Chapter 300: Heading to the Lost Land
Over the past few days, no new blood offerings had appeared in Xu Zhi’s room. While she felt relieved, she was also somewhat puzzled. But since she was about to enter the Lost Land, she could only remind Qi Yanxin not to enter her room—or allow anyone else to.
Soon, the day of departure arrived.
The gathering point was still Building A. The leading teacher had not changed. The Director of Studies, surnamed Xi, had already decided during the selection test that she would lead them to the Lost Land and the league.
“Director Xi, where exactly is the entrance to the Lost Land?”
Xu Zhi was holding a flowerpot containing what, to outsiders, looked like a lifeless little aberrant plant.
“Junior, why are you bringing a potted plant?”
Tong Zhou looked curiously at the flowerpot in Xu Zhi’s hands.
“An extraordinary plant I’m growing. It hasn’t shown any movement, so I thought I’d bring it to the Lost Land and see what happens,” Xu Zhi replied casually.
After all, Director Xi had said that even the air and soil in the Lost Land contained extraordinary energy several times stronger than the present world.
After spending time together, not only had the team grown more in sync, but they had also become more familiar with the teacher who constantly guided them. Since this wasn’t a formal assembly yet, Tong Zhou felt comfortable asking.
Xi Min checked the time and replied, “Let’s go. The entrance isn’t here. We need to pass through a teleportation circuit.”
“You remember what I told you?”
They nodded.
Once inside the teleportation circuit, clear your mind as much as possible, tense your muscles, and prepare for impact resistance.
Motion sickness usually wouldn’t occur in a teleportation circuit, but if the body was too relaxed, there was a high chance of muscle dissolution.
Of course, once physical fitness reached a certain level, there was little to worry about.
At this moment, Xu Zhi felt like a primary school student about to go on an autumn field trip. Everything felt fresh and new—the Lost Land, the teleportation circuit—things she had never seen before.
“After we teleport, don’t ask where we are, and don’t say anything unnecessary. Just follow us,” Xi Min reminded them one last time.
The entrance to the Lost Land lay along the border between it and the normal world. The entire border had been sealed off and divided up—first, to remain vigilant against the Lost Land’s expansion; second, for “monopoly.”
The Light Institute possessed one of the entrances.
The Lost Land was not a place one could simply walk into after a few steps. It was shrouded in dense mist. Any world eroded by that mist was called the Lost Land. Normally, whether extraordinary individuals or ordinary people entered the mist, they would lose their sense of direction and be unable to reach the Lost Land itself, merely wandering at its outermost edges.
In the beginning, people had captured extraordinary creatures that escaped from the Lost Land and turned them into “mediums” to gain entry. Later, as extraordinary individuals ventured in and returned alive, more usable mediums were discovered, and the number of available entry slots gradually increased.
But those slots were controlled by major powers.
The Light Institute was naturally one of them.
The teleportation circuit was located on the top floor of Building A. Unlike the other floors, the top level was a vast open expanse. The entire 8,000 square meters of flooring was engraved with circuit patterns. One could imagine how much effort and manpower had gone into constructing such a massive teleportation array—only something of this scale could directly send them to the border.
Even in the entire Lian City, there were no more than ten such teleportation circuits.
Activating it required far more extraordinary energy than a single person could supply. High-concentration attribute cores were used instead.
Before activation, Xu Zhi carefully placed her glasses into their case. Her eyesight had not fully recovered yet. These glasses could automatically adjust their prescription—she still needed them.
When the circuit activated, dazzling pale blue light emerged beneath their feet, quickly filling the entire top floor.
Xu Zhi felt her vision blur. The overly bright blue light forced her to shut her eyes. Then came an intense sensation of weightlessness and compression, as if she were falling at light speed while being crushed by immense gravity.
It was extremely uncomfortable. Even breathing became difficult. Opening her eyes was impossible. All she could hear was violent ringing in her ears—nothing else. At one point, it even felt like suffocation.
This state lasted about three or four seconds.
Then, suddenly, everything calmed.
The falling sensation disappeared. It felt as though she had instantly appeared on solid ground. If one’s balance were poor, they would likely fall immediately.
Fortunately, Xu Zhi’s balance was excellent. She steadied herself and slowly opened her eyes—only to feel a hand tightly gripping her.
She turned her head slightly.
It was Ji Muge, her face pale as paper.
Xu Zhi wasn’t wearing her glasses at the moment, and having just come out of teleportation, she hadn’t fully put her usual composure back on. When her pale gray pupils locked onto Ji Muge at close range, Ji Muge’s hairs stood on end. She forgot the discomfort of teleportation entirely.
“Sorry! I didn’t mean to!”
She quickly explained and let go.
Xu Zhi’s expressionless face paused for about two seconds. In those two seconds, Ji Muge could practically hear her own heart pounding.
Then Xu Zhi suddenly smiled as gently as usual and said softly, “It’s fine.”
Only then did Ji Muge let out a breath of relief.
Xu Zhi turned away, took out her glasses case, and put on her glasses. But Ji Muge still secretly glanced at her junior from the corner of her eye.
Bad woman. That must’ve been her true nature just now!
She muttered inwardly.
Xu Zhi snapped the glasses case shut with a click. Then, suddenly, she turned back to Ji Muge. The smile on her face hadn’t changed.
“Don’t let it happen again.”
Ji Muge’s face stiffened. She nodded repeatedly. “Got it, got it.”
What karmic retribution. Wasn’t she the one who used to intimidate her peers?
How had the tables turned so completely that she was now the one being intimidated by a junior?
“All right. Follow me.”
Once Xi Min saw that the students had recovered, she motioned for them to move.
Xu Zhi obediently said nothing, but she glanced around.
This place looked somewhat similar to the top floor of Building A—an enormous space containing nothing but a teleportation circuit. But when Xi Min led them through the door, the difference became clear.
Outside wasn’t a hallway or elevators—
It was an even larger room.
Many people gathered there, the atmosphere somewhat noisy. At the exit stood a detection device. To leave the room, they had to pass through it.
Afterward, they proceeded to something like a front desk to verify their identities and receive their “medium.”
Then they boarded a prepared indoor electric tram to head toward the entrance.
Before entering the gate itself, they had to undergo another inspection.
And this entire process took place indoors.
After going through the complicated procedures, Xu Zhi finally understood.
The so-called border was the boundary between the Lost Land and the real world—entirely enclosed by massive structures, forming a towering “city wall.”
And the few “gates” in that wall—
Were the entrances.
Ohh man, I can’t wait for them to get into fights!