9: Captain: Is this talent legitimate? But I like it!

Over the next few minutes, the deck turned into a scene straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster.

Tang Ran was like a humanoid tyrannosaur.

Every punch she threw carried the sound of a sonic boom; it was the pure aesthetics of power.

Xia Mo, on the other hand, was in a completely different style.

Her S-Rank Talent [Shadow Assassin] made her look like a glitching bug, repeatedly leaping back and forth within the shadows of the deck.

"Holy crap, is this the true value of an S-Rank?"

"So cool! If I could, I'd even want to have her babies..." Zhao Mengmeng was drooling as she watched.

Not far away, Zhou Qian gripped the railing so tightly that one of her manicured nails snapped.

This kind of spotlight, the protagonist aura, should have been hers as the class monitor!

Why should she let a quiet wallflower steal the show?

Chen Du watched expressionlessly, his mind comparing them to various game characters he had played.

Tang Ran was a tank—high HP and high attack, suitable for drawing aggro; Xia Mo was an assassin—high burst damage but squishy, and her mentality still needed work.

If the two of them coordinated well, they would absolutely be a kill-harvesting machine.

"That's enough," Chen Du suddenly spoke up. "Xia Mo, you're an assassin, not playing hide-and-seek! Attack!"

Hearing the command, Xia Mo's delicate body trembled.

A cold intent to kill was crawling up her spine from within.

That was her hidden attribute.

At that moment, Tang Ran just happened to throw a haymaker that missed, her momentum spent.

Opportunity!

Xia Mo's eyes narrowed, and she vanished into thin air.

The next second, ripples appeared in the air.

She appeared behind Tang Ran like a phantom!

Her slender, fair fingers formed a hand blade, carrying a trace of chill, and were firmly pressed against Tang Ran's carotid artery!

Tang Ran froze instantly, breaking out in a cold sweat.

The suffocating feeling of being targeted by a venomous snake made her hair stand on end.

"I... I lost." Tang Ran was a straightforward person and immediately raised her hands in surrender. "That's awesome, Third Sister! Your teleportation is practically unsolvable!"

Xia Mo retracted her hand, her face deathly pale, and she leaned on her knees, gasping for air.

Her movements just now had been too intense; the strap of her panties had nearly snapped.

"Well done."

Chen Du jumped down from the railing and walked over to Xia Mo.

Looking at her long legs, which were trembling slightly from exhaustion, Chen Du naturally ruffled her hair.

It felt great.

"Th-there are so many people watching..." Xia Mo's face turned as red as a cooked shrimp, and she nearly buried her head into her chest.

A chorus of knowing, motherly smiles and whispers erupted around them.

"I ship it! A domineering captain and his pretty assassin!"

"The captain was so fierce when he was scolding people earlier; he's such a double-standard jerk!"

Chen Du automatically filtered out the noise and turned his head toward Xia Xin.

"Eldest sister, it's your turn. Don't tell me you only know how to hide too."

Xia Xin took a deep breath, clutching two rusty screws she had just pried out of the deck seams.

As a C-Rank Archer, she had always felt she was quite useless.

She had to complain—the Xia family's genes were simply absurd.

The triplets were not only fair-skinned and beautiful with long legs that even supermodels would envy, but they had all awakened Talents.

The second sister, Xia Lai, had awakened as a B-Rank Mechanic.

Oh right! And there was Ye Qiu, who had awakened the Medic Talent.

These two were precious technical personnel and healers on the ship, so it wasn't convenient to demonstrate.

At this moment, meeting Chen Du's scrutinizing gaze, Xia Xin's eyes changed.

With a flick of her wrist!

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The two screws flew like bullets, leaving two afterimages in the air, and precisely nailed the dried corpse of a seabird on the mast fifty meters away!

Headshot!

"Accuracy is excellent, but the power is a bit lacking." Chen Du's critique was very fair. "I'll get you a Recurve Bow later."

Xia Xin breathed a sigh of relief and quietly puffed out her chest.

Finally, Chen Du's gaze landed on An Nuonuo in the corner.

This Little loli was holding a bottle of water, licking it like a little hamster.

"Nuonuo, come here."

"Ah? I... I can't, Chen Du..." An Nuonuo was so scared that her ahoge stood straight up, and she shook her head like a rattle-drum. "My Talent... it doesn't listen to me!"

"Come here." Chen Du said only two words.

An Nuonuo moved over aggrievedly and stood in the center of the deck.

"See that empty bucket? Use air to push it away." Chen Du pointed to a plastic bucket ten meters away.

An Nuonuo held her breath, her chubby face turning bright red.

She nodded.

She pushed her two small hands forward, adding her own sound effects: "Hey-yah!"

Boom—!

A visible, semi-transparent wave of air exploded instantly!

But the problem was, this air wave didn't go forward at all.

Instead, it took off right where it was, turning into a spreading tornado!

"Oh my!"

Cries of surprise rang out in unison.

This demonic wind didn't have any lethality, but it was... extremely indecent!

It was swirling from the bottom up!

In an instant, the scene on the deck was too beautiful.

Over a dozen girls wearing skirts were collectively affected.

Skirts of various colors were flipped up to their waists like blooming flowers!

The spot where Chen Du stood had an unbeatable view.

His eyelids twitched wildly.

Good grief!

What kind of heaven on earth was this?

Pure white, lace, SpongeBob...

Li Yaozhi was actually wearing pink strawberries?

Zhou Qian had it the worst; her bikini almost flew off, scaring her into covering her critical parts and screaming.

"Ahhh! Pervert!"

"An Nuonuo! What kind of indecent Talent is this!"

The girls screamed as they held their skirts down tightly.

The scene was chaotic for a moment, comparable to a Marilyn Monroe imitation contest.

An Nuonuo was stunned herself, feeling a chill between her legs—her Officer Rabbit panties were also forced to see the light of day.

"Wah—! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to... Wuu wuu wuu..." She was so scared that she pressed her legs together and burst into tears on the spot.

Ye Qiu adjusted her glasses, her face full of black lines.

How was this a Child of the Weather? It was clearly a "Child of Fan Service," right?

Chen Du rubbed his chin.

Although the scene was quite erotic, that explosive power just now...

If it didn't go up people's skirts, but instead aimed at an enemy's face... that would be an Air Cannon.

"Not bad."

Chen Du walked up to An Nuonuo and performed another head pat.

"The explosive power is very strong."

An Nuonuo looked up, snot bubbles hanging from her nose: "Really? Chen Du... you aren't going to scold me?"

"Why would I scold you?" Chen Du smiled slightly. "This kind of pleasing performance—we can have more of it in the future."

"Pah! You old pervert captain!" A few bolder girls heard him and spat.

The originally oppressive and desperate atmosphere was diluted quite a bit.

Everyone laughed and joked, temporarily forgetting that they were in hell.

This was exactly the effect Chen Du wanted.

A lifeless team could only wait for death; a team with a bit of hormonal restlessness was the only one that would have the will to survive.

For the time that followed, the deck turned into a devil's training camp.

Chen Du wasn't acting like a human at all, commanding this group of delicate campus belles and goddesses to train like crazy.

Tang Ran led the girls who hadn't awakened in shuttle runs.

Xia Xin practiced throwing over and over again.

Xia Mo's phantom-like movements became increasingly skilled; she even dared to teleport behind Chen Du to launch sneak attacks—though every time, she was caught by Chen Du in a backhand embrace, taking full advantage of her.

The most absurd one was still An Nuonuo.

This girl's air vortex was still uncontrollable!

Screams rang out on the deck from time to time, with fabric of various colors flying everywhere!

Chen Du sat in a high place and lit a cigarette.

While enjoying this top-tier visual feast, he evaluated the cost-effectiveness of everyone's combat power.

In this world, beauty was just a seasoning; being able to kill monsters was the hard currency.

This day had been even more fulfilling than the physical fitness tests at school.