115: Chapter 115 People of the Old World

Yun Zhuo laughed: "Sister Su said my Comprehension Ability is good. Learning a Summoning Technique is a piece of cake for me."

Big Teacher Su asked with a puzzled face: "But why is the way you use the Summoning Circle different from others?"

"How do others use it?"

"Of course, they use Psionic Energy as ink and their finger as a pen to draw the Summoning Circle stroke by stroke on the ground before they can summon a War Princess."

"But you, it's like a magic trick, you just open it directly in your hand."

"Drawing on the ground?" Yun Zhuo was stunned. Before, he thought the Summoning Circle was drawn on some object in advance to make a Summoning Tool.

But now Big Teacher Su said it was drawn stroke by stroke when needed. Would there be enough time at a critical moment?

"Yes, it's drawn on the ground."

"Can't the Summoning Circle be drawn in advance and taken out directly for summoning when needed?"

"You mean drawing it on a metal plate in advance to make a Summoning Tool?"

"Exactly. Wouldn't that be more convenient?"

Big Teacher Su nodded, "That's a good idea. Wait, didn't you just open it directly from your palm? Did you draw it on your palm beforehand?"

"Not really. I thought that was too troublesome, so I thought, since Mental Energy can mobilize Psionic Energy, could it also be used to draw the array? It turned out it really worked."

"As you saw, drawing an array with Mental Energy is much faster than drawing it by hand."

"Just let the array take shape in your mind and print it out directly."

"That's possible?" Big Teacher Su expressed doubt.

"Whether it's possible or not, didn't you just see it? You even experienced it yourself."

Then Little Teacher Su clamored to try it too. It felt as if she had suffered a great loss because her sister was summoned but she wasn't.

Left with no choice, Yun Zhuo had to let her experience the feeling of being summoned as well.

Finally, Yun Zhuo thought that since his Summoning Technique locked onto a War Princess's information, could it also be used to summon someone else's War Princess?

For example, that woman named Ma Ya. If he left her in this desert, he'd see if she still dared to sell information about him and Teacher Su for money everywhere.

As it turned out, it seemed it really was possible.

However, the Psionic Energy consumed might be several times more than summoning his own War Princess, or even more.

Yun Zhuo thought about it and decided to let it go; he didn't have any deep-seated hatred for her.

He'd let her off today. It wouldn't be too late to teach her a lesson when his Psionic Energy could be squandered freely.

They had originally planned to reach Nun Village in the afternoon, but with this delay, they didn't arrive until dusk.

This was thanks to Big Teacher Su's good driving skills. After entering the rocky desertified mountainous area, she drifted all the way.

Drifting on a rugged winding mountain road—one mistake and you'd fall into a bottomless abyss. Compared to this, the Bayanbulak Circuit was nothing.

Nun Village was located on a mountain peak.

It was originally a Summit City of the old world.

But now it had turned into a field of ruins.

Potholed asphalt roads, broken overpasses, and collapsed skyscrapers.

But compared to other places, there was a touch of green in the southern area of the city—mutated shrubs, flowers, and cacti, as well as edible plants like oriental oak, black locust, and bahiagrass.

How did Yun Zhuo know so much detail? Because he had Breaking Delusion and Seeing Truth. This skill was like an Appraisal Technique; as long as he could see it, he could appraise it.

As for "mutated," that was relative to Yun Zhuo's old world. Here, everything was normal; it would be abnormal if they weren't mutated.

And that green area was Nun Village.

Rows of large wind turbine blades spun continuously under the force of natural wind, blowing high-temperature air underground. Using the low underground temperature, they condensed the moisture within.

Three Solar Collection Towers were the important sources of electricity for this village.

It was currently dusk, and many lights were lit up in the ruins, with the highest density near Nun Village.

The three of them drove into the city along the potholed asphalt road. In the collapsed buildings on both sides of the road, adventurers would poke their heads out from time to time.

Under the Qi Observation Technique, they were just little weaklings around level twenty, so no one took the three of them seriously.

After a glance, everyone went back to whatever they were doing.

As they approached Nun Village, the surrounding people gradually increased. Many people set up camping chairs, barbecue grills, and music by the roadside, as if they were here for a camping trip.

Yun Zhuo hadn't seen that six-kilometer-long Tiandian Crossing Bridge yet.

According to the map, it was on the west side of the mountain city. Yun Zhuo's group of three had entered from the east, so they had to cross through the city to see it.

However, before they reached the west city gate, the car was stopped.

The reason was that construction was underway ahead, and vehicles could not pass.

Yun Zhuo wasn't the stubborn type who insisted on going to take a look, so the group of people who seemed difficult to talk to became easy to talk to.

After taking a look from afar, the rusty suspension bridge was indeed broken. Perhaps it was after-work hours, as he didn't see any bridge workers except for some bridge guards on the deck and the towers.

"Xiao Zhuo, we go where now?"

Big Teacher Su asked as she turned the car around.

"There's probably no place to stay in the village at this time. Let's find a place to spend the night first."

Little Teacher Su, leaning on Yun Zhuo, said: "The bridge deck is broken, but the suspension cables aren't. Those thick steel cables—let alone War Spirit Masters, even ordinary people could probably walk across. Why doesn't everyone go across the suspension cables?"

"Because they won't let us," Yun Zhuo laughed. "If they did, wouldn't we be walking across right now?"

Little Teacher Su nodded, "It seems someone wants to keep it all for themselves."

"Not necessarily. They're probably working for someone. Didn't you see so many people in the city? From what we've seen along the way, there must be ten or twenty thousand in total, right?"

"But did you notice? They aren't in a hurry at all. They're all still drinking and grilling meat."

Little Teacher Su chimed in: "They're either waiting for the bridge to be repaired or waiting for the people in the Abandoned Well to come out, right?"

Yun Zhuo smiled slightly: "Anyway, it's none of our business. We'll check out Nun Village tomorrow. Once we collect all three tasks, we'll go home."

"But don't you want to find out why Su Zixing told us to come here?"

"That was then, this is now. Who knew it would be so chaotic here?"

The three drove to the northern part of the city where there were the fewest people and found a relatively intact room in a residential complex to stay in.

All the glass in the windows was shattered, and the floor was covered in dust, but traces of the lives of people from the old world could still be seen through the dust.

Shoes by the door, a full-length mirror in the foyer, a short-legged round table in the middle of the living room with some small items still on it.

The carpet on the floor, whose color could no longer be distinguished, the sofa, the ceiling light, and the LCD TV hanging on the wall were all still there.

On the cabinet under the TV, a photo frame lay face down.

He picked it up and saw a family portrait of three. The woman was pregnant with her second child, her belly bulging, and she was smiling sweetly.

The man wore glasses, with a narrow smile on his face, as if he was afraid of looking unnatural if he smiled too much, yet afraid of being too serious if he didn't smile, looking very awkward in between.

A little girl with a missing front tooth stood in the middle, holding a small white sheep plushie. The sheep plushie had a bow tied on its horns, indicating it was female.

Behind the three of them was a cluster of brightly blooming Bauhinia flowers. Looking at the flower bed under the tree, it should be right downstairs from this building.

Big Teacher Su leaned over to look at the family in the photo. "Are these the people of the old world? They don't look any different from us."

Yun Zhuo laughed: "What did you think people from the old world should look like?"

"Um..." she thought for a moment, "I don't know either."