QT: Against My Will

The Ordeal’s Main Mission:

1. Get from point A to point B.

2. Collect as many objectives as possible.

3. Get from point B to point A together with your collected objectives.

Time limit: 12:00:00 hours.

Time remaining: 5:05:39 hours.

“Eeee. ziiiii. kiiiiii. eeel. wheeeere. aaaaare. youuu. heeee. llooooo?” Bing Shi stretched out her words eerily like a siren trying to enchant a sailor with her melodious voice, “Anyone got any hints?”

.....

“None, madam!” Everyone snickered from the sight of a big mecha, parting away bushes with her cane as if looking for a lost kitten. Nobody sane would choose that type of armour if they knew there was going to be an EMP area that would render it useless.

Liam jumped from the tree, his impatience and worry were evident in his tone, “What are you going to do if you won’t be able to wear AME-Xi in the EMP area?”

Someone asked. Someone finally asked something they didn’t dare. When they imagined how she always got covered in some type of beast from head to toe without putting up much of a fight, they were a bit afraid of how she would do without the protective armour.

Bing Shi flipped a stone upside down, “Pray that all of you will stop staring at how I get covered by a horde of beasts and do something more useful, like... trying to save the group healer. From what I saw so far, you bunch are everything but dependable.”

“...” Ouch. She was joking. She had to be joking right? She had to know some self-defence, right? Right?! Did they really choose her as their team leader? She was a bit eccentric, but yes, if a similar chance came again, they would undoubtedly choose her again.

Has anyone seen what she could do with that cane? They shuddered at the thought that she brought it along for that sole reason.

“I think not being able to lure anything out is one of the hints.” Pop. Using her cane like a toothpick, Bing Shi skewed a poisonous frog into her collection of little beasts, placing it before Bertha’s eyes.

“...” After checking out the frog, Bertha nodded her head and crossed out another species from her list as she let Silvia place it into the cage on her back. Those little beasts Silvia was picking up were a part of the second objective.

Sensing danger, her ‘merry-go’ teammates suddenly changed into a troop of experienced hunters as they got into a defensive formation around Silvia with ruthless efficiency. Ezikiel either lured this area out or wiped it clean like Damon, and the rest of the top five students. If Ezikiel wiped the area clean, they would seriously consider getting Silvia’s kiss from hell.

|How the fuck did you lure out the sanguis queen?|

Maybe allowing Bing Shi to train her powers in her own way and pace wasn’t that bad of an idea? After all, she was able to save a group of people from getting wiped out. What amazing tactics or spells did she have to use?

|”I didn’t lure her out. I just covered her in my barrier and her colony chased her out after identifying her as a foreign object.”|

“...” Holding back his laughter, Ziek got out of the EMP area and returned to his wife. He was too flabbergasted to reply as his protective instincts were triggered to the max. He didn’t know why he suddenly found that woman covered in a mountain of armour so fucking cute, when just a while ago, he thought the exact opposite.

Those who trusted her strength would become her die-hard fans. Those like Elera, and Riley would think she got everything due to her superb luck and her ‘female lead’ charm.

Ziek was definitely in the team of: stay away if you don’t want to have your heart crushed. The rebellious prick he was, of course, he would shrug off his own instincts and charge head-on, straight against the glaring warning sign.

|Let me give your pussy a good. quick. fuck. after this ordeal.|

|”Okaaaaay.”|

Changing her focus, Bing Shi gave careful scrutiny to the ground, looking for scuffed soil, a displaced rock, a broken thorn, or a bruised leaf on one of the flowers. Everything was at its place, untouched, even though a battle occurred at the exact place not a while ago. Her eyes brightened in delight when she spotted a bug that camouflaged itself into a leaf. POP.

“Bertha, I got another one.”

“...” Everyone wanted to flip their equipment. Why did nobody tell them how their thermovision was completely useless in this place?! It might have worked before but not anymore!

There was this thing about the plants and animals behind the barriers, they were intelligent. Learned from their mistakes, these ones in the ordeal obviously had previous experience with humans and knew the defences.

For all the technological prowess of their species, they couldn’t come close to mustering a strength equal to the power of this world’s nature. It acted as if it was conscious and aware of their existence. Even a baby knew how not to disturb its ecosystem, ever. The school described it as an old foe with a vast arsenal of heavy weapons – earthquakes and volcanic eruptions would flare around the barrier if someone tried to ‘colonise’ it.

Flipping her cane around like a small staff, Bing Shi placed it behind her back and ejected her submachine guns.

|”I was a bit sceptical about what type of honeymoon it was going to be when you mentioned our childhood, but I’m loving it more and more.”|

Who in their right mind would choose a whole planet as a honeymoon destination, instead of picking a nice city or a country? If someone guessed Bing Shi’s husband, then they were correct.

|I thought about visiting a futuristic world with an advanced virtual reality, but then I remembered my wife’s motion sickness and changed my mind at the last second.|

Bing Shi quickly reloaded her two submachine guns with new magazines and pulled the trigger at another beast that slipped through her team’s poor defence.

|”So instead of letting me go through motion sickness you chose to let me face a rat the size of a wild boar?”|

|You weren’t supposed to join the ordeal.|

|”Oh, that’s true.”|

Bing Shi’s muscles jerked again. If not for her armour preventing her fall, she would have tripped over nothing. The short stun gave the beast a chance to clamp its fang-filled jaw around her shoulder. Or was it her shoulder? There was a great downside of not feeling pain. She had to constantly check and swallow pills for cuts, bruises, self-mutilations, and other possible unfelt injuries.

When Ezikiel leapt from between the trees, everyone turned towards their lost member with wide eyes. What the heck happened to him to end up in that gruesome state?!