The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 89 Dawn
Don't be fooled by the fact that five points may seem like a small number; in fact, every point is precious for freshmen.

Each new student starts with only ten points, ensuring they don't begin with zero or negative points – a thoughtful gesture from the school. To gain more points later, they must do so through training and exams, but there are countless ways to lose points.

The school's penalty system is always quite strict. For example, on the first day of class, a large number of students had 10 to 50 points deducted because prohibited items were found during inspections.

As a result, many students started with a negative score and could only add it up one or two points at a time by completing the daily training standards.

However, Jiang Hui is a training failure; he basically fails to meet the standards and doesn't earn any extra points.

However, she didn't lose any points, and in fact, she received two extra points for her exceptional performance in training last week. Combined with the two points awarded to the class as a whole, she now has fourteen points. This potion cost her almost a third of her points, which was quite a waste.

But before she could feel sorry for herself for long, she had to start the next leg of her journey.

This temporary landing point was actually a short distance up the mountainside; they hadn't yet reached the summit.

Therefore, the students trekked through steep and treacherous mountain paths. Upon reaching the summit, the instructors marking the way for their team to reach the top.

Although there are no staff members here, there are automatic recording and broadcasting points. When someone arrives, their movements here will be automatically broadcast to the main observation station, and the instructors will give them extra points for evaluation.

However, the weather turned against them; not long after they descended from the mountaintop, a torrential downpour began.

Is this some extra atmosphere added to their training exercise? This trip is definitely going to make them feel valued; they're being given a taste of everything.

The instructors quickly set up a giant tent using storage compartments, urging the students to come inside. The rainwater on Planet 732 is extremely acidic, corrosive to certain materials, and can easily cause allergic reactions if it comes into contact with relatively fragile and sensitive human skin.

Then the students took out their specially made raincoats from their bags and put them on. Only then did the instructor call everyone to set off again.

However, for a group of people struggling to travel, the rain was really unfriendly.

Although the specially designed raincoat could protect their relatively fragile skin and evaporate some of the acidic and corrosive components, it was not an airtight, sealed structure. The weakened and purified rainwater flowed down her neck and into the raincoat, and the treated and weakened acidic smell could still be smelled in the entire environment inside the raincoat and in her nasal cavity, which was still very uncomfortable.

Regardless of her past life, Jiang Hui has always had a very sensitive sense of smell, and she is very particular about the scents of her environment. This unbalanced environment made her feel extremely uncomfortable, even more so than the arduous hike she had just endured.

The instructors probably knew that such an environment was harmful to the students' physical and mental health, so they quickened their pace, constantly urging everyone to leave the acid rain area. Although walking in the rain wearing raincoats was very uncomfortable, the raincoats themselves brought Jiang Hui a sense of reassurance. Because the raincoats were full-coverage, they also enveloped the flag behind her, barely pressing it against her back, making it quite noticeable. Jiang Hui didn't need to constantly turn around to check if it was still there.

They didn't encounter any symmetrical footholds on the descent, but the journey was relatively smooth. Perhaps due to the groundwork laid earlier, their descent was much more swift, but some couldn't continue at this point.

The student ahead of Jiang Hui seemed to be a nursing major; she overheard him in the temporary rest area and learned he was in the general nursing program. Although he was a tall, strong guy, the training he had undergone was still based on standard training, and after climbing over 70 kilometers to the summit, he was basically exhausted.

But he knew he was in the middle, and if he fell behind, the students in front and behind him might be affected. So he gritted his teeth and persevered, while many other students were experiencing the same thing. At this point, they were still almost halfway to the end of the training exercise.

To encourage the students, the instructors kept organizing everyone to shout slogans, assuring them that their leader was still there.

The sky had already brightened, and it was approaching the hottest part of the morning, accompanied by considerable acid rain, making the environment even worse. The temperature across the ground was unusually high; the students, having endured a grueling long trek, had reached their limit.

"Watch out!" Seeing that the student in front of her seemed about to give way and was about to fall forward, Jiang Hui quickly pulled him up, and the student was jolted out of his dazed state.

Although the training exercise didn't require everyone to refrain from talking, the journey had already been so arduous that everyone was focused on their own path, let alone chatting. Jiang Hui hadn't spoken a word the entire way, but without realizing it, her back teeth were clenched tighter and tighter, until her mouth was bleeding from biting so much that when she opened her mouth to speak, she could smell the metallic odor.

So she had only uttered that one short sentence, two words, when Jiang Hui realized her voice had become incredibly hoarse, cracking like a broken gong, and a sharp pain shot through her throat. Jiang Hui wondered if she had suffered internal injuries from holding it in.
Then she heard the person in front of her mumble something like a thank you, their voice soft and weak, clearly indicating they were extremely frail.

Therefore, Jiang Hui didn't mind and didn't intend to waste the other person's remaining energy on conversation. However, she couldn't help but feel somewhat pessimistic about the journey ahead... So when would this long road finally end? Some people were already giving up, how long could she possibly last?

They ran wildly in the wind and rain for an unknown amount of time, and it seemed that they had finally escaped that hot and humid acid rain zone, and the sky cleared up.

Finally, the instructor told everyone that they had passed the foot of the mountain and were approaching the descent. According to the markers, there should be a temporary resting place ahead where they could rest and replenish their energy.

The students, who had been enduring the gloom for so long, couldn't help but feel excited upon hearing this. Finally, they saw a glimmer of hope—even though they knew it was only temporary. Temporary was good, as it allowed them to catch their breath and prevented them from enduring endlessly without seeing a way forward.

Now, the instructors didn't even need to shout slogans to urge them on. These exhausted freshmen rushed towards the temporary accommodation that seemed to be right in front of them, their speed so fast that even the team leader could hardly control them.

(End of this chapter)