The students of the Qilin Military Academy had gone through a massive battle, and the distance between them had shortened significantly.
Whether they were from Class S or Class B, no one was staring at others anymore, obsessed with earning credits.
Right now, everyone had only one thought in mind: to get out of the desert before it got hot...
As a result, there were students from different classes supporting each other; some were cheering others on; there were even people bringing water and rations to Huang Yan, Wang Tianwei, and the others! The situation was completely different from the first seven days.
This was the true value of comrades-in-arms...
The three of them thanked their classmates for their kindness, although their "supplies" had actually just been replenished... Huang Yan and Jian Jingyu had even changed their backpacks! And most of the things in the bags were useless once they left Mount Jiji.
Lu Xiao kept glancing at the name Lu Bai on Huang Yan's backpack, but in the end, he didn't say anything.
...Who could be blamed? That guy was too reckless, chasing after someone and running off!
He didn't even see how Lu Bai was ultimately eliminated!
Wang Tianwei took out a flattened potato and shoved it into her mouth without changing her expression to replenish her energy.
The area where her neck had been strangled was completely swollen, making every swallow extremely difficult...
After eating the potato, she washed down an anti-inflammatory pill with water, hoping the injury on her neck wouldn't worsen.
The sun appeared on the other side of the horizon.
"We have to set off."
Huang Yan struggled to stand up, feeling his legs trembling.
Wang Tianwei spoke with difficulty,
"You guys go first... Didn't the teacher tell us not to travel together?"
Jian Jingyu, who had half-risen, was stunned, almost forgetting about this... So he sat back down heavily.
"Then you go first. Later, she'll walk in the middle, and I'll leave last. That way, I can rest a bit more... I'm exhausted to death."
Saying that, he lay back defenselessly onto the sand.
"Ouch!!"
His back of the head hit something hard, and Jian Jingyu arched his back in pain.
"What is this hard thing?"
Zhang Lyra dug around under his head and pulled out a pinkish stone.
Huang Yan understood at a glance.
"Rose stone."
Wang Tianwei thought the stone looked familiar... Right, Cheng Yin had brought one back to her before, saying it was a specialty of Planet Shuomo...
"A fragment of a sandworm nest, hard in texture and uniform in color. What a coincidence it was right under your head, keep it as a souvenir."
Wang Tianwei's pupils quaked. So the rose stone was actually a fragment of a sandworm nest?! It was this kind of "specialty"!?
She had even specially made a stand for it and placed it in her bedroom...
Zhang Lyra threw the fist-sized rose stone onto Jian Jingyu, who was still crying out in pain, slung her gun, and nodded at Wang Tianwei again.
"Then I'll go first."
"Be... careful... on the road..."
Wang Tianwei knew the Bear Tribe was afraid of the heat, so she waved her hand, urging her to leave this hellish place quickly.
Then she just sat there, not wanting to waste a single ounce of extra energy.
It wasn't until she could no longer see the backs of Huang Yan and the others that she slowly stood up from the sand.
"I'm... setting off."
Jian Jingyu almost laughed out loud hearing her raspy voice. He played with the "culprit" that had hit the back of his head.
"See you outside!"
Wang Tianwei re-wrapped her exposed head with her clothes and quickly blended into the continuous stream of students hurrying along.
Jian Jingyu waited another twenty minutes before setting off.
On the aircraft, Chao Hao waited until the students had mostly left in twos and threes before taking a few teachers down to collect the sandworm corpses.
That three-headed sandworm was indeed not an adult. Other sandworms were dozens of meters long with much harder skin, while it was only about ten meters.
But judging from its appearance, the evolutionary direction of this star beast didn't seem to be its size...
The faces of the teachers collecting the sandworm tissues together were very grim. The Federation hadn't had much time to catch its breath, yet the reproduction and mutation speed of the star beasts had accelerated again. How far away was the next purge?
How long could they hold out this time? If they changed faster and faster...
Fu Manli stood up and looked at the group of students hurrying along with their backs to the rising sun.
Were these children... also about to go to the battlefield like they did back in the day?
Behind the group of Qilin freshmen who were carrying their backpacks and just walking forward were the teachers' various mechas.
At this moment, they still didn't know what kind of burden was on their shoulders; everyone's face was filled with excitement that the freshman training was about to end!
Some walked with their arms around each other's shoulders, discussing having a good feast at the cafeteria once it was over!
Some were so sleepy they couldn't keep their eyes open, just wanting to go back to the dorm and sleep on the wooden bed until the sky turned dark...
Perhaps frightened by the commotion of the sandworms last night, almost no one encountered new mutant beasts or star beasts on the final stretch of the journey.
The finish line was similar to the starting point; the school teachers had used spray paint to mark a "Finish" line on the sand.
Once she truly crossed it, Wang Tianwei instantly felt drained of all strength. Although her backpack was practically empty, it felt heavy enough to crush a person to death...
In just 7 days! She had climbed mountains, crossed rivers, and traversed a small part of the desert, walking a total of 600 kilometers!
On top of that, she had to fight mutant flora and fauna and star beasts, while dodging classmates who wanted to eliminate her...
If it weren't for her A-grade physical fitness supporting her, she wouldn't have been able to endure it!
In her past life, this would have been an impossible mission! For starters, she couldn't have walked 600 kilometers in 7 days!
Wang Tianwei no longer cared about her image. She collapsed motionless under the awning set up in advance by the school, surrounded by classmates just like her!
Huang Yan had come out a bit earlier and was already sound asleep with his training jacket covering his face.
"Class S Wang Tianwei has completed the freshman challenge, adding 40 points. Hunting points doubled. Total 90.2 points."
After the students exited the finish line, the live broadcast ended.
The broadcast screens went black one by one, but the heat on the forum wouldn't cool down anytime soon.
"I'm not envious at all of the credits the eldest miss earned..."
"Being besieged by four sandworms, and one is only worth five points? Plus it has to be split evenly among so many people, it feels a bit unfair."
"You can only say it's bad luck. If they had only encountered a single one, it wouldn't have been hard to deal with with more people! We've never encountered a situation like this before!"
"...Do you guys feel that the evolutionary speed of these star beasts seems to be getting faster and faster? They now know to herd their prey together."
"The person above, don't scare me. If star beasts also evolve higher intelligence, wouldn't human extinction be near?"
"What kind of depressing talk is the person upstairs saying!? Don't we still have us!?"
"The freshman training is over, they can enter the school and start classes the day after tomorrow! There will be a good show to watch then! I can't wait!"
"Hahaha, I'm going to camp out for that chubby kid from Class B! His 'Mom, she's bullying me!' meme is too useful! [Picture]"
"Comrades, I've also started using capitalist memes! [Picture] [Picture] [Picture]"
"Holy crap! The person upstairs actually took screenshots of Young Master Huang and Young Master Jian! Stolen!"
