Chapter 562: Pre-Battle Preparations (1)

Zhao Qiye's spirit-car was very large.

It was two grades higher than Uncle Liu's spirit-car at the village entrance.

About the same as Li Ruanyu's, only a bit bigger.

Zhao Jiao and Zhao Huai sat in the front row, Zhao Chi and Lu Hong in the back.

The four were about the same age, so they could chat just fine.

But Zhao Chi wasn't talkative to begin with, and Lu Hong had just joined the Zhao family, so it wouldn't do to be too loud.

Basically it was Zhao Huai and Zhao Jiao doing the talking.

The topic was the situation of the rookie tournament.

Zhao Jiao was quite confident in her driving skills, chatting away at length while looking back.

The car wasn't going slow.

Zhao Chi was very nervous.

But looking at Zhao Huai, he didn't seem to feel that way at all.

It seemed he was already used to it.

Or perhaps they had some spiritual technique that could avoid danger?

Zhao Jiao was talking about last year's tournament.

She had placed 11th in the last edition.

One could tell she was deeply hung up on that result.

Zhao Jiao's looks weren't especially outstanding, but not bad either.

Zhao Chi couldn't see her body stats, but based on feel, her appearance should be around 6 points.

Thinking of this, Zhao Chi suddenly felt a bit puzzled.

When Master Mu Chang came to the village to search earlier, why didn't he take Zhao Jiao away?

Instead he took Xiao Ning, who was plain-looking?

Xiao Ning was very strong — Zhao Chi estimated about 6 points, a tier above an ordinary male.

But her looks could only be said to be roughly 4–5 points.

Perhaps the alien race's aesthetic standards differed from humanity's?

That must be it.

After all, even the differences in aesthetic standards between humans were enormous.

Let alone between different races.

As the few chatted, time passed quickly.

It felt as if no time at all had passed before they reached the town.

Zhao Jiao didn't drive into the busiest central street, but circled around to the back door of the venue.

This was the virtual training ground.

One could summon different virtual enemies inside for virtual combat.

Of course, virtual duels were also possible.

"Alright, let's get off here, we'll go in through the back door."

There were quite a few people at the back door too.

Zhao Chi saw some familiar faces.

After all, this rookie tournament was co-hosted by five nearby villages.

Among them, Stream Village, North Stream Village, and South Valley Village were all subordinate villages of Hegu Town.

The people from these three villages basically all attended the Eighth Academy.

Especially since this tournament was also a new lord competition, most of them were actually Zhao Chi's classmates.

And classmates of the same cohort, no less.

Of course they looked familiar.

But there were also some people he had never seen at all.

Those people were from Binhu Village and Jin Sha Village further west, which belonged to Jiaoya Town.

They attended the Seventh Lord Academy in Jiaoya Town.

Zhao Chi naturally didn't recognize them.

After the four got out of the car, someone immediately came over to greet Lu Hong.

That person was surprised for a second upon seeing Zhao Chi beside Lu Hong, and also waved at Zhao Chi.

Someone from Class 7 — looked familiar, but he didn't know them.

But out of politeness, Zhao Chi waved back.

At that moment, Zhao Chi also spotted an old friend — Cao Feng.

Cao Feng had clearly spotted Zhao Chi too.

He snorted and turned to leave.

A man in his forties followed beside him, and the two of them entered the venue together.

"Alright, let's go too."

Zhao Jiao was the first to walk over.

Zhao Chi and the other two followed.

The venue didn't look especially large from the outside.

Roughly half again as big as the exchange.

The sign at the door read "River Valley Town Virtual Training Ground."

Zhao Chi had walked past it countless times before, but had never gone in.

After all, it cost money.

Although virtual training couldn't boost level experience, it could raise combat skill experience.