Chapter 22: Less Good-Looking

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Hao Pi shook his head. “Didn’t you notice that right from the beginning, the girl’s purpose was to escape from the chaotic battlefield. She was about to leave the boundary when someone caught sight of her, so she had to get back in the chaos to hide herself.”
Hao Pi had noticed this girl before Jin Ling and Cheng Gong did.
The moment she became Chen Cheng’s target, he had already started to pay attention to her.
Chen Cheng was Hao Pi’s cousin’s son.
So, Hao Pi had already been paying a great deal of attention to this muscular nephew right from the beginning. Due to this reason, he did not miss even a single bit of detail regarding this girl from Planet Trash.
Jin Ling listened to what Hao Pi said and fell into deeper contemplation.
It seemed that Hao Pi had high expectations towards this girl.
But she truly could not find any outstanding attributes from those who belonged to Planet Trash.
During all these years, there hadn’t been anyone from Planet Trash who managed to pass the examination. So, she had almost forgotten about what happened to the girl who came from Planet Trash ten years ago.
If this girl did manage to enter the school, she might just become another candidate to have the same experience as the girl from a decade ago.
While she was thinking, Jin Ling focussed her attention back on Zhao Qingyan. Seeing that Zhao Qingyan stopped fighting in the battle after she received the desserts from the girl, Jin Ling felt a bit nonplussed.
For Zhao Qingyan, nothing was more important than finding a quiet place to enjoy a delicious dessert.
Hence, when she got the box of snacks, she simply could not wait to taste it.
But, out of respect and faith towards good food, she held herself back from appreciating the delicacies in this sandy, polluted and noisy place.
Leaving the chaotic fighting zone was her first and foremost decision.
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On the mimicry planet for the entry examination of the Second Military School of Alliance.
Across the endless desert, the sand still held the heat despite the onset of evening.
On this quiet and barren desert, a person came out of the sand, making a sudden, hissing sound.
Dressed in the uniform of Planet Trash’s locals, Lan Jiao found her polyester-material, yellow colored outfit to be full of sand.
She spat out a mouthful of sand, so that the particles did not hurt her teeth any more.
The chaotic fight, which started in the morning, did not end until one hour ago. After she ran out of the chaotic battlefield, she hid herself in the sand, crouching and ready for any eventuality.
In this battle, many people had been disqualified and eliminated already.
Half of the eliminated ones were locals from the Planet Trash, and others were participants from formal channels of other planets.
Just as Lan Jiao had predicted, it would take only three days before the population of the participants reduced tremendously on this planet.
Those who were robbed of the nutritive solutions and got their signal buttons switched off, were disqualified and deported on the same day.
The examination… was still on for the remaining lucky survivors.
The most dangerous place was the safest place, same went for the darkness under the light.
After leaving the chaotic battlefield, Lan Jiao hid herself under the sand and managed to get through the first day.
It did not take much energy to crouch, but it cast a huge pressure on one’s mind.
The scorching sand burned her skin, and she felt scorching pain all over her body.
Lan Jiao felt that if the sand had gotten any hotter, she would have been steamed thoroughly beneath the sand.
Even though she had used this trick today, it was not a smart, long-term idea.
She breathed in some fresh, cool air, and felt that the blistering heat lessened slightly.
The desert evening was cold, starkly different from the daytime. When the temperature dipped further, she felt a chill attacking her bones.
Lan Jiao hauled herself up and stumbled forward for a while. But, she failed to move even an inch.
Staying in the sand for half a day, she had become highly dehydrated and her energy had seeped out of her body.
She needed to find a water source quickly to regain her strength and normalise her body’s condition.
Otherwise, she would fail to progress, even if her signal button was not stolen.
It was really tough to find water sources in the desert. Also, around the oasis, there must be many participants gathered already.
Lan Jiao was almost sure that once she was found, she would not be able to avoid a fierce fight.
Looking at the conspicuous, yellow-colored outfit which clearly represented her identity as a local from Planet Trash, she was simply broadcasting that she was weak and needed to be defeated.
Lan Jiao thought for a while and brought out the remaining two bottles of nutritive solutions from her pocket. She gulped one of them to gain back some energy.
She did not care if she was being wasteful at this moment.
Only by staying in a healthy state would she find opportunities to find more food sources.
In other words, she was able to afford that and was fully prepared for the gain.
She sat down and rested for a bit. After taking the nutritive solution, she soon felt better. But the pain on her skin continued to bring her discomfort.
She rolled up the sleeves and took a look at her burned arms that were swollen with redness. Lan Jiao could tell how her face must look like right now.
She had been tanned because of the radiation on Planet Trash, and now she had been roasted under the hot sand.
Ever since she came to this world, her appearance had been declining…
“Sigh,” Lan Jiao took a look at the ground not far away. She could see that the place was full of empty bottles. She picked up two bottles randomly, ripped out two cloth strips and tied them around her waist. Then, she resumed her search for water.
These might be useless for others, but she had an idea of how to benefit from them.
In this dry desert, some animals should have been present. But, this was a mimicry planet so there was nothing except the sand!
Lan Jiao had to give up the idea of finding food through hunting. She just hoped that there were some edible plants on this mimicry planet.