulling people out of their hiding spots or chasing after the people escaping at the front. Instead, it slithered right past them at an even pace. When the people hiding in the surroundings saw that there were people on top of the snake’s body, their jaws nearly hit the ground.

 

After Boa slithered past the forest area, a pair of eyes opened from inside a shrubbery with big leaves. Someone who was paying attention would notice that a man was actually hiding inside this shrubbery. The man’s skin had taken on nearly the same color, pattern and even temperature as his surroundings like a chameleon. Even an animal with infrared vision would be hard pressed to find him.

 

The man swore as he watched the giant snake slither away from his position. “Fuck, those people are cheating!”

 

“There are no rules that say you can’t get a friend to help you. It’s our fault for not knowing that snake.” Some other people hiding behind the shrubbery said.

 

As Boa continued to slither across the forest, it suddenly came to a stop and looked to the back as if to confirm something. Then, it abruptly moved a lot faster.

 

Ironhead nearly fell off the snake’s back. Barely clinging onto the giant snake’s scales, he asked Cillin and the others, “What’s going on?”

 

“Someone’s coming,” Cillin answered.

 

The gray cat jumped onto the giant snake’s head and patted. “Hey, what’s wrong?”

 

“A troublesome fellow is catching up to us. Seriously, why the hell is she here?!” Boa slithered hard as if it was running away from a disaster.

 

The gray cat sensed that the person chasing behind them was a human. It was surprised to see such a reaction from Boa.

 

The giant snake moved very quickly, but the person chasing behind them wasn’t slow either. Five minutes later, a voice resounded from behind their backs. “Stop right there Boa!”

 

It was a girl’s voice, but to say that her voice was loud would be a gross understatement. The sheer volume of the cry had awakened every insect that had fallen asleep in this swamp forest.

 

“Is she using a loudspeaker or something?” Walley couldn’t believe his ears.

 

“Kenancy has never needed a loudspeaker. Her voice is loud enough to make a loudspeaker explode.” Boa continued to escape without looking back even once.

 

And so the giant snake slithered like it wished it had wings while a girl chased it relentlessly from behind through the star lit swamp forest. At first, the girl would occasionally call out to the giant snake, but she stopped doing so after a while probably because she wanted to conserve her stamina. She didn’t show any intentions of stopping until she caught up with Boa, however.

 

Because the girl was chasing after Boa relentlessly at the back, the giant snake slithered at an incredible speed. By the time dawn arrived, they were nearing the edge of the large forest.

 

“That girl is still chasing after us! Isn’t her stamina a little too good?” Libero sighed. Had he been in her place, Libero was one hundred percent certain that he couldn’t maintain her running speed for more than an hour. However, that girl had been chasing after Boa for more than four hours already, and she hadn’t been given the slip even now!

 

“What an aggressive girl.” Walley cast a glance at the slithering snake and wondered what the hell it did to the girl. Sigh, women truly were unoffendable creatures.

 

When they finally got out of the forest, the gray cat and Cillin’s team jumped off its body. “Run, Boa!”

 

Boa ignored them and changed a direction.

 

Cillin’s team didn’t manage to go far before they heard a loud “BANG” behind them. When they looked backwards, they saw that the giant snake was rolling on the ground like it was punched by someone. Standing right in front of the collapsed snake was a girl with a pair of braids hanging loosely beside her temple and a ponytail tied behind her hair. She was dressed in a tight suit and looked like she just came out of a training ground.

 

Cillin thought that the girl looked a little familiar for some reason, but this was without a doubt the first time he saw her.

 

“Why did you run off?!” Kenancy panted as she glared at Boa.

 

“I’m not running, I’m just slithering a bit faster than usual!” Boa retorted.

 

“Is it my ears or are you still protesting?!”

 

BANG! Boa took another punch.

 

The gray cat’s tail trembled. It touched its head with its paw before looking at Boa who was rolling on the ground again after being punched. “That’s gotta hurt.”

 

“Kenancy, I’m warning you! Even a snake can throw a fit!” Boa shouted.

 

“A fit? You dare throw a fit in front of me?!” Kenancy’s voice climbed an octane higher.

 

Seeing that things were taking a turn for the worse, the gray cat jumped onto Cillin shoulder’s and yelled at Boa’s direction: “We’re leaving man take care!”

 

If you’re gonna run then just run! Why do you have to tell me that and piss me off!? Also can’t you bloody distract the enemy at least? Boa slapped the ground angrily with its tail.

 

“Fuck your ancestors Wheeze you disloyal bastard!”

 

“Well jokes on you ‘cause I don’t have an ancestor!” yelled the gray cat as it ran. It was the truth; it had no ancestors because it was a rare half-cyborg, half-biological lifeform that was born naturally in space.


Cillin: “...” I knew that it was a mistake to make friends with this cat.

 

 

Chapter 242: We’re Leaving Man Take Care! [Part 2]

 

They didn’t know what happened to that poor snake afterwards, but they did know that they could hear noises coming from that area even after they had moved far, far away.

 

After they went through the swamp forest, Cillin’s team encountered a desert and a grassland. The strange species in these lands caused a lot more troubles to the examinees who were attempting to pass through the area as compared to the previous term students. Most of them were simply watching them the sidelines and occasionally chuckled at their misery. Therefore, the local overlords (animals) were the ones they should pay more attention to.

 

Just as they were about leave the desert, Cillin’s team saw a variant of an armadillo biting its tail, curling itself into a ball and rolling down a sandstone while mumbling unclearly, “Run, run!”

 

It didn’t take long before a large scorpion burst out of the sandstone and crawled towards their direction, driving Cillin’s team into a mad sprint yet again. The gray cat wanted to fight the scorpion, but Cillin had grabbed it by the nape and stuffed it between his armpit mid flight. There was no need to provoke unnecessary trouble.

 

The marathon was definitely useful in testing a person’s specific set of abilities. For example Walley was incredibly drought resistant, and Libero and Ironhead were much tougher than Teita because they were mixed bloods. In fact, they had to take turns carrying Teita on their backs for most of their journey through the desert.

 

Cillin noticed that the few examinees they ran into didn’t fare much better than them. Some of them even cut a sorry figure and looked downright ragged. After all, not everyone had the privilege to be escorted by overlords like King Kong and Boa.

 

When the marathon was finally over, every examinee thought the same thing in their heads: One, thank goodness it was over and two, thank goodness the planet wasn’t as big as the planet where AF1’s actual campus was.

 

Some people left after the additional test was over. These people had all quit of their own volition; so far AF1’s instructors hadn’t put them through a large scale elimination. They didn’t even eliminate the examinees who fell behind during the marathon because two-fifths of the test’s focus were on the result, and three-fifths were on the process.

 

Everyone thought that they would get a rest period after the marathon was over, but unfortunately they were notified that they would be sent to the next test zone immediately once eighty percent of the examinees arrived at the finish line. Those who finished the marathon early fared better because they had a bit of time to recuperate themselves while they waited for those who lagged behind to catch up. Cillin’s team was one of those lucky teams because less than thirty percent of the examinees were present when they reached the finish line. However, some of the examinees who made it through last had to literally crawl up their transports while panting heavily.

 

According to Teita, the cooperative test was next after the three-plus-one test. At first, they thought that they would be forming teams among the remaining examinees but as it turned out reality was different from their expectations.

 

There were less than seven hundred people left to participate in the cooperative test. When the transports landed at the destination and Cillin’s group got off the plane, they discovered that they were at a wide outdoor training ground. It was obvious that this was an assembly spot and not where the test was going to be undertaken. A lot of people were warming up at the training ground by the time they showed up.

 

A voice resounded from the training ground before Cillin could even discuss with the others about the cooperative test. “Cillin! It really is you, my different-mum different-dad blood related brother!”

 

Do you even hear yourself… your language teacher would kill themselves on a piece of tofu if they heard this.

 

The guy shouting on top of his lungs was of course the idiot prince, Bel. He was also accompanied by his good friend Gen Xingming. Cillin had a bad premonition when he noted the wretched smiles on their faces.

 

The excited Bel ignored the odd gazes the crowd was showering him with and gave Cillin a big hug. He then slapped him fiercely on the shoulder before saying, “We were just talking about you before you showed up. You really are my brother!”

 

“Cillin, it’s so nice to see you here! We didn’t think you’d be among this group of examinees!” Gen Xingming also looked unbelievably excited.

 

A new guy ran over after Bel and Gen Xingming. Cillin could guess from what Bel told him some time ago that this new guy was Ulaganuo, the poor prince of Snowstorm Wendyska Family who was unfortunate enough to draw the short straw and be thrown into the military for retraining by his father.

 

“So… what’s going on?” Cillin swatted Bel’s hands away before asking.

 

Bel still didn’t give his an answer as he looked at the gray cat cheerfully. “Wheeze, I miss you so much!”

 

The gray cat kept a stiff face and ignored him from on top of Cillin’s shoulders. It thought: he say he misses me, but he doesn’t even have a fish biscuit to prove it.

 

“Wheeze, I’ll treat you to a full fish course and freshly baked fish biscuits at AF3’s restaurant once this test is over, okay!” Bel added.

 

The gray cat smiled widely. “I’m so happy to see you all too!”

 

Walley and the others: “...” Holy shit that is so fake!

 

Someone at the training ground complained when they saw Bel chatting with Cillin. “You know someone from over there, Bel!? That’s unfair!”

 

“Is that jealousy I hear? Too bad I don’t give a shit! If you’re really good you would’ve known a friend yourself!” Bel retorted with a pleased look on his face: Look at me, I know an examinee who’s guaranteed to enter AF1 or AF2 and he’s also my different-mum different-dad blood related brother!

 

“Eh? Why’s there a child here?” Ulaganuo looked behind Cillin and saw Teita standing with Libero and the others not far away.

 

Bel and Gen Xingming turned to look after the heard him. “Oh, hehe. We just noticed.”

 

Teita was annoyed. You shouldn’t look down on my height!

 

“Say, who is this kid? Do you know him?” Bel asked Cillin. Kids at Teita’s age normally went through a different set of tests. That was why not many people in their tens were participating in the tryouts.

 

“Oh, his name is Teita. There’s also Libero, Walley and Ironhead. All five of us share the same hostel,” Cillin said.

 

“Teita? This name sounds a little familiar for some reason… Ah! You’re that old oyster’s -”

 

Gen Xingming kicked him over before he could finish his words. Then, he smiled at Cillin’s team and said, “Ignore him, for whatever reason he couldn’t stop spouting nonsense as of alte!”





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