Don't Overthink It

Breakfast time was over.

The examinees began to search for treasures again.

It seemed that in order to stimulate their competition, the examiners would only collectively calculate the value of the found items on the seventh day.

Until then, all treasures found were to be guarded by the individuals themselves.

Therefore, protecting what one found was also part of the examination.

Of course, besides the group rushing to search the forest for treasures, there was another group with ill intentions.

Completely unexpected, just making a grilled fish had caused him to be targeted by a group of people. Maro, looking at the examinees with twisted smiles, gradually approaching him, took a deep breath for three seconds and turned to run.

"Don't let that kid escape!"

"Catch him!"

"Whether we pass the exam depends on this kid."

Maro shouted without looking back as he ran, "I won't do anything for you!"

He would never do anything for people who wanted to threaten him, force him, or were annoying.

A knife flew from behind him. Some instinct made Maro decisively roll on the ground. The knife then plunged straight into a tree trunk not far away.

Covered in grass and dirt, Maro only glanced at it. He didn't dare to linger and continued to run deeper into the forest.

He remembered that yesterday, while searching for treasure, he had accidentally discovered huge footprints and beast droppings in one place.

There must be large Magical Beasts active nearby. As long as he reached that area...

Those guys behind him would lose interest in chasing him.

Of course, he himself would also be in some danger.

But running away was something he was quite good at.

With so many examinees behind him, once the Magical Beasts were full, they wouldn't bother with him anymore.

The success rate of this plan was eighty percent, worth a gamble.

The remaining twenty percent was that the Magical Beast might be in a restless period, not eager to eat, and only wanted to kill everyone they saw.

Faster, faster.

The golden-haired youth sprinted with his head down, a group of people relentlessly pursuing him from behind.

And above everyone, Su Wu was quietly watching the drama unfolding below.

Through Six Eyes, it could be known that if Maro continued to run forward, in three minutes, he would encounter three Magical Beasts whose life energy was enough to crush ten of the others.

Seeing the clear objective of their route, it felt like it was intentional.

Three minutes later, a group of people encountered three Magical Beasts.

They were three brown bears, each five meters tall, equivalent to a two-story building. Unlike ordinary brown bears, they had a single horn on their foreheads.

Let's call them Unicorn Bears for now.

The group of examinees chasing the golden-haired youth immediately stopped their pursuit upon seeing the three Unicorn Bears.

"Look here—" Maro pulled out a stone from his pocket and threw it at one of the Unicorn Bears.

The damage was not great, but the insult was extreme.

Seeing this action, the Unicorn Bear felt insulted by this short, weak bipedal creature and angrily raised its paw to smash down fiercely.

Maro, who had actively provoked them, ran extremely fast, almost ahead of everyone else, making it seem as if the others were still chasing him.

But in reality... they were all just trying to escape.

"This guy really isn't what he seems," Su Wu muttered, witnessing this scene, his tone full of expectation.

When he saw how weak the other party was yet still managed to make it to the airship, he had already guessed that the person wasn't as simple as they appeared.

Now it seemed that although his strength was weak, his mind worked quite quickly.

After all, strength could be improved, but a dull mind, barring any exceptions, was a lifelong issue.

However, Maro had miscalculated one thing, which was—

The Unicorn Bears' vengefulness and sense of smell were extraordinarily strong.

Although the Unicorn Bears had indirectly killed several examinees during the chase, when the examinees realized that the Unicorn Bears' target was clearly Maro, they scattered and fled.

Maro, on the other hand, was chased for two hours.

During these two hours, the Unicorn Bears always left him a sliver of room, as if deliberately toying with him.

Until he was exhausted, his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground with a thud, his vision blurring.

"Drip—" A foul-smelling liquid dripped onto his face.

As soon as his vision cleared, he saw a beast's mouth, a long tongue, and sharp teeth, with saliva dripping down like a waterfall.

He was going to be... eaten?!

The Unicorn Bear's tongue licked his face, but it didn't start from the head. Instead, it pressed him firmly to the ground with one paw.

As if wanting to torment him deliberately, it began eating him from the bottom up.

This way, the person being eaten would watch their entire body being consumed alive.

It was a cruel and inhumane torture, both physically and mentally.

The Unicorn Bear's slightly pointed mouth parted slightly, and as if wanting to savor it slowly, bit off a small piece from Maro's right leg.

"Ah—" he cried out in pain.

Along with the Unicorn Bear's movement, a large chunk of flesh was missing from his leg, with the bone beneath faintly visible.

So painful—!

So painful—!!!

"Save me—"

"Help—"

Facing the Magical Beast's gnawing, the blond youth could no longer maintain his composure, crying out for help.

No one would save him.

Just like when he was beaten by his so-called brothers and sisters, no one had stepped in to stop it.

He would be eaten by the Magical Beast, becoming another skeleton in the forest.

Unwilling...

The blond youth lay on the ground, his eyes, devoid of their usual sparkle from the pain, staring blankly at the sky.

In the vast sky, a figure appeared.

"Are you asking me for help?" the youth asked nonchalantly, squatting in mid-air. His eyes and hair seemed to blend seamlessly with the sky behind him.

From the moment the other person spoke, the Unicorn Bear, which had been eating, stopped its actions and warily observed the situation.

Maro's listless eyes suddenly lit up, shining brighter than ever before.

"Help... help me..." He reached out a hand, trying to grasp the floating clouds.

The white-haired youth landed lightly.

"Well then, consider it a good deed for the day," he said, black and blue energy covering his right hand.

The Unicorn Bear also raised its paw and swiped down fiercely.

Su Wu blocked the Unicorn Bear's paw with his left hand and smashed his right fist into the bear's abdomen.

An impact invisible to ordinary people occurred between the fist and the abdomen.

The Unicorn Bear was sent flying backward three meters and landed heavily.

He retracted his fist and came to Maro's side, standing and looking down at him from a height.

"Quite a mess," his azure blue eyes coldly assessed the partially missing flesh on the other's right leg, then glanced at the tear-streaked face.

"Insufficient strength, and all plans can lead to your own death."

"You're still far from it," he said coldly.

"Lord Hill..." Maro struggled to get up.

"It's so good to see you..." He smiled, tears welling up in his eyes.

"After breakfast earlier, I was planning to look for you. With these events, I thought I wouldn't be able to..." He seemed to have endless things to say, pouring them out.

"Look for me?" Su Wu raised an eyebrow.

"Please let me follow you!" The blond figure knelt on the ground, prostrating himself, his head bowed very low, in a subservient posture, his voice respectful.

His body trembled slightly, his breathing heavy, as if in extreme pain, or perhaps fearing rejection.

"I can wash your clothes, cook for you, and clean your living space. Please let me stay by your side." He kept his head down, trying hard to sell himself.

Blood from his injured leg stained the ground with the movement.

"Ah, I see." Su Wu's tone was somewhat subtle.

So it was really like this.

In that case, his deliberate waiting for the other person to be bitten by the bear before intervening, all to make the other person experience the terror of death, be grateful to him for saving them, and willingly work for him, was rather unnecessary, wasn't it?

Well, Maro didn't die in the end, and he was willing to work for him.

Putting aside the process, at least the outcome was correct.

"I understand," Su Wu said casually, pulling a bag of medicine from his backpack and tossing it in front of the other person.

"Use it. I don't want to be followed by a cripple," he said dismissively.

Su Wu, the scumbag.