Ordinary observers in fast time travel

Chapter 1141 Let's Fight

"Let me go!" Dai Yuxuan glared angrily at Shi Jia.

Shi Jia ignored him and looked at Lu Tianxue instead, "Captain, I think we should clarify things today."

Lu Tianxue nodded, but her complexion was very poor.

“Dai Yuxuan, tell me, why are you hostile towards me?” Shi Jia looked into Dai Yuxuan’s eyes.

The latter's eyes flickered, but he quickly glared at her angrily, "Hmph, I just don't like the look of you."

"You don't like me?" Shi Jia was speechless. "What's your reason?"

"No reason! I just can't stand you!" Dai Yuxuan struggled and tried to tear off the aerial roots of the sapling with her hands.

"Smack!" The sapling gave him a naughty slap!
"Ouch!" Dai Yuxuan's face contorted in pain. "Shi Jia! If you've got the guts, let me go and let's fight!"

Shi Jia has a headache. How should he communicate with this? He doesn't know how!
"Fine, let's have a match. If you lose, then put away your dissatisfaction and just bear with it whenever I'm around." Shi Jia took a deep breath, deciding not to communicate with the stubborn guy. "If you can't do that, either you leave the Qinglan team, or I quit!"

"Why should I leave!" Dai Yuxuan said fiercely.

"Okay, if I lose, I'll leave. If you can't do it, I'll leave too."

"Shi Jia!" Lu Tianxue exclaimed, "Don't joke around!"

Shi Jia shook her head. "I'm not joking. Although I'm a pretty easy-going person, I don't want to be verbally abused and ostracized every day. I don't think Captain Lu could handle people like that any better than I could."

This statement has a double meaning, both expressing the speaker's attitude and pointing out Lu Tianxue's irresponsibility as the team leader.

Lu Tianxue's face paled upon hearing this. "I'm sorry. Let's do it your way."

"Alright!" Shi Jia looked at Dai Yuxuan, "Are you ready?"

The latter scoffed.

Shi Jia immediately ordered the sapling to retract its aerial roots. The next second, he drew his longsword, and the sapling's aerial roots were there to support him.

Dai Yuxuan, like a crazed little lion, was instantly freed and swung a long knife straight at Shi Jia's face.

Shi Jia saw it, but his body reacted a little slowly. Fortunately, the aerial roots of the sapling blocked it for him.

"Smack!" Qi Gen lashed out hard at Dai Yuxuan, causing the latter to slow his swing for a moment. Shi Jia seized the opportunity and chopped down, hitting him squarely on the arm.

"Hiss! Shi Jia, if you're so capable, go do it yourself. What's the point of letting that little tree do it?" Dai Yuxuan looked at the sapling with some fear.

It was this wretched little sapling that tied him up, preventing him from leaving!

Shi Jia chuckled, "Dai Yuxuan, the sapling is my spiritual technique, which manifested when I awakened, and it is also the most important part of my strength."

"You're a martial arts master, and you expect a painter to forgo their most important life-saving skill? Do you think that's fair?"

Dai Yuxuan's face turned ashen as she desperately dodged the attacks from the saplings, while simultaneously trying to slash at Shi Jia. However, Shi Jia had practiced martial arts in the previous world, making him more than capable of dealing with a Spirit Martial Master who could only unleash 30-40% of their strength.

Therefore, all the people saw was a burly warrior, his jaw clenched, struggling to defend against the skinny, haphazard slashes of the spirit painter.

Yes, someone used a longsword like a knife. It's not his fault; he had never encountered a sword in his previous life.

But this fight, which was destined to end in disaster, lasted for an hour. The reason it lasted so long was because someone wanted to vent their frustrations, and someone else stubbornly refused to admit it.

"Huff~ Huff~" Dai Yuxuan lay on the ground, panting heavily, his face ashen. He stared at the stark white sky above the black area, his mind blank, like a dying fish.

Shi Jia sat on the rattan chair woven from saplings, drinking a beverage, feeling all her gloom dissipate, and even the stale air seemed exceptionally fresh.

A table was set up nearby, where five people were idly cracking sunflower seeds.

After resting enough, Shi Jia stood up, glanced at the five people, and looked at Dai Yuxuan. "Get up, don't lie on the ground like you're really seriously injured!" Dai Yuxuan, feeling weak all over, rolled his eyes. You're the one pretending! But he still gritted his teeth, weakly supported himself with his hands, and struggled to stand up.

"Apologize!" Shi Jia said calmly.

What struck Dai Yuxuan was like a bolt from the blue. He looked at Shi Jia in disbelief, "You want me to apologize?"

"Shouldn't you apologize?" Shi Jia raised an eyebrow.

"You bullied me like this, and you still want me to apologize!" Dai Yuxuan glared fiercely at Shi Jia, but he didn't even realize that his "fierce" gaze was more "fierce" than truly malevolent.

"Ahem, Junior Brother Yuxuan, you should apologize. After all..." Liu Zhan said somewhat reluctantly.

"Shut up!" Dai Yuxuan took a deep breath. "I'm sorry!"

Shi Jia raised an eyebrow. "What did you say? Your voice was too soft, I didn't hear you!"

"I'm sorry!" Dai Yuxuan said, embarrassed and angry.

"That's more like it!" Shi Jia was in a good mood. "Don't keep things to yourself in the future." He patted his shoulder, turned around and walked towards the car. "Captain Lu, we need to speed up, or we won't make it to our destination today."

Lu Tianxue's expression was somewhat complicated, but she immediately breathed a sigh of relief and told everyone to pack their things. She wasn't usually one to overthink things; otherwise, she wouldn't have misunderstood Shi Jia by not understanding Liu Yuan's words.

Dai Yuxuan was the last to board the bus and happened to sit next to Shi Jia. He felt a little awkward and kept turning his head to one side the whole way.

Shi Jia ignored him and took out his drawing board to start designing again. Once the training camp started, there would be no time to draw, so he had to make the most of his time.

Out of the corner of her eye, Dai Yuxuan saw him drawing. The crisp, clean lines gradually formed a long, coiled whip, giving people a feeling of softness, yet capable of piercing through people's hearts with a single blow.

His eyes gleamed with envy. His mother was a famous spirit painter, and his father was a powerful spirit mage, but he was a person with absolutely no talent for painting.

When he was little, his mother often flew into a rage over teaching him to draw, and would often sigh in the dead of night. But gradually, she stopped insisting that he draw, and the sighs disappeared. Along with her, her expectations for him also vanished.

This made him, who was emotionally fragile, feel terrified, and he sometimes couldn't control himself and caused trouble. Whenever this happened, his mother's disappointed look would fall on him again.

At that moment, he felt content, knowing that his mother still cared about him.

However, he didn't know when it started, but his mother began to smile and often used an unfamiliar name, which frightened him.

He knew that his mother had a remarkable student, a student who could be called a genius.

He was consumed by insane jealousy, instinctively repelling it, and he couldn't help but become rude...

But he was wrong; at that moment he realized how terribly wrong he was.

"sorry!"

"Huh?" Shi Jia looked up in confusion. "Are you telling me?"

Dai Yuxuan nodded, "You are excellent!"

Shi Jia blinked and joked, "Are you ashamed because I'm so outstanding? Don't be! There's no one as outstanding as me, so don't be ashamed!"

An eerie silence fell over the car.

"Pfft~" Cheng Zi burst out laughing. "Junior Shi Jia, I never expected you to be this kind of person!"

"Junior, I admit you're excellent, but what about your face? Don't you care?" Liu Zhan complained.

Shi Jia was speechless. Okay, he had been a little too carefree and had spoken without thinking. He rolled his eyes, trying to hide the heat on his face, "Ahem, no need to apologize. You already said that this matter should just be left as it is."

"OK, all right."