One o'clock in the morning.

Ji Xinghuo opened his eyes on the bed, he fell asleep early at ten o'clock in the evening, and although he only slept for three hours, he was still full of energy.

He didn't turn on the lights and ate a supper in the dark to fill his stomach.

Then he changed into a casual training suit, put on a bow and bag, and quietly walked out of the door of the apartment, not taking the elevator, but taking the stairs down to the parking lot.

Along the way, Ji Xinghuo avoided the camera as much as possible.

In the past few days, through magnetic field induction, he knows the positions of several swordsmen arranged by the Sword Bureau inside and outside the building, and has figured out their shift change times.

These swordsmen are not here to spy on themselves, their purpose is to protect themselves and wait for suspicious characters with a very low probability of appearing.

This kind of stalking work is extremely boring.

Even if the swordsmen of the Sword Bureau have extremely high quality and concentration, and they will inevitably relax after three or four days of high-intensity monitoring.

The further back you go, the less focused the swordsman becomes.

Especially in the early hours of the morning.

Ji Xinghuo got into a maglev car in the parking lot, the owner of the car also lives in the building, Ji Xinghuo knew him, borrowed it for a day at a far more than regular price, and parked here last night according to Ji Xinghuo's request, and gave the unlock code.

Enter the destination in the navigation, and the maglev car quickly drove out of the parking lot.

Ji Xinghuo sat in the back row, the opaque window blocking his figure, but in his magnetic field induction, he locked a room on the third floor.

There were two swordsmen in there, who were responsible for monitoring the entry and exit of vehicles into and out of the building.

The car left without any incident, and the two did not react.

Ji Xinghuo showed a smile on his face, looking out the window, the maglev car had already driven onto the superconducting highway and was speeding all the way south.

A moment later.

Ji Xinghuo arrived at the "Chang'an West Station" and let the maglev car return automatically after getting off the train.

The APEC infrastructure is very well-developed, and all modes of transportation are convenient, and citizens generally have three options for traveling: intra-city commuting and intercity travel within 1,000 kilometers, and taking a maglev car on a superconducting highway.

If you travel more than 1,000 kilometers, you can take the "vacuum tube maglev train", which people are used to calling a vacuum train.

If you want to go abroad or for a distance of more than five thousand kilometers, it is fastest to fly in a hypersonic aircraft.

"Chang'an West Station" is a vacuum station.

Since the 80s of the last century, APAC has invested countless financial and resources to build a vacuum pipeline transportation system with a total length of more than 1 million kilometers in the country.

Supporting vacuum stations are all over the country, from Hokkaido in the east, to the Caspian Sea in the west, to the Arctic Ocean in the north, and to the equatorial island of Java in the south.

Ji Xinghuo walked into Chang'an West Station and bought a ticket on his mobile phone.

Destination: Chaka Star Gate!

A few minutes later, he boarded the train without any problems.

Even in the early hours of the morning, the occupancy rate in the carriage was more than half, and most of the passengers were destined for the same as Ji Xinghuo.

There was no one in the seat next to Ji Xinghuo, and he quietly looked out the window.

The train hadn't started yet, and he could see the situation inside the station, and he scanned every passenger who came in through the ticket gate, trying to find the swordsman who might be hiding inside.

However, no.

Finally, the carriage door closed and an announcer sounded.

Ji Xinghuo breathed a sigh of relief, and then noticed a slight vibration from the seat under him, and the train had started.

The scene outside the window receded rapidly, and the speed of the train became faster and faster, and in an instant, the train entered a closed vacuum pipe located underground, and the window switched to a screen, so that it was impossible to see outside.

The current speed of the train is displayed on the screen.

The numbers jumped fast, kept climbing, went from double digits to triple digits in the blink of an eye, and soon broke through to four digits!

Eventually, the speed stabilized at around 1800 km/h!

Although the displayed speed still jumps from time to time, the speed variation range is very small, no more than 30 km/h.

The acceleration was quiet and gentle, and the passengers felt the thrust generated by the acceleration, but it did not affect the movement.

Ji Xinghuo is no stranger to vacuum trains and has taken them many times.

But this time there was a whole new experience.

In magnetic field induction, the track system under the train is a huge magnetic field, and its "magnetic induction intensity" is second only to the earth's magnetic field, and the difference between the two is about ten times. Even so, the strength of the magnetic levitation system is five orders of magnitude stronger than the human magnetic field!

The magnetic field reflected in the brain, the magnetic levitation orbit system shines like the sun, and even produces a "dazzling" feeling.

"If only Inhumans could wield such powers......"

Ji Xinghuo couldn't help but have a reverie.

More than 20 minutes later, the sound of the train announcement sounded in the carriage: "Chaka Xingmen Station has arrived." ”

Ji Xinghuo was in good spirits, got up when the train stopped, walked out of the station, and saw a brightly lit metropolis.

Chaka City!

Located more than 800 kilometers west of Chang'an, the Chaka Basin, two centuries ago, it was originally a barren Gobi Desert, with only a slightly famous salt lake scenic spot.

Chaka City is bordered by Qinghai Lake to the north and a northern branch of the Kunlun Mountains to the south.

In 2033, one of the thirteen star gates suddenly opened on Earth, one of which is located in a wilderness in the Chaka Basin, known as the "Wolf Cave Pit" by the locals, and over the next hundred years, this area has experienced countless wars and finally turned into a wasteland in a nuclear explosion.

It wasn't until 2147 that Chaka Stargate was fully under the control of APAC.

APEC invested manpower, material and financial resources to clean up nuclear contamination, built huge fortifications around the Star Gate, had an army group stationed there, and placed nuclear weapons arrays.

Since then, Chaka Stargate has become one of the stable channels for APAC to enter the astral plane.

APAC has a total of three star gates, the other two being the "Xianglian Star Gate" in the hinterland and the "Palembang Star Gate" in Sumatra.

Chaka Star Gate is the closest to Chang'an.

Therefore, Ji Xinghuo chose to enter the astral boundary from here.

He got into the car and made a quick drive through the city, heading straight for the location of the stargate.

The entire Chaka City is built around the Star Gate, the urban area is roughly a trapezoid, with an area of more than 3,000 square kilometers, a permanent population of tens of millions, and the density is not high, but the life and work of the residents of the whole city are almost centered on the Star Gate.

The Star Gate was right in the middle of the city, and Ji Xinghuo saw a huge building standing in the night from a distance in the car.

As the distance approached, the building grew larger and larger in front of the eyes.

When he got off the station and stood in front of him, it was like standing under a huge city wall, more than three hundred meters high, about five hundred meters long, boxy in appearance, like a box magnified countless times on the earth, gray in color, made of composite cement and alloy, majestic and formidable, intimidating.

"Stargate Fortress!"

Ji Xinghuo had seen it in the video before, but when he saw it with his own eyes, he could feel the solidity and momentum of this fortress.

As its name suggests, Stargate Fortress is a true war fortress.

It itself is capable of withstanding the attack of nuclear weapons, and at the same time, it also has a super-large yield nuclear arsenal inside, which is prepared not only to deal with enemies on Earth, but also to prepare for the terrible enemies that come out of the astral plane.

The five kilometers around the Stargate Fortress were emptied, and the view was wide.

Even at night, Ji Xinghuo could see the thousands of turrets built into this clearing, scattered in the barracks in all directions, hiding stronger firepower.

Stargate Fortress has many entrances and exits.

These entrances and exits are large and small, the large ones are tens of meters high, like city gates, but they are usually closed; The small entrances and exits were not all open, they were heavily guarded, and now only three were opened.

Ji Xinghuo passed the identity verification and security check and walked into the gate of the fortress.

The interior of the fortress was not completely transparent, but was divided into many layers, like nesting dolls, one layer inlaid with one layer, each layer of walls was more than fifteen meters thick, and the space between the walls formed an indoor pedestrian street, enough for seven or eight tanks and tanks in parallel.

On both sides of the street are shops and pedestrians, all of whom are strangers as far as the eye can see!

Ji Xinghuo had never seen so many aliens in reality, and in the magnetic field induction, a humanoid magnetic field was moving, each of which was much stronger than ordinary people.

He stood on the side of the street and observed for a moment.

It was an eye-opener.

"Super Giant!"

A giant more than two meters tall, wearing hundreds of kilograms of heavy armor and carrying a giant axe, felt the ground tremble with every step he took.

The giant general was flanked by a vague figure of a woman who seemed to be shrouded in a mosaic that made it difficult to see her face.

"At least a high-level illusionist."

Ji Xinghuo sighed, turned his head and saw a tall war horse again.

On the back of this red war horse with sharp horns and scales on the belly is a man, and on his shoulder stands a cyan falcon, and the war horse is accompanied by two fierce beasts of different shapes, one left and one right protecting the man on horseback, extremely majestic, like a zoo director.

"Imperial Master!"

Ji Xinghuo watched the man go away with a little envy.

If there is a career template that is both powerful and popular, the threshold is not particularly high, and the ability is comprehensive and convenient, it is the Imperial Master.

The Master can communicate with the astral creatures, tame them and become war pets, fighting for themselves.

Imperial teachers are extremely sought after, accounting for 10% of the occupations.

The larger the number of occupations in general, the greater the influence of the association.

The two largest professional associations in the Asia-Pacific Community are the "Martial Arts Association" and the "Imperial Master Association".

Every year, the Imperial Master Association holds the "Battle Pet Competition", and the number of spectators is no less than that of the Super League, and sometimes even more popular.

Countless games, movies, and books were born around the Imperial Master, and over the years, the Imperial Master culture has become popular all over the world. Related industries, such as war pet breeding, storage, washing, animal taming, veterinarians, breeding farms, pet food, pet beauty pageants, etc., is a huge market of tens of trillions.

Ji Xinghuo also thought about being an imperial master, but he didn't like to keep pets very much, so he had to give up.

He looked around as he delved into the fortress.

Inhumans pass by.

They are either dusty, with traces of battle, fresh from the astral plane, and take the loot into the street shops to sell;

Either they have a new look on their bodies, and they are in groups of three or five, ready to enter the astral plane.

All the way.

Ji Xinghuo saw more than ninety percent of the more than forty professions known on the earth, and what he didn't see were the rarest career templates.

Even, he saw a "mass"!

To be precise, not a "one", but a "group".

Four men with identical appearances walked down the street, although they were wearing different clothes, equipped with different weapons, their faces were camouflaged, their hairstyles were different, and they were spread out from each other to keep a certain distance, but in Ji Xinghuo's magnetic field induction, the magnetic field characteristics of the four people were exactly the same.

These four people are actually the same person!

Ji Xinghuo couldn't help but be curious, and turned his head to look at one of them.

Mass is one of the rarest occupations on the planet.

At present, there are only 66 known masses in the world, which is less than the magnetic field fanatics, and only the "Astral Travelers" and "Destiny Prophets" are even fewer than them.

The core ability of the masses, "Clone Twins," creates a clone that is identical to the original but takes away half of the star power.

Each level of the clone twin, the main body and the clone can each create a new clone.

Similarly, the new clone will also take away half of the star power.

Clones have all the abilities of the ontology, and their minds are synchronized, whether they are heads-up or group fights, they have a huge advantage.

There are four doppelgangers of this "mass" plus doppelgangers, indicating that his "clone twin" is second-level.

Ji Xinghuo looked away before the other party noticed it.

"Super Crowd!"

The magnetic field induction identified the rank of the other party, however, because the star power was divided into four parts, the strength of each clone of the crowd was not as good as the super alien of the level.

The biggest advantage of the masses is still group beatings.

Therefore, the other Inhumans have given the crowd a rather hilarious nickname - the gang!

Ji Xinghuo secretly remembered the appearance of this crowd, continued to move forward, and after passing through the seven-story wall, he finally reached the deepest part of the fortress.

Suddenly, a large and bright space opened up in front of you.

"Stargate!"

Ji Xinghuo looked at the "door" in the fortress hall for the first time, in fact, it was not what people had in their impression of the door.

The stargate is a ball!

It has a diameter of about thirty meters, the shape is an absolute sphere, without a trace of error, the surface outline is smooth, and it is black in the human eye, but in fact it has no color, it just does not reflect any light, like a black hole without suction.

A multi-tiered circular platform was built around this black ball.

There are people entering and exiting each of the circular platforms, and people step on the platform along the passageway, close to the stargate, and the moment they reach out and touch the surface of the stargate, the person disappears.

At the same time, there were also people who came out of the stargate, like a flat sky appeared on the platform on the other side.

Whether it's in or out, there's no process.

Done in an instant.

Ji Xinghuo watched curiously for half a minute, one by one strangers came in and out, and the people around him were used to it. He didn't go to the queue to enter the stargate, until then, there was still something to do.