Chapter 155: Taking the Girl Flying
When the elevator descended to the Abyss Plaza, Li Mu could see three magnificent gates.
Written above them were, respectively: Wanren Military District, Spirit Dragon Military District, and Red Horse Military District.
These were the three great Military Districts of Linyuan City, with Wanren Military District being the largest among them.
Li Mu’s Tiger Roar Camp had now expanded to six camps and more than six thousand people. Among them, nearly three thousand had been transferred over from Wanren Military District.
Adding Li Mu’s original one thousand two hundred soldiers, as well as over a thousand High School Reserve Force members...The rest were all from Pearl Military District and Red Moon Military District.
An Xing personally brought Li Mu to complete the Temporary Transfer registration.
Li Mu’s Technological Watch could now access the map of Wanren Military District.
He could also accept missions in Wanren Military District now.
Li Mu wanted to wander around by himself for a while, so he let An Xing go handle his own matters first.
After sending him away, Li Mu went straight to the mission window in the Base Hall.
The young woman working at the window said with a pleasant smile, “Good afternoon. Are you here to accept a mission?”
Li Mu immediately found it amusing.
Why did that line sound like something an NPC would say?
“Mm. Are there any Blind-Zone Exploration missions above Eighth Grade?”
“I want to accept one by myself and head out now.”
While the young woman’s little mouth opened slightly in surprise, she gestured for Li Mu to scan his Technological Watch over the identification area so she could check his information.
At the same time, she reminded him, “Blind zones at that level are all extremely dangerous, and there are relatively few teams above Eighth Grade.”
“Would you like me to contact other teams for you, so that you can agree on a time and act together?”
Although Wanren Military District had many people, the lowest-level Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade soldiers were still the majority.
Sixth and Seventh Grade soldiers were already considered the middle tier.
Eighth and Ninth Grade soldiers already belonged to the top combat forces, and there were not many of them.
If someone wanted to gather a Squad in a short time to carry out the same mission, they had to rely on the base to help bring people together.
However, before the young woman could finish speaking, her body suddenly trembled.
Her eyes looked at Li Mu in shock.
The information on the computer showed that the eighteen-year-old youth before her had actually reached the rank of Tiger Marquis!
Moreover, he was only 100 Merit away from being promoted to Mid Tiger Marquis!
An eighteen-year-old Mid Tiger Marquis?
And she had still wanted to arrange teammates for him?
“Thank you, but there is no need. I will go out for a stroll by myself. I will be careful.”
Li Mu smiled and signaled for her to quickly handle the mission acceptance for him.
The young woman hurriedly nodded, then efficiently began preparing the procedure.
However, Li Mu’s gaze swept aside and happened to land on the large mission screen. He immediately stopped her.
“Wait!”
The young woman quickly stopped.
Li Mu pointed at the screen and asked, “This Researcher Exploration Escort Mission, is it from the Research Institute?”
“Yes. This is a mission our researchers applied for escort protection for, and it also counts as Blind-Zone Exploration,” the young woman explained.
“Show me who the applicants are.”
After Li Mu said that, the young woman opened the detailed list.
Li Mu was instantly amused.
Wang Yinhuan was impressively on the list. What Wang Yinhuan had applied for was specimen collection in an Eighth Grade area, requiring two female soldiers above Eighth Grade to accompany her.
There was even a parenthetical note added to it, clearly stating that they had to be female soldiers!
Moreover, this mission had not been posted today. It showed that it had already been posted for four days.
Yet no one had accepted it.
Clearly, Wang Yinhuan had a psychological issue and could not coexist with male soldiers.
But those female soldiers did not have such a problem. Eighth Grade Martial Artists usually formed teams through personal relationships. They would generally find a few acquaintances to head out together.
Gathering four or five people offered a greater safety factor.
How could there just happen to be two female soldiers left alone who were also willing to bring along a weaker burden into an Eighth Grade area?
Li Mu remembered that Wang Yinhuan had once said that their research projects here were as numerous as ox hairs.
For more than half of those topics, if they wanted to gain a deeper understanding, the researchers had to carry out on-site surveys themselves.
One could imagine that Wang Yinhuan’s situation was definitely not very good.
Li Mu said to the young woman, “Wait a moment.”
Then he walked to the side, took out his phone, and called Wang Yinhuan.
The call was quickly answered.
Wang Yinhuan’s slightly surprised and sweet voice came from the other side. “Hello?”
“Does someone need to go to an Eighth Grade area to collect specimens?”
“Ah?? How did you know??”
Wang Yinhuan first froze, then asked in surprise.
“I have arrived. I am in the Wanren Military District Base Hall right now. I just happen to want to go play around in an Eighth Grade area for a while. Are you going?”
Li Mu’s tone was very casual.
Not far away, the young woman at the counter, who had pricked up her ears and happened to hear him, went completely numb.
The corners of her eyes twitched a few times.
Going to an Eighth Grade area... to play around for a while!?
What an extremely niche way to describe it!
“I am! Of course I am. Wait for me. I will come find you right away!”
Wang Yinhuan immediately replied happily.
After hanging up, Li Mu had the young woman accept this mission for him.
In any case, this mission required the applicant’s approval. The young woman did not need to doubt anything and directly activated the mission.
On Wang Yinhuan’s side, she confirmed the mission almost instantly.
Li Mu then walked toward the main entrance. He had only stood there for a short while when Wang Yinhuan came jogging over.
She stood before Li Mu, panting softly, gathering her hair as she looked at him with a bright smile.
Now, she was no longer like she had been at the beginning, when she had not even dared look at Li Mu.
Li Mu had even held her while riding a horse before. Now, she actually wanted to look at Li Mu more.
“When did you arrive?”
“I just got here. Let us go...”
Li Mu smiled and pointed his chin toward the direction of the Teleportation Gate.
As the two of them walked, Li Mu teased her.
“Your mission was posted for four days and no one accepted it. You could not even get out, yet you still said you wanted to take me sightseeing?”
Wang Yinhuan pursed her lips and smiled, with a hint of reproach in her tone.
“I said I would take you to see the scenery of Linyuan City, not the scenery of the Abyss.”
“Who would have the mood to admire scenery in the Abyss? Being constantly on edge is already more than enough.”
Li Mu was puzzled.
“Speaking of which, after I gave you those pills two days ago, I watched you rush up to Seventh Grade.”
“With your strength, can you still not freely enter and leave Eighth Grade areas?”
Li Mu was not deliberately making things difficult for her.
So far, apart from Li Mu himself, Wang Yinhuan was the person he had fed the most pills to.
Both Qi-Gathering Pills and Body-Fortifying Pills had been given to her at the maximum limit of four each.
She had also received four Earthvein Spirit Blossom Pills.
Her Seventh Grade cultivation was absolutely not hollow swelling. It was even more solid than genuine solidity itself.
Logically speaking, she should be invincible among those of the same grade, and she should also be able to easily defeat Eighth Grade opponents.
Wang Yinhuan immediately blushed somewhat, but this time, it was from guilt.
“I... will work hard.”
When Li Mu said this about her, she took it to heart. She knew she had let down Li Mu’s pills.
She had not been particularly skilled in battle to begin with, and the pets she had taken in were entirely because of the affinity between her talent and the pets.
On top of that, she had spent a great deal of time and energy on research.
She truly had strength but did not know how to bring it out properly.
Once Li Mu asked her this, she immediately resolved in her heart that she would definitely work hard on combat in the future.
She could not always be a burden who needed others to protect her.
Moreover, she did not tell Li Mu about her grievances.
That was because her current position in the Research Institute was very awkward.
Although her mentors treated her well, and her colleagues could still be considered barely harmonious, the others could occasionally go out to collect samples.
Only she, because she could not accept contact with male soldiers and only requested female soldiers to protect her, was fundamentally unable to go out and collect samples.
This made her seem like an outsider.
She had become a typical example of someone who only “talked war on paper,” and it was inevitable that people around her would point fingers at her.
They felt that she was putting on an act.
But the key point was that she simply could not be alone with male soldiers in the wilderness. It was not as though she spoke coldly to her male colleagues.
On the contrary, she had always been correcting her own problems, smiling at and caring about everyone.
Yet she still suffered a great deal of emotional bullying for no reason.
This left her with grievances she could not voice.
That was right. Why could she not properly improve her combat power and protect herself?
As long as she was strong enough, she could go wherever she wanted to collect samples, and she would not need to beg anyone.
In the past, her strength had been too poor, so she had no way to consider this option.
But Li Mu had already given her a boost in strength.
It was time for her to grow!
Thinking of this, Wang Yinhuan secretly encouraged herself.
Yinhuan, you can do it!
Li Mu saw that Wang Yinhuan had fallen silent after speaking.
When he looked at her, he discovered that her eyes had gone blank, and her face alternated between red and pale.
Even if he were beaten to death, he would never have imagined how much internal drama had been triggered by one casual sentence from him.
The two of them arrived at Gate Twenty-One. Li Mu took Wang Yinhuan’s hand and stepped inside.
Light flashed.
The two of them had already appeared in a primordial jungle.
The enormous towering ancient trees in the distance did not look like creatures from Earth at all. They were several hundred meters tall!
Any one of them would take at least several dozen people joining hands to encircle!
The already dim light could only spread through the Abyss’s unique method.
However, the large area where Li Mu and Wang Yinhuan were standing had no obstructions.
All kinds of shrubs had been cleared away, and the towering ancient trees had been destroyed and felled. Some had already withered and turned into rotten wood.
Wang Yinhuan took the initiative to explain.
“This is the Teleportation Area. Teleportation safety must be ensured, so open ground has to be cleared to guarantee an unobstructed line of sight.”
Li Mu nodded to show that he understood.
He dug into his ear and drew out the Ghostface Cudgel, then took out the Size-Shifting Cloak and draped it over himself.
“Come on. Let us go up and look at the terrain first.”
Li Mu pointed upward.
Wang Yinhuan froze. “Up? Onto the trees? Ah...!”
Before she could finish speaking, it directly turned into a cry of surprise.
Li Mu had already wrapped an arm around her waist, and her whole body soared into the air. At some point, a white cloud had drifted beneath their feet.
Li Mu was actually holding her while stepping on the white cloud, flying straight into the sky!