222: Chapter 222 Upgrade! Operator Entry.....

"Brother Hong! I'm going to take off! Holy shit! I'm going to take off! Hahahaha"

Stepping down from the [ "shentai" potential scanning core ], Wang Suming's aura and source energy level hadn't changed at all, remaining at the previous Seventh Stage of the Qiyuan Realm.

However, his mental state was already excited to the extreme.

Beside him, Liu Wandong looked at Wang Suming's Tier 2 skill named [ Weight and Force ].

Combined with what he had already learned about the other party's positioning and combat style in Chu Hong's squad, he immediately gave an incisive evaluation.

"In the future, your growth direction should lean as much as possible towards increasing your source energy upper limit and source energy recovery. The combination of your Tier 1 skill [ Stack ] and Tier 2 skill [ Weight and Force ] means you no longer have any shortcomings in terms of strength."

"What you lack is endurance and means to maintain sustainable combat. As long as you have enough source energy to repeatedly cast the Tier 2 skill [ Weight and Force ], your logistical positioning can completely take on the position of the main attacker."

When Liu Wandong said this, his eyes were shining.

He stepped forward and pulled Wang Suming to Chu Hong's side as well.

At this moment, he grabbed Chu Hong's arm with one hand and Wang Suming with the other.

"Hehe, don't worry, our Longming Sacred Academy has plenty of high-grade red resources. Tiangong Academy has mostly tech-side red resources, which aren't suitable for you guys at all, but our Longming is different..."

He chattered endlessly, instilling in Chu Hong and Wang Suming concepts like "Being strong yourself is the real strength", "Longming Sacred Academy is the sanctuary for fierce attackers", and "Come to Longming, make your punches more forceful and your hacking more principled"...

Until a cough interrupted his words.

I don't know when, but Dean Wen Zhanshan had already returned from the Long Pavilion, holding a token in his hand.

Seeing Liu Wandong looking as if he wished he could tie Chu Hong and the other guy right to his waistband, he pushed his glasses up with a half-smile.

"Fierce attacks come at a price. Secret realms emphasize searching, fighting, and withdrawing—with searching as the premise and withdrawal as the end... Why don't you tell classmate Chu Hong and the others that the number of source core objects shattered among the Core Condensation Realm students of your Longming Sacred Academy is far ahead among all source energy colleges?"

"Oh, let me think... If I remember correctly, Dean Liu, when you launched fierce attacks back then, your source core object shattered three times and was repaired three times... How many times was the Hushan Earl's Mansion sold and redeemed back and forth by you?"

"Xiao Su, I remember it must have been seven or eight times, right?"

Su Zheng ignored Liu Wandong, whose face was flushed red and looked utterly humiliated and ready to die of shame.

"Teacher, you might not have paid much attention... Dean Liu has redeemed the Hushan Earl's Mansion back and forth 16 times, and the last time was four months ago."

Holy shit...

Both Chu Hong and Wang Suming were clearly shocked by the "defeated yet fighting again" Dean Liu before them.

City Lord Jiang Xingdong, whose source core object had shattered and whom they knew, still hadn't been able to gather enough high-grade red resources to repair his source core object.

Yet this Dean Liu had actually had his source core object shattered three times back and forth.

That meant he had been killed by others in the secret realm three times...

What the heck!

Noticing the shocked and terrified gazes of the two, Liu Wandong panicked.

"Don't listen to that old fellow Dean Wen Zhanshan bullshitting; he only knows how to turtle up in the rear. Fierce attacks are an art!"

"Men of our Great Xia should engage in fierce attacks!"

"Equip the most luxurious gear! Enter the most dangerous world secret realms! Step on the bald eagles of the Divine Eagle, beat up the Empire's nobles, chop off the heads of those little Siban from Dahang, and sleep with Amaterasu's tenderest chicks—this is called a fierce attack!"

"Fierce attack, classmate Chu Hong! Your perfectly fused superpower was born for fierce attacks. You must never listen to the nonsense of that old thing Dean Wen Zhanshan and stray onto the wrong path!"

Liu Wandong was heartbroken and anxious, as if if Chu Hong didn't believe in the "fierce attack philosophy", he would beat up Tiangong Academy's founding master Dean Wen Zhanshan on the spot to fiercely prove a point.

"If it weren't for the students of our Longming Sacred Academy standing at the very front and fiercely seizing a large amount of resources from the world secret realms... the [ forbidden object ]s you use were all fought back with the lives of Longming's students!"

"Now you, Dean Wen Zhanshan, are mocking our Longming?!"

"Back then, if Director Zhao and I hadn't risked our lives to snatch those high-grade red resources you needed from those Divine Eagle guys, could you have synthesized this shentai?"

"Now you turn around and mock our fierce attack bankruptcy... Dean Wen Zhanshan, you have no heart!!!"

Liu Wandong's grief-stricken and indignant voice, coupled with an expression that looked almost angry enough to cry, made both Chu Hong and Wang Suming feel ashamed of their small thoughts just now.

Meanwhile, the two more emotional young girls, Song Jiaojiao and Luo Xin, were already infected by the great righteousness of sacrificing their lives for the country in Liu Wandong's words.

Their eye sockets turned red one by one.

In their hearts, they also felt that this scholarly and amiable Dean Wen Zhanshan was indeed going a bit too far.

Until...

Dean Wen Zhanshan looked indifferently at the grief-stricken and indignant Liu Wandong.

"Oh~ I have no heart~"

He drew out his words lengthily, his gaze subsequently turning to Su Zheng on the side.

"Fine, since Dean Liu has said that our Tiangong Academy has no heart, then this is just right... Tell the finance department to stop all source energy point subsidies and equipment maintenance allowances for Longming this year, and also stop the academy policy of free synthesis of designated red-quality collectibles."

"Wait! Wait! Dean Wen, I was just acting crazy. Look at you, why can't you take a joke?" Liu Wandong's tears and grief vanished instantly.

He stepped forward, grabbed Dean Wen Zhanshan's hand, and hurriedly ingratiated himself with a smile.

"Heh!"

Dean Wen Zhanshan twitched the corner of his mouth and sneered.

Ignoring this guy any longer, he looked at Chu Hong and motioned with his mouth towards the side of the [ "shentai" potential scanning core ].

After Chu Hong obediently lay down on it.

Only then did he speak again with a solemn expression.

"Every [ forbidden object ] with a serial number within one hundred is an important national asset. Just as Dean Liu said, these were fought for with lives. Creating a [ forbidden object ] requires consuming huge amounts of manpower and source energy resources from the secret realm, and even facing the frantic siege of Pioneers from various countries..."

"I'm saying this not to give you psychological pressure, but just to let you understand."

"Do not fail Great Xia!"

"Just as you are currently worth Great Xia cultivating with all its strength, Great Xia is also worth you defending with all your strength in the future!"

Dean Wen Zhanshan gazed intently at Chu Hong, and after saying this, walked straight to the console.

As he inserted the token applied for from the Long Pavilion into a slot on the console, the thick wall blocks behind him began to move again.

After a short while, something resembling an ancient imperial jade seal was retrieved from it.

And then it was sent into the [ "shentai" potential scanning core ].

In Chu Hong's mind, the system's voice instantly rang out.

[ Detected "Special Service Department" upgrade plan... ]

[ "Special Service Department" upgrade begins! ]

Just like when Wang Suming previously accepted the fusion of [ forbidden object ], Chu Hong's body instantly seemed to turn into a person of light, blooming with dazzling brilliance.

Everything seemed so ordinary.

Only Dean Wen Zhanshan looked with a shocked face at the recorded data from the [ "shentai" potential scanning core ] on the console.

That novel algorithm and plan route, with just a rough glance, made him feel as if he had received a sudden divine enlightenment.

Dean Wen Zhanshan's excited hands trembled slightly.

If he thoroughly studied these plans, he could completely upgrade the shentai once more.

By then, the fusion degree of Great Xia's top Pioneers fusing with [ forbidden object ]s would reach a higher level, which also meant that the Tier 2 skills they awakened would be even more powerful...

At this moment, Chu Hong was completely unaware of all this happening outside.

His consciousness had already been forcibly dragged into the [ Special Service Department ].

However.

Amidst the flowing light, today's Special Service Department was undergoing tremendous changes.

The original layout where various departments formed a circle around the light screen core in the middle was gone.

Replaced by...

A fan-shaped arrangement, and in the other half, a huge light gate appeared, not knowing where it led...

In Chu Hong's mind, the voice of the Special Service Department came over.

[ Ding! ]

[ Commander locked: Chu Hong ]

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