Lin Xiao pinched the long-haired wolf’s neck, dragging up the carcass and looking around before tossing it aside, saying,
"When Levi and the others come back, see if we can deal with the body. We’re definitely short on food at this time, can’t afford to waste."
The other students nodded in agreement, continuously expressing their approval of his words.
Simply by killing a single long-haired wolf, his prestige among his classmates had reached its peak.
This was intentional on his part; regardless of the reason for being assigned this identity, it was still better to be cautious before he was strong enough, as staying with the main group would be safer.
Once things settled down, several students surrounded him, asking in amazement how he had become so powerful all of a sudden, including a few female classmates.
This feeling was really nice; after many years, he once again felt like he was back in a school setting.
Although he had been in The School of the Son of the Divine Realm, with a campus and classmates, it just didn’t have that kind of feeling. He had almost lost contact with his former classmates and had long forgotten them.
Through conversation, Lin Xiao managed to get the names of many students as well as the world they were from before being thrown into this one. As he expected, it was also called earth, but he did not know from which time period. They were all ordinary students who had never experienced anything transcendent, and there was no useful information to get from them.
It wasn’t long before screams again echoed through the corridors, and the somewhat lively atmosphere once again tensed up.
"It sounds like the class president’s voice!"
A girl said with a sob in her voice, which the rest of the students had all heard. One of them whispered,
"What should we do? Should we go save them?"
All eyes were on Lin Xiao.
He nodded and said,
"I’ll take a look."
Grabbing a comparatively long chair leg, he went to the door, gently opened it, and a gust of cold air laced with the smell of blood hit his face. Taking a deep breath, he opened the door and walked out.
He was neither impulsive nor wasteful.
If this journey of evolution was about killing monsters to evolve, then the main theme of this so-called journey was certainly slaughter, which was unavoidable.
This starting campus was clearly the Novice Village, with monsters that could be fatal to ordinary people but weren’t completely unmanageable. With a higher starting point than normal, as long as he was a bit careful and didn’t get reckless, he could quickly accumulate Evolution Degree, evolving faster than others.
The corridors were stained with dark blood, eerily quiet. The screams had come from the staircase at the other end of the hall; their classroom was at the tail end of the teaching building.
After walking about seventy to eighty meters, passing by several empty classrooms with nobody inside, Lin Xiao quickly arrived at the staircase. He could now hear the chewing sounds below.
Approaching the edge cautiously, he saw two long-haired wolves gnawing on a body in a school uniform, the blood-drenched face still showing signs of horror and pain, at the turn of the stairs.
It was a classmate who had left earlier.
Lin Xiao scanned the area and through the railing gaps saw two more long-haired wolves chewing on a body below.
"A lack of weapons is troubling!"
Even with a kitchen knife, he could have easily taken down four wolves, but it was more difficult with just a stick.
After some thought, he turned back and looked around in a few empty classrooms, but there was nothing that could be used as a weapon.
Feeling somewhat impressed by the school’s attention to student safety, he walked back, waving to his classmates behind the window glass as he passed their class, and headed to the end of the corridor. There were usually stairs at the end of the teaching block that served both as fire escapes and emergency exits. He found a fire hydrant, pried it open, and inside was indeed a painted, pointed metal fire axe.
With the metal axe in hand, Lin Xiao’s courage swelled. He returned to the central staircase and intentionally made a small noise. The two long-haired wolves immediately reacted, howling as they charged at him as soon as they saw Lin Xiao show his face and retreat.
The wolf rushing up the stairs was met by an axe that cleaved off a piece of its skull; it screamed and collapsed, motionless.
The howls immediately drew the attention of the other two wolves below. By the time they rushed up, Lin Xiao had just finished off the second long-haired wolf, gaining 20 kilograms of strength.
It’s worth noting that the Evolution Points and rewards he received were based on a normal person and did not take into account the strength he already possessed.
If they were included, his current nearly 300 kilograms of strength, and the corresponding physical and reflexive abilities, would have easily overwhelmed the long-haired wolves, and it normally wouldn’t have resulted in such a generous reward of strength.
Thus, he could use his extra strength to easily level up by defeating monsters and receive full rewards without any reduction, rapidly widening the gap with others and growing quickly.
The two long-haired wolves were no match for him; after effortlessly dispatching them, he dragged their bodies and hid them in one of the classrooms.
Carrying the fire axe, he went down the stairs, from the fourth to the third floor, only to see around four or five long-haired wolves pounding on a classroom door. They all charged at him when they saw this living person.
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Lin Xiao, composed, smashed open another fire hydrant on the wall, taking out another fire axe, and charged forward.
After a series of roars and screams, silence fell. A moment later, the assaulted classroom window opened, and a young man cautiously stuck his head out, only to see the bodies of five long-haired wolves sprawled on the floor, with no one else in sight.
By this time, Lin Xiao had descended to the first floor, easily vaulting over the railing and jumping down. There was a passage cutting through the center of the building that led to the school’s cafeteria.
As the only place ordinary people thought they might find food, many had ventured to the cafeteria only to meet their end at its entrance. As Lin Xiao jumped down into the passage and had not yet walked out, he saw the bodies sprawled in front of the cafeteria and the monsters. He reached back and grabbed the smooth railing, flipping back over it in one swift move.
Apart from the wolves that I just killed, two new types of monsters had appeared: one was like a bat monster magnified hundreds of times, capable of flight but not very high. It lay on the ground like a gaunt freak, while the other resembled a black gorilla, extremely tall and strong, standing nearly three meters tall but there were only two of them.
Lin Xiao checked himself and found that he had killed a total of ten long-haired wolves, reaching thirty percent of his Evolution Degree, meaning each long-haired wolf contributed three percent to his evolution progress. Another thirty-four wolves and he could evolve into a Rank 1 life form.
However, he felt that this speed was still too slow—he needed it to be faster.
He cast his eyes toward the monsters behind the cafeteria, thinking he might be able to hunt down this batch of monsters.
But not now, rather, later.
He was constantly absorbing the power sealed within himself, constantly growing stronger. He would wait until he became a bit more formidable with a greater certainty of success before he ventured forth.
Upon returning to the classroom, his classmates gathered around him with questions. He shook his head and gestured to the back:
"They’re all dead."
Many of the female students cried; they were all students, and it was an emotional time for them.
Lin Xiao ignored them, sat quietly to rest for a while, then picked up the corpses of the wolves in the classroom and said:
"I need two volunteers to help me grill the meat in the next classroom."
A few chops with his ax split the desks, which he then piled together and lit with a lighter. He prepared the meat on top, then directed two classmates to move more desks out, stacking them in front of the stairwell door.
It wouldn’t stop the monsters from coming in, but typically, as long as there was no strange noise, wild beasts would avoid obstacles.
It quickly got dark outside, filled with the roars of beasts and chirping of insects. Occasionally, a bat monster would sweep by. When night fell completely and the temperature dropped sharply, about twenty of the students huddled together for warmth, shivering from the cold.
Lin Xiao, holding a pair of axes, sat in front of the main door, while a few male classmates sat at the back door. In the darkness, the girls occasionally sobbed softly.
Throughout the night, most of the students were terrified, sporadic roars and screams coming from unknown places resulted in a restless sleep for most. Lin Xiao, however, slept quite well and woke up refreshed the next day.
Carefully sensing his own strength, he had gained about two hundred kilograms overnight. Together with the hundred kilograms gained from killing the ten long-haired wolves, he now had about six hundred kilograms of strength in total, which was quite formidable.
Tyson’s right punch peaked at eight hundred kilograms, his left at only five hundred, so Lin Xiao was the equivalent of a Tyson with superb fighting experience.
Of course, he definitely wasn’t a match for those two three-meter-tall Gorilla Monsters now, but he had no intention of provoking them at the moment.
Half an hour later, after a full meal, he picked up his ax again and set off.
He swept through the teaching building one more time, killed two Bat Monsters, and arrived at the first-floor staircase, surprised to find three male classmates charging up with several bags of rice and some pots and pans. The leader among them shouted:
"Run, there are several bat monsters coming from behind."
Lin Xiao glanced and saw one of the boys holding a large kitchen knife for chopping bones. He asked:
"Are there more of these bone chopping knives in the cafeteria?"
The classmate was surprised he would ask such a question but still honestly replied:
"There are several more, but this thing is too heavy; I didn’t take them."
"Okay then."
Saying so, he prepared to go downstairs. The leading classmate grabbed him and whispered angrily:
"Are you crazy?"
Lin Xiao smiled and patted his hand:
"Don’t worry about me, you better go back."
At that moment, another male classmate who had been quiet spoke up:
"Don’t worry about him. He probably wants to kill the monsters to get Evolution Points."
Lin Xiao glanced at the speaker, a tall and skinny man who seemed serious and not given to frivolity, probably someone who has killed a monster and embarked on the path of evolution.
The leading classmate wanted to persuade further, but the distinctive screeching of the bat monsters was already drawing near. Not daring to linger, he warned Lin Xiao to be careful before leaving.
Soon, five bat monsters stumbled through the corridor and saw Lin Xiao, with his axes, standing at the stairwell. Screeching, they dove towards him.
The flash of the ax blade, and two bat monsters were cut apart and fell.
Dodging the next ones with a duck, he retaliated with two swift axe chops. The last one lunged to bite his face, but he turned his head, and it sank its teeth into his cheek. A stinging pain was followed by numbness—he had been poisoned.
Lin Xiao reached out, grabbed the bat monster latched onto his face, and with six hundred kilograms of strength, pulled it off and threw it to the ground. A stomp and an ax chop later, it was dead.
Killing five bat monsters only yielded ten percent Evolution Degree—one monster worth two percent, less than the long-haired wolves.
He then stayed at this staircase entrance, continuously luring solitary or small groups of monsters from the front and back of the teaching building to kill them. By late morning, he had accrued a hundred percent Evolution Degree and evolved to the next stage!