Lu An lay on the bed, looking at Gao Dashan, who seemed so happy he was about to cry, and then looked around to see quite a few people gathered around him.
"Where is this?" Lu An sat up, only to find that his originally sore body was completely healed, though his head felt dizzy. He rubbed his head and asked.
"This is the infirmary!" Gao Dashan quickly helped Lu An, as if Lu An could fall at any moment, and said, "Just now your face was red one moment and white the next, and your body was hot then cold. We called you, but you didn't respond at all. You scared us to death!"
Lu An was stunned, then realized that it was the reaction from him using Mystic Deep Cold Ice and Nine Heavens Holy Fire. It wasn't a dream after all, but something that truly happened.
"How did you know something happened to me?" Lu An rubbed his head, and after clearing up a bit, asked, "Wasn't I in my dorm?"
"You still ask? We were planning to find you in the evening to discuss going to the Hunter Alliance to earn money. Fu Yu opened the door, and when we called you in front of your room, there was no sound. That's when we found you had fainted!" Gao Dashan said with lingering fear, "If we hadn't brought you here in time, you might have lost your life! How do you feel now?"
"Thank you, Brother Gao, I'm fine." Seeing Gao Dashan's anxious expression, Lu An felt a warmth in his heart and said with a smile.
"Thank me for what!" Gao Dashan shook his head and said loudly, "Yesterday, you stood up for me. I haven't even thanked you yet. This is what true brothers are for!"
"Since we are true brothers, neither of us needs to thank the other," Lu An said with a smile, then turned his head around and quickly found a figure sitting in the corner.
As Lu An got up from the bed, Gao Dashan, still afraid he would fall, helped him. Lu An walked to the corner and said, "You came too."
Fu Yu looked up, her beautiful eyes glancing at Lu An, and said indifferently, "I told them you were fine, but they insisted on coming."
As soon as she said this, Gao Dashan and the others immediately blushed. At this moment, the returning doctor, seeing that Lu An was already up, simply asked a few questions and then let Lu An and the others leave.
It was already eight o'clock in the evening, and there were still many students on the road. Some students were chatting and strolling, while others were practicing Heavenly Origin, which made Gao Dashan and the others keep looking.
Fu Yu returned to her dorm first, while Lu An walked with Gao Dashan and the others. Suddenly, Gao Dashan turned to Lu An and said, "Lu Brother, let's go to the Hunter Alliance!"
Lu An was startled at the words, then thought about it and said, "I also heard from Fu Yu about the Hunter Alliance, but she thinks we aren't even First-Level Sky Realm yet, so we won't be able to catch Strange Beasts if we go."
"That's true, but we can be assistants!" Gao Dashan quickly said, "None of the students in our academy have reached First-Level Celestial Master, which means many people are needed to encircle a Strange Beast. We can help set up traps and assist others, and then we can get a share of the money!"
"Is that so?" Lu An slowly nodded at the words, thinking that he was short on money anyway, and said, "Okay, then let's go to the Hunter Alliance to check it out!"
"Let's go! The Hunter Alliance hasn't closed yet, hurry up and go!" Seeing Lu An agree, Gao Dashan said excitedly.
Then, a group of people quickly rushed towards the Hunter Alliance. After all, they were all children from poor families, and at this age, it was no longer possible for their families to provide financial support.
Arriving at the Hunter Alliance, seven or eight people stopped. They looked up at the three-story building, which looked extremely simple from the outside, but gave off a strong sense of bloodiness from afar.
It was as if this was a butcher's den.
"Gulp." Li Dongshi swallowed, then whispered, "The smell of blood here is so strong."
Lu An and Gao Dashan also nodded. Lu An then said, "Let's go in and take a look."
After speaking, just as the few of them were about to continue walking forward, they suddenly saw a group of people appearing in the distance. Four of them were carrying a Strange Beast that looked like a rhinoceros, walking quickly towards the Hunter Alliance!
"Zhenggang, you brought back another Strange Beast?" Someone at the entrance recognized the person walking in front and shouted loudly.
The person called heard someone talking to him and laughed three times, patted the hide of the Strange Beast, and said, "Yes, it took me several days to kill this Strange Beast!"
"When you make money, you have to treat me to a drink!"
"Don't worry! You'll get your share!"
Lu An and the others watched as a group of people carried the Strange Beast into the Hunter Alliance, and couldn't help but ask, "Are they the people from the Alliance?"
"Yes!" Gao Dashan nodded, thoughtfully saying, "When I inquired about the Hunter Alliance before, I heard someone mention a person named Wang Zhenggang. He's a fourth-year student at this school, already a Level 9 Heavenly Being, and almost a First-Level Celestial Master. He's like a big brother in the Hunter Alliance, very experienced in hunting Strange Beasts, but..."
"But what?" Lu An asked.
Gao Dashan glanced at Lu An and whispered, "However, I heard that this person has character issues."
Lu An's brows furrowed at this, and he asked, "How so?"
"Don't let his seemingly generous appearance fool you; he's actually very stingy! Every time he hunts a Strange Beast, he takes the lion's share of the money, giving very little to others. If he encounters a rebirth crystal core he likes, he even keeps it for himself, and others get nothing, working for nothing!" Gao Dashan frowned, saying with some disdain, "I also heard that this person has a very bad temper. Anyone who provokes him even a little will get a beating. He's considered a bully in the academy, and everyone avoids him."
Saying that, Gao Dashan thought for a moment and said, "How about we come another day?"
"Why?" Lu An's brows tightened, and he asked, "Just because he's here?"
"Yes! We don't want to do something wrong and provoke him. We might not be able to handle it!" Gao Dashan said with some worry.
Lu An's brows furrowed even more. Looking at his somewhat scared friends beside him, he took a deep breath and said, "No matter how strong he is, he's not a Celestial Master, but a Level 9 Heavenly Being. We want to become hunters, and we'll be facing real First-Level Strange Beasts. If we're even afraid of him, how can we go hunting? We might as well just go back now!"
Hearing Lu An's somewhat angry words, Gao Dashan was a bit stunned. He was used to being poor, and always felt a bit timid when facing fierce-looking people. But looking at Lu An's determined eyes, he also took a deep breath!
"Lu Brother is right!" Gao Dashan said loudly, "If we're afraid of everything, what's the point of talking about turning our lives around and changing our destiny!"
"Exactly!" The others also said one after another.
"Let's go." Lu An glanced at the others and took the lead, striding towards the Hunter Alliance. Seeing this, the others quickly followed.
When the group entered the Hunter Alliance, they found that the inside of the building was much larger than it appeared from the outside. Although it was already night, there were still many people inside. At the front, there was a long counter, behind which five people stood, receiving every person who came.
The Strange Beast that Wang Zhenggang had brought earlier was placed on a shelf nearby, with several middle-aged men gathered around the Strange Beast, examining it continuously, occasionally conversing with Wang Zhenggang.
"They are looking at the grade of the Strange Beast," Gao Dashan said, seeing Lu An looking around as he walked, and explained, "Although they are all First-Level Strange Beasts, there are also high and low grades, and the price difference is significant."
Lu An nodded at the words, looking at the dead Strange Beast with a slight frown, and soon came before the receptionist.
Lu An carefully observed the girl in front of him. She looked very young, perhaps seventeen or eighteen years old, and was likely a student. She was very pretty, but even though they clearly knew a group of people had arrived, she didn't even lift her head, as if she hadn't seen them.
"Hello, we'd like to join the Hunter Alliance." Lu An frowned slightly and spoke.
Finally, the girl looked up at them and casually asked, "What Level Sky Realm are you all?"
The few of them were startled, looked at each other, and expressions of embarrassment appeared on their faces. Lu An also felt a bit awkward, cleared his throat lightly, and said, "We just enrolled, and we want to come here to do some odd jobs, to be assistants."
"So, you're not even First-Level Sky Realm?" The woman glanced at them, and the disdain in her voice was audible to everyone. She said, "If you're not First-Level Sky Realm, you don't even qualify to register. If you want to join the Hunter Alliance, wait outside. Whichever team takes a liking to you will naturally let you be an assistant."