“Hey, hey… Someone’s here! Help!”
Ignoring the salty wetness on her body, Su Jiu quickly got up, pulled a line formed by external qi, controlled a giant creature beneath the boat, and shouted loudly.
As she got up, she could vaguely see figures wearing red uniforms, but the expressions on their faces seemed strange… as if alert.
Soon, the boat stopped, and a figure dressed differently from the others stepped lightly onto the ship’s railing, looking down and reprimanding, “Why did you obstruct us? This is a practical training vessel of Chuan Yu University. If you obstruct us without any other accident, don’t blame us for driving you away.”
“Teacher Lu, there’s a situation…”
As soon as his voice fell, another student ran out of the boat in a panic and shouted at the figure, but the figure, with his hands behind his back, waved at the student, indicating not to speak for now.
“What monster? I’m a law-abiding citizen!”
Slightly stunned, Su Jiu blinked her eyes, her gaze drifting over the people on the boat. She found that besides the leader with glasses, the others, both male and female, were quite young, with a childish innocence of those who hadn’t entered society.
These young people were also dressed in battle suits like those from Magical Capital University, but the clothes were fiery red, and the medals on the battle suits were the same as the ship’s insignia, with a sword wearing a graduation cap – like a modified version of a Dragon Hunter.
These people were watching Su Jiu vigilantly, even holding weapons towards her. The weapons shone brightly in the sun, exuding a chilling aura.
The leading middle-aged man with glasses had glasses that shone slightly in the sun. He then scrutinized Su Jiu again, casually glancing at her gills and the scales on her cheek. After a moment of thought, he said faintly:
“Esteemed Siren, please stop joking. This is the deep center of the North Sea. Would a normal human be drifting here in an ice boat? If it weren’t for completing a mission, we wouldn’t come to this godforsaken place.”
“Siren? I just got lost. Just take me ashore and I’ll pay you 10,000 yuan for the trip!”
Su Jiu was even more confused. After a moment, she said helplessly, then dispersed her avatar. Seeing the still cautious students, she felt a bit overwhelmed. She fumbled in her slightly yellowish small white dress, saying as she did so,
“Wait, I’m also a university student. I have my student ID here!”
Hearing Su Jiu’s words, the leading middle-aged man with glasses shrugged and said coldly, “We need to transport the corpse of the hunted Demon Fang Shark back to the school. We don’t have time to argue with you. Moreover, a Magic University student running alone into the deep sea?”
“Leave quickly! We don’t want to offend neutral races!”
After saying that, the mentor snorted, and with a slight stomp of his foot, the aura of a High-Rank Battle General surged forth, causing ripples on the sea surface, making the nearby students’ eyes light up.
“Teacher Lu Shu, are we going to use our strength to fight this sea monster?” a boy’s eyes shone with anticipation.
“I heard that High-Rank Battle Generals can summon Bloodline Phantoms, which are much more powerful than the Battle Generals of our 24th cohort’s top students.” another petite girl secretly glanced at a girl with a ponytail and a long sword at her waist.
Clearly, this middle-aged man who looked like a mentor had mistaken Su Jiu’s Ice Dragon Transformation for a Siren among sea monsters, and the students’ reactions further proved this point.
“Found it… Turns out the student handbook was kept in the storage bag. Fortunately, I drank all the energy liquid.”
Under everyone’s gaze, Su Jiu reached into the storage bag and pulled out a sticky notebook, muttering as she crouched down. She slid it with seawater a couple of times, then threw it over.
“Here!”
“Thump.”
Taking the student handbook, which was blurred by erosion, the bespectacled Mentor Lu Shu’s mouth twitched slightly. Wasn’t this something taken out of a student’s stomach after swallowing them?
Thinking this, he cast a more cautious glance at Su Jiu, then slowly opened the first page. Facing the dilapidated paper, he could only vaguely see words like “24th cohort” and “eight nine five” followed by some blurry characters. The name was illegible, only a photograph remained.
Holding the photograph, Mentor Lu Shu squinted his eyes and compared the girl with dead fish eyes in the photo with Su Jiu. Only when Su Jiu on the boat also showed dead fish eyes looking at him did he raise an eyebrow and ask sternly:
“Classmate, as a freshman of the 24th cohort, how did you end up in this deep sea? You know, without alchemy materials and trial requirements, we would never pass through such a place. Did something happen? Was your ship attacked?”
It’s known that there are countless monsters in such places. For ships to pass through, at least Battle General class experts are needed for protection. For freshmen like the 24th cohort wanting to pass alone, they would probably not even reach one-tenth of the route before becoming snacks for monsters.
“No, I was just taking a small boat to the nearby shore. I’ve been drifting for many days.”
Hearing his words, Su Jiu blinked her eyes, pondered for a moment, and decided to tell the truth, as it would be difficult to explain otherwise. She tilted her head and said.
“Then come up!”
Seeing Su Jiu tilt her head, Mentor Lu Shu’s eye corners began to twitch. He waved his hand, completely treating her as someone who had gone mad after a shipwreck, and silently complained in his heart.
What kind of cuteness are you showing off—who would cross the sea in such a small boat?! Are you tired of the taste of the monsters under your feet and deliberately trying to lose weight?
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It’s 100% certain that the school’s trial ship was pierced by monsters, and this girl survived in the monster-filled sea due to her ice-water bloodline.
“Goodbye, big guys!”
With the permission of Mentor Lu Shu, Su Jiu cut the white external qi line in her hand, smiled faintly at the sea ahead, and then tapped the bow of the boat with her foot, flashing forward, and with a “swoosh,” she arrived at the bow.
The students all looked at Su Jiu with curiosity. Su Jiu’s reaction just now didn’t seem as simple as a regular Warrior Class?
At this moment, the ship unexpectedly began to shake. The students’ expressions immediately became tense, and even the middle-aged mentor Lu Shu’s expression slightly tightened. Just as he was about to shout “enemy attack,” the shaking waves also stopped.
“Thank you for your help, teacher.”
After everyone calmed down, they all cast curious glances at Su Jiu. Su Jiu clasped her fists in a bow towards Mentor Lu Shu, who was still standing on the railing. This time, she was finally saved and wouldn’t have to drift aimlessly anymore…
Glancing at Su Jiu, Mentor Lu Shu sighed at her disheveled appearance and quietly said, “There’s a place to wash on the ship, go clean yourself up.”
“Mm, thank you, teacher.”
Hearing this, Su Jiu looked down at her messy state and smiled helplessly. It was fortunate to be alive after this skin-rotting disaster, let alone being clean.
After saying that, Mentor Lu Shu waved his hand and found Huang Wen, who was tying her hair in a ponytail and looked quite cheerful, pointed at the ship’s cabin, and smilingly instructed, “Huang Wen, you take this student from another school to the bathroom.”
“This way, classmate. Everything is here, including bathtubs, and I’ll make sure you’re satisfied!”
Nodding gently, Huang Wen then smiled at Su Jiu and walked ahead. The sword hanging at her waist made a slight clinking sound, indicating she was a Swordsman. As she walked, she chattered like a gossip,
“Oh, right, there are also many local specialties here. The body wash is flavored with snow lotus, you must try it. And the shampoo, let me tell you…”
“Then thank you, classmate Huang.”
Hearing this, Su Jiu smiled and followed behind her, passing through the cabin. Her gaze swept across the surroundings. It seemed that there were small private rooms everywhere, and each room seemed to be customized with a student ID. The two walked slowly…
After Su Jiu and Huang Wen entered, Mentor Lu Shu slowly withdrew his oppressive aura, stepped his foot firmly onto the deck, then turned to the student who was eager to report and asked with a frown, “What happened? Why were you in such a hurry?”
“Yes, Teacher Lu Shu, look at this radar signal… Huh? Why is it gone?”
The student took out something like an alchemy tablet from his hand and handed it to Mentor Lu Shu. As he took it, both of them looked at each other in disbelief – there was nothing wrong on the tablet, and no danger appeared.
Seeing this, the student scratched his head and gave a dry laugh, saying somewhat sheepishly, “Teacher Lu Shu, it must be my mistake. I must have misread it… If it were true, this ship wouldn’t have gone unchallenged.”
Lu Shu didn’t immediately assume it was the student’s fault. He shifted his gaze from the tablet to the student, and continued to ask earnestly, “Tell me again, what exactly did you see?”
“The data showed a fish-shaped monster the size of a Four-Patterned Giant Cuttlefish swimming under our ship. It was likely a lord monster close to Battle King class.”
Stared at by his mentor, the student gave an awkward smile and said indifferently, “But it didn’t attack us, so it’s probably a system error. Otherwise, how could there be no movement?”
Hearing this, Mentor Lu Shu’s gaze slightly narrowed. He looked at the calm sea surface in the distance, his face turning somewhat grim. He then softly ordered, “Let’s accelerate our return. Don’t worry about anything else. This time it might not be peaceful—there’s a Four-Patterned Giant Cuttlefish on our route back.”
There had been a huge movement just now, and the alchemy radar would definitely not be wrong. A large monster must have passed by!
“Okay, I’ll inform the teachers in the control center right away.” Seeing his mentor’s seriousness, the student put away his nonchalant attitude and quickly turned to go back to the room.
After many students scattered from the deck, Lu Shu’s gaze fell on the receding small ice boat, his eyes slightly沉着. Generally, for such large monsters, this small boat would be no different from small fish, but…
Why was this small boat still safe and sound?
…
Arriving at the bathroom with Huang Wen and taking in the design of the private rooms and marble bathtub, Su Jiu couldn’t help but sigh slightly…
At sea, people are different from each other.
Gently taking off her clothes, revealing her fair skin, Su Jiu hummed softly, turned on the hot water, cupped the warm stream with her hands, and splashed it onto her face.
She didn’t notice the wooden hairpin fall to her feet, and upon touching the hot water, the hairpin emitted a faint milky white light, and a special energy surged out from it.
