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Chapter 612: Chapter 516: Really Damn Big (Seeking Subscription!)_1
After touring the Research Area for a while, Tang Qing lost interest. Everywhere, he saw experimental equipment that he couldn’t understand. The scientists were all busy, all quiet and calm. Tang Qing was curious as to whether they needed to communicate with each other.
"Little Two, do they communicate with each other usually?" Tang Qing asked curiously.
"Commander, the main communication between scientists is technical and data-related. At the initiation phase of a project, they would list all the difficulties they encountered, then issue tasks to carry them out themselves. So, there isn’t much verbal discussion," Little Two replied.
Tang Qing understood. These scientists, all robots, lacked emotions. Their minds were filled only with obedience and task completion, without the ability for independent thought. They didn’t engage in unnecessary dialogues and contemplations, putting one hundred percent of their concentration into their research.
No wonder their technical difficulties were overcome so quickly. Communicating through data, without needing to worry about funds, materials or doing favors, everyone working towards a common goal, how could the efficiency not be high?
After wandering for a while longer.
Tang Qing left directly. The quiet research area wasn’t fun at all, too serious. At least in the Command Room, he could chat with Tang Yi. Here there was only Little Two, who was invisible.
Just when Tang Qing was thinking of finding a place to have fun, he suddenly remembered the ’Skill Training Center’ which was unlocked at Level 6. There had been no time as dawn was approaching then, and he had not yet had a chance to look inside. It was a good time to give it a try now.
"System, teleport me to the Skill Training Center." Tang Qing gave the command. Teleportation across centers was most convenient with the system.
"Yes," the System responded.
Then, just like before, with a change in the scene, he arrived directly at the so-called Skill Training Center.
Looking at the so-called center.
Tang Qing was taken aback.
This seemed to be a school.
Yes.
Exactly like a school.
The fake blue sky was overhead, and he stood within a massive, ancient-styled stone building complex. The architectural style didn’t belong to any country in the world.
It was a several tens of thousands square meters’ square and Tang Qing was standing on a pedestal in the middle of the square, looking around at the surroundings, he couldn’t associate it with a mysterious training center.
"System, introduce the Skill Training Center," Tang Qing asked directly.
"Yes, host. The Training Center is not managed by an intelligent program, but is directly supervised by the system. The entire training area is divided into two parts, the Survival Skills Training Area and the Non-Survival Skills Training Area. Survival Skills Training mainly includes body fighting training, Nerve Telekinesis training, extreme condition survival simulation training. All other skills outside of this are classified as Non-Survival Skills. Such as..." the System began its lengthy explanation, which took over ten minutes to finish.
The more Tang Qing heard, the more interested he became. He hadn’t expected the Non-survival Skills Training to cover such a broad range, from sewing and cooking to flying airplanes.
However, Tang Qing didn’t have much interest in learning these things for now. Besides personal hobbies, if he had to do these things himself, what would be the point of being a banker? He could go learn calligraphy and carving though.
But his current main target was set on the Survival Skills Training Area.
Tang Qing was very curious as to why cooking wasn’t considered as a survival skill, but he didn’t delve into it. Perhaps in the future described by the system, survival equated fighting. He didn’t want to overthink it.
"System, do you have a map of this place?" Tang Qing asked again.
"Yes, host."
As the System spoke, a map appeared before Tang Qing’s eyes. After a careful inspection, his eyes widened in disbelief. He rubbed his eyes to confirm he wasn’t misreading the area marked in the upper right corner.
What he saw.
Total area: Thirty thousand square kilometers.
It was written in Chinese characters, not Arabic numerals, and without a decimal point, Tang Qing couldn’t misunderstand.
"This...System, are you sure you’re not kidding? Is this place really this big? Even without a single person here, why is it so large?" Tang Qing was really curious. Regardless of the size of the training area, it could probably serve as a place to park an aircraft carrier or carry out combat simulations.
But this place didn’t need to be so large regardless of how he looked at it. Thirty thousand square kilometers was more than three times larger than his territory and constituted more than one three-hundredth of Huaxia’s land area.
Isn’t this a waste? Did the creator of this ’Personal Banking System’ know they were being so generous? Was the huge chunk of land free of charge?
"Sorry, insufficient permissions to check," was the System’s unbeatable explanation.
"..." Tang Qing was speechless.
Here it comes again.
"Is this a simulated scene or a real scenario?" Tang Qing still suspected it might be a simulated scene because of the gratuitous land. The scene really scared him a bit.
"Host, it’s a different dimensional space and is real," the System explained.
Facing the System’s explanation, Tang Qing breathed a sigh of relief, no longer bothered to ask more, after all, it wasn’t his business. It was just a bit larger, he can’t scold someone for this. He shouldn’t be asking such questionable questions again.
"Can I teleport inside here?" Tang Qing asked.
"Host, no, you can’t. To teleport within here, you need to upgrade another level," the System answered.
"...So you’re saying I have to run? Where do I train physical fitness and nerve telekinesis?" Having ascertained that nothing more could be done, Tang Qing had to ask.
Right after he finished speaking, an arrow appeared before Tang Qing’s eyes.
The system’s voice rang out simultaneously.
"Fifty kilometers ahead, on Lake Heart Island, is a non-survival skill training area."
"...Why is it so far?" Tang Qing asked.
"Warming up is necessary before any training session." The system replied.
"...You win."
Tang Qing was floored by this unarguable reasoning. He needed to warm up before training, and indeed, whichever way he chose to get there - running or flying - both could be considered a ’warm-up’.
Well, whatever.
It’s been a while since he had a good workout. Let’s run there, then.
Immediately.
Looking in the right direction.
Tang Qing prepared to test his maximum running speed. Not bothering to adopt a specific stance, he started running the next second. His figure, barely visible to the naked eye, sped through the expanse of towering buildings.
Fortunately, there was a road outside.Had there not been, he would have had to cross mountains and ravines. The road was made of stones, yet it was quite flat. Tang Qing’s limit speed was as high as nearly 200 kilometers per hour, which was astounding.
A mere ten minutes later, Tang Qing arrived at the lake the system had mentioned.
It was a vast lake - so vast that its edges were not visible. However, he could faintly see a towering structure in the middle of the lake. It seemed like the entire island was just that one building. Looking down at the calm lake surface, shimmering with specks of green light, Tang Qing didn’t dare to just swim across.
"System, are there any monsters in it?" Tang Qing asked worriedly. He didn’t want to end up as fish food due to a lack of knowledge.
"Host, the water in the training area only contains simple microorganisms and doesn’t have any species that could harm you." The system provided a reassuring answer.
Tang Qing nodded, satisfied. "That’s good."
As he was about to undress and swim across, Tang Qing suddenly paused.
After some thought, he rearranged his clothes.
He stepped onto the water surface with his right foot.
Just when his shoe was a few centimeters away from the water surface, his foot stopped, as if stepping on an invisible layer of glass. Then, his other foot followed suit, placing itself firmly on the water surface.
Yes, Tang Qing had activated his telekinetic nodes and sensed the man-made magnetic field of the training center, which provided enough repulsion force for him to levitate.
He paused for a while.
Then, Tang Qing started to slowly walk on the water surface toward the island at the heart of the lake. With each step, his feet were firmly set on the water, without wetting his shoes. In no time, after getting the hang of it, he started to run instead of walk. Tang Qing was becoming increasingly proficient at controlling this skill. He had never used it in this manner before - only for levitation or short flights.
A few minutes later.
Tang Qing was zipping around the water surface in wild gaiety, thoroughly excited.
Damn it.
Finally, he managed to show off once.
However, pressing matters took precedence. He didn’t have much time. It was already past three in the morning, and he had to be back by six to cuddle with his wife while sleeping, before ’waking’ her up for their morning workout.
After running around a bit, Tang Qing collected himself and charged toward the huge steel structure clearly visible at the heart of the lake. His high-speed movements churned the air and created ripples in the water behind him, as if a boat had just passed, creating frothy white waves that took a long time to subside.
A few minutes later.
Standing on the island.
Looking at the gigantic structure.
Tang Qing walked right in. It was a pity there were no robots to greet him, which made it feel a bit lifeless. He planned to bring a few Level 1 robots here to clean the place on his return. He could raise freshwater fish in the lake to add some activity. He could even fish here when free.
Inside the colossal structure.
The system began to introduce it.
After understanding the place, Tang Qing felt... it was like playing a game where you advance through levels. This towering structure was exactly like that, with each level serving as a test. One could only proceed to the next level based on their strength.
The entire building contained ninety-nine levels.
It primarily focused on physical fitness and nerve telekinesis training. Survival training wasn’t included here but carried out in a vast area elsewhere. In other words, of the thirty thousand square kilometers, twenty-seven thousand were set aside as survival training grounds. It was truly luxurious.
Tang Qing couldn’t even begin to imagine the might of the creator of this object. But judging by the situation, they had to be incredibly powerful.
He had unlocked Gene Lock level 5, which allowed him to use up to level 5. However, since his nerve telekinesis had reached the level 5 limit - 600, he could use the level 6 nerve telekinesis training equipment.
If he trained hard, he could break through the nerve telekinesis limit without unlocking the gene lock. Tang Qing wasn’t surprised about this. Previously, he had been moving step by step, relying on the Origin Qi Value, with no method to improve. But now that there was a method to improve a single attribute, he didn’t find it surprising.
If one attribute was stuck, it would severely limit the person’s progress. That would indeed be unusual.
