Chapter 232 Powerful Resonance Network

[Zhou Zhenguo: I know everything you did in the Living Area. Suppressing ten Villas single-handedly and crushing Zhang Shouyi of the Organization on the Seventh Island—all of this is enough to prove that you are very strong.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: Moreover, Pei Yuanheng is willing to vouch for you, and he doesn't praise people easily.]

[Chen Yu: Zhou Zhenguo, if that's your only reason, I'll have to decline for now.]

After a few seconds of silence,

[Zhou Zhenguo: I need a Hidden Piece—a Hidden Piece with no connection to the Military District. I need him to hide his identity and blend into the mission to help me accomplish something.]

[Chen Yu: You should have said so earlier. If you keep beating around the bush, how can I feel safe cooperating with you?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: I've already told you the real reason. What do you think?]

[Chen Yu: What does the Hidden Piece need to do?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: It involves too much; I can't tell you in a private message for now.]

[Chen Yu: If you won't say anything, am I supposed to ask after I've already entered the mission?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: That won't be necessary, but you have to be prepared to come into my Vehicle.]

[Chen Yu: You want me to join the thunder heavy truck? That will cost extra.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: Wait, don't add to the price yet. I'm not asking you to actually join. The Slaughterhouse station has special items called Temporary Beacons. There are ten in total, corresponding to ten participants.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: Once used, you are confirmed as a participant and will automatically enter the first-place Vehicle. Of course, your panel will still show the Baby Bus; that won't affect anything.]

Just then, Chen Yu's trade list began to flash.

He took out a metal disc from it. Its surface was engraved with a circle of patterns that Chen Yu couldn't understand, and there was a groove in the center just large enough for a thumb to press into.

[Temporary Beacon]

Description: A palm-sized metal disc that does not resonate with any known system rules, as if it were a fragment peeled away from some even older law of space.

Effect: After pressing your thumb into the groove, you can carry one unit of a person or pet to participate in the Global Slaughterhouse.

"A person... or a pet?"

Chen Yu narrowed his eyes and immediately sent a message.

[Chen Yu: Zhou Zhenguo, I have a small request. Can I bring a girl with me?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: ...]

[Chen Yu: Sir? Is that okay?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: What do you think?]

[Chen Yu: So that's a yes?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: You are a Hidden Piece.]

[Chen Yu: OK, OK. I'll hesitate for a bit longer...]

[Zhou Zhenguo: Fine, hesitate then. One more thing: if you agree to go in as a Hidden Piece, you can no longer use your own face. The Military District has a batch of deactivated identities; you'll need to take over one of them.]

[Chen Yu: Who?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: I'll give you a few options to choose from. It's best to pick one that matches your actual abilities so you don't blow your cover once inside. Otherwise, everything will be lost.]

[Chen Yu: Since time is limited, I'll be direct. What do I get out of this?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: The mission rewards from the Global Slaughterhouse.]

[Chen Yu: ...]

[Chen Yu: So I'm working for nothing?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: Chen Yu, you have to understand that only the first-place convoy can enter the Global Slaughterhouse, and only by entering it do you have the chance to perform a Talent Release!]

[Chen Yu: Talent Release?]

Whether in his past life or this one, he had never heard those two words before.

Of course,

Chen Yu's status in his past life was too low, so it was normal that he wouldn't know this information.

Still, Chen Yu couldn't help but feel emotional.

Bottom-level survivors really were like frogs in a well.

Information he could never access in his past life—how long had it been in this life?

And it was already being delivered to his doorstep.

[Zhou Zhenguo: Explaining Talent Release would be very troublesome. You just need to know that it is one of the very few opportunities on the Road to Survival to directly leapfrog in combat power...]

[Chen Yu: That's not right, Zhou Zhenguo. The mission hasn't even started yet, so how do you know the mission rewards?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: I know, of course, because I was among the first batch of participants in the Global Slaughterhouse.]

[Chen Yu: ?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: The first batch of participating cities included, but was not limited to, Beijing, Shanghai, and Chongqing. Our Haicheng was not among them, but the Beijing Military District had a vacancy, and I happened to pass the trial.]

[Chen Yu: Haicheng can actually contact the outside world?]

One must know that,

from the moment the apocalypse broke out,

everyone's communication had been cut off.

In the beginning, only people within a single academy could communicate with each other, and later this expanded as the highways merged.

But everyone was still only able to communicate freely within the Haicheng region.

Chen Yu had never heard of anyone being able to contact the outside world before the next highway merger.

[Zhou Zhenguo: To put it simply, when the apocalypse arrived, a group of people across the major Military Districts used tactical radios as a medium to simultaneously awaken a Talent called <Resonance Radio>.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: It's an S-rank Talent, but its effect is absolutely heaven-defying. They can ignore distance and use all the panel's functions—including communication, trading, inviting, and so on—with others who have Awakened the same Talent.]

Chen Yu was completely stunned. What on earth was all this?

Having lived two lives, Chen Yu only now learned the reason why the Military Districts could dominate the highways.

This wasn't due to him being ill-informed;

even if he had reached Zhang Zixuan's level in his past life, it would have been impossible for him to know these secrets.

An intelligence network of this caliber had been held tightly in the hands of the major Military Districts from the very beginning.

Chen Yu could hardly imagine how vast the information resources must be for a Vehicle that possessed an Awakened with Resonance Radio.

Besides that,

Zhou Zhenguo had actually admitted to participating in the Global Slaughterhouse, which meant he must have achieved Talent Release.

It was precisely because of this that he had subsequently secured his position as the number one in Haicheng.

One link after another, Chen Yu felt like he was gradually coming into contact with the world of the upper echelons.

[Zhou Zhenguo: Chen Yu? Why are you silent?]

[Chen Yu: Your resonance network is so strong that you can even invite people across regions. I really can't see any reason why you wouldn't just look for people from other Military Districts.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: Since you're so interested, I'll be blunt. I want you to kill someone after you enter the mission.]

[Chen Yu: Kill who?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: Han Cheng, the son of Han Qingshan, the Third Commander of the Beijing Military District. He is currently on my truck.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: Because of Han Qingshan's special status, the power he can mobilize far exceeds that of the Haicheng Military District. If my people were to act, it would only bring about terrifying retaliation.]

[Zhou Zhenguo: Our thunder heavy truck might even be abandoned by the Huaxia Military Region.]

[Chen Yu: And I'm not supposed to be afraid of retaliation?]

[Zhou Zhenguo: You can be afraid, of course, but then the rewards of the Global Slaughterhouse will fall into someone else's hands. I have always believed that there are always brave men under high rewards.]

After a long while,

Chen Yu still hadn't replied.

[Zhou Zhenguo: So, now, can we talk about your new name?]