Chapter 100: Should I Say, As Expected of the Heroine?
Thinking Xie Qiang was cold, Jiang Qingwan hurriedly took off her thermal jacket. However, she saw Xie Qiang wrap the jacket layer upon layer around her right ankle.
Then, like a goose testing the water temperature on a beach, she cautiously stuck her right foot out.
This “foot-risking” operation of Xie Qiang’s nearly made Jiang Qingwan’s vision go black. She lunged toward the foot. “Your Highness! What are you doing?!”
Just then, a flying Zerg suddenly slipped through a gap in Hong Que and Cang Jiu’s defense. It opened its mouth to bite down on Xie Qiang’s right foot. To its surprise, it bit into the backpack of the lunging Jiang Qingwan instead. The woman was yanked into mid-air by the Zerg.
Jiang Qingwan practiced her call for help with experienced ease: “Help! Strategist Cang! Prosecutor Hong!”
Jiang Family Guide Battlefield Survival Rule #1: Call for help first, then name the person you’re asking for aid.
“Tsk!” Cang Jiu stole a glance. “Silver Fox, go save her!”
The Silver Fox lunged forward and bit through the Zerg’s throat. Jiang Qingwan struggled to pull her backpack from the Zerg’s mouth. When she saw that the tin cans inside had been crushed flat by the Zerg, her expression darkened instantly.
She tried to maintain her smile as before, but ultimately she couldn’t tolerate such a show of incompetence. She turned to Cang Jiu, her tone carrying unmasked reprimand. “You all need to strengthen your training when you return! If you can’t even protect the last bit of food, how can you talk about protecting an S-class Guide? Her Highness the Princess purifies you; is this the level of protection you provide her in return?”
“And you, Your Highness!” Jiang Qingwan turned and scolded Xie Qiang fiercely. “Do you think wrapping a few layers of clothing around your foot can withstand a Zerg’s teeth? Even if it could, what if it just dragged you away?!”
Xie Qiang lowered her head and whispered, “But didn’t you just say the Sentinels would protect us?”
Jiang Qingwan choked, forced to change her tune. “You can’t rely entirely on Sentinels either. At critical moments, you should push the Sentinels near you out to block. No matter what, you are an S-class Guide; your own safety is paramount!”
Xie Qiang: “…”
Indeed, the heroine in the original novel was exactly like this. Although she urged Guides to work overtime to purify Sentinels, she also believed from the bottom of her heart that Sentinels should give their lives to protect the Guides who purified them.
Xie Qiang looked up slightly. Seeing Jiang Qingwan still staring at her for an answer, she quickly apologized. “I understand. I won’t take such risks again.”
She had also confirmed that this world was still following the plot and wouldn’t let her or Jiang Qingwan die easily.
Jiang Qingwan nodded with satisfaction. She knelt down to clean out her backpack, scraping out the edible portions of the crushed cans and sealing them into a beef jerky bag. Then, she scraped the parts stuck to the bag into a used sealing bag.
She looked worriedly at the meager amount of food left, wondering if it could last three days.
Glancing at Xie Qiang’s small face, which had grown thin from hunger, she handed the clean portion to her. “Eat more.”
Xie Qiang didn’t stand on ceremony. She chewed the canned meat while watching Jiang Qingwan divide the remaining food into portions. There were six portions in total. She couldn’t help but ask, “Can this food only last one day?”
“No, it’s for three days,” Jiang Qingwan replied. “This is for the two of us.”
Xie Qiang looked at Cang Jiu and Hong Que. “What about them?”
“They can eat Zerg meat,” Jiang Qingwan said crossly.
Xie Qiang: “…Mm-hmm, you’re right.”
Heroines are scary when they’re angry.
Xie Qiang sat quietly on the ground, nibbling on the canned meat to replenish her strength. Feeling her mental power rapidly returning, her mood relaxed. Even the surrounding Zerg began to look almost “pleasant” to her eyes.
As the pile of Zerg corpses grew higher, Xie Qiang’s group continued to move. After some time, Xie Qiang felt her mental power had mostly recovered. She spoke to Hong Que. “Give me the Zhu Que Spear.”
Without a word, Hong Que tossed the Zhu Que Spear to Xie Qiang.
Jiang Qingwan, beside them, was completely baffled. “Your Highness, what do you need a gun for?”
Don’t tell me…
“To kill Zerg.”
A dazzling light flashed, forcing Jiang Qingwan to squint. When she opened her eyes again, she saw her “weak and unable to care for herself” Princess hoisting a massive sniper rifle, pulling the trigger toward the insect tide in the distance.
Shoo—Bang!
The Zerg, blown to bits by the flame bullet, fell like a curtain of rain. Jiang Qingwan’s eyes widened instantly. Cang Jiu also turned back in surprise, looking at Xie Qiang in disbelief.
The girl’s face was cold and stern. After rubbing her shoulder, she switched to the other shoulder to act as the recoil pad, then lightly pulled the trigger.
Shoo—Bang!
The black “rain” fell again. Xie Qiang set down the sniper rifle, unbuttoned her coat, and applied ointment to both shoulders. After the pain subsided, she hoisted the rifle again and continued firing into the swarm.
Jiang Qingwan looked at the bruises on the girl’s shoulders and couldn’t help but cover her wide-open mouth, whispering, “Your Highness, you weren’t lying to me!”
She can actually fight the Zerg Empress!
No wonder the Princess had looked down on those A-class Sentinels before, calling them low-class trash. Looking at it this way, if the Princess and the A-class Sentinels faced the Zerg Empress at the same time, it truly wasn’t certain who would be protecting whom!
With Xie Qiang joining in, the pressure on Hong Que and Cang Jiu lessened instantly. However, Xie Qiang didn’t dare use up all her mental power. After giving them a moment to breathe and rest, she stopped firing to continue recovering.
Just as she changed the Zhu Que Spear back to its original form, Jiang Qingwan leaned in. She looked at the spear, then at Xie Qiang, and couldn’t help but say sincerely, “Your Highness is much more powerful than I imagined. When I first went to the battlefield, I couldn’t even look a Zerg in the eye.”
Xie Qiang gave an “oh” and said seriously, “I can’t look them in the eye either. Their compound eyes are just too ugly.”
That’s not what I meant… Jiang Qingwan thought gloomily. Is this the mindset of powerful experts? They think A-class Sentinels are trash rather than protectors, and they don’t look at Zerg not out of fear, but because they’re ugly?
Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, Jiang Qingwan went back to her old habits and began to advise her earnestly:
“Your Highness! Since you have such powerful combat capability, you should go to other war zones! Follow the S-class Sentinels to crush the Zerg, destroy the wormholes, and completely wipe out the remnants of the Zerg race to return peace to the Xinghai Empire!!!”
Xie Qiang: …
Should I say, as expected of the heroine? Her enthusiasm is still so high!
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