At this moment Shen Hong’s head was full of question marks.
This is the reinforcement President Chen Xuan found for me?
Are you kidding?
Which nursing home did they drag these 100 volunteers from?
This is taking the piss!
I asked for combat support to clean up the spirit ruin, not to sweep the airport runway or scrub public toilets!
“Pfft… I spoke too soon! I bragged too early!”
“Hey! Stop laughing! Doesn’t President Shen want face?”
“This face? I don’t want it any more! Nursing home volunteers? My god…”
“This is just going to cause trouble! They’re here to mess things up, right?”
The welcoming staff could not help bursting into complaints.
Shen Hong’s face went completely black. He stood rooted to the spot, not knowing what to do.
Send these people into the spirit ruin? That would be sending them to their deaths!
“This… this…”
Just then Jiang Nan squeezed his way out of the crowd.
“Yo! Brother Shen! What are you standing there for? We’re in a hurry to get inside!”
“What’s the situation in there?”
Shen Hong froze. Jiang Nan? Why was he working as a volunteer at a nursing home?
Didn’t he go off to university?
Only now did he notice that many of the faces among these volunteers had appeared at the national All-Star tournament!
In an instant goosebumps shot straight from his spine to the top of his head.
What kind of immortal nursing home is this?
They use national champions as volunteers. Does that mean all these people…
“Quick, quick, quick! Come into the office with me! We’ll talk details inside!”
The staff who had come with Shen Hong to greet them were stunned.
You’re really going to use them? This isn’t how you press-gang people!
Inside the office!
Shen Hong’s expression was grave.
The large screen behind him showed an aerial view of Thousand Island Lake Spirit Ruin!
Beast shadows and traces of battle were faintly visible on every island!
It had already descended into complete chaos!
“The spirit surge inside Thousand Island Lake Spirit Ruin is still ongoing! The overflowing spirit energy has even spilled out of the space gate!”
“That’s why the mountains are covered in this white mist!”
“At present the association has seized one island as a stronghold and built a temporary helipad for evacuation!”
Shen Hong pointed at a small island on the big screen!
The island was surrounded by earthen walls raised by earth-ability users to resist spirit-beast attacks from all sides!
In the centre of the island a red smoke flare rose as a parachute beacon!
“Your primary objective is to hold that stronghold!”
“Then, while clearing spirit beasts, rescue the spirit warriors scattered throughout the ruin!”
Jiang Nan frowned. “How many people are still inside?”
Shen Hong gritted his teeth. “A lot! Mostly silver-rank spirit warriors! The real problem is that three spirit-martial high schools sent their first-year students here for training. Three hundred of them in total!”
“Many of those students are only bronze-rank. This is…”
At this moment everyone’s hearts sank.
Training there had originally been perfectly safe! A silver-grade spirit ruin was ideal!
But now a sudden spirit surge had turned it into a disaster zone!
For those students, running into even one gold-rank spirit beast would mean total annihilation!
Jiang Nan’s brows knitted tightly. “I remember every trainee who enters is issued a satellite bracelet with positioning, right?”
Shen Hong replied, “They do, but our people can’t push deeper inside! Inside…”
“Give me the map and positioning data! I’ll take responsibility for getting the students out! Keep talking!”
Shen Hong paused, then remembered Jiang Nan was a space-ability user and instantly felt much more confident!
Every volunteer stared at Jiang Nan in awe!
At this moment Jiang Nan had shed his usual playful cheekiness!
In its place was calm composure. He seemed like a completely different person from the usual him!
He even felt a little unfamiliar!
Yet for some reason he gave everyone an overwhelming sense of security!
As long as Jiang Nan was here!
No disaster was too big to handle!
Shen Hong continued, “The main goals are rescue and beast clearing! But if you can locate the spirit core that would be ideal!”
“Thousand Island Lake Spirit Ruin is almost certainly going to upgrade this time! The spirit surge is definitely related to the spirit core!”
Ye Xinghe frowned. “Doesn’t Thousand Island Lake have the Sky-Eye system? Shouldn’t we already have the spirit core? Why are we still looking for it?”
Shen Hong gave a bitter laugh. “The spirit core in our hands is incomplete. Just a tiny fragment!”
Everyone nodded. They now understood the basic situation. They followed Shen Hong out to the airfield!
Whatever remained could only be dealt with once they were inside!
At this moment every major news outlet was closely following the Thousand Island Lake spirit-surge incident!
Especially the fact that students were trapped inside. It had drawn attention from all walks of society!
In front of the cameras!
“Hello everyone, this is reporter Hu Shuo reporting live from the front line at Baishan Airport!”
“As of now, 57 trapped students have been rescued!”
“The remaining students received the evacuation notice and have hidden themselves well!”
“There have been no deaths so far, but as time passes the situation will only grow more difficult!”
“We’re short-handed on site… oh? Reinforcements?”
Hu Shuo spotted a group of people wearing bright orange overalls waiting for transport and immediately grew excited!
He quickly signalled the cameraman to follow!
Only to be scared silly by the five huge characters “Nursing Home Volunteers”!
“Er… it seems we really are that short on manpower!”
“Even nursing-home volunteers have been called in to clean the airport runway!”
Right now Jiang Nan and the others were anxiously waiting at the airfield!
“Brother Shen! Where are the transport planes?”
“Transport planes won’t work! The white mist is too thick! They can’t take off! We can only wait for helicopters! Another 20 minutes and then…”
Ye Xinghe rolled his neck. “Twenty minutes per trip? And each trip can’t carry many? How long to ferry all of us in?”
*Riiiip!*
Strips of cloth flew everywhere!
Ye Xinghe fully beastified, turning into a fifteen-metre-long black dragon!
More than fifty volunteers leapt straight onto the dragon’s back!
“Haha! You lot take your time waiting for planes! I’m off to clear mobs first!”
With that he flapped his dragon wings furiously! Fierce winds scattered the white mist!
The black dragon shot into the sky and soared towards the heavens!
Jiang Nan pouted. “Who are you calling slow?”
As he spoke he flung out void chains that wrapped around the waists of twenty people!
Yu Qingqing: !!!
“Nan Shen! Wai…”
A single teleport took everyone a thousand metres into the air! Then he teleported straight towards Baishan Lake!
“Kyaa~”
[Resentment value from Yu Qingqing +1000!]”
“Wind God!” Lin Yu grinned.
In an instant whirlwinds gathered, lifting the remaining volunteers into the sky!
In the blink of an eye all one hundred volunteers had vanished!
Hu Shuo: ∑(°口°๑)
“I… I take it back!”
On-site staff: Σ(ŎдŎ|||)ﾉﾉ
You’re telling me these are nursing-home volunteers?
Every single one is a bloody immortal!
They just yeeted themselves into the sky! They didn’t even take the plane!
The live-stream chat exploded!
“What kind of nursing home is this? So hardcore?”
“My grandad just said he wants to retire there too!”
“Bro above, you just invented a grandfather! That’s too much!”
“Volunteers? Who are you trying to fool! What mysterious organisation is this?”
“Did someone just teleport? Nan Shen? Holy crap! Is that Nan Shen? I’ve missed him so much!”
“After the All-Star tournament he disappeared for ages! I thought he went to university! Turns out he became a nursing-home volunteer? Pfft…”
…
Whether it was Ye Xinghe or Lin Yu!
Nobody was faster than teleportation. Jiang Nan arrived first!
Baishan Lake was now completely shrouded in thick white mist!
He could vaguely see many people in the lake swimming with parachute packs on their backs!
Jiang Nan ignored them, locked onto the lake centre, and dived straight down!
A violent spatial fluctuation rippled out!
When they reappeared everyone was ten thousand metres above the spirit ruin in free fall!
Wind screamed past their ears!
Zhong Yingxue shouted, “The spirit energy really is much denser than last time!”
Xia Yao asked, “Head to the stronghold first? How are we going to find Xiong Er?”
Jiang Nan grinned. “Stronghold first! Let’s go!”
They could faintly see the red smoke beacon rising from the island!
Yu Qingqing had already passed out from fright. Because she was wearing a helmet nobody noticed!
Her body, bound by void chains, flopped around like a noodle~
