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The wild stars at night are dark and eerie, and unknown animals are wailing in the distance.
In the cave, Song Chunshi was woken up, only raised his eyelids, and fell asleep again wrapped in a blanket.
It wasn't until the sky turned white and the birds and animals were noisy that she got up with a yawn, pushed open the stone slab blocking the door, walked outside the cave and stretched out.
The sun bathed his body, and the morning air was fresh and cool. Not even a drop of blood was left from last night's killing.
"Um?"
There was a string of fresh paw prints under the cave. Song Chunshi took a closer look and judged from the size and shape that they were the marks left by some kind of large predator.
She clicked her tongue and felt a little headache: "We have to fight again."
This small oasis around the cave is her territory, and the predators nearby know this. Normally, the well water does not interfere with the river water, but occasionally there are some foreign beasts who do not know the rules and leave provocative signals unscrupulously, so that she will attack from time to time. Gotta have a fight.
It is actually not difficult to solve this problem. Wild beasts will leave their scent in their own territory to deter intruders. Song Chunshi only needs to learn what they do.
But she really can't do it.
She would never be able to do this in her life by marking her territory with feces and farts.
Following the paw prints, Song Chunshi quickly tracked the foreign beast.
The opponent was rolling wantonly in the pool, and the water drops rolled down the muscular body of the beast, along the shiny scales, across the broad back, plump hips, and toned thighs.
Song Chunshi: "Chiliu——"
Traveling through the Desolate Star for five years, this was probably the most negative impact it had on her.
She still remembered the first time she encountered a large predator, and was so frightened by the bloody scene that her legs became weak and she had nightmares for two days.
Now?
She would only drool when looking at the fat meat all over her body.
The beast in the water quickly noticed the movement on the shore. It was a young male beast that had just grown up. It was more than two meters tall at the shoulders, with terrifying claws and ferocious scales. Song Chunshi stood in front of it, as weak and helpless as a rabbit. Harmful.
But at the first sight of Song Chunshi, the beast was on guard and let out a low roar from its throat.
It has never seen an opponent like this. It has neither fangs, claws, nor scales and fur. It looks so weak that it can be crushed to death with one kick, but it instinctively turns its scales upside down as if it is facing a formidable enemy.
It had only felt this dangerous aura from its powerful kin when it was very young, and it was firmly engraved in its genes.
Song Chunshi walked out of the bushes, her tall figure strolling leisurely close to the pool. She was wearing boots made of animal skins, and her footsteps fell on the ground as silently as a feline.
The male beast immediately got into an attacking stance, its vertical pupils staring closely at her, as if waiting for an opportunity to attack.
The distance between one person and one beast is getting smaller and smaller, the air is almost stagnant, and the battle is about to break out.
Suddenly, the male beast roared loudly, and the mountain-like body suddenly turned around and ran away with lightning speed.
Song Chunshi didn't react for a while. After a while, he stretched out his hand to try to stay, "Wait a minute, have breakfast before leaving!"
The beast's feet slipped, its scales suddenly rose, and its four thick legs ran out of the afterimage. It fled the oasis in a hurry and disappeared into the desert.
Seeing that she couldn't catch up, Song Chunshi shook her head and regretted that the winter in Huangxing was coming soon. She planned to stock up on food for the winter, but it was a pity that it ran away.
Now that she had gone out, she took a tour around the oasis. When she returned to the cave, she grabbed breakfast in her left hand and the after-dinner fruit in her right hand.
After having breakfast, she brought food, water and homemade tools, covered her mouth and nose, and left the territory, running to the west of the desert.
The star above the head rose higher and higher, and not long after, another star also climbed out from the edge of the dune, and two fireballs scorched the earth.
Song Chunshi was not surprised at all. Before time travel, she was still a junior high school student. She didn't read enough books, and with her meager astronomical knowledge, she only knew that this was called a binary star system, and she didn't know anything else.
It was these two "suns" that forced her to admit that she was no longer on the earth.
The temperature rises very quickly, and the air twists into bursts of heat waves. Song Chunshi's two long legs alternate rapidly, and fine beads of sweat adhere to his toned skin, like a leopard with beautiful fur running in the wilderness, full of strength and wildness.
Several figures suddenly appeared in front of them, all wrapped up tightly, and they were struggling to move forward on the sand.
She caught up from behind, glanced at him as he passed by, and quickly walked away without stopping.
There are not many humans living in the desert star, but it is not impossible. Most of them are distributed in several large oases. Few live alone in the hinterland of the desert like her. Looking at the equipment of these people, they don't look like the natives of Wild Star, maybe they are foreign adventurers.
Song Chunshi was running and guessing casually, not paying too much attention.
She didn't know that the few people behind her were not the adventurers she had seen before. They came from the prosperous Capital Star and studied at the Imperial Military Academy. The reason why they appeared on the Desolate Star was to complete their graduation exams.
The military academy has always had strict requirements for its students. Every year, some students fail to graduate or even die during the examination. However, those who can pass the examination are all eye-catching geniuses with a bright and promising future.
As the top-ranked military academy in the Bauhinia Empire, the graduation assessment of the Imperial Military Academy is a major event that attracts the attention of many people. Many people watch the live broadcast on the Star Network throughout the entire process.
"This team is really miserable. In the graduation exam, they were selected as the Desolate Star. This place is full of desert and there are so many dangerous star beasts. I wouldn't be able to survive for a day."
"The key is that the weapon only has a dagger, and the light blade particle gun and mecha cannot be used. Who uses cold weapons these days!"
"As expected of the outstanding talents cultivated by the empire, they are able to persevere under such harsh conditions until now, and no one is left behind."
"Yes, at this time you can see the gap between ordinary people and geniuses."
There were a lot of praises on StarNet.
At this moment, a fast-moving shadow suddenly appeared in the corner of the screen. Everyone thought they were in danger, and their hearts began to rise unconsciously.
When the shadow got closer, they realized it was a girl.
The girl seemed to be in a hurry, with a sand shield covering her face, and only her smart eyes were exposed. When she passed by several students, she glanced at them casually, kept walking, and walked away as easily as she came.
The girl's light and vigorous figure is in sharp contrast to the geniuses' backs stumbling in the wind and sand.
The audience, who were full of praise just now, suddenly fell silent. They felt that they couldn't praise anymore. What happened?
The barrage went blank for a few seconds until someone analyzed——
"That girl looks very familiar with the desert. She must be a resident of Desolate Star, right?"
"Definitely! They have lived in the desert for a long time and have adapted to this environment. Our students' strength is combat. There is nothing to compare with."
"That's right. If I had grown up in the desert star, I would have been able to run that fast."
Messages echoed in one after another, and even if a few viewers occasionally thought that the girl ran much faster than ordinary people, they were all drowned out in the comments.
On the other side, Song Chunshi ran for more than half an hour. Before the temperature reached its highest, he ducked into a hidden cave somewhere in the Gobi Desert and leaned against the rock wall to calm down his breathing.
【Ding--】
A sudden voice came out in his mind, [Today’s speed is 45.5 kilometers/hour. Congratulations to the host, once again breaking through the speed limit of ordinary humans. 】
Song Chunshi opened the kettle and took a sip of saliva, holding it in his mouth and swallowing it slowly, without commenting on what the system said.
If she were still on Earth, she might be able to bring glory to her country and break a world record or something. But now, there are more beasts than people on the deserted star. No matter how fast she runs, can she still be faster than those with wings?
"There is no point in breaking through the limits of humans. If you really want to congratulate me, why not give me the secret book of Qinggong. When I can fly, I can show you the limits of birds."
The system listened and pretended not to answer.
Song Chunshi curled her lips, "How stingy."
The system she encountered after traveling through time and space claimed to be from another time and space. It was an ancient martial arts system. It had a large number of martial arts secrets and magical weapons, but they could not be given in vain and had to be exchanged for energy.
However, Song Chunshi was more concerned about another point. The system once said that as long as it accumulated 1 million energy points, it would be able to break through time and space and send her home.
Song Chunshi was raised by her grandfather. When she was born, her parents were on the rise in their careers. Neither of them wanted to return to the family, so they left the child to be raised by the elderly.
Later, both parties had stable careers, had money and leisure, and finally thought about raising a child. However, instead of taking their daughter back to them, they gave birth to a second child.
In the past, Song Chunshi always felt aggrieved and complained in her heart. She was also the daughter of her parents. Why did they pamper her sister like a little princess, but were rude and polite to her, as if she was just an outsider.
After traveling through time, she figured out that her parents just had no feelings for her, and just like her, she actually didn't have any feelings for them either.
Over the years, she often missed her grandfather and wanted to return to him, but she never missed her parents.
In order to return home, Song Chunshi spent the past five years mining and accumulating energy, apart from eating, sleeping and practicing martial arts.
The current cave was prompted by the system to be excavated. It is said that there is an energy mine underneath.
After resting against the wall for a moment, Song Chunshi got up and walked slowly forward along the long and narrow mine tunnel after his physical strength recovered.
Not long after she reached the end, the rattan basket left yesterday was still in place. She took out a homemade pickaxe and began to chisel away at the stone on the rock wall.
The pickaxe tip is made of the sharp claws of a ferocious beast, which can easily cut through rocks. The cut stones, sand and soil are put in rattan baskets and dragged outside the mine to dump.
Back and forth, trip after trip, the mine tunnel is dug deeper and deeper.
"Keng!"
The tip of the pickaxe hit the rock, suddenly making a different clanging sound.
Song Chunshi was shocked. He used both hands to remove the dust on the surface of the rock wall, and saw a faint hint of strange color under the gray-brown stone shell.
An energy mine was discovered!
With a bit of joy on her face, she replaced the pickaxe, took out another smaller tool, and carefully peeled off the stone shell to reveal a small window.
Soon, the energy stone buried deep in the ground revealed its true appearance. It was different from the black oil and coal. It was an aqua-blue solid with a soft halo on its surface. It was more like a gem than an energy source.
Song Chunshi admired it for a while, and then at the urging of the system, he put his right hand on it.
The system can detect where the energy is, but it cannot absorb it through the air, so it needs to use her as the medium. She didn't feel anything about the entire absorption process. She could only see with her naked eyes that after the energy stone lost its energy, its color gradually dimmed and eventually turned into gray waste stone.
This energy mine has a large capacity. A transparent panel appeared in front of Song Chunshi's eyes. There was a number on it that was beating slowly, jumping from 1 to 2 and then to 3.
The number represents the energy collected. She has been mining in Desolate Star for five years and has collected a total of almost 500 energy points, while the system requires 1 million points.
In other words, as long as she digs for another nine thousand nine hundred and ninety years, she can meet the conditions for returning home.
It's awesome, I hope she remembers how to wield a pickaxe now that she's a skeleton by then.
Just as he was laughing at himself, the ground beneath his feet shook violently, and some sand and stones rolled down. Song Chunshi looked around and had a bad feeling in his heart.
"System, wait a moment!"
It was already too late, more rocks and soil fell from her head. She cursed secretly, and ran out of the cave without even having time to grab the tools.
When digging, the mine was dug diagonally downward, so it was extremely difficult to run out. Song Chunshi stumbled all the way, almost tripping to the ground several times, and finally saw a glimmer of light coming from the entrance of the hole. Before she could relax, boom -!
The entire mine collapsed.
