Spare Me, Great Lord!

Billowing fog pervaded outwards as all the searchlights in the camp were trained upon the depths of the salt pool.

“Is this the remains?” Chen Zuan and Gao Shenyin were already out of the tent and beside Lu Shu.

Lu Shu and Jiang Shuyi actually had a very great advantage. They both went into the remains before and therefore were familiar with the grounds. At least, they did not appear alarmed.

“Everyone will appear in different places after entering the remains. Stay cautious. It is highly likely that danger will come to you once you enter,” Lu Shu reminded the two new friends. He was worried that they would be brought down without even putting up a fight.

He recalled vividly that the last time he entered the remains, an axe-wielding skeleton was right beside him.

Chen Zuan rolled up his sleeves to show, deliberately or otherwise, his wristwatch, “My skilled brother, if we meet in the remains…”

“All’s good,” Lu Shu chuckled heartily. He paused for a thought, then asked suddenly, “Zuan, you eat so much, what’s your capabilities?”

Lu Shu saw Chen Zuan scoffing down chocolates and hardtack biscuits just now as he emerged. Someone who can eat so much is really rare nowadays…

Chen Zuan thought for a long time, thinking that he should show express some sincerity, but ultimately blurted out, “Don’t laugh! My capabilty is not to feel hungry after stuffing myself full.”

Lu Shu, JIang Shuyi and Gao Shenyin were all stunned upon hearing this. Lu Shu pondered for a long while before saying, “Zuan… to be no longer feeling hungry after becoming full is a given, not some special capability…”

“From Chen Zuan’s distress, +123…”

Chen Zuan replied with a sore face, “If I am sufficiently fed, I can go without food for 15 days …”

“This capability…” Lu Shu thought for a long while but could find no way to comfort him, “Haha this capability is indeed good!”

Chen Zuan’s face is already darkened, can you be more perfunctory?

Lu Shu was still thinking while speaking. This E-class bloke can already last 15 days, so will he be able to last 50 days without food after eating his fill when he becomes a D-class…

…

All the students of the Daoyuan Class had begun falling in according to their formation. The Class Form teachers were pointing out various important things to note as they shouldered their green backpacks.

All the formations were orderly save for Lu Shu’s group, which stood by the side in stark disarray. Many were muttering, curious about their identities. Why is there even a young girl among them?

Chen Zuan suddenly asked, “Hey skilled brother, what about Xiaoyu? We can ask the unit to help look after her, they aren’t entering.”

“You little fatty, just mind your own business, my little sister is of a higher class than you.” A voice came from behind Chen Zuan. Just as he was about to retort in anger, Chen Baili walked past.

Lu Shu and the others looked on as Chen Zuan’s face flushed beet red. “Second master, you are berating…”

“If you dare to bring shame to me, I’ll kick your head off,” Chen Baili said, before walkng towards the depths of the salt pool. He was actually entering the remains of his own accords!

Lu Shu and the others looked at Chen Zuan quizzically. How can this bloke be related to that old old priest heavenly king!

“Fatty,” Lu Xiaoyu looked up and asked suddenly. “Did you speak English in front of him?”

“I did not!” Chen Zuan replied, his face changing. “Xiaoyu, why do you think that? Absolutely not!”

“From Chen Zuan’s distress, +599!”

Lu Shu chuckled.

This is the look of one who have never done it? Only heaven would know what have you been through initially…

At the point in time, the heavenly network had already brought the entire Daoyuan Class towards the depths of the foggy salt pool. Compared to the passive involvement previously, this was a little more methodical.

Well supplied and well prepared, even the students of the Daoyuan Class experienced a slight shift in mindset.

They should all understand that at this very point in time, they were not simply a student but a part of the nation’s machinery.

“Let’s go,” Lu Shu said. He held on to Lu Xiaoyu and brought her towards the salt pool. Their backs shining brightly under the glare of the searchlights, it seemed almost as if the pair were the only two left in the world … other than Little Xiongxu.

Jiang Shuyi ran up and joined alongside them

Chen Zuan, following behind, said incredulously, ” Is Xiaoyu really of a higher class than me? In that case, isn’t she a D-class? Same as the two of you?”

“If the heavenly king says so, that it should be beyond doubt,” Gao Shenyin replied, then caught up with the group.

“Wait for me!”

…

Lu Shu stood still before the thick fog. Turning around, he smiled, “Here’s wishing all of you the best of luck. I’m glad to have met all of you upon my path of practition. Hope we can meet again.”

Chen Zuan and Gao Shenyin were also silent for a moment. “Take care.”

Following that, Lu Shu took the lead and stepped into the rolling fog, never to be seen again.

Lu Xiaoyu smiled. When they were young, if anyone at the welfare centre ever bullied her, Lu Shu would ask her to step aside and help fight the bullies.

When they were slightly older, Lu Shu would tell her to stay at home and be a good child before shouldering the heavy basket of cooked eggs to sell outside.

This made Lu Xiaoyu feel bad, as if she can only be protected. It was really bad.

She said softly, “Finally, I can fight alongside you.”

Lu Xiaoyu’s words were too soft for Chen Zuan and the rest to hear in time before she placed Little Xiongxu on her head and step forth. The thick fog swallowed them whole before instantly reverting back.

Jiang Shuyi, too, stepped into the remains behind Lu Shu and Lu Xiaoyu without a moment’s hesitation.

“Xiaoyu is braver than me,” Chen Zuan rubbed his burning cheeks. “Haha, I shall go first too! Gao Shenyin, don’t look down on me. Let’s see who earns more credit!”

In his seventeen years of life, Chen Zuan had always been living in the shadows of his clan. He was denied the chance to do anything by everyone.

Then, he was ordered what to do.

Perhaps he would be just like the generation before him, stepping into the society under the watchful protection of the elders and let time pass like that…

Just as he was thinking that his life would be just so, magical energy once again returned. Sometimes he would suddenly think, if I can be as capable as Second Master Chen Baili, can I then break free from the family’s bondage?

Who can say for sure whether the family’s survival mode is to disintegrate or to survive in a different way at a time when the individual becomes infinitely strong?

This… is his very goal for coming here!

The best era has arrived.

…

Gao Shenyin deliberated for a long time outside the remains. Of the five who came together, it was only him left.

“This fatty seems pretty good.” Then, he smiled and walked in.