The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 105 Rotten Fruit

No wonder.

Jiang Hui connected all the doubts that had been in her mind, and another doubt arose in her heart.

Why hasn't the school noticed anything unusual and sent someone to handle this matter?
This was something Jiang Hui couldn't understand at all. With such a commotion, and the instructors not lacking communication tools like them, why hadn't the school responded?

Jiang Hui wasn't blindly trusting the school, but rather felt that this was extremely unusual. Even on a relatively underdeveloped planet like Earth, such an oversight was unlikely to occur.

Jiang Hui believed that the school had not relaxed its surveillance of them while they were training here.

So where exactly did things go wrong?

Could there be any deliberate interference or someone deliberately creating the current situation?
Jiang Hui had her own considerations.

So after this student rambled on incoherently for a long time, he finally heard Jiang Hui ask, "So what do you think we should do?"

She actually preferred to stay put and observe. From Jiang Hui's perspective, the whole situation was static; all the information and events came solely from external feedback. She lacked a real sense of reality, so her next course of action needed careful consideration.

But judging from what he said... he had other ideas? Or perhaps this was the kind of help he wanted from her.

Jiang Hui looked at the other person silently, her eyes questioning.

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So she must be crazy, knowing it's stupid, she still followed along.

What was she thinking? If, as the other party claimed, there really was a horde of star beasts here, then what made her think she could withstand any attack from them, or even escape alive...?

Is it her not-so-bright brain or her arms, thinner than a stick, that's what makes her? She'd probably just lie there and die if she encountered a star beast.

But I don't know what she was thinking at the time, whether it was an uncontrollable gene or some kind of instinct driving her, she inexplicably followed along.

Although the other party kept assuring her that he had a very fast temporary means of transportation, and that even if they encountered a star beast, they could just squeeze into it and disappear in a flash, and he kept showing it to her, afraid that she wouldn't believe him, indicating that it was in the space button hanging around his neck.

So Jiang Hui has now arrived here with the other party.

"Are you sure this is the direction?" Jiang Hui asked the other party again to confirm.

The boy named Hillman nodded: "I mustered up the courage to go back and take a look. I saw traces of the mechs fighting their way through, and they were no longer making any noise."

Jiang Hui glanced at the other man silently. This man was a true warrior; even with the situation unclear, he dared to charge back alone. It was a miracle he wasn't snatched away by the star beasts for his reckless actions. No wonder he was so hungry earlier and moved with extraordinary speed.

But what difference is there between her and the other party now? If she dies in vain, it will probably be because she died stupidly. People won't call her a warrior after they've died.

However, since the other party provided useful clues, Jiang Hui had no choice but to continue following him.

"Don't lie to me, or I promise I'll strangle you before the star beast kills me," Jiang Hui said calmly.

The person in front of them suddenly stiffened for a moment, but quickly relaxed and continued walking forward calmly.

Jiang Hui was well aware of the risks involved, but since she had come, she wasn't afraid of them, which she called foolish. However, her willingness to be foolish didn't mean she was willing to be deceived; she ultimately didn't trust this person she was practically a complete stranger. The two traveled for a while longer, fortunately without encountering any more star beasts or dangers.

However, they gradually realized that they should not have gone astray, because as they followed Hillman's guidance, the sour smell became stronger and stronger, and it was showing a tendency to change from pure sour to fishy smell.

Jiang Hui only now realized that the indescribable sour smell was actually secreted by the star beasts that were attacking the instructors.

According to Hillman, they smelled a more pungent odor back then, but the current smell, while still sour and foul, has a stronger fishy smell and is somewhat like blood.

The two silently covered their mouths and noses with cloths and continued walking forward with difficulty.

But the closer they got to their destination, the more cautious they became, and the slower they moved. Both of them were students in the combat individual training program, and their mental strength was at a certain level. Although they had not yet officially enrolled, they could already use their mental strength in a rudimentary way. For example, Jiang Hui could now separate two things that looked like mental threads to perceive the surrounding situation.

However, she wasn't sure about the others, only that Hillman seemed to be using his mental powers to stay alert.

For a moment, neither of them spoke.

“This way—” Jiang Hui suddenly stopped and said to the people in front of her.

Hillman seemed a little confused, but he quickly accepted the girl's suggestion, and the two turned a small corner on the original route to go to the other side.

Sure enough, the stench here grew stronger and stronger, and they even began to smell a strong stench of blood—clearly not from humans.

But the closer she got to the other side, the more deathly silent it remained, devoid of even the slightest mental fluctuation. No, it wasn't entirely silent; Jiang Hui was drawn here precisely by this anomaly. Her subconscious told her to come this way—quick!
Perhaps because of their lingering doubts, the two walked slower and slower, until—

Suddenly, she stepped on something hard, both soft and hard. Without realizing it, she stepped on it and felt as if she had crushed a bag of flesh, accompanied by a sizzling sound as juice flowed out.

Jiang Hui seemed to have made some connection to something, and the hairs on her body stood on end. She didn't know whether to step down or lift her foot, and she felt completely out of sorts.

She stiffly tried to look down to see what it was when she heard someone shout, "Wait!"

"Let me take a look for you." The other person stepped forward first and kicked the thing under her feet away.

"It's nothing, just a rotten fruit," Hillman said casually to Jiang Hui, reminding her to watch her step, as there might be many more rotten fruits like this around here.

Jiang Hui then felt a little better: "Really? Thank you."

Then suddenly a flash of lightning illuminated the area that their searchlights had missed, revealing a whole ring of scenery.

Indeed, many of these "rotten fruits" are still round and plump, with "bright and piercing" eyes, and the undamaged parts still retain the unique inorganic texture of insect eyes from when they were alive.

Realizing what she might have stepped on, Jiang Hui felt the fur she had just smoothed up suddenly stand on end, and her back was covered in sticky, cold sweat.

Hillman: ...

Actually, he had just seen that it was a damaged pupil-like organ of a star beast. He wanted to hide it from the other party as a rotten fruit, but he didn't expect it to be revealed immediately.

Therefore, having too much imagination is not a good thing.

(End of this chapter)