Everyone slept restlessly that night, and nightmares were repeated. The thrilling experience of a group of university students fighting wolves up close was truly unforgettable. Many students had dreamed that they were chased by wolves, and Ke Shaobin even dreamed that he was eaten by a wolf and was split into five pieces…
Getting up in the morning, most of the students were plagued by nightmares, and their faces looked worse than one another.
Yue Xingwen greeted everyone and ate breakfast briefly, smiling and relieving everyone, “Last night’s events had passed, so cheer up and hurry up to report to the finish line. We’ll pass this course.”
Ke Shaobin opened his laptop, bringing up the map and asking, “Which route will we take to return?”
Jiang Pingce calculated the route and said, “It’s safest to return to our original route. We are on the outskirts of this deserted island, more than 60 kilometers from the finish line, and it takes more than 12 hours on foot. It’s 8:00am now, after the break in the middle, we should arrive at 10:00pm in the evening.”
Yue Xingwen said, “The exams end at 00.00am tonight, and our time is a little tight.”
“Xingwen, don’t you have acceleration skills?” Ke Shaobin asked. “The one that accelerates 5 times, ‘Fast as Lightning’?”
“This skill is only valid for the members of the Research Group.” Yue Xingwen looked back at Xin Yan, “It can’t help you guys ah.”
“It doesn’t matter.” Xin Yan looked indifferent and said, “Since you have acceleration skills, you should go first. If it’s convenient, leave some marks along the way, so we can follow along.”
“Alright, we’ll speed up and scout ahead first, hurrying to the finish line and leaving you markers along the way.” He tore a piece of paper from the dictionary, quickly folded it into the shape of a paper airplane, and said, “At every fork in the road, I will find a stone to press a paper airplane. The head of the airplane represents the direction to go, you guys can follow the direction I mark.”
“Thanks.” Xin Yan nodded at him and gazed at Ke Shaobin, “Be careful on the road.”
“En, you guys be careful too.” Ke Shaobin waved goodbye to them with a smile.
Yue Xingwen turned on his acceleration skill, and led his teammates towards the finish line.
‘Fast as Lightning’ could accelerate the entire team by 5x, and had an one hour cooldown. Jiang Pingce did some calculations and said, “With Xingwen’s acceleration every hour, we can reach the finish line in eight hours.”
Liu Zhaoqing asked, “Can we arrive before dark?”
Jiang Pingce nodded. “En, the premise is that it’s a smooth journey.”
In case they encountered another beast raid on the way, they would be in trouble. However, Yue Xingwen believed that the current elimination rate of this public elective course had exceeded 30%, so there should not be a wave of beasts. If there was, it did not match the difficulty of the 2-credit course at all. The possibility of encountering other beasts was slim, and today’s difficulty should be walking 60km on foot.
Yue Xingwen wiped the sweat from his forehead and quipped, “This orienteering really feels like the library’s freshman military training, it includes a thrilling parachuting and beast raid session.”
Liu Zhaoqing followed the topic and replied, “Only these camouflage suits are issued, no water bottles and food, the military training is not so torturous. The library also fucking make us walk dozens of miles. Ugh, it looks like a whole day of walking today, it’s hot as hell.”
Due to last night’s rainstorm, the road looked muddy and potholes were very difficult to navigate. It took them over two hours to get out of the forest with the help of the acceleration skills.
The four of them were drenched in sweat in the scorching sun, with their camouflage suits drenched in sweat wrapped around their bodies. Yue Xingwen was so hot that he could not stand it and simply took off his jacket, while the other three also took off their stuffy jackets and put them into their backpacks, wearing only camouflage’s inner tank top, and their pant legs rolled up.
Xiao Tu’s wheels could not glide on this muddy road, so they had to take a branch each and scout the road as they went, lest there be snakes in the grass.
It was almost noon when the four of them came to the stream where they had taken the water yesterday, stopping to rest for a few moments, replenishing some water and catching a few fish to roast for a meal.
The weather was so hot at midday, and they could easily get heat stroke like this. Liu Zhaoqing gave each person a strip of gauze. His gauze was cold and it could heal the bites of mosquitoes and insects.
It did not take long for them to come to the crocodile swamp from yesterday. Yue Xingwen looked at the familiar environment around him, stopped, and said, “We’ll have to take a detour here, we can’t go to the crocodile swamp.”
He quickly tore a piece of paper from the dictionary, folded a paper plane, and marked the direction for Xin Yan.
The four of them took a detour and walked around forward for more than ten meters, and Jiang Pingce suddenly frowned. “Look over there.”
Yue Xingwen followed his gaze to the side and looked ahead—— There were a few camouflage suits nearby, still stained with bright red blood. Ke Shaobin’s face went pale. “This– it can’t be the students who were bitten to death, right?!”
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Yue Xingwen’s face darkened, and he quickly stepped forward, turning over the camouflage suit with a branch.
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Ke Shaobin slumped over and threw up.
Liu Zhaoqing was a medical student and had seen many corpses in reality, but the sight of this scene was also a bit unbearable for him. He frowned and averted his gaze, he could not help but curse in a low voice, “Fuck, they were all eaten clean by the beasts!”
Jiang Pingce frowned. “The students eliminated in the public elective course should be resurrected in the library.”
According to the rules of the course, students who failed a public elective did not have to receive a penalty or go back to the first floor to retake. That being said, the experience of being bitten by a wild beast would still be engraved in the depths of their memories.
It was hard to imagine what a gruesome battle took place here last night. Imagining the scene where four students were pounced on by the beast, bitten alive, made Yue Xingwen want to scratch his heart.
He retrieved the branch, and suddenly, the tip of the branch plucked away a camouflage suit, and a soft green light actually shone underneath the suit, and Yue Xingwen took a glimpse of it—— It was actually 3 green cards.
Four of them looked at each other.
Liu Zhaoqing said, “It’s the card they picked up, right? After being eliminated, the card actually fell on the ground?”
As in the online games where players would drop equipment when they were killed.
Ke Shaobin’s face went pale and his voice trembled slightly, “The library seems to really treat us like players? We’ll be resurrected directly in the library when dying in the public elective course, and retake from the first floor after dying in the compulsory course, and our file and account will be deleted after we die when retaking the course?”
Yue Xingwen bent over to pick up the three green cards and said, “I was thinking the same thing before. Retaking the failed course will get you eliminated, similar to being directly deleted in the game. Before being deleted, there are only two exam opportunities for each compulsory course.”
He put the dropped cards in his pocket, bowed towards the corpses on the ground and said, “Sorry, I’ll take the cards you’ve worked so hard to collect. It’s a waste to leave them here.”
Although it was not psychologically comfortable to pick up the cards that your classmates drop after they had been eliminated, the cards would be wasted if they were left behind, so they might as well pick them up and put them for a better use.
They continued to walk forward and actually met two more such groups along the way, picking up some scattered green cards.
Their points gradually rose to 140 points.
Along the way, they did not encounter any more attacks from the wild beasts. However, the corpses of their classmates that appeared in the field of vision sent a strong impact on their psychology. Those bloody camouflage suits seemed to warn them—— In the library’s world, it is possible to die at any time, and you will die horribly.
After walking throughout the day, they were exhausted, and their clothes were already soaked with sweat. At dusk, they finally arrived near the finish line marked on the map.
The finish line was a swamp lake larger than ten football fields. In the middle of the swamp, there was a ten square meter ‘lake island’ like landing spot with a red flag marked ‘Cross-country Orienteering’s End Point’.
Upon arriving at this place, they saw two teams of classmates standing next to the swamp, neither of them had gone over the island.
One of the teams consisted of four tall male students and the other was four female students.
Yue Xingwen knew the short hair female student—— It was Qin Miao, the one they had seen in the crocodile swamp before.
Yue Xingwen took the initiative to come forward and greeted her. “Qin Miao, do you have enough points?”
“Enough,” Qin Miao said, “We’ve got 90 points.”
Such a high score showed that they also escaped from the beast’s attack last night without incident and got a black card worth 50 points.
As Yue Xingwen looked closer, the girl’s arm was obviously bitten, and she simply wrapped the wound with the fabric she tore from her camouflage suit. The blood had soaked the green camouflage suit, but she did not say a word, just frowning, and her face was a little pale.
Yue Xingwen walked over to Liu Zhaoqing’s side and whispered a few words. Liu Zhaoqing understood and came closer to Qin Miao, took out a piece of gauze and said, “Show me the wound, and re-bandaged it with gauze.”
Qin Miao looked at him warily.
Liu Zhaoqing was helpless and said, “I’m a doctor, and this gauze is a special ability issued by the library, and it has a miraculous effect. You’re still bleeding from your wounds, and if you pass out from blood loss, you may not pass the exam.”
Qin Miao was silent for a moment, tearing the green fabric wrapped around her arm away quickly——
Her arm was obviously bitten by the beast, a chunk of flesh was bitten off, and the bloody image caused a few of her teammates’ eyes next to her to instantly turn red, and another nearby team of male students could not help but gasp at the sight.
It hurt just by looking at it, she actually did not cry, this girl was too strong.
Liu Zhaoqing quickly re-bandaged her wound with clean gauze. The surgeon’s movements of bandaging the wound were neat and agile. After he finished, he sighed and said, “There you go, you’re really powerful.”
A pleasant cool sensation came from the wound, it did not hurt at all and the flesh and blood seemed to be slowly healing?
She glanced at Liu Zhaoqing in surprise. “This gauze…”
Liu Zhaoqing replied, “The library’s special gauze, your arm will recover soon.”
Qin Miao was silent for a few seconds and looked at Yue Xingwen: “Why did you help me?”
Yue Xingwen walked closer to her and said, “I had a previous encounter with your sister Qin Lu, and besides, you’re still a schoolmate of our Hua’an University, so it’s only right to help you.”
Qin Miao took a glance at the two of them, and her indifferent expression eased slightly, “Thank you.”
Liu Zhaoqing smiled and waved his hand. “You’re welcome, it’s just a slight effort.”
The team next to them, a cool male student with earrings came over and laughed, “From Hua’an University ah?”
Yue Xingwen looked at him and said, “Are you the first A-76 Research Group?”
The male student raised an eyebrow. “How did you guess?”
Yue Xingwen said. “You can reach the finish line so early, you must have a lot of points and must be very strong. I heard from senior brother Zhuo Feng that you guys are a speed team consisting of Geography, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology?”
The male student laughed. “It turned out to be Zhuo Feng’s junior brother! We were also lucky to see a 20-point red card directly at our landing site, and the Physics Department’s student electrocuted a few tigers to get the red card, so we could lead the whole way.”
The other three teammates also came over and greeted Yue Xingwen and his teammates politely.
Yue Xingwen looked at the lake island in the distance and asked, “Don’t you guys want to go over there first?”
The male student said, “Wait for the other classmates, there’s no rush to get over there.”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “Okay.”
After a moment, the teams from Binjiang Normal University and Xizhou Sports College also came to the finish line.
The sky was getting dark and there were more and more Research Groups near the finish line.
Looking at the leaderboard, of the 100 people in their class 1, the total number of Research Groups that survived to the last day and managed to get 60 or more points was 17 teams, or 68 students passing the course. The remaining 32 students were eliminated.
At 10pm in the evening, Xin Yan and his teammates arrived late, and at this point, all 17 Research Groups had arrived.
The gentle moonlight sprinkled down, illuminating the flag on the central island.
Then, a female student wondered and asked, “Why don’t all of you go over there when you’re already here?”
Yue Xingwen said, “Everyone, don’t go straight over, there’s something wrong with this swamp lake.” He kicked a stone into the swamp, which suddenly gurgled and bubbled appeared in the lake. In the blink of an eye, the stone was melted to powder.
“The swamp lake can’t be touched?!” The female student’s face changed.
Xin Yan walked closer to the swamp to take a closer look and said in a low voice, “It’s a corrosive swamp, it will melt anything that it touches in an instant. It’s even more powerful than Aqua Regia.” With a slight lift of his right hand, countless spirit lamps shot out of his hand and split into two rows, like warm street lamps positioned on both sides of the darkness of the night, showing everyone the way.
Then, the spirit lamps circled the lake island.
He used the spirit lamps directly as a street light so that everyone would not make a mistake because they could not see under their feet clearly.
Qin Miao came over and said, “The swamp lake can’t be touched. With the plate movement of the Geography Department, you can switch the place to the finish line, right?”
Yue Xingwen said, “That’s right. All displacement and flight type skills can cross the swamp.”
17 teams, a total of 68 people.
The male student wearing earrings from the A-76 Research Group came over and said, “Since everyone has arrived, let’s divide up the work and see how we can get over there. I can take up to 12 people with me at a time on my second-level Geography’s plate movement, and with 2 round trips, I can take 24 people.”
One female student stepped forward and said, “My plate movement is also on second-level, and I can help bring people.”
The dark-skinned male student from the sports department also came over and said, “We can take four people with our skateboard. This skateboard ignores environmental obstacles, and it shouldn’t be corroded by the swamp.”
Jiang Pingce said, “Leave the rest of the people to me, I’ll send them in parabolic movement from the Coordinate System.”
A warmth rose in their hearts when the students who came late heard this, and they quickly walked over to Yue Xingwen and said, “You guys arrived at the finish line early but didn’t go over, were you waiting for other people?”
Yue Xingwen smiled and said, “Everyone who comes here can pass anyway, so it will be too unreasonable for us to just go through on our own and leave the other students to fret on the shore.”
Upon seeing the corpses of the students along the way made him feel a little uncomfortable, and he also picked up a lot of point cards dropped by dead students. The four members of Kyoto University’s A-76 Research Group ranked first in points and stayed on the shore and waited, and Yue Xingwen understood then what these seniors were thinking—— They had to wait for everyone to arrive, and then went to the finish line together.
Thirty two students had already been eliminated from this class, and with 68 left in their class one, none of them should be left behind—— This was the tacit understanding that the few Research Group who arrived first did not explicitly say.
Everyone rested while waiting for other students to arrive before heading to the finish line together.
The 68 people were divided into four groups, with teams of 12 students taken to the finish line by the plate movement of the Geography Department; 8 students were sent over by the Sports Department’s skateboard and the rest gathered together as Jiang Pingce steadily sent everyone to the finish line with his Coordinate System’s parabola.
Sixty eight people stood on the island in the middle, and the fire of the spirit lamps illuminated everyone’s face, recalling the thrilling experience of these three days. Everyone had mixed feelings, and now that they could finally pass the course, everyone had a feeling of ‘new lease of life after calamity’. But it was hard to be happy when they thought of the corpses of their classmates they had seen on the road.
The clock was gradually pointing to 00:00am, and a hover box prompt quickly brushed up in front of the students’ eyes——
[End of the Cross-country Orienteering Public Elective Course’s Examination]
[100 people in Class 1, 68 has passed, the elimination rate is 32%]
[C-183 Research Group received 140 point cards. The score is 2×140 = 280 points]
[Research Group bonus x1.5, final score is 420 points, allocated by team leader Yue Xingwen]
[Returning to the library, please wait…]
The scene in front of them was distorted in a flash and then they arrived at the public elective center that was located on the 5th floor at the beginning.
The points of the public elective course were unified according to the Research Group, and Yue Xingwen’s hand really had 280 more points. He exhaled softly, and said, “Finally it’s over. Let’s go to the canteen to have a good meal first.”
Ke Shaobin said, “That’s right. It’s been three days in the wilderness, I didn’t eat well and I also didn’t sleep well!”
There was no time to think about the pass courses in detail because tomorrow was Monday, and it was time for the compulsory courses.
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Thanks for the chapter!!
Thank you for the chapter 🙂❤️
The library does not mess around.
Thank you for the chapter
The exam is terrifying, but with all these students being friendly to one another it becomes so heartwarming.
Hooray! Time to new adventures!
Thank you for your translation 🤍🤍🤍
I feel tired just from reading this 😭🤣
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Thanks for the chapter!! 👍
It really warms my heart seeing such a welcoming community, especially so that the first place team is full of caring seniors to their junior brothers and sisters. Seeing such a warm novel is really chicken soup for the heart 🙂