Chapter 4

The students, along with the viewers, were equally stunned.

When everyone was on high alert, the viewers were also on edge, afraid that a giant beast would suddenly pounce out from behind the bushes.

No one expected that it wasn’t a beast that appeared, but a girl who looked so unique.

She wasn’t fierce-looking, in fact, she could be considered beautiful, with a strange charm, but most people, at first glance, would only notice the wild and dangerous aura about her, not her appearance.

It’s her! It’s the girl who passed by yesterday! Although she was wearing a mask, I remember her eyes!

[Yes, her build and skin tone match too.]

[What is she doing in front of the students?]

Song Chunshi stood in front of them, not paying attention to their wary gazes. She gestured with her hand, outlining the range of the oasis, and declared in broken common language, “Mine.”

Occasionally, strangers would enter the oasis, to temporarily stay or replenish water. As the owner of the territory, Song Chunshi tacitly allowed these actions, but she didn’t allow outsiders to barge in and wreak havoc.

These people didn’t look like residents of the desolate planet. She didn’t know if they were aware of the rules, so she deliberately showed up to inform them, to avoid conflict later.

She pointed towards the direction of the cave and warned, “Don’t go there.”

Then, she suddenly pulled back the bowstring. As the students’ faces changed, the arrow feathers shot into the grass like lightning. There was a “poof,” and a strange-looking beast collapsed, dead.

Song Chunshi stepped forward, pulled out the arrow from the beast, and said to them, “For you.”

As soon as the words left her lips, she turned and left without waiting for their reaction, her figure quickly disappearing into the bushes.

The students looked at each other, and the viewers were even more confused.

[She spoke common language, right? Why don’t I understand what she meant? Is there a god here who can analyze it?]

[She’s probably declaring her sovereignty. This oasis is her territory, the low slope over there is probably where she lives, and outsiders are forbidden to enter.]

[Didn’t anyone notice? She didn’t even aim, she killed a star beast casually!]

[I saw it, I saw it. She even gave it to the students. She’s so kind, beautiful, strong, and kind-hearted.]

[Upstairs… Is it possible that this isn’t kindness, but a warning? A warning to the students to behave themselves. There’s an old saying, “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey,” you can look it up.]

[Although… I also want to be warned. I haven’t eaten star beast meat a few times in my life. The star beasts in the capital star are too expensive. Little sister, give me one!]

The students looked at the star beast on the ground and then at the direction the girl left. “Captain?”

The team captain’s face was slightly tense. “Since the owner of this place hasn’t driven us away, then we’ll follow the original plan. Replenish food and water, rest for half a day, then set off.”

The students breathed a sigh of relief. Their mission was to capture a small type of star beast. In order to find them, they had been trekking through the desert for the past few days. Aside from enduring the harsh environment, they also had to deal with various dangers. They were extremely exhausted, both mentally and physically. They really wanted to rest.

“I’ll handle the food.” One of the team members dragged the star beast towards the water, his face full of smiles. “It’s a shame I didn’t bring anything, otherwise, I would have given her a gift too.”

The others weren’t as carefree as he was. They looked at the star beast’s corpse and analyzed, “A shot through the brow, piercing the skull. Accuracy, strength, and speed are all essential.”

Even with a particle gun, it wouldn’t be easy to do that, let alone the girl using a bow, a cold weapon that had long been obsolete.

It was likely that the star beast last night had died in the same way.

Several of the students suddenly felt a little hot in the face. The daggers they carried were also cold weapons. Before, they had always thought that such backward weapons were useless against star beasts, and they even had opinions about the academy because of it.

Now, the facts were right in front of them. It wasn’t the cold weapons that were useless, it was the people who were useless.

The students’ faces flushed red and white. One of the girls sighed, “We were so ignorant.”

They were used to being fawned over, so they became complacent and arrogant. Now that they thought about it, they looked ridiculous.

Song Chunshi warned the strangers and went back to work on the jerky.

The temperature in the desert was high during the day, and it was dry, like an oven that didn’t need electricity. The marinated meat was hung out, and it would be dried hard in a day.

But someone had to watch it and couldn’t leave, otherwise, the birds in the sky, the beasts on the ground, and the creatures that burrowed in the earth, all eighteen kinds of beasts would show their skills and steal the meat in the blink of an eye.

Song Chunshi sat at the entrance of the cave, her bow and arrow by her side, making new mining tools, her ears and eyes constantly paying attention to the surroundings.

“Whoosh—” An arrow flew out.

“Whoosh, whoosh—” Two arrows fired together.

“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—” A flock of birds came, twelve arrows were almost not enough.

By evening, she had collected the jerky into the cave. Not only was there not a single piece of meat missing, but there was also a pile of miscellaneous loot on the ground.

She picked and chose, keeping the good stuff and taking the bad stuff to exchange tomorrow.

The next day, Song Chunshi got up early and dragged a cart out of the cave. The body of the cart wasn’t made of wood, but metal. On the desolate planet, trees were a scarce resource, more valuable than metal.

The cart was piled high with items she was going to exchange. She checked them once, making sure they were secure, and pulled the rope, running all the way.

Today, she was going to the nearest Great Oasis, which could actually be called a city, surrounded by desert.

The city had precious farmland where crops could be grown, so it attracted nearly 100,000 people to live there.

It was star calendar 2353. Song Chunshi didn’t know if other planets had already replaced manual labor with robots, but the people on the desolate planet were still working the land with their hands, just like in her old home.

Even being able to work was a blessing, it meant they had land. Some people had nothing, they could only risk their lives or trade their bodies for a chance to survive.

As she ran, Song Chunshi suddenly slowed down, frowning and looking around.

“What’s wrong?” The system couldn’t help but ask, as she stopped several times along the way.

“It feels like something’s following us.” The subtle feeling of being watched had been there since leaving her territory, but she hadn’t been able to find the source.

“Why can’t I sense it?”

Song Chunshi was speechless. “Besides being sensitive to energy mines, what else can you sense?”

The other party must be some distance away, at least outside the range of her five senses. She could sense something was wrong, but it was more of a feeling of an unknown danger, an instinct born from years of living in a dangerous environment.

The system wasn’t even human, of course it wouldn’t have that feeling.

Unable to pinpoint the source, Song Chunshi simply ignored it. Whether it was good or bad, as long as the target was her, the other party would eventually reveal themselves.

She set off again, this time without stopping, and saw the city walls of the Great Oasis before the two stars reached their zenith.

To prevent beast attacks, the metal city walls were built very high, and there was a fee to enter.

There weren’t many people at the city gate at this time. Song Chunshi dragged her cart over and took a piece of jerky from the cart, throwing it to the guard.

There was no established monetary system on the desolate planet. Currencies from various countries could circulate, but they were not very valuable. Compared to money that couldn’t be eaten or used directly, bartering was more favored here.

The piece of jerky weighed about two pounds, which was enough as an entry fee. The guard opened the gate and was about to let her pass when another younger guard, seeing that the cart was full of things, reached out to pull it open to take a look.

Song Chunshi immediately looked over, her gaze cold.

The first guard quickly pulled his companion back, apologizing with a smile, “He’s new, he doesn’t know the rules.”

Song Chunshi didn’t say anything, and pulled her cart into the city.

The young guard was startled by her gaze. After he reacted, he became angry and embarrassed. “What are you so proud of!”

“Keep your voice down,” the older guard lowered his voice, “That’s a powerful figure.”

“Even if she’s powerful, she can’t be more powerful than a particle gun?” The young guard touched the holster on his waist, his expression disdainful.

Seeing his expression, the older guard shook his head slightly. There were always people who thought that having a particle gun or a light blade meant they could look down on anyone. They didn’t know that for strong people, even if they were unarmed, the other party would find a way to kill them before they could even make a move.

That girl was like that. His companion had offended her before, and even pulled out his gun to intimidate her. But before he could even raise the gun, the girl’s dagger was already pressed against his neck.

That was two years ago. Now, the aura around her was even more dangerous than before. Only a fool would foolishly bump into her.

He glanced at the fool beside him and didn’t say anything else. Some people weren’t suitable to survive on the desolate planet, the laws of nature would teach them what survival of the fittest meant.

Near the city gate was a commercial street, with all kinds of oddly shaped houses crammed together. The signs in front of the shops were also dilapidated. If you weren’t a regular customer, you wouldn’t know what kind of business they were in.

Song Chunshi came to a shop at the end of the street. As soon as she parked her cart, a young man ran out enthusiastically. “Song, you’re here again. What good stuff do you have this time?”

He had a high nose, deep eyes, and thick lips. He had brown skin, brown hair, and blue eyes. In Song Chunshi’s old home, he would be considered a mixed-race person of at least eight nationalities.

However, he obviously didn’t have any yellow race blood, and he didn’t have the talent for learning Chinese, so his pronunciation of her name was very strange. Song Chunshi couldn’t stand it, so she simply let him call her by her surname.

The young man helped her unload the things from the cart. When he saw the giant beast’s head, he exclaimed, “What a big guy! Song is getting more and more powerful!”

He spoke quickly, and in common language, Song Chunshi couldn’t keep up, so she didn’t respond, but it didn’t stop his enthusiasm.

After a few trips back and forth, they moved everything into the shop. An old man was already waiting there with a calculator, pressing buttons and asking Song Chunshi, “What do you want to exchange for this time?”

Song Chunshi spoke common language, one word at a time. “Little pills, earth potatoes, energy cards.”

Don’t misunderstand, the little pills here weren’t the kind that men liked, but female contraceptives.

One little pill down, and your period wouldn’t bother you for a whole year, and it was safe, non-toxic, and had no side effects.

As a sufferer of dysmenorrhea, Song Chunshi was blown away by this high-tech.

She had to carry a box back home with her.