Chapter 70 Blackrock City [Jiang Yang Invites You to a Video Call]...
Jiang Yang ultimately couldn't decide which guild to join; what attracted him was Hoshino's other suggestion.
External reinforcement of the tower.
As everyone knows, the area outside the Tower of Judgment is a nearly unexplored wasteland. Currently, only about one-tenth of it has been developed. However, few people know that this 10% has been developed by various guilds and transformed into training bases. With natural arenas and top-notch security, it is always a place that attracts many people.
Leviathan happens to have one.
Nan Ke, who could even take advantage of Huang Er, clearly defined the boundaries when faced with the devil's gift, and had Hoshino draft a transaction contract.
Hoshino asked, still fuming, "How many days?"
"Let's come for a week first, and if it's not fun, we'll leave."
"I'll make you pay!" Hoshino gritted his teeth and threatened, swiping his fingers across the panel to enter prices.
When the paper copy was handed to Nan Ke, it just so happened that a series of zeros were visible on it, leaving Jiang Yang speechless.
Jiang Yang couldn't help but exclaim, "So expensive!"
I did the math, and it's almost equal to his current savings in just one day.
“It’s alright,” Nan Ke said.
The despicable face of capitalists!
Nan Ke signed her name smoothly, and as the pen cap closed, Hoshino snatched the contract away, angrily declaring, "Leave at 3 PM! No waiting for latecomers!" before turning and leaving.
Why are you always making him angry?
"One thing at a time."
As Nan Ke spoke, her gaze suddenly shifted from the table to Jiang Yang's face, and she asked meaningfully, "Which faction in the No Man's Land do you think has the closest connection with the Tower right now?"
Jiang Yang pondered seriously. Huang Er had mentioned before that Nan Ke and Xiong Bingxin had a grudge against the Tower on Train Zero, but since Nan Ke had asked the question, it couldn't be that simple. However, if Hoshino Tsukie belonged to the Judgment Tower, Nan Ke wouldn't have any dealings with them...
"Is it Leviathan?" Jiang Yang gave an answer.
If Nan Ke didn't hate Hoshino and Yuejiang, he would only hate the demon itself.
Nan Ke patted Jiang Yangyang's head encouragingly, her eyes crinkling with a smile, "Smart, Jiang Yangyang."
"Then why are you still thinking about going to Leviathan's training base?"
"Xie Lu is outside the tower."
Jiang Yang was puzzled, "Can't we just go find him directly?" Given Nan Ke's abilities, going out shouldn't be difficult.
“He doesn’t want me to go to him,” Nan Ke sighed sadly.
"But I feel I absolutely have to go see him this time."
The young man was momentarily stunned by his words, and Nan Ke hurriedly waved his hand in front of him.
"Okay, what's the plan?" Jiang Yang picked up his coffee cup and drank it all in one gulp.
...
As part of the plan, Nan Ke successfully bought clothes for Jiang Yang.
Despite Jiang Yang's repeated insistence that Ji Yang had already bought a lot, he still couldn't dissuade Nan Ke, as if she had some kind of obsession.
However, the clothes Nan Ke chose this time were mainly suitable for survival outside the tower. After being tailored, they were delivered just as they were preparing to leave the tower in the afternoon.
Following Nan Ke's example, Jiang Yang put the clothes into the system's inventory.
At exactly three o'clock, thanks to Nan Ke's deliberate delay, the two arrived at the -1 floor of the tower. At the elevator entrance was an off-road vehicle with a giant stone python coiled around it. The python's eyes were closed and were as big as a human head. As the two approached, the stone tail under the python's head smoothly opened the rear door, lifelike.
The driver didn't speak. There was a metal railing between the back seat and the driver's seat. Jiang Yang shifted his position uneasily. Then the car drove out of the tower and slowly drifted off to sleep with a gentle, cushioning sway.
Only then did the driver turn his head to look at Nan Ke, and greet him in a low and devout voice: "Lord."
"How's it going outside?"
"As soon as I received your message, I sent someone to inquire. It is said that a city has appeared."
As the driver spoke, he glanced at Nan Ke's reaction in the rearview mirror. Nan Ke calmly replied, "Continue."
"It's Blackrock City."
Nan Ke gripped the soft leather armrest, her hand unconsciously tightening, releasing demonic power. The driver's rising fear caused the steering wheel to veer unexpectedly. Seeing that Nan Ke didn't react, he quickly continued what he hadn't finished saying, "Mou Guang and the chariot are both guarding outside. They haven't found a way into the city yet. Mr. Xie is also there."
"Okay, drive carefully."
As the car sped into Leviathan, Jiang Yang was awakened by a sharp cry from some kind of marine creature.
He jolted up from the back of the chair, still shaken. Suddenly awakened from his sleep, his forehead was covered in a thick layer of cold sweat.
He opened the window to let in some fresh air. The cries and roars of wild beasts grew clearer as he approached the center of this demon city. The air was damp, and ripples spread across the water not far away through the night.
Jiang Yang turned her head and asked uncertainly, "Is there a river?"
"Yes, there is a moat."
He closed the window again and sank into the back of the chair.
He had a dream about the sea near Un Entertainment, where a fish with a human face, covered in mud, suddenly appeared.
The human-faced fish's face was covered in blisters, some of which seemed to be boiling. It opened its mouth wide, and a nauseating fishy smell wafted towards him. Jiang Yang didn't know why he was trapped in place and could only watch helplessly as its sharp teeth pressed against his neck.
Until I woke up in shock.
Jiang Yang opened the panel.
Jinwu had somehow climbed into Un Entertainment alone, which allowed him to briefly check the situation inside the building.
Unexpectedly, Tian Yu, who had disappeared, was also there.
Jiang Yang's original expectation was to "go home".
But at this moment, wherever the soul belongs, that is home.
He decided to change the name of Un Entertainment.
Let's call it All.
all.
It belongs to everyone, and is owned by people.
...
The second step of the plan: sleep.
Nan Ke's plan a few days ago was to focus on intensive training for Jiang Yang.
However, he only gave Jiang Yang this one night to rest and adjust, because Jiang Yang looked really bad. Otherwise, according to his usual pace, he would have started the intense pressure test right away.
Nan Ke chose to practice freely. After the driver took the two back to their residence, he gave them each a pass and left.
The place she was staying in was a duplex apartment. Jiang Yang lived upstairs and had just lain down when she received a message from Ji Yang, who had disappeared for a day.
Ji Yang: "Can you talk to me for a while?"
His rare outburst of emotion was impossible to ignore, even through the cold panel.
Ji Yang retracted a message.
Ji Yang (in a self-righteous manner): "Talk to me for a while."
Ji Yang retracted a message.
Ji Yang (unreasonable version): "I don't care, stay with me! Talk to me!"
You retracted a message.
Ji Yang: "Throw it away."
Jiang Yang invites you to a video call.
Having not received a reply from Jiang Yang for a long time, Ji Yang suddenly received this message on his panel.
In his haste, Ji Yang refused to answer.
Ji Yang (cautiously): Did you... click the wrong thing?
He regretted it as soon as he asked the question. What could he do if he clicked the wrong thing? Getting the answer was a bonus!
He took a deep breath, got up and walked outside, asking Xie Lu in the tent, "Where are you going?"
"Let's go for a walk."
He had just arrived outside the tower. The original plan was to arrive tomorrow, but Xie Lu said that Yuejiang had brought Leviathan's Pandora's Box.
After working non-stop all day, the exhaustion from the depths of his mind surged up as he lay down, which is why he was so eager to talk to that person.
Unexpectedly, after his outburst, Jiang Yang actually made a video call.
Jiang Yang invites you to a video call.
Jiang Yang typed it again, proving with his actions that he hadn't clicked the wrong button.
This time he pressed the answer button.
"Are you outside?" The young man's voice came almost right next to his ear.
Looking at Jiang Yang in the picture wearing a camel coat, Ji Yang's Adam's apple bobbed involuntarily. "The clothes suit you very well."
The young man chuckled, "You have excellent taste too."
Ji Yang dragged the camera, and the entire face floated outside the frame. No one could see it in the darkness as he greedily traced the person's image in his mind again and again.
After a long pause, he said, "I've been quite busy lately, so I might not be able to reply to messages very promptly."
"Okay," Jiang Yang paused for a moment, "Then... I'll hang up now?"
Ji Yang nodded, and just as the person leaned forward to hang up, the icon that had been deliberately hidden behind him for a long time was inadvertently revealed.
"Wait a minute, are you in Leviathan?" Ji Yang frowned.
The next day, Jiang Yang waited early in front of Nan Ke's room, ready to apologize.
Nan Ke waved his hand dismissively, "We're not hiding this from Ji Yang and Xie Lu, so don't worry."
As for the person he was really hiding it from, Nan Ke didn't mention it. What he was more concerned about was, "So you mean you video-chatted with Ji Yang yesterday??"
"No," Jiang Yang stubbornly replied.
"Alright then, given that we have an undercover agent among us, we must train hard today."
...
Jiang Yang's only weapon was a small knife with a purple copper handle. Nan Ke, as his sparring partner, first arranged some wild animals suitable for knife combat for him. The wild animals would be released into the fixed training area every five minutes.
Nan Ke was naturally not going to hold back in helping Jiang Yang improve, and with this incident, the outcome was obvious.
By the end of the day, Jiang Yang was so badly injured that he could barely hold a knife, and his body was in a terrible state.
Holding the score sheet, Nan Ke roared in dissatisfaction, "Run, run, all you do is run! Why don't you fight!"
"I just couldn't beat them," Jiang Yang tried to argue, whispering "bye-bye."
"What about your talent? Don't you know how to use your talent?"
Jiang Yang knows how to use it, but he genuinely doesn't know how.
One function reads, and the other replaces; at first glance, they don't seem like they're going to be used for an attack.
Just then, Ji Yang sent another message.
Jiang Yang invites you to a video call.
This time, Ji Yang didn't hang up. He told Xie Lu and went back to the tree where he had stood the night before.
He recalled the training at Leviathan: "Killing a beast is different from killing a person, and even more different from killing a monster."
"Monsters have weaknesses, and so do wild beasts."
Jiang Yang had naturally thought of this, but, "I can't find it."
"Then let's look at it from the perspective of the wild beast."
The angle of the wild beast...
The next day, in the same place, with the same wild beast, Jiang Yang fearlessly charged at the more agile and smaller one that appeared.
The rose was trampled underfoot by someone. When the young man reached his target location, he decisively chose to replace it. His fallen body attracted the attention of other wild animals, while the one he replaced nimbly weaved through the pack.
The beasts were enraged, and in the chaos they clashed and engaged in fierce biting. Before the beasts were destroyed, the Leviathans appeared and stopped this primal destruction.
The young man slowly regained consciousness and used the opponent's strength against them.
Of course, he still failed on the new evaluation form because it took him almost ten minutes to recover after his replacement finished.
The third and fourth days mainly focused on Nan Ke's attacks on Jiang Yang's mental strength. Over the course of two days, Jiang Yang was even able to hold the dagger close to a person's face, and with the help of some other tricks, the dagger successfully slashed through Nan Ke's clothes.
Finally, on the evening of the fourth day, Nan Ke felt it was time and quietly slipped out of Leviathan with Jiang Yang.
Ten years ago, Xie Lu forced his way into the wasteland and entered Blackstone City.
Nan Ke searched the wasteland for a long time, but he could not find Black Stone City or Xie Lu.
Everyone is saying that Xie Lu is dead.
He was frantic in the wasteland, knowing full well what he had lost in this deal with the tower, and he couldn't bear to look at what he had done.
Finally, Ji Yang arrived and judged him with the power of justice.
When he awoke from his slumber, the Judgment Card shattered. Jiang Yang was reborn for the last time, and he realized that he had come too late once again.
Until I met Xie Lu.
The appearance of Blackrock City was not a coincidence, and its disappearance was not an accident. Therefore, Nan Ke must enter Blackrock City.
But what stopped him was not Xie Lu or Ji Yang, but the tower.
Leviathan has a path that connects to Blackrock City, which is why he used the reinforcements outside Jiangyang Tower to sneak through Leviathan.
He needed to know what had happened in Blackrock City.
...
[Undeveloped Resource Trial - Blackrock City has met the activation requirements]
Registration closes in one hour.
[This trial is open only to guilds, and each guild may send no more than ten exploration players.]
After Jiang Yang and Nan Ke climbed up the cliff along the steel cable, both of them received this notification on their system panels at the same time.
The young man collapsed to the ground, panting. Nan Ke, who had been complaining about continuing to strengthen his skills after returning, remained silent after seeing the message.
Ji Yang sent a message in the chat box asking, "Where are you guys?"
After asking Nan Ke for his opinion, Jiang Yang honestly replied, "Black Rock City."
The trial of undeveloped resources means that the Trial Tower initially had little control over this area, but once it becomes a trial, they must abide by the established rules. This is the Tower's counterattack.
Nan Ke meant that since none of them had a union, the best way for them to enter the city now was to be honest with Ji Yang.
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Author's note: Quick, pack your things, get ready to go to town!
I really enjoyed the feeling of changing perspectives today, hehe~
Hope you like it too~
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Theoretically speaking, this is the first chapter after the VIP chapter. Thank you all so much!
This is my first book. It's really hard to believe that I've been writing for so long. I think I started liking writing in junior high school.
Then, in high school, I loved radio dramas and voice acting, so I wrote radio drama scripts for a very long time. Later in college, I wanted to write murder mystery games.
Of course, due to the subject matter, it was abandoned when I was almost finished writing it, until I decided to write the story of Jiang Yang and Ji Yang.
We'll be together for a long time to come!
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