Chapter 37: Dumbfounded

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
What Zhao Qingyan meant was that no one else was allowed to have even a bite of this roasted color bird cooked by Lan Jiao!
Chen Cheng knew that with Zhao Qingyan keeping her company, the girl from Planet Trash would never lack nutritive solutions!
But he was not reconciled…
The smell of the roasted color bird became increasingly strong, spreading all over the place and making him feel greedier by the second!
Apart from Chen Cheng, many other people had caught the smell of the roasted chicken, miles away from Lan Jiao.
Not far away, the three locals from Planet Trash almost believed that they were having a hallucination when they sensed the smell.
The color bird that they had encountered was already far away and Zhu You’s injury was temporarily under control.
Although Zhu You probably needed to give up the examination because of his serious injury, he did not want to let go of the only chance he had got in his life.
If he failed this time, he would not be able to meet the qualifications of a participant for the entry examination next year.
These three people, who had been sorrowful and troubled, bore different ideas in their heads. But, suddenly the irresistible scent of chicken stopped them from thinking about their troubles momentarily.
Zhu You had never experienced this kind of smell before. What was this fragrance that made his inner thoughts become frenzied to such an extent that he wanted to track down the smell, no matter what.
The others were entertaining exactly the same thoughts.
“No matter what, I want to go and take a look at the source of this smell!” The girl with long braids from Planet Trash was showing a besotted expression.
She just couldn’t help control her impulse any longer.
“I will come with you.” The tanned, skinny and hideous-looking local young boy started to track down the smell along with the long-braided girl.
Zhu You hesitated for a second and caught up with them, even though he was badly-injured.
On the other side, the genius Ji Chenfeng caught the smell too.
As a genius born in the warband, he was not only a capable person but also hailed from a very promising family.
His mother was the high-ranked officer in the warband whilst his father was a middle-ranked general.
Ever since his childhood, Ji Chenfeng had not experienced an ordinary life. He did not lack any food which was served to the nobilities of Alliance.
Ji Chenfeng did not have much fondness towards food, per se. He always believed that the taste of the food did not matter, as long as it was abundantly available for his daily consumption.
When he caught the smell, he recognised that it was the smell of roasted meat.
But he had never met anyone who was able to roast the meat to such a degree, nor had he ever eaten any roasted meat which had such an appetising fragrance.
Ji Chenfeng started to wonder about the person who was doing the roasting.
When everyone was focussed upon catching the color bird, who on earth was roasting the meat… was the person experiencing an extremely leisurely life here?
More importantly, where did the meat come from, since every participant just had nutritive solutions with them!
Ji Chenfeng was stunned… no, it could not be possible…
Someone was roasting the color birds!?
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In the supervision control room of Second Military School.
The three mentors were watching the screens in utter silence.
The shock level in their minds had been changing constantly ever since the girl from Planet Trash saw the color bird.
They knew how ferocious the color birds could be.
After looking at the other screens, they had figured that only a few participants would be a match against the color birds.
But out of these 100 people, it was the girl from Planet Trash, with almost the lowest physical quality, who showed a starkly different reaction from the others.
Moreover, the color birds were also showing a strange behavior while facing the girl from Planet Trash!
Color Birds, which should have been attacking people, ran away at the sight of the girl from Planet Trash.
The three mentors were shocked senseless when they saw it happen.
They could not figure out why color birds would get frightened at the sight of the girl from Planet Trash!
More than one color bird had behaved in such a manner.
Judging from the current situation, it seemed that all color birds feared the girl from Planet Trash, instinctively…
It was not until the girl captured the color bird, which was not an easy prey even for double S-level talents, did they see the unforgettable scene.
The girl had brought out a dagger and cut the color bird’s throat with a slash.
They saw the color bird collapsing onto the ground, struggling until blood splattered everywhere. The three mentors had fallen into silence since then.
The 100 color birds sent to the mimicry planet were here solely for the purpose of entry examination. They had been borrowed by the Dean from the research institute.
Each color bird cost a great deal, but the budget included the deaths of one or two of them.
The three mentors had never expected that this ferocious color bird was dead because of the girl from Planet Trash!
But soon, their thoughts went spiralling down by what happened afterwards.
The three mentors watched the girl take the color bird to the river-bank with an excited face. Then she hummed softly while proficiently pulling out the feathers and cutting open the bird’s belly…
Cheng Gong was startled and then furious!
“How dare she!! How could she!”
Cheng Gong just could not understand what this girl was going to do with this color bird.
Did she intend to eat it?
The three mentors had the exact thought in mind.
Jin Ling’s eyes widened in surprise.
Hao Pi’s lips twitched, showing a helpless expression.
What a peculiar behavior! He found himself liking this girl more and more.
As the other two mentors stayed silent, Cheng Gong became even angrier.
“I will definitely report this incident to the Dean, when the examination finishes.”
“And then?” Hao Pi asked him calmly.
“Although it is strange that this examination tool got eaten up by the participant, the Dean would make the girl compensate for the loss of the color bird!”
“But do you think the girl would have so many coins to make up for the loss? It will be nothing more than an IOU note, and a debt never to be paid back.”