Inside the wooden cabin.
A woman with a ponytail lounged with her legs propped on the table, yawning at the boring assignment.
"The target we need to protect is a top first-year student at Imperial Capital University."
"That's strange. We were all top students at our own schools, but nobody made such a fuss over us."
She was a fourth-year student from Jingzhou University.
She was also the School Team's vice-captain, Ye Qin.
At prestigious universities, School Team members were usually selected from third- and fourth-year students through competitions.
The captain and vice-captain positions automatically went to the two students who consistently held the top spots in the rankings.
That alone showed that even across all of Jingzhou University, Vice-Captain Ye Qin was among the strongest.
Imperial Capital University and Jingzhou University had also been rivals for years, so she naturally had some complaints about the treatment Luo Yu received.
"Exactly. I could already protect myself perfectly well in my first year."
"This year's freshmen are getting more and more pathetic."
A young man polishing his ninja tools casually chimed in.
He was Hu Tu, captain of Yanzhou University's School Team. He had always held a commanding lead in the university rankings, with no one to rival him.
That had cultivated his arrogant personality.
Both he and the woman were rather proud. After several days without any danger, they had grown lax and even taken off their Anbu masks.
Another woman, who dutifully kept her mask on, said gently, "Captain Hu, the ones targeting Luo Yu are the Ninja Research Society."
"Could you have handled them in your first year, too?"
"Of course."
Hu Tu looked smug. "When I'd just enrolled, I went to a Secret Realm to train over the weekend and ran into Research Association members who wanted