"What do you mean?" A flicker of astonishment crossed everyone's faces, but they were all clever people and naturally understood Xiao Yu's idea.
"Yeah! The five of us can form a team and rob them of their fire energy instead!" Hu Jia waved her fist excitedly and let out a low, thrilled roar. Once they had finished making their plans, the group quietly slipped into the dark forest ahead.
Back where Elder Su and the others had been talking, their faces were also filled with astonishment after the group left.
"Old Hu, these little fellows are something else!" Elder Su said with a smile as he looked at Hu Gan. After all, a group of Da Dou Shi had been plotting not far from them; with their strength, even if they were not deliberately eavesdropping, they could clearly hear the conversation.
At first, they had merely been curious about what the group had gathered to do. They had never expected that they intended to switch the roles of hunters and prey.
Hu Gan smiled as he watched the direction in which they had departed. "I'm telling you, you'll definitely be in for a huge surprise."
Within the dark forest, a bedraggled new student ran through the trees, occasionally looking back as though something terrifying were chasing him. Just as he turned to look behind him, a vine suddenly coiled around his ankle from the side and hoisted him into the air.
Amid his frantic cries, an Inner Academy student walked up to him and said calmly, "Why are you running? Go back and keep your teammates company!" The vine around his ankle then swung him up and tossed him into the bushes nearby.
Behind the bushes, four more Inner Academy students sat gathered together. Before them, two Outer Academy