Chapter 153 Wu Chutai Arrives, the Last Day
Under the protection of the silent field, Fang Pei and his warriors dispersed and moved through the valley like ghosts. No matter how loud the noise they made while walking, no Phantom Light Eater could find them.
Judging from the performance of the previous teams, these insects' reaction ability is not very good, and they either eat or sleep in the valley. So even though the soldiers' actions were very blatant, these insects did not notice that more than half of their kind nearby had disappeared without them noticing.
At the beginning, Fang Pei was more careful and would quietly send the insect corpses out of the valley, for fear of discovering any clues. However, after he had almost finished sweeping half of the way, he found that these insects were too stupid, so he simply stopped pretending.
He approached with a silent field on, raised his hand and shot out a lock of absolute pressure, threw it away after killing it, and then went to find the next one.
The main feature is clean and neat.
With such efficiency, all the insects in the valley were soon cleared out.
Not a single one exploded!
Buzz...
The silent area slowly disappeared, and several lightning-filled afterimages flashed in the air. The figures of Fang Pei and others appeared in the original place.
The Chains of Absolute Pressure were floating gently beside him. Fang Pei raised his hand, and a soul card at his side flipped open, and several Chains of Absolute Pressure flew into it at once.
Mission completed.
All the phantom light eaters were killed, and the phantom light crystals on the ground were intact!
This speed is even faster than using the teleportation seedlings directly.
In the lobby
Jin Zhaoshan exclaimed in amazement: "I'm so tired... This efficiency is incredible... Hey, Lao Bai, did you see clearly? What exactly are they using... Lao Bai? What's wrong with you?"
At this moment, Lao Bai was lying on his seat with his eyes dull.
Jin Zhaoshan's face turned anxious: "Lao Bai? What's wrong with you? Cheer up!"
"...I'm fine." Lao Bai waved his hand, his tone filled with a sense of despair. "Damn...those last few flying soul cards...are clearly from the Creation Clan!"
And it looks like the quality is just normal and rare.
It was okay for you to kill people indiscriminately with epic creations before... After all, he had also made several epic creations with very powerful effects, but he just didn't get the major armament upgrade, so he didn't think much of it.
But now you use a rare-level Creation C in this kind of project?
Where can I, a card maker who is proficient in creation, put my face?
For a moment, Lao Bai felt like he had suffered a huge blow to his heart.
There is no way for people to survive!
"Alas... my skills are inferior to others." Lao Bai sighed, "I don't know which senior this is... I must study this set of soul cards carefully when it is promoted to the entire army."
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Small meeting room
Jiang Shan touched his chin and said, "This soul card is quite interesting."
"Yeah... If my guess is correct, its effect should be to increase the target unit's mental stress, right?" Qiu Zhong said with a smile. "Judging from its performance... the increase is quite significant."
"You guessed right." Lei Wanqing smiled. "That's right. It can directly increase mental pressure to the maximum value. If you are hit by this move, generally speaking, you can't do anything... However, there is a small restriction, that is, the target must be completely unresisting. Originally, this soul card was used to increase the pressure on the desolate crystal to facilitate the extraction of energy from it, but well, it occasionally has some magical uses."
"Huh?" Jiang Shan was stunned. "Pressure the Wild Crystal? What does that mean...what does this have to do with extracting energy?"
"This..." Lei Wanqing paused.
The words that Yu Cang had explained to him at the beginning kept flashing through his mind. After a brainstorm, he came to the conclusion:
Forgot.
Yu Cang’s original explanation was too complicated, and he was not a card maker, so how could he understand all this?
Anyway, it must be very advanced.
So he waved his hand and said, "Forget it. You won't understand even if I tell you. Wait until the armaments overhaul is finished, then you can go read the paper."
Jiang Shan was a little suspicious: "You don't know either?"
Lei Wanqing glared: "How is it possible?!"
"Alright, alright." Seeing the two men about to fight again, Qiu Zhong reluctantly stopped them. "Alright, stop it... Anyway, this invention is very useful for the current development of the Nightmare Border."
The entrance to the Nightmare Border has been discovered for quite some time, and the military's exploration of this alien space has been ongoing.
This strange space is not like the desolate heaven that has been broken into countless pieces. It is a complete world. Therefore, it is more bizarre and dangerous than the desolate heaven.
But in addition to the dangers, the Dire Border also brings more possibilities.
First of all, as a new alien space, the rhythm that card makers resonate with in the Dire Border is definitely brand new, which will bring many new soul card systems, and this is just the most basic.
More importantly, deep within the borders of the Nightmare, there is a high possibility that the entrance to the "Star Realm" is hidden!
The Blue Planet is a sphere. Although you can see the boundless starry sky when standing on the Blue Planet and looking out, it seems that there is infinite space in the sky, but this is not actually the case.
A powerful soul card master once tried to fly straight into the sky. At the beginning, everything was fine and very easy. But after flying over a certain height, the gravity of the blue planet would suddenly increase sharply, and as the flying height continued to increase, the gravity would also increase exponentially, and even space teleportation would be restricted.
Even myths cannot fly too far, let alone truly touch the distant stars in the sky - the farthest point in the sky that human card makers can reach is the position of the moon.
The place where the other stars are located is called the astral realm.
Yes, in previous studies, the astral realm was also counted as another alien space, and the ever-increasing gravity above the Blue Star was defined as the plane wall of the world of "Blue Star".
Although the astral realm is far away, it is not that no one has entered it in history, but the methods used were not very stable.
Just like Ye Yan, the youngest myth in Yan Country today, the mythical soul card "Alien Creation Dragon" he made himself comes from the power of the star realm.
But... I heard that the summoning conditions for this myth are too complicated. After Ye Shenhua made it, he didn't like to use it himself, so he just threw it to a guardian who met the conditions. He himself was still using the legendary card deck he used before he was promoted to myth.
Even so, it was enough to show the importance of this star realm. Who wouldn't be jealous of a space with the potential to produce mythical power?
Therefore, after discovering the possibility of access to the star realm within the borders of the Nightmare, the Yan Kingdom attached great importance to it. It even changed the topic of major military equipment changes, and it was obvious that it was preparing for large-scale exploration of this world.
However, although this possibility has just been discovered, the entrance to the Dire Border has been discovered for nearly a year, but it has not been taken seriously before.
Because the environment here is truly hellish, few people enter to explore it. However, because they are all elite, they can be considered effective. For example, these valleys full of Phantom Light Eaters are actually "breeding farms" created by military veterans here.
These insects are specially cultivated to facilitate the extraction of acid for mining.
Because of the special nature of these insects, the soul card masters who came here to harvest the acid had to be level six or above. Soul card masters at this level are already considered the backbone of the force. Although there are many people in Yan Country, we can't always let soul card masters at this level do some hard labor... Now with the Lock of Absolute Pressure, it can save the military a lot of resources.
…
The high-risk target elimination project was over and the rankings were announced. The ancient capital team took first place without a doubt.
The second and third are Miaodu and Youdu respectively.
No one was dissatisfied with this result, after all, the gap was visible to the naked eye.
Although most of them still had no idea how Gu Du solved the problem of those bugs, they could only temporarily suppress their curiosity during the competition.
Anyway, this deck will come into their hands sooner or later, and we will know sooner or later, so there is no need to rush.
Now that they have lost the desire to compete, the stronger this deck becomes, the more excited they become.
But then again...all three projects in the ancient capital were actually selected on the first afternoon of the optional projects.
Then... maybe they can pick up the competitive spirit again!
Many people's eyes became lively again.
Without the devil-level opponent Gu Du, when facing other teams... they might be able to compete for the first place!
There are still six projects tomorrow.
Very good, the fighting spirit is rising again!
After the three events of the ancient capital were selected, for most teams, it was like a huge mountain was suddenly removed from their heads.
When they were on the same team with Gudu, even if they knew the results wouldn't be good, they would still feel a lot of pressure... Didn't they see that a team as strong as Didu became a small fry compared to Gudu?
Now that the ancient capital's competition is finally over...it's their turn to play the Armament Overhaul!
Towards the Imperial Capital
Hu Chen let out a long breath.
"Finally... the match of the monster in the ancient capital is over. Next, it's our imperial capital's home court!" Hu Chen wanted to laugh out loud at this moment.
They're really lucky; their options only clash with the Ancient Capital in two areas. Okay, watch us kill it tomorrow!
Hu Chen stretched his body and showed an expression of longing and expectation.
…
Even after the three projects were completed, the problem of the venue for the targeted attack seemed to have not been resolved.
There is no way, this project can only be postponed until tomorrow.
After returning to Yujiang and resting for a night, they came to the old place again the next day.
At the outpost, many teams had arrived early, and their spirits were obviously much better today than yesterday.
Many of them stayed up all night last night, and based on the existing intelligence, they made many predictions about the possible contents of today's projects and listed one plan after another. Some people are even still seriously discussing today's tactics with the soldiers.
Obviously, today, they are going to show their real skills!
At this moment, a brake sound came from outside. Everyone looked over and their expressions changed.
It’s a car from the ancient capital.
For a moment, the noise in the venue immediately quieted down a lot. Some people had left their seats and came to the door, their faces full of curiosity.
Today is the last day of the military overhaul. The person in charge of the ancient capital should show up, right?
In the first two days, they could only see two young men and a little girl sitting in the ancient capital's seat... probably the students of the person in charge or something.
They were all very curious about which card maker in Yan Country could make a soul card like the Mechanical Clan. Why had they never heard of any predecessors studying the Mechanical Clan before?
However, no matter whether this person in charge was famous before, he must have made a big splash after this major armament overhaul... at least in the military.
Not many people know about the major armament changes, and due to the confidentiality agreement, normal card makers rarely pay attention to this event, but it is undeniable that it is of great value, and once you take first place, the army will be indebted to you.
Some people are already imagining what this person in charge will look like.
A serious middle-aged man? Or an old man? ...Speaking of which, this person in charge must be very knowledgeable about all kinds of machinery. Oh, he must be covered in mechanical prosthetic limbs and eyes, right?
Cyber card maker, that's so cool!
However, their fantasy was soon dashed.
The soldiers of the first squad quickly left the military vehicle, and then the door of the last vehicle was pushed open, and three very young figures got out of the vehicle.
It was still those three young men.
Many people immediately showed disappointed expressions.
The person in charge hasn't come yet... Yes, the briefing will be held in the evening in a very formal auditorium in Yujiang. The person in charge will probably come at that time.
Although the person in charge has not appeared yet, no one feels that he is acting like a big shot or anything.
They have the ability!
Moreover, this kind of card maker must be very busy, so it is normal that he has no time to come and see something that has already been decided.
tread.
Yu Cang got off the military vehicle, looked up, and saw those gazes in the distance, feeling a little confused.
"What are they looking at?"
"Judging from their expressions, they should be looking at us."
"..." Yu Cang touched his face and asked in confusion, "Why do they have such expressions? Is there something on my face?"
"Senior, you look great, but you seem a little dehydrated lately. Do you want me to recommend a hydrating essence?"
"Uh, no, I don't need to be so delicate."
"I can recommend one for Jie Shuang as well. You can say it's your choice."
"……private."
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Yu Cang and Lin Yunqing walked towards the venue. Suddenly, there was another sound of brakes coming from a distance, and several military vehicles stopped not far away.
Yu Cang subconsciously looked back, and after seeing clearly, his brows suddenly raised.
He saw someone he knew.
An old man got off the car. The sunlight at the outpost was very strong. He seemed a little uncomfortable for a moment, so he shielded his eyes with the hat in his hand.
At this moment, he also saw Yu Cang.
His expression changed slightly, but then he smiled and walked in front of Yu Cang.
"Long time no see, Xiao Cang."
Yu Cang's expression calmed down: "It seems that we are not that close."
He is very familiar with this person... Isn't he his former mentor, Wu Chutai?
"Haha...Okay, then I'll call you Yu Cang." Wu Chutai's expression remained unchanged. "I heard Wen Yang mention you yesterday. I'm a little surprised that you're here... But as your former mentor, I'm still very happy that you've figured this out."
Yu Cang seemed to smile: "Figured it out? What did I figure out?"
"Of all my students back then, you were the most arrogant. You refused to join other people's projects and insisted on making a name for yourself." Wu Chutai shook his head. "Actually, I quite liked you back then, but you were too arrogant. The sponsor specifically wanted to kick you out, and I couldn't protect you."
"So," Yu Cang said with great interest, "Why are you telling me all this now? Do you want my forgiveness?"
Wu Chutai's eyes narrowed slightly, but soon recovered. He put on his hat again and said:
"Alright, stop pretending in front of me. Look, you returned to the ancient capital and joined someone else's lab, didn't you? You said back then that you didn't need me to take you to win any awards. What about now? Yu Cang, you have changed after all... It doesn't matter. You can be stubborn in front of me, but you should already know in your heart how naive you were back then." Wu Chutai smiled, "You can't achieve anything great relying solely on your own talent. Yu Cang, welcome to the world of adults."
After saying that, Wu Chutai no longer waited for Yu Cang's response. He turned around and followed the soldiers from the imperial capital into the venue.
When he came to his seat, Wu Chutai closed his eyes and wrinkles on his face slightly appeared.
Humph, this Yu Cang, every time I see him so confident, it always reminds me of my youth.
It's really...uncomfortable.
...Fortunately, it seems that he didn't escape either.
Opening his eyes, he rubbed his brow.
However, Yu Cang's luck was truly remarkable. Despite his bad record in the Imperial Capital, he was able to snag a project of this caliber immediately upon returning to the Ancient Capital. Anyone else, even with help, would have to keep a low profile for a few years... Apparently, his relationship with Ren Zheng was even better than expected. Humph, if I'd been there... Never mind, so naive.
Thinking of this, Wu Chutai sighed.
Ancient capital... Who could have imagined that this military overhaul would actually bring up an ancient capital? If my project didn't take first place... I guess those people would be dissatisfied again.
Damn it, what else can I do! The project leader has already given up the project! This is something I've been researching for years!
He was a little annoyed, but he forced himself to suppress the emotion.
Let’s not worry about that for now. Wen Yang said that there is no ancient capital in today’s event. It looks like it will be a day of chaos in the imperial capital... Let’s watch these competitions first and make myself happy.
"Teacher, here's some water." Wen Yang handed over a bottle of water.
Wu Chutai took it and said, "Hmm...it's still hot."
Yes, disciple Wen Yang is much less troublesome than Yu Cang.
…
Lin Yunqing observed Yu Cang's expression for a moment.
"He is..."
"He," Yu Cang smiled, "is just a guy who doesn't know what he's going to face."
He knew his former mentor's thoughts very well... I believe that his expression must be very rich today.
It’s really exciting to think about it... Isn’t it just for this that he participated in the major armament reform!
Wu Chutai was right. Back then, he really didn't participate in anyone's project and was only focused on achieving his own results. This request would have been unreasonable for other students, but Yu Cang was different.
Although there were countless top scorers in the Imperial Capital University, at least in his year, Yu Cang, the top scorer in both civil and military studies, was still very valuable.
Therefore, there were many mentors who wanted to accept him as their disciple, and Wu Chutai was just one of them.
Most of what Wu Chutai said just now were not proposed by Yu Cang, but conditions set by Wu Chutai himself.
It was because Wu Chutai promised to give Yu Cang a separate laboratory, allowing him to explore on his own during his college years, and if he had not made any achievements before graduation, he could follow him to work on other projects, that Yu Cang agreed to become his disciple.
At first, Yu Cang thought that Wu Chutai was really a good mentor who believed in his talent and was willing to support him, so he was so confident that he dared to say that he didn't need him to lead him to win the award.
I have to say, it feels really good to have someone support you. At that time, his mind was full of thoughts about quickly producing results to let Wu Chutai know that he had not chosen the wrong person.
Now it seems... Haha, I guess this guy just calculated that I won't be able to achieve any results, so he's waiting to see me fail and laugh at me, and then come out to completely "conquer" me.
He said that it was the investors who insisted on kicking him out... Humph, the person who most wanted to see him fail was probably Wu Chutai himself.
Looking at Yu Cang's expression, Lin Yunqing seemed to be thinking about something.
After a while, she said, "Is there anything you need me to do?"
"No need." Yu Cang shook his head. "Let's go to the hall. I want to find a good place to see his expression."
Lin Yunqing: “…”
Senior, you are actually this kind of person.
Actually... it's quite cute.
Lin Yunqing smiled.
On the side, Qi'er held Yu Cang's hand and looked at Wu Chutai's back with a thoughtful expression.
Eh... that person seems to be the brother's enemy that Sister Jie Shuang mentioned?
Um, how dare you bully my brother...
Qi'er pouted.
Damn it! I promised my brother not to use my ability to hurt others, otherwise I’ll see how Qi’er plays tricks on him.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came into Qi'er's mind.
"Master Qi'er, may I ask what happened? I feel that the master seems to be in a very strange mood."
It's the weeping girl.
"Oh, that's it." Qi'er glanced at Yu Cang secretly, then explained it to the crying girl in a low voice.
The ability of the Weeping Girl is that she can run around in the soul card connected to Yu Cang. Qi'er is also half of Yu Cang's soul card, so theoretically speaking, the Weeping Girl's consciousness can enter Qi'er's body.
Of course, the Weeping Girl certainly couldn't do this without permission, but relying on this ability, she could still have a private conversation with Qi'er.
Just like now, the two of them were talking secretly. Although Yu Cang noticed it, as long as he didn't stop the Weeping Girl from using her ability, he couldn't hear what they were saying.
It's normal for girls to talk in private, he definitely won't stop them.
After the two finished their conversation, both the crying girl and Qi'er looked serious.
Qi'er said, "Sister Weeping Girl, do you have any good ideas to help my brother vent his anger?"
"Well..." The Weeping Girl looked troubled. "It seems that I can't do that. Without the Master's permission, I can't use my ability... The Master won't allow us to do that, right?"
"Hmm, what should I do then..."
The two girls began to worry.
(End of this chapter)
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