Chapter Eighty Before Departure

  The receptionist finally discovered the current situation, and apologetically glanced at Huo Hai. After repeatedly confirming that Huo Hai really wanted to complete these tasks, he reluctantly helped with the registration.

  I really don't know why this guy has such great confidence. Others can't see it, but as a receptionist, she can clearly see from Huo Hai's card that he is a new student who just joined this year. Such a newcomer absolutely doesn't have a large network of connections. It's said that there's a powerful organization working together to complete the task, but that's simply not convincing.

  Fortunately, most of the dangerous missions that Haoke accepted were long-term tasks. Such tasks do not need to be registered and bound on the card. Even if they cannot be completed, they will not deduct contributions from the college.

  The receptionist's business level was still very high, and soon helped Holden complete the registration. Taking back his card, Holden covered his hat and quickly walked out. He didn't want to become a monkey for people to watch.

  "Haha, that kid actually took it. I thought he wouldn't dare to, but it turns out he's so concerned about saving face. We can't even see what he looks like, is it necessary to go this far?" A voice rose from the crowd.

  The skinny guy sneered and said, "Hmph, even if he does take on the task, it's not like he'll definitely complete it. Once he realizes how dangerous it is, he'll naturally give up. You think everyone is an idiot who would risk their lives just to save face?" The skinny guy coldly laughed to himself, having seen people like this many times before. They'd take on a task just to save face, only to cancel it afterwards.

  "What if he really did it?" The big man who had just spoken rubbed his head and said with a somewhat silly expression.

  The disdain in the thin man's eyes grew thicker: "If you really did it, then I'll give you an academy point. How about it, want to make a bet? If you lose, you'll give me ten academy points." The thin man suddenly thought of a good method.

  This time it was easy to find, and it immediately resonated with everyone. There aren't many secrets in the college anyway. It's not bad that we can start a betting pool now. Gradually, the thin guy regretted it, because more and more people participated in the betting pool, and he reluctantly became the banker. However, even though he lowered the odds very low, there were still many people coming to place bets, most of whom were betting on Huo Hai not finishing.

  If things go on like this, won't he really lose? The time is just two months later. Within two months, if no one comes to hand over these tasks, he will have to pay a large sum of college credits. Enough to empty the family's savings.

  The poor skinny guy, under the sympathetic gaze of everyone, held his ID card with these points on it, and wondered how many more he would have to give out later. At this time, Huo Hai had already left here and began to consider the task at hand.

  In everyone's eyes, the blood-red dragonfly that was least likely to succeed turned out to be the easiest. Although the blood-red dragonfly is fast, in essence, it is only a spiritual realm, close to the spiritual blood realm of insects and beasts. When facing its own Gu insect, there is not even a hint of resistance. Its own Gu insect can easily use the suppression between insects, making them unable to move.

  It's just unknown whether these blood-red dragonflies have any special abilities, and whether it's worth controlling them.

  Dragonfly, this thing, is something that very few people use to refine Gu. Moreover, due to the limitations of Huo Hai's spiritual power intensity, the insects that Huo Hai can completely control are actually not many. The stronger one's strength, the fewer they can control.

  This is far inferior to a true Bug Master, but in terms of subtle control over insects and their evolution, I have an unparalleled advantage. To control a large number of insects, one can only rely on the control method used by Star Worms. First, refine the insects, then use a single king insect to indirectly control them.

  In fact, these star worms are not directly controlled by Huo Hai. Huo Hai doesn't have such strong spiritual power.

  So, every time Huo Hai controls the insects, he needs to be meticulous and can't waste any quota. Only truly useful insects can be controlled. Especially those that can continuously upgrade, need to be even more careful.

  Xiao Xing and Xiao Jin's transformation, allowing them to reach the Spiritual Bone Realm, had consumed a considerable amount of spiritual energy. Huo Hai roughly calculated that with his current level of spiritual energy intensity, he could control at most five insects in the Spiritual Bone Realm, which was the limit.

  Three-eyed toad, Huo Hai wasn't worried about it either. In the eyes of their refining masters, this thing was also an important material for refining. This thing, from their point of view, was actually a special kind of insect.

  Although I don't know if my Gu insect can suppress it. However, this thing itself is not very powerful and can be easily solved with the Star Gu. The Strangling Deer's strength is very strong and is not easy to deal with. I don't know if the Star Gu can quickly kill it. As long as Hao Hai is careful and doesn't provoke the Lingzhe boundary's Strangling Deer, he'll be fine. Even if they meet, isn't there still Xiao Jin?

  What's most troublesome for Huo is actually the Dryad Turtle. This thing doesn't have much attacking power, and its crawling speed is also very slow, but its defense is just too strong. Moreover, it's seamless, even Star Worms find it hard to discover a weak spot to attack.

  If it's nibbled away bit by bit from the outside, and senses danger, the Dry Land Turtle will directly initiate self-destruction. At that time, not a single turtle pearl can be obtained. The turtle pearls in this world are not like those so-called turtle pearls on Earth.

  Before finding a good way, it's not easy to deal with the drought turtle. Shaking his head, Huo Hai muttered to himself: "Forget it, I still have to go to Miga Mountain and prepare many things. Don't think about these for now."

  As he spoke, Huo Hai endured a family store and then walked in. Camping outdoors, the most important thing is where to live, and also need to prevent beasts and insects from disturbing. As for insects, Huo Hai was not worried because he was an insect expert himself. But beasts and spiritual beasts were different, he needed to buy some things.

  For example, using the powder made from the high-level spiritual beast's discrimination, as long as some are sprinkled on it, there will be no spiritual beasts coming to disturb at night. This is a normal situation, special situations excluded. There are also food problems and tent problems.

  All these need to be resolved, and Hao Hai has just come out in a hurry, directly taking on the task. These things, he had not prepared before, and he also forgot to ask the butler to help prepare them. Now, he can only go to the store himself to buy them.

  The Imperial City Academy has a lot of people going out on missions. So this kind of thing is very common. Especially with the arrival of new students this year, many shops have prepared a lot of outdoor equipment sets.

  Huo Hai walked into the store, expressed his intentions, and the clerk quickly introduced him to a set of equipment. Including tents, there were many things needed for outdoor activities in the wilderness. As for weapons, he had to prepare them himself. This place was different from Earth, where various weapons were not regulated at all. As long as you had enough spirit stones, you could get any weapon you wanted.

  After some thought, I still have a Xuan-level dagger in my hand. After the last trial, this dagger was given to me. With this dagger, it's already enough. There is also a sharp Dog King bone on my body, which can also be used as a weapon.

  "It's almost done, just like that. Ah, right, I also need a map, to believe in some things." Ho Hai spoke again.

  This store had everything one could possibly need, and the map was quickly brought over by a shop assistant. For just one point, Hao Hai obtained a complete set of detailed maps, including the area around the academy and even most of the Nan Yun Kingdom.

  This map is an adventure map, it's the most complete and detailed map that can be purchased. More detailed ones are only available to the royal family. Many military secrets are not allowed to be marked on this kind of ordinary map.

  "Sir, I don't know if you need dry rations or not. Our store has various flavors of dry rations, guaranteed to not make you feel uncomfortable."

  Huo Hai was taken aback: "You still sell dry rations here." This store looks like a clothing store, but it's already unusual that they have outdoor camping equipment, and now they even have dry rations. Is this a professional clothing store or a department store? How can you find everything here? Huo Hai really couldn't figure out what was going on.

  "Of course, sir, you must be joking. All the shops sell dry rations, don't you know that?" This is common knowledge, not just in the academy, but throughout the entire Southern Cloud Kingdom, and even the entire continent.

  Huo Hai finally remembered that he was being disturbed by the memories of Earth again. There wasn't such a clear division of labor here as there was on Earth. The Tianling Continent was a continent where cultivation was the main focus, and commerce was actually not developed at all.

  "Alright, then prepare some for me. First, prepare a month's worth of rations." Huo Hai didn't know how long he would need either. "By the way, do you have anything here to preserve Ling Beast organs?"

  Huo Hai learned quickly and started asking directly, wondering if this thing could only be bought in a specialized store.

  "Save the organs, need to keep them fresh? No problem, we have a special potion here that can keep the spiritual beast's organs fresh for a year. As long as it's not intentionally damaged, it'll be fine if you just keep it in the potion. If sealed and stored properly, the preservation time will be even longer." The task of collecting organs is also not small, these shops have this kind of business too.

  However, these collector's items are relatively expensive. Huo Hai spent over a hundred college credits to buy more than a dozen bottles. The bottles were very large and still needed to be diluted with water.

  These were not specific requirements, but Chuyuntian, who had been on Earth before, would not believe these. He still habitually bought some utensils and planned to go home to make some distilled water. Only if there were no bacteria or other microorganisms inside could he possibly let Hohai use it with peace of mind. He didn't want to waste his precious time.