The Path of the Devouring Starry Sky
Chapter 17

Zhang Yue

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As soon as Yang Hui left, the young girl named Zhang Yue jumped down from the second floor, bringing a faint scent with her as she arrived before Su You.

At such close range, Su You swept a glance over her chest, and an idiom couldn't help but drift through his mind: "wickedly flat."

"Those three pavilions are still empty; pick one."

Zhang Yue's voice was cold, her tone seemingly filled with a deep sense of detachment. Her right hand pointed consecutively to the second, fourth, and fifth pavilions counting from the front on the west side. The pavilion Zhang Yue had just jumped down from was the one in the very middle of the west side, which was the third one.

Hmm? The two neighbors of a beauty are actually both unoccupied? Su You thought happily.

"I'll choose that one." Su You pointed without hesitation to the second pavilion on the west side, one of the two closest to Zhang Yue's pavilion.

After all, the pavilion closest to the water enjoys the moonlight first. This girl named Zhang Yue was even slightly superior to Tang Yongqing in terms of appearance. Although her "pair of A's" dragged down her score, she actually possessed a unique charm; at the very least, she was qualified to be a candidate in his "fish pond."

Zhang Yue glanced at him expressionlessly and walked directly into that pavilion, and Su You hurriedly followed.

"Living room, martial arts hall, study, underground secret room..." Zhang Yue led Su You through the entire pavilion, saying only one word at each location without even forming a complete sentence, which made Su You wonder if she had a language impairment.

The two soon returned to the living room, and Zhang Yue remained expressionless: "Study, computer, read the student handbook."

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhang Yue walked straight toward the door.

"Miss..." Su You called out. Zhang Yue stopped and turned around: "Something the matter?"

"Uh." Su You rubbed his nose and said somewhat awkwardly: "Smile a little!"

Zhang Yue remained expressionless and turned to walk outside again.

Su You hurriedly ran in front of her, putting on an exaggerated, grinning face: "If you won't smile, then I'll smile for you."

Zhang Yue's footsteps faltered, and a flicker of emotion flashed through her otherwise lifeless eyes. Then, she increased her pace, brushed past the now-stationary Su You, and walked straight out of the pavilion.

"Miss, leave your contact info before you go!"

Su You shouted from behind, but he didn't continue to follow her.

Heh, interesting. Woman, you have successfully caught my attention.

This sentence suddenly popped into Su You's mind, and a wave of intense shame surged into his heart.

Back in the study, Su You opened the laptop and began to read the student handbook carefully.

The Basic Training Camp did not have ancient civilization ruin training rooms, and there were only ten imitation gravity rooms. The maximum gravity of these rooms was only three times normal, but that was enough for most students in the Basic Training Camp.

The reason only ten were replicated was mainly to force students to compete. The spots for the Elite Training Camp only benefited the top-ranked students, and many of those with slightly weaker strength didn't even bother thinking about competing for a spot.

Therefore, the usage time for these ten imitation gravity rooms was also allocated based on rankings.

The ranking system in the Basic Training Camp was slightly different from the Elite Training Camp; there was no so-called combat power amplification, as it was based entirely on combat achievement points.

One medium-level soldier-level monster counted as 1 achievement point, while a high-level soldier-level monster counted as 10.

One low-level general-level monster counted as 100 achievement points, a medium-level general was 1,000, and a high-level general was 10,000.

As for low-level soldier-level monsters, they did not count for achievement points. After all, the weakest member of the Basic Training Camp was at least a medium-level warrior upon entry, which was effectively an invisible threshold.

Although there were over six hundred students in the Basic Training Camp, most were high-level warriors, with a portion being medium-level warriors. There were far fewer general-level fighters, only about fifty or sixty, and most were only low-level generals.

"They really do favor spirit readers!" Su You sighed.

The advantage of the achievement point ranking for spirit readers was immense. A spirit reader of the same level could hunt monsters about ten times faster than a warrior, so the acquisition of achievement points was naturally about ten times higher as well.

Of course, it couldn't actually be calculated that way, because on Earth, spirit readers could easily kill warriors of the same level.

For example, if one's spiritual force was at the high-level general stage, their true strength would be comparable to a low-level war god, so their hunting efficiency would naturally far exceed that of a high-level general-level warrior.

If calculated by true strength, a spirit reader's efficiency in killing monsters due to their unique characteristics was about twice that of a warrior of the same strength.

Additionally, regarding what Yang Hui said before leaving about "meeting the combat instructor tomorrow," Su You had already learned the details from the student handbook.

A major difference between the Basic Training Camp and the Elite Training Camp was that many students were recruited as soon as they passed the quasi-warrior assessment, having absolutely no combat experience.

In such cases, their mortality rate would be extremely high once they went out to hunt monsters. Therefore, for the first month after new students joined, they were required to follow a combat instructor out for field training.

The combat instructors were all war god-level powerhouses with extremely rich combat experience. Generally, one instructor would lead five or six students to conduct a full month of field training directly in the wilderness.

Only in the second month could new students begin to hunt monsters independently and participate in the training camp rankings.

After dinner, some of the students from the Kyoto Courtyard returned one after another. Su You greeted them one by one, but he noticed that the way they looked at him seemed a bit strange.

Filled with doubt, Su You walked into the pavilion next to his. This wasn't the one Zhang Yue lived in, but one occupied by another girl named Jiang Qiaru.

Like Su You, she was from Tianjin City. She had arrived about a year earlier than him and had a very pleasant personality. The two had chatted happily just a moment ago; the only pity was that her looks were a bit ordinary.

When away from home, fellow townsfolk naturally felt closer. Su You and Jiang Qiaru chatted for a while about things in Tianjin City, and their relationship grew increasingly familiar.

After chatting for a while, Jiang Qiaru asked with a smile: "Su You, why did you choose that pavilion?"

"Ah? Sister Qiaru, is there something wrong with that pavilion?"

Jiang Qiaru explained with a smile: "There's nothing wrong with the pavilion itself, but you'd best not get too close to the owner of the pavilion next door."

"Zhang Yue? Is there something wrong with her?"

Su You was a bit puzzled. Could it be that some powerful student was pursuing her and therefore forbade other male students from getting close? It was already 2053; surely there wouldn't be such a cliché plot, right? No way! Surely not?

"Although she is quite cold, she is actually quite decent," Jiang Qiaru explained, "The reason I'm telling you not to get too close to her is to avoid being implicated by her."

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