The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

437: Failure and Conclusion

“Deadweight.” Bowen didn’t even bother looking at Camille.

None of the boys looked kindly upon her.
Camille had nearly killed the team because of her rash behavior.

There were four girls on the team.
Anma was a pharmacist, so her role was clear-cut.
Sandy didn’t have any special skills but she was sensible.

Amongst the girls, even though she was only a second year, Feng Wu was the most useful.
She could understand animals and could distinguish between poisonous and nonpoisonous plants and because she was in the Sword division, had combat abilities.
Plus, she was well-behaved and didn’t cause trouble.

Camille, despite having no abilities, made trouble every day and constantly tried to isolate Feng Wu from the group.
Moron was the best word to describe her.

It was like she was a professional dead weight.

Anma didn’t like Camille either, but as a pharmacy student, she couldn’t ignore a person in distress, so she walked over to inspect the deep scratch on Camille’s body.

Anma’s heart froze at the sight.
Camille’s scratch had turned black.
This was not good.

“She’s been poisoned!” Anma cried out.

“Poisoned?!” The exclamation came from multiple people in the group.

It wasn’t that they cared about Camille; it was just that the rules of the challenge meant if one person died, then the whole group lost.
It was no joke.

“Is there a way to detoxify the wound?” Ober frowned.

“I can give it a try, but I don’t have much hope.
The toxin is so strange and I don’t have my tools with me, so I can’t analyze the components of the poison.” Anma didn’t have high hopes for detoxification.

There were many of types detoxification compounds available in the outside world, but in the virtual world, they had to formulate their own.
To complicate matters, their current location was full of mutated plants.

Anma couldn’t tell if any of them had medicinal properties.
And even if they did, there was still the question of how strong the properties were.
Refining medicinal herbs into a compound wasn’t just a matter of putting herbs to fire; knowing the medicinal properties of each herb and how potent said properties were was also very important.

Only by knowing these things could refinement be successful.

The place they were at was filled with mutated plants.
Anma couldn’t tell what their components were so there was no way for her to successfully refine a detoxification compound out of them for Camille.

Though Anma couldn’t create a compound, she could still make a tincture.
She walked around and collected several herbs then borrowed Feng Wu’s big iron pot to brew it.

The luminosity in Feng Wu’s eyes returned after she blinked a few times.
The others in the group were ashen and glaring at Camille as though they wanted to kill her.

Camille smiled bitterly while avoiding everyone’s eyes.
They looked like they wanted to tear her apart.
But they couldn’t really fault her for failing the challenge.
She was an innocent party too! It wasn’t like she wanted to be scratched by the monsters in the village.

Five minutes earlier. . . 

“It looks like Ober and his team are facing a crisis.
Camille is showing signs of being poisoned from the attack from the unknown creature.
Fortunately fourth-year genius Anma is on their team! The poison shouldn’t be a big problem for them. . . ?” Tamansha’s voice came out through the speakers.

Presently. . . 

The screen showed Anma boiling a tincture after the team rescued Camille.

Camille was frowning as though she was in pain.

“You are incorrect.
The challenge ended the moment one of their team members became injured.” The vice president said.

“Is there some kind of secret? I believe viewers would like to know what kind of difficulties the school has set up to test the contestants in this village.”

“Yes, the monsters in the village were originally villagers who lived there.
The background story for this field is that of a kingdom destroyed by some unknown virus.

The virus, much like the plague, is extremely dangerous.
Anyone infected will become a brainless walking dead controlled by the virus.

Let’s call these people zombies.
Their consciousness disappears and only the desire for human flesh and blood remains.

Zombies carry a high virus load.
Anyone scratched by one will immediately become infected and will gradually become a zombie themselves.
The antidote for the zombie virus does not exist in this world, so when Camille was scratched, the team’s exit was a foregone conclusion.”

The audience understood the insidious trap awaiting the contestants in the village once the vice principal explained it.

Those not participating were truly glad in their hearts, otherwise if they had participated, they would have been scratched by those monsters and died a disgusting death.

Sure enough, not long after the vice principal finished speaking, a clear scream sounded from the screen.
Sandy, who had been taking care of Camille, had been bitten! Camille had turned into a zombie, and craving human flesh, had bitten Sandy! Sandy only had time to scream before the system declared her dead.

A voice sounded above Ober’s team.
“Two members of your team are dead.
You’ve lost the challenge.”

Ober and the rest of the team were sent out of the arena immediately.

They lost! They actually lost!

No one in the team could believe it, but in the blink of an eye, their challenge was over.
They had wanted to get the slots for Star Marshall hall, however losing the challenge meant their chances were gone.
It was a huge blow to Ober and the others.

Camille exited the virtual world as fast she could, not daring to meet anyone’s gaze.
The group could not reconcile with the results, but it wasn’t like they could hunt her down at school.
The best they could do was to engrave her name in their hearts.

Sandy was especially bitter and hated Camille the most.
Being bitten to death, it was a feeling she would hold onto for a long time.
She was never going to forgive Camille for giving her such a terrible and terrifying memory.