"Eldest Miss has some pretty good moves!"
"Can a B-grade mental power really look this cool?"
"...The person above, don't force me to slap you."
"My opinion of her has changed a bit. Looking at her movements, it seems she's practiced them countless times..."
"She did get into the First Military Academy after all! She should at least have this much strength, right?"
"It's just a mutated plant. Young Master Jian is already soloing a star beast over there!"
"Wow! A freshman soloing a star beast!? As expected of Chief Judge Jian's son, he's truly brave!"
"Heh! Brave, sure, but also incredibly reckless! Making such a huge commotion killing a star beast, he's already been discovered by the S-Class! I'd like to see what he does next!?"
"Hahahaha! That's why they say those in business are the real brains! Just look at our Eldest Miss and Young Master Huang!"
"Uh... Young Master Huang doesn't seem to be doing too well."
Huang Yan froze in his tracks, maintaining his walking posture, his temples throbbing.
What terrible luck! If I had known, I wouldn't have chosen this path...
Just five steps away from him, a little white rabbit with glowing red eyes stood on its hind legs, its two front paws hanging obediently in front of its chest.
Despite being so small, it gave off an eerie sense of oppression.
A mutated mad rabbit...
Don't be fooled by its cute appearance; this thing was carnivorous! Moreover, it was incredibly fast, and its body was extremely resilient. Ordinary blows wouldn't even scratch it.
Its two front teeth were incomparably hard. Once it bit into its prey, it wouldn't let go. It could even bite a chunk out of a solid rock!
The most important part was that these things never appeared alone!
Sure enough, he didn't even have to look hard.
In the bushes, behind the rocks, and next to that tree... a bunch of rabbit ears soon popped up nearby. At a glance, there were at least a dozen of them.
"Whoa! Mad rabbits! Young Master Huang's luck is terrible!"
"Nineteen mad rabbits... someone could die, right?"
"...If Young Master Huang perishes in Mount Juji, will Taihe Technology flatten Qilin?"
"The person above needs to think bigger. With Taihe's financial power, they would probably flatten Planet Shuomo..."
"No! Young Master Huang, just press the exit button! I still want to save up to buy a Taihe mecha!"
The group of teachers on standby in the aircraft also noticed the situation on the S-Class's side. Fu Manli quickly walked over to Chao Hao, who was chewing on nutrient paste.
"Get ready, we might need to go rescue someone."
Chao Hao didn't seem to care.
"He hasn't pressed the alarm yet, has he? We'll talk when he does."
Seeing his nonchalant attitude, Fu Manli couldn't be bothered to argue and went to check the equipment herself.
Qilin Military Academy's freshman training was designed to get all new students into the zone immediately upon enrollment, but they took the students' personal safety very seriously.
The mutated flora and fauna of Mount Juji were cleared out once a year, so under normal circumstances, they wouldn't endanger the students' lives.
The star beasts were also low-tier ones specifically captured by them, released into the mountain right before the semester started for the students to practice on.
Once the training drill was over, they would use a list to hunt down and exterminate the remaining ones one by one.
Coupled with 24-hour surveillance, the students were very safe as long as they grouped up.
But the problem was that troublemaker Chao Hao, who actually made three students act independently!
Surviving alone on Mount Juji for seven days, during which they not only had to deal with various mutated plants and animals but also guard against sneak attacks from their classmates, let alone face their own psychological challenges like fear and loneliness... This had long exceeded the training intensity meant for freshmen...
Once this trial was over, she really hoped the principal would teach Chao Hao a good lesson!
Besides the observers and rescue teams on standby, the upperclassmen and teachers watching the live broadcast were also sweating for this S-Class freshman.
Over on Huang Yan's side, he had already opened fire... The rabbits, which had looked as cute as plush toys just a moment ago, lunged at him almost simultaneously!
However, because they were small and fast, Huang Yan fired several shots but only barely grazed their fur.
Seeing their companions injured, the rabbits' attacks became even more ferocious.
Huang Yan swiftly kicked one away but failed to dodge the rabbit lunging at his upper body.
With a loud crunch, the red-eyed rabbit bit clean through Huang Yan's backpack strap!
The uneven weight on one shoulder affected his shooting, so he simply used the gun in one hand to smash away the rabbit still gnawing at him, while using his other hand to fling the backpack away.
But the mutated rabbit at his feet seized the opportunity to pounce, aiming a bite right at the fingers holding his gun.
Oh no! If that bite landed solidly, he'd lose a finger right here!
He quickly retracted his index finger, but the continuous wave of rabbits from behind knocked the gun out of his hand.
The moment he lost his weapon, all the rabbits swarmed him. Huang Yan simply broke into a run, distancing himself from his previous spot.
"It's over! Young Master Huang's gun is gone!!"
"He's still not pressing exit!? His life is more important!"
"Say... chew chew, if Young Master Huang is gone... chew chew, is there any chance Huang Taihe might inexplicably adopt me as his son?"
"Eliminated so quickly? Boring..."
"Stop mocking him. If you ran into mad rabbits alone, you wouldn't have any tricks up your sleeve either!"
"Young Master Huang is already doing pretty well. Wasn't there a freshman who cried and quit just an hour into the mountain?"
Chao Hao crumpled the nutrient paste wrapper into a ball and tossed it into the waste disposer, his eyes glued to the screen.
Fu Manli took a weapon from the gun rack and said to the rescue team,
"In a moment, Chao Hao and I will provide cover fire, and you guys save him..."
The aircraft was already heading in that direction.
Huang Yan's laser gun was surrounded by the mad rabbits. None of them had forgotten that this was the very thing that had just injured several of their companions.
Huang Yan, whom everyone assumed was about to quit, instead let out a sigh.
"...So unlucky."
Turning his head, he saw only one rabbit near his backpack. Huang Yan did a barrel roll to dodge a mutated beast lunging at his upper torso, grabbed that rabbit by the ears, tossed it away, and with a sweep of his right hand, secured his backpack!
Then, he pulled a leather tool pouch from the side of the backpack, opened it, and took out... a Western-style kitchen knife?
"Uh..."
"I have a question... does a kitchen knife count as a weapon?"
"Of course not! The weapons the school refers to are hot firearms! At the very least, they have to be on the level of a laser sword... Didn't you see the detectors didn't even pick it up!?"
"I brought an axe when I went in back then. A kitchen knife is just for cooking."
"...It's not even as long as a dagger."
"Is Young Master Huang going to fight with a kitchen knife?"
"I must be hallucinating, I'm seeing a real young master enter the kitchen!"
Huang Yan gripped the kitchen knife and skillfully twirled it, taking a brief moment to glance at his watch before locking his eyes onto the mad rabbits in front of him.
"I need to end this quickly."
The viewers in live stream room 23 fell silent for a moment, and then the comments flooded the screen like an avalanche.
"He doesn't plan on quitting!?"
"Holy crap! A kitchen knife against mad rabbits!? Young Master Huang is a real man!"
"He dropped his gun and still isn't giving up! I declare! From now on, I am a Huang fan!"
"...The person above, maybe change that name?"
"Huang fan? It makes a person's heart itch."
