Virtual Reality Arena

"Damn, how long were we supposed to keep up this enhanced training?" Zhao Xin sat at the small square table in B209 Dorm Room, fishing food from the hotpot with his chopsticks as he complained miserably. "I ran 1.4 million meters today!"

"1.4 million!" He even raised his chopsticks to gesture, only for Cheng Yaowen to snatch away the last piece of meat from the pot. He immediately shouted, "Hey, hey, hey! That was mine!"

"Next Monday, it'll be 1.5 million meters!" Cheng Yaowen teased as he stuffed the meat into his mouth. "Even Zi Tong, our resident slacker, has had his training load increased lately, right?"

"Heh, it hasn't increased by much..." Wei Zitong took a sip of beer and said with a bitter smile, "Just two hundred pounds more than Qilin's..."

"Hey, Zi Tong, when's that big armor of yours going to be devel—well, you know, finished? It's already been a week!" Liu Chuang suddenly cut into the conversation, asking what everyone wanted to ask but did not quite dare to.

"I don't know either..." Wei Zitong shrugged helplessly. Ever since Lena had comforted him in her own unconventional way last time, his resentment toward the Dark Alloy Armor had gradually faded. By now, he did not care that much anymore.

It would naturally be good if he had it, but it did not matter if he did not. With the resources and capabilities of a Pre-nuclear Civilization like Earth, crafting a set of Dark Alloy Armor exclusively for a Super Soldier was no easy task. Wei Zitong understood the academy's difficulties.

In any case, there was still some time before the real war began. He was not a soldier fighting on the front lines, so his need for Dark Alloy Armor was not particularly urgent.

"It'll come, it'll come," Cheng Yaowen quickly reassured him, afraid that Wei Zitong might get upset tomorrow and pull some stunt on them.

"Um, didn't Lena say she wanted to support Zi Tong? She even said she'd make him a ridiculously awesome suit of armor. Isn't she the Goddess of that Blazing Sun place?" Ge Xiaolun hurriedly chimed in.

Right now, he was wholly focused on getting Wei Zitong and Lena together. He was even more anxious than the two of them. Mainly because last time, when Du Qiangwei heard Lena's bold declaration, her face had turned purple with anger. So he really wanted Wei Zitong and Lena to make things official and make Du Qiangwei give up.

Wei Zitong naturally saw through Ge Xiaolun's intentions and could not help grumbling inwardly, If I really wanted something with Du Qiangwei, don't you know there was a place called a "harem" in ancient Huaxia? Don't you know there's a kind of man in this world called a "scumbag"?

"Hey, you know, Sister Na really seems to favor Zi Tong. I'm jealous as hell!" Zhao Xin quickly joined in. Then he turned to Wei Zitong and asked, "Zi Tong, tell us bros, how did you pull it off?"

"Haha, don't take it seriously. She was just comforting me!" Wei Zitong shook his head. In his previous life, he had been just as much of a loser as Zhao Xin and the others. What could he possibly say?

"Tch, fine, don't tell us!" Zhao Xin said with a look of disdain. "If she was just comforting you, would she comfort you like that? Why doesn't she come comfort me? She could ravish me too!"

"Hahahaha!" Everyone burst into laughter.

Just then, everyone's phones vibrated several times. They exchanged glances and immediately understood that it was most likely some kind of notice. Otherwise, they would not have all received it so simultaneously.

Wei Zitong took out his phone and looked. As expected, it was an official academy announcement: "Notice: All students of the Super God Class are to assemble at the academy's Virtual Reality Arena building at 8:30 tomorrow morning."

"Whoa, a Virtual Reality Arena? What were they planning to do with something so sci-fi?" Zhao Xin exclaimed.

"Play games?" Ge Xiaolun looked at everyone uncertainly.

"Play my ass!" Cheng Yaowen shook his head. "Would they bring you to the Super Seminary just to play games?"

"Say, do any of you know where this Virtual Reality Arena is?" Liu Chuang hurriedly asked.

"Nope!" The three gay bros from B210 Dorm shook their heads repeatedly.

After glancing at the utterly confused Wuji Yi, Liu Chuang directly turned his gaze toward Wei Zitong. If anyone here knew the location of the Virtual Reality Arena, it was probably only Wei Zitong, the good student.

"All right, I know," Wei Zitong said. "Get some rest early. I'll take you there tomorrow morning!"

Everyone could not help sighing in relief. Zhao Xin immediately started shouting, "All right, all right, clean up!"

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

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

"You really have no shame!" Qilin walked out as well, glaring at Lena with disdain.

"That's still better than certain people secretly fantasizing over someone else's old photos behind their backs!" Lena rolled her eyes and retorted casually.

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

"Stop arguing. You've already scared him off!" Du Qiangwei walked onto the balcony and said mockingly.

Lena and Qilin turned their heads at those words. Sure enough, Wei Zitong was already gone from the balcony of B209 Dorm Room across from them. Only Liu Chuang remained, walking out with a yawn.

When Liu Chuang saw the three beauties across from him all looking his way, he quickly gave them a foolish grin and greeting. To his surprise, he received three eye rolls, leaving him utterly depressed. He turned toward the dorm room and shouted, "Hey, Zi Tong, three gorgeous girls are waiting for you!"

Wei Zitong got dressed, casually wiped the water off his face, and said, "Chuangzi, hurry up. I'm going next door to wake up those three gay bros!"

"You're the gay bro! Your whole family is gay bros!" Zhao Xin charged in with a single stride, pinned Wei Zitong down, and began raining punches and kicks on him. "We've been up for ages!"

"Exactly!" Cheng Yaowen, who came in right behind Zhao Xin, wore an indignant expression as well. He even took the opportunity to sneak in a few kicks amid the chaos. After all, chances like this were rare.

Wei Zitong struggled awkwardly. Compared to a mobile close-combat fighter like Zhao Xin, he was still far inferior without using his abilities. He hurriedly begged for mercy. "All right, all right, all right, I was wrong, Xin Ye, stop hitting me..."

"I'll beat you to death, you damn gay bro!" Zhao Xin seemed to have built up quite a bit of resentment and was hitting him with particular enthusiasm. But when he saw an orange Light Orb appear before his eyes, he was scared out of his wits. He immediately dropped flat to the ground. The Light Orb flew over his head and struck Ge Xiaolun, who had just entered B209 Dorm Room...

Ge Xiaolun was sent flying backward out of the dormitory building by the Light Orb with a baffled expression. Only then did it explode, followed immediately by Ge Xiaolun's furious curses!

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

Zhao Xin climbed up from the floor with an innocent look. "Not my fault!"

"Not mine either!" Cheng Yaowen immediately followed suit, shifting the blame.

"Xiaolun was just unlucky!" Wei Zitong patted the dust off himself and said, "Look at those dark circles under your eyes. You stayed up all night, didn't you? No wonder your reactions are so slow!"

"Damn it, Xin Ye's reactions are fast, okay?" Zhao Xin hurriedly retorted. Then he scratched his head and said, "It's rare that we didn't have training the next day, so we played a few rounds to our hearts' content..."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Cheng Yaowen nodded as well.

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

After receiving a fierce glare of warning from Lena and the other girls, Zhao Xin hurriedly hid behind Wei Zitong. Cheng Yaowen pretended to be perfectly calm, though his palms were sweating. Only Ge Xiaolun looked thoroughly miserable.

"Everyone's here, right?" Ryze the Wanderer ceremonially counted heads. In truth, there were so few of them that he could see it at a glance and did not need to count at all. Smiling, he said, "Children, after so many days of training, I believe you have all grown. Next, Miss will introduce the rules and usage guidelines of the Virtual Reality Arena."

Miss nodded and stepped forward with a smile, her voice soft and pleasant. "Good morning, students. I am Miss, the teacher responsible for providing you with scientific research support. Next, I will introduce the details of the Virtual Reality Arena..."

From Miss's introduction, everyone learned that this Virtual Reality Arena was also a product of extraterrestrial technology. It was not comparable to Earth's crudely made VR technology.

It was an extremely advanced neural interface technology. By switching the brain's perception of neural signals, it created the effect of entering a virtual scene. Here, all information, including sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch, was transmitted directly into the brain through the neural interface system.

All sensations were virtual, yet real, because those sensations had truly been transmitted into the brain. This reminded Wei Zitong of the story of the "brain in a vat," and he could not help wondering whether what he felt now was real.

Because it was so realistic, psychological trauma suffered in the arena could carry over into the real world. Thus, the academy had established a series of usage guidelines, and Miss did not finish explaining them until well into the morning.

"All right, does everyone remember?" Miss smiled as she looked around at the group. Seeing their bewildered faces, she added, "It's fine if you don't remember. Once you enter, there will be system notifications. Also, Instructor Jace will enter the arena with you. He will supervise your behavior as a system administrator."