46: I want to be a salted fish
"This supply base used to be a low-level spirit plant cultivation farm. Due to the sudden fusion of the Qingshan District with the Blue Star, the area experienced a beast tide. The original farm owner also had an accident during that incident, and the owner's wife and children sold this land to the Jianghuai City government."
Pointing towards a large grassy area in the distance, Zhou Ting explained, "So, you see that... there's also a monument erected by the former farm owner's wife."
Zhou Ting shrugged, "It's just that over the years, the paint on the monument has peeled off, and the text is no longer very clear. Because it's the original farm owner's grave, the government hasn't removed it. Compared to ordinary professional Beast Tamer, the treatment here is at least a hundred times better."
"There's no way; they provided the government with such a large piece of land suitable for building a supply base." Another girl beside her added, shaking her hands in agreement.
Song Yu looked up and nodded, engaging in a brief conversation with them.
The houses on this side were similar to regular Jianghuai City real estate. There were family-style residences with three bedrooms and two living rooms, hotel-style suites for individual stays, and even a brand-new villa community.
But people without strength wouldn't dare to choose the villa community. Those were targets chosen only by powerful professional Beast Tamer teams. What if they went out and got beaten up? Wouldn't that be unlucky?
So, newcomers like Song Yu, who came to the Qingshan Wilderness area for the supply base, all behaved obediently. Either they chose hotel-style suites or shared family-style residences with their teams.
Song Yu initially wanted to choose a separate hotel-style standard room. However, she arrived at One High relatively late, and with her luck, she couldn't find a vacant room after searching for a long time.
Helplessly, she could only choose a three-bedroom, two-living-room apartment in a high-rise building and entered after unlocking the door.
But Song Yu also didn't expect her luck to be so strange.
After entering the residence, she discovered that her next-door neighbors were none other than Zhou Ting's team, who had arrived a step earlier.
Zhou Ting's team consisted of six people, three males and three females.
Originally, they planned for three males to stay in the living room, and three females to each occupy one bedroom. However, upon seeing Song Yu, Zhou Ting inquired whether this house had other occupants. If no one was living here, she intended to stay for one night and leave for the wilderness area tomorrow morning.
Song Yu had no objections. After all, she couldn't fully utilize such a large room anyway. Since this apartment had three bedrooms, Song Yu allowed Zhou Ting to bring in another female teammate to stay in the adjacent room.
This temporary residence was similar to a hotel. After their group left, the supply base staff would clean and prepare it for the next batch of occupants.
Song Yu stood on the high-rise building, gazing into the distance.
Looking at the dense and lush green forest in the wilderness area, and considering the time they needed to spend in the forest, she decided to go to the commercial street south of the supply base later and buy some fast food.
*****
There are usually two ways for high school seniors to conduct practical training in the wilderness area.
One is to automatically head to the wilderness area for training without receiving any specific tasks, focusing solely on honing the combat power of contracted beasts and exploring and collecting treasures such as spirit plants and minerals in the wilderness area.
The other is for students to go to the public task area of the supply base, choose tasks that suit them, and then enter the wilderness area to complete tasks and receive rewards while honing their contracted beasts.
As long as students obtain a verification certificate for 1000 hours of practical training in the wilderness area as required by the school curriculum, they can participate in the upcoming Beast Tamer College Entrance Examination on time.
The duration on the verification certificate will be recorded in real-time by the high-tech communication wristband and then stamped with the corresponding seal by the registration point at the supply base.
With this stamped document, students can only participate in the Beast Tamer College Entrance Examination on time.
Song Yu had no big ambitions; she just wanted to chill out in the wilderness area.
Without the supervision of teachers or Mr. and Mrs. Song, she didn't even plan to pretend anymore.
So...
While Zhou Ting and the others were excited to go to the public task area, she was indifferent.
While Zhou Ting and the others were planning how long they would stay in the wilderness area this time and what level of wilderness area variant beasts they would fight against, she was uninterested.
While Zhou Ting and the others were as excited as if they had taken chicken blood, waking up at five-thirty in the morning, getting ready, and setting off for the wilderness forest at six o'clock, she was so tired that she could barely open her eyes, lying in bed until she slept for a full ten hours. Only then, yawning, did she get up, wash up, have breakfast, and carry her backpack out of the supply base.
It's not that Yu Yu wasn't trying hard, it's just...
As soon as she thought about spending 1000 hours in the wilderness area, almost 42 days without bathing, and sleeping in the forest to feed mosquitoes, Song Yu felt like a withered mushroom, drooping her hair strands.
Song Yu: QAQ!
Two days of hiking and cooking outdoors is called mountain climbing and camping to relax. Forty-two days of wilderness survival is called famine every day!
As Song Yu left the gate of the supply base and stepped into the Qingshan Wilderness area, the communication wristband sensitively made a ding-dong sound, recording the time punctually, precise to every minute and second, not letting a single gap go unnoticed!
Song Yu: "..."
Song Yu glanced at the black wristband with heartache and frustration.
"If it weren't for this thing's sensitive ability to accurately test the difference between the wilderness forest and the ordinary city, I would have brought the communication wristband back to Jianghuai City long ago and checked into a hotel!"
"Why do I have to obediently stay in the wilderness area?"
"Never mind, it's done, I'll just continue to walk into the wilderness area... I'll find the quiet area with a small river on the map first!"
So...
Song Yu pitifully took out the map prepared in her backpack long ago and stepped into the Qingshan Wilderness area, stepping in with one foot shallow and the other deep.
*****
Qingshan Wilderness Area.
The densely packed trees in the wilderness area resemble a unique effect in a movie, and the warm golden sunlight penetrates through the cracks in the leaves, shining on every corner of the forest. The treetops, shrubs, grass, moss...
The entire Qingshan Wilderness area forest is as beautiful as the most delicate mural in a European castle.
However...
Such a seemingly quiet and picturesque forest always made Song Yu vigilant.
She pricked up her ears and sharpened her senses as if entering not a forest but a battlefield.
"Rustle, rustle..."
Suddenly!
There was a rustling sound in the dense bushes ahead, and the green bush leaves were shaking rapidly.
Song Yu stopped in her tracks, her eyes alert.
In the dense bushes ahead, a creature suddenly emerged. It was gray-black, with sharp teeth, standing about half a person's height.
It had sharp gray-white fur on its head and sharp claws and teeth like a badger or a honey badger!
At this moment, its two black bean-like eyes were staring fiercely at Song Yu, emitting a fierce sound from its throat.
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