Chapter 543: Report In! Endless Beasts!

After deciding to join the Fourth Vanguard Team, Xu Jingming simultaneously received a notification from Su Qingli.

"Report to the No. 4 dormitory in the Third Military Camp for the Fourth Vanguard Team."

After hanging up the call, Xu Jingming immediately fell into thought and left the hotel.

The Third Military Camp is located near the city wall of Zhen'an City.

Around the entire camp gate, armed soldiers and psychic squads patrol back and forth.

As soon as Xu Jingming walked over, a five-rank psychic in combat armor stepped forward with a serious expression:

"Hello, please show your Third Military Camp access pass."

Within Zhen'an City, there are dozens of military camps; without an access pass, you cannot enter any other camp.

"Access pass?"

Xu Jingming frowned—Su Teacher hadn't mentioned this item in her message, and he didn't have one.

"Captain Zhou, he's the new member of our Fourth Vanguard Team."

"Here's his access pass—take a look."

At that moment, a tall, slender man walked out from inside the camp and smiled as he handed over a credential.

"Huh? He's from the Vanguard Team?"

The guard was clearly surprised—he could sense Xu Jingming was a five-rank upper-tier psychic.

He never expected him to be a member of the Master-level Vanguard Team.

"The access pass is fine—go in." After carefully verifying it, the guard allowed him entry.

"This military camp is such a hassle—without an access pass, you can't go anywhere."

The tall, slender man grumbled, then extended his right hand to Xu Jingming with a smile:

"You must be Xu Jingming—I'm Chen Yang from the Fourth Vanguard Team. The captain sent me to meet you here."

"Hello." Xu Jingming extended his hand and shook his lightly.

"Let's go—I'll take you to meet the captain."

"Also, make sure you keep this access pass safe."

"It was just issued—if you lose it, you won't even be able to enter the camp."

Chen Yang led the way; after stowing the access pass, Xu Jingming followed him into the Third Military Camp.

The roads inside the Third Military Camp were extremely wide, wide enough for ten cars to drive side by side.

The vehicles traveling on them were various armored vehicles and troop transports.

Before this, Xu Jingming had never understood the difference between soldier-psychics and those who hunted beasts in the Wildlands.

But now, he realized there was a fundamental difference.

Soldier-psychics had determined expressions; every movement displayed strong discipline—they were clearly specially trained.

This was very different from the psychics he had encountered at the supply base before the Wildlands.

"Oh, Chen Yang, this is your new recruit?"

"With a new member joining, your team's military merits must be climbing significantly now?"

"Xu Jingming! Lei Di! Long time admirer—can you sign my autograph? I'll take it home to my daughter."

"..."

Along the way, Chen Yang encountered many members of other Vanguard Teams.

They were all overly enthusiastic, but except for the one who genuinely wanted an autograph, Xu Jingming felt they were all secretly rejoicing at his misfortune.

"S-rank. These people don't seem to have much faith in you."

Eva's voice echoed in his mind.

As an artificial lifeform, Eva possessed her own psychic energy and could perform psychic telepathy.

This was more convenient and prevented eavesdropping via earpiece.

"As a newcomer, this treatment is perfectly normal."

Xu Jingming didn't care much about it.

His sole purpose in coming here was to kill as many beasts as possible!

He had no interest in what others thought.

"Here we are—this is our No. 4 dormitory."

After walking for about seven or eight minutes inside the Third Military Camp, Chen Yang stopped before a three-story villa with a massive footprint.

"Villa?" Xu Jingming was surprised.

Along the way, he'd seen many buildings—but this was the first villa he'd encountered.

"We're seventh-rank Masters—we deserve some privileges, don't we?"

Chen Yang chuckled, "Come on—the captain and the others are inside."

Saying this, he led Xu Jingming into the villa's living room.

"Captain, Xu Jingming has arrived."

Inside the living room sat two men and two women; as Chen Yang spoke, all four turned their gazes toward him.

A normal five-rank upper-tier psychic, facing four seventh-rank Masters simultaneously, would surely feel uneasy.

But Xu Jingming was already accustomed to such pressure—his expression didn't change at all.

"No wonder he's one of Great Xia's top prodigies—this level of composure is beyond ordinary psychics."

After a long moment, the burliest of the four men gave a slight nod and said:

"Let me introduce myself—I'm Zhou Yan, captain of the Fourth Vanguard Team."

"Captain Zhou, nice to meet you." Xu Jingming nodded in greeting.

"I'm a pretty blunt speaker, so I hope you don't mind."

"I know you won't be staying long in our Fourth Vanguard Squad, but as long as you're in our unit, you must obey my orders."

"If you violate that, even if you're a student of a ninth-tier Law Saint, I can still send you to a military tribunal. Do you understand that?"

Zhou Yan said in a low voice.

As captain of the Fourth Vanguard Squad, he had to make sure Xu Jingming followed commands.

"I came to the front-line battlefield just to hunt fierce beasts.

As long as you don't arrange for me to leave the battlefield, I'll obey orders."

Xu Jingming replied, neither servile nor overbearing.

"You came to our Vanguard Squad and you're worried there won't be fierce beasts to kill? Don't worry, there'll be more than enough for you when the time comes."

Zhou Yan rose from the sofa:

"Since you're new, there are some battlefield precautions I have to make clear to you in advance.

Let's go, we'll head up to the city wall first and talk as we look."

The bone-white canyon outside Zhen'an City was where the main fierce-beast army gathered.

Xu Jingming had already known this beforehand, but when he actually stepped onto the city wall over thirty meters high,

and gazed into the distance, he was still somewhat shaken.

He saw, more than three thousand meters away, a dark, dense mass — one fierce beast after another, perched there!

There were the common General-tier and Soldier-tier fierce beasts like the One-Horned Rhino and Shadow Cat, as well as the extremely rare Overlord-tier fierce beast, the Bloodthirsty Berserker Bear.

These fierce beasts had ferocious faces, and their pairs of crimson eyes were clearly visible even under the afternoon two-or-three-o'clock sunlight.

Dense swarms of fierce beasts were perched there, with even more lurking in the thick forest — beyond the reach of a single glance.

"This is the fierce-beast army?" Xu Jingming's face was full of shock.

The number of fierce beasts here must be at least over a hundred thousand, right?

If all of them were killed, the ability points gained would probably be enough for him to advance to a seventh-tier Master-tier ability user, wouldn't it?

"But why aren't these fierce beasts roaring, and why aren't they fighting each other?"

This was the only thing Xu Jingming found puzzling.

Fierce beasts are innately brutal; even without human ability users around, they would still compete and fight among themselves.

Yet these fierce-beast armies now were as quiet as well-behaved babies.