The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

Chapter 429-430: The Challenge Starts; Mice

429: The Challenge Starts

The introduction helped the group get to know each other’s skill and class. Next up was to share what each person picked as their items.

Since they weren’t allowed to use magic or qi, everyone chose flint and or weapons. Seven of the ten had chosen flint but Feng Wu was the only one who chose a tent.

They immediately saw her as dead weight and hated her when they saw her pot. What use was a tent and pot? Such wasted opportunity. You could just shelter in a cave or sit under a tree if you were tired. Then there was her pot. Who would pick a pot for a challenge?! Another stupid choice.

The competition banned personal storage equipment so the only storage the participants had were the ones supplied by the school.

The storage equipment had twenty slots, five of which were filled with the start up items they chose. This left fifteen slots available, but there was still food to consider, which would take up space in storage as well.

Rations for three days would be supplied to each person. Once depleted, participants were expected to forage for their own food inside the arena. There were a lot of poisonous plants, so they had to be careful what they chose. Choosing the wrong one and being unlucky could mean being poisoned to death.

When that happened, the contestants would be booted out of the field, but they wouldn’t suffer any real world damage.

Rations prepared by the school were quite adequate and included meats, breads, biscuits and steamed buns. Most chose bread and jerky and a few bags of water, of which each person was allotted three bags.

Once they ran out, they were expected to find their own water supply. Failure to find drinkable water in time would mean severe dehydration, and therefore automatic disqualification from the challenge.

Feng Wu was the only person on the team who chose the water purification tool. This contribution made the others see her in a better light.

She chose meat buns, steamed buns, and jerky. Once she filled her three days worth of food and stocked up on her water supply, she was ready to go.

Once they were done with their selections, the students were sent to their field in their respective groups.

Not only would all the members of the group have to survive and cross the finish line, each person had to find a school badge hidden throughout the arena.

The last component made the challenge even more difficult and dangerous, as the badges could be stolen from one person to another.

The participants found themselves in a large inhospitable space upon entering the arena proper. Staying overly long would be dangerous, especially if they encountered another more powerful team.

“Dear classmates, we can see the participating students are all ready. We now ask that teachers send their students to the correct challenge venue!” Tamansha’s elegant voice rang out.

The screen displayed all the students falling through a hole in the ground. It was so sudden, none of them had time to mentally prepare for the drop.

“Wow! I see our teachers are quite good at practical jokes. All our participants fell into the pit without warning!”

The students watching the challenge from inside the virtual world smiled knowingly when they heard Tamansha’s words.

“Vice principal, can you tell us a little about the environment the students will face next? I heard the challenge will test their ability to survive in extreme environments. Is this true? And if so, what’s the point?”

“As our students rise in grade and grow in strength, they will face all kinds of difficulties. There may be places they can not use magic or qi, in which case they will be just like ordinary private citizens who can not do anything.

They must think of ways to survive and escape the danger. This competition is meant to help our students hone those skills. . . ”

The vice principal talked a lot, but the students weren’t buying anything he said.

“Didn’t he say he wanted to chose people for the special mission and that’s why the challenge was designed the way it was?”

“The vice principal is talking nonsense. If the challenge was held for the reasons he says, then we would have had one every year for thousands of years. We wouldn’t just have one now.”

“The vice principal becomes more and more ludicrous every year. Why give such a noble justification for the challenge?”

“As expected, the vice principal’s ability to talk nonsense grows stronger and stronger.”

“Hey! Who threw a hidden weapon at me?!”

“My ass! Which bastard just kicked me?!”

The teachers on stage looked at the students who were searching for the culprit. Then they looked at the students sitting on the stage who were talking about how great of an idea the games were. None of the students had seen the vice principal secretly teach the students who had badmouthed him a lesson.

You guys are too careless! Don’t you know the vice principal is very powerful. He can hear what you’re saying even if he’s not paying attention to you! There’s no difference between gossiping down there and insulting him to his face!

Do you just not know how petty the vice principal is? He will happily make your lives difficult for an entire year!

Tamansha didn’t dare ask further questions after the vice principal’s lofty answer. “Yes, thank you for such a detailed answer Vice Principal. Now we must ask the teachers to switch us back to the field screen. Let us watch the each group’s performance through the screen. . . 

430: Mice

We can see the contestants are safely on their way. . . ”

The viewing screen opened to show people screaming as they fell from the sky. They landed with a thud in a variety of different positions. Had this been in the real world, 80% of them would have been seriously injured.

They landed in a dilapidated and deserted old mountain village. The buildings were decaying and clearly rotted through. Every now and again, skinny little mice would scamper across the ground as if the new human intrusion was alarming them.

Feng Wu controlled her descent and landed without any issues. Though her strength was sealed, she still had good muscle memory and thus was able to land easily enough.

Aside from Feng Wu, fifth-year Ober and fourth-year sword user Xinda also managed to land safely.

There were groans of pain all around the village from those who didn’t land well, but they quickly faded as people adjusted themselves. They regrouped and began looking around the village.

The village was deserted and the houses were so damaged they weren’t habitable. It was doubtful there would be any food in any of them.

The group didn’t see anybody from any of the other teams around so the arena itself had to be large.

“Haha! Look at them all fall one by one! So fun!”

“Haha! Fortunately I was smart and didn’t sign up, otherwise, with my lousy physique, I would have probably fallen to my death.”

“What kind of place is that? It looks so dead. I don’t see any people, only empty, rickety, old houses. Even the plants look malnourished!”

The contestants didn’t know their performances were directly projected on screen for the audience. It wasn’t just the image, but the sound as well. Because there were so many participants, the screen only highlighted a few individuals at a time for direct observation.

“No way! Junior Ming Xi and Junior Tian Ya are on the same team?! That team is an overpowered team!” Tamansha whispered in shock.

Tian Ya just became a fifth year and Ming Xi just became a sixth year. People familiar with the school knew the higher the grade, the slower the leveling. It was difficult to break through to the next level because the exam difficulty increased so much. You had to study for three, or sometimes, four years if your strength was too low. josei

If you knew you couldn’t make it into the seventh-year class, you could request early release and the school would issue a graduation certificate. The certificate wasn’t the same as a diploma earned through normal graduation though.

Both Ming Xi and Tian Ya were geniuses and important figures at school. Provided there weren’t any accidents, both would surely graduate normally and not have to repeat any of their courses.

“Dang! That is one lucky team!”

“The other teams aren’t so bad off either. Some of them have seventh-year seniors leading them. I don’t care how strong Ming Xi and Tian Ya are, there’s no way they’d be stronger than a seventh-year senior.”

On the screen now were Ming Xi and his Extreme Challenge team. Ming Xi and Tian Ya were pretty lucky. Out of the hundred people in combat, they managed to get the only girl in the pharmacy division. They would be able to rely on her ability to refine medicine and assist with injuries.

The other members of Ming Xi’s crew weren’t so lucky. Take Elena. She was assigned to such a weak team that she saw red.

The challengers didn’t know this, but the screen followed their teams around because they were all mismatched in terms of strength.

Feng Wu’s team walked around the village but didn’t find anyone.

A group of starving mice ran out in front of Feng Wu looking dizzy and pitiful, so she took out a steamed bun and fed them a little bit.

“Senior Ober, look! Feng Wu is feeding the disgusting rats!” The shrill cry suddenly cut through the air.

It came from Camille, the female magician who was in the same year as Feng Wu. She pointed a finger at Feng Wu in shock. Her exaggerated expression, if you didn’t know the situation, made you think Feng Wu had done something monstrous.

“How can you feed food to the rodents?! We only have three days worth of food to eat! Don’t expect any of us to share our food with you if you run out early!” Camille said righteously.

The others nodded in agreement as they also didn’t like Feng Wu’s practice of wasting food.

“This is mine. I won’t ask to eat yours.” Feng Wu said seriously as she looked at Camille.

Translation: I’ll feed myself and even if there isn’t enough food, I won’t ask for yours. So me feeding the mice with my food is none of your business.

Camille’s eyes turned red when she understood Feng Wu’s meaning.

“You say that, so don’t regret it!” Camille turned away angrily.

The others didn’t intend to interfere. As long as she didn’t ask them to share their food with her, they didn’t care who she shared her food with.

Feng Wu wasn’t fond of animals like mice and didn’t normally interact with them, but these mice were so pitiful she couldn’t ignore them. Plus, she could ask the mice questions and learn from them. Those were the two reasons why she shared her steamed bun.

The mice ate the fragrant steamed bun happily and finally regained some strength. They thanked Feng Wu for the food because they were polite mice.

“Thank you, little beauty. We would probably die like those humans if you didn’t feed us.”

They seemed to have some kind of lingering fear when they talked about dying.

“Are all the people in this village dead?” Feng Wu asked.

“They all died long ago. There’s no one left.”

“Why did they die?” Feng Wu asked suspiciously.

“They died from the plague. All the people died. The city lord gave the order to lock all the infected people in their homes until they died. Fortunately, we were clever and hid away in time, otherwise we would all be dead of the plague too.”