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Chapter 421 Genius is genius
The left arm of Heinlein is covered with a mechanical glove above the elbow.

Judging from the functions, it has a defensive shield and energy shells, which is a very comprehensive weapon. According to the introduction, it seems that it can be combined with other lost parts to form a complete armor... Both in terms of function and potential, it is very good.

Looking at the price, he can just redeem one Class A merit plus two Class B merits.

This is it!
Luo Jun chose to exchange, and soon his merits were consumed. The system showed that the treasure would be delivered to his branch in three working days.

"This thing is good." Seeing the treasure he exchanged, Tie Jingang beside him nodded and praised: "It can defend and attack, and the consumption is not too high. It is very suitable for you now."

Luo Jun nodded, then rolled his eyes and said, "By the way, Mr. Tie, I can still turn in the treasures that I don't need, right? Can I also exchange them for a lot of merits?"

Tie Jingang nodded: "But I suggest you don't rush to sell it. After all, your hard power is indeed insufficient now. Keeping one more treasure will give you an extra guarantee."

"I want to keep more... but the grid won't allow it." Luo Jun shrugged: "When Heinlein's right hand arrives, I won't be able to fit in any more."

"I see..." Tie Jingang nodded: "Then there is a special department for treasure identification and recycling. I will take you there."

The main function of the experimental building is to provide students with a place to test their treasures and abilities, so the building is very sturdy, and inert materials were added to many places during its construction, just to allow students to play around.

Therefore, although the activity building looks very tall, it actually has only three floors above ground and one floor underground.

There are shooting ranges, testing rooms, etc. on the first floor and the basement. The space is large and the lifting racks are very high. It is somewhat similar to a gymnasium, and many students often train and test here.

The second floor is the Chaos Mission Area. Students who receive mission notifications usually come here as soon as possible. Not only does this place provide a variety of high-energy foods, but they can also rent treasures to help students complete the mission.

The third floor at the top is the exchange center.

The reason for this arrangement is to make it convenient for students to test the newly acquired treasures as soon as they return from the Chaos Mission. If they feel that they are not suitable, they can sell them in exchange for merits. At the same time, there will be a lot of treasures in reserve at the exchange office upstairs. If students have enough merits, they can even buy ready-made treasures directly from the third floor.

Of course, since Luo Jun had never participated in a chaos mission openly, he seldom came to the laboratory building and was not very familiar with the procedures there.

The exchange center is divided into the exchange area and the surrender area. The exchange area does not require much technical content, it just has a clear price tag, and you just need to scan the merits to pay for the treasure. Of course, most students use the online exchange platform to exchange. As long as you show the exchange voucher here, you can receive the treasure. Therefore, most of the people on duty here are ordinary staff.

However, in the surrender area, because the surrendered treasures need to be evaluated and priced, the surrender area is generally populated by experts who are familiar with treasures, especially refiners.

Students also jokingly call this place a pawn shop.

There are five single rooms in the surrender area, each of which is airtight. The back door will automatically lock after entering. Except for the appraisal experts, no one else knows what you have surrendered or how many merits you have earned. Generally speaking, the privacy is good.

Coincidentally, when Luo Jun and Tie Jin first arrived, the doors of all five cubicles were locked and there were several people queuing at the door.

"Is the surrender area usually so popular?" Luo Jun blinked.

“No…” Tie Jingang smiled and said, “Yesterday morning, not long after we came back, a Class C mission issued a recruitment mission, which was quite large in scale, recruiting hundreds of people in total. Many students from our school participated, and they all gained a lot when they came back, so many people came to hand in their treasures today…”

"A Class C mission..." Luo Jun nodded. He seemed to have seen this information when he was browsing the forum. It was considered news, but Luo Jun didn't pay much attention to such trivial matters. He was now a Class A player and could not receive this call-up.

Seeing Luo Jun looking thoughtful, Tie Jingang patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him, "You don't have to yearn for it. You have just reached Peiyuan Realm and you have to start with the D-level mission. You will officially start the mission this month. I believe that with your ability, you will be promoted to C-level in a few months!"

That’s not what I meant, Teacher Tie… Luo Jun complained in his heart. At this moment, one of the cubicle doors opened and a red-haired young man walked out. It was Chen Ran!

"Hey! Luo Jun!" Chen Ran came up to him and said with a smile, "Long time no see. You are on vacation now, but you didn't even treat me to a meal when you came back..."

Luo Jun thought that he had been busy for the past two days since he came back, so how could he have the time to treat you to a meal? But he could only prevaricate and say, "Do you know how tiring the internship is? Do you know what I've been through? It would be fine if you didn't reward me, but you asked me to treat you?"

“Don’t be so pretentious!” Chen Ran said with a smile, “But I don’t have time even if you invite me. I told you, I participated in that large-scale recruitment mission yesterday… You haven’t seen that big scene, oh my, it was so exciting… I completed several hidden missions in the end and got an excellent evaluation. The harvest was quite rich!”

"Really?" Seeing him so cocky, Luo Jun became interested: "What kind of mission is that?"

"It was an ancient battlefield!" Chen Ran said with a smile, "We were helping to defend an isolated city. As long as we could hold on for twelve hours, we would have completed our mission."

"It sounds okay..." Luo Jun blinked.

“Not bad?” Chen Ran curled his lips. “You didn’t see the scene. There were only a few hundred people in our city, but there were more than 100,000 soldiers attacking the city! And some of the soldiers were not just humans, but also ogres, minotaurs, and various orcs. They were so brutal! We relied on various city defense equipment, and in the end, we sacrificed almost two-thirds of our men to hold on to the last moment... But fortunately, as long as the mission is completed, we can all be resurrected in the end, otherwise hundreds of people would have died in this mission!”

“Then you are really amazing…” Tie Jingang said, “Class C missions are basically for cultivators in the Pei Yuan realm. Even if they are many times stronger than ordinary people, it is not an easy task to have hundreds of people against hundreds of thousands of people. What’s more, the opponent is a powerful race. In the city defense battle, you can’t rely on mobility to deal with it. You can only fight head-on… It is indeed not easy to win…”

"We thought we were doomed to fail." Chen Ran sighed. "Within less than an hour, another wave of reinforcements arrived from the other side, all of them were powerful races. We were all desperate at the time, but at the critical moment, a young girl stepped forward and rushed directly into the center of the enemy camp. She killed the enemy's commander in the midst of thousands of soldiers, causing great morale loss and internal chaos. In the end, we succeeded in defending the city!" "With a commander?" Luo Jun was slightly stunned. "Then why did you fight for so long? Wouldn't it be over if you killed the commander earlier?"

“We didn’t know at first!” Chen Ran spread his hands. “The commander looked like an ordinary soldier, an ordinary human being, hiding among an army of more than 100,000. No one paid attention to him after fighting for more than 10 hours. We didn’t know how the girl found him…”

"But when the girl approached the commander, the surrounding soldiers and powerful races seemed to react and began to protect him with all their strength. Only then did we realize the presence of the commander. However, no matter how many guards there were, they could not stop the girl. She rushed into the enemy camp and killed the commander as easily as cutting melons and vegetables. She cut off his head with such smooth movements that it was more exciting than a movie!"

"The commander didn't resist?" Tie Jingang asked curiously, "Is his strength also that of an ordinary soldier?"

“She must have resisted…” Chen Ran said, “I later recalled that when the girl and the commander fought, a ball of fire erupted. The commander must have been quite strong, but he was chopped down before the girl could even last a single round.”

"She's so amazing... She must not be an unknown person." Tie Jingang touched his chin: "Doesn't anyone know her origins?"

"I've never seen her before." Chen Ran shrugged. "She's pretty, but she didn't have much strength at first, and didn't attract much attention... But the girl has been working with Shi Lao Si, so she should have some connection with the Shi family in Shuncheng."

"Could it be that the Shi family of Shuncheng is secretly training masters among the clan?" Tie Jingang asked.

“I can’t really say…” Chen Ran shook his head and said, “The girl’s fighting style is sharp, and her agile movements reveal a weirdness that goes against common people’s intuition. It’s completely different from the style of the Shi family in Shuncheng… But looking at her interactions with Shi Lao Si, they seem to be very close… Not the kind of intimacy between boyfriend and girlfriend, but more like brother and sister, the kind of intimacy between childhood sweethearts who know each other well… So I can’t figure out what their relationship is…”

"Shi Lao Si? This name sounds like an old man..." Luo Jun raised his eyebrows: "Who is he?"

"He is a descendant of the Shuncheng Shi family. His full name is Shi Si, and he is the fourth child in the family, so he got this nickname." Tie Jingang explained: "The Shuncheng Shi family is a family with both martial arts and elemental talents. The elemental family is particularly good at earth elements. Combined with the martial arts talent, the Qi is particularly strong, but it is also limited by this, and the flexibility is slightly weak. It is a famous family with defensive expertise."

"It's the turtle family..." Luo Jun said with a smile.

"Everyone really says that behind our backs..." Chen Ran laughed, "On the day of our entrance exam, I saw Shi Lao Si, but I didn't see him during the fourth round of interviews. He must have been eliminated in the third round. He should have been in the Pei Yuan realm at that time, but this time he was already in the Ning Xin realm."

"I heard that he was later admitted to Tianjing University as an exception." Tie Jingang said, "The boy was very talented, but he lacked a little luck, so he never broke through the Condensed Mind Realm. Who would have thought that after failing the exam in Ningdong, he would break through when he returned, and then was asked to take away by Tianjing University."

"Although he has only recently broken through, his foundation is very solid, and the Shi family's dual talents should not be underestimated. At the exchange conference in two months, he will most likely become a member of the Tianjing delegation."

"Exchange Conference?" Chen Ran's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he patted Luo Jun on the shoulder: "I heard that this year's exchange conference was moved up. How come you were even admitted to the exchange conference?"

"Don't spread rumors!" Luo Jun waved his hand: "I'm going to fight for the spot based on my own strength this time!"

"You? Based on your strength?" Chen Ran curled his lips: "Forget it, you may not even be able to beat me!"

"Hey, you're still not convinced, right?" Luo Jun snorted coldly: "Let's have a try when we have a chance!"

"Just hit me, who's afraid of who?" Chen Ran raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a cunning look.

Luo Jun keenly noticed this detail. He suddenly remembered that when Chen Ran just started school, he was only at the Capital Realm. Now he can participate in Chaos Missions. Obviously, he has reached the Essence Training Realm... And with the talent that the eldest son of the Chen family has shown before, these two or three months will be enough for him to reach the third level of the Essence Training Realm...

"Wait... could it be that you have already concentrated your mind?" Luo Jun's face was full of surprise.

Hearing him say this, Tie Jingang also looked at Chen Ran in shock.

The son of the Chen family in Zhuque Town, his father is a top-level expert. Although his current realm is not high, his talent is obvious to all. The academy is also very concerned about this student.

"That's not the case yet." Chen Ran smiled slightly, raised his hand, and condensed a ball of Qi. Under the vision of Yuan Qi, it was jumping like a flame, and at the same time, the two people who were close to it could feel the obvious temperature.

"But I already have a strong tendency. I am confident that I can achieve concentration before the exchange conference. Don't say I bully you then!"

"This tendency is already very obvious!" Tie Jingang was surprised: "Judging from the degree of this flame simulation, you really have a great chance to achieve a breakthrough in the short term!"

After hearing Tie Jingang's words and looking at the vibrating Qi at Chen Ran's fingertips, Luo Jun frowned, looked at Chen Ran with a complicated look, then shook his head and sighed deeply.

Seeing his performance, Chen Ran was slightly stunned, retracted his inner energy, and comforted him: "I just said that. After all, the family heritage is here, and you have made rapid progress. Don't be discouraged. In time, you will definitely be able to reach Ningxin..."

"I'm not discouraged, I just feel sorry..." Luo Jun shook his head and patted Chen Ran on the shoulder: "You have such a good talent, what have you been doing before? If you had worked hard for a few years earlier, you would be the child of other families in the eyes of Mr. Lei!"

"Hey! You're playing yin and yang on me, right?" Chen Ran was immediately furious and was about to kick Luo Jun, but Luo Jun dodged nimbly. Just at this moment, a cubicle door opened and it was his turn. He slipped into the cubicle and before closing the door, he made a face at Chen Ran: "Practice well, Master Chen. We're waiting for you to attend the exchange meeting!"

(End of this chapter)