At night, the woods and undergrowth lay silent.
Only the bright white moon hanging in the sky shed its light, making the stillness a little less monotonous and frightening.
Bai Hongfei kept pushing through the grass toward Qingyi Lake.
"I have to find the cause. I can't fail again. If I can't even get Outstanding Graduate, how could I have the face to return to the Bai Family?" Bai Hongfei muttered indignantly to himself.
During their previous Outstanding Graduate mission, an idiot on the team had ruined all the other students' work, and even their instructor had been punished.
This time, no matter what, Bai Hongfei had to get Outstanding Graduate.
He kept heading toward Qingyi Lake, completely unaware of the figures moving behind the trees a dozen meters behind him.
"I told you this brat couldn't keep his cool." Zhou Sining stepped out from behind a tree.
"I think he demands too much of himself. Besides, he already failed his last Outstanding Graduate mission. It's understandable that he doesn't want to accept a second failure." Mu Nujiao took a gentler view of things.
"Leaving the Safe Zone alone in the middle of the night, when he's barely even done any Field Training Missions and has no experience at all-he doesn't take his own life seriously. He's got some nerve!" Zhou Sining did not agree with Mu Nujiao.
"All right, save the lecture until we bring him back." Mu Nujiao followed Bai Hongfei.
She and Zhou Sining did not immediately go forward to stop Bai Hongfei. Instead, they kept trailing a dozen meters behind him.
Since Bai Hongfei wanted to investigate, they did not mind protecting him for now.
Soon, Qingyi Lake appeared before them.
Under the moonlight, Qingyi Lake was as peaceful and beautiful as an enormous piece