Barnett and his team escaped from the poisonous hornets and continued advancing to the assembly site, after half an hour, they didn't meet with any danger, but their spiritual power began to violently fluctuate.
If their personal terminals were not limited, they would detect that such fluctuations were very dangerous, it could seriously damage a person's decision making skill and all their negative emotions would be infinitely magnified, but they couldn't feel the slightest change.
Barnett frequently stared at the rankings, his expression was very hideous, "Why is Cecil ranked first? He must be cheating! I want to lodge a complaint against Chelman Academy!"
"You don't have the right to always complain about others. Cecil can't cheat, everyone would see." The team member with the mildest character suddenly openly refuted Barnett, his tone was very contemptuous. This was something he'd held in his heart for a long time, he was tired of Barnett's willful and narrow-minded actions.
The other team members looked at him in surprise, Barnett was furious, he pointed a particle gun between the man's eyebrows and gritted his teeth, "What did you say?"
"I said you don't have the right to always complain about others. If you hadn't carelessly command us to bomb the hornet nest, we wouldn't have almost died. Can't you assess your own strength before doing something? Don't always think that you're omnipotent, you're not Osborne Matthew … …" The man was not scared, his complaints gushed out.
Barnett didn't wait for him to finish his words, he ended his life with a bullet, and he also kicked his body away, like it was a dirty piece of garbage.
The rest of the team were all scared silly, staring at him in disbelief. They had thought that Barnett was just doing his usual threats, never daring to kill, even the just-killed teammate had also thought so, they were, after all, under interstellar scrutiny.
The viewers on the Star Network were boiling, they kept shouting if Barnett had gone crazy. The third test was deadly, but the candidates were always sacrificed in battles with the Zerg, such a scandal between candidates had never happened before (at least not so openly).
If Barnett wanted to kill he killed, arrogant beyond redemption, who gave him such confidence?
The netizens were furious, they demanded that the school arrest Barnett and hand him over to the military court. The Aldrich family were very anxious, they immediately contacted a Chelman mentor, asking them to bring Barnett back.
Barnett killed his own teammate in full view of the galaxy, and the teammate's background was not simple. His family were very successful businessmen, they ranked at least third on Lennon Empire's Wealth List. They were not short on money, but they lacked military and political connections, that's why they'd allied with the high status Aldrich family.
Now, their family's most promising child had been killed by Barnett in public, they would never let it go. The negotiations for military supplies fell through, and there would be endless trouble in the future.
And Barnett himself would face a military court sentence, killing comrades was not a minor crime, and this case with sufficient evidence was enough to give him the death penalty, he couldn't escape even if he used his connections.
Ignorant of the uproar, Barnett didn't show a shred of guilt after killing a member of his team. He walked toward the depths of the dark jungle and swore, "I will never let that bastard Cecil surpass me. My father could get rid of his grandfather, so I'll be able to get rid of him. Sooner or later, one day I'm going to grind him and his grandfather into slags! Come on, we're going to kill the magic flower mantises."
As everyone knew, magic flower praying mantis and the plant called magic flower plant were inseparably related, young magic flower mantis relied on the juices from the flower to grow their invincible exoskeletons. If you found a batch of magic flowers, you were bound to find magic flower mantises nearby, as long as they quickly killed a few, they could occupy the top ranks.
The idea was good, but too dangerous, using such simple weapons and equipment to bring down magic mantises was tantamount to walking to their deaths. The team members stood in place, one of them angrily demanded, "Barnett, are you going to ignore that you just killed Leo? And you also left his body to be gnawed on by Zerg? You're a demon! I don't want to be part of this group!"
"Are you betraying me? Fine, but leave me your life." Barnett fired a shot, piercing the man between his eyebrows, then he sneered at the other members, "Remember this, you're all under my Aldrich family's command, you can only dedicatedly service my family, anyone who dares talk back to me will be killed!"
The others looked at each other and could only follow him silently.
The Star Network once again exploded. Barnett's words and deeds were evil to the extreme, what did he say, 'my father could get rid of his grandfather, I can get rid of him the same'? Wasn't that an indirect admittance that Old Bernard really was injured in an Aldrich family scheme! Also, the Aldrich family's behavior shouldn't be so arrogant, anyone under their command had no human rights? Arbitrarily killing whoever he wanted, he simply had no respect for Lennon Empire's laws!
Such a family was in charge of an army? Do their regiments exist to defend the country or was it for the sake of selfish gain?
The netizens raised sharp questions one after another, and the Aldrich family spokesman struggled to cope. At the same time, all the forces allied to the Aldrich family were shaken. Barnett's behavior was enough to reflect the despicable and insidious nature of the Aldrich family, anyone cooperating with the Aldrich family had to be wary of being betrayed or silenced at any time.
No sane person could tolerate this. They were quiet on the surface, be they were secretly looking for a way to escape. They thought of the straightforward Old Bernard and had to sigh in regret over how much more comfortable they would've been under the Bernard family.
If not for Johnny Bernard's inability to support the Bernard house, they wouldn't have turned to Aldrich. But now that the Bernard family had the brilliant Cecil, perhaps they could return to their former glory, so going back to the Bernard family should be a good choice.
But these were all people of rigorous schemes and deep foresight, they wouldn't take immediate action. They needed to assess Cecil's strength to see if he could inspire them to throw their eggs in his basket.
Barnett killed two people in a row, his emotions were even more high-strung. He managed to find the magic flower field and met the magic flower mantises. As expected, they were not the magic flower mantises' opponents and they were forced to retreat.
They frantically launched a particle gun barrage, but it could only temporarily stop the magic flower mantis' attack, when the energy stones were exhausted, they despaired and fled in an embarrassing panic. Even if he was an SS-level Alpha, his running speed couldn't compare the magic flower mantis, Barnett was soon overtaken. Seeing his death in the sickle-shaped forelimbs, he couldn't help but grab a team member next to him and throw him into the mouth of the magic flower mantis.
With fresh food, the magic flower mantis stopped, frantically chomping its huge mouth, chewing that person to bits. The man died slowly, his screams of desperation making the audience on the Star Network stand erect. They had never seen a more despicable man than Barnett. No, he shouldn't be called a man, but a beast! He'd completely inherited his father's despicable genes!
This kind of person is disgusting! If you let him into the army, who would dare fight alongside him? He's more terrifying than the Zerg, because he can willingly push his comrades down into the abyss of death in order to survive. He must be sentenced to death!
Such clamor flooded the Chelman Military Academy and the Five Army's official websites.
In just one day, the Aldrich family fell into a very awkward position. Their military supplies were removed and friendly forces were trying to lift their cooperation contracts. Unwilling to go with them to the battlefield, they asked the other soldiers in the corps to rage a storm, setting the highest record of tens of thousands of soldiers striking together.
The Aldrich family's leader hated Barnett until his teeth itched, he called mentors one after another and demanded that Barnett be brought out of the test. Osborne received a military court order telling him to immediately arrest Barnett. This matter had long been spread throughout the galaxy, and with such overwhelming evidence, if the military court didn't execute Barnett, there would be public outrage.
Barnett didn't know that he was making his outcome worse, he led the last two members of his team around the jungle, aimlessly fleeing, coincidentally, gradually approaching Zhou Yun Sheng's river camp.
Zhou Yun Sheng took a bath, washed his coat, and let it dry by the fire. Darren took out two nutrient packs and handed him the peach flavored one, he blushed and said, "Cecil, here, you need some quick nutrition."
Zhou Yun Sheng grabbed it but didn't eat it, he concentrated on staring at 007, under the camouflage of his soul force, no one could see that he was monitoring Barnett's every move.
He was very satisfied with Barnett's performance, even if he didn't die on CT073, he would die in the military court, and the Aldrich family who'd raised a military war criminal would be finished, declining step by step. Everything they had taken away from the Bernard family, he would recapture it.
He chuckled twice and put the nutrient pack into his backpack.
Darren was paying attention to the boy's every move, seeing him not eating, he grew anxious and advised, "Cecil, although it tastes like crap, you should at least eat a little bit, or you'll have no energy to deal with the Zerg tomorrow."
"You're so silly, you ignore the natural delicacies and choose to eat this industrial synthetic food." Zhou Yun Sheng walked over to a poisonous hornet corpse and used his energy sword to remove its two huge hind legs, then he grilled them on the fire.
The exoskeleton of the poisonous hornet was not as indestructible as the magic mantis, and they relied on only their mouths and stingers to carry poison, a moment later, the shells emitted crackling and snapping sounds, splitting. Zhou Yun Sheng used his sword hilt to break the shell, exposing the white, fragrant and tender meat inside, with a sour, fruity smelling-sap coating it.
The fruity fragrance mixed together with the meaty scent, without even tasting it, they could guess at its sweet and delicious taste. Darren threw away his nutrient pack and leaned toward Zhou Yun Sheng, he swallowed his saliva and asked, "You can eat Zerg?"
"A lot of the Zerg are really delicious, you'll know it when you taste it." He cut out a small piece of white meat and pushed it into Darren's mouth. Darren's eyes rounded, he shut his mouth and quickly swallowed the meat, almost swallowing a piece of his tongue.
"Oh, it's, it's delicious! Even more delicious than Giant Ocean Star Oyster meat! This is first-rate meat! Oh, my God, I didn't expect such an ugly looking Zerg actually has such delicious meat. Give me more, quick! It's so gooood!" He anxiously pulled the teenager's pant leg.
Zhou Yun Sheng handed him the roasted hind leg, then baked his own share, explaining, "I heard about it from my grandfather. Once, his corps was besieged by an army of Zerg on a minor planet, reinforcements were unresponsive and military supplies were depleted, in order to survive they had to dismember the Zergs and eat them, but they didn't expect to find such top quality meat. Although it's very difficult to survive in the wild, it's a worthwhile trip if you can taste this delicacy."
"You're too right, we shouldn't touch the nutrient packs again, we'll eat the Zerg." Darren was very direct, he immediately threw the nutrient packs into the fire.
Zhou Yun Sheng gave him a bright smile and also threw his in.