149: That's not a place for people!

Subsequently, after discussion among several commanders, it was decided to open the freedom to enter and exit the Trial Tower to all professional Hunters registered with the Star Alliance.

Doing this, on one hand, would allow those who had clearly fished out skills but were hesitant about whether to be a lone wolf or join the Star Alliance to make up their minds.

On the other hand, it would accelerate the process of reconstructing and stabilizing the monetary system based on blood cores.

As the meritorious person who fished out the Trial Tower, the Special Ops Soldiers member was also extensively reported by Yang Shi One, with numerous scenes of commendation.

The reason for doing this was to let people know that the Star Alliance would never mistreat any person who had made contributions.

A true pearl would not be covered in dust.

This matter quickly spread to countries like the Eagle Faction, South Korea, and Sakura.

They all expressed great interest in the existence of blood cores and requested that the Star Alliance allow their professional Hunters to go to the Trial Tower and participate in the trials together.

In response, the Great Xia side stated that the environment within the Trial Tower was currently unknown, and as it concerned the life and death of foreign personnel, they would decide whether to open the Trial Tower to the outside world only after ensuring everything was within controllable limits.

Secondly, even if it was opened, a certain fee would be charged, and it would not be free.

Although there were voices of condemnation, and some even wanted to pressure Great Xia through the Hunter Alliance to open the Trial Tower earlier, and to open it for free.

However, this news was selectively ignored by the Hunter Alliance.

The reason was simple enough; leaving aside the current strength of the Great Xia Star Alliance, the mere four words "Undead Monarch" were enough to make them breathless, not daring to harbor any malicious thoughts.

They were worried about the possibility of the relationship with the Star Alliance becoming too strained, or even escalating to the point of confrontation.

Even if the Undead Monarch didn't have much connection with the Star Alliance, he was still a Great Xia person after all. Who could guarantee that at that time, he would choose to turn a blind eye to the conflicts between ordinary people?

Once he was provoked to act, the consequences would be unimaginable!

Especially the Eagle Faction, Sakura, and South Korea, who had just spent a large sum of money to ask Chen Ming to deal with the monsters.

On this matter, they acted as if they had discussed it beforehand, uncharacteristically choosing to abstain and not expressing any opinions.

In the past, when it came to matters concerning Great Xia, they were the absolute vanguards, engaging in various open and covert struggles.

Meanwhile, Chen Ming, the protagonist who had suppressed their arrogant demeanor, was stepping into the Trial Tower with the first batch of selected high-level professional Hunters.

The first level of the Trial Tower was a single-player instance. Although a group of people entered, they were teleported to different spaces after entering.

The intense white light in front of him gradually faded, and the scene slowly emerged.

"City ruins?"

Chen Ming opened the Resource Map. The map only showed an area the size of a palm, and there were no place names.

"The scene looks quite large, but the actual scope is only this small."

He closed the Resource Map. There was no need to keep looking; whatever monsters were there were already out in the open.

"Ugh!"

"Ugh!"

...

Low growls were constant. Zombies with rotten faces and strong, pungent stench walked out from various alleys and behind walls, baring their fangs and claws.

Their numbers grew larger and larger, an endless stream.

In a very short time, they had reached over a hundred!

"Just the first level has this many?" Chen Ming looked up at the sky, he could roughly imagine how difficult the higher levels would be.

Chen Ming did not rush to act. He waited until all the Zombies had shown themselves and were surging towards him.

His eyes lit up with crimson light!

Boom!

Immediately, two lasers shot out, instantly penetrating and shattering the heads of dozens of Zombies in a straight line.

Then, with a turn of his head from side to side, he caused a large number of Zombies to have their heads explode, and those that were larger in size were cut in half.

【Successfully killed Zombie! Congratulations to the host for obtaining wood treasure box +1!】

【Successfully killed Zombie! Congratulations to the host for obtaining wood treasure box +1!】

【Successfully killed Zombie! Congratulations to the host for obtaining wood treasure box +1!】

...

This S-Class Skill named [Laser Eye], no matter how many times it was used, was highly praised.

Not to mention the fragile flesh and blood of Zombies, even the tall buildings nearby could be cut, melted, and caused to collapse by Chen Ming in an instant with high temperature.

He thought the first level instance would end here.

Bang! Bang! Bang...

However, heavy footsteps reached Chen Ming's ears from behind in the next second.

Chen Ming turned his head to look. It was an exceptionally large guy.

From the lower half, one could barely tell it was a humanoid Zombie.

The upper half was covered by a large pile of chaotic metal parts, with three conspicuous fan blades that looked like the propellers of an old-fashioned airplane engine.

Upon closer inspection, one would find that each fan blade was wrapped with a chainsaw chain, as if the blades of three chainsaws were disassembled and assembled into this thing.

Buzz buzz buzz!

Soon, as the chainsaw chains rotated, the fan blades also rotated, and it charged towards Chen Ming with large strides like a meat grinder.

Compared to a meat grinder, the power of this thing was only higher, not lower.

It could instantly smash a person into a pulp!

Chen Ming did not want to test his defense. The red light lit up in his eyes again.

Boom!!

The laser shot out, and the moment it collided with the meat grinder, it caused an explosion, with flames surging and black smoke billowing.

【Successfully killed Flesh Shredder! Congratulations to the host for obtaining wood treasure box +10!】

After feeling the piercing feedback from the laser, the red light in Chen Ming's eyes extinguished and returned to normal.

A moment later, the black smoke dissipated, and mechanical parts were scattered everywhere, strewn across the ground.

The chainsaw-shaped fan blades were severely twisted and deformed, inserted into a concrete wall and stuck.

As for the monster itself, only two legs remained, struggling to stand, while the rest of its flesh and blood had long since evaporated and been torn apart under the combined power of the explosion and Chen Ming's Laser Eye.

Seeing the teleportation gate open out of thin air, Chen Ming knew that he had passed this first level.

【Extracting...】

【Extraction successful! Congratulations to the host for obtaining new Undead Servant: Zombie +230!】

【Extraction successful! Congratulations to the host for obtaining new Undead Servant: Flesh Shredder +1!】

Putting everything else aside, Chen Ming found the attack method of the Flesh Shredder Zombie quite interesting and worth incorporating into the Undead Legion.

It is worth mentioning that the departure teleportation gate remained open. If the challenger's strength was insufficient, they could leave at any time, but correspondingly, they would not be able to take any rewards.

Even if they obtained a blood core, it would be stripped away, and when they returned to the instance again, the number of monsters they had previously killed would also respawn and reset to zero.

As for the blood core, it was located inside the corpse and had to be manually dug out.

Fortunately, Chen Ming possessed the S-Class Skill [Mind Control].

He accurately determined the location of the blood core, forcibly extracted it, and put it into his system inventory.

Following that, he headed towards the teleportation passage leading to the second level of the Trial Tower.

Meanwhile, outside the Trial Tower, more than half of the professional Hunters had already withdrawn from the Trial Tower due to fear, physical exhaustion, and various other reasons.

The conclusion was unanimous: that place was not for humans!