Xia Chujian looked over instinctively.
Those people were indeed the students and teachers who had remained at the camp to consolidate their newly upgraded Mental Strength.
Most of the Starry Sky Exploration Force soldiers should have been there too, but she had not seen them yet.
More people were still filing out of those cave entrances.
Xia Chujian and Huo Yushen waited at ease, guarding the area directly in front of those entrances.
For every Regular Mecha that emerged, they cleaved one apart or shot one dead, their coordination flawless.
By the time everyone had emerged from the caves, Xia Chujian and Huo Yushen had killed all the Remnants inside more than two hundred Regular Mechas.
Clearly, those two hundred-plus Regular Mechas had mainly been guarding over two thousand "prisoners."
Huo Yushen was still keeping watch at the cave entrance ahead when the classmates familiar with Xia Chujian climbed up from the ground and ran toward her, crying as they came.
"Chujian! Chujian! Is that you?! Is it really you?!"
The first person to rush over was Tao Pao.
She had always been faster than most people, and having just survived a brush with death, she was so overwhelmed that she ran even faster.
She rushed over and grabbed Xia Chujian's arm in a hug.
Xia Chujian was currently in her two-meter-tall Mecha form, while Tao Pao was at most one-seventy, so she could only hug her arm.
In truth, Xia Chujian's muscles and internal organs had been severely injured by the shockwaves. She had been relying on sheer willpower to keep fighting the Remnants.
When Tao Pao hugged and shook her, stars burst before her eyes, and she nearly collapsed to the ground.
But she did not want these people to worry, so she leaned against Tao Pao's shoulder