On the outskirts of the disaster area at the gate, there was a human camp, and other people arrived one after another.
There is a towering wall outside the camp, which is estimated to be about 20 to 30 meters high, much higher than the city’s wall. This is to prevent mutant creatures from running out of the disaster area and destroying nearby towns.
In addition to the students of Penglai University, there are also mercenaries and wild cultivators from all over the place, because the Damen disaster area has become an open disaster area.
Gao Han followed everyone down the hovercraft. After the school instructor gave a few more instructions, he let everyone move freely.
The people in the camp are no longer surprised by this situation. Penglai University organizes students to come here for training every six months, sometimes not in the disaster area at Damen, but in other disaster areas.
Many businessmen seized this opportunity to sell various products to students, such as compasses, maps, and biological illustrations.
Their biological illustrations were naturally not as rich as those in Area A of the school library. The students were not stupid and few were fooled. However, they bought a lot of maps and compasses, both of which were indispensable in the disaster area.
Zhang Hao bought a map and shared it with Gao Han and Lin Ying. They both had good memory and memorized it in just a few minutes.
"Brother Han, many people have already left. Should we set off too?" Zhang Hao asked after putting away the map.
"Well, let's go." Gao Han nodded and said.
Lin Ying suddenly said, "Wait, I want to get some information. Can we leave later? It won't take too long."
Gao Han said yes.
Lin Ying looked at him gratefully and ran to inquire about his brother. The disaster area at Damen had been excavated for a long time and there were many local tyrants here. If the information obtained by the dean and master was correct, someone should have seen his brother.
Lin Ying spent an hour asking around, and by then all the other teams had left, leaving only them.
"Okay, let's go." An hour later, Lin Ying came back with red eyes.
Zhang Hao couldn't help but ask, "Lin Ying, is your brother okay?"
Lin Ying seemed to know that his brother's affairs could not be kept secret for long, and since he was teaming up with them, some things had to be said in advance, which would also help with team coordination.
"I just heard that someone did see a person who looked like my brother, but they are not sure if it was my brother. I can only try my luck now." Lin Ying pursed her lips, "There are a few people around my brother, and they seem to be the ones who coerced my brother."
"The disaster area at Damen is so large that even if your brother is here, it would be difficult to find him." Gao Han went straight to the point.
"So I can only take it one step at a time. Don't worry, I won't delay you." Lin Ying paused and said, "Those people may have brought my brother here just to do business. They may not necessarily go to the disaster area at the gate. They may go to another disaster area. If that's the case, the chance of meeting my brother is very low."
"Is there another disaster area near the Damen disaster area?" Gao Han frowned. He didn't know as much about the disaster area as these people who were born and raised here.
Lin Ying was a little surprised that he didn't know this, and explained: "The distribution of disaster areas also has a certain pattern. The higher-level disaster areas are mostly together. The Damen disaster area is a higher-level disaster area, so the nearby disaster areas must also be high-level, such as the Baicheng new disaster area that the seniors are going to now."
Gao Han's expression changed. The disaster area in Baicheng is where Zhongli Tingzhou is. What a coincidence.
"Some disaster areas have not been heard of, but they have not been announced, so the outside world does not know about it." Lin Ying added.
Many freshmen in the first grade are not clear about this, but his brother often goes to the disaster area and knows a little about these things, so he usually tells him about them.
"If your brother is taken to the disaster area in Baicheng by them, what are you going to do?" Gao Han suddenly asked.
"Let's take it one step at a time." Lin Ying said after a moment of hesitation.
"You still won't give up, right? If necessary, you will find a way to go to the disaster area in Baicheng." Gao Han directly stated what he was thinking.
"If there is such an opportunity." Lin Ying admitted without hesitation. Since he decided to make it clear, he did not intend to hide it.
Gao Han narrowed his eyes, "How can you be sure that we can do what you want?"
Lin Ying looked at him, hesitated for a moment and said, "It's not you, it's you. If there is a way from the Damen disaster area to the Baicheng disaster area, it must be deep in the disaster area. You are very strong and a weapon master. I don't think you will miss this opportunity. Although the Damen disaster area has been explored by many people, no one can explain the situation in the depths. And the spiritual energy there is the most concentrated. If you want to practice, there is only one place. Other teams will be afraid of the creatures there. I don't think you will."
"But we won't go just because you want to go," Zhang Hao blurted out.
"I know." They didn't know each other before, and Lin Ying was not stupid enough to join someone else's team and use her brother's story to win their sympathy.
"Let's go." Gao Han turned and left without saying anything.
Lin Ying was stunned for a moment, then a look of joy appeared on his face.
Although not designated, Gao Han has become the backbone of this team.
As soon as Gao Han spoke, Zhang Hao had no objection.
The three-man team then left the camp and entered the gate disaster area.
Without this group of students, the camp suddenly seemed a bit deserted.
"The Baicheng disaster area had just been opened, and Penglai University chose the Damen disaster area as a training ground. I wonder if they have some plans in mind." A middle-aged man said with a smile.
"Is it that easy to go to Baicheng from the disaster area at Damen? The military blockade is no joke." The people who heard this didn't take it seriously.
"Money talks. The military can block most people, but there are still a few who cannot be blocked just by saying so."
An experienced old man nearby also heard what they said and said, "What will happen if we go in? You are too naive. Why did the military seal off the disaster area in Baicheng? Do you really think that anyone can get their hands on the disaster area in Baicheng?"
The middle-aged man who was refuted suddenly lowered his voice and said, "I heard that it was because of the appearance of the silver spirit lizard."
"No wonder the situation was so tense a while ago. It's just the beginning now. Once the news is confirmed, there will probably be more blood and gore."
Everyone looked like they were watching a show, since they couldn't get their hands on that kind of stuff anyway.
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"Still no news about the Silver Lizard?" The middle-aged man with a square face had a pair of majestic tiger eyes. When he looked at people, his eyes were shining brightly. The younger generation did not dare to look him in the eye.
"This silver lizard is very smart and good at hiding. Last time someone said they saw it in the northeast, and then someone else said they saw it in the southeast." The person who answered the question said carefully.
"I don't understand, why don't you go directly to find the Lingyun Stone Mine? Since the silver lizard is active in the east, doesn't it mean that the Lingyun Stone Mine is somewhere in the east?" Yuan Yaonu walked over, her charming facial features were full of aggressiveness, and her pair of peach blossom eyes did not have the tenderness of a woman, but were sharp and cold.
The square-faced middle-aged man said meaningfully, "The Lingyun Stone Mine is not that easy to detect. The more difficult it is to capture the Silver Essence Lizard, the larger the Lingyun Stone Mine is."
"Our Yuan family is determined to get this Lingyun stone mine." Yuan Yaonu said with a gloomy face.
"This is the best case scenario. We must find the silver lizard before others." The square-faced middle-aged man suddenly took out something black.
"What is this?" asked Yuan Yaonu.
"Grass Gu incense." said the middle-aged man with a square face.
Yuan Yaonu's face changed slightly, "So this is the grass incense. I remember that this thing is priceless and hard to get. Although it can attract mutant creatures to gather, the side effects are also very strong. It can't be used lightly."
The square-faced middle-aged man said, "Yes, this is the only choice. If you can't find the Silver Essence Lizard, you can only use it. You should concentrate on your cultivation. The disaster area in Baicheng is rich in spiritual energy. If you are lucky, you may be able to break through. As long as you break through, the hope of the Yuan family will be greater. Even without the Lingyun Stone Mine, those people can't do anything to the Yuan family!" He snorted coldly, as if he thought of something.
"By the way, what happened to Yuan Zhe? I heard that he was kicked down to second place by an unknown person during the exam. Is this true?"
"It's true." Yuan Yaonu said lightly.
"Yuan Zhe's talent is not bad. He was the first last semester. But this semester, he suddenly changed. Could he be a transfer student?"
"He's not a transfer student. He's a student from Class Nine of the Magical Instruments Academy, and he's choosing a cultivation instrument."
After Yuan Yaonu finished speaking, the square-faced middle-aged man unexpectedly became angry.
"Ridiculous, being defeated by a student who chose a cultivation weapon, what's wrong with him?!"
"That student is not an ordinary person," Yuan Yaonu frowned in disgust as she thought of the news she had heard before, "He is Yuan Zhengrong's son."
If Yuan Zhengrong had not been kicked out of the family, Yuan Yaonu would still have to call him uncle.
Her father and Yuan Zhengrong are half-brothers. At that time, Yuan Zhengrong and her father were both the old man's most promising heirs. Yuan Zhengrong's talent for refining weapons was higher than her father's, so the old man valued Yuan Zhengrong more. If he had not later angered the old man and been demoted to a branch family, her father might not have been so powerful.
Because of this incident, some people in the Yuan family still say that her father obtained his status by squeezing out Yuan Zhengrong.
The words she said before were even more unpleasant than they are now. Later, when she became the most talented weapon master in the Yuan family, those people no longer dared to ridicule her in person.
"Yuan Zhengrong has a son?" There was a hint of surprise in the eyes of the middle-aged man with a square face.
That year, Yuan Zhengrong was demoted to a branch, and there was no news about him since then. He also disappeared.
No one knew what he had done in the past twenty years. The Yuan family even assumed that he was dead, and now his son suddenly showed up.
"Yuan Zhengrong's wife is from the Tang family branch. I heard that she was found by the Tang family branch and sent to Penglai University. However, he and the Tang family seem to have fallen out."
The square-faced middle-aged man looked doubtful and said, "Forget it. We'll make plans for Yuan Zhe after this incident. Go and practice."
Yuan Yaonu nodded and left with her people. In order to find the Lingyun Stone Mine, the Yuan family had only one goal, which was to become stronger.
She would never let the same thing happen to her again, as Yuan Zhengrong had done to suppress her father.