Published: February 19, 2025
In the frozen depths of the sea, fierce waves surged.
Chen Chu walked over and greeted everyone before turning to Luo Fei, curious: “Why haven’t you come to school these past few days?”
The girl blinked her eyes and softly replied, “I was taken away by my aunt for special training. She said I am useless, and even with so many good things, I still got hurt by others.”
Chen Chu could only express concern: “...Was it tough?”
“Not really, mainly learning how to use some special equipment, and they helped me improve my weapon sniper rifle a bit,” she said.
“By the way, Chen Chu, the cleanup task and its precautions have been announced, it’s on the big screen behind you, take a look.”
“Okay.”
Chen Chu turned to the notice wall behind him, where the big screen was filled with various regulations and introductions.
This cleanup task would start on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, targeting all the deep mountains and forests nationwide.
Mist River was responsible for a section between two intersecting mountain ranges, with three small towns near the two mountain ranges serving as task release points.
Additionally, to make things easier, students participating in the cleanup task could apply to rent vehicles for their tasks, allowing them to transport the corpses of mutated beasts.
However, applying for a vehicle required obtaining a driver's license at the school, ensuring they could drive safely and skillfully.
After all, this wasn't the chaotic Keluoya, where one could recklessly crash through with a car.
Moreover, there were various restrictions, such as not harming ordinary people while hunting mutated beasts, and not randomly damaging public and private property.
There were also limits on accepting tasks; freshmen in the first level of heaven could only take on level one mutated beast tasks, those in double heaven could accept level two and below, and so on.
If the target mutated beasts were in groups, students could choose to team up.
The rewards for completing tasks would be based on the number and level of the killed mutated beasts: 2 contribution points for a level one mutated beast, 6 points for a level two, and 18 points for a level three.
This contribution point reward was one-tenth lower than the value Chen Chu and the others had received for killing exotic beasts in Keluoya.
The reason given by the school was that each task release required accurate intelligence, and the deducted one-tenth of contributions was used to pay for professional reconnaissance expenses.
At the same time, students who hunted mutated beasts could also choose to convert their contributions into money, with the price set at 80% of the market rate, which would yield much more than contribution points.
Of course, under normal circumstances, no student would exchange for money, as contribution points were far more valuable.
At this moment, Xia Youhui and the others walked over, grinning: “A Chu, no need to look, these beginner tasks are completely easy for us.”
Liu Feng casually remarked, “Xia Youhui is right. For geniuses like us, these kinds of tasks are just a way to kill time.”
Bai Mu nodded with his arms crossed: “Yeah, one sword per low-level mutated beast, it’s totally stress-free.”
The three of them had a relaxed demeanor and a dismissive tone, completely disregarding those mutated beasts.
This attitude sharply contrasted with the serious and worried expressions of their classmates around them, some of whom would glance over, envious and speechless.
Of course, they wouldn’t worry if they were in the late stage of three heavens.
Chen Chu sighed: “...You guys shouldn’t act like this. We are all just in the three heavens, not high-level cultivators in the four heavens.”
“And don’t be careless; remember that level doesn’t represent combat power. Some low-level mutated beasts have unique abilities that may pose a greater threat than some level three exotic beasts.”
While Chen Chu spoke, Li Meng took a couple of steps back, distancing himself a bit from Xia Youhui and the others, seemingly indicating not to count him in.