Cannon fodder in the Interstellar

Seeing the two young masters staring at her with such gloomy expressions, Ruo Manni asked curiously, “Why are you looking at me like that? Is there a problem?”

“We don’t know what kind of parts we got,” Hua Deli said. “I only know that I received eight mech fragments, and two of them are exactly the same.”

“I got nine mech fragments, but three of them are identical,” Hebrew Adam said helplessly.

These two guys really have bad luck. Ruo Manni suddenly remembered something. “Show me the mech fragments you got when you leveled up.”

Hearing this, Hebrew-Adam and Hua Deli put all their mech fragments into the guild’s storage.

Ruo Manni opened the guild storage and looked for a while, then exclaimed in amazement, “The repetition rate of the mech fragments you got is really high. Even if you combine both of your fragments, they’re not as useful as mine alone. None of my fragments are duplicates. Your luck is terrible!”

“So, you’re saying you have good luck,” Hua Deli remarked, thinking that Ruo Manni’s smug expression was rather cute.

Thinking about her triple-coin badge, Ruo Manni smiled and said, “I’m a lucky koi, of course I’m luckier than you guys.”

“Koi?” The two boys looked puzzled.

“Yes, haven’t you heard of the legend of the koi?” Ruo Manni, realizing she had accidentally mentioned a symbol of luck from Earth, explained casually, “Koi are believed to be incarnations of the luck god in legends. They are beautiful and harmless fish in the water, and people who obtain them and raise them well will be very lucky in whatever they do.”

The two boys had never heard of this legend, but with Ruo Manni’s explanation, they understood. They thought about it and felt that what she said wasn’t just a joke—this girl really seemed luckier than most people.

“In the next few days, we should run some dungeons. The most important thing is to get mech equipment, and when the time comes, we’ll let you loot the boss corpses,” Hebrew Adam suggested immediately.

Hua Deli agreed, and Ruo Manni had no objections either. She felt that her luck was indeed better than theirs. It would be frustrating to go through all the effort of defeating a boss, only to have nothing to show for it because of bad luck.

Perhaps because Ruo Manni was straightforward and didn’t make things difficult, she handed the half-piece of the Guild Creation Order to the senior. As Ruo Manni’s online time was about to end, she heard a system announcement in the War World game: “The Whirlwind Guild has applied to establish a guild. This is the second guild established by the youth group, with the following rewards: a guild base in the second ring area of the city, 30,000 gold coins as starting funds, ten pieces of green equipment, and ten green robes…”

“The Whirlwind Guild has applied to establish a guild, youth group…”

“The Whirlwind Guild has applied to establish a guild, youth group…”

As usual, the announcement was made three times. Before Ruo Manni could marvel at how fast “I Am the Senior” moved or how closely he was following their pace, she received an invitation from him, stating that if she joined the Whirlwind Squad, she would be made vice president.

“This player, ‘I Am the Senior,’ doesn’t know who I am, right? And yet, he’s inviting me to join the Whirlwind Squad,” Ruo Manni said with a smile.

Hebrew Adam and Hua Deli didn’t receive such an invitation. It was clear that the player “I Am the Senior” knew their true identities, so he didn’t bother inviting them.

Hebrew Adam glanced at Ruo Manni and said, “Reject him right away.”

Hebrew Adam was a bit displeased; someone was trying to poach from his turf.

Since the situation didn’t allow Ruo Manni to wander outside, she didn’t need Hebrew Adam to tell her to refuse; she was going to do it anyway.

She replied to “I Am the Senior” via instant message, informing him that a few hours ago, she had already joined the guild formed by His Imperial Highness as promised.

“I Am the Senior” almost immediately responded with a message: “@Lin Kexin, are you a freshman in Year One at Xuan Gu?”

“@I Am the Senior, yes.”

“I Am the Senior” first replied to Ruo Manni with a string of exclamation marks, and then added, “Today, every student in the Year One Freshman Elite Class of Xuan Gu is truly an elite among elites. Especially the top few, who almost left us seniors with no room to breathe in front of the instructors. @Lin Kexin, which one are you?”

Ruo Manni smiled lightly and replied with a playful message, “I’m not telling you, Senior. Guess, guess, guess.”

Actually, her avatar already showed her appearance. Among the three girls in the Year One Elite Class, she was the only one with black hair and black eyes. If the seniors wanted to find out, they could easily check.

After thinking for a moment, Ruo Manni added, “To reach such heights, Senior, you’re being too modest and overestimating us in the Year One Elite Class.”

Ruo Manni’s words came from the heart. She firmly believed that “there is always someone better out there.”

These seniors didn’t spend those years at the academy for nothing. Although their cultivation levels might not be higher than those of the first-year elite military students, their overall combat capabilities were definitely not low and were enough to crush freshmen like her, whose real combat experience was still quite weak.

In the War World game, the reason these senior students were leveling up slower than the freshmen was not because they were weaker, but because they had less time to play. They probably only logged in once every day or two, certainly having much less free time than the freshmen.

Ruo Manni now understood that the training tasks for upperclassmen military cadets were much more demanding than for freshmen. When upperclassmen went out for field training, it primarily involved mech battles and usually took place outside the Imperial Capital planet, on planets with harsh climates.

Take the fourth-year seniors in the Mech Combat Department, for example. It had been nearly two months since the semester started, but not a single fourth-year cadet had been seen in their classroom.

According to Dean Atchison, who was well-informed, the fourth-year students had gone out for field training when they were still in their third year and hadn’t shown any signs of returning. Apparently, they were currently on a particularly desolate planet, mining and fighting star pirates, with no set date for their return. It seemed likely they wouldn’t be back until graduation.

As for the third-year students, they went out for field training right at the beginning of the semester and only returned ten days ago. All the freshmen had seen them; every one of them was noticeably darker and thinner.

It was said that they had gone to Chiyan Star, a famously scorching hot planet in the Gus Empire, where the heat from the sunlight was nearly enough to melt a person.

Ruo Manni had searched for information on Chiyan Star on the Galactic Net. The temperature there remained around 40 to 50 degrees Celsius year-round, which was almost unbearable for ordinary humans. However, the humans living on that planet were quite accustomed to such a hot environment and even tended to be plump and fair-skinned.

Second-year students had it a bit easier. They went out for field training at about the same time as the first-year students, but they had been gone for so long that they still hadn’t returned. It was said that they would be back next month.

Under such circumstances, the fact that these two third-year seniors were still ranked in the top ten showed just how strong they were.

Ruo Manni had also done some research on the current students and knew who the most outstanding seniors were. These were individuals renowned in novels for their bravery and combat skills, having made significant contributions in battles against the Yunkai people. Although not all of them were lost in the war, only two survived.

Knowing that these were her direct seniors, Ruo Manni felt a deep sense of admiration for them.