Even though Lu Ming helped Song Yu, the latter didn’t give him a good look, which infuriated Zhang Yi who was watching from the side.

“Who does he think he is? If it weren’t for Brother Lu, he’d probably be swallowed by a snake by now!”

“Zhang Yi!” Lu Ming sternly interjected, “Say less.”

Zhang Yi held back his breath, “You’re just too kind, that’s why people walk all over you!”

Rong Shi and Song Yu had already walked far away, but Qin Luo, upon hearing this, wasn’t willing to let it go. He turned sideways and blocked Zhang Yi.

“If your Brother Lu hadn’t been so nosy, my brother would have already dealt with that snake, and wouldn’t have gotten blood all over him,” Qin Luo scoffed, “Sometimes, really don’t think too highly of yourself.”

Qin Luo grew up in circles of power, so he was very good at reading people. Especially since Lu Ming was Lu Youqi’s son, he could easily guess with his toes why he put on such a show.

Zhang Yi’s eyes widened in anger: “You!”

Lu Ming’s expression turned even uglier. He pulled Zhang Yi back, saying nothing.

After being spoken to like that, the other team members’ gazes became subtle.

Song Yu ranked first in the written assessment, definitely not an ordinary person. Besides, Rong Shi stood closer than Lu Ming just now, so even if there was danger, he would definitely have stepped in to help.

Lu Ming running so fast indeed seemed a bit too eager.

By the time they reached the mountainside, more than half of the people were tired. They had almost no wilderness hiking experience, and constantly maintaining mental alertness under such harsh conditions led to immense physical exertion.

“Let’s rest for a bit,” someone suggested.

Lu Ming actually didn’t want to stop, but everyone else had already spontaneously sat down to chat and eat.

He caught sight of Rong Shi not stopping in his peripheral vision and immediately walked over to block him: “Everyone’s tired. Let’s rest for ten minutes.”

Rong Shi: “What does that have to do with me?”

Lu Ming: “We’re a team, of course, we advance and retreat together.”

Rong Shi: “When did I ever say I was going with you?”

Without bothering with Lu Ming’s expression, he walked around him and continued on.

Seeing Song Yu about to leave as well, Lu Ming approached to strike up a conversation.

Song Yu: “Don’t hang out with questionable people like us. Go and lead those rookies properly.”

Lu Ming gritted his teeth, his face grim.

Qin Luo walked past him, grinning: “Good luck, alright.”

All the way, Rong Shi was recalling the various marked spots. He hadn’t seen a map, but based on the distribution pattern, he could deduce the approximate landing spots for each numbered helicopter.

He had to find the omega with the mole on his chin before the assessment ended.

In his previous life, he hadn’t paid much attention to other people’s affairs, but he had occasionally heard after the assessment that an omega had gone into heat in the exam venue and, due to delayed discovery, was marked by an affected alpha.

But he wasn’t sure if that omega was the one he saw.

The surroundings finally quieted down. Song Yu walked up to Rong Shi and, in a volume only audible to the two of them, said, “It seems Chairman Rong has a lot of worries. Do you want me to help share the burden?”

Rong Shi: “Your worries are no less than mine.”

Song Yu shoved his hands in his pockets: “Since we both have worries, why not cooperate?”

Rong Shi: “I can solve it myself. Why cooperate?”

Song Yu casually picked up a stone from a passing rock face and tossed it: “Whatever you want, it’s that easy for me.”

Comparing someone else’s goal to a roadside stone, that statement was truly arrogant.

Rong Shi was too lazy to even respond. Just as he was about to throw away the stone in his hand, 01’s voice suddenly sounded.

【Beep—Super energy body detected! The child is starving silly, boohoohoo—】

Rong Shi: “…”

He paused for two seconds, looking at the stone in his hand, then silently threw it away.

【Warning: Energy disappeared! Energy disappeared! The f*cking energy disappeared!】

Rong Shi: “…”

He bent down and picked up the stone.

【Super energy body detected~】

The mechanical voice had a slightly floaty little trailing sound.

B384 is generally found in level four or five danger zones, but in this level one danger zone, a stone picked up from the roadside actually contained B384?

Rong Shi: “…” His face hurt a little.

Song Yu saw him acting like an idiot, throwing the stone away and picking it back up, and his gaze was very subtle when he looked over.

“What’s wrong? Are you sick?”

Rong Shi was about to speak when he suddenly heard screams from behind him, accompanied by wolf howls.

That was the direction they had just come from.

The moment their eyes met, their bodies had already turned back in the direction they came from.

Rong Shi stuffed the stone into his backpack, and at the same time, his military knife was unsheathed.

Qin Luo, who had been following behind them, was now running ahead: “Damn! It’s a wolf pack!”

The wolves here were two to three times the size of normal wolves. Although not as large as pythons, they operated in packs, and their aggressiveness was much higher than that of pythons.

About twenty people were surrounded by forty to fifty wolves, and most of them were new recruits, so they were already too panicked to even hold their knives. They barely managed to stabilize the situation with Lu Ming’s command.

But even so, in just a few minutes, several people had already been injured.

Song Yu frowned: “How did so many wolves suddenly appear?”

Rong Shi stabbed a wolf through the jaw, kicked it several meters away, his gaze sweeping over the chaotic scene, and said coldly: “The snake blood attracted them.”

Song Yu liked to be clean and had sprayed odor eliminator early on, but Lu Ming, whether he forgot or didn’t care, had walked all this way covered in snake blood.

Qin Luo: “Damn! Has he really been in combat before?!”

In the second-year command classroom, Chen Chen took a screenshot of the image and quickly added a note—【Error: Lu Ming did not handle the bloodstains in time.】

The beta next to him sighed: “No matter how good the theory is, it’s easy to make mistakes in that kind of environment.”

Chen Chen: “Applying thirty percent of a hundred points is pretty good, but that’s for ordinary people.”

Beta: “That’s true, Lu Ming is Major General Lu’s son, this mistake is too basic.”

Cries and screams were incessant. Although those who could attend the military academy all had excellent physical fitness, they were only eighteen years old after all. They had never seen such a scene and were scared witless in minutes.

Rong Shi observed the surrounding terrain and directed them to retreat towards the cliff.

If there was a wolf pack nearby, their numbers would be far more than this. Such a large commotion and the smell of blood would definitely attract other wolves.

But Lu Ming, whether out of stubbornness or believing in himself, simply wouldn’t cooperate.

“Since you don’t plan to be on our team, don’t even think about commanding us!”

Zhang Yi next to him chimed in: “It’s just a few wolves. If you want to escape, escape yourself, you coward!”

Even Qin Luo was angered and yelled at him: “You want to die, die yourself!”

He then loudly shouted to the others: “Those who want to live, follow us! Those who don’t, do as you please.”

Those people trusted Lu Ming from the bottom of their hearts because he was the only one who had received formal combat training; he was their only reliance.

But soon, they found this reliance not very reliable.

When sounds once again came from the distant jungle, and the surroundings were engulfed by wolf howls, they despaired.

The instinct for survival made them seek out Rong Shi and run towards him at top speed.

In front of the live broadcast screen—

“Are they not escaping yet? Are they staying to become wolf food?!”

“You can’t kill all these wolves.”

“Is this Lu Ming a bit foolish?”

“Oh, Chairman Rong’s moves are so cool! And he runs really fast, hahaha!”

Retreating to the edge of the cliff, the others stood at the edge and looked down. It was at least a hundred meters high, and there was a long river below. If they fell, they would die.

Rong Shi took out his launcher, pressed the one-way button towards the ground. After the claw at one end of the rope dug into the ground, he decisively jumped.

“Sh-should I just call for help? I’m not taking this exam!”

“You’re giving up when it’s just started?!”

“Then you jump!”

People shoved each other, but no one dared to follow.

Although the school had not taught any combat techniques, it had introduced the use of every piece of equipment.

Song Yu and Qin Luo clearly saw Rong Shi’s operation. Both of them took out their launchers, fired their ropes into the ground, and almost simultaneously followed him down.

The wolf howls grew closer, and everyone’s mental state gradually collapsed.

“Damn it! Better to fall to your death than be eaten by wolves!” Someone imitated Rong Shi and jumped down.

Where there’s one, there’s two.

The launcher could control the rope’s retraction. Rong Shi, using the strength of his legs, landed smoothly at the bottom of the cliff. He pressed the button, the claws embedded in the ground retracted, and the rope slowly reeled back into the launcher.

As his front foot touched the ground, Song Yu and Qin Luo also came down.

Qin Luo, while reeling in his rope, grumbled: “I can see now, that Lu Ming is an idiot. Who the hell said he was a genius?”

Song Yu looked around. There were several caves nearby, and the other side of the river was still forest.

In terms of linear distance, this place was closer to the destination. Their jump had actually taken a shortcut.

A group of people hung from the cliff like pendulums, crying and screaming. When they reached the bottom of the cliff, they couldn’t even stand, leaning against each other and gasping for breath.

“It’s completely different from Star Wars! In Star Wars, you can revive if you die, but here, if you die, you’re really dead!”

“Why aren’t we given guns in such a dangerous place?! We’re really going to die here!”

“I heard they used to give them out, but many people were accidentally injured, and some students were even killed. They stopped giving them out after that.”

“I f***ing want to go home.”

Lu Ming, Zhang Yi, and the last few people came down together, greeted by Qin Luo’s taunt: “Weren’t there just a few wolves? Why are you escaping, you cowards?”

Zhang Yi’s face was a mixture of green and red, and he couldn’t utter a single word for a long time.

After half an hour of rest, Lu Ming planned to cross the river and continue their journey.

However, the others instinctively looked at Rong Shi. Seeing him sitting by the cave entrance, with no intention of hurrying, they hesitated.

“Brother Lu, everyone’s scared. Why don’t we wait a bit longer before moving on?”

Lu Ming’s hands, hanging at his sides, clenched, his knuckles turning white.

These people had chosen to follow him, but now they were looking at Rong Shi’s expression.

Listening to the wolves on the cliff go from frustrated howls to leaving, Rong Shi toyed with the stone in his hand, listening to 01’s detection results.

【56 grams of B384! If I eat it, I can transform! Awooo!】

Rong Shi: “…” That much?

He looked up at Song Yu, who was sitting not far away, his clear, cold eyes slightly narrowed. He put away the stone and walked over.

Qin Luo sat beside Song Yu, reviewing the recent battle: “The wolves’ aggression is concentrated on speed and—Bro, why are you sweating so much?”

Song Yu scratched his collar. Beads of sweat slid down his temples, his lips slightly pale: “Don’t you feel hot?”

Qin Luo looked puzzled: “No, I don’t.” And there was a river up ahead; how could it be hot with so much moisture?

As he spoke, a pair of long legs appeared in Song Yu’s line of sight. He raised his eyes and heard Rong Shi say faintly: “Come here.”

After speaking, he walked into a cave on his own.

Seeing Song Yu about to follow, Qin Luo stopped him, his eyes wary: “Brother!”

On this trip, no one could be trusted except each other.

Song Yu gently pulled away, “I know.”

The cave was pitch black. Rong Shi had his back to him. Song Yu walked over: “Want to cooperate now?”

Satellites could capture any image, except for inside caves.

Rong Shi: “Take off your clothes.”

Song Yu: “…”