Yu
Chapter 134 The So-Called Arsenal
Time quickly passed, and a day later arrived.
Jiang Xiao's team gathered at the school gate, facing the teacher leading this trip—Hai Tianqing.
Today, Hai Tianqing's attire was fairly normal. He wore a light blue thin down jacket and light blue jeans, at least looking like a normal person now, no longer the best man who had just rushed back from a wedding.
Jiang Xiao was a little puzzled because the school clearly said they would focus on cultivating three teams, but in reality, only one team was going to the Armory for training this time.
In fact, Jiang Xiao didn't know that even their team almost couldn't make the trip.
That was because Li Weiyi almost failed to convince his mother. If it hadn't been for Li Qingmei's help, Li Weiyi might have really dropped the ball this time, leading to the team's inability to go for training.
What Jiang Xiao and the others didn't know was how much effort Li Qingmei, with her overly sweet smile, had put in behind the scenes, and how much determination she had shown.
Li Weiyi never mentioned these things. He didn't want everyone to worry, so he pretended to be fine and stood at the front of the team.
The Armory was different from the Snow Plains. It wasn't blooming everywhere in Bei Jiang Province and wasn't as numerous.
Generally speaking, the Armories in Zhong Ji Province were the most densely distributed and numerous.
The Armory that the school contacted was located in Nansheng County, about a 2-hour drive away.
Originally, the teachers were going to lead the children to the passenger station and take a bus there, but at Xia Yan's request, they changed to Xia Yan's private car.
Hai Tianqing naturally became the driver, and Li Weiyi was thrown into the passenger seat.
Xia Yan sat in the middle of the back seat, separating Han Jiangxue and Jiang Xiao.
The Land Rover was relatively spacious, especially since Xia Yan was also tightly pressed against Han Jiangxue, who was next to the left window. This resulted in Jiang Xiao leaning against the right window by himself, with a lot of space beside him.
During this not-so-long journey, Li Weiyi brought up a topic that hadn't been finished yesterday: "I went back and had a good talk with my family."
Xia Yan in the back seat looked at Li Weiyi, and the others pricked up their ears.
"My father hopes that I can get into a military academy," Li Weiyi said with a slight apology. "He wants me to go to the China National University of Defense Technology."
"The one in Xiangnan?" Jiang Xiao asked.
In this world, general awakened students would go to Star Warrior Universities in various provinces. Although the names were similar, the educational levels of the schools were different due to the different provinces.
In addition to the Star Warrior Universities in various provinces, some military and police academies also enrolled awakened students.
Apart from that, other universities normally enrolled ordinary students, after all, ordinary students were the mainstream and main force of this world.
"Yes, the one in Xiangnan," Li Weiyi responded.
"The Qingbei of the military, that's a top-notch school, you really need every extra point," Jiang Xiao clicked his tongue slightly. The name of this school alone was a bit intimidating.
"What about you guys?" Li Weiyi turned his body sideways and looked back at the teammates behind him.
"I don't want to go to a military academy, the management is too strict. Going to a normal Star Warrior University is good enough," Xia Yan immediately shook her head and said.
Hai Tianqing's voice was gentle, seemingly full of a sense of accomplishment: "I've seen your level of effort, and compared to the school's management, you are stricter with yourselves. There's no need to worry about these things."
Xia Yan "tsk"-ed and said, "The awakened students at the National University of Defense Technology basically join various national legions after graduation. I don't want to decide my career in advance. I still want to go abroad to study for a few more years and have more fun."
"All you know is how to play," Han Jiangxue said softly.
Xia Yan smiled and affectionately bumped her head against Han Jiangxue's, saying, "I'll work hard, don't worry. If I can't be a good awakened, then I'll have to go home and inherit billions of assets. I don't want that."
Jiang Xiao: "......"
Hai Tianqing: "......"
Li Weiyi: "......"
Xia Yan grinned, leaned against Han Jiangxue, and said, "Do you have any favorite schools?"
Han Jiangxue said softly, "I haven't thought about it, I'll talk about it next semester."
"Mmm." Xia Yan nodded. It seemed that this team would go their separate ways after the college entrance exam.
Hai Tianqing, who was driving in front, also seemed to realize this situation, and could only sigh in his heart in the end.
Everyone had their own ambitions, and there was nothing to be done about it.
After all, it was a four-person team, and everyone had their own aspirations and different family conditions.
There were examples of four-person teams taking the exam together for one school, but not many.
The two-hour drive passed quickly, and everyone arrived in the mountains north of Nansheng County.
This section of the provincial highway originally shouldn't have been populated, with just vehicles coming and going.
However, since the Armory in this mountain forest was developed by the authorities, a dirt road leading to the mountain was opened up along this highway.
The vehicle climbed all the way up the mountain and drove into a spacious and flat simple parking lot. Many vehicles were already parked here, including luxury cars, which must belong to social adventurers.
Hai Tianqing led everyone out of the car and walked along the dirt road, eventually arriving at a camp in the forest.
The rows of military camps had a strong military atmosphere. The chilly late autumn had no singing birds or fragrant flowers. Everything here seemed so solemn.
Hai Tianqing went forward alone and found a soldier, said something to him, and after confirming repeatedly, he beckoned to the four-person team.
Han Jiangxue suddenly asked, "Little Pi, what kind of dimensional creatures are in the Armory?"
Of course, she knew what was inside, she just wanted to test Jiang Xiao, or rather, she wanted to remind Jiang Xiao what he was about to face.
"Male and female wildlings, male and female wildling shamans, male knife wildlings, male gun wildlings, female bow wildlings, ape ghosts, and extremely rare ape ghost kings," Jiang Xiao answered flawlessly and fluently.
Compared to the relatively homogenous species in the Snow Plains, the Armory had a wide variety of species, and what was more terrifying was that these dimensional creatures were all social animals.
Unlike White Ghosts, who were lone rangers and needed powerful individuals or White Ghost Shamans to form a team.
Their natural habits were to live in groups, living a life of hunting, rarely eating the corpses of their own kind, because the two major forces here were mutually hostile.
The wildling team and the ape ghost team were at odds with each other, and their strength was evenly matched.
In terms of physical fitness, the wildling team was not as good as the ape ghost team.
However, these wildlings had a certain amount of intelligence and knew how to use tools, which to some extent made up for the difference in strength with the ape ghost species.
Han Jiangxue continued to ask as she walked, "What are the species strengths and Star Techniques?"
Jiang Xiao replied:
"Male and female wildlings: Bronze Stage, Star Techniques: Fangs, Claws.
Male knife, male gun, female bow: Silver Stage, Star Techniques: Fangs, Claws, Abhorrence.
Male wildling shaman: Silver Stage, Star Techniques: Corpse Explosion, Corpse Spirit.
Female wildling shaman: Silver Stage, Star Techniques: Attachment, Dawn.
Ape ghost: Silver Stage, Star Techniques overlap with the Lava Ghosts in the volcanic cluster, namely: Heavy Blow and Berserk.
Ape ghost king: Gold Stage, Star Techniques: Silver Quality * Berserk and Gold Quality * Star Power Body."
Han Jiangxue nodded and said with satisfaction, "Good. Remember, after entering, calm your mind and clarify your goals."
Jiang Xiao responded verbally, and under the guidance of several soldiers, walked into the heavily guarded dense forest, eventually arriving in front of a huge egg-shaped building.
After the soldiers checked, they opened the door and let everyone in.
The interior of the building was unique, like a military base.
Hai Tianqing led the two male students to change their clothes. After showing their identities and going through the procedures, he ensured that the team did not need the base soldiers as guides and took the two students to wait in front of the door.
After a while, the two girls, Xia Yan and Han Jiangxue, also came out of the changing room next door.
The already heroic Xia Yan became even more valiant, becoming a serious female soldier, while Han Jiangxue also became a flower in the army, which made Jiang Xiao's eyes light up.
"Let's go." Hai Tianqing waved his hand and followed the soldiers' instructions, leading everyone all the way down, eventually arriving in front of a huge round door.
It looked like a sewer door.
After layers of review by the guarding soldiers, everyone finally walked into the "sewer". When they came out, what caught their eyes was a deep pit with a diameter of more than fifty meters.
Inside the building and around the deep pit were high-stacked defense walls. The soldiers were solemn, with guns and artillery, and were concentrating on the portal in the deep pit.
It also did not appear in the shape of a "door", but rather layers of overlapping space, intertwined with each other.
"Go." Hai Tianqing said, took a few people down the stairs, and his figure took the lead into the overlapping portal.
Jiang Xiao took a deep breath, straightened his training cap, and finally entered the so-called "Armory".
The first feeling was warmth.
The second feeling was that it was bright.
The place where everyone appeared was in a grassland. This world was unusually bright, like the clear and cloudless Inner Mongolia prairie at nine in the morning.
That thing in the sky... was it the sun?
Was it the sun in the solar system?
So this Armory shared a sun with the earth?
It was just that the Armory and the earth were on different dimensional levels, so they had never appeared in the field of vision of human external control detection?
Or, was the sun in the sky a star in another galaxy?
Separated from the earth by n light years? Not yet found by humans in outer space?
Jiang Xiao squatted down, grabbed a handful of grass under his feet. The soil was not dry or wet, and the grass was green, which seemed no different from the earth.
How did it feel like a vacation?
This scenery,
This climate,
This air quality,
Wasn't this too beautiful?
If the earth's population exploded, would this be a very suitable place for immigration?
Dimensional space was indeed a wonderful place. Maybe there were many usable resources here?
Would minerals and oil exist?
Back then, in the dark and cold Snow Plains, Jiang Xiao didn't think so much.
However, when he stood in this warm, spring-like grassland, especially after seeing the sun in the sky, Jiang Xiao couldn't help but start diverging his thoughts.