Chapter 53 Doru River Disaster

After much consideration, Gu Shen believed that the Doru River Disaster was worth a trip.

Not just for the "generous reward" promised by the Empress, but also for the opportunity to eradicate the "River Poison" during this mission. That thing was bound to cause him trouble sooner or later.

He held the "Blessing of the Goddess of Fate" in his hand, the sealed "Ruler of Truth," and the promise given by the Empress.

No matter what, there shouldn't be any accidents, right?

He returned to the first floor.

Lin Lin, who had already drunk several cups of tea, was restless. Finally, seeing Gu Shen return, he breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at the time. Half an hour had passed!

Their conversation had lasted much longer than he had imagined!

Lin Lin couldn't help but ask, "Gu Shen, what did you two talk about?"

He was really curious.

What could Gu Shen and his sister possibly talk about?

Gu Shen sat down and smiled, "It wasn't much, actually… Her Majesty invited me to participate in the Doru River Disaster restart mission."

"?!"

Lin Lin's expression instantly changed.

He looked up at the Legion Commander and asked in surprise, "Aunt Wen? Is this true?"

The Doru River Disaster mission was a major project that had been fully taken over by the Northern Continent military.

The previous maze mission, with Gu Shen's special addition, had already caused some dissatisfaction… This time, "Restarting Doru River" was even more important, and the qualifications for participation were extremely rare. This time, Empress Zhuxue invited lords and generals, selecting elites from the frontier. Entering the restart mission was not an easy task!

Letting Gu Shen enter like this… wouldn't it be inappropriate?

"It's true."

The flames on the Legion Commander's body slowly extinguished, and she said calmly, "Gu Shen has already agreed."

Hearing this, Lin Lin's expression became even stranger, because Aunt Wen's words focused on Gu Shen… It sounded like the biggest difficulty wasn't convincing the other giants of the Legion, but convincing Gu Shen to join?

As the garrison commander of Gubu Fortress, he regretted not joining the maze mission himself.

What kind of magic did this kid Gu Shen have?

The Northern Continent's high-difficulty missions had already invited him twice in a row!

Lin Lin wanted to say something more.

The Legion Commander impatiently urged, "Alright, hurry upstairs. Her Majesty doesn't have much time to wait for you."

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Lin Lin and the Legion Commander went up to the second floor.

"Mr. Gu… you don't have to wait here."

A'liuer brought over a cup of warm tea and said softly, "Her Majesty has other arrangements for you…"

Gu Shen took the tea, feeling somewhat puzzled.

"Now that you've nodded and agreed to participate in this mission… then I can take you to that place."

A'liuer smiled mysteriously, "A hard-working transcendent like you will definitely like it there."

She remembered it very clearly.

When traveling with her from Changye, Gu Shen only did one thing on the source energy boat… and that was to constantly circulate his breathing technique and temper his spirit!

This was an exceptionally diligent genius!

Even though he was incredibly talented, he still seized every moment to improve his strength!

A'liuer admired this very much.

Gu Shen began to guess where the apostle was going to take him… In fact, he already had a rough idea.

For a major operation like restarting the Doru River Disaster, the Northern Continent had gathered lords and generals from the frontier for selection. Presumably, there was a large training ground for targeted training.

These kinds of missions couldn't be launched on a whim.

After the selection, there should be a period of integration.

[Deep Sea] would assign tasks to each transcendent. Most transcendents would have their own "team." According to the Empress, the entire disaster exploration would need to be divided into more than a dozen branch lines.

The Empress had long planned for the restart mission.

Then…

Besides himself, the important candidates for the restart mission must have already been determined.

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Not far from the imperial city.

A suspended building carried on the back of an ultra-large source energy boat, its surface made of special red-silver, shimmering with a dim red light in the dark night.

The top floor of the building was a considerably open training ground.

Dozens of high-logic arenas for transcendent sparring, gravity rooms, shooting ranges, and intelligent instruments for testing speed and strength… all kinds of training equipment were available.

This was the training camp for the "Restart Doru River" mission.

As Gu Shen had guessed, the Northern Continent had specially built a training ground… It was just that not everyone was qualified to enter this training ground. It was specially built for those chosen by the Empress.

Only "exemption holders" were qualified to enter this suspended building.

Before the lords and generals entered the central city, the operational plan for the restart mission had already been finalized, and the basic backbone had also been selected… These people were "exemption holders," only a handful of them, but they were all elites among the Northern Continent's elites, geniuses among geniuses.

In the gravity room, a blonde man was sweating profusely, doing strength training.

The transcendents of the Northern Continent especially focused on tempering their physique…

It was just that the threshold for using the "gravity room" was extremely high. Not just anyone could enter and train. The pressure of double gravity was enough to make daily training several times more difficult.

Blood pressure, joint stress, and explosive power would all be affected under the suppression of multiple gravity.

At this moment, the pressure displayed above the blonde man's head was "ten times gravity."

This was already the top adaptation pressure for transcendents below the title level. Before the physical body underwent qualitative change, adding another multiple would increase the difficulty exponentially.

After all, Deep Sea Level Eleven was still mortal.

The blonde man was doing push-ups "slowly" under ten times the pressure… His movements were very standard and didn't seem too strenuous. It could be seen that his mind wasn't focused on training at all.

As the captain of the Second Investigation Corps team, Zhong Yuan was one of the "exemption holders." After leaving Gubu Fortress, he came to this training ground and entered a state of standby in advance.

He had already heard the previous news.

As expected, Gu Shen didn't choose to heed his advice and still chose to come to the central city… and inevitably clashed with Duke Zhenyue. Fortunately, Empress Zhuxue was present, and the conflict didn't escalate further.

He heard that the Empress even invited Gu Shen to visit her residence…

Hopefully, it was just a simple visit and not a further invitation.

Such as… participating in the Doru River Disaster mission.

It was just that Zhong Yuan's mood was quite unsettled tonight. For some reason, he felt somewhat agitated.

Half an hour later.

Zhong Yuan left the gravity room. He slowly exhaled and, while wiping his sweat with a towel, caught a glimpse of a long, shadowy figure.

He frowned slightly and looked up.

"No wonder you're so short."

The figure was sitting cross-legged in mid-air in this strange posture, his robe falling to the ground and gently floating in the wind.

The visitor narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Could it be because you're doing push-ups with ten times gravity?"

Zhong Yuan hated it most when people made fun of his height.

The Second Team could joke about anything with their captain.

Except for his height. Everyone kept silent about it, and no one dared to mention it.

But… Even though this guy was touching his forbidden zone, Zhong Yuan couldn't do anything about it.

This was the only exception in the Investigation Corps.

There was no one else.

"Lu Zhe, if I could beat you, I would definitely beat you up." Zhong Yuan vigorously wiped the sweat from his forehead and said seriously, "You're also an exemption holder for this mission? Why haven't I seen you in the past few days?"

The guy named Lu Zhe was the captain of the First Investigation Corps team.

He placed his hands on his knees, gently hummed, and smiled, "During the subjugation mission, I was performing other tasks… I only let Xiao Qiu go alone. After returning from Doru River, her mental state wasn't very stable. This time, I can't let her go alone again for the restart mission."

In the First Investigation Corps team, there was an extremely important "young person," Mu Wanqiu.

This was a top genius who was also praised as "S-level."

Zhong Yuan had once competed with Lu Zhe for this promising genius, but unfortunately… Lu Zhe ultimately won, and not just because his fists were bigger.

Mu Wanqiu was a mental-type transcendent.

And Lu Zhe was also mental-type. As fellow mental-types, he could provide Mu Wanqiu with greater help… This Northern Continent S-level had great talent and was diligent enough, but she had one weakness.

That was, despite being a "mental-type," her mental abilities were not very stable.

Mu Wanqiu's abilities possessed extremely terrifying instantaneous explosive power!

But each time she used it… it would leave a certain degree of aftereffects in her mental sea.

After learning about Mu Wanqiu's file, Zhong Yuan had no choice but to give up competing for this top genius. Even if he recruited Mu Wanqiu to his command, he couldn't cure this "mental damage" and would only harm this promising rookie.

"Doru River… was indeed a terrifying mission."

Zhong Yuan rubbed his temples and said, "How is Mu Wanqiu doing now?"

"Pretty good, everything is back to normal. I don't know what she saw… In the dream realm, she actually showed 'fear.'" Lu Zhe shook his head and said with a wry smile, "In my simulated Doru River dream realm, she didn't even dare to release 'Judge.' I'm really curious, what power could make an S-level ability feel fear?"

"Perhaps this time… you'll see it."

Zhong Yuan was silent for a moment. He could understand Mu Wanqiu's mental state.

The last subjugation mission had left a certain shadow in his heart as well.

"Is it really that scary?"

Lu Zhe clicked his tongue and sighed. He made a comforting gesture of lightly patting Zhong Yuan's shoulder from several meters away. Strangely… even though there was no contact, the pat was successful.

A series of light sounds came from Zhong Yuan's shoulder.

Lu Zhe smiled and said, "Relax, I'm here this time. The Doru River disaster dream realm is nothing."

"I hope so…"

The gloom in Zhong Yuan's heart didn't disappear. He gave a wry smile. The First Team Captain's comfort couldn't really reassure him.

Not far away.

The door of another gravity room slowly opened.

"Just a disaster dream realm…"

Accompanied by a lazy voice, a young man with a bare upper body slowly walked out of the gravity room. His body was covered with scars, and at this moment he was covered in sweat. Every scar faintly shimmered with radiance, as if sealing some kind of power.

It was the aura of Light City…

Zhong Yuan and Lu Zhe felt the radiance of light in the wind the moment the gravity room door opened.

Duke Zhenyue stood still and calmly looked at the two Investigation Corps captains. "Why exaggerate so much?"

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(1. During this period of double monthly tickets, coinciding with the third volume's climax, I will continue to update frequently. I hope everyone who is able to, will support me, I am extremely grateful! 2. Thank you to Zi Yu for the reward. I will add an extra chapter for the alliance leader tomorrow!)