Chapter 237: His Excellence is Undisputed!
Many viewers picked up on this and began to suspect that Zhang Yangqing was testing whether One-Eye had any treacherous intentions.
If he did, then he would have to be eliminated before going to sleep tonight.
If not, then he could continue with the menial work.
But looking at it now, One-Eye didn’t seem to have made any other moves, or perhaps he never even considered turning against Zhang Yangqing in the first place.
After giving him a look, Zhang Yangqing waved him off to find the disinfectant.
He directly told him that disinfectant could repel bizarre creatures.
He told him to take as much as he could carry, and if it was really too much, he could appropriately discard some food.
As for other medicines, Zhang Yangqing didn’t consider them.
While One-Eye was searching for disinfectant in the car, Zhang Yangqing sat nearby, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth.
Testing the kid was secondary; the main goal was to understand the extent of the backlash after mobilizing his physical strength.
This virus isn’t like contamination; he had to test it himself.
If he waited until he was actually in danger to test it, he wouldn’t be able to effectively control his power.
Other Chosen Ones might find this unfamiliar, but for Zhang Yangqing, every new terror is a fresh challenge.
You never know some things without trying them.
The most crucial point was that he didn’t find the seven White Robed Spirits particularly oppressive or intimidating.
Sometimes, you can tell at a glance whether you can fight something or not.
“Now that less than one in ten are left, it seems the subsequent terrors will get increasingly strange.”
Zhang Yangqing was well aware that only by getting outside might he truly appreciate the bizarre nature of this world.
Thinking this, he began to eat a delicious canned meal to regain his strength.
This really made the viewers envious.
If you asked them to fight, they honestly wouldn’t dare. But if you asked them to eat, they honestly would.
After One-Eye had gathered the disinfectant, the two of them left that place.
The area wasn’t safe because the bodies of the White Robed Spirits might attract some bizarre creatures.
At this moment, One-Eye was carrying a large bag on his back and holding another bag in his hand.
He seemed to be trying hard to prove his usefulness in front of Zhang Yangqing.
Zhang Yangqing gave him this opportunity to prove himself, without any politeness or holding back.
Anyway, if you can carry it, you carry it. This kid is much stronger than an ordinary Transcendent.
Other Chosen Ones were content just to have a place to sleep. After checking the surrounding area for danger, they would get into a safe car and spray disinfectant inside.
Tired and sleepy, everyone fell into a deep sleep.
Zhang Yangqing was more picky; he found a commercial van.
Compared to the cramped cars, the space inside was spacious.
While other Chosen Ones had to curl up their bodies, Zhang Yangqing slept on the soft leather cushions, his body was completely stretched out and comfortable.
As for spraying the disinfectant, he let One-Eye do it.
He couldn’t help with the big tasks anyway, but he was very meticulous with these small chores.
Zhang Yangqing noticed that this kid just focuses intently on his work, never complaining or showing any sign of annoyance.
He really wondered what kind of person this guy was before, what skills he had.
Maybe his ability is hidden in that other eye, the one that’s covered?
But since he didn’t want to talk about it, Zhang Yangqing couldn’t be bothered to ask.
Right now, the two of them were in the same boat, and One-Eye still needed Zhang Yangqing’s help.
The more Zhang Yangqing displayed his unparalleled strength, the more reliant One-Eye became.
At this stage, there were still 15 Chosen Ones who had left the rehabilitation center and appeared in the parking lot.
There were 162 Chosen Ones still trapped inside the rehabilitation center.
Among them, quite a few were Transcendents.
After two days of being beaten down by the terror world, they finally understood the huge gap between watching the ideal situation from the outside and actually playing the game themselves.
They struggled so much even in the novice level, and viewers from various countries were not very optimistic about their chances of passing subsequent levels.
After all, the novice level wasn’t very difficult; if you didn’t make mistakes, you wouldn’t die.
Back on Blue Star, seeing so many Transcendents fail inside, many arrogan Transcendent factions that had been clamoring to enter also fell silent.
Originally, according to the process, the selected Chosen Ones would receive some technical guidance from expert groups.
This time, perhaps as retaliation, many expert groups didn’t even tell them how to play.
Alternatively, perhaps the Transcendents who entered were too arrogant and didn’t bother asking the expert groups for information.
This was also one of the reasons why the Transcendents were so overcautious and hesitant inside.
As the expert group of the Pyramid Country grew stronger and stronger, expert groups from other countries became increasingly envious.
Who wouldn’t want to control such a superpower?
What made people even more envious was the training speed of the disciples from the Dragon Tiger Mountain in the Dragon Country.
Zhang Yangqing had obtained so many resources, but they weren’t enough to distribute among three or four hundred people.
Everyone still had to compete to obtain resources in the weekly tests.
Many resources were still of the growth-oriented type, not yet ready for harvest.
But being able to support three or four hundred people and distribute resources to them was enough to make the vast majority of transcendent factions in the world envious enough to gnash their teeth.
Don’t be fooled by some factions having numerous followers.
But the ones who could truly fight were, at most, a hundred.
Most of the others lacked resources for training and were just there to make up the numbers in the big factions.
They had a little strength, but not much.
Many had only touched the threshold of transcendence, without actually crossing over.
They weren’t even as good as the most bottom-level Transcendents.
In this world of scarce resources, resources only go to the top.
If you distribute evenly, no one has enough.
Even though transcendent factions in other countries desperately hoped their sent out people could obtain resources.
But now, it seemed hopeless.
Remember, only with a rating of 4S or above was there a chance of obtaining training resources.
Now, it wasn’t just about whether their faction’s Chosen One could get a 4S; it wasn’t even certain if they could come out alive.
This terror indeed dispelled many transcendent factions’ misconceptions about the terror world.
It made them realize anew that the terror world wasn’t as simple as they imagined.
After all, the only one who dared to say it was a piece of cake was probably that Heavenly Master from the Dragon Country.
But since even the powerful Dragon Country Heavenly Master never said that, how could they have the qualification to say it?
The cold water poured by the terror world also dampened the enthusiasm of many factions eager to enter.
Without confidence, isn’t entering just asking for death?
Many faction leaders lay awake all night; they couldn’t just sit back and watch other factions grow strong, right?
Maybe they should just rob! Wouldn’t robbing ready-made things be better?
But who to rob? The ones who have obtained resources now are not to be messed with.
Dragon Tiger Mountain goes without saying; they’ve already put the word out: come and try to rob if you dare.
As for the Papal Court, few dare to approach; the Vatican is now heavily guarded.
The Pyramid Country actually has quite a deep foundation, with over seven thousand years of history.
As long as the transcendent forces there step in to protect it, it’s difficult for other factions to intervene.
So, attention turned to those factions that had a high chance of obtaining SSSS or above ratings during th settlement stage).
As these faction leaders were thinking, before they knew it, the second day had arrived.
On Blue Star, the day had dawned, but in the terror world, it was still that basement with the yellowish lights.
Many Transcendents woke up and looked out the window; it was exactly the same as when they went to sleep, without any change.
It gave people the feeling that only a moment had passed, making them lose their sense of time.
Most Transcendents judged by the degree of recovery of their bodies.
A few lucky Chosen Ones had picked up props like alarm clocks or quartz watches.
Anyway, in the infinite parking lot, you never know what might spawn.
After getting up, besides checking the surrounding area for any special dangers, there was another very important task: taking medicine.
After all, after a night’s rest, the virus in their bodies would start eroding again, and they had to take medicine to suppress it.
Zhang Yangqing was no exception. After waking up, he woke One-Eye, who was still sleeping.
It wasn’t that One-Eye was greedy for sleep he really had carried a lot of things last night and was exhausted.
As for taking the pills, each of them carried their own bottle.
They shook the bottle and took out two pills.
These things could be chewed dry or swallowed directly; it didn’t matter.
After taking the medicine, the next thing was to on time eat breakfast.
Many Chosen Ones were already chewing on tasteless compressed biscuits.
After all, those who could enter weren’t fussy; having something to line the stomach was good enough.
Even though the cafeteria food was this bad, they still swallowed it without a word of complaint.
They were like emotionless swallowing machines.
When it came to eating, Zhang Yangqing had standards.
He took out various exquisite canned goods, making many viewers swallow their saliva.
Viewers even felt that what they had opened wasn’t the terror world, but a food channel.
The Chosen Ones who finished breakfast early had already gone out to move their bodies and feel how much they had recovered.
Today, they still needed to look for the car mentioned in Rule 6.
[Rule 6: This is the infinite parking lot. If you want to get out, you must find a car that can get out.]
Even Gregori was puzzled by this. He couldn’t figure out all of yesterday what exactly a “car that can get out” meant.
Even though some Chosen Ones had realized it might be related to the honking sounds heard outside the window every day.
But there was no information to verify this clue.
The most common guess here was that it meant a car in the parking lot that could start.
If you could find one that could start, maybe you could find the parking lot’s exit.
But yesterday, they searched for hours and couldn’t find any car that could start.
Most of the cars here were scrapped cars, with flat tires and rusty engines.
At this moment, Gregori seemed to recall another rule.
[Rule 7: Do not approach cars whose lights are on or that are shaking slightly.]
“Could these be the so-called cars that can get out?”
Gregori’s guess made some sense.
Just like yesterday, Rule 2 and Rule 8 could explain each other.
So now, Rule 6 and Rule 7 also seemed to have some logic.
After all, other cars were so scrapped they couldn’t even turn on their lights.
Since some bizarre cars could have their lights on, or shake slightly, didn’t that prove they could start?
But these were, after all, bizarre vehicles. What if they got attacked?
While Gregori’s thoughts were racing, the lights on the ceiling began to flicker.
Damn, was the bizarre phenomenon descending again?
Of the 15 Chosen Ones still alive in the parking lot, 14 were startled by the sudden flicker.
Any lingering sleepiness was instantly dispelled.
But these people were still quick-witted. Instead of blindly looking for a red car, they directly crawled into the car they had slept in last night.
Then they sprayed disinfectant inside, keeping that pungent smell present.
Because Rule 5 said they were very afraid of the smell of disinfectant.
Previously, without finding disinfectant, everyone had to look for a red car.
But now that they had found disinfectant, there was no need to look for a red car.
Some Chosen Ones even wondered if disinfectant could kill the mutated bizarre insects?
But how much to use to kill them was a big problem.
After all, they only had a few bottles of disinfectant; if they used it all up, wouldn’t they be doomed?
So, so far, no Chosen One had bothered to use disinfectant to kill bizarre things.
Everyone’s thought was to find the doctor as soon as possible and see what the doctor had to say.
At this moment, different Chosen Ones saw different mutated bizarre insects passing by them.
Indeed, because of the disinfectant, these insects didn’t look at the Chosen Ones’ vehicles and even detoured around them.
This made them breathe a sigh of relief, as they had prepared to run, just in case they were wrong.
Zhang Yangqing wasn’t scared because he hadn’t even come out of the commercial van yet.
Others had just chewed some biscuits and chocolate and gone out.
But he was genuinely savoring delicious canned food.
He was mainly going for elegance.
Meanwhile, the Chosen Ones still in the rehabilitation center started another day of lining up in the cafeteria.
At this point, relatively clever Chosen Ones noticed that the food in the cafeteria had actually decreased.
A dozen or so patients behind them started protesting because they had no food.
The cafeteria staff ignored the protests, and the patients didn’t dare to do anything.
After all, they were weak and still sick.
So they had to approach other patients who had gotten food and beg for some to share.
If each patient gave a little, it could actually solve the problem.
For now, this crisis was resolved.
Goncharov, the Chosen One from the Bear Country, judged this to be a dangerous signal.
There wasn’t enough food in the rehabilitation center, so the meals would get less and less each day.
Then, riots, even bloody fights, would break out in the rehabilitation center.
Various small groups would form, fighting for the right to enter the line first.
At this point, there were only three ways to survive.
The first way was to follow the rules and get out of here.
The second way was to join a group of patients with the same symptoms, seeking protection from the strong.
This seemed not very meaningful, but it could gather a group of helpers.
The third way was to as much as possible kill other patients to ensure you had food to eat.
But this was only a temporary stopgap measure, also could be said to be killing the goose that lays the golden egg; it wasn’t actually useful.
At this stage, the opportunity for ordinary Chosen Ones actually arrived.
Because there wasn’t enough food, the cafeteria staff would always give them an extra portion.
This way, the food they controlled could attract those patients without food.
While it was dangerous, it was actually the Chosen Ones’ last chance.
Whether it was the Chosen Ones or the viewers, everyone began to realize that if you didn’t get out, you would definitely die inside.
But while they were busy preparing to pass the first level and reach the second level…
The Chosen Ones on the second level were already preparing to move on to the third level.
On the Dragon Country’s big screen, Zhang Yangqing had already eaten his fill.
He didn’t eat very fast, but the moment he put down his can, One-Eye immediately put down his can too.
Whether he had finished or not didn’t matter; he felt that since Zhang Yangqing was done, breakfast should be over.
He couldn’t make Zhang Yangqing wait for him to eat. All actions were guided by Zhang Yangqing’s rules.
Seeing him behave like this, Zhang Yangqing felt somewhat satisfied.
You’re quite sensible, kid.
This was precisely the benefit of revealing your strength. If he hadn’t shown off that sword move last night, this guy might not be so well-behaved.
Zhang Yangqing didn’t ask for his loyalty. With his submissive personality, he would only submit to the strong.
Whoever was strong, he would listen to them, because for the weak to survive, they had to obey the strong’s commands.
To live on borrowed time under the strong’s protection.
This was the the weak’s way of survival.
In other words, if he met someone stronger, and that person wouldn’t hurt him, he would immediately submit to that other person.
And at this moment, One-Eye wouldn’t even be considered betraying.
Because he had never pledged loyalty in the first place, how could there be betrayal?
Weren’t they just partners in escape? You have the skills, I’ll do the hard labor.
They cooperated only because each found the other useful.
After packing up, the two began another day of exploration.
In this endless parking lot, everyone had consumed some of their food supplies.
Even if it was only two meals, Zhang Yangqing’s side had two people.
Two meals consumed four portions of rations, and they ate without restraint.
One-Eye rarely spoke up again, suggesting they could replenish supplies.
After all, food wasn’t plentiful, and he was the one in danger if it ran out.
Zhang Yangqing didn’t refuse. Anyway, you’re doing the hard labor; as long as you’re not afraid of the effort, go ahead and look for supplies.
When they found a van, they discovered some well-packaged pastries and juice inside.
Now the viewers were completely dumbfounded. Was Heavenly Master Zhang really on vacation?
While Zhang Yangqing was scavenging for food, Gregori almost died in this level.
Earlier, he had spotted a slightly shaking vehicle and went over to take a look.
But as soon as he entered the bizarre vehicle’s attack range, the car suddenly lunged at him.
The rusty hood grew fangs; if he got bitten by that, he’d at the very least get tetanus.
Gregori was very quick-witted. He quickly ran to a pillar and did a “King of Qin circling the pillar” maneuver.
Watching for the right moment, he dodged and hide in the nearby shelter. As long as he left the bizarre vehicle’s attack range, it wouldn’t attack him.
When he relaxed, the viewers noticed that there was blood at the corner of his mouth.
This meant that just this short burst of running had already caused the virus to backlash.
You can imagine how powerful this virus was.
Now, even someone as strong as Gregori was suffering a setback, which made viewers worried. This was only the second level, and it was already this hopeless?
But just as viewers were racking their brains, Zhang Yangqing gave them a perfect textbook demonstration of how to do it without getting hurt.
He showed them that as long as you used your brain a little, this level was actually easy to get through.
Zhang Yangqing found a bizarre car with its lights on.
He sprayed disinfectant on himself, since ‘they’ were all afraid of it.
In this level, you could actually observe a lot of hidden information, and the hidden information Zhang Yangqing judged was: [Humanoid bizarre creatures are not afraid] [Non-humanoid bizarre creatures are afraid].
After all, those White Robed Spirits weren’t afraid, while the mutated bizarre insects seemed to not dare to approach.
Bizarre vehicles were non-humanoid, so he confidently strolled over.
After all, since the terror world set up this kind of puzzle, there must be a solution.
This bizarre vehicle with its lights on could definitely start, but the question was how to control it, or in other words, how to ‘suppress’ or ‘remove’ the bizarre element.
Actually, the principle was very simple. Since it could drive out, wouldn’t just turning off its lights solve the problem?
So Zhang Yangqing used his long sword to smash all the lights on the car.
There were actually many pitfalls here.
There were two big pitfalls).
First, people habitually think car lights are only at the front and back, and that smashing those would be enough.
But this was a bizarre world; you had to carefully check the roof, the underside, the hood, and the trunk.
Second, there was a pitfall that was hard to notice but the most deadly the lights inside the car.
Lights inside the car counted as car lights too. Regardless of whether turning them on was dangerous, just smash them all.
By the time Zhang Yangqing had found a vehicle that could get out, other Chosen Ones were still constantly dodging attacks from bizarre vehicles.
This was the comprehension ability of a top-level Transcendent.
There was no need to waste time collecting wrong information; based on what he saw, he could immediately react.
And most of the time, he could even predict in advance.
From beginning to end, compared to the flustered and panicked expressions of other Chosen Ones, he always found the correct answer so effortlessly.
This was the Dragon Country’s premier, Zhang Yangqing.
His excellence is undisputed!
