CH 98

Chapter 98: Successfully Reaching the Summit

"Where's Qingyang?" Li Ying dumbfoundedly looked at the Liu brothers.

The Liu brothers exchanged glances, clearly unaware of the answer to this question.

"Oh no, find him quickly!" Li Ying urged.

The captain had tasked them with protecting Qingyang, but they had managed to lose him. Moreover, Qingyang carried the entire team's wealth, so if he accidentally fell into the hands of someone else, they would be responsible for the entire team's failure.

Unfortunately, the more anxious Li Ying and his team became, the more challenges reality threw at them.

The superhumans and mecha warriors engaged in aerial combat noticed Li Ying and the Liu brothers. They swiftly headed towards them, intending to draw the three of them into the battle.

Why were they here, fighting desperately for their lives, while someone over there leisurely flew around without a care?

No, if they were going to die, they would die together!

Thus, Li Ying and his team, who were frantically searching for Xiao Qingyang, were intercepted by others. However, seeing the roadblock in their path only fueled their anger.

If it weren't for these people, they wouldn't have lost sight of Qingyang. Now they had the audacity to come and block them, seeking their own demise!

Initially, Li Ying and the Liu brothers had no intention of dealing with these people, but their persistence made it impossible for them to search for Xiao Qingyang.

The accumulation of new and old grudges, combined with their impatience, drove Li Ying and the Liu brothers to fight these people recklessly.

Initially, those who had surrounded them believed they could all fight together and no one could stay out of the fray. However, after witnessing the strength and relentless fighting style of Li Ying and the Liu brothers, they all regretted it.

But even if they regretted it, what could they do? They had provoked these lunatics, and even if they knelt down, they still had to endure the consequences! And what about Xiao Qingyang, whom Li Ying and his team were concerned about?

In truth, Xiao Qingyang didn't pay much attention to Li Ying and the others flying in the sky. His primary focus was on the enemies, but occasionally, he would glance at his teammates.

However, when Xiao Qingyang tried to "check" on his teammates again, he realized he couldn't find them.

He looked up at the sky, filled with various flying beasts and mechas, but the familiar flying eagle was nowhere to be seen.

Xiao Qingyang had no idea what had happened to Li Ying and the Liu brothers, and he didn't have the spare energy to search for them now. His task was to bring the score to the finish line.

Losing Li Ying and the others wasn't necessarily a bad thing for Xiao Qingyang.

Initially, Xiao Qingyang intended to remain invisible, which would be safer. However, because Li Ying and the Liu brothers were with him, he couldn't simply turn invisible and startle them.

But now that they had lost track of him, he didn't have to be so concerned.

Xiao Qingyang found a spot that no one paid much attention to and quietly distributed his spiritual power over his appearance, gradually fading himself out of everyone's sight. In this way, if others couldn't see him, they wouldn't bother him.

After becoming invisible, Xiao Qingyang focused on running towards the mountaintop. Along the way, he avoided other battling teams.

Even though he was invisible, he could still be touched, and if someone attacked him, he would still get hurt. Additionally, if he accidentally bumped into someone, they might think they had encountered a ghost.

Of course, it wasn't entirely avoidable since there were so many people on the mountainside, and the battle ranged far and wide. It was inevitable to bump into one or two people.

However, at this moment, Xiao Qingyang definitely slipped away quickly. Those who encountered him would either be puzzled, thinking they had just experienced an illusion, or they would believe they had truly encountered a ghost and tremble in fear, abandoning the fight altogether.

And the main culprit behind all of this, Xiao Qingyang, had already run far away.

Xiao Qingyang cautiously avoided crowded areas and prevented others' attacks from landing on him. In this way, he smoothly made his way to the finish line.

When he was a hundred meters away from the finish line, he quietly withdrew his spiritual power, revealing his figure, and attached the spiritual power to his feet. He rushed through the last hundred meters at the fastest speed.

By this time, other teams had already reached the finish line. Once a team arrived at the finish line, their expedition was considered over, and they were not allowed to continue attacking others. Therefore, Xiao Qingyang successfully reached the summit.

The others sitting paralyzed at the finish line were either superhumans or mecha warriors, with hardly any logistics personnel. When they saw Xiao Qingyang running alone to the finish line, they all looked surprised.

"Did you come up here by yourself?" someone curiously approached Xiao Qingyang and struck up a conversation.

As a logistical personnel, it was truly astonishing that he was able to reach the finish line through those combat zones without the protection of teammates.

Even though logistical personnel weren't targeted by others when operating alone, evading those widespread attacks was no easy feat.

Hence, logistical personnel who could reach the final destination on their own were extremely rare.

"Yes, I came up by myself," Xiao Qingyang replied, nodding. He then glanced around and noticed a table not far away with someone who appeared to be a teacher sitting behind it.

Xiao Qingyang quickly walked over and asked, "Excuse me, are you the teacher?"

"Yes, young student. Where are your teammates?" the teacher kindly inquired.

"My teammates haven't come up yet. Do we have to wait for them to come up before handing in the score?" Xiao Qingyang asked, as he wasn't very familiar with the rules of the freshman expedition.

"Since the expedition is a team operation, the total score of the entire team needs to be calculated in the end, so you have to wait for your teammates to arrive before we can calculate it," the teacher patiently explained, answering Xiao Qingyang's question.

After confirming that the scores were indeed handed in here, Xiao Qingyang took out the score card and said to the teacher, "The scores of our team are all with me. Can I hand them in now?"

Not only was the teacher astonished upon hearing this, but the other students resting around also opened their mouths wide in surprise, their eyes widened.

"The scores of your entire team are with you? Have they all been eliminated?" the person who had spoken with Xiao Qingyang earlier approached, asking in astonishment.

Unless all the members of the team had been eliminated, why would they entrust all the scores to a logistics personnel?

"No, they just haven't come up yet. I came ahead," Xiao Qingyang truthfully replied.

"They gave you all the scores to bring here?" The person was even more surprised, unable to believe that a team would dare to entrust all the scores to a logistics personnel, risking them being eliminated halfway and all their efforts going to waste.

However, the reality showed that although the team was bold, their decision was also correct. After all, Xiao Qingyang had now reached the summit with their team's scores in hand.

But even with the presence of evidence, it was still hard for them to believe that someone would actually do such a thing because it was incredibly risky.

"How did you come up here all the way?" the person asked curiously.

Xiao Qingyang glanced at him and felt that despite his talkativeness, the person seemed alright, so he replied, "I just ran up here."

As Xiao Qingyang handed the score card to the teacher responsible for tallying the scores, he answered the questions from the teenager who seemed to have a lot of them.

"No one attacked you?" the teenager continued to inquire.

Xiao Qingyang shook his head, providing an answer without disclosing his ability to turn invisible.

"Logistics personnel are really good. Even when they act alone, no one actively attacks them. If we had known, we would have given the scores to our logistics personnel and let them come up first. That way, we wouldn't have been in such a sorry state," the person said with emotion.

However, it was just a sentiment. If he were asked to do the same, he definitely wouldn't take such a risk.

The teacher collected Xiao Qingyang's score card and asked, "Team number?"

"619," Xiao Qingyang truthfully replied.

"Alright, you can rest over there for now," the teacher concluded the tally and told Xiao Qingyang.

However, Xiao Qingyang didn't rest. Instead, he turned around, ready to go down the mountain. The person who had talked to him earlier hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Where are you going? It's dangerous down there."

"I'm going to find my teammates," Xiao Qingyang looked at the person and said.

His task had been completed, and their team's scores had been secured and registered by the teacher. No one could take away their scores anymore.

But his teammates didn't know about this. He had to quickly go and tell them so they wouldn't have to continue fighting and could head directly to the mountaintop.

"With so many people down there, can you find your teammates? Besides, there's still fighting going on down there. Going down would just be sending yourself to the wolves," the person frowned, clearly disagreeing with Xiao Qingyang's decision.

"But I have to tell them that the scores have been delivered," Xiao Qingyang insisted.

If he didn't go and inform them now, they would certainly continue fighting unnecessarily, especially Li Ying and the Liu brothers. They would be worried if they couldn't find him, so he had to go down and inform them.

Moreover, he had his spiritual awareness, so he could easily locate where his teammates were and protect himself.

"Are you really going down?" the person persisted in asking.

Xiao Qingyang nodded, expressing his determination.

The person couldn't help but sigh lightly and said, "My name is Qiao Can. Consider me your friend. Let me accompany you down."

"Thank you, but it's not necessary. I can manage on my own," Xiao Qingyang replied.

Qiao Can said, "What can you manage? As a logistics personnel like you, it's already lucky enough for you to come up here smoothly. Do you really think you'll continue to have good luck finding your teammates?"

In fact, Xiao Qingyang really wanted to tell him that his ability to come up here was not due to luck but rather his own strength. However, he knew that such words would not be believed if he said them.

In the end, Xiao Qingyang reluctantly nodded, silently accepting Qiao Can's company.