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Chapter 124: Carpet Hellfire

There was not a single human soul out in the middle of night, but there were more and more insectoids gathering around the mall.

Even if there was beast repellent scattered about, the collective breaths of the people were still being dispersed. With adequate food around, it was a possibility that the insectoids wanted a full meal or to hunt to feed their offspring.

To leave them alone until morning would mean that the insectoids could break in at any moment and kill everyone.

Liu Xue and the others were patrolling vigilantly, looking through a small window.

"What should we do? Should we clear some out?" He Ling suggested nervously.

The people around him did not respond. Nobody knew what was the best course of action. Even Liu Xue would not dare give suggestions right now as the price of a wrong decision would be someone's life.

"Boss isn't back yet?" Wang Chen kept glancing at the communicator on his hand. He was looking at the time.

Wang Chen naturally had Qin Feng's communicator number, but things had not reached a critical moment just yet. If he rashly called Qin Feng, and ended up with nothing definitive, then it would only show that Wang Chen was not very useful.

So he endured on.

He could only wait for time to pass and hope that Qin Feng would return soon. It was not just him, those around him were also thinking the same thing.

"Why isn't Mr. Qin back yet?"

It had only been twelve hours and Qin Feng had become a pillar for these people to rely on. Without him, they would not have been able to hold out here, neither would they have had the confidence to escape.

"Beast general! There's another beast general!" Wang Chen quietly sounded out, with a trace of fear in his voice.

In the darkness, they could see the silhouette of a beast general knife-edge mantis.

Previously in the hotel lobby, a beast general knife-edge mantis had appeared as well. It moved at a neck-breaking speed, the dizzying strikes of its sickle-like claws harvested up to three lives.

With the existence of something like this, there was nothing that could be done to deal with it.

The beast generals were not as patient as the insectoids, and they would not be deterred by the beast repellent powder. Rather, they would begin their rampage toward the mall and start killing everything in sight.

As for right now, five beast generals were spread out in all four directions of the mall.

One would not dare imagine what sort of scene would ensue if they were to break through!

Only this time, a burst of flame suddenly came from down the streets.

Dark red flames rose up into the night sky, but the burst of flame did not fill the air with light. The dark flames swallowed the disturbed uproar that was the swarm of insectoids on the streets.

The flames ignited everything around them, but there was no smoke cover, nor was there a wave of heat that would warm its surroundings. Everything would have been in a calm quiet if it were not for the pained screeching of the burning insectoids.

Qin Feng walked through the flames. This fire was made by him, naturally he would not be harmed.

Carpet Hellfire was not a be-all end-all ability, it would not be enough to kill off some of the stronger beast soldiers with strong vitality!

Skree!

That only made the insectoids angry!

"Nice. I don't need to go looking for you!"

Qin Feng watched as a knife-edged mantis flashed its wings and flew toward him. Its wings were thin like a cicada's, but it stretched itself outward and pressed forward. The way it handled its sickle-like claws indicated that it was quite skillful with them.

"Die!"

No matter how skilled it was, facing Qin Feng meant the end.

The Burning Sword Glare erupted outward as Qin Feng and the knife-edged mantis moved past one another.

It was not until Qin Feng had moved ten meters away that the huge knife-edged mantis collapsed onto the ground and got consumed by Hellfire.

Knife-edge mantis beast general! Slain!

It was just a momentary face-off and Qin Feng had killed the knife-edged mantis within seconds. He did not stop moving, continuing his advance, not even stopping to look at the mantis.

The dark umbra stallion once more entered the darkness, Qin Feng's position changed and another street was engulfed in flames.

All four directions were cleared, and Qin Feng took down four beast generals! With all the necessary materials collected, his body also felt the comfort of advancing.

"F6 tier!"

It seemed like fighting for an entire day had its rewards!

Of course, as Qin Feng's strength increased, the energy he absorbed after killing ultra beasts also increased. Before his rebirth, Qin Feng's combat ability was brilliant. No matter how seriously injured he was, his wounds would be repaired after killing something.

As a result, death was not something serious to him.

The moniker of 'Madman Qin' was stuck with him for a very long time.

Nowadays, his kind of combat method had advanced. Thanks to his darkness ability, Qin Feng was free to come and go without being worried about getting injured.

After clearing the four directions, the other insectoids were spooked enough to start retreating with their tails between their legs, and Qin Feng returned to the mall.

Looking at the time, it was already 2am in the morning.

"Boss! You're back!"

"Mr. Qin, we truly need you. The beast generals were like paper paste!"

"What do you mean the beast generals were like paper paste? It's clearly Boss being strong, that's what!"

Everyone was talking one after another, a string of excited chatter filled the air as they felt relief over the fact that the beast generals were gone, their words becoming louder and bolder.

Of course they were excited!

Qin Feng, this man, was a rising legend!

To have fought together alongside him, which perhaps in the future, would become something to boast about.

It was like playing a game, with one god-figure guiding the rest ahead and the way being cleared, the relief was overflowing.

"Everyone go back and have some rest, we will move at 7am tomorrow morning to find something good to eat!"

Qin Feng interrupted the people's enthusiasm. After all, after a full day of fighting, nobody's body was made of steel. The same applied to aptitude users.

Qin Feng was naturally arranged to be in the most luxurious place. There were several places in the mall that sold beddings. The mattresses and futons were all brand new. He also took the liberty of bringing Bai Li with him.

"Not bad, I wanna buy one when I get back. Hubby, yours looks so ugly!"

Qin Feng was speechless, it was not like he chose a defective product, but as a man, choosing some lacey, frilly pink sheets[1] was not something he would do!

"Alright alright, if you like it then set it up yourself. This is free after all!"

"You mean things like these can be free?"

"Only in small towns occupied by the enemy. Don't try this in any of the stores in Chengbei!"

Qin Feng and Bai Li went on to discuss several common sense subjects. Bai Li was smart and could make her own analogies. This saved Qin Feng a lot of time.

The next morning, when Qin Feng woke up, he could not find the soft and delicate body beside him. He furrowed his brows and immediately came to his senses.

Qin Feng's consciousness twitched and he sensed Bai Li's location. She was upstairs.

What was she doing upstairs? Qin Feng called the other one's communicator.

"You're awake!" Bai Li quickly said, soon after that, her appearance popped up on the communicator's screen.

Only thing was, she was actually wearing a set of sexy lingerie[2]…

"Puh!"

Qin Feng felt that the morning's firepower was a bit too strong, to the point where blood was almost gushing out from his nose.

[1] Pink is a very romantic color, the laces and frills only emphasize how masculine it is. Its 2020. Nobody's gonna judge.

[2] Isn't she…like…an…airfield?

Chapter 125: Escaping Han Town

"What are you doing?" Qin Feng tried to maintain a straight face.

"I'm looking for the clothes I like! There aren't any as good as the ones we have on our side, I don't want any!" Bai Li said with a huff, putting her clothes on and leaving with disappointment.

An entire night wasted thinking about it and ending up with nothing good!

Qin Feng.: "… Well, next time I'll take you shopping at a better place, come down first!"

Seeing that the light of spring had been covered up, Qin Feng felt a sense of regret.

The transportation in Han Town was not very developed, it was nowhere as modern as the large cities. The backward industry also led to the simplicity and antique-style of the clothing here. While Xiao Bai was vain, she was no cheapskate. The clothes were decisively abandoned by her.

After a rushed breakfast in the morning, the remaining five hundred people continued to set off. This time, the teams were reorganized and the people were able to follow in a neat fashion. Everything was progressing smoothly.

Perhaps it was because Qin Feng only accepted those who came on their own and did not save the survivors trapped in the buildings, the people entering the group were significantly fewer than the people blindly escaping yesterday, but there were more aptitude users and people with normal combat abilities.

As they got closer to the orphanage, the number of people breaking out began to skyrocket. Where was this place? It was a slum!

Everyone had to fight hard, otherwise the next day they would just be another body in the stinking ditches. So their combat potential was stronger and their drive for survival higher.

"Retreat to the orphanage's largest building and rest!" Qin Feng gave the order and the crowd flooded into the orphanage. This was Han Town's orphanage and it was not designed to accommodate so many people at once.

After resting for a while, the insectoids eventually gathered. The people that barely had their stomachs filled began to flee again.

Qin Feng took Wang Chen ahead of time and went around the corner of a street to get the two trucks.

"Boss, you were not spending your time getting these last night, right?" Wang Chen looked at Qin Feng with amazement.

"We don't have time for nonsense, you drive one and keep up with me!" Qin Feng said.

"Yes, Boss!" Wang Chen quickly got on a truck and drove after Qin Feng, following left and right until they entered the underground parking lot.

The underground parking lot of the orphanage was very small and as it was not used very much, no one cleaned it up. It was dark and damp in there.

The darker and damper, the more likelier there would be plow worms.

As the trucks moved forward, the roars of the engines startled and mobilized the plow worms.

Boom!

A plow worm erupted from the ground, intercepting the truck by coming up in front of it. Qin Feng did not hesitate to expand his conscious energy.

"Firebeam!"

A blazing beam shot forward, impacting the body of the plow worm.

Boom!

The plow worm was blown into pieces by Qin Feng's firebeam and even the burning bug flesh exuded a scent of fragrance. The plow worm's body contained a high quantity of protein and it had highly nutritious meat.

Qin Feng gave Bai Li a glance.

Bai Li naturally grasped the idea. When the truck was further away from the area, Bai Li used her spatial manipulation to put the body of the plow worm into her pocket space.

Not only that, all of the plow worms that were still burrowing around in the dirt in the general area were sliced by the Space Blade, and the fragments were sucked into Bai Li's space.

Above ground, Wang Chen, who had been following Qin Feng's truck, did not know what had transpired.

After a few tens of meters, they smoothly drove to the gate of the defensive facility of the underground parking lot. Qin Feng had already contacted the orphanage's teacher's communicator by then.

"Ms. Liao, you can come out now!" Qin Feng's communicator broadcasted. After a while, the big metal gate slowly opened up.

A mature beauty with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses came walking out, following her were several young children, all holding tightly onto her hands or surrounding her. This was the orphanage's volunteer teacher, Liao Ying, a G3-tier ancient warrior.

"Mr. Qin, thank you for your help!" Liao Ying thanked him quickly.

Qin Feng's face remained serious. "Now's not the time for that. Ms. Liao, take the children into the truck. Everyone else, get ready to go!"

Qin Feng drove the truck in front of the group without hesitation. While it seemed dangerous, with Qin Feng's help, this was the safest option. The cars that were blocking the road were arbitrarily or directly removed by him.

Maybe it was because of Xiao Bai's fur, or that the insectoids have not moved into the periphery, their exit was very smooth.

The moment they left the city walls and Han Town's moat, the people were actually excited seeing the wilderness.

"We're out! We're out!"

"We're saved!"

"We've finally left. Dad, mom, I will live on for you!"

After a brief cheer came a stream of sobs and tears.

There were people who were confused about their future. Most ordinary people had never left the colony and did not know where to go.

On the other hand, the rich people who had already gathered contacts were eager to get to other colonies and lie low until all the fuss was over.

It was day three since the spatial rifts had opened up. The Coldstorm Battalion heard the news and had arrived as a response. At this time, they saw more than two thousand people appearing and were surprised by the turn of events!

The leader of the Coldstorm Battalion quickly welcomed them.

"Liu Xue!"

"Commander Jiang Chi!" Liu Xue quickly walked over.

"You rescued all of them? Liu Xue, you've done us a great service this time! Such is a task worthy of our Han Town's most beautiful, and most incredible captain!" Jiang Chi complimented with a hint of yearning in his eyes.

Jiang Chi was thirty two years old, strong physically but had never been married. As the regimental commander of Han Town's army, he was F7-tier in power, second only to the mayor.

At this time, Shi Tianhai had also come over. In three days' time, Shi Tianhai seemed to have grown ten years older.

It was because this was a devastating blow.

"Liu Xue, you did well, it's all thanks to you this time. The people from Fu City will be here in two days. Then, you and I can reclaim lost grounds!"

The Coldstorm Battalion became a stationed troop, but then for the small Han Town, this troop only consisted of five hundred people. Of the five hundred, only ten were F-tier. If they were to encounter a dozen blood-thristy beetles, the entire army would be wiped out.

"I cannot take credit this time. Fortunately, because of the crystal shell beetle a number of aptitude users arrived at Han Town, otherwise we would not have been able to break out!" Liu Xue said bitterly.

Shi Tianhai's face hardened. "If it weren't for them, our spatial stabilizing device wouldn't be damaged and you're still thanking them? I think they should be held accountable, my town wouldn't have been destroyed if it weren't for this!"

Of course, him being angry was useless.

They did not even know who did it. Even if they did, how would the other party afford to make reparations?

The aptitude users with their new lease of life ignored Shi Tianhai. After leaving the dangerous Han Town, they planned to part ways.

Qin Feng spotted Liu Xue in the crowd along with Shi Tianhai and Jiang Chi.

He came over, the aura of his body was unsuppressed. The aura of an F6-tier ancient warrior made Shi Tianhai and Jiang Chi carry themselves more properly.

Chapter 126: Gathering the Orphans

"Hello, Mayor Shi!"

Qin Feng stretched his hand out, the steady expression on his face stunned Shi Tianhai for a while, but he shook hands with Qin Feng out of habit.

"Hello, and you are…"

"Mayor, this is Mr. Qin Feng who brought us out. He was the one that helped us out a lot, and even rescued the children from the orphanage!" Liu Xie said enthusiastically.

The corner of Shi Tianhai's lips twitched slightly, and a bit of impatience flashed in his eyes. He was already in deep water, and Qin Feng had to go save a group of inconveniences. How was he supposed to deal with all of this?

These rescued children, would they not just add on to the mountain of problems they already have?

How could Qin Feng have not noticed Mayor Shi Tianhai's expression? His face hardened, and he decided to no longer be polite.

"Mayor Shi, I think Han Town is in a dire situation. I just happen to know a colony that can take these children in. Han Town is occupied by the enemy and until it can be reclaimed, I'm sure I can find a safe place for the orphans. So leave it to me!"

Shi Tianhai was overjoyed when he heard this.

"Okay, since this is the case, I'll hand this to Mr. Qin. A truly virtuous move from you, Mr. Qin!"

"It's as I should!"

Qin Feng did not want to be courteous with the other party, so he excused himself for needing to deal with the orphans and left.

Jiang Chi felt a sense of wariness in his heart, especially when he noticed the expression on Liu Xue's face when she was complimenting Qin Feng and showing her admiration.

"Liu Xue, who is this Qin Feng guy? And what about the other colony?" Jiang Chi asked.

Liu Xue smiled bitterly. "Even I don't know that, what I do know is that he's very powerful. He took down a steel-limb broodmother all by himself. His strength is incredible. Oh Mayor, Jiang Chi, I also intend on leaving with Mr. Qin!"

"What?!"

The two shouted in unison, in utter disbelief that Liu Xue would actually say that.

Regardless of how Liu Xue proceeded to explain to the two of them, Qin Feng, who had returned back to the crowd, had gotten even more frustrated.

There were two thousand people that had escaped from the colony. After arriving in a safe place, it had turned into a mess. Many people did not know what to do in the future, after escaping, they did not eat nor drink but instead could not help but start worrying.

"The Coldstorm Battalion will handle it!"

"Wait for them to solve it? Dream on! They didn't try to help out before!"

"Onwards to Lixian Colony! I happen to have relatives there!"

"So long as there's money in my communicator, anywhere is okay!"

"Are we really leaving? Han Town's finished just like that? How am I supposed to live on?"

For the poor, this was a disaster. For the aptitude users, it was merely a new beginning!

At this time, a group of aptitude users wanted to leave, but it was the question of how they would do it.

After all, they had successfully escaped but there were only two trucks available, which were a rare commodity now. Very soon, a quarrel ensued.

"There's no place for the orphans to go, why are you asking us to get off the trucks?" Lian Ying asked angrily.

"Can't I use it to go to another colony? Why are you being such a nuisance? Back off or I'll kill you!"

"No! The bus is not for you!" Liao Ying was obviously angry too.

It was at this time that Qin Feng returned. "What's going on?" Qin Feng asked calmly. His aura was unsuppressed, anyone would know that he was seething with rage.

One of the aptitude users suddenly rushed over, offering a cigarette.

"Mr. Qin, we're planning on using the truck to leave this dump. Do you want to join us?"

Qin Feng sneered. "The bus is meant for carrying the orphans."

"Didn't we already escape? Just pass them over to Han Town's people and call it a day! We helped save people, it's not too much to demand for a truck from them!" the man said in a rather pompous manner, believing that what he said was justified.

Qin Feng gave a stiff smile and said, "You saved other people? On the contrary, I think I was the one who saved you, so if I were to demand for your life right now, that wouldn't be too much to ask would it?"

The man finally got the meaning behind Qin Feng's words. "Mr. Qin, what are you talking about?!" He looked at Qin Feng anxiously.

Qin Feng looked around, there were still a bunch of F-tier aptitude users around him, almost half of the ones that came to Han Town before the crystal shell beetle attack. Undoubtedly, these were outsiders, not local Han Town aptitude users.

"From today onward, these orphans belong to me. They are my, Qin Feng's, people. I want to bring them with me, on my truck, and you want to take that from me?"

The people were shocked.

"No, no!"

"Mr. Qin! I was wrong! I didn't know!"

"Yes, Sir. I didn't actually want to take the truck, I just… came over to take a look!"

The group hurriedly tried to come up with excuses for themselves while the loud and arrogant one did not dare to speak up, quickly apologizing and slinking into the crowd.

Liao Ying was very surprised.

"Mr. Qin, you want to take care of these orphans?"

Everyone was worried about where they were going to go next, as a teacher of the orphanage, Liao Ying must have been even more so.

The person in charge of the orphanage had run away long ago, leaving her alone as a volunteer. When she heard Qin Feng's words, she felt at ease.

Qin Feng was a strong person. A person this strong, with a small sum of money, it would be enough to find a place for these people.

Qin Feng nodded at Liao Ying, and looked at those around him and said, "I have a newly built colony, which is still under construction. Those of you who are currently facing a life dilemma, you can come with me and help out in the urban defense and development to become residents of the colony. You can receive a residential area free of charge according to the population and may even work in the new colony in the future. Those people who want easy work, don't like to work, or those who want to spend their days idle are those that I dislike and are not coming with me!"

Qin Feng's remarks caused a sudden uproar among the crowd. Qin Feng actually had a colony?

If a new colony were born, would that mean new developments?

Undoubtedly, as the first batch of citizens, they would get better treatment and perhaps with a change of place they would be able to change their destiny.

"Mr. Qin, where is your colony?"

"Mr Qin, what's the colony's name?"

"Are you the colony's mayor?"

Qin Feng answered the questions one after another, and then handed the matters to Liu Zhenshan to let him count the number of people.

As for Qin Feng, he naturally went back to Han Town to grab a few more vehicles to drive back. He even brought over large tents and sleeping bags for people to sleep in.

Except that this very night, many were not exactly able to fall asleep easily.

In the early morning of the next day, Qin Feng came out of his tent and saw a group of people waiting near it.

Other than Liu Zhenshan and Liu Xue, he first saw Wang Chen, those three that cooperated with him before, the newly awakened girl that they rescued from the mall, Shang Na, and the teacher of the orphanage, Liao Ying.

"Boss, for your colony, do you need aptitude users? What do you think of us?" Wang Chen said with a wide grin on his face.

Chapter 127: Returning to Chengbei

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"You are greatly welcomed!"

Without a doubt, Qin Feng had reaped quite a haul with his return to Han Town.

Among them were more than thirty aptitude users that followed Qin Feng, with four of them being F-tier aptitude users.

There were about six hundred commoners that followed Qin Feng to Fengli colony.

These people were impressed by Qin Feng's words. In fact, most of the poor were homeless, and they had been paying attention to the news of a new colony, but the wilderness was a dangerous place. Few people left for another colony with only the clothes on their backs.

Qin Feng's request did not just ensure them a safe journey, it also offered them a new lease of life.

The most important thing was that they saw just how powerful Qin Feng was.

"Mr. Qin is an ability user, his future achievements are definitely going to be good!"

"Such a leader would be able to protect us! Better than that Shi Tianhai guy!"

"Liu Zhenshan is going too, Captain Liu will surely go as well!"

"The new colony is definitely better!"

With these ideas in the minds of the masses, they journeyed with Qin Feng.

Due to the large number of people and the limited number of hovertanks, Qin Feng led everyone through the longer way there. Perhaps it was also Bai Li's vigil that deterred the more aura-sensitive ultra beasts from attacking the convoy, which allowed them to go through smoothly!

A week later, Qin Feng finally returned to Fengli colony. At this time, Fengli colony was being built up rapidly, because of the invasion from the extra-dimensional beings many materials have undergone ground-breaking changes. For example, the addition of the mucus of a type of insect in the cement greatly increased its firmness and had it drying faster.

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All kinds of building materials had been upgraded to have a greater effect.

A ten-story high rise building could be built in as fast as a month's time, and a colony would be formed within half a year with a sufficient labor force!

When Qin Feng arrived, Xue Xingfu had already arrived to greet him. It had not been half a month and Xue Xingfu still looked the same, while Qin Feng had become even more enigmatic.

"District governor, it's been half a month since you were gone! You've really become someone who just puts work into other people's hands, huh?"

The head of this colony was naturally divided according to Chengyang City.

The colonies surrounding Chengyang City were also the strongest colonies. There were also colonies much further away, but they were far away from Chengyang City, much like Han Town to the Fu City.

Qin Feng's Fengli colony was not that far away, and a public route was set up which had become a new district. Naturally, the head of the district was Qin Feng.

"I've troubled you greatly, but I'm afraid moving forward, you'll be even busier!" Qin Feng said with an apologetic smile.

"I'm exhausted!"

The two people discussed the current situation, and Qin Feng handed over the six hundred people to let Xue Xingfu figure it out. Among them, Liu Zhenshan and the others were the most important.

After that, Qin Feng took three cars full of people and headed to Chengbei colony.

This included more than a hundred orphans and some young women, including the mother and daughter who taped their mouths shut that time they first escaped with Qin Feng.

These were pretty much those under his special care.

At the gate of Chengbei colony, the three vehicles entered and the garrison immediately stopped Qin Feng's car after realizing the situation.

"Come down and accept the inspection!"

The duty of the garrison troop was to protect the colony. If a group of people were to rush into the city, this was something worth investigating.

Who knew what sort of diseases they could be carrying, or what parasites, which may threaten the entire city.

Qin Feng opened the door and got out of the car. Without him even saying a word, the other party was dumbfounded.

"Uh… Mayor Qin! H-hello!" The man quickly saluted when he recognized Qin Feng.

Qin Feng froze, then thought of what Zheng Yang said to him back at Zimu Mountains. To others, the dark rifts had only been gone for half a month. There was no way to carry out construction on those two mountains and they had become part of Qin Feng's backyard so to speak. For outsiders, it was unclear what this meant.

As someone who had performed exceptionally well while on the battlefield, Qin Feng seemed to be a hero.

"Hello, these people are orphans I've brought back from Han Town. I plan to send them to the orphanage here!"

"I see!" The garrison trooper hesitated for a moment then put his foot down, saying, "Then, you can go ahead first, I will inform the doctor and tell them to go ahead with the examination and prepare some antibiotics."

"Thank you!"

"No, Mayor Qin. Just doing our duty!" The trooper quickly waved his hand.

Qin Feng returned to his car and drove into the colony. Chengbei was naturally more prosperous than Han Town. It was so close to Chengyang City that it could basically be considered as a neighboring district, many things here were synchronized with Chengyang City.

Towering buildings, brightly dressed crowds, aptitude users that were uncommon in Han Town were all over here, there were even many children who happily went to school.1

When passing by a building, a video was playing on a big screen on the outer wall of a large building.

In the video, there was the scene of Qin Feng wielding the Verdant Emperor Saber, slashing away at F-tier zombies. Not only that, he also killed a Burning Ghoul. Due to the drone's overhead shots, the shot was perfect, beautiful and exciting to watch.

When the screen was doing a playback, a deep voice rang out.

"Heroes, always on the road!"

"Heroes, immortal in battle!"

"Heroes, fearless and persistent!"

"Heroes, are there among you!"

It was a promotional video by Zheng Yang! Although it was not specifically naming Qin Feng as a hero, there was without a doubt that after the Corpse Corps incident on Zimu Mountains that everyone recognized him as a hero.

Not only that, he had also become the leader of a colony.

Then the picture changed, and it was actually an image of Qin Feng. He was not sure when this was taken, but he was holding Bai Li's hand, tugging her along as they stood on a gray, ashy land and looking off into the horizon.

Then several large letters emerged: Fengli colony, waiting for you to create!

After seeing that, Qin Feng suddenly felt very dissatisfied!

Xue Xingfu was actually advertising this here. He even put an image of Bai Li. Qin Feng was not informed about it at all!

After realizing that pretty much everyone had seen Bai Li's face, he felt very unhappy! The little fox was his!1

When Qin Feng's expression became gloomy, those in the car with him were completely stunned. Although they knew Qin Feng was powerful, being on this large screen was obviously different.

"It's Mr. Qin!"

"Boss, that's so cool that you get to be on the big screen!"

"So it turns out that Ms. Bai Li's a superstar? Very photogenic!"

Once again, everyone felt that Qin Feng was unfathomable!

Qin Feng was utterly speechless.

Chapter 128: He's Qin Feng, You Know

Inside the orphanage's building.

"Sorry to trouble you this time, elder dean!"

"You rascal, don't say that, you've helped a lot this time!" Dean Lin Derong said emotionally before sending people to help manage the group that Qin Feng brought over. "Qin Feng, I was indeed right about you, but you've just grown up so fast, so fast that it's shocking. You must remember that it's the taller trees that will have their tops blown off. You need to remember to keep a low profile!"

Qin Feng smiled. If it were before his rebirth, he would have naturally done so as it would have been the right thing to do. It was completely different now. If he wanted to stay low, the only thing he would have to leave in the dark was his dark ability. Other times, he had to remain high profile.

"The towering tree deprives other creatures of their nutrients to protect the birds above. Elder dean, I won't let you down!"

Lin Derong froze for a moment, then laughed uncontrollably. "Okay! We'll go with yours! Fight on!"

Qin Feng left another 5 million and the meat of the plow worms before leaving.

The orphanage had become more depressing as of late.

Although the tragedy in Qin Feng's previous life did not happen, in the past half a month where he had not visited, the children's immune system had become weaker. They suffered from colds, fevers and viral infections, in the end more than twenty of them had passed.

Compared to the situation before Qin Feng's rebirth, it was considered much better. However with so many children gone, the orphanage seemed rather dismal.

With the new children joining, he believed that the mood might be uplifted a little.

Of course, against the pressures of survival, this was one of the places that Qin Feng should provide a lot of aid to. After the Fengli colony was built, Qin Feng was sure that the children would have a better living condition.

After leaving the orphanage, Qin Feng found a deserted area to have Bai Li bring out his hover car. The car was previously parked in front of Liu Zhenshan's shop. After the rift opened, Qin Feng had Bai Li put it away and now it was finally taken back out.

After returning to Qinghu Garden, and for not having a good break in a long while, Qin Feng comfortably lay in the large bathtub in his loft, Bai Li was beside him wearing a bikini.

Hmm, with a figure like that one could not help but get a nosebleed.

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Qin Feng was glad that Xiao Lian from before called Bai Li flat.

After one whole night of relaxation, Qin Feng was woken up by his communicator with a call from Zhou Hao.

"Madman, didn't you say you are back already? We need to do an overall test and find teammates today, don't tell me you're not coming?"

On the way back these past few days, Qin Feng and Zhou Hao were in contact, and Zhou Hau had urged him several times, much like this time, that he must not miss the Spring Hunting Garden!

Good thing Qin Feng managed to rush back. This time, Bai Li became a small fox again and rode shotgun.

After being in a humanoid form for so long, Bai Li did not exactly like turning back into a fox. When in the human form, she had to focus on maintaining the shape of the physical form, and in fact, it was a kind of full body transformation. Not only that, human fingers were extremely flexible. For Bai Li, controlling these was a kind of exercise.

Although the trip to Han Town allowed Bai Li to obtain another beast king crystal core, her strength had also increased by a lot. Yet, she still did not have much of a chance to shine!

Qin Feng really treated her like a pet.

Draping herself around Qin Feng's shoulders, she let out a yawn and went back to sleep.

Qin Feng got out of the car and stepped into campus. After that everything immediately felt different.

To say that he was just a face among the crowd of students back then would not be an unusual thing to say, but now almost all of the people who had seen him screamed with excitement.

"Qin Feng!"

"Hey, is that the ability class's Qin Feng who's also an ancient warrior?"

"He's so amazing!"

Among the cheering, there was a girl who boldly approached him.

"Qin Feng, are you going to take part in the month-end test today and look for a team?"

Qin Feng was not too frigid. He kept walking but he answered the other's question. "Yes!"

"It's a shame that I'm a sophomore. If, if you come back from the Spring Hunting Ground and the team has been dissolved, I hope you can consider me!"

Qin Feng. "… We'll see then."

It was considered a polite rejection!

"Ah, thank you Qin Feng!" That girl happily dashed back and openly announced, "Qin Feng said that he'd give me a chance!"

Qin Feng: "… I didn't even say anything."

Since he was gaining too much attention, he started to pick up the pace and those who were eager to try and go after him simply could not keep up.

Qin Feng quickly arrived at class. Only this time, something unimaginable happened.

"Qin Feng, the Spring Hunting Garden's about to start. You should join our team!"

"Yeah Qin Feng, take me aboard and I'll use my Tailwind Assist to make you run speedily!"

"Outta the way, you wind-element ability user, you're just an auxiliary support ability user!"

Qin Feng furrowed his brow at the group of twittering teenagers. Did they not look down on him thinking that he had low elemental affinity before? Why did they want to join up with him for the Spring Hunting Garden now?

Qin Feng was not going to have these expressions of good will and join this group of people.

"Sorry, I need to discuss some things with my teammates!" Qin Feng said.

"Who? With the genius Zhou Hao from the ancient warrior class?"

"Aw jeez, if Zhou Hao's with Qin Feng, they've already won!"

This group of people stared at Qin Feng with greater intensity! After all, those two together were too strong, everyone knew that Zhou Hao was a certified G-tier ancient warrior!

In the eyes of these students who had only newly awakened for two months and been in the school for a month, Zhou Hao's capabilities were already extremely powerful. Qin Feng was naturally strong as well, but it would never occur to them that Qin Feng had already reached F-tier.

Even if the advertisement was broadcasted everyday, they still believed that they could stand a chance against Qin Feng's power.

Just as they were about to say something else, the teacher of the ability class, Cheng Chao, finally arrived and dispersed those surrounding Qin Feng.

"Qin Feng's back? Perfect, and I thought you're not attending this time's Spring Hunting Garden!" Cheng Chao was obviously delighted. He thought that Qin Feng would only be back the next day! "Everyone prepare yourselves, this time we'll do the first examination. This exam is very important, I hope you don't embarrass yourself. If your score is lacking, you may not find a team!"

"Ahh?!!"

The students were suddenly in an uproar.

Soon, with the announcement spread across the whole school, the people from the ability class also followed the rest to the central square. People of all classes were dispatched one after another. This year, more than three hundred freshmen were seated on the stands beside the square.

Of course, because the central square was surrounded by the other buildings, those within the lecture floors could still see the rest of the square.

Just above Qin Feng's original class, among the ability classmen, Li Yaoyao was among the onlookers.

Translator's Thoughts: Ah. The mandatory 'Tournament Arc'! Lets goooooo!

Chapter 129: Qin Feng was Dead Last

Li Yaoyao was surrounded by her peers. They were chatting feverishly.

"Here come the new recruits of the abilities class."

"Is Qin Feng with them?"

"Perhaps. However, despite being an outstanding ancient warrior, he may not be an ability user in equal."

"Yet I heard that his conscious energy level is off the charts. He can even use telekinesis!"

"Is that so? Nonetheless, ability user or not, he would still make a formidable teammate. Our university is going to take the first place for sure this time!"

Lee Yaoyao was looking dejected. 'Too bad we are not in the same year. Or else, I could join him at the Spring Hunting Ground this time and mend our relationship.'

In the middle of the square, the headmaster of Chengbei University, Deng Nian, had once again taken the center stage.

"This evaluation depends greatly on what kind of teammates you manage to recruit. There's only one way to gather strong allies, which is by having considerable strength yourself. Thus, I hope you will give it your best and bring out everything you have learned in the past month. Don't be shy to demonstrate the best of your abilities in front of the crowd!"

"Now, we welcome the first class of the 69th batch to showcase their talent!"

The first class would undoubtedly be the abilities class.

Qin Feng walked down the participant seats and was ushered to the square with the others.

Cheng Chao was standing beside them, and he announced proudly and spiritedly, "Release the runes!"

It was like this had been rehearsed multiple times. The students standing beside Cheng Chao became serious and triggered their strong conscious energy to unleash the runes stored within them.

The released runes covered their masters and beamed in different colors.

Their class rep, Zhao Yu, was the one with the best rune affinity. She scored A in that category, meaning that Zhao Yu was capable of absorbing fifteen runes in ten minutes and ninety runes in an hour. However, restricted by her consciousness, the maximum time Zhao Yu could perform meditation and absorb runes was capped at two hours per day.

Besides, concentrated runes usually came with a hefty cost. The efficacy would plummet further if one were sensing and harvesting runes that dispersed freely in the surrounding.

Even so, Zhao Yu had still attained more than one thousand runes in one-month. She also now possessed three G-tier fire abilities.

Zhao Yu was the student closest to G-tier in the entire class. She was no doubt a destined prodigy.

She would be the sole spotlight of the 69th batch if Qin Feng had not emerged.

Buzz!

The red-colored runes climbed above one meter high and surpassed everyone on the stage. Her red runes were the most eye-catching among the color palette.

She was the undisputable first in her class.

Aside from her, there was another alien among them. Naturally, that would be Qin Feng.

He had not taken part in the class before and knew nothing about the details of this exhibition. Hence, he was one step behind everyone else.

Qin Feng realized what he had to do only when others had already pushed to their limits to ascend their runes.

'I see. So we are asked to demonstrate our runes? I better not reveal too much about my ability.'

Qin Feng would not be shy of flexing his muscles on other occasions but his dark flame would stand out too much amidst the orange-red flames of other students.

As such, Qin Feng only slightly activated the most basic level of fire runes and appeared unpromising.

He was on the other extreme end as compared to Zhao Yu so he ended up with the same amount of attention from the audience.

"Ah, why is Qin Feng's rune so timid in size?"

"I heard that he has a low affinity to begin with. Moreover, he seldom attended class. That explains his subpar ability."

"That's truly unexpected. So he is mediocre after all."

Cheng Chao felt helpless seeing that Qin Feng had become the center of attention.

Qin Feng's affinity was only at G-tier, which was lower than most ability students.

Cheng Chao believed Qin Feng would fare better if he had chosen the path of a gunner or an ancient warrior.

"At ease!"

Though he had such thoughts running through his head, Cheng Chao did not forget that they were in the middle of an exhibition and continued to give out orders.

The students retracted their runes swiftly. It took a toll on their conscious level to materialize the runes. Besides, most of them were overextending their power to impress the audience. To maintain the rune output in such a state for more than half a minute was the best the students could manage.

Qin Feng also quickly put out the rune flames around him. He did not look upset despite the crowd's doubtful stares.

"Qin Feng's ability is unexpectedly underwhelming!"

"Well, ability and rune affinity are not the only things that matter inside the hunting ground. Qin Feng's prowess in martial arts and gunfights is not to be overlooked. He is still a strong first-place candidate there."

"I agree. Even without the talent of an ability user, Qin Feng is still better than a lot of them. Don't forget, he single handedly challenged an F-tier beast king!"

Now that they had witnessed his rune capacity, the audience was curious to find out who Qin Feng would choose to be his teammates next.

Ignoring the murmuring crowd, Cheng Chao continued to give out instructions to the students. The abilities class this term only had thirty students. Five of them took a step forward to demonstrate their unique abilities first.

This was the moment one could tell who was the real deal.

Some could release flames, fogs, gusts, or falling rocks, which were all considered useful. Nevertheless, the brightest spotlight once again belonged to Zhao Yu!

She first released a ball of flame, followed by three simultaneous burning bolus in three separate directions, and she ended her performance with a fiery ring around her. Those attacks hit all rubber dummies prepared by the university and set them on fire.

A lot of ancient warriors and gunners noted her name down mentally and wanted to invite her to their team.

Qin Feng was naturally the last to step up since he had rehearsed nothing.

He did not move a finger after the other four students that shared the stage with him had done their parts.

He could mask his true ability by exhibiting the most basic runic power but any skill of his level now would immediately give out his disguise. Yet, if he were to do nothing, then he would be looked down upon.

He contemplated and finally stepped forward.

In front of the rubber dummy, Qin Feng directly swung his fist and hit the dummy with his inner power. Two countering forces immediately exploded and formed a whirlpool of energy.

Boom!

The loud bang that resulted from Qin Feng's fist landing on the dummy stunned the crowd.

The rubber dummy first twisted in shape, then burst into pieces.

The impact of Qin Feng's fist was as deadly as explosives!

On the grandstand, Deng Nian's mouth slightly curved upward.

'From the looks of it, Qin Feng has once again become stronger. But he is an abilities class student. Why did he use martial arts instead? How is he going to be ranked in this case?'

The training dummy was actually also a measuring tool. It would translate a student's power into a number after it had received the attack from the student. Qin Feng's battle power reached 5,000 points after he shattered the dummy with his bare fist.

"The maximum limit!!"

"So Qin Feng is as powerful as a G9 user now?"

"Wonderful!"

"Indeed, even without fancy ability, Qin Feng is still the strongest!"

Unsurprisingly, Qin Feng was dead last when the final ranking of abilities class came out.

After all, the ranking was based on ability and not martial arts!

His classmates would be infuriated if Qin Feng were ranked top using an unqualified move set.

"I only got 890 points. That's way off compared to Qin Feng's power." Zhao Yu lamented. Her classmates around her quickly gathered and patted her to console her.

Chapter 130: Chen Ming in One Piece

"Zhao Yu, don't worry about it. You are more than capable of earning the G-tier badge. I am confident that you will be given one if you get a good grade this time. You might not even need to kill a monster."

"Stop worrying about things you can't control."

"Yeah. Don't compare yourself to that physical freak. What he did could hardly be called an ability!"

Zhao Yu was comforted after she heard the reassuring words from her classmates.

It was the ancient warrior class turn next. There were a total of three classes so the evaluation was done on ten students simultaneously. Nevertheless, it still progressed much slower than before.

Zhou Hao was at his usual best. He and Lu Meng had earned a lot during the zombie invasion. He used the credits to resupply chakra pills and strengthening potions to boost his training. As a result, Zhou Hao was now steadily reaching G6-tier.

A few rubber dummies were deformed brutally by Zhou Hao's punch during the test.

The first place in the ancient warrior group belonged to Zhou Hao. His battle power—3,190 points.

After that, those from the gunner class came forth to take the test.

This group was actually more splendid to watch. The better gunner was usually the one who had spent more on their gears. The loaded ones brought out machine guns and plasma bombs, while the poor could only carry cheap handguns. No matter how accurate they were, nobody was bothered to pay the latter any attention.

Qin Feng who was initially daydreaming was suddenly intrigued by something he saw. He took a better look and was utterly dumbstruck.

'Chen Ming! How could it be?'

Qin Feng focused on him and realized that Chen Ming was holding two guns in his hands. The metallic gray weapons were two gorgeous-looking plasma guns.

But what drew Qin Feng's attention was neither the guns nor his accuracy. He was focused on Chen Ming's legs.

Chen Ming was wearing long pants and the pair of legs hidden beneath them seemed absolutely normal.

"Zhou Hao, do you know what happened to Chen Ming? I thought that he missed the application date? How did he get into the university?"

Zhou Hao replied to him through the communicator swiftly, "Since we had parted ways after the day of awakening, I have not contacted him much lately. From what I heard, he fawned over the son of the deputy mayor called Lin Kai and squeezed into the gunner class last minute through that connection. The official statement is that he is to be the companion of Lin Kai."

'Companion? More like a subordinate or pawn!'

Qin Feng did not see this coming.

"Thanks for the info."

"Qin Feng, don't trouble yourself with that guy. The one that abducted us during the reunion was probably set up by him. No matter how good our past relationship was, we can't risk trusting a dishonest person like him anymore. You got me?"

Zhou Hao knew that Qin Feng was always lenient toward Chen Ming. Though they had not been in touch after the awakening, Zhou Hao reckoned it was best to caution Qin Feng once more since he had brought up the subject.

"I know what to do."

After he hung up, his eyes were still fixated on Chen Ming, who was still pompously showing off his skills.

Qin Feng focused on his legs and his frown deepened.

After he cut off Chen Ming's legs, he had burned them to ashes right there and then. There was zero chance he could get those amputated legs reconnected. But no matter how Qin Feng looked at it, his legs were too natural to be prosthetic.

No matter how advanced technology was now, a prosthetic leg would still not bend this naturally like what Chen Ming had just performed.

What was more, it struck Qin Feng at odds that Chen Ming's legs were full of strength and he was even stronger than before.

As a powerful consciousness user, there was no way Qin Feng would be mistaken in assessing Chen Ming, who was a few tiers behind him.

So, what miracle happened to him in such a short time?

Perhaps Qin Feng was looking too hard, or perhaps Chen Ming had long noticed Qin Feng. When Chen Ming went down the stage and glanced through the student seats, his gaze locked straight onto Qin Feng's. A sense of resentment flashed across his face and disappeared rapidly.

Qin Feng stared at him as well. Possibly, this old friend of his had guessed who was the one that had broken off his legs.

That changed nothing, though. They were, after all, already standing on opposite ends from the day Qin Feng had been resurrected.

The gunner course had six classes in total. Two hours had passed when the whole exhibition event finally came to an end.

The abilities class students were growing impatient as they sat through the whole event.

The gunners were ranked first by the weapon-grade, then only by techniques. Chen Ming sat at no. 10, which was not at all a bad placement.

"Qin Feng, let's discuss our party formation. Do you think you can recruit Zhao Yu from your class into our team?" Zhou Hao asked.

"Let me ask her now!" Zhao Yu was sitting right in front of Qin Feng. "Class rep, do you have a team yet?"

Zhao Yu was obviously everyone's target in the abilities class. In a party, there were two ability users allowed while no such restriction was placed on ancient warriors and gunners.

Most of them were not familiar with Qin Feng so naturally everyone would like to team up with the friendlier Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu did not accept the others' invitations hastily because she was hoping to form an alliance with Qin Feng. Cheng Chao had also mentioned that it was best to group the strong students in one team. He promised to match them up during the party formation ceremony later.

Unexpectedly, Qin Feng asked Zhao Yu before Cheng Chao had even said anything.

"Not yet!" Zhao Yu shook her head.

"Then, join our team. What do you think?"

"Sure, Qin Feng! I should thank you for inviting me." Zhao Yu accepted quickly.

Qin Feng grinned and asked for her student ID. "Another confirmed member of the team right now is the top student of the ancient warrior class. We still haven't decided on other members yet."

"You are speaking of Zhou Hao?"

"Yeah!"

"That would surely be a lot of pressure. Both of you are the best of the best!"

Zhao Yu was always the top in her class. That was only true before a monster named Qin Feng showed up. Although she was still ranked first this time, only Qin Feng and Zhou Hao were worthy to be called a genius in her opinion. She still had a lot of respect for Qin Feng even though he was placed last in the class. That did not alter the fact that Qin Feng was the best warrior in their age group.

"Relax. Spring Hunting Ground is nothing too difficult."

Qin Feng called back to Zhou Hao to deliver the good news. "It's settled."

"Great! That means only two more slots left. I think we can ask one of my classmates. He is an ancient warrior with a unique ability."

"How unique?" Qin Feng questioned.

"His inner power could heal internal wounds. He said that he is the descendent of an ancient warrior family that excels in healing. By the way, he is also currently studying medicine part-time."

"Sounds good." Qin Feng answered.

Inside the university, other than the three main courses, there were other subsidiary subjects that were more technical in nature. Anyone could pick up such crash courses without the need of being enrolled in the university.

These crash courses included medicine, cooking, agriculture, etc. These were means to help the general people survive the harsh world outside.

A course like culinary took only three months while plantation only lasted a year.

The entire medicine course was relatively long but it was shorter if only the first aid class was taken. Stuff like emergency treatment and stitching in the wild still required intensive learning and training.

With such a dependable teammate around, Zhou Hao and Zhao Yu would receive better care if they were accidentally wounded during the mission.

Chapter 131: Lin Kai's Threat

Better be safe than sorry. There were also chances that they might clash with students from other universities.

While they were discussing the next candidate to invite, the ranking of the six gunner classes was finally released.

"Everyone, march to the field!"

Under the teachers' lead, the students left their seats and walked toward the square. The students' sight jumped from one line to the other, apparently searching for their suitable teammates.

"You may team up now. Party with five members should come forth and register with the teachers."

The crowd immediately scattered about after Deng Nian gave the order. A lot of students swarmed around Qin Feng.

Qin Feng hastily clarified, "I already have a team. We only need a gunner with scouting skills now."

This left those from the ancient warrior class in great disappointment. Students from the abilities class also looked at Qin Feng and Zhao Yu enviously.

They understood that it was meant to be. It was only natural for the strong to group together to achieve the best possible result.

Soon, Zhou Hao came and joined them along with the classmate he had mentioned earlier.

He was a gentle-looking teenager wearing a pair of gold-frame spectacles. His shirt was snowy-white while his pants were made of linen. He matched his clothing with a pair of white canvas shoes.

Though it was a common outfit any sixteen year old teenager would have chosen, this guy was too clean to the point where Qin Feng thought that he might be a neat freak.

"Hi! My name is Zhang Tianche. I studied a type of neigong called Revitalization. It could be used to treat an internal wound and replenish lost internal force. Other than that, I have also picked up basic medicine and first aid." The new guy introduced himself.

"My name is Qin Feng. This lady here is Zhao Yu. From now on, we will work as a team," Qin Feng said.

Zhang Tianche nodded. "Both of you are widely well-known throughout the campus. It's nice to finally meet you two in person."

Qin Feng quietly labeled him as a calm and steady person. Though he did not know about his background, Qin Feng guessed that he must be from a prestigious clan.

Honestly, after he had time traveled ten years back, he could hardly get along with his classmates.

After all, Qin Feng was ten years older in age. The thinking and action of his peers at this age were too immature from his perspective.

Qin Feng figured that Zhang Tianche might be different from the rest. He might have finally met someone that shared the same level of maturity as his.

Zhao Yu was slightly embarrassed by their solemnness and giggled beside them. "Stop acting so serious you two. We are going to be friends and comrades in the future. Ease up. We still need to look for another teammate."

"Yes. We better be quick. Or else, we might be left with little option." Zhou Hao chipped in urgently as well.

This was when an arrogant voice approached them. The crowd had consciously made way and opened up a path in the middle.

A greasy-looking teenager walked over to them. He was wearing an expensive outfit and was escorted by several guys, who were obviously his followers.

He did not even attempt to hide his pompous and egoistic behavior.

"So you are the famous Qin Feng?" The teenager measured Qin Feng with an equal sense of scorn and jealousy.

"And this is Zhou Hao? The first of the ancient warrior class I heard? Not bad. Come join my team. But of course, I will be the team captain."

The bystanders were dumbfounded.

If these words were to come out from someone else's mouth, naysayers would definitely step out and rebuke him or her.

However, everyone knew who the bragger was after studying at this university for one month.

He was none other than the infamous son of the deputy mayor.

Lin Kai was his name. He held the highest status among the students of the 69th batch. This was all thanks to his father being an E-tier aptitude user. In other words, he had the backing from one of the top dogs of Chengbei colony and thus no one dared to go against him.

Chen Ming was standing right by his side. He smirked while looking at Qin Feng. He obviously enjoyed watching how his master was making fun of Qin Feng publicly.

Qin Feng stared at them and was undeterred.

'So my little friend over there has found himself a powerful backer. Perhaps I could find more clues about the laboratory on them?'

Qin Feng sneered. No matter how desperate he was in wanting to fish out the next lead, Qin Feng was not going to bow down to them.

On the contrary, Qin Feng was going to show them the consequences of provoking him once they were inside the Spring Hunting Ground.

"My team has four members now. I am afraid we are unable to accommodate you and your gang," Qin Feng replied.

Lin Kai narrowed his eyes and scowled at them. He saw Zhang Tianche and Zhao Yu beside him. He obviously had heard of Zhao Yu so he turned to Zhang Tianche and bellowed, "You, scram!"

Zhang Tianche did not move. He remained calm as if Lin Kai was just an insignificant passerby. He maintained eye contact and smiled back politely despite the latter pointing at him furiously.

Qin Feng scoffed coldly, "Lin Kai, right? Are you deaf? Or are you just daft? Even if my team only has two members, trash like you will still not be welcomed. How dare you point your finger at my comrade? You wish to lose a finger or two?"

Lin Kai's eyes widened in disbelief. The crowd was equally taken aback.

Apparently, Lin Kai had never been humiliated by others this way since the day he was born. His face went red immediately and he burst out in anger.

"What did you just say?! I dare you to say it one more time."

"So, you really are deaf." Qin Feng curled his lips in disdain.

"Qin Feng!" Lin Kai shouted furiously, "Know your place! Who do you think you are, acting so high and mighty? You are just lucky to appear in one of the promotional footages. One order from my father and you are nothing, you piece of sh*t."

Lin Kai did not believe one bit of the propaganda showed. To him, those were just tools used by politicians inside the colony to exert their influence.

Such examples were aplenty. Lin Kai had seen it himself numerous times. Whenever his father wanted to promote someone he favored, he would publicize and exaggerate the contribution made. The person only needed to be slightly packaged and he or she would be given a better position in the government. Even Lin Kai already had a bright future laid down for him by his father.

Qin Feng awakened at the same age as him. How was it possible that he could be that strong?

Those were just sweet lies to please the people.

The people around them were swayed by Lin Kai's words.

"What? So those videos are just for show?"

"It's only logical that way. How is it possible that Qin Feng could become so powerful in such a short time?"

"I thought that Qin Feng has been given the mayoral position at Fengli colony? If so, then why does he need to come back to school? The more I think of it, the more unreal it gets."

Suddenly, the majority of the crowd began to doubt Qin Feng.

Lin Kai was utterly pleased. He looked at Qin Feng conceitedly and thought that Qin Feng would become terrified and beg him not to do it.

Unfortunately, Qin Feng disappointed him.

"Go ahead." Qin Feng was afraid of nothing. "Call the deputy mayor and bring down the propaganda this very moment. Better still, summon the patrol unit and seize me. We shall see who would be mutilated more then."

Chapter 132: Four-Person Team

"Qin Feng, I am not joking when I say I am going to bring you down!" Lin Kai was fuming with rage.

Qin Feng couldn't care less and glanced back coldly.

'We'll see!'

Perhaps the clamor was too much as the teacher had decided to intervene.

"What's the matter? Why would a simple task of finding your teammates lead to such ruckus??" Cheng Chao frowned when he saw the two bands of people that were involved in the row. 'This is problematic.'

Just as he was looking for a solution, the crowd exclaimed in shock yet another time.

"Headmaster!"

"It's the headmaster!"

Deng Nian had come down from the grandstand!

Though Lin Kai was boastful, he was not that stupid to stand up against someone as powerful as his father. Neither did he want to stay and be lectured. He scowled at Qin Feng one last time before he left.

"Mark my words. If anyone from the gunner class dares to join your team, I'll abandon my surname!" Lin Kai left after leaving those harsh words behind.

His subordinates followed him with their heads held low. They never expected their boss to be intimidated. It was always the other way round.

Chen Ming was exasperated too. Not only did Lin Kai fail to tame Qin Feng, he was even more aloof than before.

"Qin Feng, as a brother that came out from the same orphanage, I have to warn you that Lin Kai is not someone you wish to upset. You would definitely regret today's event."

"Brother? Do you really mean it?" Qin Feng snorted.

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Zhou Hao furrowed his eyebrows hearing Chen Ming's words. "Qin Feng, there's no need to reason with this type of people. I bet he has asked his master to humiliate you this time but too bad, it backfired terribly!"

Chen Ming's face reddened in an instant. Zhou Hao had probably guessed it right.

"Zhou Hao, stop being so full of yourself. You will know the consequences of mocking us soon." Chen Ming diverted his anger toward Zhou Hao.

"Make it quick. I don't have much patience."

As the fight was about to escalate, Deng Nian finally reached them.

"Why are you people gathering around here? Have you all found your teammates? Move!"

The crowd dispersed rapidly thanks to Deng Nian's intrusion.

Deng Nian nodded warmly at Qin Feng and left without saying anything. This was not the right place to hold a conversation.

Qin Feng's communicator vibrated right after that. He glanced at it and realized it was a message sent by his headmaster. He was asked to be present at the headmaster's office after he had finalized the team. That did not surprise Qin Feng.

When he raised his head, he found that Zhou Hao and Zhao Yu were troubled by something. They were frowning out of obvious anger. Zhang Tianche, on the other hand, maintained his usual tranquility.

"What's the matter?"

Zhou Hao told him angrily, "That bastard really went ahead and threatened the students from gunner classes to not join our team!"

"How could he do that!" Zhao Yu felt angry and helpless at the same time.

"Let me try." Qin Feng unlocked his communicator. After the ranking was released, students could directly contact others on the list. There was also a filter option, where one could bar students below a certain rank from contacting them.

Qin Feng had blocked everyone previously. He called up the setting and switched it back on. But most participants knew that Qin Feng's team only lacked a gunner now.

Not a single gunner attempted to contact him.

Qin Feng was unperturbed and proceeded to send an inquiry to several gunners that ranked in the top ten.

He was asking politely whether they had formed a team.

Some outright ignored him while others replied after a while, claiming that they had already found their respective teams.

Was that so?

Of course not. The reason was because one's name would be taken off the list immediately after they had registered their teams.

After ten minutes, not a single gunner had responded to his invitation.

The majority of the students had registered by now.

"No point in waiting further. Let's go." Qin Feng finally gave up.

Zhao Yu was clearly worried as she said, "We will be vulnerable without a gunner. A sniper could easily take us all out."

Gunners were the trump card in a long-range skirmish. No matter how powerful you were, you would not be able to defeat an enemy beyond your reach.

"Have you forgotten that I am a gunner myself?" Qin Feng asked reciprocally.

Zhao Yu was enlightened as she came to the realization. 'That's right, Qin Feng was the one that had outclassed our firearms teacher before!'

"That's right. Qin Feng is extremely good with firearms too. We could gain more points this way. We should really get going." Zhou Hao had grown sick of waiting in the square. He especially couldn't stand it when students around began to look at them sympathetically. Some must be still thinking that Qin Feng was a fraud and was merely an actor used by the government in their propaganda.

'Bunch of idiots.' Zhou Hao did not bother to explain to them. The truth would be out of the bag eventually. These people would know how stupid they were by then.

The four of them reported to Cheng Chao. The latter was slightly surprised but he believed in Qin Feng.

"All the best. Our honor depends on you." Cheng Chao tapped on Qin Feng's shoulder.

"I will do what I can." Qin Feng answered humbly.

After the registration, some teams set off to continue training while some opted to take a rest. The one-month intensive training before this had taken a huge toll on everyone. They had to assemble back here by 8 am the next day and depart to Spring Hunting Ground by mobile.

"Should we undergo some special training?"

Qin Feng shook his head. "Let's have a good rest. I still have something to attend to before we depart."

"Alright, see you all tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow."

They went their separate ways after saying their goodbyes. Qin Feng headed directly to the headmaster's office.

Inside, Qin Feng sat down on a couch and shared a pot of tea with Deng Nian.

"I was told that you have brought back some refugees from Han Town recently. You even slaughtered an F-tier broodmother by yourself?" Deng Nian asked.

These things would not go unnoticed. Though Han Town was far from Chengbei, communication through the network still existed between the two clusters.

After it was invaded, Han Town had been demanding for more aptitude users to go over and help with the rebuild. Naturally, Qin Feng's heroic performances were leaked out in the process.

"That's true." Qin Feng admitted.

Deng Nian lamented, "That's remarkable. You are going to outdo me soon."

"That's an exaggeration. My achievement is nothing compared to yours."

"There's no need to be humble. I am only speaking the truth. I am glad you are willing to join this mission. I have high hopes for you. Please be other students' example and lead them. We are often the subsidiary in an event like this."

Deng Nian was straight to the point. Chengyang University in the federal city was always the leading institution among the five main universities. They had three times the number of students as compared to other institutions. As a result, they also produced more elites throughout the years.

Who would have thought that a generational talent like Qin Feng would be awakened in Chengbei this year?

Chapter 133: Chengyang City

"What is your plan after the Spring Hunting Ground? Any plans to remain in the university?" Deng Nian asked.

Qin Feng replied without any hesitation, "Of course, there is still a lot for me to learn!"

However, he would still be playing truant to take care of personal matters.

Deng Nian did not care about those as he was already delighted to have such a reply from Qin Feng.

"If that is the case, I shall not continue to retain you as a student then! Didn't Han Jian give you the title of an Honorary Captain? I shall award you with the title of an Honorary Teacher then!"

Deng Nian giggled and raised his hand, then, a box appeared on top of the table.

"This is a token of appreciation of an Honorary Teacher, and also my support for your journey into the Spring Hunting Ground!"

A token of appreciation?

Qin Feng opened the box and found a glove inside.

It was a red and large glove, and with its luxurious finishing, it could almost cover up to the forearm. There were also sharp nails that covered the fingertips.

It was more like a claw rather than a glove.

There was a red cobblestone-size ability core embedded at the back of the hand, while there were stripes that connected it to every part of the glove.

The extremely sturdy inner part was revealed as the glove was flipped over, and it could even withstand forces from incoming bullets and weaponry.

"Ability rune equipment." Qin Feng was surprised with the ability rune equipment that was glowing in purple light, and all of a sudden, a label on the equipment caught his attention: Scarlet Fire Claw F5!"

It was a rune equipment made from the fire core of an F5-tier beast general.

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Due to the scarcity of ability cores, the price of ability rune equipment would be higher than rune equipment of the ancient warriors.

However, Deng Nian had now gifted one to Qin Feng.

Furthermore, it was obvious that the glove was meant for a left handed person.

Deng Nian had witnessed Qin Feng's battle where he would handle the Verdant Emperor Saber with his right arm.

"Principal, I shall receive this thoughtful gift from you!" Qin Feng said.

It seemed that Deng Nian had immediately ordered for the glove to be made upon his return as it would usually take half a month to make an ability rune equipment.

Qin Feng felt honoured and respected by such a thoughtful act from Deng Nian.

"Haha, don't worry about it, from now onward, you are one of us!"

Deng Nian guffawed cheerily when he saw that Qin Feng had accepted the gift.

***

The next day, bustling noise and excitement filled the university as many parents were at the campus.

The Spring Hunting Ground was the students' first journey to risk their lives by going into the wilderness. All the other aptitude users had already been exposed to the dangers of the wilderness earlier on, now, their time had come!

"Feng, please be careful!" Zhou Hao's father urged.

"Uncle, don't worry, we will be fine!"

After the seats had been allocated, there were more than ten vehicles on the move toward the South Gate.

The students were excited for their first journey into the wilderness and chattered incessantly among themselves.

However, all of them remained silent as soon as they arrived in the wilderness.

The skies had become clear and boundless as there were no more high rise buildings around the area.

Zhao Yu looked toward the sky and exclaimed, "All of a sudden, it feels good to be free!"

Indeed, the colony was like a cage!

The boundless freedom could only be felt in the outside world!

However, sacrifices of fresh blood had to be given to obtain such freedom.

Soon, all of them would realize the price to be paid for such freedom when they venture into the horrifying wilderness.

Bam bam bam bam!

The gunshots had alerted the students as they opened their eyes wide and immediately looked around the surroundings.

"There is something in the front that has blocked the road!"

Qin Feng and the others were in a vehicle that was behind others, and they were unaware of what had happened ahead of them. However, many of them extended their head out from the vehicle to look outside, they noticed that there was a wild boar that was rushing toward them; its head was large and its eyes were red as it bared its fangs.

"It is a wild boar!"

Although the wild boar was merely a G6-tier ultra beast, its massive and bulky body structure highly increased its attack power, and it was also covered with thick flesh that could easily handle ordinary bullets.

The wild boar moved at high speed and rushed toward the side of the second vehicle, one of the students that had half of his body extended out from the vehicle immediately moved back into the vehicle. However, the wild boar acted fast with its fangs.

Swoosh!

The fangs of the wild boar swiped across the shoulder of the student, resulting in a whole chunk of his flesh being ripped off with blood splattering everywhere. If there were no guardrails around the bus, the chest of the student would have been pierced through from the attack.

"Argh!!!" The screams from the student could even be heard clearly from a few vehicles away.

Everyone that was there instantly felt fear mounting in them.

It was because of everything that had just happened, the malicious wild boar, the splattered blood, and also the piercing cry from the unfortunate student.

It was fortunate that the number of the wild boars was not that big and the situation was taken care of by the F-tier teachers that were around!

However, the students were stifled by the intense atmosphere.

Some of the female students were even trembling in fear.

"It will be fine!" Zhang Tianche who was silent said calmly, "Have faith in the leader. Furthermore, the three of us are ancient warriors, you will not be required to have close combat with the ultra beasts!"

Zhao Yu who was pale recovered slightly with his words.

"Okay!"

"Believe in your companions, and believe in your own team members!" Qin Feng spoke up. "The wilderness has never been a place to have solo combats."

It was for that same reason that the university put the students in groups.

The journey went smoothly after the short interruption. Shortly after, the city walls of Chengyang City appeared in everyone's eyes.

When seen from afar, the city wall was thirty meters in height, and there were pale light rays that were extending from the top of the wall, the light rays had formed into a pale network.

There was a space stabilizing device placed at the centre of the network, it was similar to the Six Flare Star as radiations were being released in silver light rays.

"City-tier space stabilizing device!"

"Energy network, oh god, what would the daily energy consumption be like to support such a size of energy network!"

"Look, it is a tier 3 energy cannon! Every shot from it would be equivalent to the maximum destructive force from an E-tier aptitude user, and there are so many of them!"

Everyone was amazed by the scene.

The city wall of the Chengyang City was not much higher than Chengbei colony's, it was because excessive heights would restrict the ability of the ability users!

However, the wall definitely had sufficient thickness.

As soon as they got closer, they noticed that they had gone through a tunnel and arrived at the inner parts of Chengyang City.

The surroundings were more spacious and the streets were clean and well maintained, while there were luxurious buildings and greeneries that spread across the area.

It truly depicted the glamorous life of a big city.

Besides, aptitude users were seen everywhere, and there was also the presence of E-tiers. The pinnacle of life seen in Chengbei colony could be seen everywhere in this city.

F-tier aptitude users were a norm here, and G-tiers were also seen everywhere!

This had amazed all of the students that were in the vehicles.

It was as if everyone had just seen a whole new world.

Among all of them, with teachers being excluded, Qin Feng was definitely the only one that remained calm and unbothered!

Chapter 134: Assembly of Five Major Universities

Before Qin Feng's rebirth, he had even witnessed cities that were larger than Chengyang City.

Suddenly, Qin Feng felt something swiping at his shoulder.

It was Bai Li.

Bai Li had woken up and was staring at the various merchandise along the streets with her little fox eyes that shone like black glass, attracted to everything along the streets!

Chengyang City was assuredly better than Chengbei colony!

"Alright, alright, alright, I'll bring you here for these as soon as the competition is over!"

Qin Feng brushed Bai Li's fur while he assured her using conscious energy.

Bai Li felt satisfied and nodded.

The vehicles soon arrived at the inner parts of Chengyang city where the military base was located. It was like a fort, densely enforced with metal and steel, and the giant square was already heavily crowded.

Students from the other colonies had already arrived.

Students from the Xita colony were in dark-green uniform.

Students from the Dongling University were in sky-blue uniform.

Students from the Hunnan University where in orange uniform.

Those that were from Chengbei colony were in dark-red uniform. Soon after, students from Chengyang University that was the nearest were the last to arrive!

The crowd watched as luxurious vehicles drove into the military base.

They had a sleek body shape that seemed to be fully made from metal, while the front part was inclined and connected with a rounded glass. This feature highlighted a special function when travelling at high speed where the images from the surroundings would be slowed down to prevent dizziness.

Furthermore, it was obvious to the crowd that all of the vehicles that were driving in were hover cars.

Rich and imposing!

Chengyang University had already displayed their strength to the others from their grand entrance.

All four of the other districts were in discomfort when comparing themselves to Chengyang!

Not long after that, students from Chengyang University got off from their vehicles. They were wearing snow-white uniforms combined with golden collars and cuffs. Under the rays of the sun, their uniforms were even emitting a pale-white halation.

"Those uniforms are made from top tier materials from combat fatigues!"

"Chengyang University is too wealthy!"

"This is why they are not afraid to use white color materials!"

The freely distributed uniforms from Chengyang University were combat fatigues that were designed to repel raindrops, sweat, as well as cold and hot temperature. As it came with an expensive price, it could even repel fine dust, or else they would not have chosen white.

Students from the other universities that wore different colored uniforms seemed to belong to an inferior army.

Students from Chengyang University got off with full confidence and looked at the others in disdain.

"Purplish-red color from Chengbei University looks gay!"

"Blue color from Dongling University makes them look like they are waiters!"

"Those that are from Xita look the same as the army from the military."

"Yellowish-orange color? Isn't that too old fashioned?"

Just like that, all four districts were criticised.

All of the other universities were infuriated by the criticisms and planned to teach them a lesson as soon as they cross paths later!

Students from Chengyang University were not bothered by such threats they deemed unworthy of their attention.

After all, they outnumbered the others.

Did they think that it was four against one?

Definitely not.

"Assemble, fall in!"

The teachers gave their instructions while students got into their formations. As soon as the students were lined up accordingly, every university from the east, west, south, and north could see the large number of students from Chengyang University.

There were two thousand of them.

Chengyang University had outnumbered the others by six hundred students even with all four other universities combined!

"Next, I will be announcing the rules!"

An elder took the lead with a deep and thick voice.

Qin Feng was able to sense that the elder was an E9-tier ancient warrior and was getting close to D-tier.

"Rifts in the Spring Hunting Ground are stable and safe, and you may gather any loot and treasures that are filled with spirit aura, and those that you are able to gather would be yours!"

The crowd was delighted by the news and their eyes were wide opened in excitement.

"Of course, there will be ultra beasts that have strong capabilities, and I do not need you to defeat them. The most important thing to do is to avoid them and survive!"

The students instantly became gloomy, while the faces of the students from Chengbei University were pale as they were still terrified by their wild boar encounter.

Any ultra beast would be harmful by nature and they would threaten the lives of those that had yet to obtain G-tier.

"However, your capabilities have definitely increased from past training, and so, there will be a challenge for everyone, and it is known as the Spring Hunting Ground Survival Challenge!"

"Every student will have to remain in the hunting ground for three days and strip off name tags from the others, every name tag obtained will be recorded as one point, while those that had their name tags stripped off will be automatically disqualified by the space expulsion of the Spring Hunting Ground!"

"Now, distribute the name tags, remove your communicators, seal off the space rune equipment!"

The teachers carried out the task as soon as the instructions were given.

"Qin Feng, this is your name tag, remember, pay extra attention to those from Chengyang University!" Cheng Chao said.

"Teacher, don't worry!" Qin Feng nodded and took his name tag.

It was about the size of a palm and had a purple base that was encircled with a golden ring, and it was labelled with the number 21.

Zhao Yu had a similar one that was labelled number 1.

Zhou Hao and Zhang Tianche received their purple-color-base name tag that was encircled with a silver ring.

When looked carefully, there were also others that had black rings that indicated gunners.

Every university was differentiated by the color of the name tags, while the ring would differentiate aptitude users, and numbers would represent rankings.

Furthermore, the name tag was also a spatial passage device in itself, and this essential tool for the Spring Hunting Ground was rarely available.

"Communication would be impossible without the communicator, hence, it would also be difficult to detect if anyone were to cheat!" Zhao Yu felt anxious about the restrictions.

Zhou Hao was also puzzled with the situation.

"Without the communicator, how would the performance be recorded? Would it just be as simple as stripping off name tags from the others? If that were the case, can we also strip off name tags from students that are from our university?"

"It's the wilderness, would it still be fair for everyone?" Qin Feng looked at them and replied calmly, "The teachers have already sealed off the rune space of the gunners to restrict usage of certain giant-sized firearms, or else, all of you would be in a much more dire situation!"

Zhou Hao recalled the moment when Qin Feng battled against the gunner and launched three bombs that covered the entire top part of a hill; if these students were there, they would definitely not be able to make it out alive.

"Alright, students, there is no need to discuss the rules, all you need to do is to adapt to it." Cheng Chao told everyone with an unpleasant expression.

It was unknown how many among these students would not survive through this annual event.

During such a post-apocalyptic time that was filled with uncertainties ahead, the younger generations would have to adapt and grow at a faster rate.

Or else, how would they rise up stronger and protect the colonies?

"Every single one of your backpacks have a bottle of water, a compressed biscuit, a protective helmet and vest, and also a wireless communicator. If you were to face any dangerous situation that is beyond your ability to handle, you can just take off your name tag and you will be automatically excluded from this challenge."