Chapter 53 The Gate of Wilderness
Jiangdong Province, Donghai City, nine o'clock in the morning.
A plane made another landing and stopped at Donghai Airport. After the boarding bridge was erected, the cabin door opened and the passengers walked out with their luggage.
Luo Jun, who was carrying a schoolbag, was also among them.
A week has passed since the exam ended. Five days ago, he received the admission notice from the school. It was exactly what Mr. Yuan said. Although Song Yi saw through his concealment, he did not embarrass him.
The admission notice also stated that ordinary people who do not understand Yuan Qi and beginners in the solid state can use the three months before the start of school to improve their Yuan Qi at Ningdong University, where they will be guided by specialized teachers.
Of course, if you don’t want to, you can also do things on your own, but after the school term starts, the school’s classes and courses will not be able to take care of low-level students as much as they did during the exam. There is a risk of falling behind.
Luo Jun naturally did not choose to go to school for further studies, because his master Yuan Shouzhen had arranged more difficult courses for him.
Jiangdong Province is one of the most economically developed regions in China. As the provincial capital, Donghai City is also one of the top modern metropolises in the country. It is a world of difference compared to the third-tier Ningdong City. However, Mr. Yuan's schedule was so tight that Luo Jun had no time to appreciate the modern atmosphere of Donghai City. He didn't even leave the airport, so he took the subway directly to Dongwan Pier and caught the 10:30 a.m. ferry to Lingyun Island. .
Lingyun Island is located in the East China Sea of Sinian, more than 80 nautical miles away from Donghai City. It covers an area of more than 50 square kilometers and has a permanent population of about 30,000 people.
From the map, this is an inconspicuous island with no famous specialties and no beautiful scenery. In today's information age, the residents of the island are still low-key and secluded. Even the nearest Donghai City , and few people know about this island.
I heard that this island seems to be very exclusive. The residents of the island have spontaneously formed patrols. Fishermen from other places who go to sea will be warned and expelled if they accidentally approach this island.
Even the daily ferry is operated by Lingyun Island itself. Other than that, there is no way to get close to the island.
The reason is that Lingyun Island is an island open only to Yuan Qi practitioners.
Luo Jun got out of the subway and came to Dongwan Pier. He found the ferry timetable. After looking for a long time, he couldn't find the ferry flight to Lingyun Island. When I asked the ticket office, there was no ferry ticket to Lingyun Island.
"There is no such thing..." Luo Jun looked at the ticket information on his mobile phone and muttered: "Master also said that as long as you get to the pier, you can find it at a glance. There is not even a timetable. Where can I find it?"
After passing the security check with doubts, Luo Jun entered the waiting hall. His eyes swept across the various boarding gates lined up, and soon his eyes were attracted by an inconspicuous boarding gate in the corner.
Compared with other spacious and eye-catching boarding gates, this small gate is unique. There is no large screen showing flight information, no staff in uniforms checking tickets, and even the door is half smaller than the others. Look It's shabby and old, and there is no ticket gate. There is only a little old lady blocking the door, checking one ticket and letting one person go.
When you first see it, you will probably mistake it for the toilet door.
The reason why Luo Jun was able to notice this place among the many magnificent ticket gates is because above this inconspicuous ticket gate, there are several huge light characters shining:
"If you go to Lingyun Island, come here!"
This light character is composed of vitality. Ordinary people can't see it at all, and they can't pay attention to it, but practitioners of vitality can be attracted at a glance.
As for the person who maintains this bright character, it is the old lady checking tickets at the door.
Being able to release your vitality, at least in the Peiyuan realm, being able to use your vitality to write such large and complex characters and still maintain it shows that your energy and control skills are very high. This old lady can’t look at it. At first glance, he is actually a master.
Luo Jun also walked over and showed the ticket to the old man. The old lady scanned it with the machine in her hand, and after confirming that it was correct, let him pass.
After passing through the ticket gate, he came to a special passage, which seemed to lead in a different direction than ordinary tourists. Luo Jun walked all the way, and when he got out of the passage, a huge ferry appeared in front of him.
To the naked eye, it seemed to be no different from an ordinary ferry, but under Luo Jun's field of vision, he could see the faint fluctuations of energy on the ship.
Luo Jun’s first reaction was that this was the vitality exuded by the passengers on the ferry. But he soon realized that something was wrong. Even cultivators at the Peiyuan realm and above, in order to save physical strength, hide their aura, and are not in a combat state, they would only cover the body surface with a thin layer of Gang Qi at most, which could not be dispersed outside the hull at all. Come.
Especially when Luo Jun boarded the ship, he could clearly feel that the fluctuations covering the ship were very thick and stable, probably coming from the devices on the ship used to protect the hull.
Then this is a bit powerful. To cover such a huge hull and maintain a certain strength, the consumption of vitality is absolutely terrifying. Regardless of whether it is possible to collect so much vitality, just one A device that can store a huge amount of vitality is at least a legendary treasure.
This is the background of "Gate"...
Finding his seat, Luo Jun looked at the almost full cabin and remembered the teacher's instructions yesterday. "Three days later, it will be the day when the gate to the wilderness opens. I will help you book a boat ticket to Lingyun Island. You can get off the plane and take the subway to the pier directly. You can get to Lingyun Island by boat."
"The Gate of Wilderness? No, Master, I haven't even entered school yet, so you are going to send me to another world?"
"It's not like you haven't been there before." Yuan Shouzhen was cold. He snorted: "Compared to the B-level chaos missions, the Wilderness is a relatively gentle world."
"Real or false?" Luo Jun didn't believe it: "I read the posts on the forum. The wild world is full of monsters, but they are not gentle at all."
"Don't believe all the posts on the Internet. Just watch the excitement. That's it!" Mr. Yuan said sternly: "I was busy training your vitality before, so I didn't tell you about the 'door' in detail. I just want to take this opportunity to teach you a lesson."
" It is currently known that there are three 'doors' in Cathay. The world behind the door is called [Martial Arts], [Supernatural] and [Wild Wilderness] according to its characteristics."
"Among them [Wulin]. The gate of [Wulin] is located deep in Ningyuan Mountain, which is why Ningdong, an inconspicuous city, has an Explorer Academy.”
“The gate of [Supernatural] is located in Puhua Mountain in the southwest of Aurora. , there is also an Explorer Academy there.”
"These two doors are under the jurisdiction of the association and are officially controlled."
"As for the third [Barbarian] door, it is on Lingyun Island and is controlled by private individuals. "In my hand."
"Can a private person control a door?" Luo Jun said in surprise.
“The gates appeared one after another more than a hundred years ago. The gates that appeared on the mainland caused riots and were quickly controlled by the government. However, Lingyun Island was isolated overseas, waiting for the gates to be known to the outside world. At that time, the islanders had been exploring the gate for many years and accumulated a profound knowledge.”
“The government also tried to take back the jurisdiction of the gate, but was met with fierce resistance by the islanders. Most of the explorations have mastered the vitality, and coupled with the geographical advantages, they have become a force that cannot be underestimated. ”
"After several frictions, the government and the islanders reached an agreement. The gate is under the jurisdiction of the islanders, but the information inside the gate needs to be disclosed to the government, and a certain proportion of the resources obtained from the gate must be handed over. The government will also explore the islanders' Acts of sponsorship and support... Later in modern society, this agreement was revised several times, but in the end Lingyun Island retained jurisdiction over the Wilderness Gate."
"I didn't expect there to be such a history. ..." Luo Jun nodded: "Master, in that case, why don't you let me go to the other two gates under the jurisdiction of the association? Will there be no trouble in places with local snakes?"
"Lingyun Island? After so many years of development, the management has been perfected and will not embarrass outsiders. "Yuan Shouzhen explained: "And more importantly, Lingyun Island, as an unofficial organization, is not so strict in its review of explorers. They pay according to their rules, and they don’t care what you do in the wilderness, and they won’t delve into your background and identity. This is more convenient for you.”
“Is it really appropriate to let people go to other worlds casually? ?”
Luo Jun remembered that Mr. Yuan said that the “door” is only more conspicuous in the main world. From the other side, the “door” is almost completely transparent and very hidden. Therefore, all the gates currently are discovered and controlled by humans first, and then they use them to quietly explore other worlds. None of the currently known alien worlds know of the existence of the main world.
Therefore, the screening of explorers from other worlds is very strict. One of the criteria is the ability to keep secrets. For this reason, the association has even developed related secret techniques to restrict explorers from revealing information about the main world.
But the door to Lingyun Island was given away for money, so aren’t you afraid that you will get information about the main world from behind?
“There is no need to worry about this at all.” Mr. Yuan showed a smile: “Because the wild world is a primitive world full of monsters, and there is no civilization at all.”
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"The primitive world full of monsters..." His thoughts returned to reality, Luo Jun looked at the other passengers in the ferry: "In this situation, the danger comes not only from monsters, but also from fish and dragons, and bulk exploration for profit. Those..."
Most of these passengers can see a touch of Gang Qi on their bodies, and they are at least starting from the Peiyuan realm. But other than that, they looked like ordinary people.
Practitioners also have to live in reality, and their clothes are not too exaggerated. For example, the person sitting next to Luo Jun now is a little old man with an unattractive appearance.
"Young man, are you going to hunt in the wilderness?" The old man looked to be in his sixties. He wore a loose hurdle vest on his upper body, a pair of coarse cloth shorts that reached his knees, and a pair of slippers on his feet. It's the old man who can be seen everywhere at the entrance of the village.
"Yes." Luo Jun replied with a smile: "This is my first time there. Sir, you can tell from your experience that you have a lot of experience. Do you have anything to teach the younger generation?"
"The young man is quite good at talking." The old man in the vest said with a smile: "It's your first time here, so you must have never registered with the Wilderness Hunters Guild?"
(End of this chapter)