195: Chapter 195 The Iron-Blooded Outpost! The Cruel Laws of Survival!
"Abyss" Base?
Wang Pingan slowly returned to his senses from the profound insights of those two masterfully completed divine techniques.
He knew that his wonderful "vacation-like" time had come to an end.
What he would face next would be a true test of blood and fire.
He stood up from the hard military cot and moved his body slightly.
An unprecedented sense of power and control flooded every inch of his flesh and blood.
He felt as if he could now destroy this incredibly sturdy assault ship, forged from special alloys, with a single punch!
Of course, he was only thinking about it.
He didn't want to pay "repair fees" again.
Five minutes later.
The warship's speed slowly decreased.
Wang Pingan felt a slight vibration.
Evidently, the warship had successfully docked somewhere.
"Clang."
The heavy alloy hatch of his room was slowly opened from the outside.
Major Lin Wei's pretty face, still cold and devoid of any emotion, appeared at the door.
"Grandmaster Wang Pingan, we have arrived."
Her voice was as efficient as ever.
But Wang Pingan keenly captured an imperceptible trace of an emotion called "shock" deep within her sharp eyes.
Evidently, the faint, nearly undetectable fluctuations of laws he had leaked while studying those two Ninth-Rank Divine Techniques in the room had been sensed by this female major, who was also at the peak of the Sixth-Rank.
However, she didn't know exactly what it was.
She only knew that the aura was very strong.
So strong that it even caused her waves of palpitations and fear.
This caused her heart, which was originally full of "suspicion" toward this seemingly lazy youth, to waver for the first time.
Perhaps he really wasn't just an ordinary "Privileged Second-Generation"?
Wang Pingan ignored her complex gaze.
He simply nodded and followed her out of the "Confinement Room" where he had stayed for three whole days.
The outside of the warship wasn't the massive, sci-fi starport he had imagined.
Instead, it was a small secret military base hidden inside a massive, pitch-black, irregular meteorite that exuded an aura of death.
The entire base was constructed from the strongest black alloy, shimmering with a metallic cold light.
It was filled with a cold, oppressive, and murderous atmosphere.
Countless soldiers wearing the same black combat uniforms, with fierce auras and indifferent eyes, bustled back and forth within the base.
They all radiated a dense, iron-blooded killing intent that could only be possessed after being baptized by countless mountains of corpses and seas of blood!
This was the "Abyss" Base.
The only forward outpost established by the Human Federation in the star region of No. 07 Unmanned Restricted Zone, a place full of unknowns and dangers!
"Follow me."
Major Lin Wei didn't say much, simply leading Wang Pingan through the oppressively atmospheric corridors.
They arrived at a place deep within the base that looked like a "bar" or a "lounge."
The lighting here was very dim.
The air was thick with the pungent smell of a mixture of strong alcohol and low-quality tobacco.
Soldiers in groups of two or three, also wearing black combat uniforms and looking even more "dangerous," were gathered here, either sitting or standing.
Some were silently wiping their hideous weapons, which were stained with unknown liquids and blood.
Others were expressionlessly drinking unknown spirits from glasses that looked stronger than industrial alcohol.
The atmosphere in the entire room was oppressive to the extreme.
It was as if the air had solidified.
When Wang Pingan and Major Lin Wei walked in,
everyone's gaze immediately shifted toward them in unison.
Those gazes, full of scrutiny, vigilance, and unmasked "malice," were like the sharpest knives scraping harshly against Wang Pingan's body.
"Oh, isn't this the great Major Lin?"
A raspy voice full of playfulness and mockery rang out from behind the bar.
The speaker was a thin man with a hideous scar stretching from the corner of his eye to his mouth. He looked like a one-eyed devil crawled out of hell.
He was using a blackish rag that hadn't been washed in who-knows-how-long to wipe a glass that was similarly covered in chips and cracks.
"Old K, I've brought the person to you."
Major Lin Wei ignored his teasing, speaking in a cold, business-like tone.
"He is the so-called 'Pioneer' sent down from above."
"From now on, he is a new member of your 'Ghost' squad."
"New member?"
The one-eyed man called "Old K" put down the glass in his hand upon hearing this.
His murky, bloodshot single eye slowly landed on Wang Pingan.
He sized up this lazy youth, who looked fair-skinned and even had a trace of "student air" on his face, from head to toe.
Then he laughed.
The smile was full of disdain and unmasked contempt.
"Him?"
"Lin Wei, are you fucking kidding me?"
"Are those idiots up there, whose brains only grow muscle, crazy?"
"They actually sent a wet-behind-the-ears babe to our 'Ghost' squad?"
"Do they think we aren't dying fast enough?!"
Old K's voice was full of anger and sarcasm.
Behind him, the other members of the "Ghost" squad also burst into malicious roars of laughter.
They looked at Wang Pingan as if they were looking at a poor lamb about to be sent to the dinner table for slaughter.
"This is an order."
Major Lin Wei's face was expressionless.
"My mission is complete."
"Whether he lives or dies next depends on his own luck."
After saying that, she didn't stay for another second.
She turned around and left this place that made her feel incredibly oppressed and disgusted without looking back.
Only Wang Pingan and the group of "Ghost" squad members, who were looking at him as if he were a "dead man," remained in the room.
"Sigh."
Wang Pingan sighed in his heart once again.
"Troublesome."
He knew that his life philosophy of "playing it safe" probably wouldn't work here.
Sometimes, the more you want to keep a low profile, the more people will proactively stick their faces out for you to slap.
"Kid."
One-Eyed Dragon Old K walked out from behind the bar.
His thin frame contained a terrifying power like that of a prehistoric behemoth!
Seventh-Rank Mid-stage!
This guy was actually a Seventh-Rank Grandmaster as well!
He walked step by step to stand before Wang Pingan.
His murky single eye looked down at him from above.
The gaze was full of playfulness and the cruelty of a cat catching a mouse.
"I heard you're a 'genius' sent down from above?"
"Then I wonder if you, this genius, have the guts to play a game with a 'piece of trash' like me?"