Three days later, the Explorers Corps assessment officially began.
After receiving their equipment, Yang Cheng and more than twenty other new recruits left the tower and headed to their respective mission locations.
Because Paradise Island is quite far from Yang Cheng, more than a thousand kilometers away, the Explorer Legion also provided Yang Cheng with an off-road vehicle for long-distance travel.
This single-seater off-road vehicle is not large, with only two seats, and the trunk can store a week's worth of supplies.
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However, because it is equipped with gasoline and solar cells, this off-road vehicle can even achieve a range of 2,000 kilometers under alternating day and night conditions.
Yang Cheng kept thinking about the assessment task on the way.
He's not an idiot. He can tell from Tang Huang and the others' attitudes that it's definitely not normal for him to draw Paradise Island. Someone is tampering with it.
In the few days I've been at the tower, the only people I've offended besides Su Jie are Gray.
But it shouldn't be Gray.
The Security Corps has a low status, as evidenced by Gray's performance that day; he has absolutely no ability to influence the Explorer Corps.
Besides Gray, it can only be Suja.
Yang Cheng never expected that this pretty boy would have so much power, causing him so much trouble.
In fact, after learning that the Violent Bear Society was sent by Su Jie, Yang Cheng had already decided to kill them.
However, the tower has a strict hierarchy, and he cannot reach the second floor or above. He has to wait until Su Jie goes down to the first floor before he can make his move.
After driving at high speed for nearly two days and one night following the navigation map, Yang Cheng finally arrived at the Dead Sea.
The so-called Dead Sea is actually a large lake, and it is called the Dead Sea because countless skeletons are buried in it.
Because water was scarce in the apocalypse, when people saw the Dead Sea, they couldn't wait to jump into it to drink.
However, the water in the Dead Sea contains a large amount of unknown chemical elements that are highly toxic and also contain radiation; drinking just one sip will result in immediate death.
Moreover, the Dead Sea is home to countless ferocious mutated aquatic creatures, making it extremely powerful and dangerous.
However, there is a small island in the Dead Sea. The land on that island is magical; it has a filtering effect, able to filter out the radiation and toxins in the Dead Sea water.
Therefore, the island is covered with lush vegetation and has all kinds of mutated creatures. Some of the weak ones can be hunted and eaten directly, while some of the stronger ones can be used as materials for gene or biological agents.
There is even a small natural spring well on the island, which produces pure water that is non-toxic and harmless.
This small island, so rich in resources, is called Paradise Island, meaning it's like paradise.
As long as powerful wilderness warriors or groups of people join forces to cross the Dead Sea, they can plunder the resources of Paradise Island.
However, starting more than a year ago, Paradise Island underwent a strange change. The mutated creatures on the island became extremely powerful, even stronger than the mutated creatures in the Dead Sea.
From that time on, Paradise Island became a forbidden place, and few people came to venture there.
When Yang Cheng arrived at the Dead Sea, he could still vaguely see the broken skeletons of some ships, and human bones were washed away by the waves in the clear lake water, faintly revealing terrifying skulls.
Yang Cheng took a long metal plate from the off-road vehicle and casually threw it into the water. The metal plate began to fold and change, and in less than ten seconds it had become a small boat for one person.
The advantage of high towers lies in their technological strength, which allows them to continuously manufacture various convenient technological products, provided that there are enough materials.
However, because the tower rejects outsiders and lacks the ability to conquer resource-rich areas outside, it is only willing to open one floor of the tower in exchange for some scattered resources.
These resources are not enough to equip a large number of low-ranking soldiers, but they are sufficient to equip the three major army corps.
Yang Cheng stepped onto the small boat, and the bladeless propeller beneath it began to spin, propelling him toward Paradise Island in the middle of the Dead Sea.
Holding the Imperial Guard sword, Yang Cheng kept staring at the water beneath his feet.
The information said that there were many mutated creatures in the Dead Sea, but Yang Cheng had already traveled over a thousand meters and entered the deep water area. The water below the surface was pitch black, but there was no sound from him.
At that moment, something suddenly swam past Yang Cheng's feet.
The thing was incredibly fast; even with Yang Cheng's eyesight, he couldn't catch a glimpse of it.
The next moment, something else swam past Yang Cheng, and it seemed that there were more and more of them.
With his eyes narrowed, Yang Cheng's hand was already on the Imperial Guard's saber.
Clang!
The sword clattered as it was drawn, plunging into the water and lifting a monster from its sheath.
The creature had a fish tail at the bottom, but its scales were more like the skin of a lizard or crocodile.
Its upper body is humanoid, with pale, smooth skin, sharp claws on its hands, and webbed fingers.
It has no hair on its head, four eyes, no ears, gills on both sides, and a mouth full of sharp teeth.
Yang Cheng didn't want to call this monster a mermaid, so he simply ripped it in two with a single stroke.
The next moment, countless of these mermaid monsters surged towards Yang Cheng from beneath the water like a tidal wave.
Yang Cheng frantically activated the Heaven-Stealing Divine Technique and the Sun-Changing Great Art, his powerful qi directly drawing all the mermaids out of the water.
These creatures are much stronger than ordinary people, but they still rely on sharp teeth and claws to hurt people, so their lethality is limited.
However, these things were moving too fast underwater, so fast that Yang Cheng couldn't even detect them. Only by pulling them all out of the water could they be killed.
Yang Cheng unleashed a series of slashes with his Imperial Guard sword, the energy shooting several meters into the air, tearing apart all the fishmen in mid-air. Their limbs, mixed with blood, flowed into the Dead Sea, instantly turning the lake water red.
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