35: Ugh, what a scumbag!

Chapter 35: Bah, Scumbag!

School ship, front deck.

The spoils brought by Jiang Chen, Nangong Yan, Zhao Hui, and Zhang Caiying were quickly tallied, and the rankings on the scoreboard immediately changed.

1st Place: Zhang Caiying, 46 points.

2nd Place: Zhao Hui, 46 points.

3rd Place: Geng Ben, 44 points.

4th Place: Hu Gang, 44 points.

5th Place: Shi Shan, 43 points.

6th Place: Yang Rui, 43 points.

7th Place... 9th Place: Jiang Chen, 39.2 points.

10th Place: Nangong Yan, 39.2 points.

"Yay!"

"We're back in the top ten!"

Seeing the change in the scoreboard rankings, Nangong Yan immediately started dancing on the deck, his face full of excitement!

The top ten on the scoreboard receive additional rewards, valuable items such as sea spirit pearls and essence blood.

So, breaking into the top ten on the scoreboard is very important!

Jiang Chen also smiled brightly; it was worth him getting kidney deficiency twice last night. As long as he could make it into the top ten, it was worth it... Jiang Chen continued to look at the list. He was a little confused; Ke Zixuan and Zhang Mingwan were still ranked 3rd and 4th last night, but today they were not on the list.

Jiang Chen's gaze moved down, searching the rankings, and found Ke Zixuan and Zhang Mingwan's names at 27th and 28th place.

Jiang Chen was slightly stunned. How did their rankings suddenly drop so much?

Jiang Chen looked at their points, which were 29.2 points.

Jiang Chen remembered that their points last night were 24.4 points, and today they are 29.2 points, which means they only got 4.8 points today!

Reversing the calculation, it means they only hunted one awakening level late-stage sea beast!

This result greatly surprised Jiang Chen!

Jiang Chen found a teacher responsible for scoring and inquired, quickly getting the result.

It turned out that Ke Zixuan and Zhang Mingwan hunted with injuries yesterday. Because they fought too desperately and intensely, their injuries worsened and relapsed today, so they were resting and recuperating today.

Jiang Chen: "..."

Nangong Yan gloated at Jiang Chen, saying, "Bah, scumbag!"

Jiang Chen was speechless: "How am I a scumbag?"

Nangong Yan: "If you hadn't cruelly rejected them both yesterday, would they have been so desperate as to fight sea beasts to the death?"

"In short, all wrongs are your fault!"

Jiang Chen rolled his eyes, but he had to admit that Nangong Yan had a point.

Who told him he had a peerless face that could captivate all women, so handsome it was beyond words?

I'll take the blame!

... Rapidly returning to the underground cave beneath the seabed, the two, familiar with the route, first checked it to ensure there were no anomalies, then decided to stay there again tonight.

After eating and drinking their fill, Nangong Yan was about to lie down on the seaweed bed and sleep with his Tentacle Shrimp, but Jiang Chen kicked him up.

"What's wrong?" Nangong Yan cried out, clutching his butt.

"It's only seven or eight in the evening. Let's discuss tomorrow's tactics," Jiang Chen said.

"Tactics? What tactics?" Nangong Yan was confused: "Also, Big Brother, we've been hunting all day today, and my back aches. Please let me rest!"

"Do you still want to improve your ranking?" Jiang Chen retorted.

"Of course I do!"

"Then that's right," Jiang Chen said, sitting cross-legged on the seaweed bed: "You've seen today's scoreboard. Although we are ranked ninth and tenth, our points are not much different from theirs; we're biting at their heels!"

Indeed, they were biting at their heels. Jiang Chen and Nangong Yan had 39.2 points, while Zhang Caiying and Zhao Hui, in first and second place, had 46 points. There was only a 6-point difference between them!

So, if they worked harder and hunted more sea beasts, it was entirely possible to continue improving their rankings!

However, Jiang Chen was certainly not the only one with this idea; other students also had the same thought!

Everyone was desperately hunting, frantically increasing their points, hoping to get more rewards.

Jiang Chen opened his backpack, pulled out a large piece of hard red scale armor, and threw it to Nangong Yan. It was the scale armor from an Arhat Fish.

Jiang Chen instructed the Tentacle Shrimp to hold up the Arhat Fish armor as a shield with one hand, and use its other tentacle as a long whip for attack. With one attack and one defense, the Tentacle Shrimp's effectiveness could immediately increase significantly!

In today's battle, Nangong Yan's Tentacle Shrimp's attacks on the Arhat Fish were indeed limited.

That's why Jiang Chen thought of this move, to give the Tentacle Shrimp a shield so it could play a greater role.

After speaking, Jiang Chen also told Xiao Jiu to get up from the ground and start practicing the Brute Force skill, so that it could quickly improve its proficiency.

Xiao Jiu let out a painful meow, its blue eyes, like they held the starry sky, looked at Jiang Chen with tears, its expression full of pity and innocence.

poop scooper, please let me go, okay?

This cat is really exhausted like a dog today, I really can't move, don't force me!

Jiang Chen silently looked at Xiao Jiu and pulled out a small yellow fish from his backpack.

"Meow meow meow!!!"

Xiao Jiu, who was rolling on the ground, instantly brightened its eyes and quickly sprang up from the ground, pouncing towards the small yellow fish in Jiang Chen's hand with lightning speed.

To its surprise, Jiang Chen had already anticipated this, so the moment he pulled out the small yellow fish, he immediately retracted it without thinking!

Xiao Jiu leaped past, pouncing at thin air!

Seeing that the hard approach didn't work, Xiao Jiu decided to try the soft one.

Xiao Jiu raised its fluffy, cute head, looking at Jiang Chen fawningly and flatteringly, then rubbed against his cheek, then rubbed again, its gentle meows almost melting one's heart.

"Meow meow meow~~~"

poop scooper, I want to eat the small yellow fish, please give me the small yellow fish... "Get up and practice the Brute Force skill, and I'll give you the small yellow fish to eat," Jiang Chen said seriously with a straight face.

"Meow meow meow~~~"

Xiao Jiu pretended not to hear, continuing to pitifully fawn over Jiang Chen.

After fawning several times and seeing that Jiang Chen remained unmoved, Xiao Jiu could only puff out its chubby cheeks, pouting and painfully beginning to practice!

Its expression was a mix of frustration and anger!

Wicked capitalist poop scooper!

You only know how to exploit this cat's labor, I hate you to death!

Jiang Chen shook his head, gently stroked Xiao Jiu's head, and comforted it: "Days of enduring training like hell will surely reward you!"

Xiao Jiu shook its head frantically, no, no, days without lying flat, that's hell!

Jiang Chen was speechless and decided to ignore Xiao Jiu.

Jiang Chen summoned the sea creature illustration compendium and dripped a drop of Steel Claw Sea Dog essence blood onto it.

That's right, Jiang Chen decided to transfer the Brute Force skill to Xiao Jiu one more time.

In today's battle, the two only hunted two awakening level late-stage Arhat Fish; the rest were awakening level mid-stage.

It wasn't that Jiang Chen didn't want to kill more awakening level late-stage Arhat Fish; it was that he couldn't!

In today's battle, Xiao Jiu, using the Brute Force + Steel Rend Claw combo skill, could easily kill awakening level mid-stage Arhat Fish.

However, when encountering awakening level late-stage Arhat Fish, its attack power was still insufficient!

This was the fundamental reason why they only killed two.

If all twelve Arhat Fish they killed today were awakening level late-stage, then they would definitely not be in ninth and tenth place right now!

So Jiang Chen's idea at this moment was very simple: to also raise Xiao Jiu's Brute Force skill to the proficient level!

At that time, proficient level Brute Force + proficient level Steel Rend Claw should be able to threaten awakening level late-stage Arhat Fish!

It's just... based on previous experience, a skill needs Jiang Chen to extract it a total of five times to advance from entry-level to proficient-level.

He had to get kidney deficiency five more times. Jiang Chen couldn't help but shiver at the thought!

However, for the sake of the ranking rewards, Jiang Chen could only take a deep breath, pop a powerful capsule into his mouth, and then, with a solemn expression, tap on the sea creature illustration compendium!

Brute Force skill, extract!

First place on the scoreboard, here I come!

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