Chapter 284 - 284 Teamwork (1)

284 Teamwork (1)

(Jane’s PoV)

After watching those girls leaving our sight, I was met with Daisy’s calm eyes. I thought she was going to confront me about something, but to my surprise, she wasn’t.

“Go clean yourself. They will be delivering breakfast soon.” I flinched when she reached out to my face, only to find that she was moving a strand of my hair away from my cheek.

“Ah, I’ll go now.” I nodded obediently and went to retrieve my things in the tent before I went towards the public bathroom.

“I’m going with you.” Alivia chased after me with her own basket and a towel in her hands.

I waited until we were a bit far from the tent before I looked at my junior who was walking behind me obediently. It was still early in the morning, so not many of the girls had woken up.

“What happened just now? Who were the girls before?”

Alivia sighed. “I remembered seeing them with the girl from yesterday. You know... who got into a scandal.”

“And? Why did they look for trouble in our tent?” I honestly couldn’t see the relationship between them.

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“Actually the girls next to our tent came first and told us about what happened last night since none of us came out to see the show. We said that we were deeply asleep probably because we felt tired after the long trip here. Then, they came and started to find fault, saying that we could sleep well because the boys were guarding the night and what’s wrong with accompanying a boy for a bit during their night patrol? Why would their friend be accused of such a scandal when she was just accompanying him? Also, they thought that we were pretentious since we refused to accept any boys into our group for the activities later.” Alivia didn’t sound timid and shy at all while telling me the story that I missed.

I smirked slightly when I heard their defense against the accusation being thrown at their friends. If only they saw what was going on between them last night, I was sure they couldn’t say that they were doing night patrol. Also, who said two most suspected people were assigned to do night patrol? We all knew that they were supposed to be locked up in their tents and the ones who were doing night patrols were the lecturers and the committees. If only they realized how stupid they were.

Even those who were involved in the scandal didn’t mention that they were on duty last night, why would their pig teammate make up such a stupid story to defend them?

“I’m sure they just wanted to find a punch bag. Are they stupid to pick on our group? Didn’t they hear about Daisy? Even though she is called as a Goddess, but she wasn’t a pushover. Her reputation didn’t come on baseless rumor. Or, maybe it is because our team has more juniors than senior that they came to find trouble?”

“A gold medal.” I told her while reading the clues written on the paper.

“A what?” Daisy stopped in her tracks and turned her head towards me.

I stopped jogging and showed her the paper in my hand. It was written ‘a prize of a champion, loved and wanted by many, a symbol of fortune, hidden beneath the warm blanket of green.’ Whoever made this clues must be out of ideas.

“It could be a trophy.” Alivia shrugged her shoulders after reading the sentence.

“We can only check.” I sighed.

“There’s no number on it. How do you know it is the first?” Yuni flipped the paper repeatedly to see if there was something hidden in the paper.

I didn’t need to answer, though. Daisy opened the map carefully and scanned the map. “Because the map has the number.” She said.

I smiled. She was right. There were numbers on the map to mark the sequences of the items we needed to retrieve. The closest to us was the number one mark, which happened to be in the next corner. Since we already had the coordinate, we continued our jogging and only stopped when we reached the place where it was supposed to be the point from the map.

“There’s nothing here.” Alivia looked around. “The others have started to look around for their item. Maybe we should, too.”

Sounds of cheers of excitement and disappointed groaning could be heard from various directions. I bet the ones who was discouraged didn’t read their clues and maps carefully. Even though we were almost at the first checkpoint, it didn’t mean that the first item would necessarily be here. It could be around the checkpoint instead. But, these people were drawn to the commotion and assumed that their first item would be here.

How laughable!

“Let’s go.” I recollected myself and turned myself away from the chaotic scene to enter the woods on our left.

“What are we looking for here?” Yuni looked around, totally clueless with what we were doing.

“Green blanket.” Daisy jogged ahead of us. Her eyes were fixated towards a certain direction and she gradually moved faster in approaching that spot.

But, something flashed towards her and I instinctively shouted, “Daisy, stop!”