Chapter 89

"...Forget it." Shesh said finally.

He seemed to have reached some kind of reconciliation with himself, muttering to himself where the mechanical wind elemental beast fell.

"What are you talking about?" Jiang Yunu was about to poke him with a branch. She turned sideways to glance at the remaining half of the mountain road leading to the safe rest area. "Don't be dazed. We should leave."

Before he finished speaking and the branch in Jiang Yunu's hand could poke Xie Shi, there was a sudden noise behind the bushes on the right.

Xie Shi's heart trembled, and he subconsciously prepared to face another mechanical elemental beast, but then he saw Jiang Yunu shook his head.

"It's a human." Jiang Yunu said.

Three people emerged from behind the bushes.

They wore the same school team uniforms, and on their chests were not only the athlete badges of the practice competition players, but also their glittering golden school badges.

They are three students from the Songnan school team.

The leading student first looked backwards and clearly saw the mechanical elemental beast crawling on the ground, which had lost its power source. He then withdrew his gaze from the metal beast and fell on the two students of Eng who were nearby.

"Are you Engel's backup students?" the other party spoke, and his tone sounded very friendly.

Xie Shi suddenly took a few steps forward and moved Jiang Yunu, who was originally closer to the opponent, behind him.

"This question is obvious," Xie Shi replied in a less than friendly tone.

Jiang Yunu discovered that Young Master Xie put on the "noble and cold face" he had when they first met. It was obvious that the Songnan student opposite was much taller than Xie Shi, but Xie Shi forced himself to act as if the other party was only worthy of looking at him.

The Songnan student who was leading the group had a flash of displeasure on his face, but he quickly regained his friendly demeanor.

"Indeed," the other party said, "Judging from your appearance, you must be Engel's junior students."

These three people are obviously older than Jiang Yunu and the others. They are probably from Songnan's graduating class or the class after graduating. Their bodies and bones have begun to grow, and they all have long arms and legs, but they still have the thinness that is unique to teenagers.

Jiang Yunu felt that Xie Shi might be a little nervous. She didn't know the source of his nervousness. She just felt that she could beat three such thin paper-thin seniors by herself.

"Don't get me wrong," said the male student leading the group, "we heard the movements of the mechanical elemental beasts nearby, so we came all the way here to see if anyone needs help."

The other party's tone was more friendly, but Xie Shi didn't buy it at all.

"Are you here to help, or are you here to pick up some slack?" Xie Shi said coldly. "I heard the movement of a mechanical elemental beast nearby. I think it should be easy for you to tell whether it has already entered the battle, right?"

The male students led by Songnan smiled and said, "How could that be?"

Shesh said, “Why not?”

Seeing their companion say something, the short but long-faced boy named Enge opposite retorted, and the other two male students from Songnan began to feel embarrassed.

"Why are you so hostile to us?" one person said. "We just came here to take a look. We didn't try to steal any points from you."

"Whether they truly didn't intend to steal the ball, or whether we were playing too fast and didn't get it, who knows?" Xie Shi said. "Your school's team's unauthorized attempt to intervene in another school's game—only you know what your true intentions were."

"Could you please not say such harsh words?" another Songnan student also spoke up. He frowned deeply and looked at Xie Shi with a tone that could be called a reprimand. "Even if we are students from other schools, we are still your seniors in terms of age. Shouldn't you be more polite and respectful when speaking to these seniors?"

It seems like this guy can't win over Xie Shi in a logical argument, so he starts playing the seniority card.

Jiang Yunu listened silently to the verbal battle. Although she did not dare to assert the purpose of these three people's visit, she felt that Xie Shi's speculation was reasonable.

If it weren't for her and Xie Shi's amazingly fast cooperation in defeating the elemental beasts, and if they hadn't put in almost no effort in fighting the mechanical wind elemental beasts, and had successfully scored 3 points, then the three people from Songnan might have arrived and encountered a battle that was halfway through.

In a competition to kill monsters and earn points, a team of senior students wandered around, investigating the battlefields where others had already started fighting. What were they thinking?

However, the full-court announcement had indeed just been made, and everyone knew that Engel had scored another 3 points.

These three people still insisted on heading towards the direction of the battlefield that had already subsided... What did they want to confirm?

In just a few seconds, many thoughts flashed through Jiang Yunu's mind.

Young Master Xie, who never falls for the "pua" of seniors from other schools, continues to exert his strength.

"Shouldn't we be more polite and respectful?" Xie Shi forced a mocking smile on his already "noble and cool" face. "We should actually take our time in attacking the mechanical elemental beast, wait for a few seniors from other schools to arrive, and then offer them the opportunity to destroy the crystal core, allowing the Songnan seniors, who haven't gained anything today, to score."

Jiang Yunu: "..."

The three people from Songnan: "..."

What a powerful mouth cannon! It turns out that when Xie Shi is firing, his mouth is twice as sharp as usual!

The impatient Songnan male student was so angry at Xie Shi that his face changed. He turned into a human firecracker wrapped in Songnan's exquisite uniform. It looked as if he would explode on the spot if there was just a little more flame!

Jiang Yunu walked forward calmly and put Xie Shi, who had blocked her way before, behind her.

Xie Shi seemed to want to ask Jiang Yunu what he was doing, but at this moment, a third team joined the battlefield which had nothing to do with fighting the mechanical elemental beast.

"Excuse me."

The third party intervened directly in the communication, and there was no laughter in his voice, but there was a bias in his voice.

Several senior students came out through the bushes on the other side, took a quick glance at the situation in the field, and then automatically stood in front of Jiang Yunu and Xie Shi.

"Excuse me, why are the Songnan school team members surrounding our underclassmen? Is there something going on?"

The main force of Enge's school team arrived at the safe rest area first. They were originally waiting for the two members who were exploring the supplies to return to the team, but after receiving the full-field announcement of the second school team score, the temporary captain began to get restless.

With the idea of ​​"after all, we are official members of the school team and seniors, why are we resting while the two suspected reserve students are earning points for the school", the Enge school team, which had just arrived at the rest area, left a message for the two members who were exploring for supplies, and then went out in full force, deciding to search for the two reserve students along the mountain road.

It was a strange connection between fellow students and seniors. The Engel team decided to try their luck by searching along the mountain trail. Unexpectedly, not far from the rest area, they spotted a group of people chatting. Then, a sharp-eyed person peeked out—whoa! My juniors!

...Why does it seem like we’re even competing against the official members of Songnan’s school team?

This investigation was very helpful, as it allowed the students of the Enge school team to quickly enter the woods to support their younger classmates.

It was two against three before, but once the Enge team arrived, the numerical advantage completely shifted to Jiang Yunu and his team.

Jiang Yunu had been silent before and had not participated in the "verbal battle", which gave the people of Songnan the impression that this white-haired girl was not good at speaking and relied entirely on the boy with a sullen face next to her to fight three people alone.

Unexpectedly, when the seniors arrived, Jiang Yunu stood behind them and said, "Our seniors from our school are here. Let them talk to you. I think you won't criticize them for being disrespectful to seniors from other schools, right?"

The three people from Songnan: “?”

Engel's temporary captain: "What? They criticized you?"

There were only two reserve students on their side, and standing in front of the three regular Songnan players, they looked dwarfed. Even though these were two reserve students who had just scored 6 points for the school, they were still juniors who would attract the protection of the seniors.

What are the people in Songnan criticizing Engel’s junior classmates for?

The temporary captain, who was very steady and down-to-earth, took over the communication responsibility and began to deal with Songnan's people. Seeing the situation at this point, the three people from Songnan seemed to have lost the intention to continue to confront Xie Shi and were unwilling to waste time here anymore.

After the three students from the Songnan school team left, the main members of the Enge school team had time to take good care of their younger classmates.

"Are you okay?" A familiar senior student touched Jiang Yunu's hair and asked, "What do they want from you?"

Jiang Yunu replied: "It seems that it heard the noises of us dealing with the mechanical elemental beast here."

She didn't mention Xie Shi's speculation, but as soon as she said this, another senior student next to her snorted coldly.

"They have no good intentions!" said the senior. "Songnan hasn't used their 'traditional skills' in practice this year."

"What's your specialty?" Jiang Yunu felt that the senior's tone was not right. She asked, and then found that she seemed to be the only one who had doubts about this. Xie Shi's face next to her showed an expected contempt.

"Let's go back to the safe rest area first," the temporary captain said. "We'll answer the questions on the way."

The group began to head towards the safe rest area.

After Jiang Yunu and Xie Shi entered the venue as reserve students for most of the day, they finally successfully joined the main force.

On the way, a senior student explained to Jiang Yunu what "Songnan's old business" meant - it turned out that in the previous few classes, almost every class, Songnan School, which was famous for its luxury, had people who would make some small moves. Simply put, they intended to use off-field transactions to exchange for on-field points.

"But not everyone on their school team does this," the senior said. "This kind of 'old-fashioned' behavior can be considered personal. The points are earned for the school, but whoever gets them for the school counts it as an individual achievement. Some school teams even compete internally on this."

The temporary captain seamlessly continued, "But we don't compete in this school. If anyone does, Teacher Lu will be furious."

Jiang Yunu nodded. She vaguely understood that the three Songnan students she had just met might be the kind of people who would do their "old business".

Does Xue Zhanxing know about his school team?

Jiang Yunu briefly recalled the little golden retriever, then she looked at the senior student who was answering her questions enthusiastically.

She asked the question that had been on her mind since she received the notice of admission as a reserve student: "Senior, what happened to Senior Zhou?"