When Meng Chao walked to Xie Feng and Sun Ya, they were still in a daze. They did not even notice that their tutor had left in a hurry.
Meng Chao placed his hand on Xie Feng's shoulder and felt him shudder. He even had goosebumps.
"Meng Chao, you're here?" Xie Feng asked with a dazed expression.
"The martial arts course lost?"
Meng Chao saw that Xie Feng was covered in medical gel, bandages, and dressings. He asked in surprise, "Even if you lost, there's no need for you to look so dejected. You can just win next time. What's wrong? Did you lose badly?"
Xie Feng swallowed his saliva with difficulty. His face regained some color as he nodded.
"Didn't you say that the monster controller course doesn't have any elites this year? Wait, did you lose to the same person? A short girl with a wrinkled uniform, yellow hair, dark skin, and a sharp nose, canine teeth, and chin?" A thought appeared in Meng Chao's head, and he remembered the mysterious girl he had met in the grove just now.
Xie Feng shuddered and covered the gauze on his neck. "How did you know?"
"I saw it just now."
Meng Chao sat down beside him. "If it's her, then there's no need to worry about who won or lost. But I still want to know what she did to make you end up like this.
"Winning or losing is one thing, but it's another to be scared out of your wits. I can sense that your and Sun Ya's mental strength indices are fluctuating by leaps and bounds. The visible fear in your brain waves is making my heart race. What's going on?"
"You don't understand. You didn't fight against her in the arena, so you don't know what she did!" Xie Feng said with a quivering voice.
"In consecutive arenas, the winner can stay in the arena forever. It's very easy for someone to win three rounds in a row, four rounds in a row, or even more. But even if the girl won eight rounds in a row, it shouldn't have dealt such a heavy blow to your spirits, right?" Meng Chao became even more interested.
"You're right. She did win seven rounds in a row and utterly defeated us. More importantly, the way she won against us."
Xie Feng lowered his head and buried his sweaty face between his fingers. He said in a low voice, "The strongest people in the monster controller course this year are mostly our high school classmates and people we're familiar with in the circle. We see each other all the time during the competition in high school, and we know each other very well. Originally, we should've had a high chance of winning.
"Just as I expected, after dozens of fights, the martial arts course won. In the end, the monster controller course only has one contestant left, but we still have seven, including me, Sun Ya, Jiang Rui, and Duan Lian.
"We were all complacent and thought victory was in the bag.
"Then, the accident, no, the nightmare happened.
"That girl didn't just win against seven outstanding people in our martial arts course, the entire process … was barbaric, brutal, and violent!
"She doesn't look like a student at all. She doesn't even look like a normal human. Instead, she looks like a vicious beast in human skin, and she has an irreconcilable grudge against us.
"No matter how intense the tournament between courses is, it's just a sparring session between students. Even if we don't go overboard, at the very least, we shouldn't go after our opponent's life with every move and try to kill each other at the slightest provocation, right?
"But she doesn't care about that. She howls like a lunatic, and her eyes shine fiercely. She also exudes great killing intent. I've never seen someone my age act like this!"
As Xie Feng spoke, he removed the gauze on his neck to reveal a bloody tear.
"Look, this is the reason why I lost."
Meng Chao observed it carefully and gasped in amazement. "Her biochemical beast is a Ghost Leopard, right? It's considered very strong among Nightmarish Beasts. It's even stronger than a Demonic Bloody Moon Wolf. That bite wasn't light."
"If I was bitten by a biochemical beast, why would I be so scared?"
Xie Feng's face turned red a little. He admitted that he was weak and felt wronged. "That girl bit me!"
"Huh?"
Even Meng Chao was shocked.
The monster controllers nowadays even used their mouths. Were they that brutal?
"It's the same for me."
Sun Ya smiled wanly and raised her arm. She pointed at the terrifying wound and said, "Look, her wrist was nearly bitten off. I've never seen someone as crazy as her."
Meng Chao closed his eyes and imagined the girl suddenly pouncing on him with her mouth wide open.
Alright, it was understandable that Xie Feng and the others had a mental breakdown.
"Her fighting style is so clear, so she shouldn't be a nobody. Wasn't she originally from First High School, Second High School, or Construction High School?" Meng Chao asked curiously.
"Her name is Wu Wu. She's not from our circle," Xie Feng said.
"After the tournament ended, I learned that she didn't even take part in the national college examination. She's the monster controller course's secret weapon who was specially recruited."
"Specially recruited?" Meng Chao's eyes lit up.
The system of specially recruited students in this era was very strict.
Those who were recruited beforehand by universities without having to take part in the national college examination were usually talented and had ultimate skills. They were true geniuses.
After Xie Feng's explanation, Meng Chao learned that the girl named Wu Wu did indeed have the ability to be specially recruited.
She came from White Stone Town.
White Stone Town was one of the dozens of satellite towns surrounding Dragon City.
Half a century ago, when they just transmigrated, they were lost in the depths of the fog. They were separated from the main city area, and there was no news of them.
Then, five years ago, White Stone Town, or more accurately speaking, the ruins of White Stone Town, was discovered by the exploration team.
The town was not big. Before they transmigrated, there were only forty to fifty thousand permanent residents. There was no defense at the perimeter, and they lacked a sufficient amount of industry and technology. The difficulty and brutality of being lost in the Other World for decades could not be described with words.
What the expedition team saw was not so much the ruins of a town, but more like a broken graveyard.
The buildings of the past had long since collapsed, and the broken walls were now covered in vines and moss. The glory of civilization had been replaced by the traces of barbarism. Even the human corpses were covered in beautiful, deadly carnivorous plants from another world, and they were emitting a pungent, fishy aroma.
The army and superhumans searched the area around White Stone Town for an entire year, but they only managed to save around four hundred people.
The brutal life in the Other World had greatly shortened their lifespans. The oldest "elder" among them was no more than forty years old. Their average age was only twenty, and they even had a nest of dirty children.
Dragon City had transmigrated half a century ago, which meant that these people were the new generation born in the Other World.
And as the older generation born on Earth died one after another, their civilization was destroyed and destroyed, just like the town itself.
The new generation turned into savages who ate raw meat and drank blood.
They seemed to have gone through a process of degeneration at the speed of light in just a few decades. They activated the ancient power hidden in their genes and turned themselves back into people from the Stone Age. They were strong, barbaric, had thick skin, sharp claws, and could endure great pain quietly. They could also carry heavy prey and injured companions on their backs and run as if they were flying. They used this method of "completely assimilating into the Other World" to fight against the creatures of the Other World.
Even though they still retained some of their language, words, books, and audio products, the fragmented legacies turned them into things similar to witchcraft and magic.
If the rescue team had been a little later in finding them, the Dragon City branch that had degenerated into a tribe would have either been completely destroyed by the monsters or continued degenerating until they became the same as the monsters.
As for Wu Wu, it was another story.
She was not found in the Whitestone tribe.
Instead, she was discovered in a Ghost Leopard's nest not too far away from the tribe.
Just like the Demonic Bloody Moon Wolves, Ghost Leopards were pack animals. They had a certain level of intelligence, and they were incredibly brutal and cunning.
But in extreme situations, such as when there was a lot of food near their nests and the powerful females in the pack had just lost their blood descendants or even their ability to reproduce, they might capture the cubs of other species to raise.
In fact, that included humans.
On Earth, there was a legend of a "wolf child."
Human children were raised by wolves, and their habits and self-awareness were no different from those of jackals and wolves.
Wu Wu was one such panther girl who was raised by Ghost Leopards.
The rescue team believed that when she was young, White Stone Town was invaded by monsters. Her parents died tragically under the claws of monsters, and she was captured by another monster — Ghost Leopards.
For some reason, the Ghost Leopards did not kill her. Instead, they brought the ignorant girl back to their nest, and from then on, she became a member of the pack. She learned how the Ghost Leopards lived and hunted, and she gradually grew up.
But that was not the end.
When the rescue team found her, Wu Wu had already become the leader of the Ghost Leopard pack, or rather, the Leopard King.
"Wait."
Meng Chao could not believe it. "I remember the habits of Ghost Leopards. They're even more brutal and wild than Demonic Bloody Moon Wolves. If the leader can't show absolute strength, they won't respect it as their king.
"In fact, every time a new king wants to take over, they have to challenge the old king. They have to kill or eat the old king. Only then will they have the right to rule over the entire pack!"
"That's right," Xie Feng said with complicated emotions.
Xie Feng said with mixed feelings, "She did eat Old Wang."
"… That was a few years ago. At that time, she should have been really young, right?" Meng Chao frowned.
"Fourteen," Xie Feng said. "When Wu Wu was fourteen, she won against and ate the old king of the Ghost Leopard pack and became the new Leopard King."
Meng Chao did not say anything for a long time. In the end, he asked, "Can a monster like that go to university?"
"When she was just rescued, her situation was really bad. She couldn't read or write, and she completely forgot about her identity as a human. She thought of herself as a Ghost Leopard," Xie Feng said.
"But her intelligence was so high that it was unbelievable. In just one year, she learned how to listen, speak, read, write, and all sorts of social knowledge. She reached the level of her peers, and in another year, all the twelve years of compulsory education were no longer a problem for her.
"But she had been receiving special education in the monster research center, so the outside world never knew of her existence.
"It was only this year that she completely accepted her identity as a human. She also understood everything that happened to her over the past decade or so. I heard that she took a few sets of national college entrance exams, and her marks were all frighteningly high. She also showed astonishing affinity, intimidating power, and talent in controlling large feline-type monsters. Just like that, she was chosen by Agricultural University's monster controller course and became a specially recruited student."
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