According to Gao Xiaoqi's plan, Jiang Ming's convoy had to make a big detour to reach their destination this time, that is, Xinghe City, which is the headquarters of the Meihe Group.

On the third day, everyone's convoy had already arrived at the outskirts of the Xinghai Forest across the junction of the third and fourth districts, and they had to travel a short distance inside for the rest of their journey.

Fortunately, after tonight, their next trip will slowly move away from the Xinghai Forest, and then it will basically be a smooth road.

Night slowly fell, as more and more nocturnal beasts in the forest began to move, Jiang Ming and their convoy did not dare to make too much noise, and the three earth messengers had already turned on the low-energy mode that could turn on the camouflage function synchronously, and the speed had also dropped to less than twenty kilometers per hour.

After finally finding a relatively hidden place to set up camp, the time was almost eight o'clock.

"Sister Yan, is this the Xinghai Forest?" Jiang Ming, who finally got out of the car and breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the rows of shadowy trees around him, and asked curiously.

"Hmm." Yan Xinyue looked at the surrounding environment vigilantly, and only after finding that there was no abnormality for the time being did he turn his head to look at Jiang Ming, and his tone was unprecedentedly serious: "Anyway, I haven't been to this place for a long time, I remember the last time I came was when I went to Quanfu City with Deputy Commander Du to participate in the hunting trial." Yan Xinyue's tone was a little nostalgic: "It's been seven years. ”

"Deputy Commander Yan also participated in that hunting trial seven years ago?" At this time, Gao Xiaoqi walked over and asked curiously.

"yes." Yan Xinyue's face instantly hung a smile: "Could it be that Sister Xiaoqi is too?" However, after Yan Xinyue thought for a while, she shook her head again: "No, I don't seem to remember that there was your name among the people in District 4 at that time, and your age at that time should not be enough." As a person who is good at mental ability, Yan Xinyue is quite confident in his memory.

"I really didn't participate." Gao Xiaoqi's tone was a little heavy,

"But one of my seniors on the same team participated."

"Oh, Senpai? What's his name, maybe we'll see him again. Yan Xinyue said with a smile.

"Her name is Ying Xiaoqi."

"Ying Xiaoqi!" Yan Xinyue's expression was stunned after hearing this name, and after a long time, he spoke again: "I remember her, that is indeed a very powerful person, but unfortunately, God is jealous of talents..."

"I knew you were going to ask this." Yan Xinyue took out a tone that had been expected for a long time,

"Xiao Ming, you should know about the hunting trial in the Xinghai Forest."

"Yes." Jiang Ming nodded back, and said the relevant information in his memory: "The hunting trial is a grand event organized by the third and fourth districts in order to curb the expansion of the Star Sea Forest to the human gathering area and to train the younger generation of human beings. "Because Jiang Zheng also participated in this hunting trial on behalf of Binhai City three years ago, and he also came back first, Jiang Ming still has a deep memory of this.

But that's all he knows, after all, the specific information of the hunting trial is strictly controlled by the official, and at most, the outside world will disclose the ranking and the like.

As for the Xinghai Forest, it is one of the largest gathering places of alien beasts in the Donghuang Federation, spanning the third and fourth districts, and with its rapid expansion over the years, it has covered nearly 30% of the area of each of the two districts.

Although the Xinghai Forest is located in the northern half of the Donghuang Federation, it has formed a variety of different terrains due to the influence of some powerful alien beast races, and the more you go to the middle of the forest, the more complex it becomes, including wetlands, swamps, and even special terrains such as volcanoes and hills.

The alien beasts that inhabit the Xinghai Forest generally follow the principle of getting stronger and stronger from the outside in, and even in the very center of the forest, it is said that there is more than one ninth-order alien beast.

With such a powerful Xinghai Forest, in terms of the current strength of the Donghuang Federation, it would definitely not provoke them for no reason, but at the same time, it was impossible to just watch the Xinghai Forest expand unscrupulously outside, so there would be the birth of the hunting trial.

Since the area of the hunting trial was only on the periphery of the Star Sea Forest, the foreign beast powerhouses in the inner area would not turn their faces against the Donghuang Federation for those beasts that were no more than the fifth order.

At the same time, because those high-level alien beasts all believe in the law of the jungle, they are happy to be able to screen this disguise.

Of course, the main reason is that the alien beasts are also divided into many different races, so as long as their own interests are not involved, they definitely don't mind the main story of Angelica, Yan Xinyue After listening to Jiang Ming's narration, he slowly told the story of seven years ago.

Things are not complicated, that is, in the hunting trial that year, a girl with a genius comparable to Jiang Zheng appeared in the fourth district, called Ying Xiaoqi.

According to Yan Xinyue, Ying Xiaoqi's performance in the hunting trial was not much worse than Jiang Zheng's, and he was directly so reluctant that he lost everyone's sense of victory or defeat in the third district, and even the person in charge of the third district at that time said that as long as he could keep the second place.

However, just when the dust was about to settle, the distress device on the participating members of the hunting trial turned out to be passive.

After that, a group of members of the Beast God Sect took the lead and organized dozens of middle-level alien beasts and an astonishing number of low-level alien beasts to surround and suppress the elites who participated in the hunting trial at that time.

Originally, this should also be regarded as a part of the trial, but they couldn't stand the other party's mental calculation or unintentionality, so in the end, under the huge strength gap between the two sides, Yan Xinyue and they could only fight and retreat, but because the distress signal could not be sent, they couldn't wait for rescue.

In the end, Ying Xiaoqi, as the leader, broke through on the spot, and after becoming a sixth-order evolutionary, she tried her best to give others a chance to live, but she fought to the end.

"Later, the examiners who were guarding the back finally found out, but by the time they passed, it was already too late." Yan Xinyue quietly lowered her head when she said this, but Jiang Ming, who was sitting behind, couldn't see her expression: "Actually, with her strength, she could run away by herself, and she was only twenty-five years old at that time, no one would blame her!" No one! ”