11 Ground
◎Free-range running hamsters◎
The students who had never been on the ground were all on alert. No one expected to encounter terrestrial creatures as soon as they opened the door, and they were extremely worried.
Kong Wei waved his hand nonchalantly, asking them to hurry out of the ground tower.
The longer the door is open, the greater the damage to the internal structure of the ground tower, and it often needs to be repaired, so they enter and exit the ground tower as quickly as possible.
Led by the instructor, the trainees quickly left the ground tower. Without being told, they formed small teams of three or four, arranged themselves into battle formations according to their training, and prepared to face the black shadow.
Yan Xunzhi quickly ran to hide behind Kong Wei.
With this arrangement, she had no qualms about not contributing, so she just moved a little closer to Kong Wei, making sure that if anything unexpected happened, Instructor Kong would be able to pick her up and take her away.
Kong Wei seemed to turn her head and glanced at her out of the corner of her eye. Yan Xunzhi didn't see the expression on her face clearly, but he saw that she had already raised the gun.
The spiritual gun was loaded and aimed. There was a sharp sound of breaking through the air, drawing a very faint blue line in the air and disappearing into the black shadow.
Bang!
A black shadow exploded from the sky, and the yellow sand was scattered by the explosive power, and a bright sunny day appeared briefly. Kong Wei calmly inserted the gun, "Nothing, the black shadow on the ground is probably a gathering of wind and sand. Just throw something and see."
The students breathed a sigh of relief and the formation dispersed a little.
Kong Wei turned to Yan Xunzhi and said with a smile in the channel where only the two of them were, "This is the person who is trying so hard to get to the surface. Are you so cowardly?"
Yan Xunzhi said awkwardly, "I have no experience, and no gun..."
What's wrong with being a little timid!
The back of his neck was suddenly pinched, and Yan Xunzhi froze for a moment. He felt a pair of hands pinching him twice through his sportswear, and then gently stroking him, like soothing a cat. "It's okay, it's safe."
For some reason, Yan Xunzhi unexpectedly relaxed.
Kong Wei wasn't lying; it was indeed very safe. The military was the only ones directly confronting the mutants outside the White Tower. The White Tower only occasionally encountered a few mutants that weren't very dangerous, so there was no need to panic.
They will be formally divided at the age of nineteen. After the division, they will get familiar with the areas like this for a year before being officially sent to the military region.
Kong Wei didn't bring them to the ground this time to encounter anything... It was their first time, so getting familiar with the place was enough.
Later they will go to the military area...that will be the real test.
The real ground is outside the military zone.
They are still in the protective shield of the ivory tower.
The ground was incredibly hot, and as soon as they emerged from the tower, they felt a stifling air. They were too nervous to notice the discomfort at the time, but now that the danger was over, the students felt a slight breathlessness.
My body was burning hot, but fortunately the ice layer of the ground activity suit cooled me down. The clothes were tightened and I could still feel some coolness.
Wearing a mask is already quite stuffy, and with the added heat, the helmet becomes scorching hot, and the cool air sprayed out is unable to cool down.
It was cold underground, and everyone had lived in a humid environment for years. Suddenly, everyone fell down, and the students felt more or less uncomfortable. Their chests tightened, and they stopped moving and just mechanically followed the team.
Before differentiation, their bodies were fragile, and the injection of new EV had only happened in the past one or two months. Their bodies could not keep up with the evolution, so it was naturally difficult for them to adapt to the environment on Earth that had once forced them to flee in a hurry.
Among them, only Yan Xunzhi looked around and silently raised his hand to cover his chest.
She realized that in this team, she and Kong Wei were the only ones who were not greatly affected.
Kong Wei might have been used to it because she was always on the ground, but what about her? Was she better than the others? Of course not.
The only possibility was that her ground sportswear was much more advanced than everyone else's, so that even the high-quality students felt extremely uncomfortable, but she was not impressed at all. She only felt that the icy sportswear on the ground was a bit too hot.
What Instructor Kong gave her was truly good stuff.
Yan Xunzhi thought about this and secretly glanced at Kong Wei. She herself did not believe in being taken advantage of. Who would be so kind as to spend money and effort like this...
But then I thought about how she was raised by the Central White Tower—and it was very likely that she wasn't raised by the collective. Maybe she really does have a kind heart...
A dark shadow appeared in front again.
The shadows were lighter and calmer, unmoved by the dancing sand and wind. They seemed to simply stand there, like the shadow cast by a cloud in the sky. The trainees had just experienced the "Wolf Cry" situation and were feeling unwell, so their formation was somewhat slack.
Kong Wei glanced behind him and said nothing. When he turned around, he put his hands behind his back and pulled Yan Xunzhi half a step towards him.
Student Yan was suddenly pulled, stumbling and nearly falling onto her. After stumbling back to his feet, his mind suddenly cleared.
The channel was still stuck in a private conversation with Kong Wei. She didn't have time to change the channel and shouted through the helmet, "Zheng Qing'an!"
Zheng Qing'an was the leading team and was standing next to her. Yan Xunzhi shouted at the top of his voice. Even though the sound was partially blocked by the helmet, Zheng Qing'an finally received the reminder.
"Retreat quickly! Form a formation!" Her channel was all.
The trainees suddenly woke up and immediately prepared to form a training formation with their guns. However, the black shadow had already pounced on their heads, covering them and almost swallowing them up.
Yan Xunzhi stuck close to Kong Wei, brushing past the shadow, and looked at the huge object that suddenly fell, his mind going blank.
After the catastrophe, most creatures on Earth died or became extinct. The only way they survived was through luck, adapting to nature and mutating. But the mutations were bizarre and strange, with each page in the atlas showing a different pattern, and few repeating on Earth.
The giant resembled a tiger, but its frame was much larger than a tiger's. Its body was covered in thick fur, its eyes almost obscured by the hair. It had no tail, and its legs were twisted, with its front and back paws pointing in opposite directions. However, it could jump incredibly high and pounce directly at a small group in the middle!
The team didn't expect to face the enemy head-on so soon, and was caught off guard, with people and horses falling to the ground.
But everyone had gone through several months of devilish training, and after a brief panic, they immediately adjusted themselves. The armed trainee was pinned to the ground by the mutant tiger and repeatedly kicked hard on its front paws.
The strange tiger felt pain and subconsciously shrank back, but then felt something was wrong and pressed down hard again.
The student holding the gun did not stand there in a daze. Knowing that he could not escape, he took advantage of the moment when the grip was loosened to turn over and threw the gun out without hesitation.
But when she turned over, the support of the exoskeleton suddenly became weak and was stepped on by the strange tiger. She could only hear the parts creaking, followed by a series of cracking sounds.
Yan Xunzhi watched the strange tiger's movements closely, ready to escape at any moment. His heart tightened as he listened, and he suddenly felt as if something was missing...
Kong Wei!
She turned back immediately. The helmet was translucent to facilitate communication, with only a thin film applied to block ultraviolet rays. Kong Wei was lost in the darkness, his eyes calm, and he showed no intention of moving.
Yan Xunzhi suddenly woke up.
Experimental class...they were originally the guinea pigs used in Kong Wei's experiments.
No wonder the Central White Tower refused the experiment and sent her to the peripheral White Tower! How could a mouse in a long-term experiment remain intact? Besides, the loss rate is already extremely high...
She would not take action or save people unless it was necessary. Some deaths were inevitable in an experiment, and even... Yan Xunzhi didn't dare to think too deeply, but the black shadow and the giant appeared at such a perfect time.
Yan Xunzhi closed his eyes, feeling the blood boiling and rolling in his body again and again, but his hands and feet were still uncontrollably cold.
The student was an excellent student after all. In the few seconds when her exoskeleton was about to collapse due to being stepped on, she decisively went offline and got a face full of sand, but she rolled on the ground for some distance, got up and ran.
The other student who took her gun also quickly pulled the safety and fired. With a bang, the capture net exploded in front of the face of the approaching strange tiger!
The strange tiger was knocked down by the impact of the capture net. The student seized the opportunity and ran forward for a while, and was about to plunge into the crowd.
Suddenly he stopped in mid-air, his whole body maintaining the posture of running, and just stopped in the middle.
The channel was still on, and Yan Xunzhi heard Kong Wei softly exclaim, "So early."
She wasn't wearing an exoskeleton at the moment, relying solely on her ground-based suit. Every step she took was a pool of blood and mud. The capture net only served as a barrier to this massive mutant, its rigid openings enough for the tiger to drag the net forward, fangs bared.
The student wearing red ground sportswear next to him suddenly made up his mind and rushed over!
The speed was not fast enough, and the tip of the tiger's claws had already touched the offline trainee's ground activity suit, and the rubber was easily cut, and a long blood flower spurted out on her back.
Her pounce sent the two of them tumbling outward, landing just in front of Yan Xunzhi. If the strange tiger had pounced at her at this moment, its tail would have likely whipped her away.
Yan Xunzhi knew she should hide at this moment, but her limbs were so cold that she could hardly move.
After Kong Wei came to the ground, she asked her to follow her, which was a disguised way of telling her that she would protect her. Just now, she did help her avoid the attack.
If the strange tiger pounces on her, she should...
Yan Xunzhi took a deep breath, charged his exoskeleton, grabbed the inch-long iron spear at his waist and threw it hard at the strange tiger!
She had just been outside the battlefield, and Kong Wei was by her side, so she didn't feel that life-and-death tension. So she wasn't in a panic and only threw it after the exoskeleton was fully charged.
The fully charged force was amplified a hundredfold, and the spear tip pierced through the thick skin and penetrated deep into the body of the strange tiger.
Under attack, the strange tiger indeed turned in mid-air. It seemed that it could not see the person clearly, but it was very clear where the spear came from. Without hesitation, it rushed straight towards Yan Xunzhi!
The scene before his eyes suddenly dimmed, and Yan Xunzhi's heart was twisted so fast that it almost jumped out.
He grasped the dagger with such force that he seemed to want to crush it. He stared at the tiger that was charging at him, and thought of Kong Wei nodding in affirmation, "You can indeed avoid it if you retreat..."
As long as she maintains the mental connection, she will be able to avoid it by retreating.
The tiger was about to fall, and she was right under its claws. Yan Xunzhi wanted to bend slightly so that if she didn't retreat fast enough, she could roll over and avoid it.
However, her body did not move at all.
Yan Xunzhi's whole body felt numb, his pupils suddenly shrank and trembled, and he could no longer hear his own heartbeat.
At this critical moment...
She broke the chain.
【Author’s words】
Q: How do you feel about failing at the critical moment?
Pickled fish: You’ll get used to it…
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