Chapter 6

The sky was just beginning to lighten, and the vast wilderness was silent.

Song Chunshi ran across the wasteland with her longbow on her back.

After about an hour, she came to a canyon. The sides of the canyon were steep and straight, and the passage in the middle was narrow and straight, as if cut by a giant knife.

She entered the passage, ran hundreds of meters with all her might, then dodged behind a protruding rock, adjusted her breath, and quickly lowered her breathing rate.

The early morning wasteland was very quiet. The migratory birds had already left, heading to warmer places for winter. The wild beasts had not yet emerged from their dens. The only sound was the whistling of the wind blowing through the canyon.

“Huh?”

Suddenly, someone made a slight sound of confusion at the entrance of the canyon. It was very light, but Song Chunshi’s entire focus was on her ears, catching this imperceptible sound.

It turned out that it wasn’t some strange thing that had been following her lately, but a person.

Song Chunshi didn’t relax for a moment.

This person was stronger than her. She didn’t know what method he used to spy on her. For so many days, not only had she failed to catch him, she couldn’t even determine his general location.

While practicing archery in the cave, she thought of this canyon, perhaps she could use the special terrain to lure him out.

The person stood at the mouth of the canyon, not going in, but that was enough.

Song Chunshi didn’t turn her head. She drew back the bowstring with her backhand and shot three arrows in succession towards the back. The straight, narrow and long passage of the canyon allowed the arrows to fly unimpeded towards the exit, accurately aimed at the person standing there.

When the first arrow came, Carol didn’t care. He just slightly shifted his body, raised his hand to block the arrow, and even had a playful smile on his face.

But soon, the numbness in his arm made him look surprised.

Without time to think, the second arrow was also in front of him. He took it a little more seriously and blocked it with his lightsaber. However, after the arrow shaft was cut by the lightsaber, the debris all splashed onto him, and the residual force was surprisingly strong.

He didn’t have his defenses up, and he was hit so hard that he gritted his teeth, “What kind of monster child is this!”

The third arrow came faster than the first two, obviously more fierce. Carol dared not block it anymore, but he was too strong, and the canyon was too narrow. Even if he dodged, he would be hit. He had no choice but to squat down, the arrow tip flew past his scalp, taking away a few precious strands of hair.

Carol didn’t have time to lament. As he looked up, the girl was expressionless, and three more arrows were already loaded on her bow.

He quickly raised his hands in surrender, “I give up! Let’s talk!”

Song Chunshi paused, the arrow tip pointed at him. She didn’t put it down, nor did she respond.

Carol stood up, his hands still slightly raised, indicating that he meant no harm.

They were more than a hundred meters apart. Seeing that the other side was still on guard, he couldn’t get close, so he could only shout, “Do you remember the few young people we met five days ago! They are students from the Purple Jasmine Empire Military Academy, and they are doing their graduation assessment on the barren planet. I am their instructor. I have noticed your potential and want to ask if you are interested in joining the military academy!”

After he finished speaking, he waited for a while, but found that the girl was still expressionless, so he could only scratch his cheek to relieve his embarrassment, “So, children on the barren planet don’t like to go to military academies?”

In fact, Song Chunshi was just confusedly complaining to the system, [What is this guy yelling about?]

He was so far away, and he spoke so quickly and long, and it was in the common language. She couldn’t understand a word.

But it seemed like he didn’t have any malicious intent. He clearly didn’t use his full strength when dodging her arrows, and he didn’t mean to fight back.

So she also shouted, “What are you saying! I don’t understand!”

Hearing this, Carol froze for a few seconds before his brain slowly realized, “You don’t understand the common language?”

“A little bit!”

Carol was silent.

He had guessed that the girl had another force behind her, so she was indifferent to the Empire’s recruitment. He had also thought that she didn’t understand the meaning of the Empire’s Military Academy, so she wasn’t interested. He even thought that she might just like the survival style of the barren planet. He never expected that she couldn’t even understand his words.

Thinking back, when the girl spoke to the few students that day, it seemed like she spoke one word at a time, very difficult. At that time, he thought she was naturally cold.

Carol couldn’t help but laugh. Even on the barren planet, it was a bit too much to say that she didn’t know the common language.

He was getting a headache. The girl was alert and couldn’t understand his words. How could he communicate with her?

Before he could figure out a solution, Song Chunshi had already put away her bow and arrow and slowly walked towards the exit of the canyon.

Carol was surprised, “You’re not worried that I’m a bad guy?”

Just now, she was about to shoot him to death.

Song Chunshi’s gaze swept up and down him. This man was young and strong. It was obvious that the muscles on his body were not for show, but were forged in battle. Moreover, his equipment was very advanced. If he really wanted to deal with her, he wouldn’t need to waste time talking so much nonsense. She wasn’t his match.

Admitting that she was weak was not a big deal, but Song Chunshi didn’t think she would always be weaker than others.

“You’re following me, why?” She stood in front of Carol and looked up at him.

Carol tried to explain his intentions in the shortest possible words, “Do you want to go to school?”

“School?” On the barren planet, this word was rarely mentioned. It wasn’t part of everyday language. Song Chunshi tilted her head slightly.

“It’s where a lot of children gather together, live and study in one place.”

Song Chunshi suddenly realized. After all this fuss, this person was a school teacher, here to catch her to go to school!

You know, when she crossed over, summer vacation was almost over. She hadn’t done a single word of her summer homework. Occasionally when she thought about it, she felt a little guilty. Who would want to go to school!

She pushed him away speechlessly, squeezed past him, and said coldly, “I’m not going to school.”

She was too busy making a living. Who would go to school if they were a decent person.

Carol didn’t get angry. He knew that this child couldn’t even speak the common language fluently, so he had more patience for her.

“Don’t rush to refuse. Let’s do this. First, learn the common language, and then—

“Whether you go to the military academy or not, it won’t hurt you.”

The two of them walked out of the canyon, one behind the other. Carol gestured for Song Chunshi to wait in place. He walked a little further away, fiddled with something, and a huge machine suddenly appeared beside him. He boarded the machine, rose from the ground, and sped away.

Song Chunshi looked up in amazement, her eyes wide open like a country bumpkin, “Superman? Ultraman? Transformers?”

Forgive her for her lack of knowledge. On the barren planet, it was good enough to see a spaceship. She had never heard of anyone owning such a behemoth.

[Shouldn’t we run?] The system bubbled up.

“Run for what?” Song Chunshi said, “He told me to wait, so I’ll wait and see what he wants to do.”

Besides, the other party had this kind of unfair high-tech. Even if she ran, she would be caught.

She wasn’t in a hurry. Instead, she had the leisure to look for the arrows she had shot earlier.

She had shot three arrows, but only found two. One had broken, another two energy points…

Song Chunshi frowned, secretly feeling a pang of pain.

Carol returned quickly. When the machine landed, it knelt down on one knee like a person, looking both cool and handsome.

After he jumped off, Song Chunshi curiously asked, “What is this?”

“It’s a mecha. You’ll be able to get in touch with it when you go to the military academy.”

“Mecha?” Another unfamiliar word.

“This is for you.” Carol took out a children’s wristband-like thing, pressed a button, and a transparent screen popped out. On the screen, a little guy with a three-headed body was babbling, “Daddy’s daddy is called grandpa, daddy’s mommy is called grandma…”

Song Chunshi was speechless, “What is this!”

Carol had a smile on his lips, “Children’s enlightenment materials. I think it’s just right for you.”

Before Song Chunshi could get angry, he said seriously, “My mission isn’t complete yet. I need to send a few students back to the capital star, and then I’ll come back to find you. I hope you can give me a real answer then.”

He patted Song Chunshi on the shoulder and finally said with a smile, “The outside world is very different. Little guy, you should go and see it.”

With that, he flew away in his cool mecha.

Song Chunshi watched him fly away, looked down at the enlightenment material in her hand, and looked disgusted, as if she was going to throw it away the next second.

But in the end, she still put it on her wrist.

She couldn’t understand what the man was saying, but she saw the other world he showed her, a world she could never touch in her lifetime on the barren planet.

Although she was focused on mining and saving energy points to go home, she was still curious about that new and unknown world.

It took Song Chunshi a few days to finish the enlightenment material and learn a lot of new knowledge.

For example, this world didn’t have Earth. Humans originated from a planet called Old Blue Star, and the countries on it were not the ones she was familiar with.

So she didn’t cross over to the future of Earth, but to another parallel time and space.

Also, people here have psychic powers.

Most people’s psychic power level is D-level, some people reach C-level. Above this level, psychic powers can extend outside the body, forming psychic tentacles, a sixth sense beyond the five senses.

Carol must have been using psychic tentacles to follow her, and he didn’t know where he was hiding, so she couldn’t find him.

A few people reach B-level and can use certain special machinery.

Very few people can reach A-level. From this level onwards, they can control mechas, and their strength is vastly different from ordinary people.

Above that, there are S, SS, and SSS levels.

Song Chunshi is a native Earthling, which means she probably doesn’t have psychic powers.

Thinking of the mecha she saw not long ago, without psychic powers, she couldn’t control it. What if someone else drives a mecha against her in the future, would she have the strength to fight back?

[System, do you think it’s possible for me to defeat a mecha?]

These days, she has been learning, and the system has also been absorbing new knowledge. Upon hearing this, it immediately said, [That’s nothing. As long as the host practices internal energy to its peak and buys a battle blade, cutting a mecha will be as easy as cutting a melon!]

[Battle blade? What does it look like? Let’s see.] Song Chunshi became interested.

A transparent panel popped up, and a heavy, ancient, black long blade stood quietly, looking unremarkable.

When Song Chunshi saw its price, her eyes widened: 9999 energy points!

And her assets were 1 energy point. The two together added up to exactly the right amount.

The system was still chattering about the awesomeness of the battle blade.

Song Chunshi: “…Alright, you can shut up.”

She knew she was poor. There was no need to repeatedly rub salt in the wound.