Earth-Tiger stood up panting heavily, looking down at Earth-Dragon beneath him.
This large lizard who normally strutted around arrogantly had now been beaten by him until his nose was bruised and face swollen. Even back in the day, Brother Yang hadn’t been this ruthless.
“Old thing…” Earth-Tiger took several rough breaths and said in a muffled voice, “Do you know I’ve wanted to beat you up for a long time? What I can’t stand most are things like you who bully others by relying on your power and flaunt your seniority.”
Earth-Dragon had clearly been beaten dizzy by Earth-Tiger. Normally, even if others had issues with him, anyone who saw his face as a “Dragon” would think twice before acting.
After all, as the manager of all “Earth-level” beings, he represented Qinglong to a certain extent. But today, this Earth-Tiger seemed to have completely stopped caring about the rules on the “Train.”
Seeing Earth-Dragon had completely lost his ability to respond, Earth-Tiger turned his head to look at the many “Man-level” beings fighting beside him.
Among them were both his own students and Earth-Dragon’s students. Nearly twenty “Man-level” beings were wrestling together on the side. This was perhaps the largest battlefield on the “Train” since the “Rebellion” began.
Countless “Participants” boarded from the side, and after boarding, they saw the many “Zodiacs” fighting before their eyes, invisibly strengthening these people’s determination to participate in the resistance.
The so-called “Man-level” slaughter appeared much simpler than the “Earth-level.” They originally had ordinary human physiques, and their fighting was no different from street brawls. However, due to the constraints of their “Zodiac” identities, they chose more often during the killing to tear off each other’s masks.
As several people’s masks were torn off, something completely unexpected happened.
Not only did no “Divine Beasts” intervene in this matter, even Qinglong and the Heavenly-level didn’t appear.
The many “Man-level” beings who followed Earth-Dragon to suppress the rebels only felt as if they had been isolated. They were perhaps the only ones on this “Train” who chose to suppress, and although they had fought bitterly for a long time, there were no reinforcements behind them.
However, thinking carefully about it, this matter wasn’t strange. Even with the “Zodiacs” fighting so fiercely and Baihu not appearing to stop it, how could removing masks possibly summon Zhu Que?
A sense of dissonance spread through all the “Zodiacs'” hearts. Although the battle between Earth-Tiger and Earth-Dragon hadn’t completely determined a victor yet, the news that “removing masks won’t cause death” spread like wildfire, instantly reaching the ears of many “Man-level” beings, gradually fermenting an emotion called “disintegration” in the “Zodiacs'” hearts.
If removing masks right now wouldn’t cause death… did that mean they could withdraw from their “Zodiac” identities and become “Participants” again?
The open and aboveboard battle between Earth-Tiger and Earth-Dragon in the center of the “Train” undoubtedly told all “Man-level Zodiacs” that they had a chance to regret.
“Damn it…” Earth-Tiger saw his students almost unilaterally beating Earth-Dragon’s people, and for a moment his anger flared up. “Normally you little bastards are respectful and polite to me, but when it comes to fighting, how come you’re even more ruthless than me?”
While Earth-Dragon still hadn’t gotten up, Earth-Tiger walked forward and in no time at all picked up all of Earth-Dragon’s students and tossed them aside, instantly ending the battle.
Earth-Dragon’s students knew the situation was lost. After hastily scrambling up from the ground, they hurried to help up their teacher.
Earth-Tiger then looked at his own students’ condition, and after discovering everyone wasn’t seriously injured, he was just about to relax when he suddenly realized one person was missing.
“Fuck…” The fur on Earth-Tiger’s face trembled, and his heart instantly rose to his throat. “Where’s Man-Monkey?! So many of you couldn’t protect one teammate?!”
He looked around frantically but discovered that the nearby people indeed didn’t have a “Monkey” mask.
Just as he was speaking, a clean and fair-skinned young woman on the side paused, then opened her mouth with an embarrassed expression: “Teacher… I’m right here.”
“Huh…?”
Hearing that familiar voice, Earth-Tiger was momentarily speechless. He turned back to look at that girl and discovered her face was vastly different from that ugly monkey mask. No normal person could possibly recognize her in this situation.
Being stared at by that girl’s gaze, Earth-Tiger thought to himself that if it weren’t for his face covered in white fur, his face would probably be red right now.
“Why didn’t you say anything after removing your mask?” Earth-Tiger said irritably. “Didn’t this make me worry for nothing?”
“Uh…” Man-Monkey still felt there was nothing she could do about this teacher. Although he was a good person, his rashness was truly headache-inducing. “Teacher, I think I spoke up right away.”
“I don’t care about that,” Earth-Tiger said. “Anyway, as long as everyone’s fine. I didn’t learn much from Brother Yang, but the one thing I did learn was ‘only I can touch my people.'”
A fat Earth-Monkey mixed in the crowd couldn’t help but develop some interest in Earth-Tiger after seeing this scene.
If he remembered correctly, Earth-Tiger had been promoted to “Earth-level” for a very short time, only a few cycles. Yet in such a short time, he could make all his students willingly fight desperately for him. Even for something like “Rebellion,” no one retreated. At most, they had known each other for a month, which was enough to show he had merits.
“Old thing.”
Earth-Tiger looked at Earth-Dragon in front of him being helped up by his students. He had been beaten by him until he was somewhat mentally confused and was now only barely standing.
“Still want to fight?”
“You…” Earth-Dragon was just about to speak when he spat out a large mouthful of blood on the spot. It seemed even if they didn’t fight, he wouldn’t live much longer.
“I’ll say it one more time.” Earth-Tiger shouted toward the nearby crowd. “This ‘Rebellion’ targets all ‘Heavenly-level’ beings. You ‘Earth-level’ people, don’t come here trying to seek death with some nonsense. If we fail, it has nothing to do with you!”
The enormous voice made everyone around fall silent again. There were even some “Earth-level” beings who, after hearing Earth-Tiger’s words, returned to their rooms and closed their doors, acting as if nothing had happened.
“Ha…” Earth-Dragon covered his chest and squeezed out an ugly smile. “Even if you talk until the sky falls… I still must die here.”
“What’s that about?”
“Other ‘Earth-level’ beings can wait for the ‘Heavenly-level’ to die… but I’m a ‘Dragon’…” Earth-Dragon gave a bitter laugh, then coughed up more blood. “Are you trying to make me not interfere, and then wait for Heavenly-Dragon to die?”
“So what?” Earth-Tiger countered. “What about Heavenly-Dragon? Isn’t Heavenly-Dragon ‘Heavenly-level’?”
“You…”
“I said it very clearly just now.” Earth-Tiger walked forward and said, “Our target this time is all ‘Heavenly-level’ beings, including Heavenly-Dragon.”
