Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 29 Hunting Team
"The ten-day survival exercise is over."

"The next twenty days are for extreme survival training, not for fun!"

"You must understand that once you start, there is no turning back! Want to quit? Humph, we don't accept cowards here! Either you become a real warrior, or get lost and don't waste our time here! We don't need trash who quit halfway!"

Instructor Crowther paced in front of all the students and gave a lecture.

"For the first survival training, I will randomly divide you into teams of three. Your mission is also very simple. Collect the scattered red flags and use them as the standard for judging the performance of this month's training."

"Don't forget, remember to kill the source beasts in the range and take the source crystals in their hearts. This will also be counted in the assessment score. Source crystals are the currency of the training camp. From now on, you can only use them to exchange for daily necessities and training expenses!"

After being divided into groups, Yuanze, Rick and Ji Xuefeng formed a hunting team.

"Hello, I'm Yuan Ze."

"Huh?" Rick rolled his eyes at him and slapped away the hand that Yuanze wanted to shake. "You deserve it? You are the last in terms of source power."

Yuanze was not angry either. After all, although his source power had increased a lot, it was still somewhat inferior to what others had accumulated over more than ten years.

"Hey, hey, hey, calm down, big brothers. We are on the same team." Ji Xuefeng moved his round face in front of the two of them, holding Yuanze and Ji Xuefeng in his left and right hands respectively. "That's it, we are on the same team."

"Your source power level is good, unlike that encumbrance." Rick didn't even look at Yuanze, but just chatted with Ji Xuefeng.

"No, no, source power is not the only indicator of combat power. Look at Brother Yuan, he ranked first in the assessment last month, and I only ranked third."

"Forget it, don't you know I'm the second place?" Rick turned to look at Yuan Ze, "Follow closely, don't let us collect your body."

Yuanze could feel that this hook-nosed Western boy had no ill intentions, he just had a little bit of worship of power.

The three of them arrived at the designated area, which was full of low-level awakening source beasts. The two people walking in front could deal with them without any effort.

However, after a few days, they didn't encounter many formal-level source beasts. Even if they did, the two of them could easily deal with them.

On the tenth night, the three of them hid in a dark cave. Ji Xuefeng was making a fire and roasting three chicken-shaped source beasts to prepare a filling dinner for everyone. Rick became impatient.

"There's no challenge here at all. It's like being outdoors and camping."

"Alas, how can you say that? It took me a long time to catch these chickens." Ji Xuefeng took out the pepper and salt wrapped in paper and sprinkled them on the chickens. "Here, I'll give you one, and you, Yuanze."

"You just know how to eat, and that loser only knows how to meditate and practice. You don't have any spirit of adventure or exploration at all." Rick slammed the roast chicken on the rack. "I don't want to eat. I want adventure."

"Don't ruin it." Ji Xuefeng picked up the roasted chicken that fell into the firewood, blew away the ashes, and started to fight left and right, mumbling, "I've taken the risk to bring the pepper and salt. Do you know what will happen if I'm caught by that scar?"

"You're quite good at cooking." Yuanze smiled and picked up the roast chicken from the rack and started to eat it. It was the first time he had eaten something decent in these few days.

"You two are cowards."

"Yuan Ze, there are source beasts everywhere and he's still thinking about taking risks. No wonder there are so few people in the West."

"However, it's good to be adventurous. It can hone yourself."

"That's right. I want to try all the source beasts to see what they taste like. If I don't take some risks, I won't be able to eat them."

"Hahaha, you are quite ambitious. If those beast kings hear you, they will definitely use you to fill their teeth."

"You flatter me. Even a hundred of me wouldn't be enough for the Beast King to fill his teeth with."

Yuanze and Xiaopang were chatting like this, and Rick behind them seemed to have fallen asleep. When he turned over, only the sound of snoring could be heard.

"Wake up, Brother Yuan." Ji Xuefeng woke Yuan Ze up, "Why did you fall asleep? It's too dangerous without anyone on duty."

"Huh? Shouldn't that foreigner be here at this time?" Yuanze turned around and wanted to sleep for a while.

"He's gone!"

"He's not there, what does it have to do with me..." Yuan Ze suddenly sat up, "Ah? Where is he?"

"He must have gone out to take risks."

"Depend on!"

The two of them quickly packed up and went out of the cave to find Rick.

The two followed the footprints until they reached the protective shield.

"This guy has walked out of the protective shield!"

Yuanze squatted down and followed the footprints forward with his eyes: "But they haven't gone far yet, I can catch up."

"Chase? Scarface said before that we can't leave the shield. The source beasts outside are not something we can deal with. If we go out, we will bear the consequences at our own risk."

"Hurry up and pull him back." Yuanze walked out of the protective shield directly.

The fat man hesitated for a long time and still didn't dare to follow.

Soon, Yuanze found Rick, and after some persuasion, he still refused to go back.

Just as Yuan Ze was thinking about how to pull him away, a source beast pounced on him at a speed beyond Yuan Ze's limit of reaction.

"Yuan Ze, be careful!"

Rick pulled Yuanze over, then pushed him away and took the blow head-on.

He flew out in a spin and hit a tree, blood oozing from the corner of his mouth. He instantly lost his combat effectiveness.

"I am coming."

Yuan Ze turned sideways and faced the source beast, not daring to be distracted at all. Judging from its speed, it must be a low-level body-tempering source beast: "Fatty, take this foreigner away first, I'll cover you." The fat man dragged Rick while shouting: "What about you, what are you going to do?"

"It's going too fast, I have to stay here."

"Take care." The fat man carried Rick and disappeared in a flash.

Yuanze did not dare to be careless at all and remained in the "flow" state. His battle suit was mobilized to analyze the data and the chip was called to adjust his body condition to the limit.

This is a source beast that is several times larger than an ordinary cow. Its skin is translucent, as if it is composed of countless tiny rays of light, which constantly flicker and change as it moves.

Its head still retains the basic features of a cow, but its horns have evolved into two twisted optical fiber-like objects that can emit and refract light. Its eyes are two constantly rotating halos that emit a fascinating light, but also reveal a weird and uneasy atmosphere.

"Biological analysis: Phantom Bull, level 1 Body Tempering, good at using the ability of light refraction to create multiple clones; single attack method, only physical collision and high-temperature light emitted from horns; weakness, fiber-optic horns."

"Battle strategy, the clone's movements are delayed, and the clone in the shadow is blurry, so please be careful to distinguish it."

The bull lowered its head and charged forward, but with the help of the suit's prompts and the maximum use of the chip, it avoided the fatal blow.

The bull turned its head, and its body flashed with dazzling light. Then Yuanze was surrounded by several clones whose real and fake were hard to distinguish.

"Warning, Phantom Bull is using a high temperature ray. The heat will spread throughout the body and cause the host's death."

"damn it."

Yuanze had no time to carefully distinguish which one was the real one. He could only use the path calculated by the battle suit to dodge back and forth among the several rays shot by the phantom bull.

Under tremendous pressure, Yuanze adjusted his breathing rhythm and used the breathing method for the first time in actual combat.

"The enemy is overloaded with heat and is about to stop using heat rays."

The phantom cow gradually stopped the rays.

"It's a good opportunity."

With the help of breathing techniques, Yuanze's speed increased dramatically. He raised one hand to form a shadow on the bull's head and turned around at an extremely fast speed.

Yuanze snorted coldly, finally discovered the real body, and punched him.

"It's actually a fake body?"

Yuanze's mistake caused the bull to charge again. Yuanze dodged back and forth, and the source power in his body was rapidly decreasing.

Yuanze dodged and activated a defensive force field, but was still hit. Fortunately, his battle suit spread the force evenly.

During the continuous fighting, Yuanze also discovered that the attack method of this source beast was extremely simple, and it could only use collision and high-temperature rays back and forth.

"First, we can trick out the high-temperature rays, and at the moment of collision, we can distinguish whether the bull is real or fake, so as to grab the bull's horns and use ancient boxing to destroy it." Yuanze had a bold idea.

"Instructions received, instructions optimized, calculation execution success rate 99.99%, gene chip enables automatic control function."

The battle suit on Yuanze's body also revealed the pale golden lines of the gene chip, and his body moved involuntarily.

Yuanze was immersed in this state. He boldly adjusted the "flow" to a learning state and sensed the automatic state of AI cooperating with the gene chip.

His movements were concise, powerful and not dragged out, and his source power consumption was controlled at an extremely low level, without wasting a single bit of combat power. Yuan Ze gradually realized what he still lacked.

The degree of control over one's body is far lower than this automatic state.

As Yuanze toyed with the bull and its clone like a bullfighter, when the bull was a little dizzy and was about to use high-temperature rays, Yuanze had already seen through the truth.

He mounted the bull, broke its horns with one punch, and then quickly jumped off.

The phantom bull fell to the ground as if it had suffered a severe blow. The heat that had been accumulated in its body and was ready to be emitted in the form of rays could no longer be conducted out and kept running around in its body.

As its body gradually turned red, the wailing became quieter, and it completely turned into a large pool of cooked beef.

There was a rustling sound coming from the bushes nearby, and Yuanze immediately tensed up again.

Suddenly, a harmless little rabbit slipped away into the distance. It was just a small animal with almost no source of energy.

Yuanze breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and walked closer to the roasted beef, not noticing the rabbit's flashing eyes at all.

"I asked you to hit that foreigner." Yuanze ended the fighting state and kept kicking the bull with his feet.

"Hey, why does it smell like roast beef?" The fat man came closer again, smelling the aroma.

"Take it back and have a celebration party tonight."

"Did you kill him?"

Yuanze lifted his hair and showed off confidently: "Is there anyone else?"

The two of them worked together to pull this big guy weighing nearly 3000 kilograms back into the cave.

Adventure, even foreigners have it.

Beef, even the fat man is satisfied.

Yuanze gained a lot of experience.

But in fact, there was someone else who gained the most.

It's a bit busy during the Chinese New Year, I'll try my best

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(End of this chapter)