Right, the forum!!!
How could she forget about this gossip hub!
"So that guy named Chao bullied you? Do you know the Federation has an education complaint hotline? Let me tell you, some people just hate the rich..."
"Uh... he just thinks your sister here is exceptionally gifted..."
Wang Tianwei dismissed her younger brother with a few words. She hesitated for a long time over the school forum tab, wanting to click it but not daring to.
Those two photos were clearly livestream screenshots, each one absurdly clear.
And Wang Kaiyu said this was just the tip of the iceberg...
Wang Tianwei put down her chopsticks, took two deep breaths, and only after feeling she had prepared herself mentally did she open the school forum...
What kind of wild clickbait titles were these!
"Shocking! Zebra-Head Shorty actually solo killed a Star Wolf with just a laser gun!"
"The Peach Garden Oath of the First-Year Freshmen!"
"Honeycomb Warrior!"
"Four Sandworms!? Is it Qilin's loss of humanity or moral degradation!?"
"Jian Jingyu's S-Grade Mental Power!"
"Is Wang Tianwei actually B-Grade or A-Grade?"
"Huang Yan, my husband whom I've never met."
"Class B's Wu Xinshui and Class S's Huang Yan, the mutual appreciation between two top-tier conspirators~"
She calmly selected the first title and clicked "Report."
Reason for reporting... "Involves personal attacks and cyberbullying."
Zebra-head she could let slide, but what was with 'shorty'!? The Federation prohibits height discrimination!
After Wang Tianwei indignantly finished all this, she realized that their cohort's freshman training had already been memed to death on the forum!
Quite a few cursed reaction images had been produced, and some were photoshopped with unrecognized human or animal faces...
These memes didn't just feature her; Huang Yan and Jian Jingyu hadn't been spared either, along with many students from other classes. It could be said that everyone got a piece of the action...
The photo of the lizard demi-human student slumped on the ground had become his own profile picture.
That chubby kid she had scared with a scorpion in the desert, now GIFs of him complaining were everywhere... He had already become this cohort's "Meme King."
Yuan Lei himself even begged for mercy in the thread, but it still failed to arouse any sympathy from the upperclassmen.
Scrolling further back, there were actually memes of Yama Chao!
There was even a GIF of him when he was slightly younger, looking like it was from a year or two ago. He was originally sternly lecturing a group of students, but by the end, he was spitting as he spoke... She silently clicked save.
Continuing to browse, Wang Tianwei's anxious heart finally died.
She clearly just wanted to come to Qilin to quietly level up, but now it seemed she had attracted a lot of attention!
People from the First Military Academy were even coming over here to fish for information...
There were also students she had eliminated posting complaints in the forum, saying she didn't follow martial ethics and didn't even give people a chance to react...
Others were saying that their cohort was the unluckiest, but also the most "exciting"!
Wang Tianwei smiled bitterly; these upperclassmen really had it easy being armchair critics.
Fortunately, Huang Yan and Jian Jingyu helped share some of the attention. Someone in the forum had detailed the entire process of those two's field training.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk."
Just as Wang Tianwei was getting absorbed in the reading, her optical computer vibrated again. Someone had sent a message,
"Congratulations, junior, on successfully passing the freshman training!
I saw the livestream; it seems the frying pan you rented has been left in the desert forever. (Poor little pan...)
Considering we're both in the Mecha Mechanic Department, I'll give you a 20% discount. You just need to pay me another 55 Star Coins."
"..."
That day, in order to return the pan later, she had added that Senior Potato as a friend. She didn't expect the first message to be a debt collection...
Wang Tianwei silently transferred 55 Star Coins over, attaching a single sentence,
"Senior, you will succeed in whatever you do!"
"You're too polite. You're also a soldier under Yama Chao, I wouldn't scam you!"
Oh? So Senior Potato was also taught by Yama Chao?
"I still have some good stuff here, are you interested, junior?"
Wang Tianwei picked up another slice of boiled cabbage and put it in her mouth.
"What is it?"
"A plant detector! If I had known your stat for perfectly avoiding edible plants was this high, I would have recommended this to you back then!
The most common thing seen in the Fear Ridge Mountains is potatoes, plus star beasts and other wild vegetables. The school has never worried about anyone starving to death...
But you are truly something else! I heard the school authorities have already mapped out the specific route you took!
They even had students from the agricultural base plant some edible stuff along that path, otherwise they were afraid that if someone else took that route in the future, it wouldn't be good if they were eliminated due to starvation..."
Meaning she had perfectly avoided all food?
...Well said, but please don't say anymore.
Even though she had traveled through time, had her incredibly bad luck constitution not changed one bit!?
She decisively rejected the senior's sales pitch. After cleaning up the leftover hotpot with the robot, Wang Tianwei lay back down on the sofa.
Right, she needed to buy a bed for the house over here...
**********
Huang Yan didn't wait until he got back to the apartment; he took a shower right in the dorm!
He then went to the hospital and lay in a healing pod for a while before returning to the apartment the old man had prepared for him in advance.
When he reached his floor, he faintly smelled hotpot. He seemed to have eaten this stuff with the old man when he was a kid...
The first thing he did after entering the door,
"Butler, turn on the air purifier."
"Yes, Master."
Huang Yan's apartment didn't even have a sofa. The only furniture was basically all black, which looked minimalist and premium against the white walls.
He didn't linger in the living room lined with fitness equipment, but went straight to his holographic study and lay down in the AI cabin.
"Test mental power and physique."
A ray scanned Huang Yan's body from top to bottom, and a ten-second countdown appeared on the virtual screen in front of him.
"10, 9, 8... 0. Testing complete. Your mental power is A+, physique A+."
Huang Yan breathed a sigh of relief.
The potion he had concocted before was still working; the situation hadn't gotten worse.
His physique had improved a bit. The intensity of these seven days of freshman training was indeed very high for him... Of course, there was also the reason of his previously accumulated training.
He took a stroll around the school forum, then downloaded the livestream recordings of his past seven days from the Qilin intranet to review.
Up until now, he hadn't checked his credits. How many points were added wasn't important to him.
Huang Yan was confident he could successfully graduate from Qilin, but towards the end of this training, he always felt something wasn't quite right.
He came to Qilin because this military academy wasn't as radical as the First Military Academy, but the sudden appearance of four sandworms at the end of the freshman training didn't seem to fit Qilin's consistent play-it-safe style...
It could also be seen from the livestream that the teachers wearing mechas above were all standing in strict formation... So there really was an accident, right?
Was it that they didn't expect the sandworms to drive them to one place? Or was the number wrong?
After they were dismissed, Yama Chao left in a hurry. He hadn't seen a single teacher since he came out of the dorm, so where did everyone go?
