The Future of Daybreak

"Qing Chen, I'm not giving you this watch to show off at all," Hu Xiaoniu explained, looking at the box that had been pushed back in front of him. "I only recently found out that you were the one who saved me at Laojun Mountain. This watch is just an entry-level Rolex, but it has excellent water resistance. I think you need a watch with such advanced technology."

Qing Chen shook his head again. "Saving you was just something I did on the spur of the moment. Besides, we're all in the same organization now, so it would be too formal to charge money for helping each other out."

Hu Xiaoniu seemed to be deep in thought. He put the watch box back and didn't say anything more.

For some reason, this top-tier rich kid from Haicheng always felt that Qing Chen's position in the Daylight Organization was more special and more mysterious.

There's no basis for it, it's just intuition.

Qing Chen suddenly asked, "Do you have any thoughts about the boss assigning you to a dangerous place like Heng Society?"

Hu Xiaoniu thought for a moment and said, "It's a pleasant surprise. At least I finally have an identity in the Inner World. No matter what the future holds, at least I have a direction to strive for."

Qing Chen nodded without saying anything.

At this moment, Hu Xiaoniu said sincerely, "Qing Chen, actually, I have another request for you when I gave you the watch..."

"You say."

"I want to learn how to kill enemies from you," Hu Xiaoniu said. "If I go to Heng Society in the future, having some self-defense skills will help me gain a foothold there."

Qing Chen was silent for a moment before saying, "If you're just an ordinary person, no matter how skilled you are, it won't help."

Hu Xiaoniu said earnestly, "As long as I work hard, I'm sure I can find ways to improve my skills. Once the boss sees that I'm useful, he'll consider me as a good employee."

"I think you should talk to the boss about learning how to kill enemies and improve your strength first," Qing Chen replied. "I'll follow the boss's arrangements. If he makes the arrangements, I will teach you with all my might."

Qing Chen remarked that Hu Xiaoniu had indeed maintained a studious and ambitious attitude.

This is how a top-tier rich kid should behave! Those spoiled brats next door are just a bunch of worthless scum.

Hu Xiaoniu was absolutely right about one thing: as long as he could prove he was useful to the "boss," Qing Chen would help him improve his abilities sooner or later.

Li Changqing still has a complete set of gene-based drugs on hand, and Qing Chen needs to choose the most suitable person to be injected.

The best steel should be used for blades.

Prior to this, Hu Xiaoniu was already the most suitable person in the Daytime Organization to be injected with this gene serum. However, Qing Chen suddenly changed his mind before his last return.

He wants to try something out before making a decision.

This so-called experiment is not a test of Hu Xiaoniu's humanity.

Instead, Qing Chen wanted to prove whether the knights could unlock the Gene Lock within their bodies in the Outer World!

Among the known Awakened, Yang Yang and Liu Dezhu were both restricted by the rules of the Outer World, so they had not awakened until they entered the Inner World.

But Qing Chen was somewhat unwilling.

The path of training for knights is different from that of others; they seek self-breakthrough and complete a transformation from the deeper layers of their genes.

Two weeks ago, it was confirmed that bringing gene-enhancing drugs back to the Outer World could turn the wealthy into gene warriors.

In that case, there's no reason for the knight to be bound.

At this moment, Qing Chen already harbored even greater ambitions.

Once he is able to complete the second Life and Death Trial in the Outer World and unlock the next layer of Gene Lock.

This means that by gathering Nan Gengchen, Hu Xiaoniu, and Zhang Tianzhen into his group during the day, he can follow the old path that knights took before they had Breathing Technique: after completing all the challenges, he can advance to rank A!

Although the sea here is dangerous, it is not a no-go zone for life.

Although the upper limit of this old path is not that high, it cannot reach the level of a demigod.

However, its threshold is lower; at least it doesn't require using Breathing Technique to Heart's Inquiry hurdle.

How terrifying are mass-produced knights? In the future, with many A-rank knights, which force would dare to provoke them?

This is why Qing Chen doesn't want to inject Hu Xiaoniu with the gene serum for the time being; once the gene serum is injected, this path will be cut off.

The only problem with this plan is that it still needs protectors during the day.

Because he lacks Breathing Technique, the knight is still just an ordinary person until he completes all eight Life and Death Trial.

Therefore, before Bai Zhou can complete its true transformation, it needs a strong fighting force to protect it.

One Liu Dezhu is definitely not enough.

Qing Chen put his mind at ease, knowing that he would only have the answer after he had conducted his own experiments.

Thinking of this, he closed his eyes and lay down on the table, as if he were asleep.

This surprised Hu Xiaoniu. When they first transferred to this school, they had heard of Qing Chen's reputation as a top student. In fact, Qing Chen did indeed rank among the top three in the grade again in last week's monthly exam.

Hu Xiaoniu just couldn't understand why, since he transferred here, he hadn't seen Qing Chen study at all...

Is this the talent of a genius?

Unbeknownst to them, Qing Chen had already opened the mysterious world of Conquer by Virtue in his mind and began to continue recording his sniping data.

Every second counts.

In the wilderness of the mysterious world, Qing Chen has already mastered all the data within 400 meters.

He began to push the target coin backwards, then cycled through different levels of wind speed.

This method is unfair to other snipers.

What does it take to become a sniper? First and foremost, it takes talent.

It is often said in the military that whether a soldier is suitable to be a sniper is actually determined from birth.

However, Qing Chen is now using the most savage method to memorize the ballistic trajectories that may occur in all environments, and can even know the distance between them with just a glance at the target.

For his talent, exhaustive search was always the most effective learning technique.

For other snipers, the outcome is unknown at the moment of firing. However, for Qing Chen, when all external factors are predetermined, the result is like a simple equation that can be calculated.

Moreover, he already had the answer in his heart.

But that's not the biggest advantage of the mysterious world. In Qing Chen's opinion, its biggest advantage is... the recoil after firing a gun doesn't affect the real body, and bullets are free.

It's important to know that training a sniper is extremely expensive.

A regular sniper bullet costs around 20 yuan, while a special bullet with an effective range of over 2000 meters can cost as much as 50 yuan.

A sniper typically trains for three years, during which tens of thousands of sniper bullets are fired, averaging 100,000.

Over these three years, snipers break down their training tasks into daily tasks and then use bullets to develop a feel for the gun.

Every sniper is made by being fed bullets.

Even if we assume 100,000 bullets, the minimum cost to train a sniper is 5 million...

Given Qing Chen's firing rate, he might fire 18,000 special sniper bullets a day. Over seven days, the number of bullets fired could be a terrifying figure.

If Qing Chen were just an ordinary person, he could have ruined himself just by shooting, which is why Old Nine from the Inner World didn't take him directly to the sniping range.

The Old Nine's quota isn't that high...

When Qing Chen thought that every shot he fired was a gain, his enthusiasm for training in sniping grew even stronger.

It's not boring at all.

In the mysterious world, Qing Chen gradually pushed the coin distance further and further away, from 400 meters to 450 meters, and then to 500 meters.

Every bit of progress is incredibly solid.

Gradually, Qing Chen suddenly felt that there was a certain connection between him and Conquer by Virtue over with virtue.

He knew exactly how the Black Sniper would react after he pulled the trigger.

He knew exactly what trajectory the bullet would take after it was fired and how long it would take to arrive.

Gun-like feel.

Qing Chen suddenly realized that after he fired a lot of shots, the powerful gun sense that Old Nine had mentioned had finally appeared!

He had a feeling that he couldn't quite explain.

The best snipers are one in a million, or even one in ten million.

Qing Chen always prepared for the worst, so from the beginning, he never hoped that he was one of those rare gods.

He fired mechanically and recorded data mechanically, trying to use his talent for memory to compensate for his lack of talent in sniping.

But now he realizes that he also has the same talent for sniping!

With a calm and unwavering will, a steady and undisturbed body, a mysterious and powerful feel for guns, and meticulous ability to calculate ballistics, Qing Chen was the perfect person to be a sniper.

At this point, Qing Chen became increasingly adept at shooting, and the progress of the entire shooting training was more than twice as fast as before.

He lay prone in the wilderness and stopped firing.

Qing Chen wondered, since he possessed such a powerful talent, did he still need to use such a clumsy method as the "exhaustive search"?

After only two seconds of thought, he continued with the training method as before.

Qing Chen was not blinded by joy; he always knew exactly what he needed most.

Regardless of whether he has a feel for guns or not, he has to make sure that every step he takes is absolutely solid.

500 meters.

501 meters.

502 meters.

600

Until the coin is pushed to 650 meters.

Qing Chen finally stopped.

He looked up from his desk, took out his phone and checked the time: 11:50 a. m., almost time for get out of class to end.

Nan Gengchen asked curiously, "Brother Chen, you didn't sleep well last night, did you? How come you slept all morning?"

"Hmm," Qing Chen didn't explain much.

Nan Gengchen continued, "The math teacher found you sleeping during class and told you to come see him after you wake up."

Nan Gengchen felt a pang of bitterness as he said this. Was this the treatment of a top student? Even when the teacher called Qing Chen to the office, they had to wait until Qing Chen woke up...

Qing Chen asked, "Did Teacher Tian say what he wanted to talk to me about?"

"It seems to be about a math competition," Nan Gengchen said. "It seems like the domestic selection for some international math invitational tournament is about to begin, and our school is sending five people to participate in the selection tournament at public expense."

Qing Chen seemed to be deep in thought.

He arrived at the office, where Tian Hailong was discussing the matter with four other students.

The first thing the current homeroom teacher of Class 3, Grade 11, said upon seeing Qing Chen was, "You're awake?"

The other four math competition participants all turned to look at Qing Chen...

Are you awake? So, Teacher Tian just said he had to wait for Qing Chen because Qing Chen was sleeping?

You slept for so long?

Unlike Qing Chen, the other four top students all earned their success through hard work and were not as exceptionally gifted as him. They also listened attentively in class.

When they thought about Qing Chen's ranking in the grade, and then about the legend of Qing Chen working part-time to support himself, everyone knew that if this guy put all his effort into studying, he might never be able to compete with them for first place.

Moreover, there was a rumor in the grade that although Qing Chen's ranking fluctuated, the difference in his scores on each exam never exceeded 5 points.

He scored 690 on both difficult and easy questions.

In one of the first exams in his first year of high school, Qing Chen got first place in the grade. However, the questions in that diagnostic test were too difficult, and the second-place student only scored 645 points. He scored a full 45 points more than the second-place student.

Therefore, some people have always said that Qing Chen was controlling the score.

This is a legend at Luoyang Foreign Language School, which everyone always treats as a joke. Sometimes when Qing Chen scores 691 and ranks third, people will say: Qing Chen is third because he only wants to score 690.

At that awkward, immature age, people are always willing to believe in some ridiculous, immature legends.

Qing Chen asked softly, "Teacher Tian, what kind of competition is this?"

"Oh, it's AMC10," Tian Hailong explained. "It's next week. The school will cover your travel expenses and provide room and board. This stuff can be used to polish your application documents for schools abroad. Even though you're not going abroad... you're just sitting around doing nothing anyway."

The AMC10 competition is a preliminary selection round for the AIME International Mathematics Competition. The top 2.5% will advance to the next round of the AIME competition.

It is an officially certified mathematical thinking skill, and one of the qualifications package for science students before going abroad.

It's not that important; it's a relatively basic thing that's a plus on a resume, but not a deciding factor.

However, if someone from the school can be shortlisted for AIME, it is definitely a good thing for the school.

Tian Hailong knew Qing Chen's family background and that he was unlikely to go abroad. Du Yihong, the homeroom teacher of Class 3, Grade 11, had also said that Qing Chen had no plans to go abroad.

So, while other students were there to enhance their resumes, Qing Chen was simply "idling around anyway."

It sounds as if Tian Hailong believes that Qing Chen will definitely be shortlisted as long as he goes.

The other four students, two boys and two girls, were ranked 1st, 2nd and 5th and 9th in the grade, respectively. They looked at Qing Chen with a very complicated emotion. Everyone felt that Qing Chen's status in this school was very special.

One of the long-haired girls stared at Qing Chen, her gaze holding something indescribable.

At this point, Tian Hailong said, "As long as you can be in the top 2.5% and qualify to go to the United States, the school will reward you with 10,000 yuan, and the school will also reimburse your travel expenses to the United States."

Qing Chen wasn't particularly concerned about the prize money right now; he asked, "Where is this competition being held?"

"Xiancheng," Tian Hailong said, "This time it's in Xiancheng."

Qing Chen replied, "Okay, I'll go."

Because the location of the second Life and Death Trial challenge he was preparing to take was in Xiancheng!

A 4000-word chapter, with another chapter tonight.

Thank you to Xifei for becoming a new ally of this book. Boss is generous and a true winner in life!