Virtual Reality Arena

"Damn, when is this enhanced training going to end?" Zhao Xin sat at the small square table in dorm room B209, shoveling hot pot with his chopsticks and complaining miserably. "I ran 1.4 million meters today!"

"1.4 million meters!" He specifically raised his chopsticks to gesture, but the last piece of meat at the bottom of the pot was scooped up by Cheng Yaowen. He quickly shouted, "Hey, hey, hey, that's mine!"

"Next Monday it'll be 1.5 million meters!" Cheng Yaowen said teasingly while stuffing the meat into his mouth. "Even that lazy bum Wei Zitong's training volume has increased recently, right?"

"Heh, it hasn't increased that much..." Wei Zitong took a sip of beer and said with a wry smile, "It's just 100 kilograms more than Qilin's..."

"Hey, I say, Zitong, when will that big armor of yours be manuf... uh, manufactured? It's been a week already!" Liu Chuang suddenly interjected, asking the question everyone wanted to ask but didn't quite dare to.

"I don't know either..." Wei Zitong shrugged helplessly. Ever since Lena comforted him in her unique way last time, his resentment towards the Dark Alloy Armor had faded, and he was starting not to care much anymore.

Having it would be good, but it wouldn't matter if he didn't. With the resources and power of a pre-nuclear civilization like Earth, forging a set of Dark Alloy Armor specifically for Super Soldiers was truly not an easy task, and Wei Zitong could understand the academy's difficulties.

Anyway, there was still some time before the real war, and he wasn't one of the frontline soldiers, so his need for Dark Alloy Armor wasn't urgent.

"Hey, it'll come, it'll come," Cheng Yaowen quickly comforted him, afraid that Wei Zitong might get upset tomorrow and cause trouble for them.

"Uh, didn't big sister Lena say she was going to take care of Zitong, and that she'd make a super awesome armor for him? Isn't she the goddess of Lieyang?" Ge Xiaolun quickly chimed in.

He was now wholeheartedly focused on trying to get Wei Zitong and Lena together, even more so than Wei Zitong and Lena themselves. The main reason was that he had seen Du Qiangwei's face turn purple with anger after hearing Lena's grand declaration, so he really wanted Wei Zitong and Lena to confirm their relationship, to make Du Qiangwei give up.

Wei Zitong naturally understood Ge Xiaolun's intentions and couldn't help but think to himself, "If I really wanted to get together with Du Qiangwei, don't you know there was a place called the 'harem' in ancient China? Don't you know there are men called 'scumbags' in this world?"

"Hey, speaking of which, Sister Na seems to favor Zitong quite a bit, it makes me so envious!" Zhao Xin quickly joined the conversation, then turned to Wei Zitong and asked, "Zitong, tell us, how did you do it?"

"Heh, don't take it seriously, she was just comforting me!" Wei Zitong shook his head and said. In his past life, he was also a loser similar to Zhao Xin and the others, so what could he say?

"Tch, if you don't want to say it, then don't!" Zhao Xin said with disdain. "If it was just comfort, would she comfort you like that? Why doesn't she come comfort me? Even Qilin would do!"

"Hahahaha!" Everyone burst into laughter.

Just then, everyone's phones vibrated a few times. They exchanged glances, all understanding that this was likely some kind of notification, otherwise, it wouldn't be so synchronized.

Wei Zitong took out his phone and saw it was indeed an official announcement from the academy: "Notice: All students of the Super Seminary Class are to assemble at the Virtual Reality Arena building of the academy at 8:30 tomorrow morning."

"Wow, the Virtual Reality Arena, what are they doing with all this sci-fi stuff?" Zhao Xin exclaimed.

"Playing games?" Ge Xiaolun asked uncertainly, looking at everyone.

"Playing what crap!" Cheng Yaowen shook his head and said, "Would they let you play games in the Super Seminary if it was just for games?"

"By the way, do any of you know where this Virtual Reality Arena is?" Liu Chuang quickly asked.

"Nope!" The three buddies from dorm room B210 shook their heads repeatedly.

Glancing at the utterly clueless Wuji Yi, Liu Chuang shifted his gaze directly to Wei Zitong. If anyone here knew the location of the Virtual Reality Arena, it was most likely the good student Wei Zitong.

"Alright, I know!" Wei Zitong said, "Everyone get some rest early, I'll take you there tomorrow morning!"

Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Zhao Xin immediately shouted, "Alright, alright, let's pack up!"

The next morning, Wei Zitong was the first one out of bed. When he went to the balcony to wash up, he saw Lena also washing up on the balcony of the girls' dorm across the way.

"Morning, my little horse!" Lena greeted him with a smile.

"Shameless!" Qilin also walked out, looking at Lena with disdain.

"It's better than some people secretly looking at old photos of others and fantasizing behind their backs!" Lena retorted casually, rolling her eyes.

"You, you actually..." Qilin's face turned red with anger.

"Stop arguing, you two scared him away!" Du Qiangwei walked onto the balcony and said sarcastically.

Lena and Qilin turned their heads at her words and saw that Wei Zitong was no longer on the balcony of dorm room B209. Only Liu Chuang, yawning, emerged.

Seeing the three beautiful women on the opposite side all looking his way, Liu Chuang quickly greeted them with a simple smile. However, he received three eye-rolls, which greatly annoyed him. He turned and shouted into the dorm, "Hey, Zitong, three beautiful ladies are waiting for you!"

Wei Zitong put on his clothes, haphazardly wiped the water off his face, and said, "Chuangzi, hurry up, I'm going to the next door to wake up those three buddies!"

"You're the gay one, your whole family is gay!" Zhao Xin rushed in, pinning Wei Zitong down and started punching and kicking him. "We've been up for a long time!"

"Exactly!" Cheng Yaowen, who followed closely behind Zhao Xin, also looked indignant and took the opportunity to land a few kicks, as such opportunities were rare.

Wei Zitong struggled to cope. Compared to a mobile close-combat fighter like Zhao Xin, he was still far inferior without using his abilities. He quickly begged for mercy, "Okay, okay, okay, I was wrong, Brother Xin, stop hitting me..."

"I'll beat you to death, you damn gay!" Zhao Xin seemed to have accumulated a lot of resentment and was hitting with particular vigor. But when he saw an orange-yellow ball of light appear before his eyes, he was so scared that his soul flew out of his body. He immediately scrambled down, and the ball of light flew over his head, hitting Ge Xiaolun, who had just walked into the doorway of dorm room B209...

Ge Xiaolun, completely bewildered, was sent flying out of the dormitory building by the ball of light. The ball of light then exploded, followed by Ge Xiaolun's furious curses!

"Damn it, who did I, Grandpa Lun, offend? I got blown up first thing in the morning!"

Zhao Xin got up from the ground, looking innocent, and said, "It's not my fault!"

"It's not my fault either!" Cheng Yaowen quickly followed suit, shirking responsibility.

"It's just bad luck for Xiaolun!" Wei Zitong patted the dust off himself and said, "Look at the dark circles under your eyes, you stayed up all night, didn't you? No wonder your reactions are so slow!"

"Damn it, Brother Xin's reaction was very fast!" Zhao Xin quickly retorted. Then he scratched his head and said, "It's rare that we don't have training the next day, so I played a few games to my heart's content..."

"Right, right, right!" Cheng Yaowen also nodded.

When everyone arrived at the Virtual Reality Arena building, Ryze the Wanderer, Miss, and Jace were already waiting there.

Zhao Xin, under the threatening gaze of Lena and the other girls, quickly hid behind Wei Zitong. Cheng Yaowen pretended to be nonchalant, but his palms were sweating. Only Ge Xiaolun looked utterly unlucky.

"Everyone's here?" Ryze the Wanderer ceremoniously counted heads, though it was obvious at a glance and didn't need counting. He smiled and said, "Children, after so many days of training, I believe you have all grown. Now, Teacher Miss will introduce you to the rules and regulations of the Virtual Reality Arena."

Miss nodded, stepping forward with a smile. Her voice was soft and pleasant. "Good morning, students. I am Miss, your teacher responsible for scientific research support. I will now go over the detailed rules of the Virtual Reality Arena for everyone..."

From Miss's explanation, everyone learned that this Virtual Reality Arena was also a product of extraterrestrial technology, far superior to Earth's crudely made VR technology.

This was a highly advanced neural interface technology. By switching the brain's perception of nerves, it achieved the effect of entering a virtual scene. Here, all information was transmitted into the brain through the neural interface system, including sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

All sensations were virtual, yet also real, because these feelings had genuinely been transmitted to the brain. This made Wei Zitong think of the "Brain in a Vat" story. He couldn't help but wonder if his current sensations were real.

Due to the overwhelming realism, psychological damage sustained within the arena would carry over into the real world. Therefore, the academy had established a series of usage guidelines. Miss spent more than half the morning explaining them.

"Alright, has everyone remembered?" Miss smiled, scanning the crowd. Seeing their bewildered expressions, she added, "It's okay if you didn't remember everything. There will be system notifications once you enter. Also, Instructor Jace will accompany you into the arena. He will supervise your actions as the system administrator."