Chapter 114: 110, Humans’ Ninth Titled King! (Part 2) 4000+ Big Chapters, Seeking Monthly Tickets (Please Subscribe for Monthly Tickets)
Blue Star.
A small town more remote than Tongyuan; it couldn’t even be considered a small city—barely a town.
A man in his thirties, wearing thick glasses and with messy hair, was teaching his students.
"Students, today we will learn the text called ’Rise, Unyielding.’ Everyone must have previewed the text yesterday, right? Now, let’s read this text together, with feeling."
"May 25th, 19XX. Prepare... Begin!"
The students before him held their textbooks, reading earnestly.
The teacher walked among them, textbook in hand, reading along.
Suddenly, his gaze fell upon a chubby student. The boy held his book upside down and, far from focusing on the lesson, was fiddling with something beneath his desk.
The teacher walked over and coughed. The little fatty then put down his game console and feigned reading.
Once the article was finished, the teacher asked the chubby student to stand up.
"Sun Ziheng, tell us what this text is about. Briefly summarize it."
The chubby Sun Ziheng reluctantly stood up, his eyes downcast on his book. "It’s about... it’s about some fool named ***. He didn’t even care about his own life..."
"Audacious!!!"
The teacher shouted, startling Sun Ziheng into a shiver.
"*** is a hero of our Human Race! How dare you speak of him like that!"
The teacher, furious, pointed at Sun Ziheng, momentarily speechless.
Perhaps people of other races might not know who *** was. But how could those present, humans themselves, fail to recognize their own ancestor, their hero?
"Teacher Wang, did I say something wrong?"
"It was obviously so dangerous! There wasn’t even a place to set a demolition charge on the bridgehead. Isn’t that stupid...?"
Before Sun Ziheng could finish, Teacher Wang slammed his hand on the desk.
"Was *** stupid? Didn’t he know he might ultimately sacrifice himself?"
"Then why did he still do it? If not for..."
"Teacher, I know what you’re going to say."
Sun Ziheng interjected, "But this happened thousands of years ago. Our Human Federation has Star Destroying Cannons and powerful Star Core Warriors, but there’s no one as self-sacrificing as *** anymore."
"How could there not be? How could there not be?"
Teacher Wang trembled with anger at the student’s words. But just as he was about to recount some heroic deeds within the Federation, he suddenly heard a voice.
"I, Zhao Lei of the Human Federation."
"Today, I break the Level 9 Shackles and enter the Titled Realm. In this life, I vow to serve the hundreds of billions of people of the Federation with all my heart, until death do I part."
The origin of the voice was indiscernible.
Yet it resonated within the classroom, in the ears and hearts of every student and Teacher Wang.
What is this...?
Why would someone named Zhao Lei be speaking in their minds?
Confused, Teacher Wang opened the door and glanced out. He noticed that students and teachers from other classes also seemed to have heard the voice.
They were cheering, jubilant.
"Our Human Race has added another Titled King, Zhao Lei."
「Venus.」
Outside a certain open-pit mine.
A space crack, five to six stories high and about ten meters wide, had abruptly appeared two hours prior.
The Federation dispatched a Quick Reaction Step *Team to investigate immediately. They confirmed the space crack connected to the Exotic Battlefield. Team members quickly set up various electromagnetic weapons, preparing for the enemy.
The news was reported up the chain of command. City Guard Zhang Lu, already asleep in the Governor’s Mansion, was jolted awake by an emergency alert. He rushed to the conference room to oversee the defense against the invading alien creatures.
Various divisions of the City Defense Army also assembled urgently. Soldiers donned their uniforms, equipped their gear and helmets, and stood before the camp, awaiting their orders.
"Soldiers! A huge space crack has appeared outside the Dora Mill Mine! Alien creatures are about to invade!"
"It is our City Defense Army’s undeniable duty to rush to the front lines immediately!"
"This mission may endanger our lives, but tell me, City Defense Army, are we afraid of these alien creatures?"
"Answer me loudly!"
The sergeant at the front roared.
"First battle, send me!"
"With me, victory is certain!"
In response, the 13,500 soldiers of the City Defense Army roared in unison, their voices shaking the surroundings.
"Good! Just what I expect from the soldiers I’ve trained! You’re all outstanding! Move out!"
The environment on Venus was comparable to that on Saturn.
The Dora Mill Mine was located 78 kilometers outside the city. Even with an immediate response and departure, it would take the City Defense Army nearly half an hour to arrive.
「In the mine.」
The miners huddled together, terrified.
"Do you think we’re going to die?"
"We’ll definitely die. Definitely."
"I’ve heard that alien creatures are at least Level 1 Star Core Warriors. Killing ordinary people like us is as easy for them as slaughtering chickens."
"Then let’s run! The City Guard will surely send people to save us!"
"Yeah, let’s run! Let those soldiers from the Quick Reaction Step *Team handle it."
"Mr. Liu has already fled! Hurry, everyone, don’t hesitate!"
Just as panic spread, a soldier from the Quick Reaction Step *Team ran over to stop them.
"Everyone, don’t run! Once the alien creatures breach our defensive line, you won’t be able to outrun them in the wilderness."
"Please follow me into the mine tunnels! Quickly!"
The miners exchanged glances, hesitated for a moment, then chose to follow the soldier into the mine tunnels.