Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 222: Soaring Up
"Get 500 points."

Yuan Ze turned his head, jumped up from the ground, and stretched his muscles. The opponent in the last match today was No. 543. It was not a big pressure for Yuan Ze. He could send him away with just a few moves.

This comprehensive training tower will gain points based on the gap in existing rankings and the difficulty of the simulated training. For Yuanze, who is ranked last, this is the best way to increase points.

These days, I even earned points that others would have to work on for more than half a month to get through tasks.

If it weren't for the restrictions of the list rules, he would have to exchange items and take the initiative to initiate the position change challenge, wishing he could stay in this simulated space forever.

Just now he had no choice but to leave this space and go to the arena to take part in the position-swap challenge.

The rules this time are different. Yuanze puts all his challenges this month on the line and can choose any student within 500 places of the other student.

When making reservations yesterday, only one student, seat 1043, was available, and he became the next unlucky guy after Zhenyuanhu.

It was just a one-sided crushing victory, and there are not many details worth reviewing.

"Yuan Ze, it seems that you have been very busy during this period and your strength has improved a lot, but you haven't dealt with the things in the Machinery City yet." Astra reminded Yuan Ze.

"Then I don't have any solution for now. My strength is only enough to fight with those people for a few moves at best. I'm not strong enough to compete with them in a duel."

"But then you won't be able to experience the test of life and death. Simulation training will dull your senses."

"Then tell me, what kind of outing mission can I take?"

Astra was also speechless. The missions in the Source Beast City were basically combat missions that were highly related to humans, such as clearing out spies.

I also know that Yuanze would never attack humans, and this would easily cause him some unnecessary trouble.

So Yuanze simply gave up on completing missions, gave up on external objects, and simply improved his own hard power.

He also planned to use the points obtained from the comprehensive training tower to exchange for additional position-changing challenge opportunities.

"Yuan Ze, are you free now?"

Weiming found him in the comprehensive training tower and applied for an interview.

"Yes, but if you have something to say, can't we talk somewhere else? I'm going to log off."

"Other places say confidentiality is not as good as in virtual space."

Yuanze didn't understand what he was up to, but he felt that he was sincere, so he agreed to his application.

The scene changed rapidly, and the two people's virtual images came to a simple tea room.

"What do you want to tell me?"

Yuanze really didn't understand why his competitor came to him.

"After thinking it over, I feel that my talent is not as good as yours. When I think about competing with you for the heir to the throne, I feel uncomfortable all over. This reminds me of the deceitful humans."

Weiming also watched the video of the battle to get into the rankings, and he couldn't handle it better than Yuanze.

Especially when it came to Zhenyuan Tiger's final killing move, he could only use the defensive power of his scales to resist it, and he didn't even think of Yuanze's method.

I will definitely be defeated by this move.

He knew that his severe injury last time was no accident. It seemed that both sides were injured and evenly matched. In fact, he took advantage of the characteristics of his own source power and drained Yuan Ze's power.

This made him feel even more terrifying about Yuan Ze, because the reason he was seriously injured was not only because of Zhu Ci's damage, but more importantly, the other party consumed a large amount of source power and almost burst himself.

The blessing used by the opponent would consume so much energy. If it could really take full effect, it would kill me instantly.

Not to mention, he wasn't very competitive, and he only learned the blessing from an old man in a black cloak.

Yuan Ze also realized that he had no intention of being an enemy of him, and he didn't even have a trace of hostility:
"Don't think that it's embarrassing to admit defeat like this. It will damage your image."

"You misunderstood. Regardless of the fact that this is a private conversation between us, there is no shame in letting everyone know that I am not as good as you. Strength is the hard truth, and one day I will have to face it."

Weiming's words were surprisingly frank and straightforward, which made Yuanze, who was used to intrigue, a little uncomfortable.

"Wouldn't that just boost others' prestige and kill your own morale? Even if I'm stronger than you now, you can still work hard in secret, then defeat me and prove your status to everyone."

Unexpectedly, Weiming shook his head, his eyes were unusually calm:

"I haven't lost confidence in myself. I just don't want to be your enemy. Even if we compete, I hope that we can become friends in the end anyway."

"That's true, but I also have some secrets. I would rather be myself and walk my own path, rather than the predetermined path to the throne."

"You mean, you want to become a new king who fought for his own fortune like the king did?"

Yuan Ze nodded and sat up straight: "It's okay to understand it this way. You are so humble and know yourself well. Your potential is not inferior to mine. You are more suitable to inherit the position of king."

"so……"

"So, compared to sitting in this position, I have higher ideals, such as unifying humans and source beasts."

When Weiming heard this, he frowned slightly and looked out the window of the virtual space:
"This is difficult. I think it's impossible. This is not the first time humans and source beasts have encountered each other. How can we just let go of so much hatred?"

Yuanze stretched his arms backwards, supporting his upper body, and looked out the window:
"I know it's difficult, but that's what makes it meaningful, isn't it? As long as you have the power to surpass everything, you can unite all creatures on Blue Star just like the king united all the source beasts."

"I beg to differ."

"Why?"

"Look at our king. No matter how powerful he is, he will grow old one day. There are already many source beasts ready to make a move. Strong strength alone cannot guarantee long-term success. If you really become that strong one day, your first thought will definitely be to go to the broader interstellar stage."

"Makes sense."

Yuanze also discussed this issue with Astra, but in the end it came to nothing.

"You may have come into contact with fewer species of source beasts."

"What do you mean?" Yuanze didn't quite understand.

"I am not the reptilian source beast you understand. I am not that advanced. My true form is an ant."

"Ant?"

Yuanze was very surprised. Logically speaking, it was impossible for such a low-level creature to possess such high strength.

"Yes, that's right! Generally speaking, the group I belong to can only develop low-level source beasts, and can only rely on the speed of reproduction to maintain the existence of the entire population..."

Weiming’s words are also easy to understand.

In the swarm structure, only the queen ant has the highest consciousness and commands other ants to perform their duties through pheromones.

After evolving into a source beast, the queen ant is the only "leader" with a completely independent individual consciousness.

Other types of ants (such as worker ants, soldier ants, etc.) have varying degrees of independence and awareness.

In a small number of more evolved ant colonies, collective behavior still dominates.

But individuals with certain specific duties (such as scientists and engineers) may develop stronger individual consciousness to adapt to complex tasks.

But they still cannot escape the suppression of the queen ant at the genetic level.

……

"I think this is terrifying! Then how were you born? According to what you said, you shouldn't be able to appear."

Weiming nodded, agreeing with Yuanze's point of view:

"My ability is also inherited from my mother. It is also 'absorption'. The only difference is the direction of development. My mother can absorb the most powerful DNA of other creatures to make the tribe stronger."

"Then you wouldn't be..."

"Yes, my mother obtained the body of the loser after a fight between the Source Warriors, and then laid the last egg."

This amount of information was a bit overwhelming, and Yuanze found it difficult to digest it for a while.

"This is how I was born. Later, I gradually grew up and completely got rid of the constraints of my mother's consciousness on me."

"Where is your tribe and what happened to it? I think it's amazing! I want to go and see it!"

Weiming sighed: "My tribe lived in the misty jungle! In a destructive exploration by humans, they were all destroyed. I am the last one of my race."

"Misty Forest?"

Yuanze recalled some memories, as well as some past events that Zhang Zhisheng had told him.

"what happened?"

"Can you tell me more?" Yuanze suddenly became serious and patted Weiming on the back, "Can you tell me more about the story of the ant tribe?"

"No problem, you can tell me anything you want to know."

(End of this chapter)