survive!

"Look, what's that?" At the top of a building, a child holding onto an adult's hand pointed to the sky, where a brownish-yellow sphere was visible.

"Hmm..." The adult hesitated for a moment. "That's a meteor. Let's hope all the fierce beasts return to where they belong."

The sphere was rapidly approaching the ground. Qin Feng only heard bursts of sonic booms around him. He muttered a few words, while Zhou Junkai quietly took out earplugs and put them in his ears, unwilling to say anything more, apparently feeling distressed about the magical artifacts he had spent a fortune on.

Everyone only saw a sphere descending from the sky like a meteor. No one knew that students from the prestigious Huaxia National Defense University would be assassinated.

And it was two of them! Losing either one would be a significant loss for Huaxia!

The number of A-rank awakeners on Blue Star was scarce. Although it was tens of times more than the number of S-rank and SS-rank awakeners, even in Huaxia National Defense University, where A-rank ability users comprised the largest proportion, half of the students were still B-rank awakeners.

The sphere struck the barren ground, and the fierce beasts that were originally foraging here turned into ashes under the bombardment comparable to a full-force attack of a fifth-order subordinate.

The rocks tightly adhered to the Beast Shield also shattered upon landing. Rocks fell off the surface of the light shield, which was already broken.

The Beast Shield was a quasi-fifth-order standard armor, often equipped by soldiers in many countries' armies. Now, the high-quality Beast Shield Zhou Junkai had purchased from the military at a high price was already scrapped. If Zhou Junkai remembered this later, he would surely be furious.

Qin Feng endured the heat, pressed the smoking button, and the light shield disappeared, dissipating into the air. Some parts of the Beast Shield had already carbonized under the high temperature, turning into ashes the moment the heat disappeared. The entire Beast Shield was completely dismantled, becoming a pile of discarded B-rank metal.

Qin Feng shook Zhou Junkai awake, then checked his phone. There wasn't much damage. The protection effect inside the Beast Shield was excellent, and the phone was just a bit hot. "We're almost there," Qin Feng said to the groggy Zhou Junkai, quickly collecting the remnants of the Beast Shield, lest Zhou Junkai get angry.

But all of this was noticed by Zhou Junkai. After waking up, the first thing Zhou Junkai did was to check his storage bag to see if anything was missing. When he saw the messy bag that had been rummaged through, he felt like something was missing.

"Qin Feng, do you know how much effort I put into this? I even brought out the most valuable item I got from the military through my dad, the Premium Beast Shield, which has no market value at all!"

"And my 17th birthday gift, the Wind Spirit Ring that can cast attacks of third-tier level? I've been sleeping for so long, how could you use up all of these to deal with SS-grade magical artifacts?" Zhou Junkai exploded in anger, almost spitting out saliva at Qin Feng.

Qin Feng had already sensed this outcome, so he sat aside to recover, ignoring him.

When Zhou Junkai calmed down, he said, "I seem to remember that there was Forbidden Spirit Incense in the compartment of that plane... I was unconscious for a while, then he woke me up and I found a cut on my left thumb. He asked me to attach some rocks to the shield, and I did. After that, I felt like I was constantly falling... Could it be an assassination attempt? Did I survive with the help of these magical artifacts?"

"No, no, no... Qin brother, where are we now?" When Zhou Junkai remembered what happened, he quieted down and stopped lamenting his lost treasures.

"Fifteen kilometers from here, there's a branch of the Association of Ability Users. We're just waiting here for rescue," Qin Feng said, slowly standing up and smashing a zero-level fierce beast that was about to attack Zhou Junkai with a punch. "Take out a protective magical artifact."

After saving him again, Zhou Junkai felt that this person was somewhat reliable.

"Okay... Rock Barrier!" Zhou Junkai took out something resembling a landmine and placed it on the ground. After pressing a button, he put his hands on the ground, pouring the recovered energy into the device.

A magic circle pattern appeared around the small mine, and stones at the edge of the magic circle rose, forming a wall. "This thing is a disposable armor, and it's particularly energy-consuming. After using it, almost half of my energy will be drained," Zhou Junkai muttered as he wiped the blood from his mouth, caused by internal injuries due to energy overuse.

"When we get there, you owe me a few!" Zhou Junkai looked at his nearly empty storage bag and chatted with Qin Feng inside the stone wall, then fired a signal flare into the sky.

"But I really don't have much money at home," Qin Feng thought of his bank balance, which had been in the low three figures every month for the past few years. This rich second generation couldn't imagine such a lifestyle.

"Well, this time, dealing with the assassination attempt, we wasted four magical artifacts. We'll talk about it later, but I'm really idle now," Zhou Junkai said as he took out his slightly overheated phone from his pocket and started reading the headlines.

This was a habit Zhou Junkai had developed over the years to deal with various emergencies. However, a few big characters appeared as the number one hot search today.

"Unknown meteorite spotted over Kyoto City, suspected plane accident?" Qin Feng's head unknowingly leaned over, and he opened his dangerously low battery phone, browsed through the same page, "Suspected to have crashed in the Western District No. 32 Wilderness Area, and the No. 32 Ability Users Team is investigating?" Qin Feng muttered, "The people from the Association of Ability Users didn't send me an email, so we can only go to their branch to deal with this. It's good that they're here, we can both leave this No. 32 Wilderness Area."

When this team of ability users learned that the so-called meteorite was actually a group of new students from Huaxia University escaping after blowing up a helicopter, what would the Huaxia Congress's reaction be?

Zhou Junkai chuckled at the thought. Maybe he could harvest some fanboys and fangirls at school, and he wouldn't have to worry about a future girlfriend. He could even establish a force in Kyoto that was comparable to his father's strength.

Countless people were eager to start businesses in Kyoto because of the countless opportunities there and the chance to connect with the bosses of Morax Corporation, expanding their own background.

Three kilometers away from where Qin Feng and Zhou Junkai were, the No. 32 Ability Users Team.

"Boss, five kilometers away, at the meteorite's marked position, signs of life have been found!"

Several other members quickly gathered around that member and headed to the marked location.

"There's movement..." Qin Feng hesitated in his little square, thinking about whether to go out or not.

"Zhou Junkai, remove the stone wall!" 

Zhou Junkai pressed the button in front of him, and the magic circle disappeared, causing the stone wall to collapse. It crumbled as if it were a poorly constructed pile of tofu, turning into dust the moment it touched the ground. "Let's go!"

Several minutes later, the two of them sat in the investigation department office of the Ability Users Guild branch, facing a man in a suit who appeared to be a mediocre ability user.

"You guys claim to be freshmen from Huaxia University?"

"Yes." The two of them presented their letters, but after an unsuccessful verification, Qin Feng continued to explain, "We were attacked. On the plane, we had to use four magical artifacts to escape."

"You two are ranked second in the assassination list at Huaxia University, with a total of six motives for assassination. No, including this time, it's seven." The staff member spoke as if it were an everyday occurrence. "There's a student at Huaxia University who seems to have been assassinated more than thirty times, setting an unprecedented record."

"And, she is Chen Xinyan, one of the two SS-rank abilities in Huaxia, and it's been a while since we last saw an SS-rank." The staff member dug out the data collected over the years. "One of you is A-rank, and the other is quasi-S-rank. You both have recruitment letters from our guild's first-tier elites. Don't worry, our guild management is very loose. As long as you complete a task every once in a while, it's fine." After speaking, the staff member placed two forms in front of Qin Feng and Zhou Junkai.

"Let me see the terms..." Zhou Junkai looked through them quickly, tears of emotion almost streaming down his face. "Wow, they're giving us two hundred million Huaxia coins directly, plus an A-rank combat skill and an S-rank resource. Finally, my dream is coming true! I must buy a good shield with the S-rank resource. After all, the Rock Giant leans more towards defense."

On the other hand, Qin Feng still furrowed his brow. "Two hundred million Huaxia coins, not bad. I must choose a combat skill that can be controlled and dispersed for the A-rank skill, so I won't have the attack deflected like last time. After all, Ling Wu once said that reducing others' speed is equivalent to amplifying your own. As for the S-rank resource, just a short sword will do. The best weapon for the Phantom Blade Technique is still a short sword."

The satisfied expressions in the eyes of the two could not be concealed. Seeing that they both had their own plans, the staff member said, "If you've made your choices, then go take a look at the mall."