113: Chapter 113 seems to have ultimately selected only campus beauties.

Li Murou stretched out a finger, tsking in wonder:

"However, I have to say, Captain Chen, your eye is truly vicious. That red-haired girl, although she was covered in dirt earlier, if you look closely at her features, she is a top-tier wild beauty! Especially that figure... tsk tsk."

Su Xiaoxiao, who was beside them, didn't speak, but she pursed her lips.

There was a hint of imperceptible teasing in her eyes.

Chen Xi gave Li Murou a helpless glance and smiled bitterly:

"Where are your thoughts wandering? Am I that kind of person?"

"I never choose people based on their looks, but based on their strength, potential, and whether they are suitable for our team."

Speaking of this, Chen Xi paused.

The appearance of several people instantly flashed through his mind.

Li Murou's collagen-filled face, Su Xiaoxiao's cold and stunning countenance.

Thinking again of that red-haired, fiery Ye Fei from just now...

He rubbed his nose and added with a bit of a guilty conscience:

"Although... for some reason, it seems the ones finally chosen really are all school-belle level characters."

"Pfft—!"

Su Xiaoxiao finally couldn't hold it back and covered her mouth with a light laugh.

"Alright, alright, no more joking."

Li Murou restrained her smile and asked seriously:

"However, Captain Chen, what special talent does that girl named Ye Fei actually have? Is she worth you actively poaching her?"

"Is she very strong?"

In Li Murou's view, Nirvana Battle Team's current configuration is already top-tier.

If they want to add someone, it must be a genius who can keep up with their rhythm.

Chen Xi was silent for a moment.

Then, after carefully considering his wording, he spoke indifferently:

"She is not strong, at least in terms of current combat power, she is far inferior to you all."

"However, she possesses an extremely special trait. This trait can help us better complete the upcoming Outside the Border training mission."

Chen Xi's gaze turned to the distant pitch-black night sky, his voice low:

"In places Outside the Border where ferocious beasts run rampant, bringing her along will definitely increase our survival rate and mission efficiency by a large margin."

Hearing such high praise from their captain, Su Xiaoxiao and Li Murou both showed surprised expressions.

Su Xiaoxiao frowned and said softly:

"But... Captain Chen, I saw the mark on her wristband; she already has a team."

"Us poaching someone directly to their face like this is ultimately stealing from another team; won't it be bad? After all, we are all classmates; we'll see each other often in the future. Will her original teammates have objections?"

Although this world respects the strong, deep down, Su Xiaoxiao still retains that basic moral bottom line.

Chen Xi nodded, indicating he understood:

"I understand your concerns."

"So I only gave her an opportunity to choose, and did not force her to join immediately."

"Everything depends on her own wishes."

As he spoke, Chen Xi shifted the topic:

"However... my sixth sense tells me... she probably hasn't been having a good time in her original team."

...

Girls' dormitory building.

Compared to the hustle and bustle outside, the dormitory appeared exceptionally deserted.

Ye Fei pushed open the door and leaned against the door panel, somewhat exhausted.

Then she slowly slid down and sat on the cold floor.

She raised her wrist, and the screen of the cheap white smart wristband lit up, with a conspicuous notification quietly floating there:

【Chen Xi requests to add you as a friend (Accepted)】

She stared at this name, lost in thought for a long time.

"Chen Xi... Nirvana Battle Team... Freshman Challenge Tournament champion..."

Ye Fei muttered to herself, feeling that all of this was real to the point of being absurd.

"Come out, Little Si."

With a thought, a faint light of summoning appeared in her palm.

"Whimper..."

Following a weak whimper, a small, jet-black puppy appeared out of thin air on the floor.

At this moment, Little Si's state was miserable to the extreme.

There was a claw mark on its back deep enough to see bone, with the flesh turned outward; it was torn by the sharp claws of a Flame Lizard.

Although the bleeding had stopped, the residual fire poison in the wound made it twitch in pain.

"I'm sorry, Little Si... It's because I'm useless."

Ye Fei's eyes reddened, and she gently stroked Little Si's wound with her hand.

"Woof..."

Little Si stuck out its tongue and licked its master's palm with some effort, seemingly comforting her.

"Looking at you like this, without a month or two of rest, the injury will be hard to heal."

Ye Fei sighed, a sense of powerlessness surging like a tide in her heart.

As a Beast Tamer, her summoned beast is half her life.

Little Si's serious injury meant that for a long time to come, she had almost lost her combat power.

"You say... why would that Chen Xi suddenly invite us to join his team?"

Ye Fei hugged Little Si in her arms and muttered to herself:

"He is the champion of the Freshman Challenge Tournament, a prominent figure in the entire school, and even the Minister of the Military Department personally presented him with the award. And what about me?"

She smiled bitterly and opened her own team interface.

On the interface, the information for the battle team named "Wild Grass" appeared exceptionally glaring.

【Team Members: 3/5】

【Captain: None (Original captain has withdrawn)】

"Can he even look favorably upon someone from a garbage team like ours that is falling apart?"

Just this afternoon.

When Nirvana Battle Team won the championship, and someone exposed that Nirvana only had three members and still had two vacancies.

The entire freshman year went crazy.

Countless people, for the sake of that so-called opportunity to cling to a powerful thigh, chose to withdraw from their teams on the spot.

The "Wild Grass Battle Team" where Ye Fei was located was no exception.

Her original captain withdrew from the team immediately, without even saying a word of greeting, and went to send an application to Chen Xi.

Following that, the main mage in the team also ran off.

The original five-person team instantly only had her, the useless Beast Tamer, left.

And two other teammates with equally mediocre aptitude.

"How ironic..."

Ye Fei recalled the scene that had just happened in the Trial Grounds.

At that time, when the beast horde attacked, she had originally intended to go check the situation with her only two remaining teammates, to see if the three of them could find some dungeon to grind.

As a result, the appearance of the Flame Lizard was unexpected, and its high damage instantly crushed their fragile defensive line.

Those two teammates were seriously injured and unconscious on the spot; if it weren't for the rescue teacher arriving in time, they would likely already be corpses.

And she herself, in order to protect her teammates, could only let Little Si go up to take the hit.

As a result, Little Si was killed in one hit.

Just when Ye Fei thought she was also going to die on the spot, and had even closed her eyes waiting for death...

A strange scene occurred.

The two Flame Lizards, which were originally incomparably ferocious, at the moment they lunged in front of her, actually stopped their actions abruptly.

They looked at her, and there was no murderous intent in their eyes, only... fear?

Then, they turned their heads and ran away.

"Why didn't the ferocious beasts attack me?"