She looked at Hu Xiaoniu and said, "We need to adapt to the high-altitude climate as soon as possible and start training."
Hu Xiaoniu asked with a smile, "Even the King of Rolls is under pressure?"
“Yes,” Chen Zhuoqu nodded, “Those two senior brothers I met at Huotang Snow Mountain were very powerful.”
The two senior brothers she was referring to were Li Ke and Zhang Mengqian.
When the knight reserves arrived at the fire pit, Li Yunjing had just brought the two of them to the Great Snow Mountain to prepare for a new life-or-death challenge.
It was at this moment that Chen Zhuoqu saw the gentle and refined Li Ke, and Zhang Mengqian, who had awakened her sixth sense.
With Li Yunjing protecting them, these two senior brothers were able to activate the Reverse Breathing Technique at any time and place, and they also carried 380-pound sandbags on their legs and arms to offset the power boost brought by the Longevity Fruit.
The sandbags were filled with heavy tungsten sand, and the two senior brothers didn't even take them off when they slept.
Senior Brother Li Ke said that it is certainly a good thing that everyone has the opportunity to eat the Eternal Heaven, but when Master walked the path of knights, he did not have such help, and the knights of the past did not have such good conditions.
Therefore, if you want to understand the feelings and hardships your predecessors went through, you have to neutralize the power of the Eternal Heaven Fruit in order to temper your mind.
Chen Zhuoqu also tried it, and ended up experiencing altitude sickness that same day...
If it weren't for the medical equipment in the airship that the Qing family provided for them, she probably would have died there.
Her senior brother, Li Ke, comforted her, saying that this kind of training must be done gradually and cannot be accomplished overnight.
But there was a mischievous glint in this senior brother's eyes. As expected, none of the knights are easy to deal with. Maki is the last vestige of conscience among the knights!
The female scroll king could not bear such humiliation. As soon as she recovered, she began to maintain the reverse breathing technique and then gradually added weight to herself.
Not only that, she also customized weighted sandbags for everyone, making all the knight reserves suffer terribly.
Of course, everyone knows this is for their own good, and Senior Brother Li Ke is right.
However, Li Ke's impact on Chen Zhuoqu wasn't that significant; the most crucial factor was Zhang Mengqian...
When Chen Zhuoqu faced Zhang Mengqian, even though the other's eyes were covered by a white ribbon, she felt that the other could see her at all times.
Moreover, the other party can already predict what you are going to do.
She reached for the water bottle, but the next second she found that Zhang Mengqian had already handed it to her. She had dropped her chopsticks because she was exhausted from training, and Zhang Mengqian was able to reach out and catch them in advance.
If it were the instant the chopsticks fell, she could catch them with incredible speed, but she knew very well that Zhang Mengqian didn't do it by speed, but because the other party could...see the future.
The current Knights Reserve are constantly in turmoil!
Even Maki Jinguji cried!
Right now, Maki's little arms and legs were wrapped with custom-made sandbags. She was sitting in the tent crying with snot and tears streaming down her face. Momiji was kneeling beside her, frantically wiping away her tears, while Foxfire curled up next to her feet to warm them.
Li Tongyun lifted the tent flap and came in. She said to Hongye Shou, "You guys go outside and keep watch. If anyone approaches our camp, notify me. Remember, this is a critical time. We can't miss any abnormalities."
In fact, the strongest fighter in this team right now is not Li Tongyun, but Jinguji Maki.
She's already at Rank C, and the number of shikigami she can summon has increased from 3 to 24. Qingchen's speed in accumulating shikigami for her is starting to fall behind her speed in opening 'shikigami summoning slots'...
Now, Maple Leaf Hunting, Mirage Tower, Shadow Woman, Foxfire, Mountain Child, Flying Head, Unfallen Unfallen, White Tiger... have all been successfully summoned by Maki.
Although her level is limited to C-rank shikigami, these C-rank shikigami alone can easily defeat any B-rank expert.
If she levels up again, with 48 B-rank shikigami, even A-rank shikigami will turn tail and run away when they see her.
At this moment, Li Tongyun stuffed the forbidden ACE-119 tissue box into the little girl's arms: "Don't cry, don't cry. Although it's a little tiring, we can watch the sunset here tomorrow evening. Besides, your master was here recently, and he climbed to the top of the mountain very quickly. All the Sherpas know him and regard him as a god. If the Sherpas knew that the god's disciple was a crybaby, what would they think of your master?"
"Hiccup!" Maki Jinguji forcibly stopped crying: "Then I won't cry anymore."
“That’s a good girl,” Li Tongyun said with a smile.
Jinguji Maki pulled out a tissue to wipe her tears: "But why isn't Master with us? I miss him so much."
Li Tongyun comforted him, "Your master has more important things to do... Wait, give me the tissue in your hand!"
As she spoke, she took the tissue from Maki Jinguji's hand, only to see that the tear-stained tissue read: "The Big Dipper points south. Those whose eyes shine with light will be swallowed by that light. Someone has quietly betrayed their ideals and is heading towards the abyss."
Xiao Tongyun was stunned; this wasn't the first time Xiao Zhenji had drawn a prophecy.
Last time, this tissue box successfully predicted that she would be severely beaten by her mother, Jiang Xue.
Now, the prophecy has reappeared, but Li Tongyun is unable to confirm what it refers to!
The person whose eyes shone with light... Is that Qing Chen?
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...
Qingchen lay in his single dormitory room, silently looking at the snow-capped mountains outside the floor-to-ceiling window. Life seemed to slow down all of a sudden.
There was no one he knew here, as if he were embarking on another solitary journey and spiritual practice.
He broke away from the noisy world and went his own way.
But life can't always be like this.
With a ding, a text message came in; it was from Li Tongyun.
After reading it, Qing Chen pondered it carefully for a moment...
"The Big Dipper points south; those whose eyes gleam with light will be swallowed by that light. Some have quietly betrayed their ideals and are heading towards the abyss."
The prophecies given by the tissue box are all related to the host, Maki. If the person with the light flowing in their eyes is themselves, then what is the light that swallows them up?
Who is it that quietly betrays their ideals...?
However, at that moment, his room door was opened.
The white timewalker at the training base was very outgoing. He poked his head in and saw Qing Chen playing on his phone, then said with a smile, "You're not asleep either? Why don't you come into the living room and chat? We just got back from the Otherworld, and there's a lot of interesting stuff to see. Plus, we brought some gene serum with us, want to see it?"
Qingchen replied calmly, "No need, thank you. Please close the door for me."
The white time traveler shrugged. "Fine, whatever."
The living room outside gradually became noisy.
More than thirty students, holding warm coffee, gathered together, waiting to listen to the Time Traveler tell stories before purchasing gene potions.
Qing Chen listened as they recited the gene sequence numbers, QQSD-001 and QQSE-001. These were circulating drugs used to help ordinary people advance to F-level gene warriors. However, the problem was that the Time Traveler had not told the students that these two gene drugs were currently the two with the most severe side effects in the Roosevelt Kingdom.
After the former is injected, insect-like barbs will grow on the legs, while after the latter is injected, insect-like compound eyes may appear.
The Eastern Continent Federation aims to minimize the side effects of gene-based drugs, so production has always been low. The Western Continent, on the other hand, is much more unconventional and has no restrictions.
The trainees at this training base who dare to challenge themselves with wingsuit flying are people who seek thrills in life, and they are very willing to try the different lives brought about by gene therapy.
Just then, someone in the living room suddenly asked, "What's happening in the Otherworld right now?"
“The Kingdom of Roosevelt has recently declared war on the Dynasty of Giants, and a few of us are heading to the front with a Blackwater City unit,” Timewalker replied.
"Hey, won't it be dangerous to go to war?" the student asked.
“No,” the Timewalker chuckled. “Our unit is very special; we’re responsible for investigating incidents, not fighting. Besides, even members of the royal family are here, so how could there be any danger?”
"By the way, how's that 'Light of the White' thing you mentioned earlier?"
"The white supremacist ideology is outdated. The most famous person in the underworld now is the Marquis of Bolton. This marquis is truly remarkable..."
Qing Chen turned off his phone, closed his eyes, adjusted his breathing rhythm, and fell asleep.
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...
As dawn broke, Qingchen got up on time and headed to the restaurant.
Alice, the person in charge of the training base, was frying eggs. She smiled at Qing Chen and said, "I heard you didn't join their late-night chat last night. Are you not interested in the Time Travelers?"
Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, "I'm here to train, not to make friends."
Alice paused for a moment, then laughed: "There aren't many Asians as straightforward as you."
Qingchen fried eggs, toasted bread slices, and mixed a vegetable salad by himself.
Alice suddenly noticed that this student even used a slice of bread to wipe the salad dressing off the plate before eating it.
After we finished eating, the plates were so clean they looked like they had never been used.
The other person's meticulous manner while eating was astonishing.
"Do you always eat like this?" Alice asked curiously.
“No,” Qingchen said after a moment of thought, “it was after experiencing something unforgettable that I became like this.”
"What happened?" Alice asked, puzzled. "Was it perhaps a time when you were stranded in the mountains during a hiking trip and experienced food shortages, which led you to appreciate food more?"
Qingchen smiled and explained, "Someone once gave me their food, giving up all hope of living. I just want to remind myself to cherish the time I have left, because it was their last hope before they died."
Alice asked, "If you cherish the time you have, why did you come here to learn wingsuit flying? The mortality rate for wingsuit flying is very high. If you value life, you shouldn't be here."
Qingchen shook his head: "Cherishing life doesn't mean living a wretched life. If you can't live a rich and fulfilling life, it's no different from being dead. I'm done eating, you can eat slowly."
Alice watched Qing Chen's departing figure in silence, feeling that this student was somewhat special.
Training begins.
But unlike what he imagined—wearing a flying squirrel suit and freely traversing the mountains during wingsuit training—Qingchen will be learning the most basic skydiving knowledge: skydiving procedures, equipment theory, how to accelerate, how to turn, and how to do front flips, back flips, and side flips.
Wingsuit flying is actually a branch of skydiving training.
Because after wingsuit flying, you need to parachute to land; if you can't parachute, you can only land on your face.
The remaining trainees all have skydiving licenses.
Qing Chen is the only one who has never skydived before and went straight to learning wingsuit flying.
Qing Chen has nothing, but he has money.
So while the other students were learning wingsuit flying theory under the guidance of two other instructors, Sorel, the expert, was teaching Qingchen, a novice, how to skydive from scratch, one-on-one.
The other students were puzzled as to why Sorel would waste his time on a newbie. Alice patiently explained to them that Qingchen had already bought all of Sorel's class hours...
It's around 2 million US dollars.
Sorel was initially worried that wealthy people like Qingchen would be too eager for quick success, but he found that Qingchen was not in a hurry at all. Instead, he learned each step very thoroughly before moving on to the next.
Moreover, this was probably the most dedicated student he had ever seen. He could recite the theoretical knowledge fluently, folded the umbrella meticulously, and every movement was as standard as a textbook.
They do not interact with other students, but focus solely on learning.
During the seven-day learning process, Qingchen's interactions with other trainees were still limited to exchanging greetings.