Chapter 238: I Participate

"Nothing in particular I want to sign up for. We'll see when the time comes — wherever they're short on people, I'll fill in." Qiao Sang asked casually, "What about you? Which event do you want to enter?"

Although Jin Feifan wasn't a poor student, as one of the few specially-recruited students in the class, she was bound to be on the list for the sports meet.

"I want to compete in shuttlecock kicking." Jin Feifan said, embarrassed.

"That event is simple, and your pet beast just happens to be a Little Ball Cattail — feels like a sure win." Qiao Sang said with a smile.

In shuttlecock kicking, pet beasts can't use skills, but they can use their head, feet, and other body parts to receive the shuttlecock — upper limbs excluded. A grass-type pet beast's vine whip also counts as part of its body, so under the rules it can be used to receive the shuttlecock.

Generally speaking, grass-type pet beasts have a very high chance of winning this event.

The first period was the homeroom teacher's.

When class time came, Li Yi walked in, and beside him followed a Gravity Monkey carrying a box of school uniforms in its arms.

The school uniforms were distributed one by one.

Looking at the school uniform in her hands, Qiao Sang couldn't help feeling emotional — whatever else could be said about beast-taming society, the efficiency was truly fast.

In her previous life, new students would submit their sizes at the start of school, and normally it would take half a month before the uniforms were handed out. But now, less than five days in, they already had them.

During class, Li Yi sped up the lecture content, teaching at double speed, and everyone listened without any effort.

Everyone except Qiao Sang......

Qiao Sang was scribbling furiously taking notes, wishing she could grow two more hands.

Although her memory had improved considerably, in a class full of academic gods, she couldn't afford not to work hard!

By the time the lesson content was finished, there was still most of the class period left.

Li Yi clapped his hands and said, "For the remaining time, let's continue yesterday's topic. The school's sports meet will be held on September 29th. This will also be the first sports meet you all participate in."

"Although our class is公认 the top in the entire grade academically, I hope our students develop in an all-round way — morally, intellectually, physically, and aesthetically — and can achieve impressive results at the sports meet as well. I know the students in our class absolutely have that ability!"

While speaking, the homeroom teacher looked straight ahead. It seemed to be addressed to the whole class, but anyone with eyes could tell these pleasantries had been said just yesterday, and saying them again today was clearly directed at Qiao Sang.

Qiao Sang had no particular reaction, still burying her head in reviewing the notes she had just finished to reinforce her memory.

Li Yi glanced sideways and continued, "Students, in response to the call, today I solemnly promise you all — as long as we get first place, from now on the PE teacher will absolutely never fall ill!"

The classroom erupted in laughter.

Jin Feifan muttered in a low voice, "Don't all homeroom teachers love this routine? My middle school homeroom teacher said the same thing, but in the end the PE teacher was still sickly and kept taking leave. I basically didn't see him at all during my entire third year of middle school."

Qiao Sang looked up and asked, "Did your class get first place at the sports meet back then?"

Jin Feifan was stunned for a moment. "We got fourth."

"Then you can't really blame your middle school homeroom teacher." Qiao Sang said with a smile.

Jin Feifan: "......"

Soon the selection环节 entered the main topic.

"First, the first event — the 400-meter hurdle sprint. Anyone want to participate?" Li Yi asked, looking around.

The hurdle sprint is an event completed jointly by the beast tamer and the pet beast. The pet beast wears a sensing device on its head, while the beast tamer wears an electronic visual device at the starting point.

There won't be actual hurdles placed on the track, but they will be displayed in the beast tamer's electronic visual device.

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When the pet beast is about to reach the position of the hurdle, the beast tamer has to jump forcefully on the spot, and the sensing device will let the pet beast sense its tamer's movement.

At that point the pet beast has to jump, because the hurdle will suddenly rise up from the ground.

The hurdle sprint tests the pet beast's speed, reaction ability, and the tacit understanding and trust between it and the beast tamer. For first-year high school students who have just become beast tamers, the difficulty is considerable.

Even so, plenty of people still raised their hands to sign up.

They were all people who had just become beast tamers, at the height of their ambition — all the more so as students of the Taming Burden class of the city's number one beast-taming high school.

The sign-up proceeded fairly smoothly. Fifteen minutes later.

Li Yi looked at the sign-up sheet in his hand and coughed. "Everyone quiet down. There are still three events with no participants — bare-handed brick-splitting, swimming relay, and aerial rings. Is anyone willing to give them a try?"

Almost the entire class, intentionally or not, glanced in Qiao Sang's direction.

"Qiao Sang, aren't you signing up?" a classmate sitting in front turned and asked in a low voice.

The corner of Qiao Sang's mouth twitched. She said, "These events don't really seem to suit me."

She had originally planned to fill in wherever there was a shortage, but who would have thought these three would be the ones left.

Bare-handed brick-splitting is the exclusive event for fighting-type pet beasts. Those who participate are basically all fighting-type pet beasts; pet beasts of other attributes going in would just be cannon fodder.

The swimming relay is an event completed jointly by water-type pet beasts and beast tamers. Although her third pet beast had already been pre-booked as a Yulu Yana, it hadn't been contracted yet after all, and she didn't dare guarantee that her Beast Taming Tome would have a third page before the sports meet sign-up.

Aerial rings is the choice of flying-type pet beasts. It doesn't actually stipulate that it must be a flying-type pet beast, but flying-type pet beasts have a tremendous advantage in this event.

The pet beasts have to snatch rings floating in the air. Whoever hooks the ring onto the hook of the target object below first wins.

Rings are replenished in time, and the remaining pet beasts continue to compete, ranking in order.

During the event, wind-generating devices will create wind interference. The rules prohibit using skills on competing pet beasts, but skills may be used on the rings.

Psychic-type skills are excepted.

Skills can also be used to accelerate in the air.

Teleportation is excepted.

What's even the point of playing!

Qiao Sang practically suspected these rules were designed specifically to counter super-ability-type pet beasts.

Overall, this event is time-consuming and exhausting, testing the pet beast's grasp of wind direction and wind force.

Ya Bao and Little Xun Bao could participate, but with these rules — no attacking opponents and no teleportation — how could they possibly compete against flying-type pet beasts that have the advantage in the air?

Just as Qiao Sang was shaking her head inwardly, Li Yi finally couldn't help calling her out by name. "Qiao Sang, aren't you going to sign up for one event?"

Qiao Sang shook her head. "These events aren't suited to my pet beasts."

"I think your Yan Ling Hound and Treasure Ghost are both quite suited for the aerial rings." Li Yi said with a sheepish grin.

That was practically telling a bare-faced lie with eyes wide open...... Qiao Sang said, "I think Yu Zhao is more suited than me."

The Yu Zhao Qiao Sang mentioned was the one who had chased Little Chubby Dove all over the place on the first day of school.

Yu Zhao, who had only been there to watch the excitement, got a fright and hurriedly refused: "I can't do it!"

He didn't want to take part in some lousy sports meet!

Studying alone already took up a lot of his time — where would he find the energy to spend on training!

"Classmate Qiao Sang, as a member of our class..." Li Yi had just been about to play the sympathy card and persuade her when he was startled by a pet beast that suddenly appeared, swallowing the rest of his words.

"Xunxun!"

Little Xunbao Ghost appeared, excitedly pointing at an event written on the blackboard.

All the classmates followed the direction it was pointing and looked at the blackboard.

The corner of Qiao Sang's mouth twitched: "Are you sure?"

"Xun!" Little Xunbao Ghost nodded with a serious expression.

Qiao Sang was silent for a few seconds, then turned her head and said: "Teacher, I'll sign up."

Li Yi heard this and said in pleasant surprise: "That's right then. Although the Aerial Rings event is for flying-type pet beasts, I and all the classmates in our class believe in your ability."

Qiao Sang was stunned: "Teacher, I'm not signing up for the Aerial Rings. What I want to sign up for is the Brick-Splitting by Hand event."

Li Yi: "???"

"Xun~"