Chapter 467: A Monumental Shift
This training room is massive, roughly the size of several football fields.
Within this vast training area, various environmental simulations are set up.
As a top-tier training room, it can simulate all kinds of harsh environments and weather conditions, and it can also alter scenes.
This is achieved through formations set up by a formation master.
Additionally, the intelligent training robots require mechanical engineers to adjust their attribute parameters.
When the two mechanical engineers asked Ling Zhan how high he wanted the training target’s attributes to be adjusted.
Ling Zhan replied that 85-level equivalents would do.
This plunged everyone in the training room into silence once more.
The toughest environmental and weather conditions!
Coupled with training robots whose attributes far exceed his own by 20 levels!
This guy isn’t training—he’s treating this as actual combat!
After seeing the accommodation conditions, Yelan also stood up, hesitated slightly, and finally bowed her head, saying, "Captain, I'll take you to the Ninth Squad’s camp."
Strength commands respect.
After witnessing Ling Zhan’s instant kill of Gojou Rin, the proud Yelan finally bowed her head.
To this, Ling Zhan merely responded with a faint "Mm."
Whether Yelan bowed or not didn’t matter to him.
Because he hadn’t officially assumed the role of captain yet.
Once he officially became the captain, anyone in the Ninth Squad who dared to challenge him would face the consequences.
The decision for Ling Zhan to lead independently was personally proposed by Presidents Zhou Hongfu and Liu Huanran, and agreed upon by the principals of the top ten prestigious academies, before being submitted to the five top-tier corps commanders.
The five commanders were initially stunned by the proposal.
But after carefully reviewing all of Ling Zhan’s information, they realized he was an extraordinarily unique prodigy!
Furthermore, all the principals’ recommendations compared Ling Zhan to the future "pillar of the nation."
Such high praise was beyond the expectations of the five corps commanders.
"Heh, sending Ling Zhan, that kid, to be captain—those senior students might not easily accept that!"
The commanders’ predictions were spot on.
Known as the strongest senior year group hailed as the "Golden Year," these senior students immediately protested upon hearing that a freshman had been assigned as their captain.
But all protests were suppressed.
So now, with Ling Zhan’s arrival at the Hundred Ghosts Fortress, only the Fusang personnel, as the host, came to welcome him.
None of the other senior members of the Ninth Squad showed up.
This clearly expressed their attitude: We don't recognize a freshman as our captain!
Twenty minutes prior.
The Ninth Squad's vice-captain, Zhou Xue'er, directly led a team away from the fortress camp to undertake an emergency rescue mission at the Storm Strait, 5,000 kilometers from the Hundred Ghosts Fortress.
So when Ling Zhan arrived at the Ninth Squad’s office building.
Except for a group of third-year trainees and a few injured senior students recovering here, the other 400 senior reserves were all gone.
The few injured seniors recognized Ling Zhan when they saw him alongside Yelan.
But they remained seated, lazily sunbathing on their chairs.
Ling Zhan’s expression didn’t change; he turned and asked a third-year student about the specifics of the emergency rescue mission.
The third-year student directly explained the situation.
It turned out that 120 members of Fusang’s Seventh Squad had been trapped in the Storm Strait during a patrol mission and had requested assistance.
Yesterday, three squads had already been dispatched to the Storm Strait.
Those three support squads have yet to report back.
The upper echelons subsequently raised the rescue mission’s alert level to Grade A.
Upon receiving the news, Zhou Xue'er, vice-captain of Dragon Kingdom's Ninth Squad, took the initiative to accept the emergency rescue mission without hesitation, leading the senior members of the Ninth Squad to the Storm Strait.
The Storm Strait is within Fusang’s national borders, not outside.
Nearby is the Storm City.
Even if an accident occurred, the area’s security level wasn’t considered too high.
But with consecutive squad losses, more caution should have been exercised; anyone would sense something was amiss.
Yet Zhou Xue'er insisted on leading the team out.
Even Ling Zhan and Yelan could guess Zhou Xue'er's intentions.
She simply didn’t want to welcome Ling Zhan as the captain.
And she didn’t have a good excuse or reason.
So she used "performing a rescue mission" as a pretext to leave, leaving an empty camp for Ling Zhan to see.
This was also a way of signaling Ling Zhan.
The higher-ups might have appointed you as the captain, but I, vice-captain Zhou Xue'er, don’t acknowledge you!
Even if Ling Zhan later exerted pressure as captain, she could use "urgent military circumstances" as an excuse, leaving Ling Zhan with nothing to say.
After the third-year student finished speaking.
Ling Zhan calmly turned to glance at the injured senior students.
But the few senior students continued to sunbathe indifferently.
Acting as if they completely ignored the presence of their captain.
Yelan, standing nearby, was visibly anxious.
She wanted to tell these senior members that this freshman wasn’t what they imagined!
But she couldn’t say anything and could only watch them anxiously.
"Send me the holographic map of the Storm Strait."
"Also, apply for mission departure clearance."
Ling Zhan remained unfazed, turning to Yelan, clearly treating her as his temporary assistant.
Yelan promptly nodded.
Earlier, Ling Zhan had already received all the necessary equipment of the Ninth Squad.
Various high-tech nanotechnology smart devices.
Soon, a detailed map of the Storm Strait was transmitted to Ling Zhan’s device.
He also received approval for mission clearance from the fortress high command.
"Is this guy... planning to go to the Storm Strait too?"
Watching the departing figure of the non-specialist, an injured senior member couldn’t help but comment.
"Heh! He’s just trying to prove himself!"
"At the Storm Strait, I bet his scrawny body won’t even withstand the raging storms!"
Another senior student sneered.
"Hmph! The higher-ups must be out of their minds!"
"Even sending over other top-tier senior prodigies would be better than letting a freshman fill in!"
As these two senior members scoffed.
A nearby third-year student watched them silently.
Once this matter concludes, the Ninth Squad will likely undergo a monumental shift!