177: Chapter 177 Top Secret!

Song Jiaojiao took a deep look at the frowning Chu Hong.

Although the source energy fluctuation on the latter flickered and vanished in an instant.

But she was still certain that the fluctuation of the Ninth Stage of Qiyuan Realm just now was definitely not her illusion.

Above the Black Iron Castle, a calm and majestic announcement came.

"The secret realm assessment is over! All participating novice Pioneers must leave in an order, boarding the airships of their respective base cities to depart. In three days, personnel who passed the assessment will receive admission notices and related notifications from the institutions they applied to."

The gates that had been sealed for seven days were opened once again.

Tens of thousands of people swarmed out of the castle in a chaotic mob.

When Chu Hong and the others arrived in front of the airship of Huangshan Base City, they caught sight of the old city lord, Jiang Xingdong, who seemed to have been waiting here for a long time.

At this moment, after seeing the three of Chu Hong, an expression resembling a kind and gentle smile of a retired neighborly old man instantly appeared on the latter's face, especially when looking at Chu Hong.

Those eyes looked as if they were glowing.

It was almost as if the words "Come and take this old man as your master" were written right on his face.

However.

When Chu Hong walked a bit closer and felt the faint source energy fluctuation on Chu Hong's body, Jiang Xingdong's aged face was instantly replaced by extreme astonishment.

This, this is Ninth Stage of Qiyuan Realm?!

He looked at Chu Hong in shock.

Ultimately, constrained by the crowded and mixed company around him, he did not ask it aloud in public.

"Hehe, very good. I've seen the scores of all three of you, especially you, Chu Hong. This old man has really saved a lot of face this year, hahahaha."

"Can you imagine what it feels like to watch your three scores remain unchanged for three or four consecutive days, yet those so-called geniuses from other base cities just couldn't catch up? Hahahaha..."

Jiang Xingdong's laughter was filled with carefree joy, which in turn brought a hint of a smile to Chu Hong's face as well.

"I must also thank Lord City Lord for the support you gave us at the very beginning."

After some pleasantries, everyone finally boarded the airship.

Just as Chu Hong walked into his room on the airship, his pocket suddenly transmitted bursts of vibration.

He took out his communicator.

Several friend requests were sent over immediately.

It was the siblings Wang Xinghe and Wang Xingling, as well as the boss called Boss Mu Xue.

Chu Hong smiled faintly.

Several people were very trustworthy, and soon he would be able to receive a few red collectibles again.

Thinking of the red collectibles, a trace of gloom couldn't help but flash across the depths of Chu Hong's eyes.

Damn!

Having farmed bosses so many times, he still failed to farm the [eternal gene injection] he needed most from [Cliff Yang].

On the communicator, after replying to them and agreeing to deliver the reward after arriving at Longming Sacred Academy.

Chu Hong flopped over and lay directly on the bed.

"Enter [Special Service Department]!"

[Action Department · Security Test]: Head to the Investigation area "Primitive Valley No. 1 · Top Secret", accept and complete any 5 in-match tasks within a single match, and evacuate safely.

[Quest Reward]: Action Department authority points, 300k source energy points.

After the Logistics Department's quest "Self-Sufficiency (Part 6)" was completed, no subsequent quests appeared.

Instead, it was the [Source Energy Department].

Amidst Chu Hong's loot-running over the past few days, after completing the task of killing 20 bosses.

A new subsequent quest popped up.

[Source Energy Department · Source Energy Research (Part 6)]: Enter the Investigation area "Primitive Valley No. 1 · Top Secret", kill boss [Palino Bio-Group Head of Security: Cliff Yang] and boss [Lord of the Ape Clan: Codename Primitive One] within a single match and successfully evacuate.

[Quest Reward]: source energy space + 1 slot.

Chu Hong took a deep breath.

"It seems that getting that [eternal gene injection] in the Confidential tier used up all my luck in the Confidential tier secret realms... Since that's the case, I can only go for Top Secret!"

As Chu Hong's mind moved.

This secret realm, which was merely of Confidential tier in the real world.

Actually allowed Chu Hong to enter the Top Secret tier that should not have appeared through the [Special Service Department].

Enter the secret realm!

He landed at slot one of the [Transport Line Station].

There were no imagined changes in time and lighting like the Top Secret tier [Cliffside Epidemic Hospital] might have; however, when Chu Hong approached the station.

He couldn't help but instantly gasp a breath of cold air.

"What the f*ck... is there an entire division here?!"

Chu Hong looked at the Palino armed personnel everywhere in front of him, either standing on the platform, sitting and resting in the surrounding Warehouses, or gathered in groups.

Instantly, he felt his scalp go numb.

What terrified Chu Hong even more was... at this very moment, just by casting a glance, in this small station, there were over a hundred combat robots like [Palino Heavy Hammer Soldier] and [Palino Riot Shield Soldier].

Not to mention anything else.

Even if these bots stood still and let him hack at them.

And he used his superpower [Slaughter Overlord], it would still exhaust him to death alive!

However, just for a split second, a subtle arc curled up at the corner of Chu Hong's mouth.

"Hello, comrades~"

Amidst a resounding greeting, Chu Hong walked out from behind the cover in such a flagrant manner.

The snipers on the watchtower, the shield soldiers and hammer soldiers on the platform, after glancing at him one after another, uniformly turned their heads to the other side and ignored him.

Hahahaha!

Chu Hong laughed wildly in his heart.

In three days, just purely loot-running and killing bosses, it wasn't like nothing had dropped at all.

At the very least, now he had not only unlocked the lv1 display cabinet effect of [Cliff Youngs Crimson Eye], but even the lv1 display cabinet effect of [Cliff Yang's Chief Armband] had been activated by him.

Starting today, as long as he didn't initiate an attack.

Any bots in the secret realm belonging to the "Palino Bio-Group" would not actively attack him.

However, in this case, completing tasks like clearing high-value targets or regional targets within the match would become a hundred times harder.

After taking a simple tour around several important supply points.

After familiarizing himself with the environmental changes, Chu Hong headed straight to [Parino Valley Base].

He skillfully accepted the quest.

Familiar with the road, he came into the [Waterfall Cave].

The good news was that inside the Top Secret tier [Waterfall Cave], the number of monsters hadn't increased; but the bad news was... the ordinary mutated monkeys had all been replaced by bulky gorillas wearing crude protective armor.

Nervously bypassing the patrols all the way.

When Chu Hong finally walked into the karst cave where the boss was located, the scene before him directly shocked him into standing frozen in place.

Karst cave... No!

This was no longer the boss karst cave room from his impression, surrounded by stalactites, with creepers acting as the dome, where [mother of the forest] would spawn.

Instead... a huge indoor cave... palace, with blue-purple exposed ores radiating bursts of energy in all directions around it?

Chu Hong looked up in disbelief at the huge throne extending all the way up, forged entirely from natural [mutated crystal].

A terrifying giant ape, standing over ten meters tall, was calmly propping its head and tilting it to size up him, the sudden intruder.

And beside the throne.

The blue-purple crystal giant axe that he had seen the opponent use in the quest mode suddenly lit up with a dazzling radiance.

Chu Hong: "... Holy shit! Confidential doesn't look like Confidential, Top Secret, you bastard, at least make it look a bit like Top Secret!"