Rotting Land: Survive

Yamashita, arrogant, greedy, hot-tempered, and most importantly, he cares deeply about others’ opinions of him.

Jiang Kou capitalized on this, prompting him to compete with Xu Renjie.

The match is completely meaningless; if Yamashita had any sense, there’d be no need to wager with medicine. If he truly wanted to teach Old Xu a lesson, he could just call him out and beat him up.

That way, there’s no risk of losing, and he could thoroughly mock Old Xu.

Instead of being forced to use every trick due to the rounds, filled with rage as he is now.

Furthermore, Yamashita had never realized that from the moment he agreed to Jiang Kou’s proposal, he had already fallen into the trap set by the latter.

It’s important to know that Watanabe stated beforehand that tomorrow Old Xu would be going out with Derek to gather supplies.

This task at the current school is a matter of utmost importance. If Yamashita injured or killed Old Xu during the match, making him unable to participate in tomorrow’s supply gathering, it’s imaginable how Watanabe would react.

And when Watanabe pursues the matter, Jiang Kou could simply excuse himself by saying: "I just asked Yamashita to give the Huaxia guy a lesson, let them understand the power of our great Japan’s Jujutsu, without intending him to kill." Thus, he could smoothly extricate himself from the situation.

In this way, Watanabe would undoubtedly point all the blame at Yamashita.

So, regardless of how Watanabe punishes Yamashita, the final result would lead to the team’s dissatisfaction with Watanabe.

Considering all of the above, Jiang Kou’s strategy is undoubtedly a triple win.

Firstly, by utilizing the match, he weakens Derek’s ability to gather supplies. As long as Derek fails to fulfill the promise of triple supplies, Jiang Kou would immediately take a strike against Derek. Thus affecting his agreement with Watanabe to protect two women.

Secondly, by Watanabe’s anger, he undermines his position among members, laying the groundwork for his own future rise.

As for the third aspect, naturally, it still revolves around the supply gathering itself, because even though Jiang Kou did these things, they wouldn’t hurt the supply gathering directly.

After all, at the current school, it’s no longer a stage where Derek alone goes out to gather supplies. It’s thanks to the participation of Old Xu and Lei Tong that Jiang Kou has the opportunity to employ these techniques.

If Old Xu and others were aware of Jiang Kou’s thoughts, one wonders if they’d regret their initial decision.

Old Xu desperately slaps the floor. Undoubtedly, in the situation where he can no longer use escape techniques, he really would be strangled to death by Yamashita, and the enraged Yamashita clearly has this intent.

However, in this extremely critical moment, a sharp shout came from outside the door.

"Stop!!"

Watanabe’s burly figure blocked the entire classroom door. Upon hearing the shout, Yamashita’s body stiffened abruptly, and his originally tight arms unconsciously loosened.

Old Xu seized the brief moment Yamashita loosened his grip to quickly escape, and by the time Yamashita reacted, Old Xu had already rolled a meter away.

"What are you doing?"

Looking at Watanabe’s tightly furrowed brows, Jiang Kou’s lips subconsciously twitched twice, internally remarking: What perfect timing, just a little more and my plan would have succeeded.

"I asked what are you doing?" Glancing at Old Xu, who was massaging his neck and gasping for breath, Watanabe roughly understood what happened on the field.

And precisely because of this, he was even more infuriated!

"Oh, Boss Watanabe, we’re not exactly sure what happened. When we arrived, we saw Yamashita fighting with this Huaxia guy." A Japanese student timely explained.

Upon hearing this, Watanabe stepped toward Yamashita, and without a word, he kicked him in the chest.

Just like that, Yamashita, who hadn’t provoked anyone or done anything wrong, was inexplicably kicked.

Just as he was about to get up to explain himself, every step of his thought was intercepted by Watanabe who followed closely and arrived before him: "Are you full and have nothing to do!? Are you feeling bored with the zombie unrest outside and looking for trouble? Do you believe I’ll throw you out right now?"

"No, no, no, Boss Watanabe, don’t misunderstand, I, I did it all for..."

"Slap!" Before Yamashita could finish his sentence, he was kicked another two meters away.

Seeing the situation getting more chaotic, Jiang Kou knew it was time for him to step in, lest the fool Yamashita mess up his plans by speaking recklessly later.

With a smile, Jiang Kou sauntered toward Watanabe, maintaining a one-meter distance to prevent Watanabe from flipping out.

"Boss Watanabe, the situation is like this..."

Just like this, Jiang Kou used his excellent eloquence to concisely explain Xu Renjie’s request and the agreement between both parties to Watanabe.

After listening to Jiang Kou’s explanation, Watanabe turned his gaze to Old Xu.

"Hey! Huaxia guy, is that the case?"

Busy catching his breath and coughing, Old Xu nodded, then said flatteringly: "He’s too strong, hitting me like this, I’ll die. Can, can we not use those techniques, otherwise I, I have no chance of winning."

With furrowed brows, a trace of disdain flashed in Watanabe’s eyes, and then he stood with his arms behind his back, commanding: "Yamashita!!"

"Yes! Here!" Quickly getting up from the ground, Yamashita disregarded the pain on his face and sprinted over to Watanabe: "Boss Watanabe, do you have any orders?"

"Slap!" Another unprovoked blow. Now Yamashita even felt like crying.

With the earlier beatings for starting trouble, he couldn’t complain, but this hit...

"Boss Watanabe, my fight with the Huaxia dog is to uphold our Japan’s Samurai Spirit, I’m not..."

"Slap!"

"Baka! You think you’re upholding the Samurai Spirit of our great Japan? You’re just talking nonsense! I ask you, to deal with that kind of character, do we need to use choking techniques? You’re simply embarrassing our Japan."

"I... Let’s stop with the nonsense! Continue the fight, just don’t embarrass us again!"

Throwing out these words, Watanabe walked toward the seats, and seeing him approach, the Japanese students consciously made way.

After settling down, Watanabe waved his hand, Jiang Kou immediately understood. He hadn’t expected the conflict to be resolved so perfectly, internally feeling contempt for Watanabe’s "foolishness."

"OK! Yamashita, you’ve heard Boss Watanabe’s words, from now on if you continue using skills, I’ll have no choice but to rule you out of order."

After speaking, Jiang Kou glanced back at Old Xu: "Consider yourself lucky, Boss Watanabe has spoken, forbidding Yamashita from using Soft Techniques, if you lose again, you’d really be disgracing your Huaxia people."

While provoking Yamashita, Jiang Kou also teased Old Xu, proving his mastery of manipulating people’s thoughts and games.

But his tricks couldn’t escape Old Xu’s eyes. Old Xu immediately laughed: "Thanks to Boss Watanabe’s leniency, now, shouldn’t I be counted as having survived 6 rounds?" (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you’re welcome to visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com for reading.)