An enormous sky carrier, blocking out the sunlight and obscuring the sky, slowly approached the skies above Yecheng.
The mothership has a strange and futuristic appearance. It is flat, round and long, and you can even clearly see houses on it. Each house is connected to the other with special iron pipes. It looks more like an island floating in the clouds than a mothership.
At this moment, Liu He, Director Pang, and several other important figures from the capital were sitting in a room of a building on the mothership of Sky Island.
In front of Director Pang was a chessboard, and he was currently one of the players.
Sitting opposite him was an elderly man in a black military uniform. The man looked to be at least seventy years old. The wrinkles on his skin and the age spots at his temples betrayed his age, but his eyes were still bright and sharp. His neatly combed white hair did not conceal his terrifying killing intent and aura.
The old man steadily picked up a white jade chess piece with two fingers and placed it neatly on a certain spot on the chessboard.
Director Pang's eyelids twitched suddenly.
After a moment of silence, Director Pang smiled wryly, clasped his hands in a fist and said, "Elder Ji, I admit defeat."
As the game ended, Old Ji's murderous intent faded, revealing a kind and approachable smile, like that of a friendly old neighbor: "Little Pang, your chess skills have declined so much lately. Have you been living too comfortably since coming to Yecheng?"
Director Pang: "Mr. Ji, you are joking. My chess skills are far inferior to yours."
"Alas, it's such a pity about you." Old Ji said lightly, "If you hadn't been injured by the demons during the interdimensional expedition back then, you would at least be a person in charge of Shanhai City now."
Director Pang was somewhat embarrassed and could only force a smile.
Liu He stood to the side, sweating profusely as he watched.
Although it's just playing chess, the old saying that you can see a person's character through playing chess is absolutely true.
He had played chess with Director Pang several times, and had almost always suffered a crushing defeat. Yet, Director Pang couldn't even last a hundred moves against this old man...
The old man's playing style was simply too fierce. His attacking momentum came wave after wave, giving no one a chance to breathe. It was as if he wanted to kill the person with every move!
This also shows that Elder Ji was definitely a person with a strong desire to kill.
Professor Ji said, "Has the list of candidates for this freshman competition been compiled yet? Let me see it."
Upon hearing this, Liu He, who was standing nearby, immediately brought over a tablet and handed it over: "Mr. Ji, please take a look."
Old Ji stared quietly at the tablet with his dark gray eyes, his fingers gently sliding across it.
After watching for a while, the wrinkles on Old Ji's face smoothed out, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face: "There are quite a few promising talents this year..."
“Yes,” Liu He said. “This year’s freshman competition lineup may be the strongest in the last ten years… no, it may even be the strongest in the last hundred years.”
“Lin Nai…” Old Ji flipped through Lin Nai’s information, his gaze lingering on it for a few more seconds, his fingers gently stroking the name: “I’ve seen reports about this child in the news many times before, I hope she won’t disappoint me.”
Director Pang smiled and said, "Don't worry, Elder Ji. Although no apostles of the White Death God have appeared before, judging from Lin Nai's data and battle record, the White Death God is at least as strong as one of the twelve main gods, and he is definitely among the top apostles."
Mr. Ji said, "Besides his strength, what's more important at his age is his character."
"In my life, I have seen many people who have strength and talent but lack character. They occupy things that they are not capable of possessing, which is a tragedy. Such people often die more tragically than ordinary people."
Director Pang nodded in agreement.
Mr. Ji continued to look through the information of the other contestants.
"Have the two siblings from the Kyoto Hana family reached the age to participate in the freshman competition this year? Heh, those two little kids are already so grown up, time really flies..."
"The gene company has also sent quite a few promising youngsters to compete this year; it seems they're planning to try and snatch up a national treasure..."
"Hmm?? Extraordinary serial number 03? And it even comes from a small-town university, that's really rare..."
"And there are Taoist, Confucian, Buddhist..."
As he flipped through the pages, Old Ji's eyes suddenly lit up again: "Oh? There's another Apostle participating this year?"
“Yes,” Director Pang said immediately, “It is God Serial Number 27—the apostle of Thor, the God of Heavenly Pull.”
After a long silence, Elder Ji said with great interest, "Two apostles are participating in this freshman competition, and there's even a contestant with the extraordinary serial number 03. Hahaha, it seems my luck is really good."
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The SUV left the city and drove into a mountainous area.
Linna looked out the car window at the lush green scenery of the surrounding mountains and forests, a puzzled expression on her face.
"Team Leader Tang, is the competition taking place in the mountains?"
"Of course, what do you think?"
"...I thought it would be in a stadium."
"There are thousands of universities across the country. Even if each university has a limited number of places to participate, the total number of participating students would be at least 20,000 to 30,000."
Tang Hongshan turned his head: "What kind of stadium do you think is big enough to hold 20,000 to 30,000 people at the same time?"
“That makes sense,” Linnai said, finding it reasonable. “So where are we going?”
This mountainous area still falls under the jurisdiction of Yecheng.
Linnaeus doesn't recall any suitable locations for competitions in this mountainous region.
Tang Hongshan: "We'll be there soon. You'll see when we get there."
The off-road vehicle drove for a while longer on the rugged mountain road.
After a while, two soldiers in camouflage uniforms appeared on the road ahead, carrying two Soul Power Guns and guarding the intersection ahead.
"Stop!"
A soldier gestured for Tang Hongshan to roll down the car window.
Tang Hongshan rolled down the car window and took out a document: "I'm taking the athletes to the venue. The others are family members; the whole car is full of them."
After the soldier checked the identification, he saluted Tang Hongshan and then signaled for him to pass.
Old Zhang took a drag of his cigarette, exhaled white smoke, then stepped on the gas and drove off.
Linna was still somewhat confused, because there was still nothing in front of him.
But he soon understood.
The SUV drove past two soldiers and crossed the intersection. Suddenly, faint ripples and distortions appeared in the space ahead.
The space suddenly changed, like a bullet piercing water, and the ripples gradually calmed down. The world before my eyes was completely different!
Before your eyes are huge buildings resembling an Olympic village, with competition venues, canteens, shops, hospitals, and training halls. Vehicles shuttle back and forth here, and athletes from many other schools seem to have already arrived and gathered there chatting with each other.
Linnaeus suddenly understood.
It turned out to be a barrier.
From the outside of the barrier, you would never guess that such a world exists inside!
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