200 It wasnt my faul (1/2)

Ren Xiaosu said with a smile, ”Your teacher just wants y'all to study hard so you can work in research or similar fields in the future. Wouldn't that be better?”

A student said, ”But we can't always depend on others.”

Ren Xiaosu glanced at Jiang Wu. ”Alright, I'll teach y'all tomorrow.”

”Thank you,” the students said earnestly.

With this wave of thanks, he received another 20-odd gratitude tokens. Ren Xiaosu suddenly felt that his decision to bring these students along was one of the wisest decisions he had ever made!

Meanwhile, someone among the escapees asked in a soft voice, ”Why don't we go and apologize to them?”

”How would that help?” someone wondered.

A middle-aged woman said, ”If so many of us apologize to him, what more could he ask for?”

But in the end, still no one dared to say anything to Ren Xiaosu and company. They did not even have the courage to apologize.

However, the other escapees who were not involved in the attempts to take the rabbit for their own also kept a distance from the group that did. They feared they would end up becoming collateral damage if those people got punished later. But only a minority of the escapees were not involved, and they probably only made up 20% of the entire group. At that time, they maintained their rationality and stuck to their morals.

As it turned out, they were right. Although Ren Xiaosu had killed the perpetrators, he was still a little angry about the incident. In the middle of the night, he was still thinking about whether he should open up some Shadow Doors and drop snowballs over the campfires of those escapees to extinguish them.

However, the person whose fundamental values were rocked most was actually not Jiang Wu and her students, but Chen Wudi.

While divvying up the meat, Chen Wudi kept hold of a small stick as he sat on the edge of the campfire.

When Ren Xiaosu handed him some meat, he asked, ”What's the matter?”

Chen Wudi thought for a little and said, ”That group of people felt like a cloud of darkness trying to devour me.”

The long-awaited palace finally spoke at this time. ”Quest: Help Chen Wudi stabilize his mental state.”

In fact, even if the palace did not say anything, Ren Xiaosu would still do it. However, the palace probably also recognized Chen Wudi's current state of mind and did not want him to be defeated by reality. Therefore, it assigned Ren Xiaosu a quest to help him.

But wasn't there something wrong with how the palace had phrased its words? By stabilizing his mental state… did it mean that it did not wish for Chen Wudi to get better?!

Ren Xiaosu thought for a long while before saying, ”Humans are always being attacked by reality and the ugliness of their own species. Everyone will slowly begin to think that everything is meaningless. When that happens, they try to seek the light in the dark.”

Chen Wudi was somewhat confused. ”Master, what's wrong with this world?”

This time, Ren Xiaosu said in a serious tone, ”But, Wudi, try to think about it differently. If you constantly feel that you're devoured by the darkness, wouldn't it mean that you are that light?”

Chen Wudi's eyes lit up. ”Is that true, Master?”

”Yes.”

”Quest complete. Awarded 1.0 Strength.”

Currently, Ren Xiaosu's physical attributes reached 9.5 Strength and 6.1 Dexterity. He was still unable to accurately gauge how strong his punches were, but it became an even more terrifying power when they were amplified through his shadow clone.

However, Ren Xiaosu did not wish to gain any further Strength right now. He preferred having a few Basic Skill Duplication Scrolls so he could learn other people's cycling.

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When the sky turned bright, Ren Xiaosu's group quickly packed up and prepared to set off. They had followed the large group of escapees because they were afraid of the wolves. But now that Ren Xiaosu realized the wolves were not going to attack them, he decided to speed up their journey. The earlier they could locate a new human settlement, the easier it would be for them to determine which direction Stronghold 88 was and readjust their route.

Ren Xiaosu did not intend to enter a new stronghold yet. He only wanted to ask around for directions in the town outside the stronghold so they could avoid getting into any conflict with the authority of the stronghold.