"Hiss!! Ugh... hiss!"
Zhang Lyra really couldn't stand listening to it anymore. She turned her head to look at the bruised and swollen Wang Tianwei.
"...You've been beaten up this badly. If you can't handle it, maybe stop eating spicy food?"
Finally, someone said it! The others nearby all stopped their chopsticks and looked over.
"Yeah, Sister Zebra... You're grimacing in pain. Why don't you just drink some nutrient fluid instead?"
During the special training, everyone carried some injuries, but when it came to who took the most beatings in their squad, it had to be Wang Tianwei and Huang Yan...
But at least Sir Huang knew that if the inside of his mouth was busted, he absolutely shouldn't eat hot and spicy boiled vegetables!?
"Phew!"
Wang Tianwei practically stir-fried a fishball around in her mouth again.
"Impossible! The weather is getting cold... This is the only thing that can comfort me right now!"
Huang Yan poked at his baked potato and spoke up.
"It only dropped by two degrees... And you said the exact same thing when you bought pudding yesterday."
Jian Jingyu thought for a moment.
"And the day before yesterday, when you dragged me over to watch you apply a gold patch to your arm..."
Zhang Lyra was about to join the teasing, but her mouth was suddenly covered by the person next to her.
"Shh, keep your little mouth... shut."
Zhang Lyra nodded helplessly. Only then did Wang Tianwei lower her hand. She looked at her already empty large bowl... hesitated for a moment, and gave up on drinking the soup.
"Sigh... You guys don't understand me at all! I'm under a lot of pressure, I'm going bald..."
Hearing this, Jian Jingyu immediately showed concern.
"What's wrong, Sister Zebra? Did you hit a bottleneck while building the mecha? Don't worry, we still have..."
"Mecha? What problem could there be with the mecha? It has nothing to do with the mecha."
Wang Tianwei said as she pulled a pudding out of her spatial button.
"I was thinking, the competition is coming up soon... How should we make our entrance to shock the entire audience!?"
"..."
"Teacher Eugene said that Qilin is about to start recruiting again, and told us to take the opportunity to promote it more during the competition... Tsk, what should we do to increase Qilin's popularity?"
"...I think it's better if you don't think about these things."
Huang Yan finished his entire baked potato, pushed the plate aside, and held his hand out toward Wang Tianwei. Jian Jingyu followed suit.
Zhang Lyra didn't say anything, but just looked at her silently, her pair of bear ears standing up and twitching again!
Wang Tianwei pouted and reluctantly pulled out three puddings.
"The store hasn't restocked recently. I only have four left!"
Huang Yan felt no guilt whatsoever.
"Eating alone is forbidden within the squad."
"You'd better not let me catch anything on you...
Hey, do you guys think we should prepare a wildly arrogant and cool entrance? Or would low-key luxury be better?"
Feng Yi's squad was sitting at the table next to theirs.
"Uh, junior, if you want to attract everyone's attention... you just need to act normally."
Admittedly, they had worried about other schools playing dirty tricks, worried about someone leaking their training status in advance! They also worried that the First Military Academy's strength might be greater than theirs!
But the one thing they never worried about was Wang Tianwei and her group remaining unknown...
On the first day of enrollment, when the vast majority of people didn't even know who she was, this person had already occupied more than half of the Qilin forum's front page... This was absolutely not based on luck!
Plus, with the looks of you guys... just standing there is conspicuous enough.
"Oh!? Is that a compliment?! Don't worry, senior! I absolutely won't let you down!"
The alarm bells in Huang Yan's head immediately went off!
"The teachers only asked you to show off the training results, they didn't ask you to do anything else!"
The three of them looked over in unison.
"When the time comes, we will enter normally wearing our school uniforms... If there are speeches or interviews, I'll handle them. You and Jian Jingyu just need to applaud at the right moments. Little Bear, make absolutely sure to keep an eye on those two!"
He was genuinely scared!
Ever since entering Qilin... no, ever since meeting these three people, his dark history had only been growing!
One must know that for his first seventeen years on Planet Tianshu, he had always been low-key and silent. If he occasionally had a high profile, it was only because he was Huang Taihe's son!
And now!?
His meme stickers were flying all over the Qilin forum! Even Dr. Tao had sent them to him!
Not to mention on the Zero Realm side... Although the headgear was outrageous, it preserved his last shred of dignity...
It was bad enough that Wang Tianwei had many photos and videos on her optical computer, but now even Yama Chao had dirt on him!
When they participated in the Military Academy League, it would be broadcast live the entire time... Thinking of this, Huang Yan pulled out the cake he had restocked.
"Wow!! Is this the mini cake from that shop!?"
Wang Tianwei's eyes immediately lit up! With this around, who would still eat pudding!
Just as she was about to grab it, Huang Yan dragged the cake back a bit.
"You three..."
"Hmm?"
The three of them, bearing varying degrees of injuries on their faces, never moved their eyes away from the cake.
"...Can you guarantee that during the league, you will follow all commands for your actions?
Things you shouldn't say, things you aren't allowed to do, you absolutely won't say or do them?"
"Don't worry, Sir Huang! When have we ever let you down!?"
"Exactly! We are good bros! Would we ever throw our own people under the bus!?"
"Guarantee to complete the mission!"
Zhang Lyra echoed in agreement, but her originally honest and somewhat dazed eyes had somehow gained a few more traces of slyness than before.
Faced with the "surrender" of the three, Huang Yan didn't know whether he should continue to give them more instructions or just stop right there.
Jian Jingyu took this opportunity to snatch the cake from his hands, and Wang Tianwei pulled out a few sets of clean knives and forks, starting to divide the cake!
"Sister Zebra, you actually prepared extra tableware!?"
Wang Tianwei flipped her hair.
"I bought some things that will be useful for the competition! My spatial button is almost completely stuffed... Sir Huang! Is your earring full yet? If not, can I offload some stuff to you when the time comes?"
"...We'll talk about it before we leave. I want to see what useless things you've bought this time..."
Zhang Lyra ate the custom cake, her eyes narrowing in happiness!
"Mmm! Delicious~"
Huang Yan looked left and right. Why did he still feel uneasy? Who exactly was the source of this? He just had a premonition that these three were going to cause something huge...
"Here! Sir Huang, this is yours!"
On the other side, Wu Xinshui looked at the four of them with a mysterious smile on his face.
Yuan Lei finished drinking his second bag of nutrient fluid, looked at his commander, and then looked over at Huang Yan's side.
"Boss, what are you laughing at?"
Wu Xinshui withdrew his gaze.
"Nothing."
"Boss, are you jealous that they get to represent the school in the competition?
It's fine, we just need to work harder! Who knows, maybe it'll be us next time!"
Wu Xinshui shook his head.
"Not really... Oh right, when the league starts, we absolutely must stay glued to the live broadcast."
"For sure! Such a big competition, and during the holidays too! It's been a long time since our Qilin showed its face in a major event like this!"
"More than that, I have a premonition that Huang Yan absolutely will not get his wish."
"Huh? Yeah, okay!"
