"How exactly did you know those Wild Wolves would call their companions?" Teacher Chen asked Liang Mushui excitedly.
"During the first battle with the Wild Wolves, I noticed some of them would shield injured companions. Plus, these Wild Wolves always appeared in packs, so I had a guess," Liang Mushui replied with a smile. "But to be safe, we'd best try twice more."
Following Liang Mushui's suggestion, they eliminated two more waves of Wild Wolves using this method.
"Now it's basically confirmed that your method works," Teacher Chen said, looking at Liang Mushui with a look of disbelief.
He found it hard to believe that Liang Mushui could deduce such a stable method for killing Wild Wolves based on just a few small details. This method not only continuously attracted Wild Wolves, greatly saving time in finding them and significantly increasing efficiency, but also, if executed properly by setting traps in advance and moving incapacitated Wild Wolves there, it could eliminate them more safely and efficiently.
At this moment, several plans had already appeared in Teacher Chen's mind, waiting for him to implement them.
"So, is my task complete?" Liang Mushui asked, looking at the excited Teacher Chen.
"It's definitely complete, and you've even over-completed it!" Teacher Chen happily told Liang Mushui. "Take these four short swords and three Wind Blade skills for now. As soon as the last Wind Blade skill drops, we'll give it to you immediately."
Teacher Chen readily fulfilled their promise.
As Liang Mushui and his team learned the Wind Blade skill, the combat power of the entire team once again greatly increased, and they became more and more proficient in subsequent actions. The entire team could be said to have grown stronger with each battle. Throughout the morning, apart from a few individuals who sustained minor injuries, no other accidents occurred.
At this moment, Liang Mushui and everyone else had returned to the school's resurrection pool to rest and recover. According to the teachers' statistics, they had harvested a total of 7 Wind Blade skills and 12 short swords in one morning, which was a great harvest.
"Student Liang Mushui, now that we've found a way to deal with the Wild Wolves, I wonder if you're interested in the wild cat and Black Bear. Of course, if you agree, we can arrange personnel to cooperate with you throughout, and the spoils of war can be preferentially distributed to you," Teacher Chen said to Mu Shui, discussing during the break.
After hearing Teacher Chen's proposal, Liang Mushui and his team were all very tempted. If wild cat and Black Bear also dropped skills, it would certainly be very helpful for their improvement. Moreover, the efficiency of the five of them operating alone would surely not be as high as with so many teachers helping. Of course, if Liang Mushui could truly find an easy way to kill wild cat and Black Bear, it would certainly be of great benefit to the teachers and even all the other students in the school. So, Liang Mushui thought for a moment and immediately agreed.
Thus, after a round of rest, Teacher Chen arranged for several teachers to go back and plan how to set traps to kill wolves, and then led the team back into the forest.
After an entire afternoon of effort, Liang Mushui did not disappoint, finding ways to easily kill wild cat and Black Bear.
Initially, when Liang Mushui and his team encountered wild cat, they were completely helpless because the wild cat's speed was simply too fast. Apart from Liang Mushui, no one else could even catch a glimpse of the wild cat. If it weren't for the wild cat's low attack power, they could have been wiped out in minutes.
Liang Mushui's final solution was to capture a Wild Dogs. Even if this Wild Dogs was incapacitated and posed no threat, as long as it was present, the wild cat would not run around. It would stop not far from the Wild Dogs, its fur bristling, staring intently at the Wild Dogs. At this point, a single Wind Blade would usually take care of the wild cat.
After dying, wild cat might drop a pair of shoes and a skill called Phantom, both excellent items for increasing speed. Especially Phantom, which can double speed when activated, but only lasts for three seconds.
What caused Liang Mushui and his team to start taking casualties was the terrifying Black Bear. Simply put, the Black Bear was an upgraded version of the wild boar; its speed and attack were significantly higher than the wild boar's, though its defense was similar.
What truly made Liang Mushui and his team feel tricky was that the Black Bear had a skill: it could let out a Roar of Fury. After the Roar of Fury, everyone within a 6-meter radius of the Black Bear would be unable to move for 1 second, as if under a paralyzing spell. At this point, anyone near the Black Bear was basically sentenced to death; a single bear paw strike would send them back to school to resurrect. The most fatal thing was that this Black Bear skill seemed to have no cooldown and could be activated continuously, making it impossible for Liang Mushui and his team to get close.
Finally, after sacrificing nearly ten teachers, everyone retreated. Liang Mushui also asked Teacher Chen to go back to school to make some things. An hour later, Teacher Chen reunited with Liang Mushui and his team, carrying two chemical glass test tubes. When they encountered the Black Bear again, Teacher Chen, following Liang Mushui's instructions, threw the test tubes directly next to the Black Bear. As the test tubes shattered, a pale yellow smoke slowly dissipated, and at the same time, a strong, pungent odor spread. Even Liang Mushui and his team, who were far away, could smell it. The Black Bear at the center of the smell reacted even more violently; it first continuously patted its nose. After patting for a while, it dug into the ground and buried its entire head deep in the soil.
Seeing this, Liang Mushui and his team seized the opportunity. Everyone covered their noses, enduring the pungent smell, and focused their attacks on the Black Bear. Finally, with everyone's effort, the Black Bear transformed into a flash of light and disappeared. At the same time, the Black Bear left Liang Mushui and his team a skill called Roar of Fury.
When everything was over, Teacher Chen and the others looked at Liang Mushui, and besides incredulity, they couldn't think of any other words to describe him.
Teacher Chen was too lazy to ask Liang Mushui why he thought of using a pungent smell to deal with the Black Bear; he attributed it all to Liang Mushui's talent.
In fact, even Liang Mushui himself found it hard to believe. Initially, he just wanted to give it a try and didn't have much confidence, but he didn't expect to find strategies for all the beasts in just one day.
When facing these beasts, Liang Mushui always felt a sense of familiarity, as if he had experienced it before. Slowly, these methods would appear in his mind.
In the end, Liang Mushui could only attribute it to his talent enhancing his sixth sense and producing these results.
And now, everyone in the team felt extremely happy, because with these strategic methods, they could all foresee that they would experience rapid improvement in the coming time.
In fact, just as they had imagined, as more and more people learned the skills, the teachers no longer needed to use dirt bombs. At the same time, Teacher Liu and her team found a blackboard and wrote down all the strategies for the beasts, also promising to lead all students and teach them hands-on.
This action essentially established the school's leadership. Students were very willing to live under the teachers' guidance. After all, in the students' eyes, the teachers did not force them to do anything; on the contrary, they selflessly helped them, and the strength the teachers displayed was also sufficiently powerful.
In the following days, the number of people exploring outside the school forest also saw a huge surge, as if everything was moving in a beautiful direction.
10 days later, Liang Mushui looked at his personal interface.
Race: Human, Name: Liang Mushui
Level: 6
Talent: Super Senses (Greatly enhances personal six senses)
Skills: Wind Blade, Savage Charge, Roar of Fury, Phantom
After more than a week of effort, Liang Mushui's level had reached six. He wore shoes produced by wild cat, leather armor from Black Bear, and wielded short swords from Wild Wolves. He had also learned all the skills he could, as the saying goes, 'many skills don't weigh one down'.
And now, Liang Mushui was preparing to go to the place he visited every morning — Between Wind and Rain.
Initially, some people would come to Between Wind and Rain out of curiosity to try exploring, but gradually people found that Between Wind and Rain was nothing special. Some even tried to enter Between Wind and Rain directly with umbrellas, but when raindrops fell on the umbrella, they would also be teleported away. So, gradually fewer and fewer people came, and now only a handful of people visit Between Wind and Rain.
However, this was understandable, because according to the teachers' statistics, about 2/3 of the more than one thousand students in the school now possessed talents, and most of these talents were related to strength, speed, recovery, and spirit. Liang Mushui's talent, furthermore, had no similar match, making it truly unique.
Therefore, apart from Liang Mushui, it was difficult for others to gain any benefits in Between Wind and Rain.
However, Liang Mushui's improvements in Between Wind and Rain now seemed to have hit a bottleneck.
After 10 days and 50 challenges, and with the help of Phantom and the shoes, Liang Mushui could easily last over ten seconds in Between Wind and Rain. However, after ten seconds, strong gusts of wind would begin to blow, and the direction of the raindrops would change due to the wind's influence. Although Liang Mushui could feel the direction of the incoming strong winds, he had less than a second to react. Moreover, each gust of wind was random and could not be predicted in advance.
It was at this time that Liang Mushui truly understood the origin of the name Between Wind and Rain.
Currently, Liang Mushui's best score was 12 seconds, and his intuition told him that to pass this challenge, he needed to last 20 seconds. But Liang Mushui knew his limit was here; if he couldn't find a way to improve himself further, it would be difficult to make any more progress.
And soon, this opportunity arrived.
On the 20th day after the world changed, someone finally reached level ten, and unlike normal leveling up, this upgrade brought about immense changes.