166: Chapter 166 Someone has accepted the benchmark quest [Nature's Wrath]

Huang Yuling sighed.

Only three days had passed out of the seven days of assessment, yet real deaths of examinees had already begun to appear around her, and this situation would only increase in the following days.

However, while speaking, Huang Yuling's gaze couldn't help but turn toward Chu Hong, who was walking out of the room.

Her eyes carried a clear look of envy.

"Ah, I really envy you for running into such a freakishly powerful guy. I've already asked around. In our examination hall, even those with relatively good scores right now mostly only have two to three thousand material points. Scores like yours, seven or eight thousand... I've never heard of them."

"If word gets out, it'll probably scare people to death."

Others were risking their lives, seizing every single minute and second to progress and collect materials.

Yet Chu Hong's team had already entered a Buddhist-like state of complete nonchalance.

It could already be said that one of their feet was firmly stepping through the gates of Longming Sacred Academy.

The few of them were chatting.

A burst of heavy footsteps, accompanied by the sound of what seemed like a giant stepping on the floor, suddenly came from Wang Suming's room next door.

The door opened.

Huang Yuling, who was chatting idly with her good best friend Song Jiaojiao, almost popped her eyeballs out on the spot.

"Holy, holy crap!"

Even a fragrant and soft beauty couldn't help but curse on the spot at this moment.

Only to see:

Walking out of Wang Suming's room was a sci-fi mecha human nearly two meters tall, entirely covered in heavy metal armor, with propulsion devices on its back and legs.

Wang Suming's voice was muffled by the fully covered helmet, sounding somewhat gloomy.

Yet it couldn't conceal the excitement the other person felt at the moment.

"Brother Hong, are we setting off?"

Chu Hong turned his head, and seeing this fellow's outfit, a faint smile couldn't help but surface on his face.

This gadget was something they encountered yesterday in the secret realm, in the main building of the Parino Valley Base, on the open ground of the Emergency Security Department on the west side—a place that hadn't refreshed items in dozens of times.

Such a suit of armor had unexpectedly appeared out in the open.

[Item Name]: Parino Heavy Powered Armor

[Item Grade]: Gold

[Value]: 1,110,985

[Type]: Tool Material

[Weight]: 140kg

[Inventory Slot Capacity Occupied]: 4 × 5

[Item Description]: A wearable heavy riot-proof powered armor designed by Palino Bio-Group based on the combat style of heavy hammer infantry. While possessing extremely high defense, it has extremely high shock absorption and weight-bearing effects, capable of frontally resisting artillery bombardment while ensuring the safety of the wearer.

High defense, high burst, high shock absorption.

It also greatly increases weight capacity.

This was simply the best defensive gear for a guy like Wang Suming.

Even the opponent's previous set of equal golden quality, the Mountain Dwarf Fine-Work battle armor that was blocked outside the examination hall, paled far too much in comparison to this Parino Heavy Powered Armor.

When Wang Suming wore this suit and took out the ghoul iron wall, holding it in his hand,

that gloomy, terrifying oppressive and heavy feeling made Huang Yuling at the side stare blankly.

If someone ran into this after entering the map, could this even be fought?

Wang Suming was obviously a bit impatient already.

Seeing this, Chu Hong looked at Song Jiaojiao. After the latter nodded, the three of them put on their respective equipment amidst Huang Yuling's numb and blank gaze.

They came before the teleportation gate.

The fourth day of the secret realm assessment, the Big Dog Chew Chew Chew escort team.

Starting to take orders!

...

Exiled to the frontier at the start... Landing at the Vine Plank Road spawn point.

This Silk Road that peripheral rat-runners loved to exploit was, in the eyes of Chu Hong and the others at this moment, no different from being subjected to exile sanctions.

"Damn!" Getting ready to make a big show of force right off the bat

and thoroughly experience the treatment of a Boss, Wang Suming couldn't help cursing softly when he saw this location.

Song Jiaojiao didn't have much of a reaction to this.

Crossing her arms and leaning against a tree trunk, she raised an eyebrow with a somewhat teasing look toward Chu Hong.

"Alright, you can start your performance now, Lord Captain~"

Chu Hong rolled his eyes gently.

A red light flashed in his hand.

The dukes cane appeared in his hand like a microphone.

Regarding this behavior of not having to carry big reds into the secret realm with them

yet being able to use special methods,

both Wang Suming and Song Jiaojiao tacitly refrained from probing into the bottom of it.

However,

just as Chu Hong was pondering what song to use for today's GG background music,

his peripheral vision sweeping across the map before him caused his pupils to suddenly constrict.

The benchmark task Wrath of Nature icon on Huaxi Wharf was gone!

Did someone kill that bitch?

Or... did someone claim that benchmark task!?

"What's wrong?"

Seeing that this captain who loved singing, dancing, and blocking extraction points hadn't spoken for a long time, Song Jiaojiao couldn't help being somewhat puzzled.

Yet she saw Chu Hong's expression instantly turn gloomy.

"Someone is going to blow up the map!"

Blow up the map?

Song Jiaojiao and the others were somewhat baffled.

However, Chu Hong no longer had time to explain this; he grabbed Song Jiaojiao, hoisted her onto his shoulder, and sprinted rapidly toward Huaxi Wharf.

"Fatty! Keep up!"

"Boom!"

Behind Wang Suming's pitch-black armor, the two rows of thick propulsion tubes instantly spewed out a stream of high-energy flames.

The huge push-back force carried him to keep up with Chu Hong's speed in an instant.

The flying bird drone was casually released by Chu Hong halfway there.

As the flying bird drone continuously increased its altitude,

the situation on Jiangxin Islet's side was immediately presented before Chu Hong.

Only to see:

After claiming the mission from that bitch Smith Molly, the place where they needed to go to Jiangxin Islet to dig up the keepsake had unexpectedly already been dug open with a hole.

So fast!

Chu Hong's heart grew stern.

On the flying bird drone at this moment, several figures were clearly swimming rapidly toward Waterfall Cave.

"This team landed at Jiangxin Islet at the start. They probably have done this more than once long ago: one person goes to Huaxi Wharf to claim the mission at the very first moment, and the moment the mission is received, teammates directly start digging right on the spot..."

Thinking of the grand battle scene between the two bosses, Lord of the Ape Clan and Cliff Yang, that he had witnessed before, Chu Hong felt a sore ache in his teeth and a headache.

Never mind his seventh stage of the Qiyuan Realm;

even the seventh stage of the Energy Gathering Realm, in front of a boss with that terrifying magic resistance and physical resistance that couldn't be killed at all except by plot kills, would be no different from little chicks.

"Fatty, it's too late! Never mind anything else, charge toward the riverbank at full speed!"

"Flowers, come!"

Chu Hong shouted loudly.

Source energy instantly burst forth from his body.

Even if the flying bird drone threw a golden apple, it was already too late at this point.

This team that claimed the mission acted far too quickly and with too much tacit coordination.

Less than 2 minutes into the start,

they had already brought the keepsake and entered Waterfall Cave!

At most one minute!

Across the entire East Bank Monkey Village side, endless bot mutated monkeys would flood the area overwhelmingly, as if spawned out of thin air.

And what were the other teams doing two minutes into the start?

...

Inside Waterfall Cave,

Wu Gang was holding the mission keepsake. Along the way, neither he nor his team members were attacked by a single monkey.

On the contrary,

they were very familiarly guided all the way into the karst cave where the boss was located.

When the boss, Lord of the Ape Clan, let out an angry roar, the entire interior of Waterfall Cave, along with the entire mountain range, seemed to tremble slightly.

Expressions of joy immediately surfaced on the faces of Wu Gang and the others.

"Hahaha, alright! Clear the map!"

Liu Yanyan hugged one of Wu Gang's arms with full smugness, while the other three members of the team wore flattering and excited expressions.

"Hanging out with Captain Wu, you really get to eat nine meals a day! Boss Wu, from now on, we brothers will follow you to the end. If you tell us to beat a dog, we'll never chase a chicken!"

"Yeah, yeah, among the newcomers of our batch, Boss Wu and the First Sister-in-law are the very first ones to receive intelligence personally rewarded by Lord President!"

In the eyes of Wu Gang and Liu Yanyan, they were full of satisfaction and pride.

However, on the surface, they still waved their hands nonchalantly.

"Alright, alright, we are all our own people. The instructors assigned you to me, so in the future, we are all family brothers. A big battle is about to break out in the secret realm shortly, and by then we can take the opportunity to sneak into the core area..."