Chapter 18 Activities

The base was fully equipped. Hundreds of people in groups soon arrived at a large training ground.

The large training ground was a hemispherical field with a wide area. The dome and walls were built of high-strength shape memory alloy, which was difficult for ordinary superhumans to destroy. Many searchlights were embedded in the walls, illuminating the entire training ground.

In the center was a white circular arena, about 330 meters in diameter. The surrounding area was a grandstand protected by high-strength transparent glass, arranged in a circular layout and suspended layer by layer on the wall, overlooking the arena.

A small training room could be used for superhumans to train. The training ground was generally not used, but this time there were many people, and with Wang Wu's approval, the base management agreed to provide the venue for hundreds of people to engage in activities.

The group came to the stands, curious, and chattered in discussion.

"This is a bit like the arena battlefield of the Superpower League, but it is much simpler and not as big."

Zhou Jing observed the venue and said thoughtfully.

"So it's suitable for close combat types like us. This is our stage to shine." Xu Lingyun said seriously.

"Uh..."

At this time, several awakened representatives and Wang Wu finished discussing and walked over.

He Changqing, the organizer of the event, clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention. Seeing everyone looking at him, he said:

"Everyone, we have discussed it. We are divided into thirteen teams according to our respective cities. Anyone who wants to play can come on stage, with no limit on the number of people. However, referring to some of the arena battle rules of the Superpower League, the cumulative number of opponents defeated by each team is the score of a team. The final score determines which team wins... Of course, the goal of our event this time is to get to know each other. It is a social gathering, so friendship comes first and competition comes second. Winning or losing is not important, don't take it to heart."

Everyone nodded, without any objection, rubbing their fists and eager to try.

At this time, someone shouted: "Then what are the benefits of winning?"

"Uh, everyone's applause?"

He Changqing joked.

Wang Wu strolled over, shook his head when he heard the words, and said, "How about this, I will pay attention to your performance on behalf of the Superpower Bureau. If someone performs well, after entering school, I can give additional tutor recommendations to gain the attention of the academy. Let's take this as the prize for the competition."

As soon as the words fell, many people immediately became energetic.

Although they didn't know the weight of the tutor's recommendation, it was still some benefit.

Seeing that everyone's enthusiasm had been mobilized, Wang Wu reminded, "But pay attention to safety, and don't maliciously injure your opponents. As long as the opponent admits defeat or falls off the ring, you must not pursue them. And I will be the referee. Once I feel that one side is at a disadvantage and has no chance to turn the tables, I will immediately stop and intervene, so you don't need to completely knock down your opponent."

Lin Kun folded his arms and asked in a deep voice, "What if you accidentally injure your opponent?"

Wang Wu glanced at him and said casually, "The medical level of the Superpower Bureau is very high. As long as you don't die, you can generally be rescued... You don't have to worry. I'm the referee. No matter how strong your awakened abilities are, you won't have a chance to have an accident."

Speaking of the end, his tone became firm and confident.

Everyone naturally believed in the level of a fourth-level superhuman, and there was not much worry.

The crowd rioted and soon divided into various city teams, discussing among themselves, noisy and lively.

Dozens of superhuman immigrants from Xihai City gathered around Li Xiaoyin.

Li Xiaoyin looked around and asked, "What do you all say?"

Zhao He thought for a while and said, "Although it is a friendly social gathering, let's try our best to win and not let others look down on us."

Huang Wei nodded in agreement and subconsciously analyzed, "That's right. According to the rules, the cumulative number of opponents defeated is the score, and we have two A-levels and one 2s-level, which is a great advantage. So try not to send up weaker ones. That is giving points to others. It is best not to send up too many people with a potential assessment below B-level to ensure our advantage..."

Hearing these words, many enthusiastic fellow villagers suddenly hesitated and retreated.

Such rules do require "thighs" to pull points. There are quite a few people who want to perform, but if they hold the team back, they will feel bad.

Li Xiaoyin interrupted Huang Wei without thinking: "There is no need to care about these things. We are not captains. Everyone can come on stage if they want to."

Zhou Jing chimed in, "Xiaoyin is right, everyone shouldn't feel pressured. It's just a social gathering. The most important thing is to have fun."

Huang Wei immediately realized that she had said the wrong thing. She was just thinking about the tutor recommendation benefits promised by Wang Wu, and her desire to win was at play. She forgot to take care of other people's feelings, and she couldn't help but feel secretly annoyed. She quickly changed her words: "Don't misunderstand, I'm just analyzing the rules. Of course, anyone can come on stage to perform."

Seeing that Li Xiaoyin and other thighs had no objections, everyone put down their concerns and enthusiastically signed up.

Li Xiaoyin liked excitement and naturally participated, while Zhao He and Huang Wei both had a desire to perform and decided to come on stage.

In addition, Shi Qing, who was a B-level potential but only ten years old, signed up at the request of his father and agent, Shi Chenhai. However, after being scolded by Li Xiaoyin, Shi Chenhai reluctantly gave up letting his son come on stage to fight.

The taciturn Wang Cheng had no intention of signing up at all. He was determined to watch the show from the sidelines, and everyone could only let him go.

The two B-levels did not come on stage, so there was a gap in the middle. Among the people from Xihai City who came on stage, the only outstanding ones were Li Xiaoyin, Zhao He, and Huang Wei. The rest were fellow villagers with C-level and d-level potential. Xu Lingyun and Zhang Xiao also wanted to come on stage to make up the numbers and have some fun.

"Jing, are you going up?"

Xu Lingyun poked Zhou Jing's waist.

"I'm going up, just to join in the fun."

Zhou Jing smiled.

It wouldn't be good for him to watch from the sidelines when his friends were all on stage.

Moreover, he was now just a physical enhancement ability user, which was nothing special. If he could get others to think highly of him, it would be beneficial in the end.

So he decided to come on stage to show his strength and try to win the tutor recommendation mentioned by Wang Wu—after all, the main world was a peaceful society. Actively showing off and obtaining benefits when there was a chance was more practical.

If he blindly concealed his strength and did not show it, then others would have no reason to value him... It was not realistic to think about maintaining a low-key and aloof persona and expecting others to have a unique vision to see his extraordinaryness.

Besides, the main world's ability users were fancy and not as monotonous as the alien beast world. It would be good to fight against some people with strange abilities to increase experience and find some fun.

"Great, you never spar with us. This is a good time to see your skills."

Xu Lingyun put his arm around Zhou Jing's neck and said with a smile.

After about ten minutes, each city team had discussed their candidates.

There were a total of thirteen teams, including Li Xiaoyin's Xihai City team, Lin Kun's Fuyan City team, He Changqing's Wumen City team, and Wu Fan's Changshan City team, which were naturally the four most competitive teams.

Before long, the first person came on stage. He was a B-level potential. After introducing himself as a lure, another person immediately came on stage to challenge him, and they fought lively.

Wang Wu, acting as the referee, wandered around. He couldn't see any special abilities. He easily pressed down the two sides fighting with his physical fitness and announced who won and who lost.

New awakeners took turns on stage, and various abilities were displayed in front of everyone, dazzling people.

Among them, there were some very powerful abilities, the power of which made Zhou Jing's heart skip a beat, but the users were obviously very rusty.

Leaving aside the destructive power of the superpowers themselves, these people were actually no different from rookies pecking at each other.

The people who could win basically relied on their superpowers being strong enough, not on how great their own skills were... Of course, this was also a natural ability.

The people in the stands cheered from time to time. It was a friendly competition, and the atmosphere was good. Before long, nearly thirty rounds had been fought.

Zhao He also came on stage. After winning two rounds, he was hammered down.

It wasn't that he was incompetent, but it seemed that everyone had a tacit understanding. Only when a powerful person came on stage would other teams send out powerful people to solve the opponent and prevent more weak awakeners from going up to give points.

If there were no powerful guys on stage, then the "masters" of each team would patiently wait.

Not long after, Huang Wei thought it was about time, calmed down, and came on stage.

"I am Huang Wei, from Xihai City, A-level potential. I am very happy to meet everyone."

She maintained a proper smile and introduced herself to hundreds of people in the stands.

Seeing this, everyone in the stands immediately started discussing.

"Another A-level. The quality of this batch of awakeners in Xihai City is really high."

"Yeah, they also have Li Xiaoyin."

"Alas, we don't even have an A-level. We won't have a thigh to hug after entering the academy."

Many people present were very envious.

Hearing the discussion not far away, Xu Lingyun stroked his chin and whispered:

"Although Huang Wei is not very likable, she is indeed a thigh."

Zhang Xiao said unhappily: "Isn't Sister Yin's leg enough for you to hug?"

Xu Lingyun hummed: "Sister Yin's leg is thick enough, but it's also for me, the assistant, to hug. You can only hug Jing Jing's thigh."

Zhang Xiao was immediately unhappy: "What's wrong? Are you looking down on my Jing Jing? Even if his leg is not thick enough, he is still my boss. I don't dislike him. If you talk nonsense again, I will go up and beat you when you come on stage."

"Cough, I didn't say that. You said it yourself..."

Listening to the two of them talking nonsense, Zhou Jing rolled his eyes, too lazy to pay attention, and focused on observing Huang Wei's battle on the stage.

Huang Wei's ability was quite interesting. She could release a kind of bright purple energy silk to form specific shapes.

This purple energy silk formed an openwork women's armor woven with light on her body.

It extended from her hands and clustered into two purple light whips, which burst out with electric sparks when they came into contact with objects. They seemed to have high temperature and electric shock length, and could also be stretched.

She kept waving the whips with both hands, drawing scorched marks on the stage with crackling sounds, making quite a commotion.

The opponent, who only had C-level potential, could only roll around to avoid it in a panic, and soon there was no way to avoid it, and Wang Wu rescued him.

Huang Wei easily defeated her opponent without much effort and became the new ring leader.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Jing's eyes flickered, and he analyzed secretly:

'It should be an energy release type of superpower. The basic usage seems to be transformation and shaping, so it is probably a control type... It can be rated as A-level potential, probably considering that it can develop more control methods and energy forms as it grows, and the distance and power also have development potential...'

There are many types of superpowers in the main world. Even today, new types are born from time to time. The sources of abilities are basically awakening, learning, genetic modification, mutation, and so on.

The most common types of abilities are physical enhancement, energy release, mental power, secret techniques, mechanical armor, and material manipulation.

Needless to say, the most common physical enhancement and mechanical armor, the special secret techniques are learned later and belong to special cases, while the other three types of abilities generally do not have low potential assessments.

'Speaking of which, is the elemental wizard system in the alien beast world an energy release type or a material manipulation type? It can't be a secret technique type, right?'

Zhou Jing was curious.

While he was thinking, another person came on stage, an awakened person with B-level potential named Chen Gong.

After introducing himself, Chen Gong did not make a move, but raised his hand to Wang Wu on the side and asked:

"Um, I want to ask, can I use firearms during the sparring?"

Everyone in the stands was slightly stunned.

Wang Wu didn't find it strange and nodded: "Yes, but only if your ability is related to firearms."

Chen Gong smiled and suddenly shook his body. One person instantly split into seven people, all with the same appearance, as if they were cloned.

"My ability is physical clones, shared vision, and improved reaction and fine manipulation ability. After awakening, I have been practicing tactical cooperation with clones, which includes firearms shooting. I have a good gun feel. If I can't use firearms, it will be difficult for me to exert my combat power."

Seven Chen Gongs spoke together, in unison.

Wang Wu looked at him with interest and nodded: "In that case, I will allow you to use firearms, but only ordinary gunpowder firearms. Electromagnetic weapons and energy weapons are not allowed, and you can only use pistols, and the bullets are also specially made blanks."

"No problem." Seven Chen Gongs nodded.

Wang Wu instructed the staff to get the guns, and soon someone brought a few gun boxes, which contained black army-standard pistols and multiple magazines.

Each of the seven Chen Gongs took out two guns, inserted them into the armpit holsters, and put on magazine belts. Each person was equipped with eight fully loaded magazines, and a retractable police baton was hung on his waist, like a tactical squad.

Before long, Chen Gong was ready. Under Wang Wu's instructions, the seven clones stood in front of Huang Wei, each holding a gun.

Being stared at by seven identical big men, Huang Wei swallowed secretly, feeling flustered.

Wang Wu glanced at both sides and suddenly waved his palm.

"Start!"

Swish!

Huang Wei didn't say a word and took the lead, swinging her whips horizontally and whipping them towards the seven people in front.

Chen Gong immediately responded, and the seven clones dodged and shot backhanded.

With a series of bangs, a torrent of bullets poured out.

"Cheating!"

Huang Wei wailed in her heart and quickly ran, increasing the output of her energy armor to protect her body.

Clang clang!

Amidst the dense collision sounds, bullets flew.

The bullets were all bounced off by Huang Wei's energy armor, but the energy armor was also flickering and consuming a lot of energy.

The seven Chen Gong bodies immediately dispersed, never approaching Huang Wei, and suppressed firepower from all directions.

Huang Wei had no choice but to grit her teeth and brave the rain of bullets, attacking the clones with her whips from a distance, but they were all dodged.

The two fought lively for a while, and the arena was filled with gunshots and the sound of the light whips whipping and exploding.

Chen Gong's tactical movements were quite methodical, obviously after hard training. Compared with other awakened people who were pure rookies pecking at each other with their abilities, he could be considered to know how to fight. He was not so much of a rookie in actual combat.

Huang Wei was a typical awakened person lacking combat experience. Faced with such a tricky situation, she quickly became at a loss.

Although her superpower was stronger, she didn't know how to use it to break the situation. Before long, she couldn't resist it, and her energy armor was broken. She was shot several times and fell to the ground with a hiss... Although they were special blank bullets, it still hurt a lot when they hit her body.

Seeing this, Chen Gong stopped firing, and the seven people said in unison:

"Sorry, you lost."

Huang Wei stood up rubbing her sore spots, glared at Chen Gong angrily, and then walked off the ring with a face full of unwillingness.

The hundreds of spectators in the stands rioted, and many people were surprised that an A-level Huang Wei was defeated by a B-level.

"She actually lost?" Xu Lingyun was surprised.

Zhou Jing shook his head:

"It's not surprising. The potential assessment level is only used to evaluate the basic power of superpowers and predict the potential for future development. It is not used to judge comprehensive combat power. Only the ability user ratings from level one to level seven are used to judge a superhuman's comprehensive combat power.

High potential is of course advantageous, but if it is not used well, it can still be defeated by low potential. Moreover, some low-potential abilities have good immediate combat power. The one on stage who can split into clones is this type."

"Do you think I don't know that?" Xu Lingyun rolled his eyes and muttered, "I'm just thinking, will there be anyone here who can defeat Sister Yin?"

Zhou Jing paused, thought of Li Xiaoyin's exaggerated destructive power, and said uncertainly: "Uh, I don't think so..."

At this time, Chen Gong on the ring waved to everyone and issued an invitation:

"Which friend wants to come up and spar with me?"

Everyone looked at each other, face to face.

Although Chen Gong's ability was not high in potential, his immediate combat power was considerable. The seven clones had a numerical advantage and used firearms for remote suppression, which was not easy to deal with.

Many A-level awakened people also showed embarrassment and hesitation, without confidence.

"Hey, is no one going to deal with him? Then I'll go."

Seeing that no one responded, Li Xiaoyin rolled up her sleeves and was about to come on stage.

At this time, Zhou Jing held her shoulder, looked at the seven Chen Gongs on the stage with interest, and became addicted:

"You sit down, I'll go have some fun."

After saying that, without waiting for a reply, he jumped out of the exit on the side of the stand.

Bang!

With a muffled sound, Zhou Jing stepped on the ring.

Everyone's eyes immediately focused on him, and they curiously whispered to each other.

"Who is this person? Is he strong?"

"It seems to be from Xihai City."

Seeing this, the seven Chen Gongs looked at Zhou Jing, looked him up and down, and asked:

"What's your name? What potential?"

Zhou Jing twisted his neck, moved his hands and feet, and smiled, revealing his teeth:

"C-level, Zhou Jing."