Chapter 1284: Chapter 1255: The Students’ Metamorphosis
A month went by in the blink of an eye.
Someone was using a kettle of water to vigorously wash their head beside a pile of grass.
“Oh my God, I finally understand what Teacher Li meant.” After washing his head, the boy, whose hair looked no different from a bird’s nest, leaned against a tree with a look of resignation and said emotionally.
“Du Wei, what did you understand this time?” A girl who was combing her hair nearby asked curiously upon hearing Du Wei’s words.
“Teacher Li said this is survival training, and indeed, it is survival training!” Du Wei said with emotion, “We’ve spent this entire month just struggling to survive, couldn’t care about anything else at all. Look, I found two fleas when I was just washing my hair!”
“Eww! That’s disgusting, stay away from me!” The girl quickly stood up and rapidly moved away from the guy infested with fleas.
“Hey, don’t blame me!” Du Wei shouted discontentedly behind the girl, “How many times have I told you girls, you need to bathe downstream, but you insist on going upstream, making us drink your bathwater every day!”
“Du Wei!” Beatrice called out from not far away, “What’s wrong with us girls? Letting you drink bathwater is a privilege, others can’t even if they want to!”
“Alright, alright, you’re the boss, what you say makes sense.” Hearing Beatrice speak, Du Wei had no choice but to concede, since he had already seen several girls looking at him unfavorably.
He didn’t want to completely ruin his chances with women before he even found a girlfriend.
“The boss and Brother Lin are back!” A boy’s excited voice came from afar.
A group of stern-faced youths quickly appeared in front of everyone. It was clear that over this month, everyone had matured quite a bit.
Especially those led by Li Weisi and Lin Lang, stubble had already begun to appear on their faces.
However, the same change appeared in everyone’s appearance; they all had lost weight, but upon closer inspection, you’d notice their gaze had also changed.
It had become more spirited, sharper.
During this month, in this primitive-feeling forest, they had gone through a lot, had mistakenly eaten poisonous fruit to maintain nutrition, had accidentally trespassed on the territory of powerful demon beasts and been chased around the forest by Mysterious-level demon beasts.
They had set traps, laid snares, gotten injured, and even pretended to be dead.
In short, this one month was more eventful than the several years they spent in the academy.
Similarly, they also understood more deeply the profound meaning of the word ‘survival’ from Li Chen’s words.
The premise for doing anything is to be alive!
“How long have we been here?” During a meal, seemingly reminded of something, Li Weisi suddenly asked.
“Katie, come here for a moment.” Beatrice beckoned to a somewhat petite girl.
During this period, everyone was busy with survival, and each person had been assigned their own tasks, even those with the weakest power were no exception.
Katie, the weakest girl in the class, had not even broken through to the Yellow Rank before they came out.
The tasks she could usually do included catching fish in the river and preparing meals, of course, her other task was… to keep time!
“Katie, how long have we been here?” Li Weisi stroked the stubble on his chin, took a big bite of the roast meat in his hand, and asked.
A thin scar appeared on Li Weisi’s forehead.
That was left by a Grey Mane Boar’s fang during a demon beast hunt.
Just a little more and that long fang would have directly pierced through his head.
But relying on his experience fighting demon beasts during this time, and a bit of luck, Li Weisi came out alive.
And now, that Grey Mane Boar had long since become part of their meal, with some dried meat hanging on the side.
“If we count today, it should be exactly a month.” Katie opened her notebook and spoke earnestly.
“Great!” Lin Lang clapped his hands next to him: “Since the time is enough, let’s summon the teacher tonight.”
“Li Weisi, you still have the… Signal Flare that the teacher mentioned, right?”
“I have it!” Li Weisi replied with a smile, “It’s that thing you ignite with True Qi and then throw hard into the sky, right?”
“Exactly.”
“Actually, I’m almost getting used to life here these past few days. But suddenly remembering the fresh fruits from Black Stone City makes my mouth water a bit.” Reid chimed in with a laugh.
Beatrice smacked Reid on the head and laughed, “And you have the nerve to talk, who was it that accidentally ate poisonous fruit last time and almost lost their life? If it wasn’t for Cain the healer, you’d probably be buried in the ground now.”
Reid, hearing this, scratched his head in embarrassment, and everyone burst into laughter.
The moment before dawn is the darkest, because after the darkness, dawn will rise again.
And Li Weisi and the others chose that moment to release the signal flare Li Chen had left when he departed.
The dazzling light lit up in the night sky and then exploded, turning into tiny stars.
Upon seeing this, many students smiled.
“It’s beautiful.”
However, when they found something amiss was when dawn broke, and Li Chen still hadn’t appeared.
“What’s going on? Did Teacher Li not see the signal, or did he forget today is the month mark?” Lin Lang asked, frowning.
“Impossible!” Li Weisi shook his head: “Teacher Li does things with his own intention, I feel it’s not that he forgot the time, but something else.”
“Could it be, this is another test from Teacher Li, to let us walk out of this forest on our own?” suggested Beatrice.
Li Weisi’s eyes lit up at her words, “That’s very possible!”
“Perhaps, at this point, Teacher Li is already waiting for us outside the forest!”
Li Weisi nodded: “Then what are we waiting for, let’s go!”
“Lin Lang, have you memorized the surrounding map? Avoid those territories with powerful demon beasts and take the safest route out. A month has passed, I don’t want to see any casualties at the final moment.” Li Weisi said.
“Don’t worry, I’ve got it all memorized!” Lin Lang nodded.
Then the group gathered to discuss for a while, and began their journey back.
“Teacher Li, just wait, we did it!”