Chapter 28: As a Small Team Leader

  The next morning at 8 o'clock, according to yesterday's decision, our team gathered in the southwest corner of the martial arts arena, confirmed that everything was ready, and then went to the new life practice place together. When we arrived at the transmission gate, six teams were already waiting there. According to the time order when we arrived, our team number is 007.

  At nine o'clock sharp, all teams arrived and began to enter the transmission gate. Each entrant would be scanned by a special person with divine sense to see if they had brought any contraband items, such as extra spatial storage devices, high-level divine weapons (separated from level), high-level pets (third level or higher), high-energy food, high-level spell scrolls, and other items that could greatly help newcomers. Spell scrolls are a type of treasure that condenses spells through special means for later use, with their strength determined by the caster.

  Checking a person mainly involves looking at the items they bring with them and their background, this process is extremely quick, just a matter of seconds. Usually, five people can be checked at once. I stood with Xiaomei at the back of the 007 team, watching as only a few new students were stopped in front of us for violating rules, those who had unintentionally made mistakes were still forgiven by the school, which merely confiscated their contraband and allowed them to enter.

  It was my turn and Xiaomei's to enter, the inspector was an old man. After he checked me, his eyes which had been slightly closed suddenly opened wide and then closed again. This movement startled the people next to us, thinking they had done something wrong. Of course, some were ready to watch a show. Unfortunately, they were overthinking, I still walked into the transmission gate with ease, everything was normal.

  Just as I was about to enter the practice area, Tian Chenchen Shijie called me over. The two teaching assistants were the last to arrive, and they wanted to make sure that every new student was brought in without exception. I asked doubtfully:

  "Sister, is there something?"

  She smiled and said, "I just saw the teacher's intimidating gaze and thought you had brought some contraband, but it was a false alarm; haha, seeing how calm you were, I couldn't believe it was a freshman's demeanor. Thinking back, that one glance even scared me."

  After finishing speaking, she patted her chest with a small hand, looking frightened.

  "Little brother, although I know what you bought, I was still startled by that one glance. How can you act like nothing's wrong?" Xiaomei chimed in.

  I smiled wryly and said, "It's not that exaggerated, I didn't feel anything at all. You're overreacting, teacher. Maybe it's because you girls are too sensitive."

  After a lot of nonsense, I finally brought up the difference between men and women to counterattack, causing Yang Xinghai's words to fall silent. He thought to himself that even their inspection teacher was also at a loss for words.

  When they heard me say that, they were all speechless. A few people whispered to each other: What's the difference between men and women? He actually thought of it.

  I didn't mind and started paying attention to the surroundings, which were different from the last time I was transported. Yang Xinghai noticed my confusion and explained:

  "This portal was originally random when it came in, but this time, due to the large number of new students, the direction was artificially controlled, and each team was assigned a certain spatial range; among them, up to five people who came in together can be transmitted within a distance of 100 meters. Now, our main task as student guides is to gather the scattered new students within two days, of course, the sooner the better. To be honest, it's one of the criteria for evaluating outstanding student guides later."

  "Oh, I see, so we're really lucky, the four of us were almost transported to the same location, haha, let's search for people together." I said with a smile. Xiao Mei also said:

  "I agree to find someone together, but where should we gather at that time?"

  Tian Chenchen smiled and said, "Thank you, don't worry about this problem. In the past, it was always a matter of finding one and taking one away."

  "I have an idea, I don't know if it's feasible or not?" "I think her method is no good," I suggested.

  "Go ahead and say it." Yang Xinghai thought I wouldn't shoot randomly, so he let me speak.

  "Why don't we take this mountain as the center, set a fire here and let out thick smoke. Then split up to find people, when found, ask them to gather at this mountain, then redistribute people in all directions to search. It should be quick to find."

  Xiao Mei was the first to agree, and she exclaimed excitedly: "Little brother is really clever!"

  I just smiled and nodded, and soon the two assistants agreed, and started making a fire.

  I was just about to find two stones to try and generate a spark, but then Yang Xinghai Shixiong turned out to be a fire-attribute mage. He chanted an incantation, pointed his index finger, and a small flame burst forth, igniting the fire. Seeing this magic, I thought to myself that once I level up again, I'll be able to control fire too.

  I brought some live branches to put on the blazing fire, thick smoke billowing. Nodding in satisfaction, I started looking for people. Since I was afraid of encountering danger, Xiaomei and I headed east together, with two guides splitting up, one going south and the other north. Don't look down on Tian Chenchen Shijie, she's from a literary class, but her strength is not weak; as for Yang Xinghai Shixiong, that's a different story.

  Before long, a day had passed and at 10 o'clock the next morning, everyone from Team 007 had returned to the starting point. There were only 180 people left. A few unlucky ones encountered danger and got injured and dropped out, while some spoiled ones were scared off by the darkness of night. The remaining ones all had some skills.

  Everyone is here, so let's leave Tian Chenchen as a senior sister to share some outdoor life experiences with everyone, and Yang Xinghai reported that he had arrived.

  Everyone lived together for a day, under the guidance of the instructor, and had three meals a day together. They became somewhat familiar with each other and started to choose team leaders and deputy team leaders.

  Due to the excellent performance of these two days, I couldn't even remember how many times I helped my classmates, who I helped, and was elected as the team leader. Xiaomei assisted me by my side, everyone became familiar with her, and this girl surprisingly remembered the names of all things clearly, gained love and support, and was supported as the deputy team leader.

  As the captain of 180 people, haha, this reminds me of when I was a class monitor back then, that's a responsible job, being in charge of these 180 people including myself.

  In order to serve my fellow students with all due diligence, I decided to ask the teaching assistant first. So, together with Xiao Mei, we came to the side of Tian Chenchen, who smiled and said:

  "This pair of partners is quite a good match, the elder sister's vision has never been wrong, you must cooperate well, add oil!" After finishing, she also squeezed her eyes with a hint of profundity.

  This sentence made me a bit embarrassed, after all, I'm still young, but surprisingly, my heart didn't feel any resistance, instead, I felt a little thrilled. Of course, this didn't affect our understanding of the responsibilities, and it was just an instant, as for the questions, my senior sister answered them one by one.

  First of all, I'd like to ask, the captain and deputy captain's responsibilities are: first, divide the 180 people into groups, then make statistics on the team members' situation such as illness, injury, voluntary withdrawal from the test, cheating in the test, etc. As soon as there is a special situation, report it to the transmission gate immediately, where there is always someone on duty at any time.

  It seems that the portals for sending out messages have increased, probably because they are afraid that new students will encounter emergency situations and have no way to retreat. Of course, it is also convenient to monitor the situation of new students.

  Of course, apart from having a responsibility, we also need to take care of our own lives. Fortunately, this responsibility is not troublesome either. Looking at past experiences, the new student practice every year has not had any major problems. On one hand, the strongest thing here are wild beasts, and the appearance of that mutated demon beast last time was purely an accident; besides, after we returned last time, Rose reported to Tianba about what happened in which place, then the college's Xian-level expert personally searched around the new student practice area and didn't find anything out of order.

  Moreover, it is said that there are patrolling teachers constantly monitoring the entire space. If freshmen are in great danger, they will naturally intervene. Of course, in order to truly test the freshmen, their existence has not been made public.