74: Chapter 74 Five Hundred Meters? He'd jump five hundred meters straight!

A helicopter hovered above the Crimson Gobi.

The massive propellers churned the air into a buzzing drone.

The atmosphere inside the cabin was bizarre to the extreme.

That original sense of tragic heroism, "The wind blows cold, the Yi River is chill; the hero goes forth, never to return," had long since vanished.

It had vanished the moment the pilot let out an earth-shattering "Holy shit!"

In its place was a deathly silence following collective bewilderment.

Instructor Lei Zhan's grip on his alloy combat saber tightened and loosened, tightened and loosened again.

His face, which usually commanded respect without anger, was now incredibly expressive.

"Chief Instructor..."

The adjutant beside him swallowed hard, pointed at the screen below, and spoke with a trembling voice.

"Are we still... going down to collect the body?"

Collect a body? Collect a load of crap!

The veins on Instructor Lei Zhan's forehead were throbbing.

He stared through the porthole, fixated on the bizarrely harmonious scene below.

Lin Fan, whom everyone assumed had likely already turned into monster dung.

Was currently riding on the head of the Thunder Prison Mad Bull, a creature that struck fear into countless martial artists.

He was waving a broken tree branch in his hand with great vigor.

"Giddy up! Giddy up! Did you not eat breakfast?"

"Would it kill you to run a little faster? Do you believe I'll snap your horns off and make soup out of them!"

And the Thunder Prison Mad Bull he was riding?

That was a Level 5 Monster!

That was an overlord capable of unleashing lightning and blasting armored vehicles into scrap metal!

Yet, at this moment, it was as docile as an old ox plowing a field, with its head hanging low.

It even adjusted its gait to ensure the person on its back could sit more steadily.

As for the Four-Horned Antelope behind it, the sight was even more miserable.

Not only were its horns gone, but it had to carry the half-dead Instructor Chen Feng and endure Lin Fan's intermittent verbal bullying.

"What the..."

Instructor Lei Zhan held it in for a long while before finally squeezing out a curse through his teeth.

"Is this kid here for a field trip?!"

Murong Yan and Xia Wanqiu, sitting in the back row, were staring at each other in bewilderment.

Xia Wanqiu's eyes were still swollen, looking quite comical on her face.

She had just been rehearsing a hundred ways for Lin Fan to die tragically in her mind.

She had even planned out what flavor of joss paper to burn for Lin Fan every Qingming Festival from now on.

And this was the result?

Where was the need for rescue here?

This looked even more carefree than living at school!

"This guy..."

Murong Yan gritted her teeth, her long legs, wrapped in camouflage, trembling with anger.

"I was so worried about him just now! Is he a devil? He can even tame a Level 5 Monster?!"

Instructor Lei Zhan took a deep breath.

He was also numb from the shock.

As a dignified Level 6 Martial Saint, what grand scenes had he not witnessed?

He had charged through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and he had defended cities against beast tides.

But he had never seen anyone treat the core area of the Crimson Gobi like their own backyard!

And what on earth was going on with that Thunder Prison Mad Bull? Was it under some kind of spell?

"Chief Instructor, what should we do now?"

The pilot turned his head, looking at Instructor Lei Zhan with a bewildered expression.

"Should we still execute Plan A, provide covering fire, and retreat?"

"Covering fire my ass!"

Instructor Lei Zhan roared angrily.

"Do you see that kid looking like he needs cover? I think those monsters are the ones that need cover!"

"If we don't go down now, the ecological balance of this core area will be destroyed by this kid!"

The more Instructor Lei Zhan thought about it, the angrier he became.

He felt that this massive rescue operation he had mobilized was nothing more than a joke.

To save this kid, he had even brought along his prized emergency medical pod.

He had even planned to apply for a more professional rescue medical team from above.

And yet, here the guy was, riding a bull and looking for a horse, having the time of his life!

"Open the cabin door!"

Instructor Lei Zhan stood up and ripped off his safety harness.

"But Chief Instructor, we are still at an altitude of five hundred meters..."

"I told you to open the door!"

Instructor Lei Zhan shouted, scaring the pilot into trembling and hastily pressing the open button.

A gust of wind instantly rushed into the cabin.

Instructor Lei Zhan walked to the cabin door, the wild wind whipping his cape.

He looked down at the figure still acting so arrogantly, and his anger flared up.

"Lin Fan!"

Instructor Lei Zhan channeled his vital energy.

This shout was even louder than the helicopter's engine.

The sound echoed across the desolate Gobi.

It was so loud that the surrounding sand and stones were trembling.

Lin Fan below seemed to hear the commotion.

He stopped what he was doing and looked up in confusion.

He shielded his eyes with his hand to look up.

That innocent yet punchable expression on his face was clearly visible to Instructor Lei Zhan, even from hundreds of meters away.

"You kid, stay right there!"

Instructor Lei Zhan could no longer hold back.

He didn't even bother with the rappelling rope.

He leapt out, his entire body like a heavy bomb, smashing fiercely toward the ground below!

"Ah!"

Xia Wanqiu covered her mouth in fright.

"That's a five-hundred-meter drop..."

Murong Yan was quite calm and let out a cold snort.

"Don't worry, he is a Martial Saint; he won't die from a fall.

Right now, you should be worried about whether that guy Lin Fan will be hammered into the ground by the Chief Instructor!"

Meanwhile, on the ground.

Lin Fan was riding on the bull's back, still wondering why a big black rat had fallen from the sky.

"What the heck?"

Lin Fan blinked twice.

"It doesn't rain in the Gobi these days, but it rains people instead?"

Before he could react.

Boom!

A loud explosion erupted less than ten meters in front of him.

Dust filled the sky instantly, and gravel flew everywhere.

The once majestic Thunder Prison Mad Bull was so terrified by this terrifying aura that its four legs went soft, and it knelt directly on the ground.

One god-like two-legged beast was enough for it to handle, why did another one have to come!

"Moo—"

It let out a miserable wail.

It was even preparing to act like an ostrich and bury its head deep into the sand, its whole body trembling uncontrollably.

The two-legged beast had already become its psychological shadow.

Not to mention the furious Instructor Lei Zhan, whose aura was completely undisguised.

That was the aura of a Level 6 Martial Saint.

For the Thunder Prison Mad Bull, it was even more terrifying.

Even the Four-Horned Antelope behind it collapsed onto the ground with a thud.

It jolted Instructor Chen Feng on its back so hard that he rolled his eyes.

But it did not bury its head.

Compared to the terrifying aura of the Level 6 Martial Saint in front of it, it was still more afraid of the pervert Lin Fan!

The dust gradually settled.

Instructor Lei Zhan's burly figure slowly walked out of the deep crater.

He radiated a terrifying murderous aura, and with every step he took, the ground beneath his feet cracked open.

His tiger-like eyes stared fixedly at Lin Fan on the bull's back, as if he wanted to devour the kid alive.

"Lin Fan!"

This teeth-gritting voice made even Lin Fan shiver in his heart.

But he quickly adjusted himself.

Not only was he not panicked, but his eyes lit up instead.

Oh, holy shit?

Isn't this the Chief Instructor Lei who has always refused to fight me?

This killing intent!

If he were to punch me, wouldn't my experience points skyrocket?!