Chapter 269 No Return City

Five days later.

Wugui City.

This is the newest and last city built in Dragon Country. Today, a group of visiting guests came.

They are called guests, but they are actually the "watching groups" from various universities and their accompanying personnel.

The first shot of the freshman representative competition was fired in Wugui City, which was beyond many people's expectations.

But if you think about it carefully, this choice is reasonable.

After all, there are only 30 freshman representatives in the country's higher education institutions this year, which is at least 20% lower than in previous years.

And this reduction is increasing year by year.

Last year, there were almost 40 institutions that selected freshman representatives, but this year there are only 30 institutions left.

Of course, there are definitely some institutions that want to hide their shortcomings and are unwilling to get involved in the excitement of freshman representatives, but such institutions are still a minority after all.

The rules of healthy competition among freshman representatives were not set today. Over the years, a tacit understanding has long been formed.

Unless there is force majeure, or there are some unspeakable secrets. Otherwise, even if it is the tallest among the short ones, each university will have to choose a representative.

There will definitely be some who hide their incompetence, but not many.

Most of them just can't pick a good representative, so they can only pretend that nothing happened.

And this year's 30 freshman representatives are a record low. The first official competition is still scheduled inside the abyss, which has attracted the attention of many people.

An endless stream of "spectator groups" have already arrived in Wugui City.

Representatives from top universities have naturally arrived one after another.

This time Chu Ran did not disappear, and he was too lazy to make a final appearance. He and the people from the Wisdom Academy were almost the first to arrive in Wugui City.

He also walked around the city.

The last time he went to Tianmen City, he just took a look from a distance and didn't feel deeply. Today, he walked around Wugui City and found that it was no different from other cities.

Except for some uniformed professionals patrolling on the road, it is basically the same as a normal residential city.

And the population of Wugui City is the largest among the four major cities.

It is said that nearly two million people live here.

"I have always been curious. Since this is a big city that suppresses the entrance to the abyss, it is theoretically equivalent to an important front line. Why are there still residents?"

Chu Ran walked on the street and turned his head to ask Xie Ling this question.

Xie Ling looked tired and waved his hand and said, "Because the basic operation of the big city also needs someone to maintain it. The professional troops of Longguo alone can't do it. These people are volunteers who joined voluntarily. Most of them are family members of the victims, mostly parents and elders."

Chu Ran was stunned when he heard this.

Then he looked at the pedestrians on the street.

Sure enough, most of them were old.

The story behind this is not difficult to guess.

Professionals are passed down from generation to generation. Many people with poor professional qualities put their hopes on their descendants. This will instead cause a phenomenon, that is, the older generation lives longer than the younger generation.

Chu Ran opened his mouth and was about to say something, but Xie Ling begged for mercy: "Junior brother, please forgive me and let me be quiet."

"Old Xie, you can't do this." Chu Ran said with a stern face: "It's been a short time since you were promoted and it's become like this. Why is the organization adding burdens to you? Do you still want to be the dean in the future?"

Originally, Xie Ling was not arranged in the team sent by the Wisdom Academy to accompany him this time.

He was temporarily drafted to fill the vacancy of Gu Changling.

Gu Changling had another mission, which seemed very important and had a high level of confidentiality. It was rare that Chu Ran couldn't find out the result from him.

Without Gu Changling in charge, according to the order of rank, Xie Ling, the vice dean of the Combat Professional Academy, could only fill the vacancy.

That's why Xie Ling looked so pale. He was busy for so many days and didn't even have a good sleep. He was dragged to Wugui City and might have to go into the abyss together.

No one would be in a good mood.

"Junior, are you sure that this official who was promoted is not the coffin of the coffin?"

Xie Ling opened his eyes with great effort, and his dark circles were very heavy. He poured a bottle of spirit potion into his mouth to relieve fatigue, and sighed: "I understand now. This position is not easy to sit in."

"Tsk."

Chu Ran shook his head and did not attack Xie Ling again, but his eyes looked not far away.

There was an elderly man selling skewers with a child.

Of course, the materials of the skewers are basically local materials.

Most of them are the meat of abyss monsters.

"Why are there still children?" Chu Ran lowered his voice unconsciously.

At this time.

A mentor who was accompanying him said: "Because I don't feel at ease to hand over the children to the Security Supervision Committee, I will take them with me. After all, living in a big city is just a little creepy. In terms of danger, it is actually not much different from living in other places."

He looked at Chu Ran and whispered: "For example, Maoyue City."

Chu Ran narrowed his eyes and nodded: "That's right."

He didn't want to recall the miserable situation in Maoyue City now.

But don't forget it.

In addition to Maoyue City, several other cities were attacked by the Abyss Cult at that time.

Chu Ran did not see the situation in those cities with his own eyes, but he could probably imagine it.

In this way, living in the four major cities is really no different from living in other cities.

Chu Ran did not say much and walked over. "Uncle, grill all the skewers you have here for me, I'll buy them all."

"Young man, do you want them all?"

The old man was confused: "Can you finish them?"

Chu Ran pointed to the Wisdom Academy group not far away and said with a smile: "Uncle, we have a lot of people, you can do it."

The old man nodded when he saw so many people, and the wrinkles on his face were all smiling.

Chu Ran did not chat with the old man, nor did he ask about his story.

Who doesn't have a story these days?

He couldn't help with anything, he was so poor that he only had money left.

A moment later.

The Wisdom Academy group had two skewers per person, with 40 to 50 skewers in each.

That added up to thousands of skewers.

Even then, the old man hadn't finished grilling, and while wiping his sweat, he called Chu Ran: "Young man, wait a minute, I'll let my grandson go get the goods."

Chu Ran also grabbed two handfuls of skewers and looked at the old man blankly: "You have too much stuff, right?"

The old man grinned: "What do you think I do? This is a big city, there is a shortage of everything, but not monster meat."

This sentence made Chu Ran silent.

He quickly stopped the kid who was about to pick up the goods, paid and left in shame.

As a result, all of them were holding two large skewers and swaggering through the market, like bumpkins who came to Wugui City to buy local specialties for the first time, and were pointed at by many people.

When they returned to the accommodation arranged for them by Wugui City.

They met the people from Wudi Academy head on.

"Oh, Junior Chu."

Xu Fuling couldn't help laughing and said, "Whose stall did you rob?"

After saying that, she looked past Chu Ran and looked at Xie Ling.

Xie Ling moved quickly, putting one skewer after another into his mouth.

Like a starving ghost reincarnated.

He was really hungry during this period.