Rebirth: A Cinderella's Counterattack

Chapter 1759: Chapter 1739

”But we only found three, that’s one-fifth...” He Wenyu curled his lip. ”Don’t know how Shiqi and the others are doing. Let’s go check out the green area first.”

”Yeah, anyway we’ve already got eight Tokens secured in our hands. Every extra one they get is a good thing.” Di Jun’s face was completely relaxed as well. ”Speaking of which, you straight-up drugging them like that isn’t totally against the rules, right?”

”If they’d been as sensible as those Earth Class guys and just left, I wouldn’t have done it. Who told them to insist on snatching my stuff when they clearly weren’t strong enough?” He Wenyu said with a disgusted pout. ”Ji Lei never said it wasn’t allowed anyway, so let’s treat it as allowed and talk about it later. Who told them to make such incomplete rules in the first place.” He Wenyu drawled lazily, suddenly gaining a new understanding of how rules and laws are things that get gradually improved.

After all, no one can think of that much at the start. You need people who specialize in poking holes before you can see where your own rules fall short, right?

”Suddenly feels like you girls are really just...” Someone in the team felt something was off and wanted to complain.

But He Wenyu only tilted her head and gave him a look, and he instantly shut up. No kidding, who’d go asking for trouble? This was the Goddess, okay!

Their future happiness was all in the Goddess’s hands, wasn’t it? How could they offend her so easily? Must not offend, must not offend...

And besides, she was right.

The rules really didn’t say anything about it. How was that their fault? All they did was avoid casualties on their own side, what’s wrong with that?

Watching her classmates quickly firm up their resolve with such righteous expressions, He Wenyu felt a sudden, inexplicable pang of guilt. This kind of thing... how to put it? It really did feel like she was just arguing for the sake of arguing and totally ignoring reason. But as long as she herself knew it, that was enough—no way she’d let others nitpick her over it!

Yup!

Holding fast to the belief that her understanding wasn’t wrong, He Wenyu looked at Di Jun. ”So we’re heading to the green area?”

”Yeah. Long Tu and the others will be fine.” Di Jun nodded. Others might not know, but he was very clear on this point: Long Tu’s strength was perfectly adequate. Even with his power suppressed, he was still a lot stronger than most people. From a certain angle, they were actually the same kind of person.

They rushed to the green area and split up to search twice in all directions, only to discover that everyone from their class had gathered together?

They immediately went over, curious, and saw that everyone was gathered around a pile of mushrooms, looking depressed.

”How about each of us just takes a little with us? That way at least we can take some back, right?”

”Or we send some of us to go find Di Jun? Their team still has Shiliu; with the two of them they can at least carry off most of it. Otherwise all of this is going to waste.”

He Wenyu’s eyes went wide. ”So you guys have been here collecting ingredients?” She walked over, utterly speechless. When the class heard the familiar voice, they were stunned for a moment, then quickly stepped aside so He Wenyu could get up to the mushrooms.

”We just found these together. They look really nice. Didn’t Shiqi say last time he wanted to eat mushrooms?” The class looked extremely pleased with themselves, showing off to He Wenyu like they were presenting a treasure.

”These mushrooms look really familiar...” Di Jun said with a strange expression.

He Wenyu nodded in strong agreement and looked at Di Jun a bit hesitantly. ”Isn’t this the one from last time... that time... that one?”

Di Jun nodded in certainty. ”Definitely.”

That familiar color, that familiar smell...

No, wait. If this thing was here, then...

”This is bad. There must be a Poison Crocodile nearby! Where did you guys find these mushrooms?” He Wenyu reflexively hugged her stomach. She absolutely did not want to go through that again; it had been... pure torture.

Everything else was one thing, but that... seriously, who feeds a patient an all-instant-noodle meal? Other than Luo Qianqian!

She never wanted to repeat that mistake again! Never ever! No way!

But aside from instant noodles, all the other food had been so unpleasant she really didn’t want to eat it at all...

When she was sick, the best thing she got was instant noodles; otherwise she’d be gnawing on dry rations!

Just thinking about it felt way too rough...

”You’re overthinking it. This isn’t that. This is... uh, Hundred Flavors Mushroom.” A boy in the class who always carried books with him—nicknamed the Walking Encyclopedia—took out an especially thick volume, his face full of shock.

”Hundred Flavors Mushroom? I think I’ve heard of that. Isn’t it that legendary ultimate delicacy of the human world? The one where eating it is like tasting the most delicious thing in the world?” someone asked in astonishment.

Everyone’s gazes toward the pile of mushrooms instantly turned fervent.

Delicious ingredients plus a pair of skillful hands—just imagining the taste was enough to make a person obsessed!

”It’s that good? Then I’m taking some back!”

”I’m grabbing some too. Can’t let it go to waste!”

”Use our cloaks to carry them!”

”Okay!”

”Hundred Flavors Mushroom: it uses the brain matter of a human corpse as its base, the flesh as nutrients, the blood...” The boy swallowed and continued reading.

Word by word it sounded very normal, but the group who had been all fired up just moments ago froze in place. The mushrooms they had been stuffing into their hands and onto their bodies fell to the ground, their faces full of disbelief.

”A single corpse can only produce one mushroom.”

”Hundred Flavors Mushroom does not rot or decay; it remains the same for a thousand years.”

”Hallucinogenic Poison.”

He read out each phrase, and everyone was left utterly stunned.

One corpse could only grow one mushroom? But there were hundreds, thousands here!

Did that mean the academy’s back mountain was basically piled with corpses?

”Where did you find these?” He Wenyu froze, quickly put away ten caps, and placed them into a small box for safekeeping. This thing couldn’t be eaten, but maybe Mo could refine it into something...

The corpse that grew the Hundred Flavors Mushroom wouldn’t rot; only after the mushroom finished growing would it turn into a pile of bones.

So then...

The fact that no one had found this stuff before meant it had only just finished growing?

Or... had these people gone somewhere forbidden, somewhere they weren’t supposed to go? A place the academy specifically used to cultivate this stuff?

Either way, just thinking about it was enough to give you chills!

The existence of so many remains was really not something you could just pretend you didn’t know about.

”Right over there, under the tree where we found the Number One Token. There was a whole pile, so we picked them all.”

Seeing He Wenyu’s expression turn serious, the group from Yellow Class felt a wave of utter despair.

If they’d known it was this horrifying, they never would have picked them!

”Pile them up and burn them. Just having this crap around is disgusting.” Di Jun’s face was full of revulsion. Even though he loved gourmet food, eating mushrooms that grew out of human corpses... he wasn’t a freak, okay? How could he possibly choke that down? No matter how heavenly the flavor, he’d be traumatized for life!

And from now on, he was absolutely, definitely refusing to eat mushrooms ever again!