Chapter 24: (25)The other side

In the competition

A week and a half already passed for them and now they are more than ready.

They have a large stash of preserved food that can last them for a month and a good amount of water. 

Although they have many losses in that battle, it gave them new equipment to use. 

Those who lost an arm are only useless at all, this week they trained with their only arm left using their newly acquired equipment.

They all either have bone clubs, knives, spears, etc.

As for Zhuo Qing, he got a skull of one of those beasts as a helmet similar to others the group voted for. Their group voted for everything.

"Everyone, everything is ready?"

Wang An asked while carrying a basket full of preserved foods.

The group laugh and said "yes"

"Before we leave, let's not forget to say goodbye"

Chen Huan said before looking at Zhuo Qing taking out some items from the grave

"By carrying their items with us they will accompany us on our journey."

He said before wearing a shell necklace from Zhao Xiu.

Everyone nodded and so instead of saying goodbye, the people closest to the dead carried their items with them on their coming journey to honor them.

"Ok, let's go now"

Zhou Qing said before leading them away. Even when he's the leader he's still helping the others carry items.

The items especially weapons are on a big platform made with wood carried by the able-bodied. Those who lost an arm or can't carry the platform stand as scouts and guards and are fully equipped.

On their journey, they walked by some evident signs of battle and familiar claw marks. 

To their delight, there are skeletons of the creatures left. They cleaned the leftover flesh and carried the useful spikes and claws.

"Brother Huan, it smells stinky "

One female disciple complained while helping carry the platform.

"Hahaha, it might be stinky, but it is a useful treasure when cleaned"

Chen Huan laughed as he carry the materials.

"Don't you dare go close to me"

Wang An said, she's carrying food and so she doesn't want him close

"You people actually dare treat me like this? "

He jokingly said, of course, he won't get close to them with such a stinky package.

"You won't get girls to like you that way, brother Huan"

One beautiful disciple replied and everyone chuckled and laugh

"You people really, fine, since you're my brothers and sisters I will forgive you"

He said

"We don't need your forgiveness, brother Huan'"

Song Nuan pats his shoulder and then noticed his hand become stinky.

"Who's the stinky one now?"

Chen Huan feel happy when he saw that expression of Song Nuan

"Don't mind it, I can clean it later"

Then they continued like some buddies.

It's already night when they arrived at their destination because of the heavy loads.

It is a very secretive place and hard to find.

It is near the shore and covered by thick forestry and tricky rocks and also there is nothing valuable here to gather.

They soon passed the rocks and arrived at a cave leading to the dangerous waters.

Docked on the cave is a big thick raft made from thick woods and with a ceiling made from grass.

They dropped the platform to the rocky floor.

"Make a campfire to keep yourself warm, be prepared we will go when the water turns calm. Before that happen, take a rest and eat. Make sure you are prepared.

And brother Nuan, please take a bath, there is some hidden space there where you can clean those materials and also clean yourself"

Zhou Qing said before helping the others with sorting out the things they have.

"Let's go"

Song Nuan then pulled Chen Huan to clean, he can't wait to remove the sticky smell on his hands.

"I feel tired" 

Jiang Yen Yue laid down on the ground while biting on some smoked fish

"Sit, that's improper of a lady"

Jiang Wang Shue berated her and quickly forced her to sit to eat properly.

"Bully"

She pouted and then continue eating

"Brother Qing, what do you expect on the other side?"

Jiang Ying Yue sat beside Zhou Qing who's testing up the food materials

"More danger, but also more opportunities out there"

He replied

"Great dangers?" 

She continues eating

"If this place doesn't pose challenges, then it might be a trick to make us feel overconfident of our success

Can I have some?"

Yin Yue passed him some strip of her smoked fish.

"You have some point

Is this a competition to curve our arrogance? Everything here takes teamwork to do"

She already knows the answer but asking doesn't hurt.

"Probably?"

He smiled, maybe they are indeed too arrogant for their own good.

"Yeah, confidence is good, but once it turns into arrogance it can hurt"

She said before finishing fish

"You're insightful, Sister Yin"

He smiles lightly

"You know, I didn't expect that there will be a day a smoked fish will be something that I will like eating

Looking up, I really am a bit too arrogant before that I missed such small joys such as eating smoked fish and being friends with people without the fake smiles and schemes"

She looked into the distance before closing her eyes as if to remember things.

"Maybe this is how we are supposed to live, you won't be able to enjoy life once you only see one side and never notice that lower things can also give joy that none of the higher can"

He added

"You two sound like old man Shan"

Song Nuan sat beside them

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"As far as I think, the grand elder is most likely observing you right now"

Jiang Yin Yue chuckled

"Nah, that old geezer won't notice it"

Song Nuan said, proudly

"I bet 10 dried fruits that the grand elder will scold you"

Zhou Qing said

"4 smoked fish for me"

Jiang Yin Yue added.

"A bet? Ohhh I bet 5 custom weapons that he will be scolded by the grand elder"

Chen Huan came to the side with wet hair.

The other disciple noticed what they are doing and joined.

Watching the scene, knots formed on the forehead of the Grand elder while Feng Mian and the others are just laughing at him

'That kid is dead'

He thought.

Back to the competition.

Time passes and soon the water turns serene and calm.

"Everyone, go to your positions"

Zhou Qing said. The items are already secured on the raft and the raft is stable enough not to tip and sink thanks to their hard work building it.

Everyone has their own paddle to use

Taking their positions, they start paddling. The raft is too big it's slow even when they all paddle.

This continues until they are in the middle. 

"This is so tiring!" 

Song Nuan said, his arms already quivering

"Just go on"

Chen Huan is gritting his teeth and paddling faster.

By the time they are only a fourth away from the outside, they feel tired.

"Let's take a break"

Zhou Qing drank mouthfuls of water with sweat dripping.

"We can't stay here until morning or people will see us"

Chen Huan replied while shaking his head

And so they rejected the idea of rest and continue until eventually, they reached the shore with hurting bodies.

They walked from the raft one by one and Jiang Wang Shue get a vine and tired the raft so the waves won't take it away.

Their journey is uneventful, but they still are overwhelmed with joy. They hugged each other.

"*cough* *cough* let's put the raft away from views or people will follow us"

Jiang Wang Shue faked his cough on the side

They then just awkwardly laughed

Working together, they pulled the raft to relative safety under the cover of trees.

The audience was quite impressed and some are disappointed because they lost some bets.

The grand elder and great are overjoyed on the other hand, partly because their disciples are the first, other than those particular two that nearly managed to, but they swam when they only need to go for another third, how stupid of them. The other reason why they are happy is that on the outer are beasts stronger than the inner island and also evenly distributed throughout the island.

"They will finally have proper training"

Lui Fen have rather have a creepy smile

"They are getting rusty lately"

Yu Yan added

In the end, they are celebrating at the coming hardships of these disciples will experience.

Lily only shook his head, those children were truly unfortunate.

Back to the group

While they are resting, a huge screen appeared in front of them.

*You entered the outer Island

As the first to arrive at the outer island, your success will be announced to the inner Island with your names listed.

Tip given to everyone who will arrive at the outer island:

The outer island is a land swallowed by mists every night with beasts creeping within. The night is filled with dangers.

No privileges are given to those who arrive first other than having first-hand access to resources. 

*

The disciples on the guard shift hurriedly woke up everyone sleeping to see the screen

Sunlight peeked through the leaves as the screen suspended in the air.

"This will be troublesome"

Jiang Wang Shue said after reading the screen

"What is there the need to be afraid of? We have strong equipment"

Song Nuan said on the side

"Don't get arrogant, we don't know the strength of the beasts here"

Zhou Qing said.

He then added

"Alright, rest as much as you can, more will eventually come here.

We have to take as much advantage of the situation as possible." 

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