allendalepharm Chapter 116 : Chapter 116
Chapter 116 : Chapter 116
Chapter 116: Everywhere Your Divine Elephants Go Belongs to You?
Early the next morning, Li Mu went to find Zhang Zhiwei and Lu Chenfeng.
He dragged the two of them into a martial training gym.
Under the astonished gaze of the attendant, he pulled them both into a private single-person Training Room...What a Training Room was meant to provide was privacy.
The moment the three of them went inside, the sound of the door locking followed.
The young female attendant was so curious she could hardly bear it.
Using her patrol as an excuse, she drifted over near the Training Room.
Relying on her sharp hearing, she caught bursts of hair-raising voices coming from inside.
“Quick, close your eyes and open your mouth!”
“What are you doing?” came a cool, slightly wary voice.
“Tch, stop talking. I’m not harming you!”
“Hurry and open your mouth. You too!”
Right after that came a muffled, thick voice cursing:
“Holy hell, it’s so dark and huge. What is this thing!?”
“This is a treasure! You fool who cannot recognize what is good. Who told you to open your eyes? Eat it!”
The female attendant felt as though she had been struck by lightning.
Her whole body went numb. Shivering violently, she hurried back toward the front desk.
She was just about to gossip with one of her friends—
when two pillars of white light suddenly shot up from inside that Training Room...
Meanwhile, inside the Abyss, the four members of the Vanguard Squad—Ma Jun, Zhao Meiting, Zhang He, and Song Biao—were riding warhorses on a Blind-Zone Exploration mission.
All four of them were now at the Fourth Grade Realm.
Ever since Li Mu had been promoted to Wolf Guard, although they still had a pretty good relationship with him, they really had been deeply shaken by it.
So they had consciously begun keeping their distance from Li Mu, unwilling to become a burden to him.
But from that point onward, they stopped taking Sweep Missions.
Instead, they began accepting the more dangerous Blind-Zone Exploration missions.
Their strength had risen rapidly as well.
While the four of them were intently watching their surroundings, Ma Jun’s Technological Watch suddenly began to ring.
“To all squads in the regional channel who can hear this transmission—”
“Proceed immediately to coordinates 32547, 1248...”
“A Vacuum Zone has been discovered here!”
The voice sounded extremely excited.
Ma Jun and the others exchanged glances, quickly opened their Technological Watches, and urged their horses toward the marked coordinates.
After galloping for a while, they entered a small hilly region.
At the highest point of a distant hill, more than a dozen warhorses and shifting figures had already gathered.
And the moment they entered this area, Ma Jun and the others also felt the aura around their bodies suddenly become clearer and lighter.
The group quickly rode over.
At the highest point of the hill, a battle flag of the Pearl Military District fluttered in the wind.
A cluster of Abyss-Suppressing Army soldiers stood there chatting with joy written all over their faces.
When they saw Ma Jun and the others arrive, the group greeted them warmly.
“Hey, Vanguard Squad!”
A lot of people recognized Ma Jun’s group, because after that military conduct rectification propaganda video featuring Li Mu, all of them had shown their faces in it.
Ma Jun swung down from his horse and asked in delight, “How large is this Vacuum Zone? Who found it?”
The man he asked was also very talkative. He pointed at a squad leader not far away who was grinning from ear to ear and said, “Evil Tiger Squad found it first.”
“But since they called all of us over, the credit will definitely be shared by everyone who saw it.”
“They already measured it by riding around the perimeter. It’s around a thousand mu, and it’s still extending outward. Some people have already gone to check.”
Ma Jun asked again, “Has anyone gone back to notify the military district?”
“Yeah, someone already went. The military district is arranging for people to come test it now.”
Zhao Meiting and the others could not hide the joy in their hearts either.
Discovering a Vacuum Zone was a rare occurrence in a Blind-Zone Exploration mission.
Naturally, the merit for it would not be small.
Although they were not the first to discover it, they were still among the first batch. As long as they stayed here and waited for the main force to arrive and garrison the area, it would count as meritorious service.
Within the Abyss, Vacuum Zones held major strategic value for humanity.
Once more than five humans gathered together in the Abyss, they would continuously attract monsters.
That was caused by the leakage of their aura.
A Vacuum Zone, meanwhile, was a naturally occurring region within the Abyss that prevented humans from giving off their aura.
Humans could gather in extremely large numbers within a Vacuum Zone without releasing their aura and drawing large numbers of monsters.
As long as the surrounding monsters were steadily cleared outward, that Vacuum Zone could become a major new foothold for humanity.
The regions directly beneath every Abyss entrance in the world
were often the largest Vacuum Zones of all!
Some ranged from several square kilometers, while others stretched over dozens or even hundreds of square kilometers.
It was only after humanity discovered the concept of Vacuum Zones
that they dared begin building infrastructure directly beneath the Abyss entrances, stationing troops there, and gradually expanding their exploration outward.
And a place like this—one with no Abyss entrance above it, yet naturally formed into a Vacuum Zone—was an extremely important springboard.
It meant the military district could begin building infrastructure here, station troops, establish a Teleportation Area, and rapidly expand outward!
Everyone chatted and laughed as they waited for a while.
Suddenly, one person shouted, “What is that!?”
Everyone looked over in curiosity, only to see several enormous monsters trotting toward them.
“Alert! Alert!!”
All the soldiers instantly recalled their warhorses, raised spears and blades, and formed a line.
As the creatures drew closer, the monsters on the other side slowed down as well.
They were actually four black-skinned elephants.
Each elephant carried an enormous cross-shaped wooden frame on its back.
Seated precariously upon those frames were eight men.
They wore white cloth robes, had thick brows, large eyes, and beards, and each held a long-handled curved saber.
At a glance, it was obvious they were not from Huaxia.
A soldier in the group immediately recognized them and frowned.
“They’re from the Divine Elephant Nation!”
Everyone else instantly became more vigilant.
The Divine Elephant Nation was one of Huaxia’s neighboring countries.
In the early days of the Abyss’s eruption, the Divine Elephant Nation had very nearly been wiped out by the Abyss monsters.
Yet, in an utterly baffling turn of events, after the Abyss monsters invaded the Divine Elephant Nation, they began dying off in large numbers for no apparent reason.
Only later did the Divine Elephant Nation discover the cause.
Those monsters had actually died because they had eaten the corpses of the Divine Elephant Nation’s people.
They had been poisoned to death!
The Divine Elephant Nation immediately proclaimed it the blessing of the Elephant God. Then, together with the eruption of spiritual qi, a great number of mysterious spellcasters rose to prominence there, wielding violently spreading super-plagues.
They had nauseated the Abyss monsters so thoroughly that they were forced back into the Abyss...
After that, in the era of great spiritual qi eruption in the Divine Elephant Nation, the power of faith they received from worshiping the Elephant God gave rise to battle units such as Elephant-Power Warriors, Black Plague Warlocks, Song-and-Dance Musicians, and more.
In truth, ever since the outbreak of the Abyss monsters and the revival of spiritual qi, most countries had already been wiped out.
Only those nations with powerful faiths or deep cultural foundations had survived.
Along with the revival of spiritual qi, those powers of faith and culture had bestowed supernatural strength upon humanity.
Huaxia’s Martial Artists, in the mouths of foreigners, were called Mystic-Power Martial Artists, because Huaxia followed a xuanhuan-style cultivation system.
Unfortunately, in this parallel world, much of Huaxia’s mythological system from Earth was missing.
Otherwise, if they could awaken a Primordial Mythos system...
As for the Great Eagle Nation’s systems of vampires, werewolves, and mages, the Little Sakura Nation’s oni-god system, and the Desert Nation’s pharaoh divine tree system, each had its own unique merits, and each had managed to secure its footing once developed.
In recent years, the Divine Elephant Nation had begun advocating “human-wave tactics.”
They had gone mad with childbirth, causing their population to explode.
Below ground, they began expanding deeper into the Abyss. Above ground, they also started expanding their territory, and they had clashed with Huaxia on more than a few occasions.
Fortunately, there was the Abyss Treaty, so the two sides had never come into direct conflict.
Still, everyone knew about the Divine Elephant Nation’s aggressive desire for territorial expansion.
Now that they had appeared here, they certainly could not be up to anything good.
The four elephants advanced slowly.
Before they even arrived, a dense curry stench drifted across the land, so strong it made people want to vomit.
“Stop! This is a Huaxia Vacuum Zone. Leave at once!”
The captain of Evil Tiger Squad was the first to step forward.
Pointing at the battle flag he had planted, he shouted his warning.
One of the men standing atop the foremost giant elephant rose to his feet.
In broken Huaxia speech, he shouted while wagging his head, “This place! Divine Elephant Nation territory! All of it!”
As he spoke, he also waved his hand, indicating a vast stretch of land in the distance.
The Evil Tiger captain was instantly enraged.
“We got here first! The planted flag decides it! I’m warning you again—leave our territory!”
That man also grew furious.
“The divine elephants guided us here. Everywhere the divine elephants pass belongs to our Divine Elephant Nation!”
“This was our Divine Elephant Nation’s land to begin with!”
The Abyss-Suppressing Army soldiers all cursed at once at such shamelessness.
This was Abyss territory!
Whether it was a Vacuum Zone or any other supernatural resource, whoever found it first had the claim.
The planted flag decided it. First come, first served.
Yet the Divine Elephant Nation was claiming that this had always been their territory. They were clearly planning to seize it by force!
Still, everyone also felt they had terrible luck.
The cities within their own country had not yet touched one another inside the Abyss, yet here they had somehow run into people from the Divine Elephant Nation.
Could it be that this region in the Abyss was nearing some border area of the Divine Elephant Nation??
Seeing that the Abyss-Suppressing Army soldiers refused to yield, that curry brat instantly shouted a sentence in the Divine Elephant language.
All the soldiers of the Divine Elephant Nation immediately roared and jumped down from the elephants. One by one, they widened their already huge eyes with all their might, as though they wanted to glare people to death. It was almost comical.
Then they all drew the curved sabers in their hands, assuming a posture of armed intimidation...