Shadows of the Deep Space-Chapter 115: Settling Private Grudges (One more update)

Chapter 115: Chapter 115: Settling Private Grudges (One more update)

The next day, at five in the morning.

Su Ming lay in his bed, sound asleep, while the entire dormitory was quiet.

Bang~

Suddenly, the door of the dormitory was kicked open.

Su Ming, Rhein, and the others were all shocked, immediately sitting up with unsettled nerves, shouting.

"What’s happening?"

...

At that moment, Mia walked in and addressed everyone.

"Time to get up."

"It’s not the teacher, what time is it? Are we starting class this early?"

As Rhein and the others recognized that it was Mia who had barged in, they asked in confusion.

"Do you think the enemy cares what time it is when you’re on the battlefield? You have ten minutes to wash up, change your clothes, and assemble downstairs in the dorm!"

Mia didn’t care about their confusion, finished speaking, and turned around to kick open another dormitory door.

The reason for the ten-minute wash-up was simple; the dormitory’s toilet was too small.

Su Ming was the first to react, got out of bed, and rushed into the toilet to wash up.

At this moment, the advantage of being close to the toilet became apparent.

The rest of the students also came to their senses and rushed toward the toilet.

"No, don’t rush!"

Rhein was also taken aback and quickly climbed down from the upper bunk.

...

Ten minutes later.

Rhein and the others gathered downstairs at the dormitory, lining up neatly.

Su Ming counted the heads and then reported to Mia.

"Teacher, everyone is here."

"Follow me!"

Mia waved her hand and walked out.

Although Su Ming and the others were unclear about what Mia was up to, they silently followed her.

Soon after, Mia led Su Ming and the others to a spacious square, where they saw boxes of coffee-colored backpacks piled up.

There were two sizes of these backpacks; large ones for the boys and medium ones for the girls, but whichever size, they were packed full.

Su Ming looked at the backpacks with great confusion.

Mia briefly told Su Ming and the others.

"The large backpacks are for the boys, the medium ones for the girls. There’s a nutrition bar on the left side of the backpacks and a bottle of water on the right; if you’re hungry or thirsty, sort it out yourself. Everyone put them on."

Su Ming immediately picked up a large backpack nearby and found it was really heavy, at least fifty pounds, but he silently put it on his back.

Seeing Su Ming shouldering his, Rhein and the others also started to pick up their backpacks and put them on.

Once everyone was equipped, Mia, with a gleeful expression, said.

"Everyone’s ready, let’s head to the plantation!"

"What?"

Angel and the others exclaimed in shock.

Their location was more than thirty kilometers away from the plantation; walking there wouldn’t be too bad, but the problem was the heavy load they had to bear.

"What do you mean ’what’? Hurry up and walk, Su Ming, you lead."

Mia urged everyone.

"Okay!"

Su Ming silently carried his pack and led the way to the plantation, with the other students following.

At that moment, Mia also briskly caught up to Su Ming and with a light jump, she sat directly on his backpack, dangling her legs.

Suddenly, Su Ming felt a heavy weight press down on him; he quickly realized what was happening but said nothing.

Seeing this, Rhein and others had an uneasy look on their faces.

Zhang Yi spoke softly to a fellow student beside him.

"Is the teacher using this as a means for personal revenge?"

"It seems so, after all, the class leader did hurt her yesterday, and she probably couldn’t save face."

"Poor class leader, that backpack is fifty pounds, and the teacher is at least a hundred more, that’s over one hundred and fifty pounds combined!"

"Right, and the class leader isn’t even one of the Second Generation of New Humans."

...

"Hurry up, hurry up! If you have the energy to talk, you’d better use it to walk faster! Let me tell you, once we get to the plantation, we still have to walk back. If you want to walk till midnight, that’s up to you!"

Mia urged Zhang Yi and the others.

"No way!"

Zhang Yi and others were flabbergasted.

At this time, Rhein somewhat defiantly questioned.

"Teacher, we are students of the Mechanical Armor Class, shouldn’t our focus be on training our operating skills?"

"Yeah, why do we need to practice physical fitness? Isn’t that only necessary for the ground combat specialty?"

...

Angel and the others asked in great confusion.

"What do you know, the body is the capital of everything. Although you are Mecha Operators, you still need a good physique. Just shut up and train properly! Anyone else has objections, I’ll sit on them!"

Mia warned everyone.

Hearing this, everyone promptly zipped their lips.

Su Ming took a deep breath and silently continued walking forward, thankful for his year of training, otherwise his original physique would never have held up.

Even in this era, the average person has a good physical condition. After all, the genes have been somewhat optimized; otherwise, how could they live so long in such harsh environments?

Time slowly passed.

In a blink of an eye, over four hours had passed, and Mia was still sitting on Su Ming’s backpack.

At this point, Su Ming was sweating profusely, his face was beet-red, his steps became faltering, and his pace had noticeably slowed down, but still, he clenched his teeth and kept moving forward.

At this time, the classmates following behind Su Ming also slowed down, with none surpassing him.

Mia glanced at Su Ming and mused to herself.

"Good kid, still keeping quiet till now, but the tougher they are, the more I like them!"

She then picked up a clipboard and began to observe the other students, occasionally recording data on the clipboard.

However, after Mia finished recording all the data, she looked at the numbers, her eyebrows continuously furrowed.

...

At three in the afternoon.

Su Ming and the others arrived on foot at the entrada of the plantation.

The entire plantation area was located inside a separate Dorag Sphere, with only one entrance and exit.

And right at this single entrance stood two seventeen-meter-tall, Third Generation Mecha·Rogue fully covered in heavy red alloy armor, each wielding a giant red blade.

Below the feet of the Mecha stood a twenty-person guard squad, led by a robust woman dressed in red Third Generation Exoskeleton Armor·Fiery Flame.

"Fuka!"

Mia called out enthusiastically to the woman.

Seeing Mia approaching with a group of students, Fuka couldn’t be bothered with her and just waved her hand to give an order.

"Let them in."

"Thanks."

Mia seemed accustomed to her reaction and wasn’t offended.

"Hmph."

Fuka couldn’t be bothered with Mia.

"Come on, hurry up and get inside!"

Mia urged Su Ming and the others to enter.

Su Ming inwardly sighed; she made it sound so easy. He had been carrying Mia all day and his body was nearly at its limit.

But Su Ming continued on with a strong will, entering the doorway to the plantation.

The entrance to the plantation was a long metal corridor, and Su Ming noticed that every ten meters there was a concealed gate, and the air pressure inside the tunnel also seemed unusual, with little airflow.

Su Ming continued walking forward and soon saw a glimmer of light.