Lost in Mousse Forest
"Remember, your true abilities must never be exposed unless it's a critical moment." After climbing out of the virtual cabin, he barely managed to avoid Yunxiao's earnest warnings. But before going to bed, Caesar grabbed him and lectured him at length. "Currently, in reality, the highest recorded mental power coverage rate for all interstellar mechas is 95%. So, take your time in releasing your mental power!"
Yu Sheng was a little overwhelmed and said, "Okay, I get it. Dear Comrade Fan Er, I have to go to the assembly early tomorrow morning. Can you please let me sleep?"
Caesar wasn't about to let him go, "Also, the most important thing is your blood! I haven't settled the score with you for challenging someone without your permission before. Fortunately, the challenges at the Mousse Military Academy are held on the virtual campus network."
Although the virtual network can replicate a person's strength, agility, and other numerical values, their bodies are naturally the data of interstellar people. In reality, if Yu Sheng got into a conflict with others, the consequences of injury would be unimaginable.
"Um, um..." Although Yu Sheng responded, his eyes were closed and his voice was vague and perfunctory.
Caesar said in a cold tone, "It seems you don't want this anymore."
What do you want?
Yu Sheng forced his tired eyes open a crack, and a mecha buckle was swaying in front of his eyes. The beautiful mini mecha was showing its presence.
!
Yu Sheng suddenly sat up and snatched the mecha buckle from Caesar's hand. All sleepiness disappeared, and he asked in disbelief, "Cesar, where did you get the AR-7?!"
The AR-7 fighter jet among the ordinary models of mecha has a market price of about 30,000 gold coins, which is an incredible surprise for the poor Yu Sheng.
"My master gave it to me. He's thinking of you." Faced with Yu Sheng's useless and foolish look, Xi Ze rolled his eyes and said, "He said he's borrowing it from that kind-hearted young man for three days. You better stop showing your affection to my master in the future."
In order to get Master Miller to take better care of Caesar, and to express his gratitude, Yu Sheng treated the old man like he would his father-in-law. He served him tea and water, and even fully cooperated with some of the strange experiments Master Miller proposed.
Once, the old man asked Yu Sheng to try out his newly made mecha. Yu Sheng got on without saying a word. As a result, after he got off the mecha, he felt dizzy and vomited continuously.
The old man rubbed Yu Sheng's back and muttered to himself, "It seems that the feasibility of the windmill-type mecha is relatively low... Young man, you need to exercise more in the future!"
Xize didn't show it on his face, but he was always worried in his heart. After all, Yu Sheng was not an interstellar person, and the old man was using him as an interstellar person for experiments. It would be terrible if something happened. But Yu Sheng always said that he knew what was going on and ignored Xize's words.
There are many more things like this that I will not mention here.
The next day, Yu Sheng opened his eyes before dawn. Unlike his usual sleepy eyes, Yu Sheng gripped the mecha buckle on his neck, quietly got up from the bed, tiptoed into the storage bag, checked the water and food inside, and set off.
At the entrance of Mousse Forest, dozens of students lined up in six orderly rows.
Aiden carefully counted the number of people and then shouted to the team, "Reds, Bill, step out!"
Yu Sheng and the little fat boy stood up together.
Aiden held up two mecha buttons, "For your mechas."
"No, thank you, teacher. I have a mecha now." Yu Sheng pointed to the mecha buckle on his neck.
Aiden glanced at it in surprise. It was an AR-7! While it wasn't new, it was a true luxury among mechas. It was hard to believe this was bought by a kid who couldn't afford a mecha yesterday.
Although it was unbelievable, Aiden had to respect the privacy of every student. He didn't ask any more questions, but looked at the fat boy and said, "Bill, your mecha buckle."
Bill lowered his head and secretly glanced at Yu Sheng's mecha buckle with the corner of his eyes. The envy in his eyes could hardly be concealed. He did not respond to Aiden's words, but just raised his chubby arm to take the mecha buckle from the teacher's fingers, lowered his head and got into the team, without saying a word from beginning to end.
Aiden frowned, "Alright, all students follow me and don't fall behind."
The access control card belonging to the mecha teacher of Mousse Military Academy was swiped at the only entrance of Mousse Forest. The photon barrier disappeared, and the deep and vast forest rushed into the students' eyes. The wind with the chill of the early morning blew through the dense green branches and leaves and hit the faces of these excited and ignorant students. Almost everyone shuddered.
Some of the gifted children who have been spoiled since childhood have begun to back out.
Aiden looked at the students' fear with satisfaction. These brats were usually too arrogant and thought that Class A was invincible. Little did they know that with their limited abilities, if they really met an intimidating opponent, not only would they lose in terms of strength, they would also lose in the psychological warfare alone.
Only by constantly defeating yourself in the face of fear can you become stronger and stronger.
Deep in the forest, the sound of leaves mixed with a long, sad note was heard faintly. Yu Sheng frowned. What was that sound?
But looking at the people around, including Teacher Aiden, no one raised any objection to this strange sound. It was probably a common phenomenon in Mousse Forest.
Bill stood to Yu Sheng's right, stealing glances at him from time to time as they walked.
"What's wrong?" Yu Sheng suddenly spoke, startling Bill.
"I-I'm sorry," Bill flinched, then hesitated, "Are you... aren't you afraid?"
Of course - not afraid.
Compared with these students who have never experienced bloodshed, Yu Sheng's hands are stained with blood.
Yu Sheng once lost a close friend while trying to eliminate a drug trafficking gang carrying guns on the border. He still remembers the moment he first shot someone: his fingers trembled, his brain buzzed, and he was completely consumed by self-doubt and disgust, vomiting profusely.
It was the captain who held him, letting him vomit all over him without pushing him away, and kept repeating, "It's okay, it's okay, it's all over, you did a good job, you saved many lives..."
Yu Sheng remembered that after vomiting, he developed a high fever in the middle of the night. His comrades were so anxious that they carried him to the infirmary. As a result, they were criticized by the captain for disrupting military discipline and were sent back to write self-criticisms. After his comrades left, the captain took care of him personally.
Yu Sheng remembered that the captain was usually so fierce, but he was extremely gentle when he was sick.
Do I still have a chance to go back?
Will I... be able to see my comrades again?
"Whoosh--" The slight sound of cutting through the air suddenly pulled Yu Sheng back. Yu Sheng had no time to react and fell backwards almost entirely relying on instinct and the desire to survive.
The slender mouthpart flew past Yu Sheng's nose like a sharp arrow and landed in the mud.
The familiar cool breeze blew on Yu Sheng's cheeks. The lush branches and leaves supported one natural roof after another, and even the sunlight slipped in through the gaps.
Everything seemed to be the same as when we first entered Mousse Forest.
The difference is that there is no one here except Yu Sheng.
Apart from the attack just now, everything seemed to have fallen silent again.
The wind carried the rustling sounds of an unknown creature crawling through the grass. Yu Sheng hunched his body slightly, stepped back on one foot, and stared intently at the grass where his mouthpiece had just emerged, a movement ready for a sudden burst of stress.
An insect leg poked out from the grass. Yu Sheng tensed his body and watched the insect reveal its true appearance.
It was about as tall as Yu Sheng's knees, with a hard beetle-like shell covering its back, and its long mouthparts pointing straight at Yu Sheng, ready to attack.
This bug is really big... Yu Sheng drew out his dagger, ready to deal with the bug that had just attacked him.
Yu Sheng took a step forward, and the insect shot out its mouthparts. Yu Sheng knew it would have this trick, so he easily dodged it by leaning sideways and slashed at the insect's continuously regenerating mouthparts. Taking advantage of this gap, he kicked the insect over fiercely, and the short knife pierced into the insect's abdomen which was not protected by a shell, splashing out a black and green smelly juice.
The insect, pinned to the ground, twitched its six limbs, but it was too late to recover. Yu Sheng frowned, wiped the splattered juice off his hands, and prepared to leave to find Class A.
As soon as he stood up and took a step, Yu Sheng suddenly stopped.
The huge shadow covered Yu Sheng little by little. The threat came without warning, making Yu Sheng's hair stand on end.
Yu Sheng slowly turned around and blurted out in his native language:
“Oh my god…”
A beetle that looked almost identical to the "little" bug just now was standing less than thirty meters away from Yu Sheng.
The difference was that this beetle was a full ten meters tall! Standing behind Yu Sheng like a small hill, it quietly locked onto Yu Sheng's body with its huge eyes, just like a normal human would look at an ant on the ground and crush it at will.
Yu Sheng's hands had already grasped the buckle of the mecha on his chest. He no longer cared about saving energy and summoned the mecha in an instant. The giant beetle had probably never seen such a strange thing appear out of thin air before, and subconsciously crawled back more than ten meters. Yu Sheng took this opportunity to get into the mecha and controlled the AR-7 to soar into the sky.
After all, the beetle couldn't fly, and the mecha quickly left the giant beetle far behind. Yu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief and quickly found a relatively open area to land. Now that he was separated from the main group, the mecha would be his strongest defense and guarantee, so he had to conserve energy wherever possible.
The most urgent thing is to find the teacher and classmates as soon as possible. If we still can't find them before dark...
Yu Sheng frowned, looking serious.
——The Ten Circumferences of Mousse Forest——
Aiden, who had found a place to stay and was preparing to have the students stay, was on the verge of collapse.
Who would have thought that just after counting the number of people as usual, one person would actually be lost!
"You really didn't see where Redes went?" Aiden looked at the people in front of him who had stood next to Yu Sheng when they were in line. "Then when were there fewer people? When was the last time I saw him?"
Several students looked nervous and bewildered, while Bill subconsciously lowered his head, his gaze cast towards the ground. Aiden knew this kid was always like this, so without giving it much thought, he hurried off to contact the school security department.
The students who were questioned dispersed while discussing the matter. Bill took out the tent from his backpack and set it up without saying a word.
In the palm of Bill's clenched right hand, there was a black dot with a radius of about one centimeter. After a long time, it fluttered like a living thing, and then became stiff again.
As the sky gradually darkened, the Mousse Forest was shrouded in thick ink. In the dense forest, there were occasional whooshing sounds, and there were pairs of eyes hidden in the grass that didn't blink, and I don't know how many there were in total.
Yu Sheng had managed to find a place to stay by dusk. He took the tent out of his storage bag and set it up. He also got some water and food, and despite having no appetite, he forced himself to eat.
The situation is not good now.
It was different from the past when I got lost during a march. Before, even if I got lost in the mountains, I could still hunt animals or find edible plants. But now, in this shabby forest, there were only bugs, and I didn't even know if they were poisonous or not. And let alone plants, I barely recognized any of the plants in the interstellar world.
Yu Sheng scratched his hair irritably, crawled into the tent, and leaned against the tent tent to close his eyes and rest.
Soon, Yu Sheng fell into a light sleep. In a place full of countless unknown dangers, maintaining a light sleep would allow Yu Sheng to wake up and react immediately, which should be something Yu Sheng is accustomed to.
In the haze, that somewhat sad long note sounded again, like the ringing of a bell in an old temple, echoing in the soul.
Somehow, Yu Sheng felt his eyelids getting heavier and heavier until he fell into a dream.
This is wrong, wake up!
Yu Sheng struggled immensely in the dream.
But he failed. He was locked in a cage, his hands and feet shackled. Suddenly, his eyes lit up. A dense crowd of people were holding signs representing "up the ante," with malicious or crazy smiles on their faces, and their greedy eyes were fixed on his naked body.
No, I'm not a pet, I'm not...
Yu Sheng's body began to tremble. Suddenly, he groped his way out of the tent, closed his eyes, and walked into the depths of the dense forest like a blind man who could use his ears to determine the direction.
There is an indelible darkness.
——Five Circumferences of Mousse Forest——
"Hey! Professor Zat! Someone's coming!" A tall, strong young man suddenly exclaimed, "Oh my God, he dares to walk into Mousse Forest alone in the middle of the night?"
Professor Zat's eyes, which had been closed, suddenly fluttered open. His graying hair gave him no trace of the kindness of an old man. He held a strange instrument in his hand, and a hint of fanaticism flickered in his eyes.
“It appeared, it appeared again!”
"What happened?" The young man was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, "Oh, it's that strange abnormal sound wave you've been trying to capture?"
Zat ignored the young man's question at all. He stood up and walked left and right with the instrument in his hand. Finally, he stopped at the direction where Yu Sheng left. There was a hint of suppressed excitement in his voice.
"It's right there! The man just now was probably chasing this sound wave! I must find out the source and nature of this sound wave!" After saying that, he threw all the supplies on the ground into the storage bag at the speed of wind, and ran in that direction without looking back.
"Hey! Professor Zat, please wait for me!" The young man hurriedly packed up his things and chased after him while cursing in his heart. This crappy professor, if he hadn't promised him that he could get into the Muse Military Academy after the exploration of the Muse Forest, he would not have followed him in to suffer this!
Professor Zat and the young man always kept a distance of more than ten meters from Yu Sheng. This was done to prevent the other party from noticing that they were following them, and secondly, to use Yu Sheng as a pathfinder so that they could respond in time if any danger occurred.
But soon, Professor Zat realized something was wrong.
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