Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 137 - 90: Utterly Shameless (First Update)

Chapter 137: Chapter 90: Utterly Shameless (First Update)

Snow Valley Training Camp.

The sky was filled with snowflakes. Li Zheng and other players from Liver Emperor Group, shirtless, continuously wielded stone hammers to strike the Crystal Wall ahead.

"Eighty! Eighty! Eighty!"

"So tired, really want to eat something. What’s the point of pounding this thing?"

"Throughout my life, I haven’t done as much physical labor as I have in this blasted training camp. It’s like they’re treating us like beasts trained for labor. When will this ever end?"

Complaints continuously filled the voice channel, and Li Zheng helplessly said at this time:

"Stop complaining, we have to finish no matter what, let’s speed up and rest earlier."

"I hope the reward this time is substantial, otherwise I am going to lose it," Chi Tu couldn’t help but complain again.

This training exercise required by Kuang Sha asked them to shatter the Crystal Wall using stone hammers.

After continuous pounding, Li Zheng and the others’ hands went numb from the vibrations. However, the surface of the Crystal Wall only showed slight scratches, without any sign of shattering.

To continue their task, they could only grit their teeth and endure.

During this, their palms cracked and bled, sweat steadily running down from their foreheads.

Turning their heads to look, beasts of various races seemed unusually energetic in their training, completely disregarding their bodily injuries, their Crystal Walls making loud "clang clang" sounds.

Yet occasionally, the sound of growling stomachs could be heard amidst the hammering.

This was indeed a consequence of the food shortage battle in the canteen, and it also served as the way the Snow Valley Training Camp welcomed the Water Valley Training Camp trainees.

They added an extra training course not required by instructors: endurance against hunger.

After three consecutive days of hunger endurance training, the Porlow Clan lost their initial arrogance but still refused to lower their heads, demanding to follow the Water Valley Training Camp’s regulations, eating in order of strength.

Only after the Porlow Clan had finished could other trainees from different races eat.

As for this, Li Zheng and his companions didn’t pamper them either.

Mainly, everyone sneakily ate behind others’ backs, and openly nobody else ate.

In the eyes of all races, their talent for enduring hunger was maxed out.

But after continuous brawls, Li Zheng and players from the Liver Emperor Group also felt some regrets.

Free Spirit Food was seen as free Body Refining Experience, and every extra mouthful was a gain, something that could not be experienced in Newbie Village.

But to resist bullying, they chose to continue enduring in a truly manly way.

They also thought about sneaking some Spirit Food into their Space Bag during the melee and taking it out to eat in their room at night.

However, after asking for Guidance, they found this idea was not feasible.

There were several supervisors in the canteen watching the direction of their brawls, and the Spirit Food being placed into the Space Bag would be detected immediately.

And one of the canteen’s rules was that no Spirit Food could be taken away, otherwise the fixed 15-minute meal time would lose its significance.

The intention was to make them compete every second.

According to Kuang Sha, this time would gradually decrease as they progressed to the second and third phases of the training camp.

After graduating and reaching the battlefield, it would be even more so.

The front line battles of the Reverse Tide Army against various strong races were exceedingly fierce, sometimes so brutal that there was even no time to eat.

While explaining the rules, Kuang Sha laughed and shared that the toughest time he had on the front lines was when he continuously fought the Soul Returning Clan for 10 days, during which he didn’t even have time to rest or eat, ultimately collapsing from exhaustion and being carried back by comrades.

The progressively stricter regulations of the training camp were meant to adapt them early to the high-intensity frontline battlegrounds.

The rule prohibiting food removal also put an end to Li Zheng and others’ ideas of cheating, forcing them to gnaw on canned food bought from the store every night.

Occasionally, when there was good luck, Spirit Fish Meat would be listed in the Trading House, and after acquiring it, the brothers would rush to share it.

Having endured until now, Li Zheng and the Liver Emperor Group players felt bitter.

The intense training, with only canned food barely filling the nutritional deficit and without Spirit Food to supplement the excessive consumption, left them constantly haunted by hunger.

This also reminded Li Zheng of something God of Wealth had once said: the food in cans was meaningless, and even less valuable than cultivating by absorbing nature’s spiritual energy.

At the time, he didn’t understand the meaning of these words, but now he comprehended the reason.

When the Body Strength reached a certain level, ordinary food became increasingly insufficient for bodily replenishment.

It could be foreseen that as players’ levels continued rising, Spirit Food would become the main solution to hunger, and the cans worth 1 sacrificial power would gradually be phased out.

Apart from the torment brought by training and enduring hunger, there were also happy moments in the training camp for Li Zheng and others.

For instance, the medicinal baths every other day.

Each medicinal bath brought an increase of more than 7000 points in Body Refining Experience.

This benefit was much greater compared to hunting Evil Spirits or monsters outside.

Most importantly, the increase in Body Refining Experience also brought enhancements to the attributes of the Main Form.

Every player in the Liver Emperor Group had already reached Level 3, with Li Zheng’s Body Refining Level even reaching 5.

This meant that five Life Souls could be embedded on the Star Vein, and the Main Form could inherit all the attribute enhancements of those five Life Souls.

Unfortunately, in the training camp, it was impossible to improve the Life Soul level through hunting, and the properties inherited from the initially embedded Life Souls were very limited.

The time came to dusk.

The last traces of twilight quietly disappeared on the horizon, replaced by a deeply serene blue-purple sky, the training camp ground was covered by a thin veil of energy.

It was once again mealtime.

Led by instructor Kuang Sha, Li Zheng and his comrades arrived at the canteen.

As soon as they entered, the rich and enticing aroma of food instantly filled their nostrils.