Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr Ling Lan performed a standard scout salute and then turned to walk back, saying to the confused Class-A students, "The combat match is over. Let's go back."
The Class-A students looked at each other, unsure whether Ling Lan had won or lost this match. Although that starship instructor had said that he had lost, there was no way to tell from the scene. Moreover, Ling Lan had not shown any signs of excitement either. Could it be that this was just a form of modesty, giving the students some face?
"What are you thinking? We're still far from it. We need to go back and work hard. " Ling Lan's cold words enlightened the Class-A students. It looked like the other had indeed given them some face.
Under Ling Lan's lead, the Class-A students gradually left the combat room, and the starship crew began to gather around the instructor.
The crew members who had a certain level of strength were bewildered, still unable to believe that a child could match the strength of their own instructor. Of course, there were also some crew members who were not that strong who were unconvinced. Amidst the cold silence, they actually opened their mouths to ask, "Instructor, why didn't you teach the other a lesson? Why did you give him face? He injured our L15. "
"Give him face? Yes, I did give him face, but it was he who gave me face. " The instructor's expression was ugly, and he sneered, "A bunch of blind idiots. Everyone, go into solitary confinement for one day!" Although he did not mind winning or losing, he was still annoyed to have it brought up again and again.
The instructor's punishment made all the crew members present wail in unison, especially those who had not said anything. They felt that they had been wronged. They only dared to glare viciously at those idiots, not daring to say anything. This was because they knew the instructor well — the other was a man of his word. Whoever dared to beg for mercy, the punishment would be doubled.
The crew members automatically walked into the starship's dedicated solitary confinement room, and found the instructor following closely behind them. One of the crew members said fawningly, "Instructor, you don't have to supervise us. We'll go to the solitary confinement room ourselves."
"I'm not supervising you. Rather, I'm also going into solitary confinement for seven days," replied the instructor coldly.
"Why?" asked the crew member in shock.
"If you make a mistake, you have to accept the punishment. It's the same for me." With that, the instructor entered the confinement room, leaving the crew members looking at each other, wondering what the instructor had done wrong …
When the instructor came out again, the indifferent look on his face made everyone understand that the instructor's strength had increased again. The originally sharp and oppressive aura had now been restrained and was almost undetectable. If he didn't make a move, it would be easy to overlook his existence.
That's right. After seven days of confinement, the instructor had finally advanced from the middle stage of Qi-Jin to the late stage of Qi-Jin. As for whether he could enter the peak stage of Qi-Jin or even the great perfection stage of Qi-Jin, it all depended on luck and whether there was a possibility of an epiphany.
Old Lian had once asked the instructor how he managed to break through this time. One must know that after entering the Refinement stage, every advancement was dependent on luck and coincidence. The instructor replied. This was because during the battle between him and Ling Lan, the oppressive aura of the other party had caused him to feel the possibility of a breakthrough in his originally stagnant realm. This was his opportunity, and he was lucky enough to grab it.
There was one more thing the instructor didn't say, which was that he suspected that Ling Lan had purposely allowed him to succeed in this battle. If that was the case, then Ling Lan's strength was very likely to have reached the mid to late stage of Qi-Jin. The instructor didn't dare to think too deeply about it, otherwise he would feel that adults like them were all stupid, actually not even as good as a ten-year-old child. Thus, he buried this thought deep within his heart.
However, regardless of whether Ling Lan had done it on purpose or by accident, he would remember this favour in his heart.
Because of the combat competition this time, the students and crew members of the starship had become familiar with each other. Sometimes, when they were dissatisfied, they would engage in a bit of verbal sparring. If one side couldn't win, they would roll up their sleeves and request for a hand-to-hand fight. Of course, no one would object. Just like this, the relationship between the two sides grew better and better. Other than a few particularly narrow-minded members of the crew, most of them were very caring towards the students.
Zilong also frequently fought with the leader of the Golden Scales team, L13. Every time they fought, it would be a spectacular fight. At the start, there would still be crew members and students cheering for their companion, but later on, they gradually began to ignore them. This was because these two people were masochistic when they fought, never caring about winning or losing. They would fight until they were exhausted and covered in wounds before they would painfully crawl out of the combat room.
The people of both sides gradually got used to the masochistic style of the two, and in the end, no one was interested in cheering for them anymore.
Still, masochistic as the two were, the results were not bad. Ling Lan could clearly feel that Zilong's combat was becoming more and more like a nuance. The breakthrough was right in front of him — all that was left was an opportunity.
Meanwhile, L13's time spent accompanying Zilong in combat had not been in vain. Compared to Zilong, who was still looking for an opportunity to break through, L13, who had just entered the Nuance stage, had completely comprehended the realm of the Nuance stage, and was no longer the fake Nuance stage he had been at when he had first fought with Zilong.
Ling Lan naturally knew that there was one person on the starship who hated her very much — that was L15, whose wrist she had broken. Ling Lan was a careful person, so she had always let Little Four keep a full eye on the other. Unexpectedly, this allowed Little Four to discover that L15 was not that convinced of L13's abilities. When he found out that L13's strength had increased, that jealous, envious, and hateful little gaze of his had been exposed when no one had noticed. Although this gaze was mostly just a flash, and he would immediately return to that bashful and harmless smiling face of blessings, what kind of existence was Little Four? A super cheating device that monitored all 360 degrees without any blind spots — no one would be able to escape his eyes. Unless it was Little Four himself who had overlooked this person.
When Little Four told Ling Lan of his discovery, Ling Lan sighed deeply once more. Sure enough, people who liked to smile were not good people — they were full of evil tricks and detestable. From then on, Ling Lan disliked even more those people who were all smiles, who took care of everything in everything they did, who were very popular, and who gave others the impression that they were good people. Ling Lan believed that this kind of person definitely had ulterior motives, so she had to be careful.
Just like that, a week passed amidst the fighting. Although L15 had all sorts of jealousy and hatred in his heart, seeing that he could not deal with Ling Lan and the others, he could only behave himself and not do anything brainless to harm them.
This week, the starship went through several space jumps and arrived safely at their destination, which was a primitive planet that was announced to the public as a wild planet.
After the last space jump, the communicators in Ling Lan and the others' hands lost their positioning function. According to the starship's notification, this was because this space was a zone of magnetic chaos, so the positioning system on the communicators was affected and lost its function. However, the starship had an even more advanced navigation system, so there was no need to worry that they would be completely lost.
Of course, Ling Lan knew very well that this was just a lie from the starship's side, because Little Four had told her that they had already entered an unknown star sector, a place that had never been marked on the Federation's star maps.
"It really is a secret base. The planet we're going to is probably not as simple as we thought." Ling Lan secretly became wary.
The starship flew into the atmosphere of the primitive planet. Ling Lan and the others had already fastened their seatbelts under the starship's notification.
After the starship shook violently for about ten minutes, it finally stabilized. Ling Lan knew that they had successfully passed through the planet's atmosphere and should be arriving at their destination soon. Sure enough, after waiting for a while, the starship informed them that they could pack up and disembark.
Ling Lan and the others put on their backpacks and grabbed their luggage. When they walked out of the cabin door, they were stunned by the scenery before them. This was because they discovered that there was a small city right beneath their feet. It turned out that the starship was parked directly on top of a mountain peak in the centre of the small city. The Federation had used a high-tech method to cut this mountain peak in half, turning it into a large platform tens of thousands of square metres, allowing the starship to dock stably.
On the platform, there were many soldiers in military uniform, directing the students who had disembarked to line up and take the cable car from the mountain peak directly to the small city at the foot of the mountain.
When they reached the foot of the mountain, Ling Lan finally got a clear view of the small city. The small city was very simple and crude. The houses were short, and the style was very similar to the military barracks houses in Ling Lan's previous life. The strangest thing was that the outermost ring was not a thick city wall, but rather a series of extremely tall railings. Could it be because there was no danger? That was why they had only made a ring of railings for show?
There were also soldiers at the foot of the mountain to receive them. They brought Ling Lan and the other 50 students to an empty camp. Right then, a piercing squeak suddenly rang out from not too far away from the camp. Ling Lan and the others looked over, and saw a ferocious beast the size of an elephant charging towards them.
Ling Lan quickly put down her backpack and reached into the outer pocket of her backpack to grab the super alloy short blade she had prepared beforehand. If there was any danger, she would be able to kill the beast with the sharp blade. Meanwhile, Zilong, Wu Jiong, Li Yingjie, Luo Lang, Ye Xu, and the others reacted just a hair slower than Ling Lan, preparing to fight almost at the same time. Perhaps due to Ling Lan and the others' calm response, even though the other students reacted slower, they did not show any signs of panic. Several seconds later, they were all ready to fight.
The commanding officer who was secretly observing them nodded in satisfaction. "The students who came this time are much better than last year's. Their mental fortitude is not bad, especially those few with the fastest reflexes. They aren't much worse than the soldiers under our command."
A civil officer who looked like an adviser beside him said with a smile, "I heard the captain of the Flying Jade say that these scouts are not bad. Some of them are even abnormally talented."
"Don't listen to that fellow's nonsense. In his eyes, anyone with even a bit of talent is already an aberrant. His taste is really bad," said the commanding officer with a wry smile.
Hearing his superior say this, the adviser smiled and did not continue. He actually felt that the captain of the Flying Jade's gaze when he said this was different from before. Something was off, there was a hint of envy and jealousy in it...
However, since his superior did not like this topic, he could not say anything else, lest he incurred his superior's displeasure. After all, his superior did not see eye to eye with the captain of the Flying Jade.
Meanwhile, in the Flying Jade, which had already taken off, Old Lian laughed sinisterly in the captain's quarters. "Shi Yunfei, I'm not going to tell you anything about these kids. Whether or not you can find that aberrant will depend on your luck." He had no interest in increasing the strength of his old rival's faction.
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