The formal practical combat training course began.
A school bus took all of them to a military camp outside the base, less than a hundred meters from its towering walls. This would be their training camp from now on.
The base's military garrison had now advanced more than three kilometers out to form the base's first line of defense.
So this site had been abandoned and converted into a training base for the various middle schools.
A training camp like No. 9 Middle School's, so close to the base walls, was not a good place to train.
The training camp for the wealthy and powerful families' children at Base No. 1 Middle School was a full five kilometers outside the base, shared with the military personnel originally stationed there.
There, they could encounter more wild beasts and receive more practical combat training.
With the military protecting them, their safety would not be too much of a problem either.
Starting today, they would eat and sleep at the camp, study all kinds of knowledge here, and undergo practical combat training.
Students from three ordinary classes also came to this camp for training.
But the ordinary classes had to take turns coming, while their special class would be stationed here permanently.
When Li Qingcheng, their beautiful, mature teacher, appeared on the training grounds with a gentle smile, the entire special class fell silent-not even a crow or sparrow stirred. The silence was terrifying!
In that instant, it was as though they had stepped out of a bustling marketplace into a silent mountain valley.
Li Qingcheng's invisible, terrifying presence instantly suppressed everything!
Through personal experience, every student in the special class had come to understand one saying: cut open a woman whose beauty was intoxicating, and her heart, lungs, and liver would all be black. There would be no other color!
The students who had given such "outstanding performances" during Li Qingcheng's first appearance had fared even worse.
In the very first lesson, Li Qingcheng had called on them to answer some basic questions.
But none of them had been able to answer, so Li Qingcheng had subjected them to her punishment on the grounds that they had not prepared for class.
With no control over themselves, they had changed into the women's clothes Li Qingcheng had prepared, then performed an eye-searing cross-dressing dance in front of the entire class with miserable expressions.
Those students had nearly suffered social death on the spot!
Only afterward had the whole class learned that one of their beautiful, mature teacher Li Qingcheng's skills was actually telekinesis.
She had used her powerful telekinesis to control the students with precision, making them perform the cross-dressing dance without the slightest ability to resist.
Powerful, terrifying, black-bellied!
The students had instantly slapped these labels on their teacher Li Qingcheng.
After that, she would make anyone who disrespected her or tried to resist her understand just how little she could be trifled with.
She would make you do whatever you considered most shameful, right in front of the entire class.
Meanwhile, she would stand to one side laughing happily, as though she had found a bunch of amusing little toys.
The students of the special class understood that, in this teacher Li's eyes, they were amusing toys.
Especially the moment you fell into her hands.
And her overwhelming strength made these students understand what it meant to cry to heaven and receive no answer, to call to the earth and find no aid.
"Students, today is your first practical combat lesson!"
"As a beast tamer, your other abilities don't have to be strong, but your ability to protect yourself absolutely cannot be too weak!"
"I've brought some particularly fun beasts. Now they'll be testing your ability to stay alive!"
As soon as Li Qingcheng finished speaking, the entire class became frightened.
Not playing by the usual rules was one of this teacher Li's trademarks.
What she called fun could very well be an utterly terrifying, nightmarish experience for the special class.
Sure enough, when Li Qingcheng pulled the curtain off the fiberglass cage, everyone saw what beasts they would be facing!
Everyone's faces went pale, and the girls nearly fainted from fright.
"If anyone dares to faint, I'll show him straight out of the special class!"
Li Qingcheng's next words forced both those who had been planning to pretend to faint and those who really were about to faint to pull themselves together.
What sort of beast could make the entire class react like this?
Everyone recognized them, including Jiang Ziliu, whose expression looked very bad too.
The beasts inside the fiberglass cage were only palm-sized, with a pair of nimble, batlike wings, resembling miniature humanoid beings.
They had a special name: Stinky Little Demon Bats!
These were a special kind of beast belonging to the bat family.
Stinky Little Demon Bats were little creatures that humans and most beasts loathed with a passion, because they liked attacking things much larger than themselves. But rather than biting, they would pounce on those larger creatures and get their urine all over them.
Once their urine stuck to the skin, it was very difficult to wash off and would give off a terrible stench for nearly a week.
That stench could even make people vomit.
Strangely, though, these little creatures themselves did not smell much at all.
Researchers had discovered that the stench was produced when their urine reacted with a living creature's sweat.
But they themselves did not sweat.
This habit made other beasts afraid to attack them and instinctively avoid them, providing the protection they needed to survive.
As a result, predatory beasts did not dare approach the areas around these little creatures' habitats lightly.
They also liked attacking humans and were the beasts humans-especially girls-detested most.
The special class had expected nothing good, but they had never imagined they would have to face such "terrifying" beasts!
"This is training aimed at you yourselves. Next, you'll have to run from their pursuit and avoid their attacks, so anyone who gets their urine on them will be considered to have failed!"
"No matter what methods you use, you'll have to find a way to evade their searches, pursuit, and attacks within this patch of woods."
Li Qingcheng then explained her training rules.
"And throughout this process, you are not allowed to summon your contracted beasts!"
"Anyone who summons a contracted beast will have five percent deducted from his resource allocation!"
Hearing this rule, some students who had been harboring little schemes sank into despair.
Why had they joined the special class? For the various resources the school provided, things they could neither afford nor obtain themselves.
Losing five percent in a single lesson would be a huge loss to them and would further widen the gap between them and their peers.
The introduction of this rule completely snuffed out their little schemes to summon their contracted beasts to fight the Stinky Little Demon Bats.
"Tang Yunu, ..."
Li Qingcheng called out several names. They were the ones in the class with better family circumstances or backgrounds.
"You few are a little special. If you dare summon your contracted beasts, I won't deduct your resources. I'll kick you out of the special class for good!"
"Now, do you understand?"
What followed was a listless chorus: "We understand!"
"All right, everyone, collect your training fatigues now and change out of your own clothes. In twenty minutes, we'll begin our first practical combat lesson!"
Looking at the adorable students before her, Li Qingcheng revealed her signature "devilish smile"!
She looked as though two horns had sprouted from her head and she had become an incomparably beautiful yet terrifying succubus!
No one dared drag their feet over Li Qingcheng's instructions.
Once everyone had hurriedly changed, she pulled open the cage's iron door!