According to Gao Xiaoqi's plan, Jiang Ming and his team had to make a big detour to reach their destination, which was Xinghe City, the headquarters of Meihe Group.
On the third day of their trip, everyone's convoy has arrived at the outskirts of the Xinghai Forest that straddles the junction of the third and fourth districts, and they will have to travel a long distance further inside for the rest of their trip.
Fortunately, after tonight, their next trip will slowly move away from the Star Sea Forest, and the road after that will be basically smooth.
As night fell slowly, as more and more nocturnal beasts began to move in the forest, Jiang Ming and his convoy did not dare to make too much noise anymore. The three Earth Messengers had all been activated and could turn on their camouflage simultaneously. Functional low energy consumption mode also reduces the speed to less than 20 kilometers per hour.
After finally finding a relatively secluded place to set up camp, it was almost eight o'clock.
"Sister Yan, is this the Xinghai Forest?" Jiang Ming, who finally got out of the car to take a breath, asked curiously as he looked at the rows of shadowy trees around him.
"Well." Yan Xinyue looked at the surrounding environment vigilantly. After finding that there was nothing abnormal for the time being, he turned to look at Jiang Ming. His tone was more serious than ever before: "By the way, I haven't been to this place for a long time. I remember last time. The last time was when I went to Quanfu City to participate in the hunting trial with Vice Commander Du." Yan Xinyue said with a bit of nostalgia in her tone: "Seven years have passed."
"Vice Commander Yan also participated in the hunting trial seven years ago?" At this time, Gao Xiaoqi came over and asked curiously.
"Yes." A smile instantly appeared on Yan Xinyue's face: "Is it the same for sister Xiaoqi?" However, after Yan Xinyue thought for a while, she shook her head again: "No, I don't seem to remember that time. Your name is among the people in District 4, and you probably weren't old enough at that time." As a person who is good at mental abilities, Yan Xinyue is quite confident in his memory.
"I did not participate." Gao Xiaoqi's tone was a little heavy,
"But a senior of mine on the same team participated."
"Oh, senior? What's his name? Maybe we've met before." Yan Xinyue said with a smile.
"Her name is Ying Xiaoqi."
"Ying Xiaoqi!" Yan Xinyue's expression froze after hearing this name. After a long time, he spoke again: "I remember her. She was indeed a very powerful person. It's a pity that God is jealous of talents..." The two of them The topic ended here, and Jiang Ming knew that this was not the time for him to speak. It was not until everyone returned to the car after dinner that he looked at the passenger seat, where no one had been seen for a long time, and sat in front of the driver. Yan Xinyue asked about this matter.
"I knew you would ask this." Yan Xinyue said in a tone that she had expected.
"Xiao Ming, you should know about the hunting trial in Xinghai Forest."
"I know." Jiang Ming nodded and replied, and spoke out the relevant information in his memory: "The hunting trial is a test conducted by the third and fourth districts to restrain the expansion of the Xinghai Forest into human gathering areas and to conduct a test on the younger generation of human beings. If there are no special circumstances, this grand event organized by experience will be organized basically once every four years, usually in late autumn." Because Jiang Zheng also represented Binhai City in this hunting trial three years ago, He also came back first, so Jiang Ming still has a very deep memory of this.
But that's all he knew. After all, the specific information of the Hunting Trial was strictly controlled by the authorities. At most, the rankings would be disclosed to the outside world.
As for the Xinghai Forest, it is one of the largest gathering places for alien beasts in the Donghuang Federation. It spans the third and fourth districts, and with its rapid expansion over the years, it has covered nearly every area in the two districts. Thirty percent of the area.
Although the Xinghai Forest is located in the northern half of the Donghuang Federation, its interior has formed a variety of different terrains due to the influence of some powerful alien beast groups. The terrain becomes more complex toward the center of the forest, including wetlands, swamps, and even volcanoes and hills. Such special terrain.
The alien beasts living in the Star Sea Forest generally follow the principle of getting stronger and stronger from the outside in. Even in the center of the forest, it is said that there is more than one ninth-level alien beast.
With the current strength of the Donghuang Federation, such a powerful Star Sea Forest will definitely not provoke them for no reason, but at the same time, it is impossible to just watch the Star Sea Forest expand unscrupulously outside, so there is a hunting trial. The birth of.
Since the hunting and trial areas are only on the periphery of the Xinghai Forest, the powerful alien beasts in the inner area will not fall out with the Donghuang Federation for those beasts that are no more than fifth level.
At the same time, because those high-level alien beasts all believe in the law of the weak and the strong, they are happy with this kind of disguised selection.
Of course, the main reason is that the alien beasts are divided into many different races, so as long as their own interests are not involved, they will definitely not mind Angelica. After listening to Jiang Ming's narration, Yan Xinyue transferred the seven What happened years ago is slowly revealed.
The matter is not complicated. In the hunting trial that year, a girl named Ying Xiaoqi appeared in District 4 who was as talented as Jiang Zheng.
According to Yan Xinyue, Ying Xiaoqi's performance in the hunting trial was not much worse than Jiang Zhengdu's. She was so powerful that she lost all hope of winning or losing in the third district. Even that At that time, the person in charge of the third district said that as long as we can keep the second place, it will be fine.
However, just when everything was about to settle, the rescue devices on the members of the hunting trial were tampered with.
Later, a group of members of the Beast God Cult took the lead and organized dozens of mid-level alien beasts and an astonishing number of low-level alien beasts to encircle and suppress the elites who participated in the hunting trial at that time.
Originally, this should be regarded as a part of the trial, but they couldn't resist whether the other party was calculating mentally or not. So in the end, due to the huge strength gap between the two sides, Yan Xinyue and the others could only fight and retreat, but because they could not send out a distress signal, they kept waiting. No rescue will come.
In the end, as the leader, Ying Xiaoqi made a breakthrough. After becoming a sixth-order evolver, she tried her best to give others a chance to survive, but she herself fought until she was exhausted.
"Later, the examiners guarding the rear finally discovered the clues, but by the time they passed, it was already too late." When Yan Xinyue said this, he lowered his head quietly, and then Jiang Ming, who was sitting behind, Unable to see her expression: "In fact, with her strength, she could have run away by herself, and she was only twenty-five years old at the time. No one would blame her! No one!"
