Novice Village (Part 1)

Lin Xiao made several rounds of the school, killing all the dozen or so Long-haired Wolves and Bat Monsters wandering around campus. When he returned, he happened to see several students holding Fire Axes, Kitchen Knives, or Pot Lids, preparing to head downstairs. They all froze when they saw Lin Xiao, covered in blood and dragging two wolf corpses and two bags of rice.

He casually greeted them and left. They stared after him for a long while before someone asked:

"Which class is he from? He looks badass!"

"No idea. Don't know him well."

"Forget about him. Let's go. We should try to kill a few more today and increase our strength. I killed a Long-haired Wolf yesterday, and my strength increased by a lot. I feel full of energy."

"Yeah, hurry up. Let's get ahead before the other students catch on."

Filled with anticipation, the group headed downstairs toward the cafeteria.

Lin Xiao did not hear their conversation. Standing on the third-floor stairs, he looked outside. Weeds had already begun appearing around the edges and corners of the empty campus field. A normal school would not have so many weeds.

Beyond the main field stood a tall wall, and beyond that wall was a lush Primeval Jungle. Great trees dozens of meters tall surrounded the school. From time to time, beastly shadows burst from the forest to hunt other beasts or fight one another. Yet strangely, although the school wall was not particularly high and these several-meter-tall beasts could easily knock it down, some invisible force seemed to make them turn a blind eye to the school within the walls.

Lin Xiao knew that this was the system's protection for them. Everyone who had just arrived was an ordinary person, so there had to be a certain buffer