In fact, even if he learned the art of mass destruction, Zhou Zheng would not have a chance to go to the front line for the time being.
Two months later.
On a jeep heading to the Third Industrial Island.
Zhou Zheng looked at the scenery passing by outside, slightly lost in thought.
I have been practicing here for the past three or four months and have experienced many firsts in my life. I feel a little bit reluctant to let go at this moment.
——Specifically refers to all kinds of first times in practice.
After more than two months since Bing Ning Fairy left, the students in the special training class completed the third stage of training under the auspices of other fairies and successfully graduated from Tianfu Hotel.
Among the ten students in this special training class, Zhou Zheng naturally made the greatest progress.
After crossing the threshold of acquired and innate, Zhou Zheng made two double jumps in the realm of cultivation. Now he has firmly entered the seventh level of the innate realm and has initially mastered some 'little skills' in fighting.
The worst student is naturally Xiao Sheng. It cannot be said that there is no progress at all, it can be said that there is no gain at all.
The performance of the bottleneck is as stable as ever.
Because the battle situation on the Western Front was very fierce, the content of the second phase of the assessment became a more conventional 'spell assessment'. Zhou Zheng surprised the two immortals with his newly-practiced Tianlei Yin.
Maybe they haven't seen it before, a monk in the Xiantian Realm can create a blue-white thunderbolt as thick as an arm.
Because the control was not strong enough, half of the electronic equipment on the 19th floor went on strike.
As usual, after the special training class ends, the students can choose whether to go home to practice or go to work in the special investigation team for a period of time.
Generally speaking, young disciples who are protected by the sect will not work in the investigation team.
First, the investigation team has an attendance quota every month. Only when the quota is met will the salary and subsidies be paid, which will take up practice time.
Secondly, members of the investigation team sometimes encounter some dangers.
Especially in the recent turbulent situation on the Western Front, the cities in the rear are also somewhat unstable. These practicing sects have only been around for more than ten years, and they value their respective immortal seedlings very much, so they must protect them well.
Zhou Zheng must go to the investigation team.
He is a casual cultivator and does not have a fixed share of spiritual stones given by the sect. If he can get more stable income on the basis of the Futian Alliance contract monks' subsidy, Zhou Zheng will feel more at ease.
In line with the principle of just hanging out as he can, Zhou Zheng found Xiao Yue through a back door and arranged for himself and Ao Ying to join Feng Bugui's special investigation team.
The role of connections.
After Xiao Sheng's special training is over, he should go back to his original place to retreat and continue to enjoy the benefits of the reincarnated general.
But after several hesitations, Xiao Sheng still made a decision that went against his ancestors.
"Squad leader, let me continue to hang out with you and see if I can use your luck to get through the bottleneck."
After thinking about it, Zhou Zheng extended a hand of friendship:
"That may make you feel wronged. Overhaul, who is at the peak of the Return to Ruins Realm, will go to the special operations team to officially report. You can only start from the team members."
Li Zhiyong asked Xiao Sheng with good intentions:
"Do you have no other friends besides us?"
Xiao Sheng's expression at that time can only be described as 'eating a fly'.
So, in the jeep at this moment, Zhou Zheng, Xiao Sheng, and Li Zhiyong were sitting in the back seat, and the three grown men were a little crowded.
In the passenger seat, Ao Ying put on denim shorts and short-sleeved shirts that exposed her navel. Today she wore a pair of ponytails. She was using her mobile phone to search for gourmet restaurants in the Third Industrial Island.
The girl driving in the driver's seat was actually a bit unexpected by Zhou Zheng.
——The Yue Wushuang who was once blocked by Xiao Sheng in the women's restroom.
Half an hour before departure.
"Squad leader, can I go to the investigation team with you? I don't want to go home to practice. I want to do...well, do something for everyone."
Yue Wushuang glanced at Xiao Sheng, her expression was slightly stiff, and she opened and closed her lips quickly:
"Although having to work with this kind of person always feels like my personality and soul have been insulted."
Zhou Zheng smiled and agreed.
I don't know if he felt wrong, but he always felt that Yue Wushuang had some intention, and it was not for the purpose of practicing.
In this way, he went from two people taking office to five people.
"By the way," Xiao Sheng looked at Li Zhiyong in confusion, "Why are you going to the special investigation team?"
"Rogue cultivator," Li Zhiyong replied without raising his head, "taking advantage of luck."
Zhou Zheng's forehead was gradually covered with black lines.
"Tell me, what type of mission will we encounter when we go to this investigation team?" Xiao Sheng clicked his tongue, "The assessment last time is not included. There is a wind demon king who caused trouble, and we were in a very embarrassed state.
."
"We," Li Zhiyong circled the key points.
Xiao Sheng rolled his eyes, ignored him, and continued to laugh: "Do you think he was going to rescue the female compatriots from the Spirit Tribe who had fallen into disgrace?"
The corner of Yue Wushuang's mouth twitched slightly as she was driving. Ao Ying also pretended not to hear the topic, but secretly pricked up her ears.
Zhou Zheng said: "I think it should be an ordinary patrol mission."
"No matter what the mission is, we still focus on cultivation," Li Zhiyong said. "We will try to live together later, and I will arrange some formations and take care of each other."
"Just you? Can you also arrange formations?" Xiao Sheng looked in disbelief.
Li Zhiyong smiled and said: "It's just a matter of understanding this."
Xiao Sheng's interest remained undiminished, and he continued to imagine the wonderful life ahead, yearning for the elegant art of "patrolling the red light district, hanging on bars and listening to ditties."
So, two days later.
…
"Attention, members of Group C, we must prevent the other party from approaching the downtown area! Repeat, we must prevent the other party from approaching the downtown area!"
"Group C has received it and is organizing an interception to request permission to fire."
"Permission to shoot."
On the roof of the old building, the wind whistled.
Li Zhiyong, wearing a dark blue trench coat, was lying on the ground in the corner of the building, holding a sniper rifle about 1.2 meters long, pointing the muzzle at the desolate woods behind the building.
His slightly slender left eye was placed in front of the frame of the telescopic sight, firmly focusing on the figure scurrying through the forest.
Feeling the wind speed, calculating the design angle, his spiritual consciousness lit up the rune marks on the bullets in the magazine. He kept breathing steadily, waiting for the team leader's order or a good opportunity.
The fleeing figure maintained a rough human shape, and was covered with fine gray scales. It was crawling on both hands and feet at an extremely fast speed.
monster.
To be precise, it should be regarded as a spiritual creature infected with evil spirits.
In the sky above the forest, Xiao Sheng, who was wearing a black shirt and trousers and still had a burr hairstyle, held an orb in his right hand, maintaining a semicircular light mask that moved with him to block the outside world's sight; his left hand pointed with a sword, urging it to move.
The sword shadows formed by several talismans kept scratching against the monster below.
Whenever the sword shadow collides with the monster's scales, a spark will be blown out, leaving shallow scars on the monster's body.
"This guy's skin is really tough! Can't he be killed directly?"
Xiao Sheng curled his lips and said, "Let me tell you, this leather is a good material for making soft armor."
Zhou Zheng's voice came from the Bluetooth headset: "Give your opponent more respect and resolve it as soon as possible."
"Okay," Xiao Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly, shook the sword finger of his left hand slightly, and several sword shadows began to attack the demon clan's ankle.
"You bastard!"
The monster turned its head and breathed out the fragrance, and Xiao Sheng added two more sword shadows with a smile.
Sudden!
There was a slight fluctuation in the air in front, a transparent cloak fell quickly, and the 'explosion-proof shield' hit the monster's door with a rapid sound of breaking through the air!
The monster reacted extremely quickly. It stood upright suddenly, crossed its arms in front of it, and roared at the young man holding the shield, revealing its fangs.
boom!
Amidst the muffled sound, the monster's body was directly knocked away by the shield!
Zhou Zheng took half a step back, letting the shield in his hand fly back, and his hands began to quickly form thunder seals.
Lightning as thick as a baby's arm fell from the sky, hitting the monster's back accurately!
Its unsteady figure staggered again, and the scales on its back were scorched black.
There was a flash of sword light on one side, ripples appeared in the air again, and the second transparent cloak slipped off!
Yue Wushuang, with her bangs combed straight, jumped out.
Her body movements were ghostly, and she slashed forward with a scimitar in her hand. The blade emitted a faint light and struck directly at the weak point of protection under the monster's armpit.
The monster kept roaring and clawed at Yue Wushuang's face with extremely fast speed.
Yue Wushuang stepped aside and struck the monster's fingertips with the blade, cutting off half of the opponent's finger. Another sword shadow flew from the side, and the monster that was hit retreated one after another.
On the roof of the building, Li Zhiyong had a slight smile on his face and steadily pulled the trigger with his finger.
puff!
Amidst the dull sound of the silencer, a bullet left the barrel of the gun, cutting ripples in the air and shining with the light of runes.
The monster's left foot exploded with blood, and he immediately knelt down on one knee and roared in pain.
A shield suddenly appeared in its line of sight, with a layer of solid ice surrounding it. From bottom to top, it struck from the front, accurately and fiercely smashing the monster's chin...
"Already subdued."
Zhou Zheng tapped the Bluetooth headset in his left ear with his fingers, looked at the monster tied up in front of him, and thought for a moment.
Xiao Sheng fell from the air, while Yue Wushuang wiped her scimitar with a handkerchief, and Li Zhiyong disappeared on the rooftop not far away.
In the distance, several young monks also wearing dark blue windbreakers ran over, their eyes full of excitement.
"Caught!"
"Team Leader Zhou and the others have caught this monster!"
Xiao Sheng muttered next to Zhou Zheng: "Aren't we here to mess around? We've only been here two days, and this is the third time we've been on a mission."
Feng Bugui’s sigh came from the headphones:
"Too many experts have been transferred to the Western Front, which leaves us with too many places to focus on now. Each brigade and squadron does not have enough manpower. Please understand.
"And recently, many demons have sneaked in and want to cause trouble, probably to cause turmoil in our rear areas.
"If you guys hadn't come here, my squadron would have suffered casualties."
Zhou Zheng patted the fish jade in his jacket pocket.
"Complete the handover, Team C will close down."
Under the gazes of several young team members, Zhou Zheng and Yue Wushuang walked back to the RV parked in the distance.
Xiao Sheng put his hands behind his head and floated beside the two of them. From time to time he would glance at Yue Wushuang, who was wearing a tight-fitting combat suit.
Yue Wushuang clasped her hands behind her back and deliberately kept a distance of two meters from Zhou Zheng to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.
"How long has it been," a young team member lamented. "The last time we caught monsters in the steel plant, Team Leader Zhou had not yet cultivated his skills. In the blink of an eye, within three or four months, his strength was superior to mine."
"Be careful with the monster, and don't break away. This thing is a bit fierce."
"You must have practiced Taoism for four to five hundred years, right? Although you don't have much magic, your body is really strong."
"Quickly, clean up the scene, add a few layers of seals to this thing and press it back for interrogation."
"Our squadron... is promising."
…
In the northwest of the Third Industrial Island, behind the compound with the special investigation team sign, there is a low-end 'villa'.
It is said to be a villa, but it is actually a self-built small building for the members of the special investigation team to live and practice.
This treatment is much better than the factory dormitory where Zhou Zheng worked before.
The RV slowly stopped in front of the larger three-story building in the center. The doors opened everywhere and several figures jumped out.
Zhou Zheng smiled and said: "Go back to practice, I probably won't be on duty today."
"Have a good rest, monitor," Yue Wushuang greeted with a smile, then glanced at Xiao Sheng and jumped directly to the third floor window with light steps.
Xiao Sheng frowned slightly.
'Is she targeting me?'
It's been so long since the last oolong incident, how can Xiaoni still remember it?
Li Zhiyong walked over with his hands in his pockets and said, "Xiao is here to help. We will continue to set up the formation today."
"Are you still making arrangements?"
Xiao Sheng's eyes widened: "Didn't we arrange a triple protection, triple isolation, and triple maze formation? Are you here to guard against the Demon King's sneak attack?"
Li Zhiyong thought for a while: "We have already encountered the Demon King once, so we cannot rule out this possibility."
"I!"
Xiao Sheng's legs trembled, and he raised his head and sighed: "Then you use your own spiritual stones and magic power. We can't catch a sheep like me and pluck it! Monitor, please take care of him!"
Zhou Zheng smiled and said: "You can also use some of my spirit stones. We will be practicing here for a long time in the future. It would be good to have more formations."
"Well," Li Zhiyong nodded, "The squad leader can just give me the three spiritual stones later... I'm afraid his reserves are not enough."
Xiao Sheng clutched his big gold chain tightly, his eyes glowing green.
The rooms for the five of them are allocated according to the entire floor, and they don't usually go through the door very often.
The first floor has the largest space, including the living room, dining room, main bathroom, and two bedrooms. Xiao Sheng and Li Zhiyong each occupied one. The latter also occupied the underground floor, saying that he wanted to build an alchemy room.
Zhou Zheng and Ao Ying lived on the second floor, occupying the master bedroom of the building, and reserved a tea room for everyone on the second floor.
Yue Wushuang is on the third floor, which has the smallest space. Living alone has the largest area per person.
When Zhou Zheng closed the door, there was a fairy light shining in the pocket of his coat.
Ao Ying transformed into a human form, wearing an ancient skirt, spinning in circles and falling in front of Zhou Zheng. Her crystal clear feet slowly landed on the ground, and she jumped over with a smile.
"Thank you for your hard work catching monsters, sir! Do you need a massage service?"
Zhou Zheng smiled lightly and said, "You can actually come out for a walk. Yue Wushuang really wants to chat with you."
"Okay," Ao Ying made a popping sound with her lips, "but I just want to stay with you."
Zhou Zheng's heart rippled slightly as he took off his heavy uniform windbreaker: "Did Dragon Palace reply to the letter?"
"It's strange, my second brother seems to have become more peaceful recently."
Ao Ying sighed: "I asked the fourth grandma. It seems that the second brother has started to change his gender and started to distance himself from the demons... Let's not worry about them for now. I am not interested in the authority of the Blue Star Dragon Palace. I will leave everything to the eldest sister.
That’s fine.”
"Well," Zhou Zheng stretched, "I'll take a shower and start practicing."
"I'm going to catch up on anime. I haven't watched many of the dramas you recommended yet! If you're hungry, just tell me. You're just not used to it."
Uh, this little otaku really doesn’t need to practice?
Zhou, who reached the seventh level of Xiantian Realm in three months, expressed his anonymous envy.
…
at the same time.
Fengqing Demon King's Cave Mansion, the top floor of the abandoned office building.
Feng Qing looked at the screen in front of him with a haggard expression, still feeling a little sad. He was typing on the keyboard with his fingers, scolding a few newbies for randomly opening monsters.
The Prime Minister Fox Demon standing nearby looked worried, but he just stood with his head lowered, waiting for his king to vent his emotions before reporting the matter.