The details of what Boss Chai had experienced were unknown to Meng Huai. Nor was she aware that her aptitude for Xuanxue had been revealed to Senior Gao. But none of that mattered. What was important was whether she should eat something after a long day of work.
Meng Huai acted on this thought. She considered eating to be a great pleasure in life. If one lacked the energy for eating, for what else would they have energy? Nutritional fluid was fine at first, but like the辟谷丹 (bì gǔ dān - a pill for abstaining from grain), it made life rather dull!
When the live broadcast staff noticed that a student with a B-level designation had entered the top fifty, their jaws dropped in shock!
"Teacher Fu, come quickly! This student has already broken into the top fifty!"
This Teacher Fu was the one in charge of all aspects of the broadcast. He glanced over casually and asked, "What is it?"
He didn't see anything out of the ordinary and thought the other person was overreacting. Rankings could sometimes change drastically due to killing a high-level star beast or obtaining points from other students.
"No, Teacher Fu, this is a B-level student. But this student just defeated Chen Xuan. It hasn't been that long, and their points have increased so rapidly. Did they perhaps take points from someone else?"
Hearing this, Teacher Fu also stepped forward to take a closer look. He hadn't been present earlier and thus didn't know Meng Huai had defeated Chen Xuan. He asked doubtfully, "Chen Xuan? The son of the Chen family, who is rumored to be a genius?"
The other teacher chuckled at Teacher Fu's words. "Teacher Fu, you didn't see it. Chen Xuan is just a fraud. This little girl took him down in just a few moves."
"Is that so? Adjust the video of this little girl for me to see."
As Teacher Fu spoke, the person brought up Meng Huai's video. At this moment, Meng Huai was sitting aside, her eyes focused only on a few B-level star beasts on the ground.
These star beasts were a few rabbits, and they were very attractive to Meng Huai, who hadn't eaten all day. She couldn't help but catch a few.
However, these rabbits were all poisonous. She couldn't eat them directly.
If only she had Skyfire. That thing was a nemesis to all toxins! Meng Huai thought to herself.
She pondered for a moment, then took out a pill from her pocket and consumed it. After that, she took out a small knife and cleaned the rabbit. Seeing this, Teacher Fu roughly understood what Meng Huai intended to do.
Teacher Fu exclaimed, "She wouldn't possibly be thinking of eating this star beast, would she? Star beasts are inedible; doesn't she have any common sense? The toxin intrusion will affect the body and perception!"
As Teacher Fu spoke, he called for the on-site rescuers to be on standby, ready to take the student away for treatment if there were any issues. However, they would not remind Meng Huai.
First, they had no obligation to remind her, which would be unfair to other students. After all, if one wasn't careful and something happened, it would serve as a lesson learned.
None of these people noticed what she had eaten. Even if they had, they wouldn't have thought it was a detoxification pill...
Yes, Meng Huai had first taken a top-grade detoxification pill before preparing to eat.
"It's best to be cautious with this body," Meng Huai murmured. After all, this body was not immune to all poisons. With a top-grade detoxification pill, any toxin would be rendered harmless.
After tidying up the rabbits, Meng Huai started a fire and began roasting them.
Teacher Fu, observing her actions, wore an expression of disbelief, as if thinking, 'How can there be such an disobedient student?' But Teacher Fu didn't know why he had the camera shift towards Meng Huai.
Perhaps he feared the audience would get bored of seeing star beasts being slain and wanted to show them something different?
When the camera focused on Meng Huai, it evoked a lot of audience displeasure.
A Cui Student: Why is it this faking faker again? We don't want to see her.
Selling Anxiety: No, what is she doing? Is she roasting meat? But where are the ingredients? Hmm, I have a guess, but I don't know if I should say it.
Nana: Me too... but star beast meat can't be eaten! Poisoning is no trivial matter.
There wasn't much in the testing grounds, so it couldn't be self-brought ingredients, meaning it had to be star beasts?
The live broadcast of the freshman test had unexpectedly turned into a food channel exclusively for her, but everyone watching had no appetite.
Everyone commented: x.y: Silently praying for this person to be taken away for treatment quickly.
00.: Star beasts cannot be eaten; even a three-year-old knows that.
But no matter what the bullet comments said, Meng Huai's meat was roasted. She even added some seasoning at the end, making it look, smell, and taste delicious.
All the viewers watched Meng Huai put the star beast meat into her mouth, waiting to see what would happen, expecting Meng Huai to have problems. But after a few minutes, Meng Huai showed no signs of distress.
00.: How is she okay? Logically, she should have fainted a few minutes ago.
x.y: It made me hungry just watching. I just drank a whole nutritional fluid because of it.
Teacher Fu was also paying attention to Meng Huai, and the rescuers were even nearby, ready for any eventuality. But minutes passed, then half an hour, and Meng Huai was perfectly fine.
Meng Huai even ate all the rabbits, making the viewers' mouths water.
While the audience was still wondering why she was fine, Teacher Fu told his subordinate, "Investigate what's going on. Could it be that the pill-like thing she ate earlier prevented her from being poisoned?"
Of course, these were just Teacher Fu's speculations, and no one could confirm them. However, the director also broadcasted this scene, and some viewers connected it to the effect of that pill.
But at this time, Meng Huai had eaten her fill and continued to search for prey. When she encountered an S-level star beast, the camera was still following her.
At this moment, people noticed that Meng Huai hadn't entered her mecha at all. She simply held a large saber and charged forward to battle.
With the glint of her saber, a bloody mark was destined to appear.