Abyss invasion? As a demon cultivator, I laughed.

After returning from Yuancheng, Chu Xiu's life finally entered a rare period of peace.

When I get up in the morning, I open the door and smell the aroma of the steamed buns and fried dough sticks bought by Chu's mother.

Sometimes his mother was in a hurry to go to work and didn't buy anything, so he would take some change from the coin bag at the door, go to the shop downstairs and order freshly made rice rolls, add two eggs, sprinkle with a little soy sauce, and just sit there. On the roadside, I watched busy people walking out of the building one after another, eating steaming rice rolls leisurely.

The occasional whistle sound is a bit annoying, but compared to the dangerous abyss, these little noises are nothing.

Of course, Chu Xiu was not idle either.

When his parents were away, he would go into the abyss to practice, hone his fighting skills and his proficiency in controlling the blood demon incarnation.

Karma points are a good thing. They can bring a lot of practice experience and progress to the awakened person without any side effects, but this does not mean that the awakened person does not need to actually practice.

Just like in the same game, the skills and attributes of the same character used by every player are the same, but the combat effectiveness finally exerted by professional and ordinary players is completely different. The understanding of skills and the appropriate use of them It is very important to develop skills, develop tactics that you need to survive, and be able to react in time without thinking.

Moreover, Chu Xiu felt that cultivation itself was a kind of tempering of one's will and mentality.

"In the past, it took decades of hard work for practitioners to finally accumulate and achieve some minor breakthroughs. But now, with the help of cause and effect points, awakened practitioners can achieve more than a dozen achievements in a month. Years of hard training.”

"Although the causal point is theoretically speaking, just skipping the process of self-cultivation will not bring any side effects, but this kind of power gained too quickly will inevitably cause a mental imbalance and lead to an unstable foundation."

Chu Xiu was very aware of this, so even if the training in the past few days did not help his combat power much, he still did not relax at all and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the training of his body.

Facts have proved that Chu Xiu's intuition was correct. After enduring his impatience and wanting to practice, he felt that his foundation was much more stable, which made him even more afraid to slack off.

It is worth mentioning that he also told Qin Xiang about the soul box.

This attracted Qin Xiang's great attention.

Chu Xiu didn't know the specific process. He only knew that even Yaizhen was alarmed and personally came out to investigate. Anyway, the final result was that all those probing eyes disappeared.

This gave Chu Xiu a rare opportunity to live a carefree and leisurely life.

Being able to eat meals cooked by his parents every day, watching the neighbor's children play skipping in the park downstairs, and the old man doing Tai Chi leisurely, made his fierce personality much calmer.

Ten days later.

Chu Xiu sat in the bedroom, surging spiritual power surging in his body.

"call--"

With a long breath, the restless spiritual power calmed down and was hidden in Chu Xiu's body again.

He opened his eyes, a look of enlightenment flashing in his eyes.

"This Infinite Reincarnation Technique is really wonderful. It can be practiced with the help of killing evil and meritorious deeds, so that it can ensure a good cultivation speed even in the last days of cultivation when spiritual energy is scarce."

Chu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief. Every time he practiced, his understanding of the Infinite Reincarnation Art would deepen. Although the digital power allowed him to directly upgrade his level, Chu Xiu believed that it was still necessary to be familiar with the skills he majored in. Law.

At the same time, he also understood why the cultivators of immortality were so powerful, but the awakened ones of the profession of cultivating immortals were very weak.

"Today is the end of the world for cultivating immortals, or the world level of Blue Star is too low, lacks spiritual energy, and the difficulty of cultivation is too great. Similarly, the experience required to upgrade to a level of cultivating immortals may be several times that of other professions."

"The spiritual materials required to refine magic weapons and practice magical powers are also very few. Under such circumstances, it is naturally inferior to other professions."

Feeling emotional in his heart, Chu Xiu slowly stopped and stood up, opened the door and walked out.

Father Chu and Mother Chu were already dressed and waiting for him outside the door.

Today is the day when the memorial service will be held.

Jiangcheng is not big, and some information can spread throughout the city very quickly. This time so many people died in the abyss at once, even families without children in school have basically heard about it, and the entire residential building is solemn. .

Even Chu’s father, who has no legs, insisted on attending in a wheelchair.

Chu Xiu actually didn't quite understand this. If someone else's child died, it didn't concern him. What was there to be sad about?

Especially when the whole city was in pain, he was even more surprised. Those old bachelors in the factory would most likely never have children in their lifetime, but they would still offer comfort to mothers who had lost their children. Words of blessing.

"This is probably the simple empathy ability of ordinary people. No, it is not that simple. It is also mixed with the emotions of family, country and nation."

Chu Xiu pushed his father's wheelchair and walked along the street, thinking secretly in his heart.

Looking at the flowers that the citizens spontaneously placed on the roadside, he was slightly touched in his heart.

The closer you get to the school, the more people look sad. From time to time you can even see someone standing by the roadside sobbing, and most of the time there will be a few people around to comfort them.

Chu's father and Chu's mother met an acquaintance on the road. She was the mother of a boy in the next class whom Chu Xiu had met a few times but didn't know his name. But Chu's father and Chu's mother seemed to be very familiar with her.

Chu Xiu learned from the conversation that when he was in the abyss, these parents would gather together to share the latest news. They also had a special group. If the child of a parent returned first, it would immediately become the focus of the crowd, and every parent would rush to ask for the news.

Chu's father and mother were familiar with the woman because her son, like Chu Xiu, was an auxiliary profession in the rear.

The boy died in the disaster.

Chu's father and mother said comforting words, but the mother was absent-minded. She glanced at Chu Xiu standing behind Chu's father, and quickly looked away after just one look. Her face became more gloomy. Chu's father and mother looked at each other, dared not say more, and hurriedly said goodbye and left.

The whole morning was spent in this dull atmosphere. Every time Chu's mother talked to someone, she would advise Chu Xiu not to enter the abyss again and find a factory to work honestly.

And near noon, the memorial service finally officially began.

Chu Xiu stood in the crowd of students, Zhang Qingshan and Chu Qin were beside him, and behind him were a sea of ​​first and second year high school students.

The principal personally held a memorial ceremony. As the prayer sounded, Chu Xiu noticed that Zhang Qingshan's fist beside him unconsciously clenched. Chu Qin reached out and gently held his hand.

Chu Xiu remembered that he had also attended a similar memorial service not long after they entered school. That time was not a misfortune in the abyss, but a crack in the abyss suddenly opened in the east of the city. Although most of the abyss monsters were smashed by the dense artillery system, a few broke through the defense line and accidentally broke into a temporary shelter, causing thousands of casualties.

At that time, Qingshan seemed to be clenching his fists like now, but compared with the grief and unwillingness in his eyes today, there was more of a passion to change something.

After the moment of silence, Chu Xiu heard Zhang Qingshan's voice in his ear: "A Chu, what are you going to do next?"

Chu Xiu paused and said: "My mother wants me to find a factory to see if my professional talent can help."

"Well, if the family members don't object, your talent is quite suitable for the funeral home." Zhang Qingshan made a somewhat stiff joke.

"What about you?" Chu Xiu asked.

"I want to join the army." Zhang Qingshan didn't hesitate at all.     "Join the army? Haven't you already joined the army?" Chu Xiu glanced slightly.

"Not quite the same, I am now just a representative of the government, exploring and presiding over affairs in the world of corpse ghosts. In essence, I am still an ordinary awakener."

"When I say join the army, I mean to go to the front line against the abyss rift."

Zhang Qingshan said with a firm tone, as if he had thought it over for a long time.

"The first line against the abyss rift?" Chu Xiu said softly.

Abyssal rifts refer to the time-space gaps that appear on Blue Star from time to time and connect to a certain abyss. Every time, a large number of abyssal creatures emerge from them. They are the main threat to human survival. Even if governments of various countries invest a lot of money to build defenses every year, it is difficult to completely prevent the damage caused by abyssal creatures to humans.

What's worse is that Qin Xiang once told Chu Xiu that Blue Star is gradually sinking into the abyss.

As the depth in the abyss decreases, future awakeners will encounter more and more difficult trials, and may even encounter some unknown existences that have never been recorded before during the exploration process.

For ordinary people, the most intuitive feeling is that the frequency and intensity of abyssal rifts have been growing rapidly in recent years.

However, perhaps because of the theory that "civilization can fight against the abyss", the abyssal rifts that appear directly on Blue Star are currently just "small fights".

It may break countless families overnight, but it cannot shake the foundation of human survival.

The real threat is those [fixed abyssal rifts].

Normally, there are signs before the abyss rifts appear, and detection instruments can be used to predict them in advance. When the energy fluctuation reaches its peak, a space-time gap will be briefly split, and the gap will usually only exist for five to fifteen minutes.

This allows humans to take good precautions in advance.

But [fixed abyss rifts] refer to the kind of abyss rifts that exist permanently and humans do not know how to close.

These rifts usually exist in valleys and deserts that are rarely visited by people, and the largest [fixed abyss rifts] discovered so far are on the moon and Mars!

The scale of abyss creatures emerging from these abyss rifts is tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of times that of ordinary rifts! Every year, a large number of soldiers die in battle against these abyss creatures, and they are undoubtedly the first line against the abyss!

"I want to go to the front-line base on Mars."

"The living environment on Mars is very poor, and it is difficult to obtain supplies. Only awakened people have the ability to fight on it!" Zhang Qingshan said.

"Hmm" Chu Xiu did not say anything.

The frontline of the battlefield is always the place where you grow and develop the fastest.

Not only can you hone your combat skills between life and death every day, but you also have the highest level of resources tilted, and the entire country is its backing, providing almost unlimited support.

It can even be said that the growth rate on the frontline is much faster than exploring in the world of corpse ghosts!

Of course, the danger also increases exponentially, which is completely two concepts.

Chu Xiu was not surprised that his friend would make such a decision. After all, Zhang Qingshan was not the kind of person who was incited by emotions and got carried away by the moment. Instead, he would seriously think about the rationality of his ideals and how to achieve them.

It is impossible for such a person to be afraid of retreating after suffering some setbacks in the abyss. They will only remember the lessons and move forward harder.

It's just that as a good friend of the other party, Chu Xiu really didn't want the other party to be so aggressive. He didn't want to hear the bad news of his friend's death when he returned from the abyss one day.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of the mother whose son died that he had met outside school. Chu Xiu unconsciously replaced the face full of sadness and silence with the face of Zhang Qingshan's mother. Unavoidably, he was a little touched in his heart. The family grew up together, and Zhang's mother and Zhang's father cared a lot about him. Chu Xiu didn't want to see that scene.

"Have you told your uncle and aunt?" Chu Xiu asked.

"Said."

"They didn't object?"

"Yes, but they will still support me, as they always have."

"What about Chu Qin? What should she do?"

"She's coming with me."

"Do you have the heart to take her on an adventure with you?"

"Hey, Ah Chu, what are you talking about?" Chu Qin's dissatisfied voice sounded from the side. She held Zhang Qingshan's hand and glared at Chu Xiu displeasedly: "You talk like I'm some vase with no opinion. The decision to join the army was my own. Even if I die outside, it has nothing to do with Qingshan. "

"I support Aoyama, not because he is my boyfriend, but because his ideals are also my ideals."

Chu Qin's words were immediately silenced by Chu Xiuqian, and it took a long time before he showed a wry smile.

He originally wanted to rely on Chu Qin to persuade Qingshan, but now he can only say that this pair is really a good match.

The relationship between them is far more than just a man and woman attracted by hormones, but a comrade-in-arms with a common philosophy.

"So Achu, what do you say?" Chu Qin asked with a smile, "You are not a combat professional, so you definitely can't go to the front line with us. Even if you want to go, we will stop you, but you must work honestly. It’s not quite like your character.”

Chu Xiu hesitated for a moment, but still smiled and said: "People will change. I have seen too many deaths, and I don't want to take risks anymore."

He knew that the two of them actually wanted him to join the army together, but there were too many secrets hidden in him, and it was impossible to join any organization. It was in his best interest to maintain a free identity that did not attract anyone's attention like now.

When he finished speaking, a look of disappointment flashed in Zhang Qingshan's eyes, but it quickly disappeared, replaced by a bit of relief, and he smiled: "This is good, if something happens to me, you will take care of me at home, and you will also take care of me." He is the second son in our family.”

People are complicated. On the one hand, Qingshan hopes that Chu Xiu can remember their childhood ideals and fight for them together. On the other hand, he doesn’t want Chu Xiu to fall into danger. Chu Xiu’s choice to stay in the relatively safe rear is considered a right move. decision.

The two didn't say anything more. Chu Xiu patted Qingshan and Chu Qin heavily on the shoulders: "Please take care of yourself."

"Okay," Zhang Qingshan seemed to know that it might take a long time for the two of them to see each other again, or they might never see each other again. His expression was quite moved, but he didn't say much, and just said: "You also Take care of yourself."

Amidst the closing music of the memorial service, the three said goodbye to each other and walked in two different directions.

In the days that followed, Chu Xiu practiced even harder.

The conversation with Qingshan touched his heart. Although he did not have great ideals like Qingshan, he also hoped to prepare for a rainy day and have enough power before the disaster happened.

Just like that, another few days passed.

The day has finally come when the cool-down period ends.

"After replacing the items with causal points to upgrade, start the Old Days Trial immediately."

With his mind set, Chu Xiu no longer hesitated and returned to the world of zombies.