The memories of all humanity are awakening, except for mine.

Zhong Huahua, Tang Songming, and others exited the virtual reality environment and went to Class Two to find Cao Zhiqiang.

Before they could explain the situation, they saw more and more students from Class 2 leaving the virtual reality environment.

Tang Songming frowned as he watched his classmates take off their helmets, his face showing utter astonishment.

"The signal is cut off?"

"What happened, Teacher Cao?"

Cao Zhiqiang touched his bald head, his face also filled with disbelief.

He didn't know what had happened either, but he reassured the students for the time being: "Since it's said to be a technical malfunction, please be patient."

But Cao Zhiqiang also knew that technical malfunctions were almost impossible for the headquarters to handle.

The headquarters technical team emphasizes stability; even if there are occasional errors, there are always backup lines to ensure that problems do not occur.

But at this time...

After calming the students down, he immediately left the classroom and dialed the headquarters' field team.

However, the field team's phone was busy, and a series of busy tones appeared in Cao Zhiqiang's ears.

However, this situation of the line being busy should not happen.

"what happened?"

Just as Feng Xiaobo still didn't believe that there would be a problem at headquarters before everything happened, Cao Zhiqiang simply couldn't imagine how such an oversight could occur with the strength of headquarters and the level of those meticulous senior executives.
He then dialed several backup communication channels at headquarters, but again found nothing about the situation in Yanjing at that time.

Under such circumstances, even if Feng Xiaobo was unwilling to believe it, the situation was already laid bare before him.

It seems... there really is a problem at headquarters.

……

Xu Chenggong, the head of the Qingdao Municipal Organization, soon received a call from Cao Zhiqiang.

You said you can't get in touch with headquarters?

Xu Chenggong looked incredulous after hearing Cao Zhiqiang's report.

"You suspect the problem lies at headquarters?"

"Where's Cao Zhigang? Have you been able to contact your brother?"

On the other end of the phone, Cao Zhiqiang quickly gave the answer: "I couldn't get in touch with them. I've lost contact with everyone I can reach in Yanjing."

His tone was very serious.

Xu Chenggong pondered for a moment and then asked, "What do you plan to do?"

Cao Zhiqiang said, "I want to take a few students to Yenching."

Xu Chenggong pondered for a moment, then said, "It's not suitable."

"Do not act rashly without knowing exactly what the problem is."

Cao Zhiqiang retorted, "If we knew what had happened, it might already be too late."

Xu Chenggong said, "No."

"I am responsible for your safety."

"Moreover, even if you can take off within forty minutes, it will still take at least five or six hours for you to arrive in Yanjing."

"What use are you guys?"

"Mr. Zhou is a top-tier expert, what are you doing taking the children out to cause trouble?"

Cao Zhiqiang had no way to refute this at the moment.

He knew that Dean Xu's statement was correct and rational, but he was too worried about the safety of the children, and at this point he was acting rashly out of desperation.

Cao Zhiqiang gritted his teeth: "Are we just going to do nothing?"

Xu Chenggong said, "I will contact other local agencies to check on their situations and organize some manpower."

"If you're going to Yanjing, you'll be going alone."

"You wait for my news."

"Keep the students calm and don't let them know about this mess for now."

Cao Zhigang grunted in response and ended the communication.

In the office of the person in charge of the Qing City agency building, after the phone call was cut off, Xu Chenggong looked at Wang Zhi and Chen Xingyang who were standing next to him.

Xu Chenggong said, "You heard it all too."

"What do you think?"

Chen Xingyang said, "Given Jiang Chuan's luck, I wouldn't be surprised if anything happened."

He immediately followed up with, "However, contacting other organizations is indeed of paramount importance."

"No matter what happened, the right thing to do now is to gather some people and head to Yanjing."

Wang Zhi nodded as well.

Xu Chenggong nodded and continued, "Try to organize the situation within twenty minutes."

"Call Wu Qingqing here and have the comrades in the secretariat assist us in immediately contacting the branch offices in nearby cities and prefectures!"

……

Of course, it wasn't just the Aoshi authorities that reacted at the same time.

When problems arise in the virtual reality environment, headquarters remains completely silent and out of contact...

This matter will naturally prompt various local agencies to make their own responses and judgments.

Many organizations have already made contact with each other, and the fourth-grade teachers who have been left behind in various places are all ready to embark on their journey to the headquarters.

The situation is spiraling out of control.

……

The technical team has been completely taken over.

The artisan group was not left behind either.

Although Lu Bin's preparations were thorough, they were by no means perfect.

At the organization's headquarters, too many people were unwilling to back down, and many even made the decision to fight to the death.

Of course, some people were also trying to send out distress signals.

Faced with the majority of people's resistance, Lu Bin's judgment was to cut off the possibility of headquarters contacting the outside world. Rather than going to great lengths to send false intelligence to various places, it would be better to prevent them from knowing the information at all, thereby affecting their judgment and buying time for his own actions.

Lu Bin's plan was clear: as long as he could achieve his goal and kill the people he was supposed to kill, then victory would be his.

By this time, the helicopter he was in had already landed.

"The beast tide has been triggered as planned."

"Our people have also cleared out those field crew members responsible for monitoring."

"Only Cao Zhigang, the guardian teacher from the Qingshi institution, is temporarily missing."

"But he's being hunted down, so your plans won't be affected."

Lu Bin nodded; for him, this was already considered exceeding expectations.

In fact, he allowed himself a certain degree of leeway in every task he assigned.

He knew very well that there were too many variables in the plan, and it was impossible to do it perfectly under the watchful eyes of Mr. Zhou and Song Chen.

Only one Class A4 remains...

What kind of trouble can he stir up?
It's just a pity for these rising stars.

How many of them will survive this beast tide?

Lu Bin thought this, but didn't speak. He silently followed his subordinates toward the barrier.

They used an antique-looking bell-shaped object to open a corner of the barrier and stepped inside.

The scene before us was one of utter devastation; the horde of beasts had left the forest riddled with holes.

They moved silently through the jungle, their goal already very clear.

……

At this moment, the beast tide had passed in the very center of the barrier.

Around this circular defensive formation, the corpses of those strange beasts lay scattered, the scene was a mess, and the smell of blood was quite pungent.

These elites from all over the country, who had fought bloody battles, sat silently on the ground, leaning against each other, almost all of them completely exhausted.

Dong Xing'an muttered with lingering fear, "This is fucking tough."

Jiang Chuan and Li Yi leaned on each other and replied, "It's good enough that we're not dead."

Jiang Chuan didn't use his spatial abilities in combat, but instead relied on the most energy-efficient method to kill the beasts that wanted to trample them underfoot. Even so, his arms were trembling, and it seemed he could barely move his fingers.

Zhang Beishan's voice came from the other side: "The beast tide has stopped!"

"We're fine!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Chuan whispered to Li Yi, "Keep an eye on things for me. I need to get back to my best condition as soon as possible."

After he finished speaking, he immediately closed his eyes and entered his dream world, where he quickly replenished his mental energy through meditation.

The night before the finals, Xu Shan contacted him specifically, warning him that there might be problems in the fourth stage of the competition.

At first, Jiang Chuan didn't take it seriously.

After all, many of the things Xu Shan talked about with him that night were about his future cultivation direction and things related to his equipment.

The warning seemed to be just a casual remark.

But now that I think about it, perhaps this is what he really wanted to tell me.

"I never thought this would actually happen."

"But why?"

What's the point of taking action against a group of students?

Jiang Chuan was completely baffled.

Moreover, this place is full of elites, and from any perspective, they should be the ones who need protection.

The illogical reasoning behind this is why Jiang Chuan didn't take the warning seriously.

Moreover, Xu Shan mentioned this matter in a very casual tone at the time.

Especially since this is under the jurisdiction of headquarters, how could headquarters possibly allow such a problem to occur?

So although he did take the initiative to make some judgments and investigations, he didn't pay much attention to it overall.

On the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, no one believed it until the next day when it actually crumbled.

Only then did Jiang Chuan belatedly realize:

"Has something happened at headquarters?"

His heart tightened, but he did not break free from his meditation. Instead, he tried even harder to quickly regain his composure.

The elites from various institutions were all extremely exhausted at this point.

After taking down the last charging beast, their spirits lifted and they collapsed completely, finding it difficult even to stand.

Like Jiang Chuan, Shi Shan immediately entered a meditative state, as did Sun Yuan, who sat cross-legged, struggling to recover.

Suddenly, Qin Qing's hoarse voice from Yanjing rang in everyone's ears:

"Gentlemen, this is not a good time to fight again..."

"Cough cough cough..."

"The source of the beast tide is currently unknown, and no one from the Gan City authorities has appeared yet."

"The crisis we are facing may be more than just this."

"Take advantage of this opportunity and rest as soon as possible."

"We have at least twenty minutes to recover..."

"Then get out of here as soon as possible, in case the next wave of beasts suddenly arrives."

Upon hearing this, several people in the crowd, who had been gripping their weapons tightly, relaxed their grip.

However, while individuals like Shi Shan, Sun Yuan, and Jiang Chuan can recover their mental energy through meditation and stillness, those of the awakened type—such as Zheng Yang, Zhang Beishan, and Meng Xing—who rely primarily on their physical abilities in combat, cannot recover quickly. This is especially true since they had been engaged in combat even before facing the beast tide…

Even someone like Lin Ci, known for his recovery ability, is now at his limit; it's a stroke of luck that he didn't faint.

Huang Yi walked over to Jiang Chuan's side, looked at Jiang Chuan leaning against Li Yi, and asked Li Yi, "How... is he?"

Li Yi said, "It's nothing."

"I need to rest."

This is certainly not a time for daydreaming.

It's perfectly normal for men and women to rely on each other in such situations.

Huang Yixing looked at the last arrow in his quiver and nodded silently.

Jiang Chuan asked him to keep this arrow.

He had originally intended to take this opportunity to ask Jiang Chuan what was going on and what Jiang Chuan needed him to do, but now it seemed that the time was not right.

After resting for a few minutes, many people started chatting.

Although they were enemies just moments ago, after this life-or-death struggle, they have entrusted each other with their backs, and the speed at which their relationship has grown closer is faster than a rocket.

"I didn't expect that no one died."

"Yeah, these team leaders are really going all out. I've never seen our boss work so hard."

Which side are you from?

“From Shenzhen, our number one is Sun Yuan.”

"Oh, Sun Yuan, I'm from Chang'an. Our boss, Meng Xing, also did a good job this time."

Meng Xing glanced at him.

The Chang'an team member paused for a moment, then gave an awkward chuckle.

"Brother Zhang, are you alright?"

Zhang Beishan shook his head and looked at Zheng Yang: "It's good that you came to help."

"Otherwise, something terrible would have happened here."

Zheng Yang, still breathing heavily, leaned on his sword and shook his head, saying, "It's all thanks to Jiang Chuan."

"He almost single-handedly blocked the north."

Zhang Beishan looked at Jiang Chuan, who was meditating, in astonishment. He was about to say something, but then immediately looked to the west.

His eyes kept changing.

That's the giant tiger.

At this moment, the giant tiger was covered in wounds, and its golden fur, which had been gilded, was now stained with blood and looked extremely dark.

But it is still gradually moving towards the crowd.

The group, who had begun to relax, all looked in the direction of the giant tiger.

Tian Tian immediately straightened up, her eyes filled with astonishment, and after a long while she said, "So annoying, so annoying."

At the same time, Shi Shan and Sun Yuan opened their eyes.

They both spoke at the same time: "No."

The two exchanged a glance, and then Sun Yuan continued, "Someone came with that tiger."

The group initially thought it was alright; no matter how strong the tiger was, it was at its limit and its condition was even worse than theirs.

But after hearing what these two people said, it was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head.

"What!?"

Many people immediately stood up and stared wide-eyed in that direction.

Sure enough, they saw five figures walking towards them together with the giant tiger.

Qin Qing's voice came through: "They're from Gansu." (End of Chapter)