Hearing these familiar words, Su felt like crying but had no tears.

He was very familiar with this phrase; every time new students entered the military academy, he would be asked to teach them for a month.

He was known to be particularly harsh with his insults; on several occasions, he even managed to make a burly man who was 1.85 meters tall cry.

Despite how much people outside admire and respect him, the freshmen at the military academy who were trained by him secretly cursed him quite a bit.

"Okay, I'll remember." He quickly replied, recalling how well-behaved the freshman had been back then.

"Okay, it's about time. Go back and rest. I'll go catch some food." Mu Qingyun waved to the dejected Su, telling him to go back.

Upon hearing this, Su nodded without saying a word and walked into the cave. No, he had to get the doctor to release the virtual creature quickly so that Mu Qingyun wouldn't have time to bother him anymore.

[Ah, finally the live stream is on! I can finally see my brother Mu's face again.]

[Pshaw, what's so good about his ugly face? It's hideous, it made me want to throw up my breakfast.]

[Who is it? Why are you being so obnoxious? If you don't like this trouble, just get lost. What are you trying to prove?]

[This is hilarious! Is this the kind of quality Mu Qingyun's fans have?]

[Upstairs, you're talking like you have high moral character. Oh, right, not only do you lack moral character, but you also have poor eyesight. Otherwise, how could you only see Mu Ge's fans cursing?]

[Stop arguing, guys. Did you notice Su's skin is a little red? It's unlikely he'd be like this on his first day of training, is it?]

You mean...?

[Brother Mu has definitely done something else behind our backs, but I won't say what it is.]

[Hahaha, dddd, I'm totally shipping them, guys!]

[What's with all this shipping? Can't we just keep it to ourselves?]

...

Mu Qingyun returned with the fish she had caught not long after, while Su had already purified the water in the cave, waiting for her to return and distill it.

“You all need to learn how to handle things too, you can’t always rely on me.” She looked up at the three people who were staring at her expectantly, then casually took a fish out of her storage bag and tossed it in front of them.

The fish wasn't quite dead yet. As soon as Mu Qingyun threw it, it immediately gathered all its strength and began to thrash about, its tail hitting the ground with a loud thud, which startled Xiong Ruoyou.

"But, but we don't know how to handle it." Su frowned, looking at the still lively fish.

"If you don't know how, then learn." She raised her chin, gesturing for them to look over. "I'll only demonstrate once."

After saying that, she picked up the dagger and deftly began to prepare the fish.

The cleaning process seemed straightforward, and Mu Qingyun's smooth and effortless movements gave the three of them a strange sense of confidence.

“Okay, leave the fish to us. Mu-ge, just use the distilled water.” Xiong Ruoyou looked up and smiled at her, then immediately took out a sharp little dagger from the storage bag and began to scrape off the scales, mimicking her earlier actions.

Trying it myself doesn't seem as simple as watching Mu Qingyun demonstrate.

They can't even scrape off the scales properly, even something as simple as that.

Seeing this, Mu Qingyun did not say anything, but instead sped up the distillation of the water in her hand.

She had just gone out to hunt and squeezed all the juice out of the lemons, putting it into a small bottle. She just needed to sneak a little into the water later.

"Brother Mu, I can't do it!" Xiong Ruoyou looked up at her helplessly, her hands covered in scales.

"You must learn to be self-reliant," she said casually, showing no intention of helping them, while her hands continued to leisurely boil water.

While they were preoccupied with the fish and had no time to look in her direction, she turned off the live stream, quickly took out a small bottle, and added several drops of lemon juice to the prepared water.

After doing all that, she opened the live stream again and said casually, "If it really doesn't work, don't bother. Come have some water, I'll take care of it."

[Wow, my screen went black for a second! That scared me!]

[Holy crap, me too! I thought my phone was broken; the screen suddenly went black!]

【Hey, I didn't notice, was there a black screen just now?】

[It seems so. Could there be something wrong with Brother Mu's livestream?]

[Hahaha, even Tian is comparing himself to Mu Chou. The live stream equipment suddenly broke down. Hilarious!]

[Pfft, maybe even the heavens can't stand this guy's arrogance anymore; this might be a harbinger of his impending doom.]

Seeing that the live stream was getting more and more far-fetched, she reached out and took the fish that Xiong Ruoyou and the others handed her, and casually said, "I just accidentally bumped into it. It's amazing that you guys have such an imagination."

"ah?"

Xiong Ruoyou thought she was being addressed, and raised an eyebrow in confusion, "Brother Mu, are you talking about me?"

“No.” She shook her head.

"Oh." Xiong Ruoyou nodded obediently and didn't say anything more.

As the group drank water laced with lemon, Mu Qingyun observed them discreetly, wary that they might notice something amiss.

However, they were drinking water in large gulps, seemingly unaware of anything, not even the usually observant Su.

Seeing this, she breathed a sigh of relief and continued processing the fish.

...

After eating and drinking to her heart's content, Mu Qingyun closed her eyes to rest, while thinking about the road ahead.

After each stage, participants in the military academy trials have two months to go home and rest.

She had nowhere to go, but luckily Xiong Ruoyou had invited her to stay at Xiong Ruoyou's house for the next two months.

Money is extremely important everywhere. Although sometimes power is more important than money, her original self was a princess of this empire, a princess whom the emperor and queen of the empire did not want.

Since she couldn't think about power, she needed to focus on making money.

Seasonings are very expensive here, and they are extracted from plants. She can go to the wild, where there should be many traces of plants.

Making seasonings requires no cost; it's practically a sure-fire way to make money.

Mu Qingyun was happily thinking about the road ahead when a strange noise came from the cave entrance.

The moment she heard the sound, she opened her eyes wide and looked toward the cave entrance.

【Hey, what's going on now?】

[Wait, the military academy has issued a notice saying that the virtual creatures will be released ahead of schedule. However, in return, if a team can kill 1,000 virtual creatures, they can leave the island early. Those who fail to leave early will be automatically eliminated!]

What the heck? The rules changed this year?

[I don't know. Is this to help the best performers stand out more quickly? Is the military academy short-staffed?]

[I don't know. Wait, there's one more thing: after half the time has passed, which is three months, the island will enter a competition mode, where you can steal virtual creature points from others!]