Volume 1 The Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Chapter 40, The Gray Area

"You've got a smile on your face!" Uncle Shi hit Ma Yang's head hard from behind, causing him to cry out in pain again and again.

The process of registering a hunter identity is very simple, only an ID card and a personal signature, and after paying the cost of dozens of yuan, Ma Yang got a wooden badge and an electronic certificate from the staff.

Wherever you go in the future, as long as there is a guild, you can provide a foothold for free, plus you are a descendant of your uncle, and you will be very comfortable in this nearby city.

"Open me a connecting room, and the time will not be counted, and I will tell you the president when I get back."

The connection room is a place where only hunters can apply, which is why Shi Bo asked Ma Yang to register as a hunter. The décor of the connecting room is very simple, not unlike a normal apartment, except that the room has a sturdy metal seat with some unknown instruments on it.

"Sit up and close your eyes." If it is charged according to the usual price, few hunters are willing to afford it, the price is too high, and the identity of the master is here, and the staff directly let it be used for free after talking to the president, and the "Do Not Disturb" sign has been hung outside the door.

Ma Yang pressed the connecting wire on his skin and put his unattractive helmet on, and the scene in front of him instantly changed into an unfamiliar environment.

"Where is this?"

Completely different from the places he has been, Ma Yang can't feel his heartbeat and doesn't seem to need to breathe, but he is alive and well. The scene in front of me was gray, the sky and the earth could not be distinguished, there was not even a single grass, and the strong wind that blew from time to time hit the sand on the body, and the face felt pinprick-like pain.

"Welcome to the gray area, where the entire space is made up of virtual mental will, which is the best place to hone your mental power." Shi Bo's voice seemed to come from the sky, and it had a sacred taste. The equipment in the connection room is specially designed to increase mental power, so as to be able to manifest in the mental space.

The spiritual space is built through information technology, and the highest end of the virtual network intelligence is reflected, and the gray area is outside the space door, which can give the rookie who enters for the first time an adaptation period.

The current body is completely made of will, there is no blood and no need to eat, but it will be injured and die, and after death in it, the body will be formed again in the gray area, and all that needs to be consumed is the person's mental power, and the longer you stay here, the stronger the mental power will be honed.

Fortunately, the Shenlin Sword was still on his body, and Ma Yang held the long sword in his hand and walked forward.

The gray area is bordered by a gray river, on which countless stone bridges are erected, and many people walk past the bridges and disappear into the fog at the other end of the bridge.

Ma Yang cautiously followed up to the bridge, and after passing the middle section, he felt the bright light in front of him, and when he eased up, a magnificent city appeared in front of him, "Lion and Tiger City".

The city was built in a Western-style style, with towering walls covered with barbed thorns, and sixteen arrow towers neatly arranged the walls, most of which were made of hard stone bricks and black iron, and the plaque on the front was written in three large characters, using the universal language of the universe.

Mankind has passed the pattern of multi-ethnic and racial division, and the universal language that has now emerged is the quintessence of the synthesis of wisdom, and even other races are willing to accept it.

"One piece of entry fee, the first five times are free, you, the new arrival, go to the stewardship in the city to get the identity card, and then come back here to register." You need to queue up to enter the city, it doesn't seem to be the kind of place where you drink blood, and you pay attention to some laws, which makes Ma Yang a little relieved, but what makes people tired is the efficiency of the stewardship.

It took a whole day, and after getting the identity card out, it was already dark, and when Ma Yang found the registration office at the city gate, he was actually told that he had already left work!

Although the mental space is more mysterious than the real world, this work efficiency is well imitated.

I had to find a place to live in the city, and the advantage of having an identity card was that I could live in one place for free, for a month, and when Ma Yang felt that his body was blurred, the voice from the master outside made Ma Yang open his eyes.

Sitting on a metal chair with an unaesthetic helmet on his head, it took a long time for Ma Yang to know that he had returned to the real world.

"The efficiency of the mental space is also so low!" Seeing the clock on the wall, Ma Yang was surprised to find that it had only been about ten minutes now.

"The time and space of the spiritual space are independent, and you feel that time is very long in it, maybe only a few days have passed in the real world." There are too many problems to solve in the spiritual space when a rookie comes to the spiritual space, and the biggest problem Ma Yang encounters is that once the mental power is insufficient, the body will gradually blur until it disappears.

At first, I could only insist on staying in it for most of the day, and I had to go back to my residence to rest offline, no wonder there was a comfortable big bed in the connecting room, and sleeping on it would quickly replenish the lost mental power, and gradually Ma Yang would be able to stay in it for a few days, and the progress of mental power was often invisible.

The benefits brought by the identity of the newcomer, you can enter and leave the city for free a few times, and you can also eat, drink and live for free, of course, the conditions are the most ordinary, similar to school canteens and dormitories, and the cost of maintaining the mental space will be astronomical without thinking, so you can only use cold weapons here.

It can be regarded as the limitation of the spiritual space, because the energy required to virtualize those strange weapons is too huge, and this place does not exist specifically for the study of weapons, so it is limited to the era of cold weapons.

This may also be the reason why Uncle Shi brought Ma Yang over, to be able to hone his fighting skills here, constantly polish Ma Yang's swordsmanship, and teach Ma Yang's stick technique, although Ma Yang has never been interested in sticks, he feels that sticks are only used in street gangsters.

However, I still found someone to create an eyebrow stick and put the long sword in the star source space in case of emergency.

The currency here is a spar, and the gray spar made Ma Yang wonder if someone was using a bottle to fill in the air in the gray area outside and impersonate it, but it was only after a long time that he found out that this thing could quickly replenish spiritual power.

The source of the currency is very simple, either go out of the city to hunt beasts in the spiritual space, or participate in battles, and kill all kinds of creatures here, including people, will get hedrons.

No form of fighting is allowed in the city, Ma Yang once saw the two fighting in the city, and just two or three rounds later, thunder and lightning the size of a basin fell from the sky, blowing the two to ashes. You must know that this space was originally formed by the Hunter Guild, and there will be monitoring personnel at any time, watching every move.

In the space of unknown size, there are a total of thirty-six cities, each city has a city lord, the city lord is the person with the highest martial honor, and after dying once, the martial arts carried will be cleared, so the general city lord will not serve for too long, because he is either killed in battle, or because he no longer dares to go on the expedition, so he is surpassed by the newcomers on the battlefield.

The Hunters' Guild is not against the conquest between cities, and large-scale battles are conducive to maintaining the balance of spatial energy, after all, don't think about coming back in after dying once, it takes time for human spiritual power to recover.

And the way of fighting can hone mental power more quickly, so there are a lot of fanatical combatants, they may be strong in the real world, or they may be waiting for an opportunity, but it is certain that there is almost no desire and interest competition here, everything is virtual, and the purpose of coming here is to hone themselves.

When things become pure, they will become very simple, and the problem Ma Yang faces is that he is penniless and needs money urgently.

"Three days later, in the war with the Frost River Fortress next door, this time we will definitely break into the fortress, beat the other party out, we can get a large number of martial arts and spars, and we can also get special rewards from the guild, don't miss the opportunity and never come again!" At the registration office for joining the army, the four words of crowds are too apt to describe, Ma Yang slowly moved forward at the end of the team, and he couldn't cry or laugh when he heard the shouting.

It's too much like a copy of the game!

First, tell the player the content of the dungeon, and then list the dungeon rewards for everyone to choose. But no matter what, you have to go and see for yourself, and you won't really be killed here.

"Name, ability, use of weapons." The registration officer at the registration office asked in a mechanical voice without raising his head.

"Ma Yang, I don't have much ability, I use a long stick for weapons." Ma Yang said.

"Nothing capable? Are you fast or have good endurance, or are you bold or something, or you can't get a place for you, say it. The staff said impatiently, he had to receive many newcomers like this every day, but the guild required detailed statistics, and according to this classification, the personnel were divided into different teams.

"Then I'm bold."

"Okay, you follow the people of the Iron Wall Camp." Stamped on the identity tag with a large shield in the circle above.

The heavily armed fat man behind the staff motioned to Ma Yang, and he could follow him to the Iron Wall Camp.

"The role of our Iron Wall Battalion is to take the lead in the charge, we are the second best team to earn martial arts and spars, but be careful, if you are not careful, you will be killed, and Wuxun will be gone." The fat man is very talkative, and now the people who come to join the army are newcomers to this place, and it always hurts to listen more.

There are four battalions in Lion Tiger City, namely the military aircraft battalion, the martial arts battalion, the wind battalion, and the iron wall battalion, the military aircraft battalion is integrated into the other three battalions, as the existence of a think tank, the martial arts battalion is the team with the highest attack power, the wind battalion is divided into a scout team and a cavalry team, and the iron wall battalion is all strong men with shields and big swords.

Everything is imitating ancient battles, and the information of the other party's Frost River Fortress is already well understood, after all, as a neighboring city, there have been countless battles large and small, and the opponent's lineup is biased towards Westernization, knights, swordsmen, archers, sacrifices, etc., Ma Yang has seen these in the novel, and it is easy to understand.

"Looking at your figure, you're pretty strong, so you must be able to hold this shield." The one who brought himself was the captain of this hundred-man team, with a standard face with a black face and a scar, who moved the complete set of equipment to Ma Yang at the ordnance department.