AFS 2: Strange Fla Strangeness - (9) - Attack of the Gray Alien Space Crab
She grabbed my arm. “What? No! You have to save him! I... He’s...”
I patted her hand. “Relax. I was joking.”
Her mouth opened. She looked so mad. It was ridiculously hard to stop myself from laughing.
“He’s better than fine. His physical rank is just improving from 3S to 4S. What he’s experiencing is just growing pains.”
She pointed to the glowing man on the ground. “That does not look like growing pains!”
I crossed my arms. “How would you know? Have you ever seen soone reach 4S-rank?”
She opened her mouth but couldn’t reply.
“That’s what I thought.”
Chad stopped glowing and writhing around. Even his wound had healed without a trace.
“See, all better.”
Of course, he still hadn’t woken up yet.
Liu YaoYao bent down and pressed her hand to his neck. Then she sighed with relief.
A loud, throaty screech sounded throughout the jungle.
I spread my divine sense out. A disgusting bipedal space crab limped toward us on half-ford crab-like legs like it wanted revenge. It had probably sensed Chad’s energy as he upgraded. I also sensed a few other things out in the jungle that might cause us problems later, but they seed to run from the area on instinct.
Damn it. After doing so quick calculations, I turned to YaoYao. “Can you pilot your ch?”
“Technically, I can. I’d prepared to take over after Chad was injured.”
I grabbed her shoulder. “Good. It’s ti for you to realize your strength as the protagonist... of your own life.”
“That was a very strange place to pause.”
“I pause in strange places. Don’t worry about it.”
“Fine. Wait, shouldn’t you be piloting?”
Of course I should! But if she didn’t pilot the ch now, she wouldn’t discover her aptitude for it, nor the fact that she had an SSS physique suited for piloting.
Spring rushed over with the two spy bots. He likely heard the crab’s roar.
“Fairy Lin, did you hear that?”
“I did. I need you both to buy ti while I use my ultimate move.”
She frowned. “What could you even do outside of a ch? You’ll be in danger.”
“You an the pineapple and puppies thing?”
I pointed my finger at Spring. “We don’t talk about that!”
“I don’t know why you’re so embarrassed. That was a powerful spell.”
“Shut up! And no. I’m never using that again. Because this ti, I ca prepared.”
I pulled out a majestic blue-steel sword from my space button that I had forged while I wasn’t researching alchemy. This era was blessed with high quality spiritual tals, so I easily crafted a blade at the peak of heaven rank. It glittered with blue spiritual energy. Everyone’s eyes seed to lock onto it as if they sensed the power within.
“I just need you both to lure it to the clearing over there and keep it near stationary for ten seconds.” I pointed to an area of forest about thirty ters away. It had been decimated by a recent fight and was clear of trees and grasses with a steep hill next to it.
YaoYao’s eyes grew wide. “Ah, you can’t an to face it while being outside of a ch, right?”
“I’ll do it,” Spring said.
She grabbed his elbow. “She can’t be serious, right?”
“Just trust her. Fairy Lin has thods we can’t even imagine.”
Damn straight.
He threw the unconscious Chad over his shoulder, then jumped with him up to the prince’s cockpit and strapped him into the ch engineer seat.
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I rested my blade against my shoulder like a gangster. “Hey, I’m not happy about this either. This was my one chance to fight a space crab in a ch during this challenge, but I have to be out here to kill it off all by myself.”
YaoYao looked at like I’d said sothing offensive.“...”
Spring jumped back down. “...”
What? What did I say? Was I wrong? Whatever.
“Snap to it people! It will be here in two minutes, but we need it over there.”
The two siblings glanced at each other, then rushed toward their chs. Ah, they were kind of adorable, almost like dragon and phoenix twins.
As their cockpits closed and the chs booted up a fog began rolling in. Then, as if the two were linked physically, they began to run while in sync toward the bipedal space crab.
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