After all, the opportunity to open a spatial portal is not easy and requires incurring huge costs. The Dean alone bore the cost of teleporting from the New Earth to the Wizard World.
If they want to apply for additional access, they will have to bear the cost of opening the space passage themselves. No one had ever suggested how high this cost would be before Hu Jianxing was promoted to the next level.
Because that's an amount that you couldn't get even if you sold them all off.
Just as Hu Jianxing had predicted, five days later, the space passage was opened. Amidst the envious gazes of the other apprentices, Hu Jianxing led the first batch of students through the space passage and returned to their home planet, New Earth.
Charlotte had contacted Leo beforehand and only opened the spatial passage after receiving Leo's approval.
Leo also considered that these people had been away from their hometown for too long and should come back to visit, so he opened the spatial passage under the pretext of rewarding Hu Jianxing for being the first to break through to the first level.
But no one could have imagined that this trip home for the Wizard Apprentice would lead to an accident, disrupting some of Leo's plans.
The incident occurred at Meng Jie's home. Because he was taken away by a group of officials to attend school, his parents' jobs were also arranged by the government, and the family's life improved significantly.
For the first four years, Meng Jie would still call back. Although we couldn't see him, there was still some news. But after four years, he completely disappeared without a trace.
When Meng Youde and his wife reported the matter to their superiors, they were only informed that Meng Jie was involved in a key national project and were forbidden from contacting the outside world.
Hearing this, Meng Jie's father, Meng Youde, couldn't say much. After discussing it with his wife, they decided to have another child.
After all, their eldest son was handed over to the state, so it's normal for them to have a second child to keep them company. Their family can easily afford it now.
However, because both of them had eaten food from the Wizard World, their bodies were slightly altered, making it more difficult for them to conceive than normal people. They did not have a child until seventeen years later, when they were old.
Having a child late in life, the elderly couple naturally doted on him, especially since the child had shown remarkable talent from a young age, truly the kind of child everyone admired.
Not only does she learn everything quickly and master it in no time, but she is also exceptionally beautiful.
In the words of her neighbors, she was simply a fairy descended to earth, a reincarnation of one of the Four Beauties of ancient China, and a future female scholar who would be the top scholar in the imperial examination!
Meng Youde gave birth to a younger sister for Meng Jie in their second pregnancy, and named her Meng Mengmeng.
Everything was peaceful until a few days before Meng Mengmeng's college entrance examination, Meng Mengmeng suddenly disappeared.
Although the elderly couple were in good health and had no illnesses or disasters, they were over eighty years old and retired from the government. When they suddenly received the news that their child, Meng Mengmeng, had gone missing, they were shocked and could not accept that such a thing had happened.
They called the police and searched for the person, but found nothing.
Until his front door was opened,
"Mom and Dad, I'm home."
Many years ago, Meng Jie knew that his parents had returned to their rural hometown, so he went back to his hometown directly through special channels.
After 40 years apart, even with his peak apprentice level skills, Meng Jie couldn't help but feel nervous and his palms would sweat.
When Meng Jie opened the door and saw a haggard elderly couple staring at him in disbelief, his heart skipped a beat. He still recognized his parents. After 40 years apart, his parents had aged so much from their middle age.
"You are... Meng Jie? Forty years, how come you haven't changed at all?"
The moment Meng Jie entered the room, Meng Youde recognized his son. Strangely, after forty years, his son looked exactly the same as when he left.
"Mom and Dad, I'll tell you about it later. Did something happen at home?"
Looking at his haggard parents, Meng Jie could tell that his family had suffered a great change, even though he hadn't become a wizard.
Your sister is missing.
Meng Jie's mother is so old that she could no longer hold on. Now that she saw her eldest son come back, she broke down instantly and told him everything.
"Heh, kidnapping my sister before the college entrance exam, looks like it was done by someone from the academy."
Meng Jie's face darkened instantly. He never expected that someone would dare to target his family. He had been gone for too long, allowing his juniors to be so audacious.
"Mom and Dad, you don't need to worry about this. I will definitely bring my sister back."
What are you planning to do?
Meng Youde was originally just a countryman, but thanks to his son, he managed to get a foothold in the officialdom. Now, looking at his son, he felt like a complete stranger; his son's aura was stronger than any high-ranking official he had ever met.
"Mom and Dad, just wait at home. This is a small matter for me."
After saying this, Meng Jie walked towards the door with a dark face. When Meng Youde chased after him, fearing that his son might do something foolish, he found that he couldn't find any trace of his son at all, as if his son had never returned.
At the peak of Wizard Apprentice's strength, he can unleash an attack power of 400 to 600 points. However, Meng Jie knows that even with this level of strength, he is not completely safe, and some firearms can still harm him.
Especially since the targets are also people who have come from the academy, they must know how to deal with Wizard Apprentice in the energy-less environment of the New Earth.
To be absolutely sure, I contacted my best friends, classmates, and buddies directly.
" Hu Jianxing, my sister has been kidnapped. I need your help."
"Give me the address, I'll be there soon."
" Shi Xiang, my sister has been kidnapped. I need your help."
"Damn it, who's got a death wish? Just you wait!"
" Liu Xinqi, my sister has been kidnapped. I need your help."
"No problem, I'll be there shortly."
Meng Jie cut his finger, and a drop of blood flew out. Under Meng Jie's control, the drop of blood quickly flew towards the nearby city.
Half a day later, Meng Jie's drop of blood stopped in front of a villa complex on a mountainside.
Looking at the villa with its high walls, bunkers, and firearms, this was no ordinary civilian residence; it was practically a small military fortress, and there were even varying degrees of energy reactions inside.
Meng Jie strolled around the neighborhood pretending to be an ordinary person, feeling the clarity of his Bloodline. He breathed a sigh of relief; his sister, whom he had never met, was indeed inside, and alive and well.
Soon after, Hu Jianxing, Shi Xiang, and Liu Xinqi all arrived.
"What do we do? Just charge in?" Shi Xiang excitedly rubbed his hands together, and sparks actually flew from his bare palms.
Liu Xinqi looked around. It wasn't an open area; the area was surrounded by residences next to the villa complex. If they made a move, it would inevitably lead to unimaginable consequences.
"Should we contact the college first?"
Liu Xinqi's suggestion was immediately opposed by Hu Jianxing. "We can't contact the academy. The people there might know about Meng Jie's situation. If they did know, and still dared to kidnap Meng Jie's sister, it means they didn't do it on a whim. They might have people on the academy's side too."
"Besides, if we alert them, it might put Meng Jie Meng Jie's sister in danger. We'd better sneak in now and rescue her."
"Once the person is rescued, the initiative will be in our hands, and we can do whatever we want with them."
"Thank you," Meng Jie said to Hu Jianxing.
"Use your Bloodline to sense your sister's location. If the infiltration fails, the force of our attack will be more terrifying than a military operation," Hu Jianxing solemnly warned.
They were well aware that the difference between ordinary people and wizards was not even that of species, but rather a difference greater than that between prey and hunter.
"I'll protect my sister first; the rest are yours."
"Okay, let's do it that way." Shi Xiang couldn't wait any longer.
According to their initial plan, Meng Jie would sneak in secretly through their Bloodline connection, rescue Meng Mengmeng, and then teach the people here a bloody lesson.
Unfortunately, this villa complex actually contained military-grade radar, thermal imaging equipment, military dogs, and even a simple alarm array.
These monitoring methods were completely beyond the four people's expectations.
When the piercing alarm of the magic circle sounded, everyone knew that there was no hope of rescuing the person silently.
"Da da da"
The sounds of machine guns firing and rockets roaring filled the air.
In the pitch-black, quiet night, surrounded by residential areas, the intense sounds of battle immediately attracted the attention of half the city.
In the instant the firefight began, half the city lights came on, and almost all the citizens' eyes were drawn to the scene. Drones carrying recording equipment flew over, and if you looked closely, you could see that many of those devices were broadcasting live.
Watching a spectacle is human nature, especially in an era of long-lasting peace where gunfire hasn't been heard for many years.
Some thoughtful people even used large drones with built-in searchlights to illuminate the entire battlefield.
But when everyone saw the battle footage on their phones, they were all stunned.
What is this?
What I initially thought would be a once-in-a-century gunfight turned out to be a clash between firearms and superhuman strength.
They saw a figure flying in the air, waving a staff and sending countless orbs of light crashing down, shattering fortresses on the ground.
The bombed fortress looks like it was hit by a large-caliber cannon!
When guns and cannons fired from the ground, or even large-caliber sniper rifles, formed dozens of dense bullet belts that hit this person, they could only make crackling sounds. All the bullets seemed to hit a steel plate several meters thick and shatter into pieces.
It couldn't harm the person in the air at all!
There was more than one such person; there were three more on the ground, and they were pushing over the villa complex with almost overwhelming force.
Any firearms were like scrap metal to them, utterly incapable of killing a single person.
If it weren't for their proximity, quick reaction, and the good quality of their mobile live stream, they wouldn't even have been able to spot these four people.
The speed was too fast; such a strong and dense defensive line, such powerful firepower, was completely torn apart in just a few minutes.
The ground was littered with wreckage and collapsed buildings!