Chapter 99: Avoiding the military service

The numbers on the screen of the safe zone kept increasing as time went by. After a few hours, the number of people reached 398.

With another 100 people, the competition could be successfully concluded.

"Except for some incidents in the safe zone, the last day was incredibly smooth. This is not like the style of Teacher Feng Yanzi."

Jiang Ning was counting the number of people to kill time. Suddenly, she heard a voice talking next to her. She tilted her head and glanced at the person.

The person had short curly hair of bright golden color, a round face, and a cute appearance.

The key point is that Jiang Ning recognized her as a student in Feng Yanzi's class. She had seen this person come to Feng Yanzi when she was taking flying lessons before.

Feng Yanzi is the chief judge, and has the highest say and decision-making power in the freshman superpower competition. If she wants to set up some obstacles, it is easy.

Jiang Ning came to her senses and looked outside the safe zone. She saw that the freshmen who were originally heading in this direction seemed to have encountered some obstacles. They all turned around on the spot only ten meters away from the safe zone.

What is this?

She slowly approached the light curtain of the safe zone, trying to see what was blocking their steps.

However, when she approached, she saw nothing, and she didn't even feel the wind field.

Everyone seemed to have entered another dimension. In other words, they were all trapped in a ghost wall.

"..."

"They are trapped in an illusion." Cheng Yao walked to Jiang Ning's side and stood side by side with her without knowing when. She looked at the people who were spinning in circles.

"I also encountered an alien in the simulation training cabin. Its ability is to create dreams. When I checked the training playback, the situation was exactly the same as these people." Cheng Yao added, "Only by killing the alien can the illusion be broken."

Jiang Ning quickly recalled the appearance characteristics of several types of aliens with mental attacks, and then her eyes patrolled around, but did not find any traces of them.

However, there were several rotten ants crawling around the light curtain of the safe zone.

Wait.

Jiang Ning's eyes were locked back on the rotten ants.

Scavenger ants often appear near decaying objects. The surrounding sand is clean. Not to mention the alien beasts, there are no larger stones.

So how come there are scavenger ants here?

She stared at the scavenger ants for a long time. Suddenly, there was a flash in front of her eyes for a second, as if an incandescent light was turned off and then on again. Jiang Ning subconsciously rubbed her eyes hard.

"Are you okay?" Cheng Yao beside her reached out to stop her.

Jiang Ning put down her hand and raised her head again. She was about to say that she was fine, but suddenly she noticed that the position of the two seemed to have changed a little.

"We... were in the safe zone just now, right?" Jiang Ning looked down at the place where she was standing, and pointed uncertainly at the safe zone light curtain behind Cheng Yao.

Cheng Yao turned around and looked.

The light curtain had moved from in front of the two to behind them at some point, and the number on the screen when they came was 402, but now it had changed to 400.

The scavengers that were rustling around the light curtain had also disappeared.

Cheng Yao immediately realized something, and her eyes darkened: "We are trapped in an illusion."

This alien was really brave, it actually dared to launch a mental attack on them when they were unprepared.

She could kill it the first time in the simulation training chamber, and she could kill it the second time here.

Cheng Yao narrowed her eyes dangerously.

"Let's just stand here and don't move. Everything we see is fake. We are actually still in the safe zone." Cheng Yao looked around, looking for clues of the alien.

"What was the illusion you experienced in the simulation training chamber like?" Jiang Ning asked Cheng Yao.

Cheng Yao thought for a moment and asked back: "Do you know what a mirage is?"

Jiang Ning nodded.

"Just like that." Cheng Yao gave an example, "The monster will reflect a target in front of your eyes, but no matter how hard you try, you can't touch that target because it is fake and illusory."

Jiang Ning touched her chin, looking thoughtful, and continued to ask: "Then how did you break the illusion?"

"Mental attacks will interfere with our perception, so the information sent back by perception at this time is also unreliable. You can calm down and carefully feel the flow of the air around you." Cheng Yao closed his eyes after speaking.

"The space created by the illusion is false. There is no wind in it. If there is space flow, it must be the location of the alien beast." As she spoke, she raised her hand and released her supernatural power.

A block of soil condensed three meters away from the two people, and it kept folding towards the middle.

"Found you." Cheng Yao opened his eyes and chuckled.

Jiang Ning: "..."

She silently poked Cheng Yao's arm, indicating that she should look at the place where she attacked.

There was nothing there.

The soil condensed loneliness.

"..." Cheng Yao coughed lightly and touched his nose awkwardly.

"Is it possible that we are not under the illusion at all?" Jiang Ning's voice was crisp and clear, and it was transmitted to Cheng Yao's ears. *

She immediately fell into deep thought.

Jiang Ning continued: "Except for a moment of discomfort in front of my eyes, I didn't feel any mental fluctuations just now."

Mental attacks will stimulate the neurons in the brain, and it is impossible for her to feel nothing at all.

The higher the mental power, the more precise the control over one's own sea of ​​consciousness.

Cheng Yao's eyes rolled: "You mean we are actually outside the safe zone now?"

"Yeah." Jiang Ning nodded.

There is no such thing as an illusion at all. Cheng Yao's thinking has been preconceived from the beginning.

Cheng Yao still stayed where he was, and Jiang Ning was about to walk into the safe zone.

She passed through a green light curtain and returned to the safe zone again. The number on the screen jumped from 443 to 444.

Not all students outside the safe zone have problems. There are also students entering the safe zone from other directions.

Cheng Yao hesitated for a moment and chose to follow.

"The culprit should be in the sand under the group of scavenging ants." Jiang Ning said.

Cheng Yao followed her words and looked at the edge of the light curtain. Her perception was instantly released, and the sand under her feet petrified all the way to the location where the scavenging ants appeared in her memory.

Before it condensed to the target location, there was a burst of movement under the feet of the two people.

Then a brown-red crawling monster about two meters long appeared in front of the two people. Its skin was covered with granular scales, its head had a triangular protrusion, and its eyes were independent.

The most special thing was its skin. It was still brown-red just now, but now it began to gradually become transparent from the ridge on its back.

Jiang Ning recognized that this was one of the five spiritual attacking aliens, Chamomile.

Chamomile was a double S-level alien. It was probably aware that she and Cheng Yao were both spiritually advanced and could not be confused by illusions, so it just moved them to another place to confuse them.

"Want to escape?" Cheng Yao narrowed her eyes.

She could handle a double S-level alien by herself. After fighting with it for a while, Chamomile was successfully killed by Cheng Yao.

After Chamomile died, the pigment in its body stopped secreting, and its skin gradually turned gray.

The scavenger ants that had disappeared reappeared, surrounding Chamomile's body and sniffing.

"Do you want this body?" Jiang Ning asked Cheng Yao who was standing aside.

"Of course!" Cheng Yao walked over, chased away the scavengers and put the Chameleon back into his storage ring.

Exotic beast materials are valuable, only a fool would not want them.

Jiang Ning sighed silently, turned around and walked back helplessly.

After the Chameleon died, the illusion originally maintained by it also collapsed. The students who had been turning around in place for who knows how many times finally entered the safe zone.

As the number on the screen in the safe zone jumped to five hundred, a broadcast sounded in the arena.

[The third stage of the competition has now ended. Congratulations to the first five hundred freshmen who arrived at the safe zone for successfully advancing to the next stage. In one minute, the bracelet will automatically teleport you to the exit. Please pay attention.]

[Repeat!]

The broadcast was announced three times.

A minute later, the stadium exit was crowded with people, and everyone was teleported out.

In addition to Zhou Yuanshan and Fang Li, Xia Shi also came to pick up Jiang Ning. Facing

Jiang Ning's surprised eyes, Xia Shi touched his head embarrassedly: "I was eliminated after you left."

Jiang Ning noticed that Xia Shi said "people" instead of "exotic beasts". Xia Shi must be very unwilling to "die" at the hands of his own people.

"It's okay, I'm still here." Jiang Ning comforted him.

"I believe you can definitely make it to the federation competition and then reach the top position." Xia Shi nodded heavily, his face full of confidence.

After he said this, he felt a sudden blow on the back of his head. He turned around and met Zhou Yuanshan's serious gaze.

Zhou Yuanshan said, "Keep a low profile."

Xia Shi rubbed his aching head and said reluctantly, "Got it."

When Zhou Yuanshan turned his head, he made a gesture of encouragement to Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning looked at him with amusement.

The few people talked for a while, and then they said they had to gather again.

Feng Yanzi said some closing remarks as usual, and then dismissed everyone.

Jiang Ning spent most of the time lying down in the stadium this time. She was not sleepy now. After returning to the dormitory and taking a shower, she prepared to go out for a walk.

The first-year students in the school were catching up on sleep, and the remaining second-, third- and fourth-year students were also in class. The campus was very quiet at this time.

Jiang Ning met Yan Zhou while walking around.

Yan Zhou was wearing a soldier's uniform and was heading to the cafeteria.

During the competition, the school had set aside an area for these soldiers to live in.

Jiang Ning moved and decided to go forward and say hello.

Yan Zhou noticed that someone was following him. He narrowed his eyes and turned around quickly. When he saw the face of the person behind him, his expression suddenly relaxed.

"Classmate, what's the matter?" Yan Zhou asked calmly.

He remembered this student because her name was also Jiang Ning, the same name as the girl next door.

Yan Zhou recalled the girl in his memory.

She was small and thin, with pale yellow skin, but her face always had a firmness and composure. She was so thin back then, and could be blown away by the wind, but she could face the B-level monster alone.

After many years, he was still shocked when he recalled the scene at that time.

"Yan Zhou...Brother, it's me, Jiang Ning."

After so many years, Jiang Ning was still not used to calling Yan Zhou brother, but calling her by her name alone was a bit rude.

"You are Jiang Ning." Yan Zhou's face was full of disbelief. He looked up and down at the girl in front of him who looked almost as tall as him.

Yan Zhou remembered that the data showed that Jiang Ning was now a plant-type psychic with a mental power of 3S+.

Yan Zhou was really happy for her in his heart.