Chapter 144: Ruin Town (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Martial Path Era 2046, April 23rd.

The second day of arriving at the joint practical training base, 8:00 AM sharp, weather sunny.

On the wide square downstairs of the dormitory building, dense crowds of students, dressed neatly, with backpacks on their backs, started to assemble.

"Have you heard? Lin Qi broke the training long spear in the martial arts room late last night."

"Broke it? Are you sure it wasn't hit and broken?" someone asked curiously.

"It's said he didn't touch anything else; he just practiced it until it broke. Too fierce!"

"Damn, how terrifying must the strength be to practice a training long spear until it breaks?" someone widened their eyes in surprise.

Everyone started discussing in low voices, and the sound reached the ears of others around.

Among the crowd from Tianhai No. 2 Middle School, Jiang Tao heard the discussion and looked at Lin Qi, teasing with a smile:

"Brother Qi, now everyone knows about your feat of breaking the long spear."

The people around looked at Lin Qi with respect; his strength was too exaggerated, even a long spear could be broken by his practice.

Lin Qi's expression was calm and he didn't care; he didn't need to pay for the broken training long spear.

But he didn't know why it spread out; now the entire joint practical training base knew about it.

"Boom!!"

Accompanied by sounds of roaring, everyone saw large military transport vehicles with dark green exteriors slowly driving in before their eyes.

"Everyone, 20 people per vehicle, board in an orderly manner." A burly officer shouted loudly, carrying across the square.

Everyone started boarding one after another.

Lin Qi entered the transport vehicle, which was installed with rows of black seats, and the 20 students from No. 2 Middle School entered and sat down in order.

"Boom!!"

A moment later, the military transport vehicles started one after another and drove toward the practical training location.

The vehicle body shook; those in the same vehicle were classmates from No. 2 Middle School. Lin Qi took out the information from his backpack, opened it to watch, and reinforced his memory.

Seeing this, others also took out information to consolidate, and some took out their phones to look at the electronic version of the information.

"After entering Ruin Town, the military will open the Space Gate and release disaster beasts from another world."

"For disaster beasts, humans are irresistible delicacies. Once the Space Gate opens, they will rush out as soon as they smell the scent."

"In Ruin Town, two areas will be divided. The Space Gate in Area 1 will be controlled to only let Level 1 to Level 2 disaster beasts out."

"Only in Area 2 will Level 3 disaster beasts appear."

"Our strength is all at the Second Realm of Tendon-Refining; we'd better honestly stay in Area 1." Qiu Jie said.

"Speaking of which, don't you think this Space Gate technology is a bit too black-tech?"

"Being able to control where the space channel opens, and even the size of the channel can be controlled, doesn't look like technology humans can currently possess." Jiang Tao suddenly asked curiously.

"Yeah, I never thought about that before." Qiu Jie slapped his thigh and said.

Li Zhou, not far away, slowly spoke:

"History textbooks record that when disaster beasts first appeared, the sky was like a curtain being torn open with a huge hole; at that time, it was called a space crack."

"Countless disaster beasts rushed out from inside, and there were disaster beasts from Level 1 to Level 9!"

"And there was almost no warning; they could appear from any city, any corner at any time."

"Space cracks are only divided into small, medium, and large."

"Facing the space cracks, we humans were caught off guard by the randomly appearing space cracks, and how many people were crazily devoured by the disaster beasts that rushed out."

"It was like eating at a buffet."

"Time came to 20 years ago, and Space Gate technology appeared out of thin air."

"We humans suddenly possessed this magical technology, able to lock onto space cracks and transfer them to the intended location to open."

"We even possess the technology to open the Space Gate ourselves and let disaster beasts out."

"This has greatly reduced our human losses."

"It's indeed strange; I don't know who researched it, but it really saved countless people." Everyone sighed.

Lin Qi was also curious after hearing this; how did humans do it?

Suddenly he thought of the Zerg.

This mysterious Zerg, could it be that the technology was obtained from the Zerg?

According to Yue Feng's statement, the Zerg completely surpassed us humans in some technical fields.

This made him have to suspect that it was obtained from the hands of the Zerg.

Half an hour later.

In the depths of the war base, steel buildings rose from the ground, covering the sky and the sun, and even the sunlight was shrouded.

Transport vehicles drove through the silver steel giant gate made of special alloy and drove into a base.

"Click click!!"

"Boom!!"

"Arrived at Ruin Town, everyone get off!"

The transport vehicle door was opened, and all the students got off quickly.

"Hoo~"

The air was filled with a murderous taste, accompanied by mechanical gasoline and a faint smell of blood.

Lin Qi looked around and found that they were in front of a war fortress, and the walls were all made of silver-gray alloy specially produced.

Under the traces of time, the color started to turn black.

"Everyone, go to your city's location and collect combat equipment."

A burly officer shouted loudly, constantly repeating.

He saw that not far away, nine areas were divided, electronic screens were erected, and major cities were marked.

At the same time, a large number of metal boxes were neatly stacked together, and various sharp weapons were placed in large cabinets.

【Tianhai City】

Lin Qi and others came to the Tianhai City area to queue up to collect combat equipment.

He saw that not far away, Wang Qiufeng, with delicate features, was holding a black metal box in his left hand and a sharp Goose-Feather Saber in his right hand as he passed by. Seeing Lin Qi, he smiled:

"Lin Qi, looking forward to competing with you today!"

"I hope you won't let me down."

Lin Qi laughed after hearing this: "You too!"

Wang Qiufeng smiled and left with the metal box.

Soon it was Lin Qi's turn.

In front of him was a table, a computer was placed on the table, and behind it were a large number of metal boxes. Soldiers took down combat equipment according to the marks.

"Next one!!" the male soldier shouted.

"Lin Qi!" "Okay!"

The soldier took out a mechanical wristwatch that was pitch black all over from the silver metal box next to him. The appearance was simple and ancient, with only three buttons, which were red, yellow, and green.

"This is a smart wristwatch. It only has three functions: the red one is the rescue button, the yellow one is to check the points ranking list and map, and the green button is to control the drone to launch attacks and resist the disaster beasts' attacks."

"Finally, come back safely!" the soldier offered his blessing.

"Thank you!"

Lin Qi thanked him, accepted the smart wristwatch, and immediately wore it on his wrist.

"Student Lin Qi, your equipment, and your long spear."

A soldier behind stepped forward holding a black metal box.

At the same time, his right hand was laboriously holding a large spear that was pitch black all over.

The soldier looked at Lin Qi and was secretly surprised: "This long spear weighs a full 100 jin and already belongs to the heavy weapon category. He actually wants to take such a large spear to hunt disaster beasts."

"Is this really a high school senior? Simply born with divine strength!"

!

Lin Qi carried the metal box and the large black spear to the changing room.

He opened the metal box, which contained a black combat suit. Lin Qi quickly changed into it, from combat boots, pants, combat vest, and coat.

He prepared some first-aid medicine and put it in a small bag tightly attached to his back.

It almost wouldn't affect his movements.

Finally, he picked up the black long spear again. It was pitch black all over, without complex patterns, and was purely made of refined steel alloy.

The cost and craftsmanship were not as good as the Thunder-Horn large spear he had specially customized for himself.

These combat equipment were provided for free by the Red Dome Martial Path Mansion and were customized according to his body information.

Finally, Lin Qi put his clothes into the box.

He carried the black large spear and walked out of the changing room, and his entire aura became sharp.

At this time, on the square, many people had already changed into combat suits of various colors, mainly black and white, holding weapons.

The murderous atmosphere in the air became more intense, and many people's faces were filled with excitement, nervousness, and other emotions.

At the same time, in a conference room.

Yuan Ji, standing on a circular base, instructed the officer beside him:

"Open the Space Gate and let all the disaster beasts out."

"Okay!" The surrounding soldiers started operating the instruments.

Yuan Ji turned his head. Behind him, not far away, the wide conference room was divided into several areas, and many strange men and women not wearing military uniforms appeared.

They were the observation groups from the three major top universities.

At the same time, in Ruin Town.

In a wide, abandoned building complex, this was a giant mechanical device in the shape of a cylindrical base, with a diameter of over three meters and a height of two meters.

"Boom!!"

"Sizzle"

In an instant, the mechanical device made a loud roaring sound, accompanied by the sound of electric current, endless electric current entangled, and the next instant a huge beam of light rushed into the sky.

The beam of light hovered five or six meters high in the air, turning into a ball of light.

The beam of light was like a key, opening the channel, and the circular light ring expanded rapidly, quickly opening the space channel.

Not long after.

"Hoo~ hoo"

"Roar~"

"Bang!!"

Sounds of roaring came from the light ring, and streams of black shadows rushed out, smashing heavily onto the ground, splashing a large amount of dust.

In the center of the square, there was a high platform with a big screen installed.

He saw Yuan Ji, wearing a dark green military officer uniform, projected in front of everyone again.

"Hello, students!"

"Welcome to Ruin Town!"

Everyone's eyes looked at him!

Yuan Ji's expression became serious, and a strong aura was released from his body. He opened his mouth and shouted loudly:

"Students, disaster beasts are our human enemies, and they are the existence we must eliminate."

"Today, many of you are taking the most critical step on the martial path, and that is actual combat!!"

"Fight the disaster beasts with your own hands and use their blood to forge everyone's transformation."

"Use the weapons in your hands to kill the disaster beasts you see, pierce their throats, and cut off their heads."

"Complete the first transformation of a martial artist!"

"Humans and disaster beasts have long been life-and-death enemies; there are only two paths: you die or I live."

Yuan Ji's voice was serious and impassioned. Everyone listened, their blood accelerated, and their expressions gradually became excited.

Their whole bodies became hot-blooded.

"Our practical training this time adopts a points mode."

Having said that, the big screen in front of him lit up, projecting a table.

"Kill a Level 1 disaster beast and get one point."

"Kill a Level 2 disaster beast and get 10 points."

"Kill a Level 3 disaster beast and get 100 points."

On the table projected by the big screen, the disaster beasts that might appear and the corresponding points were listed.

"The smart wristwatch in your hands will rank the points of all students in real-time."

"Out of 2470 students, the students who can enter the top 500 in the end will each receive a reward of 100,000 Xia Guo currency."

"Top 300, reward 200,000 Xia Guo currency."

"Top 100, reward 300,000 Xia Guo currency!"

"Top 50, reward 500,000 Xia Guo currency!"

"Top 10, reward 800,000 Xia Guo currency!"

"3rd place, reward 1.5 million Xia Guo currency!"

"2nd place, reward 2 million Xia Guo currency!"

"1st place, reward 3 million Xia Guo currency!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 145 =====