Ninth class citizen

Chapter 17: Wilderness

Nan Rong was once a glorious and rare space-based extraordinary person. During the three years he served in the Star Alliance, he also helped his friends privately by adding space power to extraordinary items.

This process is called empowerment.

For example, the space button of a mecha is the most common space-related supernatural item.

But all of that was accomplished based on the embryo of an extraordinary item that was carefully designed and crafted by the component engineers.

Not to mention the combinations of materials that are compatible with extraordinary powers, the countless tiny and delicate energy circuits engraved within the embryo are enough to make an outsider dizzy.

Unfortunately, it's no use regretting now, the 3800 Cowens have already been paid.

Although they come without much effort, the suckers like today's don't always appear.

So no matter how difficult it is, Nan Rong decided to give it a try, even if it's just for show, just to get through this period of time first.

After the transfer was successful, Nan Rong only had 1300 Cowens left in his account. After ordering three sets of men's winter uniforms from the previous online store, he had 3 Cowens left.

Yes, she only ordered casual clothes and did not add any additional dresses. The quote for each set was only 160 kens, but she used the excuse of ordering too many clothes to force the price down to 140 kens, and even asked for an extra set of sportswear as a bonus.

There is absolutely no guarantee of quality for this kind of gift, but Nan Rong doesn't care about anything else as long as he has clothes to wear.

The club's assessment notice was sent to her shortly afterwards, and the time was 7pm the day after tomorrow. There was also a special reminder, asking her to make a mask herself and wear it to take the assessment.

Most of the clubs in Xiluo Xinghua are open-identity, and members participate in activities in their true colors, but there are also a few clubs that pay attention to privacy and require members to hide their true appearance and identity from each other.

The Star Beast's Toy House is obviously such a secret society. Because its nature was determined at the time of registration, everyone, including the president himself, can only see the nicknames that the members registered on the campus network.

Nan Rong searched inside and outside the house but didn't see any materials that could be used to make a mask.

It happened that the three sets of custom-made school uniforms arrived at this time. After spending another 100 Cowans to get them back, she found the right materials.

The corrugated cardboard box used to package school uniforms is cut, painted, and tied with a thin string to become a somewhat abstract lucky cat mask.

Nan Rong, who had only 770 Cowens left in his account, was filled with desire for money.

After reviewing the content of the next day's class, Nan Rong had just turned off the lights when he heard a slight noise coming from next door.

Wendy wrapped herself in a black cloak, carried a backpack, and tiptoed out the door.

She moved around the campus with great skill, avoiding various cameras, and came to the northwest wall. After carefully looking around again to make sure there was no one, she pulled out a dead tree growing at the base of the wall, revealing a hole underneath that was big enough for one person to pass through.

Wendy pushed her backpack out first and then climbed out.

Behind her, Nan Rong, wearing a newly made lucky cat mask and a black sports suit, also quickly crawled out of the hole.

It was only after she put the clothes on that she realized that the reason the owner of the clothing store so readily agreed to give her the gift was because the clothes were originally defective.

The front of the shirt was connected backwards, and from the front it looked like he was wearing it inside out incorrectly.

In fact, if you really wear it upside down, it will still look like you are wearing it backwards when viewed from the back.

It takes real talent to be able to make clothes like this.

The pants couldn't be intact either, as the two legs were the wrong sizes, one long, one short, one fat, one thin.

But as long as you roll up your trouser legs, it won't affect your wearing at all. At least Nan Rong doesn't think there is anything wrong with dressing like this.

There are two completely different worlds inside and outside the cave.

The energy barrier set up at Shiloh Xinghua School only protects within the walls.

Outside the northwest wall, it directly borders the secondary wilderness.

After the Double Moon Festival, the temperature dropped day by day, and the temperature outside the energy barrier has reached minus 20 degrees Celsius.

This temperature is nothing for the authentic winter school uniforms of Shilo Xinghua with low-level resistance.

For example, Wendy, who was walking very fast in front, didn't feel the cold at all.

Nan Rong had no cold-resistant clothing and could only rely on his leather suit to endure the cold.

Fortunately, her physique is much stronger than during the Battle of the Corona. Although the cold wind is biting at this moment, she will not suffer any substantial harm.

Wendy walked and stopped, collecting usable materials from the plants exposed in the snow from time to time.

This is considered the outer area of the second-level wilderness. The plants here are all common low-level plants, and the level of the materials is also very low.

But no matter how low it is, it is still worth dozens of Cowens. Nan Rong is now full of gratitude to this roommate.

Wendy was a good person. She took her to find a shortcut that allowed her to leave the campus without spending any money. This shortcut also led to the wild, saving her the expense of going to the wild to pick fruits.

Every genetic optimizer relies on countless materials. From picking to extraction and purification, to fusion processing, which step does not cost a lot of money?

But with this shortcut, she can practice picking on her own.

Nan Rong's picking speed was much faster than Wendy's. When she radiated her spiritual power, she could find more usable plants under the snow. With her quick movements, she would often pick five or six while Wendy only picked one.

The wilderness was so vast that even with Wendy's speed, after walking for a long time, she was still just circling the periphery.

Nan Rong was just thinking about whether to shake her off and go to the deeper area to pick the fruits himself, when he saw Wendy walk to a very dense large-leafed iris tree, bend over and rummage around for a while, then took out a black flying board that was one and a half meters long and half a meter wide.

Nan Rong's eyes narrowed slightly. She had once had this small flying board with its own gravity field in the Star Alliance training camp. It was a very convenient means of transportation. Unfortunately, now, she could only watch Wendy jump onto the flying board and fly into the air.

The speed of Wendy's flying board is much lower than Nan Rong's original one, only about 100 kilometers per hour. When Nan Rong speeds up and jumps, he can barely keep up.

But before it flew far, something suddenly shot out from a snow-covered bush ahead and hit Wendy's flying board directly.

She screamed, spinning with the flying board, tumbling down from a height of more than five meters.

Before Nan Rong rushed over, he heard the laughter of two men.

"Brother, you really have a plan in mind. You really managed to find this girl here!"

"That's not true. Wilderness has its own rules. Not everyone can join the trade. I'm going to teach you a lesson today: keep all the harvest and give me 5000 Koen, and I'll let you go."

Wendy's voice came faintly: "You. Are you wildlings?"

(End of this chapter)