The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

With everyone's combined efforts, the twenty or thirty red-eyed grasshoppers that had suddenly attacked were quickly wiped out.

The camp was surrounded by bright green insect carcasses and traces of hot, pungent slime that smelled of burning. The air was thick with the stench of fish and the smell of burning.

After a brief silence, a low, barely suppressed roar of excitement erupted from the camp.

"We took them down! We took them down!"

Zhou Ming, panting heavily, wiped the green juice splattered on his face, grinned, revealing his white teeth. The tension from the head-on confrontation had turned into the joy of success.

"I didn't expect my first real battle to be so exciting!" Xiang Yufan shook his slightly numb arm, looking at the hideous insect corpses on the ground, his eyes filled with the excitement of a successful first battle.

Ren Miao and Zhu Rao gave each other a high five, their faces showing a mixture of lingering fear and a sense of accomplishment.

Bai Wei looked at her slightly trembling hand—she had just stabbed a fish that had slipped through the net with her dagger—and let out a long sigh, feeling both exhausted and proud.

As Chen Xingye watched the green blood sliding down the dagger, a barely perceptible glint flashed in his eyes.

Zhao Wuchen silently wiped his curved blade, a satisfied smile playing on his lips, clearly pleased with his "efficiency-saving" victory.

Lin Yue carefully inspected her scalded sleeves, patting her chest with lingering fear: "That scared me to death! These bugs are disgusting! The stuff they sprayed was hot and smelly! Luckily, my combat suit is of good quality, resistant to high temperatures and corrosion, otherwise I might have been injured."

Her tone also carried a hint of relief, as if she had overcome a difficult situation.

As the team leader, Wang Jingnan breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't relax. He called out, "You all did a great job! But don't be careless. Hurry up and clean up the battlefield, collect valuable materials, and then treat the wounded as soon as possible. The camp isn't fully built yet!"

"As agreed, whoever kills gets to keep it!" Su Yu was faintly excited.

She had been working hard to kill as many Red-Eyed Grasshoppers as possible so that she could get a larger share of the spoils. The money she had prepared for supplies and the expenses for her cultivation over the next period of time would all depend on the spoils obtained from this exploration.

"You can sell me any fire-attribute beast cores you find; I'll pay 150 Mirror Coins per core," Ding Yan said.

His target mirror beast is the Flame Archer, a fire-attribute plant-type mirror beast. After extracting the corresponding skills, he will also need fire-attribute beast cores as casting materials.

The materials from the one-star mirror beast were not worth much in mirror coins to most people present, but it was still their first harvest from fighting a mirror beast.

Harvesting the spoils after hunting mirror beasts is also an essential skill for any mirror hunter.

Putting everything else aside, you absolutely have to experience mining beast cores!

One by one, they took out daggers and eagerly pried open the hard head shell of the Red-Eyed Grasshopper, searching for the fire-attribute beast core inside.

This process is not easy; it requires skill and patience.

Occasionally, someone would let out a low gasp:

"I found it! It's so tiny!"

"Haha! It's so shiny, and it feels warm to the touch!"

"I don't think I have this one? Or did I look in the wrong place?"

……

When it comes to mining beast cores and processing mirror beast materials, no one can match Su Yu's skill and efficiency.

Even Mo Lan, who had read many books and possessed a wealth of theoretical knowledge about dealing with Red-eyed Grasshopper corpses, was no match for her. While other classmates were still struggling to cut into the Red-eyed Grasshopper's hard head carapace or searching for its core inside its head, Su Yu had already begun her "work."

With her left hand, she precisely pressed down on its head, while with her right hand holding a dagger, she slightly twisted and flicked her wrist, easily prying open a triangular piece of armor the size of a fingernail. With a gentle flick of the dagger tip, the beast's core was picked out and caught in a specially prepared soft cloth, which was not even stained with much blood.

The entire movement was fluid, fast, accurate, and clean, as if it had been repeated thousands of times.

This is not over yet.

She quickly put away the beast core, then moved the dagger down, precisely slicing open the relatively soft shell where the grasshopper's neck and chest cavity connected.

He probed in with his finger, felt around for a moment, and then suddenly pulled, completely peeling out a thin, translucent sac of spitting gland that still retained some of its scorching energy.

She skillfully placed the glandular sac into another sealed metal box to prevent its energy from escaping.

After finishing all that, she immediately turned to the next insect corpse and repeated the same efficient and precise movements.

Her speed was almost three times that of others, and the beast cores and gland sacs she extracted were extremely intact.

This astonishing scene quickly attracted the attention of the students nearby.

"Wow... Su Yu, you're amazing!" Bai Wei, who was closest to her, couldn't help but exclaim. Looking at the Red-Eyed Grasshopper in her hand, which only had one corner of its armor plate split open, and then at the small pile of intact spoils in front of Su Yu, the difference was obvious.

"Your technique... is even more impressive than what's described in textbooks!" Zhou Ming said with admiration.

Lin Yue asked out of curiosity, "Su Yu, how come you're so skilled? It's like you've practiced before?"

Su Yu, who was collecting glandular sacs, paused for a moment without looking up, and simply replied in her usual flat tone:

"Yes. I used to work in the 'Grey Rat' logistics team and handled a lot of Mirror Beast corpses."

"The Gray Rat Logistics Team?" Lin Yue had never heard of it.

Wang Jingnan's expression shifted slightly; the name sounded somewhat familiar to him.

“Grey Rat…” Chen Xingye remembered something, “Is that the well-known non-governmental organization that operates in the low-star mirror space and specializes in handling the initial processing of materials and field logistics for professional mirror explorer teams?”

"Hmm." Su Yu responded softly, her hands moving without stopping. She had already dealt with two more red-eyed grasshoppers, seemingly unwilling to talk more about the experience.

Everyone immediately understood, and their gazes towards Su Yu became more complex.

So that's what she had in her past!

Being in charge of material processing in the logistics team of professional Mirror Explorers means that she may have come into contact with various low-star Mirror Beasts very early on, and may even have entered the Mirror Space.

Even a logistics team carries inherent risks, and for her, a student who hasn't even passed the talent test, to do this kind of work...

This also explains why her combat style is so ruthless and reckless, and why she is so adept at handling materials at this moment.

Those are survival skills honed in a truly dangerous and dangerous environment.

After a brief silence, everyone tacitly refrained from asking further questions, but they all gained a deeper understanding of her.

"Don't you want the spittoon sac? A fresh spittoon sac can sell for fifty mirror coins or more!" Su Yu couldn't help but remind them, seeing that everyone else was only attacking the Red-Eyed Grasshopper's head. (End of Chapter)