Chapter 84: Beast Tide Erupts! (First update!) )
When Qin Ming arrived at the supply base used as the examination room, it had already been cleared, and in the originally spacious hall, there were only about twenty people sitting, all of whom seemed to be about the same age as Qin Ming.
As for the rest of the idlers, they have long been moved to other supply bases.
In fact, at this point in time, there were very few warriors who would stay in the supply base, and most of them had returned to Jiangzhou City or gone to the deeper wilderness areas.
Because compared to the supply base in the next three days, the wilderness area is much safer.
After all, from tomorrow onwards, it will be the day of the most terrible siege!
The so-called siege day is more commonly known as a kind of "beast tide", but this can be described as the highest level of beast tide.
Because, its initiator is the king of mutant creatures!
Basically, once a month, a flood of mutated creatures surround the human city and launch a frantic charge.
The reason why humans will build thousands of high walls on the outskirts of the city, and do not hesitate to install all kinds of most advanced heavy weapons on them, is precisely to resist the attack of mutant creatures to the greatest extent when the day of siege comes.
There is no way, although human beings have gradually gained a foothold in more than a hundred years, but in terms of the general trend, it is still the mutant creatures who have the upper hand.
Although there are many strong people in the human race who make mutated creatures fearful, the number is too small, and the number of mutant creatures is too many.
A strong man can protect a city from the attack of the beast tide if he dies, as for other places, it's not that they don't want to help, it's really that they can't help.
Therefore, when the beast tide arrives, many places do not get help, and they only rely on the people in the city to fight themselves, to resist the surging beast tide and seek a glimmer of life.
But even so, in this battle of self-defense for survival, mankind has lost more than it won, and countless cities have been burned.
Take the Jiangnan Base Area as an example, at the beginning, the Jiangnan Base Area was originally scheduled to have a total of 36 cities, which could shelter nearly 80 million human beings living here.
However, in these years of struggle, mankind was completely defeated and retreated, and the 36 cities were finally reduced to only 13 cities, and the population was sharply reduced to less than 15 million.
It is precisely because of these sacrifices that mankind has accumulated a lot of experience in resistance, so that in the past ten years, there has been little news of a tragic disaster in which a city has been breached.
Although the number of casualties is still very terrifying, in the end, it is so that ordinary people don't have to live the days when they were worried about being slaughtered at any time.
Coupled with the rise of the human powerhouses, the emperor among the mutant creatures has also compromised, and the time of the beast tide has become predictable, and the quality will not exceed the limits of each city.
Most importantly, after much negotiation, the Mutant Creatures Emperor promised that the Beast Tide would only occur for three days.
In other words, as long as the cities can survive the onslaught of the beast tide for three days, the mutated creatures will naturally retreat, which also gives the humans a chance to breathe.
You must know that in the past, due to the uncertain duration of the beast tide, some people with fragile hearts could not bear this psychological pressure, and finally had to choose to commit suicide, which is really regrettable.
It's just that the mutant creatures are not good people, and the reason why they have this agreement with the strong human beings is because they also have to bind the human race.
According to the agreement, in these three days, whether the human city is breached and slaughtered, or the number of mutant creatures is slaughtered, the strong on both sides will not interfere, let alone retaliate afterwards...... At least on the surface.
Otherwise, every time the human powerhouse is over, the human powerhouse will run to the wilderness area to assassinate the strong among the mutant creatures out of revenge, which will also give the emperors of the mutated creatures a headache.
And when the beast tide breaks out, the plain area and dense forest area, which were originally used as a buffer zone for the survival of humans and mutant creatures, will naturally be densely packed with all kinds of mutant creatures.
In this case, the originally dangerous wilderness area has become a lot safer due to the large number of mutated creatures going out, and the vicinity of the supply base has become the most dangerous place.
This is also why, in addition to the antenna for communication, most of the facilities of the supply base are buried deep underground, in order to directly close the underground gate when the beast tide arrives, you can stop the mutant creatures from the door and ensure the safety of the base to the greatest extent.
Of course, even if the mutant creatures don't come in, the sound of ten thousand beasts rushing to the ground is enough to make everyone who stays in the supply base go crazy.
Therefore, the supply base would not have been occupied at this time, and it happened to be used as a starting point for the entrance examination.
As for the content of the assessment, it is very simple, that is, when the day of the siege comes, go out to the dense forest area, and survive in it until the end of the day of the siege.
Does it sound so sinister that it's almost suicidal? That's right!
Jiangnan Martial Arts Academy, as the institution with the highest level of martial arts in the Jiangnan base area, its students are naturally the most first-class powerhouses in the Jiangnan base area, and they are also the guardians of Jiangnan in the future.
If you don't even have the ability to survive the beast tide, how can you become a guardian and protect a city from the poisonous claws of mutant creatures?
If the entrance examination is still like this, then the Jiangnan martial arts examination is even more dangerous.
It is said that the content of the exam is to pull all the candidates directly into a deserted city full of beast soldiers, and then let the candidates find a way to hunt a mid-level beast soldier on their own.
If you can't do it, don't even think about being able to enroll in Jiangnan Martial Arts Academy.
In comparison, this will be a good test.
At least in the beast tide, the beast soldiers are still a minority, and the beast generals will hardly appear, and the vast majority of them are ordinary mutant creatures.
And those who can participate in the entrance examination are also second-order warriors at the most, if their skills are good enough and careful enough, it is definitely more than enough for self-protection.
As for those who want to fish in troubled waters, the people who designed this assessment naturally also had in mind, so in addition to the survival requirements, the assessment also has kill requirements.
When you return to the supply base on the third day, you must bring back three Blood Crystals.
In other words, it is necessary to hunt and kill three beginner-level beast soldiers in order to be considered qualified and have the qualifications to further participate in the Jiangnan Martial Arts Examination.
Otherwise, it will be a fluke to come back alive, and it will only be unsuccessful, and you will have to retake the exam again next year.
Of course, this kind of requirement is simply easy and pleasant for Qin Ming now, and it can be completed without any effort.
So, from the very beginning, he set his sights on the extra tasks that would qualify for the escort, and only looked at the column that would qualify for the top escort.
"Kill the leader of the death row prisoner with the red armband and bring the opponent's armband back, and those who successfully complete it will get the top escort qualification."
At the same time, below this line of mission description, there is a small red text like a warning:
"Note, the strength of the leader of the death row prisoners is unknown, it all depends on the current arrangement, but the minimum requirement is also above the fifth-order warrior, please carefully choose whether to challenge this task."
"Fifth Order Warrior?" Qin Ming smiled faintly, but he didn't care.
It's no wonder that with his current strength, who can compete with him if he doesn't fight?
But even he wouldn't have thought that someone would give him such a surprise as a warrior in this examination!