Outside the Training Camp.
Deep in the mountains.
A young man carried a suitcase on his back and a flashlight in one hand as he struggled to climb through the forest. Fine beads of sweat continuously seeped from his forehead and ran down his cheeks onto the ground.
He raised his head and looked at the pitch-black night sky overhead, confusion surfacing in his eyes.
"Strange... Why did it suddenly get dark?"
Lu Baoyou stared at the night sky for a long while. Beneath this nightfall, he felt an inexplicable pressure that left him uneasy.
He shook his head and quickly discarded those chaotic thoughts, then continued climbing toward the mountain's peak.
The mountain he was on was the closest to the Training Camp, as well as the highest and steepest. More importantly, from its summit, one could clearly see everything within the Training Camp.
After being turned away at the Training Camp entrance, Lu Baoyou had not chosen to leave. Instead, while the crowd was in chaos, he had climbed this mountain from another direction.
After several hours of trekking, he finally reached the mountaintop. Standing atop the towering peak, drenched in sweat, Lu Baoyou pulled an old-fashioned pair of binoculars from his clothes and looked toward the Training Camp.
"Hm?" Lu Baoyou frowned slightly. "Where did all the instructors guarding the Training Camp go... There's no one on the watchtowers either. What's going on?"
Logically speaking, a crucial place like the Training Camp should have airtight military defenses around its perimeter. Since Lu Baoyou could think of climbing this mountain to spy on the camp, enemies naturally could as well. The watchtowers in this area should have covered nearly every angle without blind spots, yet at this moment, not a single person stood atop them.
The entire Training