Chapter 50: Counterattack 1 (1/2)

Chapter 50: Counterattack (1)

“You guys took the time it takes for four incense sticks to burn to get here. If anyone else was responsible for delaying the giant ape, they would have died three or four times over…… You’d better give me a good excuse.”

After absorbing the last mote of light and completing his “ceremony”, Su Chen turned around to look at Zheng Xia.

His gaze was unsettling.

Anyone in this situation would not be happy no matter who they were.

“Sorry, we ran into an unexpected issue,” Wang Doushan followed up.

“Something unexpected really did happen, master. We tried our hardest to hurry over.”

Upon hearing Wang Doushan and Iron Cliff say so, Su Chen’s anger decreased slightly. He glanced at the group and saw that they were drenched in sweat and their expressions were fatigued. Evidently, they had charged over here as fast as they could, but for some unknown reason Cloud Leopard wasn’t with them.

“What exactly happened?”

The rest of them began to explain the situation.

After Su Chen had draw the giant ape away, the seven of them had begun to deal with the Giant Adamantine Ape at full force.

Even though the Giant Adamantine Ape was extremely powerful, there was no way it could withstand the furious assault of the seven of them.

They all had thrown everything they had at it. Just when they were about to defeat the giant ape, however, another group of people showed up.

“Another group showed up?” Su Chen’s eyebrows furrowed. “Who were they?”

“It was that garbage Zhang Sheng’an,” Wang Doushan replied, infuriated. “As soon as he arrived, he told us that this Giant Adamantine Ape belonged to them, and that we should give up on it.”

“He wanted to take your giant ape?” Su Chen was stunned. “How could those arrogant people fall to the point that they have to rob others?”

“No, they wanted it alive,” Wang Doushan replied.

Su Chen thought for a moment before it dawned on him. “Jin Ling’er?”

The Giant Adamantine Ape was powerful both in terms of offense and defense. Although its battle tactics were simple, they are very practical. If Jin Ling’er could control it, in the future she could use it as a human shield and combine her strength with it. The best part, however, was that Giant Adamantine Apes are pretty easy to control, so it was no surprise that they were interested in it.

Long before this, Zhang Sheng’an and the others had been looking for a high-tier Vicious Beast that was relatively easy to use for Jin Ling’er, but they had never found a suitable target.

This time, they had unintentionally stumbled upon Team Bright battling a Giant Adamantine Ape, and they instantly came up with the idea of seizing it by force.

After all, they were just a group of students without bloodlines, so they didn’t care.

Within the Hidden Dragon Institute, students from Bloodline Nobility Clans and students without bloodlines were always at odds. Sometimes one party would look to actively incite conflict for no reason, let alone under such circumstances.

Team Bright naturally was unwilling, and they began to fight over it. Unfortunately, there was no way they could fight back against Zhang Sheng’an. Even if they had been initially, they had expended a lot of energy battling the Giant Adamantine Ape. There was no way that they were going to defeat their opponents.

In the end, they could only watch as their opponents took the giant ape away.

Su Chen turned to ask Wang Doushan, “Jin Ling’er just watched them take away what belonged to us?”

“She tried to plead with Zhang Sheng’an and the others, but it didn’t do much,” Wang Doushan sighed.

He left out that part of the story where Jin Ling’er had clearly also been tempted by the giant ape.

Thus, her attempts to dissuade Zhang Sheng’an and the others were not very firm.

Even so, Su Chen was able to perceive that point.

If Jin Ling’er hadn’t been tempted by it, Zhang Sheng’an probably wouldn’t have acted so brazenly.

Su Chen didn’t comment on it. All he did was coldly harrumph, “Then what happened afterwards? Why didn’t you try and come back immediately?”

Since the giant ape had been seized, why not come back to help him? Why waste so much time?

“It was Blood Demon Zhong Ding.” Wang Doushan angrily clenched his fists. “That bastard realized something after noticing that you weren’t there, so he purposefully tried to delay us by talking to us. The more we wanted to leave, the more he wouldn’t let us.”

Su Chen squinted his eyes.

Giant Adamantine Apes often traveled in pairs, so the fact that Zhong Ding had realized something was off wasn’t really that strange.

But why had Zhong Ding targeted him?