"Imperial Military Academy successfully slays a Double S-class star beast!"
The broadcast voice echoed throughout the entire competition venue, and all the contestants from the twelve military academies heard the announcement.
A little over ten minutes ago, Meng Huai and his team successfully located the marauding bear. Although the bear was quite large, it appeared rather clumsy. With a bit of strategy, they managed to trap and kill it.
Because the bear was a Double S-class star beast, the competition rules dictated that any star beast exceeding S-class that was slain would be broadcast, and its location would also be announced.
This way, those who coveted their points would be directed to them based on the announced location.
However, the competition had just begun, and going after them now would be pointless.
With half the time elapsed, Meng Huai and the others had reached the central area of the forest. They had encountered people from other military academies a few times over the past two days, but they all knew that now was not a good time for conflict.
If conflict erupted early on, not only would the points gained from a victory be minimal, but losing would mean that no member of their own team could be spared.
As they reached the middle to latter half of the journey, Zheng Yiran reminded everyone to be careful.
"From now on, be ready for battle at any moment."
Based on her experience, the latter half of the journey would not be as easy.
"From this point onwards, it will be a time for the military academies to vie for points. Originally, with only five military academies, there wouldn't be such chaotic disputes, but with twelve, it's different. Therefore, you must be prepared for the psychological prospect of facing eleven other military academies!"
Upon hearing this, Meng Huai's teammates remained silent. However, the audience reacted strongly.
【Is it necessary? How much enmity would it take for eleven military academies to gang up on one?】
【Oh ho, starting to get vigilant?】
【Came from the second military academy's live stream. We were originally here to watch the excitement, why the foresight?】
Speaking of foresight, Meng Huai touched her eyelids. Huixing Xiu, who saw her action, asked, "What's wrong?"
"My eyelids are twitching."
Meng Huai replied to Huixing Xiu, then continued to tell them, "There's a saying, I don't know if you've heard it."
"What?"
Despite the vigilance, the conversation couldn't stop.
"There's a saying that a twitching left eye means wealth, and a twitching right eye means disaster."
Huixing Xiu asked, "So is it your left or right eye that's twitching?"
Meng Huai became excited, smiling as she said to them, "Both my eyes are twitching, what do you think it means, wealth or disaster?"
【This saying doesn't seem scientific at all.】
After watching the live broadcast for a few days, the audience remained very displeased with this newly added member of the logistics department. They would never miss an opportunity to complain. However, the other team members were even more cautious.
After all, it was Meng Huai! Not a single word she spoke was meaningless, and moreover, her premonitions had never been wrong!
Meng Huai concluded by saying, "I think fortune and misfortune are intertwined. When disaster strikes, perhaps good luck will also arrive!"
Not far from the Imperial Military Academy's team, a group of people were gathered.
Leading them was the commander of the Second Military Academy. The audience member who had just commented in the Imperial Military Academy's live stream had seen the Second Military Academy joining forces with two other military academies to try and annihilate the Imperial Military Academy, which is why they went to the Imperial Military Academy's live stream to check the situation.
Initially, the audience of the Second Military Academy's live stream, upon seeing them trying to recruit other military academies, believed that a minority of them thought it was the style of the Second Military Academy and that they would surely succeed.
However, the majority believed it was an impossible task. Who knew that the commander of the Second Military Academy, Murong Shuai, was actually persuasive and managed to recruit two teams.
This move caused the audience in the live stream at the time to exclaim: 【Yo yo yo yo! I truly admire Murong Shuai, he actually managed to recruit allies!】
【The key isn't just recruiting allies, but recruiting the Asael Military Academy and the Fifth Military Academy. Now the second, third, and fifth ranked from last year have formed an alliance. With the Imperial Military Academy surrounded by these fifteen people, it's not unreasonable to expect their complete annihilation, right?】
【Enough said, I'm starting to look forward to it! I'm going to check on the Imperial Military Academy. They must not have anticipated what's about to happen! Hahaha.】
However, what this person saw in the Imperial Military Academy's live stream was somewhat different from what they had imagined.
This person did not leave the Imperial Military Academy's live stream. After all, they were the protagonists of the upcoming event.
For those who were watching both sides simultaneously, the audience was on the edge of their seats as the tri-alliance prepared to close in on the Imperial Military Academy.
But obviously, Zheng Yiran was constantly monitoring the surrounding situation, and she had sensed it. Her 3S-class mental perception was not to be trifled with.
Zheng Yiran extended her palm, signaling everyone to stop: "Get into the mechas, someone is coming, and it seems they're heading for us."
On the other side, Murong Shuai and the commanders of the other two academies gathered. Wan Ji, the commander of the Fifth Military Academy, said, "Zheng Yiran has sensed us, so there's no need for a sneak attack. Let's just launch a full assault!"
"Alright," Murong Shuai replied.
Xiang Man, another commander, nodded in agreement. The three of them issued instructions to their individual soldiers. Some provided artillery fire from the outer perimeter, while others charged directly towards the people of the Imperial Military Academy and engaged in combat.
The situation could be described in one word: chaos!
Accustomed to cooperating with their own small teams, these military academy students found it difficult to adapt to cooperating with people who were usually their opponents.
Meng Huai and her team had just entered their mechas when artillery fire rained down on them. The surrounding vegetation was battered and bent by the bombardment. Zheng Yiran and Rong Feiwen stood in the center.
Because the team was surrounded, with attackers coming from every direction, Zheng Yiran and Rong Feiwen, being in the center, were actually safer.
However, Zheng Yiran and Rong Feiwen were not a burden like other commanders and mech pilots; both of them had their own means of self-preservation.
"You go."
Zheng Yiran said to the three individual soldiers. After she spoke, Huixing Xiu charged out first. Fetta, an individual soldier from the Second Military Academy, swung his sword at Zheng Yiran. Huixing Xiu swept a leg towards him. Fetta, seeing his movement interrupted, was not angered.
"Fine, I'll deal with you first, and then I'll go after your commander!"
Commanders bore the points for the entire team, meaning if the commander was taken down, the rest of the team would be directly eliminated.
Therefore, Zheng Yiran was the target at this moment, and everyone in the alliance wanted to eliminate Zheng Yiran first.
So, when the individual soldier from the Second Military Academy intended to focus on Huixing Xiu, an individual soldier from the Asael Military Academy bypassed the fighting Huixing Xiu and Fetta.
This action infuriated Fetta. He was fighting Huixing Xiu while this person directly attacked Zheng Yiran; anyone could understand this intention.
They, the people of the Second Military Academy, could not tolerate this grievance!