Name: Little Red
Intimacy: 60
Stage: Mature
Level: 25
Health: 1600/1600
Attack Power: 2000
Skill: Medium Spicy (Level 1)
Medium Spicy: Creates a spherical area of effect with a twenty-meter radius centered on the chili pepper, dealing 2000 points of plasma damage.
The capsaicin residue left after the explosion lasts for 20 seconds, dealing 1000 points of damage per second.
Lin Xiaohe summoned Doudou and shoved Little Red’s chili pepper into the cannon barrel. “Fire!”
Doudou sneezed repeatedly while shooting the pepper into the octopus’s main body.
Pfft.
The octopus’s gel-like muscles twitched and pushed the pepper back out.
Seeing this, Fanfan swiftly scooped up the pepper and scurried up the tentacles, rushing toward the main body.
The octopus’s body was plump and bouncy, with no eyes, nose, or mouth in sight.
Fanfan simply picked a random spot, used its roots to dig a shallow hole, and buried the pepper inside.
Worried that the pepper might get pushed out again, it even cut off a small piece of its own root and stuffed it into the hole.
As soon as the job was done, Fanfan whooshed back onto Lin Xiaohe’s body.
“Detonate!” Lin Xiaohe leaped off the tentacle. In the second before she hit the ground, Sweetie’s protective shield acted like a bubble ball, reducing 99.9% of the impact force.
The little yellow ball bounced on the ground.
Up in the air, the pepper exploded with a boom, blowing a massive hole right through the octopus’s main body.
One of its tentacles turned into a gelatinous substance, trying to plug the hole. But when the substance touched the edge of the wound, it started twitching and writhing like crazy, absolutely refusing to go in.
The monster’s other eleven legs started fighting among themselves, none of them willing to go near the hole either.
The poor, wretched main body looked like it wanted to cut itself open, just to get rid of that disgusting stuff.
“Ah-choo! Ah-choo!” Lin Xiaohe couldn’t stop sneezing.
The pepper smell was way too strong. It stung her eyes, making tears stream down her face.
“Ah! What is that smell? It’s so pungent!”
“Ah-choo! What just… ah-choo… happened?”
“Holy black hole! How did the monster get out? Ah-choo! Is this its attack method?”
People who had been unconscious woke up, stimulated by the intense pepper smell.
The S-rank and above officers, who had been bewitched, all regained their senses.
The commander of the Kepler-503 Star, sneezing between words, made a global broadcast: “Thanks to the efforts of Federation Captain Lin Xiaohe, we humans… ah-choo… never give up! Ah-choo.”
Lin Xiaohe shouted, “No time to waste! Hit him hard! Today, I’m eating iron-plate giant squid!”
The Federation warships regrouped their firepower, aimed at the still-writhing octopus, and fired!
The tentacles nimbly dodged the incoming artillery fire. A flash of intense purple light swept through, and everyone fell unconscious again.
Lin Xiaohe was speechless…
Not a single reliable person in the entire Federation. In the end, she had to bear it all on her own.
Fortunately, the octopus’s defense was already broken. Lin Xiaohe hoisted Doudou onto her shoulder, aimed at the big hole, and fired another chili pepper.
!!!
A tentacle shot out to intercept it, but just as it was about to touch the pepper, it yanked itself back.
The dense clusters of suckers on the tentacles tightened and relaxed, tightened and relaxed, as if they were saying something.
Others couldn’t understand it, but Lin Xiaohe could.
The monster was cursing. And pretty nastily, too.
“Hey, I didn’t tell you to catch the pepper. Your main brain gave that order. Go blame it!”
Lin Xiaohe had learned that each tentacle of an octopus has its own small brain. This monster was probably similar to an octopus, right?
Too many small brains, and they were too developed. That’s why the tentacles didn’t want to take the hit.
The monster was hit by the pepper again. Its entire body was in bad shape.
The purple light inside it went haywire, transmitting chaotically to the tentacles and attacking indiscriminately.
“Ugh! What is this stuff?”
“Hiss! Hiss! Does the Human Federation have such devious weapons?”
“Boo hoo hoo! Humans are bullying the bugs! I’m going to tell my lord!”
“Ugh!”
The eleven tentacles scrambled over each other, trying to crawl back into the wormhole. They didn’t want to spend one more minute in this godforsaken place!
“Where do you think you’re going?!” Lin Xiaohe roared.
Her points were already negative ten million! Her only hope was to kill this octopus for a comeback!
After working so hard to bring it down to near-death, there was no way she was letting it escape!
Lin Xiaohe summoned both cannon barrels from Doudou. She left one on the ground, then stuffed her entire body into the other.
“Doudou, fire!”
Doudou was shocked. You can do that?
“Doudou, our points are getting away!”
Doudou snapped out of it and launched Lin Xiaohe with a boom.
Sweetie did its duty, protecting Lin Xiaohe so that air resistance didn’t squash her into a paper-thin person.
Splat!
Just as the octopus’s body was about to disappear into the wormhole, Lin Xiaohe successfully stuck herself onto its head and went right into the wormhole along with it.
Huh?
What?!
At that moment, both inside and outside the arena, there was nothing but dead silence.
After a long while, Old Man Cao’s eyes flickered, and he said, half in disbelief, “Is Lin Xiaohe starting a new side-quest on her own?”
Rio was completely baffled. “Maybe we should wait a little longer? If it’s a new instance, Nuwa will definitely stream it.”
They waited a full ten minutes. Nuwa did not stream what happened after Lin Xiaohe entered the wormhole, nor did she announce the end of the match or the final rankings.
Fifteen minutes later, all the contestants were teleported out of the arena.
The Star Network exploded. Viewers were all discussing the match: what exactly had happened, the combat capabilities of those monsters, what happened to Lin Xiaohe after she went into the wormhole, and who was the champion?
Wesley was dying of curiosity. He went to his mother, Melina, and nagged and pestered her until she finally agreed to use her authority as the director of the Fourth Star Ring Education Bureau to ask Nuwa.
Nuwa: “I’m sorry, your clearance level is insufficient.”
Melina raised an eyebrow. Even her clearance wasn’t enough?
At the same time, Bishop and the others were teleported out. They all looked toward Lin Xiaohe’s Star Network connection pod.
The pod door was sealed shut. The pod was still running normally.
It was very clear that Lin Xiaohe still hadn’t come out of the arena.
Bishop pressed his lips together tightly and strode quickly to the observers’ area, looking for Kaelin Reno. “Mother, what’s going on with Lin Xiaohe?”
Kaelin Reno’s face was so dark it looked like it could drip water. She could no longer maintain her warm, friendly smile. “Nuwa said my clearance level is insufficient.”
Bishop’s pupils contracted violently. Even the fifth-ranking executive of the Democratic Party, the Rose of the Reno family, had insufficient clearance?
What was behind that wormhole? Who had enough clearance?
“Are you kidding me? I don’t have clearance?! Lin Xiaohe is a student at our Central Military Academy. As the principal, how could I not have clearance?!” Cassian laughed in disbelief.
Nuwa: “I’m sorry, your clearance level is insufficient.”
“Fine, fine, fine. I’m not enough. I’ll find someone who is.” Cassian dragged over Chu Huaizhi. “You go ask. Find out what’s going on with Lin Xiaohe. You went through all that trouble to trick her into the Agriculture Department. You can’t just abandon her now.”
Chu Huaizhi looked exhausted, with dark circles under his eyes and a scruffy beard. Wearily, he said, “Nuwa, I request access to Lin Xiaohe’s current status.”
Nuwa: “I’m sorry, your clearance level is insufficient.”
Chu Huaizhi and Cassian exchanged a glance. Both of their eyes were filled with deep gravity and worry.
Chu Huaizhi was a recipient of the Federation’s Seventh-Class Medal. Even he didn’t have enough clearance?!
