Zhang Yue

Yang Hui had just left when the girl named Zhang Yue jumped down from the second floor. A faint scent wafted from her as she came to stand in front of Su You.

Up close, Su You glanced at her chest, and a four-character idiom drifted through his mind: "fierce and evil."

"Those three towers are still vacant. Pick one."

Zhang Yue's voice was cool, and her tone carried a deep sense of distance. She pointed in turn to the second, fourth, and fifth towers from the front on the west side. The tower she had just jumped down from was the one in the middle—the third.

Huh? No one's picked either of the two towers next to this beauty? Su You thought happily.

"I'll take that one." Without hesitation, Su You pointed to the second tower on the west side, one of the two closest to Zhang Yue's.

They said the one closest to the water got the moon first. This girl named Zhang Yue was even a little prettier than Tang Yongqing. Her A-cup chest cost her some points, but it had its own distinctive charm. At the very least, she qualified as a potential catch for his harem.

Zhang Yue glanced at him expressionlessly, then went straight into the tower. Su You hurried after her.

"Living room. Training room. Study. Underground room..." Zhang Yue led Su You through the entire tower, offering only a single word at each stop, never even a complete sentence. Su You began to wonder whether she had a language disorder.

The two soon returned to the living room. Zhang Yue remained expressionless. "Study. Computer. Read the trainee handbook."

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhang Yue headed straight for the door.

"Miss..." Su You called out. Zhang Yue stopped and turned around. "What is it?"

"Uh." Su You rubbed his nose, feeling a little awkward. "Come on, give me a smile!"

Zhang Yue remained expressionless and turned to leave.

Su You hurried in front of her and made an exaggerated grin. "You won't smile? Then I'll smile for you."

Zhang Yue paused. A flicker of emotion passed through her lifeless eyes. Then she quickened her pace, passed Su You, who had stopped in place, and walked right out of the tower.

"Miss, at least give me your contact info before you go!"

Su You called after her, but didn't follow.

Heh, interesting. Woman, you've successfully caught my attention.

The sentence suddenly popped into Su You's mind, and a wave of intense embarrassment washed over him.

Back in the study, Su You opened the laptop and carefully read the trainee handbook.

The Basic Training Camp had no cultivation chambers in the Ancient Civilization Ruins. It had only ten imitation Gravity Chambers, whose maximum gravity was three times normal. But that was enough for most trainees at the Basic Training Camp.

The main reason they had built only ten was to make the trainees compete for them. Places in the Elite Training Camp could only benefit the highest-ranking trainees, and many of the weaker ones didn't even think they had a chance of earning a spot.

So, time in these ten imitation Gravity Chambers was also allocated according to ranking.

Rankings at the Basic Training Camp worked a little differently from those at the Elite Training Camp. There was no such thing as Combat Power Amplitude; rankings were based entirely on battle credits.

A Intermediate Beast Soldier-level monster was worth 1 battle credit, while a High-level Beast Soldier was worth 10.

An Elementary Beast General-level monster was worth 100 battle credits, while an Intermediate Beast General was worth 1,000. A High-level Beast General was worth 10,000.

Elementary Beast Soldier-level monsters didn't count toward battle credits. After all, even the weakest members of the Basic Training Camp were at least Intermediate Warriors when they joined. It was an invisible threshold.

The Basic Training Camp had more than six hundred trainees, most of whom were Advanced Warriors. Some were Intermediate Warriors, while War Generals were much rarer—only around fifty or sixty, most of them Junior War Generals.

"They really do favor Spirit Readers!" Su You exclaimed.

The battle-credit rankings gave Spirit Readers a tremendous advantage. At the same level, a Spirit Reader could kill monsters at roughly ten times a warrior's rate, so they naturally earned about ten times as many battle credits.

Of course, it wasn't quite that simple. On Earth, Spirit Readers could easily kill warriors of the same level.

For example, someone with Advanced General-Level Spirit Power might have the actual strength of a Low-level War God. Naturally, their hunting efficiency would far exceed that of an Advanced General-Level warrior.

If they took actual strength into account, a Spirit Reader's unique abilities let them kill monsters at roughly twice the rate of a warrior of equal strength.

Su You had also learned from the trainee handbook what Yang Hui meant when he'd said they would meet their practical training instructor tomorrow.

One major difference between the Basic Training Camp and the Elite Training Camp was that many trainees joined as soon as they passed the Quasi-Warrior Assessment, with no practical combat experience at all.

If they went out to hunt monsters under those circumstances, their chances of dying would be extremely high. So, during their first month, new trainees had to go out with practical training instructors.

These instructors were War Gods with extensive combat experience. Usually, one instructor would take five or six trainees out into the wilderness for a full month of practical training.

Only in their second month could new trainees begin hunting monsters on their own and compete for camp rankings.

After dinner, some of the Kyoto Courtyard trainees gradually returned. Su You greeted them one by one, but noticed that they all seemed to be looking at him strangely.

Puzzled, Su You went into the tower next door. It wasn't the one Zhang Yue lived in; that one belonged to another girl named Jiang Qiaru.

Like Su You, she was from Tianjin City. She had arrived a little over a year earlier, and she was very easygoing. They'd hit it off while chatting just now. The only drawback was that she was a little plain-looking.

Being away from home naturally brought people from the same hometown closer together. Su You and Jiang Qiaru chatted about Tianjin City, and soon they became even more familiar with each other.

After a while, Jiang Qiaru smiled and asked, "Su You, why did you choose that tower?"

"Huh? Sister Qiaru, is something wrong with it?"

Jiang Qiaru smiled as she explained, "There's nothing wrong with that tower, but you'd better not get too close to the person living in the one beside it."

"Zhang Yue? Is something wrong with her?"

Su You was puzzled. Could some powerful trainee be pursuing her and forbidding the other male trainees from getting close? It was 2053 already. Surely they weren't going to trot out such a tired old plotline? Surely not! Surely not!

"She's rather cold, but she's actually a nice person," Jiang Qiaru explained. "I'm telling you not to get too close to her so you don't get dragged into her troubles."