Chapter 12
The supervising teacher from the Twelfth Military Academy covered his face, feeling utterly embarrassed and unable to show his face.
He was certain that the person who had just sent the barrage of messages must be one of his colleagues from the Twelfth Military Academy. He had repeatedly instructed that young man not to be greedy with his food and to focus on the competition, but he wouldn't listen!
"You eat it yourself!"
The young man's teammates clearly found him distasteful as well. Only he would eat bugs like that, his teammate thought, glancing at him with pursed lips.
The squad leader, seeing the situation, had no choice but to call out to him, "Xiao Wu, let's go."
Xiao Wu obeyed the arrangement but still felt very regretful that no one was willing to share such delicious food with him.
"What a pity!" Xiao Wu followed his team and left. As he departed, he grabbed a handful of the ground insects, then opened his palm and sprayed the insect repellent onto them.
Then, Xiao Wu walked along, popping one into his mouth after another, his expression incredibly relaxed. The constant crunching sound echoed throughout the team's live broadcast.
It not only disturbed his teammates' focus but also made the viewers in the live broadcast turn down the volume.
At this moment, the teachers from the Twelfth Military Academy truly wished they could find a hole to crawl into; it was too humiliating.
But clearly, someone didn't want this teacher to be completely ignored and directly asked him, "Teacher Fei, what is that your student sprayed? Although the insects are small, one shouldn't eat star beasts indiscriminately. If something goes wrong, you'll have to help him withdraw from the competition. After all, star beast poison is not a minor issue; he needs treatment quickly!"
Teacher Fei was the supervising teacher from the Twelfth Military Academy. Facing this 'kind' teacher, he patiently replied, "Ah, Teacher Wenli, don't worry. That kid has antidote spray with him, and that's what he's spraying. This kid is just a glutton; ever since the antidote spray came out, he eats some kind of star beast every day. Don't mind him!"
After Teacher Fei's explanation, everyone understood that the substance was actually an antidote spray.
Teacher Wenli sarcastically commented, "Oh, is that so? This student is really well-prepared. It's not good to only focus on eating; the competition is more important! Wouldn't you agree, Teacher Wang!"
Teacher Wang was naturally Teacher Wang from the Imperial Military Academy, but Teacher Wang paid him no mind. What was he even saying? The group he brought were also gluttons, so what could he possibly retort?
At this time, the leaders who had arrived were still observing the competition. It was just that no one noticed Marshal Meng, who was seated in the center, looking somewhat uneasy.
Marshal Meng sat on the field, casually watching these live broadcast feeds. Since there were twelve feeds, he would watch one for a few minutes and then another for a few minutes, without any specific intention to focus on one.
Although he was a graduate of the Imperial Military Academy, it took him a long time to see the Imperial Military Academy's feed. He happened to see them battling a swarm of insects. Since they had entered their mechs, he couldn't see Meng Huai's appearance.
However, that move with the fire rune array still caught Marshal Meng's attention. Seeing that it was the Imperial Military Academy's live broadcast, he asked Teacher Wang.
"Teacher Wang, what is that thing that's on fire?"
A group of teachers stood to the side. When Teacher Wang heard Marshal Meng asking him, he took a step closer to him and said, "Oh, that's a rune created by that student himself. The burning one is the fire rune."
"Self-created? That's truly impressive. What's that student's name? Meng... Huai?"
Marshal Meng looked at the contestant information beside the live broadcast feed and paused again when he saw the name Meng Huai.
"Ah, that student is quite capable, has some skill."
Teacher Wang didn't notice Marshal Meng's expression and didn't hear the slight pause when Meng Huai's name was mentioned.
Marshal Meng thought, his daughter was also named Meng Huai. Originally, without her birth mother and having been spoiled, he had sent her to a garbage planet to let her experience hardship. But who would have thought that the garbage planet's environment would be so harsh that even a child couldn't survive.
If his daughter had grown up, she would be around this age.
Marshal Meng cast this thought aside and continued watching the live broadcast. By now, these people had retracted their mechs, and upon seeing this, Marshal Meng was stunned.
This appearance, and her name being Meng Huai, could there have been some mistake back then?
Marshal Meng did not reveal his thoughts further, but instead, he decided to have someone investigate after it was over.
However, he wasn't idle at the moment and casually struck up a conversation with Teacher Wang. But with these casual questions, he had more inquiries about the newly joined students.
However, Teacher Wang didn't know much about Meng Huai either, but he still told Marshal Meng about an incident he found very interesting.
"Speaking of that newcomer, she's a freshman this year."
As Marshal Meng and Teacher Wang were chatting, others naturally chimed in. As it happened, a leader seated to Marshal Meng's left heard Teacher Wang's words and expressed his astonishment.
"A freshman participating in the league, that's impressive!"
Teacher Wang felt tormented when Meng Huai was praised.
"Yes, I was even the one who measured her sensory ability when she enrolled this year!"
Sensory ability? Marshal Meng heard about measuring sensory ability and remembered that his own daughter only had a B-class sensory ability. It seemed he was overthinking. Anyone who could participate must at least be double-S, more likely triple-S.
However, Marshal Meng then heard something strange that Teacher Wang said.
"It's strange, though. This student's sensory ability was measured as B-class several times, which almost made our military academy miss a good prospect!"
Another leader to Marshal Meng's right spoke up, "B-class? Impossible? I thought her strength was not weak!"
"Yes, after measuring many times, we found out she has a triple-S sensory ability!"
"Truly, you can encounter anything!"
Marshal Meng watched Teacher Wang say this, but no one knew that these words held another layer of meaning.
Marshal Meng was becoming restless. A triple-S ranked individual! His Meng family had no triple-S individuals in this generation, but could this person before him be a member of the Meng family?
"All B-class..."
Marshal Meng no longer spoke to anyone, but the two people sitting beside him could vaguely hear him muttering something.
Something about B-class, child, not dead.