After Cheating, I Became the Strongest Beast Master

Chapter 109: Secret Realm Projection

 Two men and two women were walking in the suburbs, talking and laughing.

"How is it? The scenery in Shuzhou is not bad. I often climbed the Huangyan Mountain here when I was a child. I remember there was a pavilion at the foot of the mountain." The boy walking in front said to the girl next to him.

 The other man and woman are like a couple in love, cuddling together sweetly and spreading dog food.

The girl said coquettishly: "My legs are sore after walking for so long. How about we go over there and rest for a while?"

Just as the four of them were strolling, there was suddenly a faint sound in front of them.

The noise is not small, and it sounds evenly every once in a while.

The ground also trembled slightly, which made people think of the scene of the mountain devil jumping rope.

 No, no, what am I thinking.

The boy quickly shook his head to dispel this absurd idea.

The group of people took a few steps forward curiously, and their eyes suddenly opened up.

　　Several people were gathered around in an open space, and the ground next to them was slightly raised.

There was a mound of earth rising up there, and it was beating every once in a while as if it were alive.

As it beats, the soil on the surface shakes out slightly, and at the same time, a faint twisted light shines through the gaps in the soil.

The boy stared at this scene dumbfounded, with waves of surprise rising in his heart.

The sound of the ground shaking came from this mysterious mound.

What's this?

At this moment, a dashing woman wearing a denim leather jacket and jeans next to the mound turned around and strode towards them. She took out a certificate from her arms and said seriously: "The Security Department is working here. Risk area, please leave immediately."

The four of them did not dare to neglect and left the place in a hurry. After walking far away, the four of them started talking about it, "What is that underground? Isn't there some monster?"

“Not necessarily. The woman showed me her ID and said she was from the National Security Agency, but she has never heard of the National Security Agency.”

“Maybe it’s some secret department.” The boy in the couple shook his head.

“I think that light looks a bit like the light at the entrance to a secret realm.”

 “How is it possible? There is no secret realm here.”

“Forget it, let’s go somewhere else.”

 “Where to go?”

"Why don't we go back to the city? I'm a little hungry after walking for so long." said the girl from out of town.

"Then should we go back the same way or take another way?" The boy who led the way thought for a moment, pointed in another direction and said: "Let's go over there. I remember there is a path over there that can lead directly to the highway. This will Closer."

Walking for some distance, I suddenly heard a faint sound again.

 “Did you hear that?” The boy leading the way stopped.

 The other three calmed down and listened carefully.

It seemed like there was a faint sound on the other side of the woods.

 The four of them looked at each other and said, "We won't go around in a circle and come back, right?"

“No, I have a pretty good sense of the road.” The boy leading the way hesitated for a moment, “You guys stand here while I go to the front to check on the situation.”

Huang Haoming took a deep breath and walked forward for a distance. He passed through the gap between the trees and hid behind a tree. He saw behind the woods a crocodile that looked like a monster in a horror movie. It rolled, and every time it rolled to the ground, it left a dull sound on the ground under its feet.

 Huang Haoming could clearly hear the deep roar coming from its throat, as if it was venting the violent power in its body.

It turns out that the noise just heard came from under its feet.

His heart tightened and he subconsciously wanted to retreat.

At this moment, a dead leaf was accidentally crushed under my feet.

 Huang Hao said something bad, he knew he had been exposed.

In the woods, the eagle-headed monster was holding a single claw in the air, with the card floating in the center of the claw. The head of the eagle-headed monster rotated 180 degrees out of thin air. The eagle's eyes were as sharp as a knife, and it locked onto him hiding behind the tree through the woods.

A loud bang! The card spinning in the four-phase palm seemed to be hit by some invisible force. It flew dozens of meters and accurately inserted into the tree trunk in front of Huang Haoming.

 Huang Haoming was startled, his heart was pounding, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

 “Continue training.” A calm voice came from beside the monster.

 Huang Haoming moved his eyes and found a young man with slender legs and head lowered sitting on a piece of bluestone facing him.

The sun shines through the gaps in the leaves and shines on his angular profile.

 He seems to be looking at a tablet?

 It turned out to be training to control animals.

 Huang Haoming breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, he thought he had crashed into the training site of an illegal organization. The main reason was that the two beast masters looked a bit fierce.

It seems that their owner is still a good person.

 Huang Haoming retreated quietly, trying not to make any noise so as not to disturb the opponent's training.

 After receiving the master's instructions, the two beasts continued to train on their own.

"Si Xiang, you have to cooperate well with Taotie in training. When you make money, the master will accept a beast to control. From now on, you will not be the youngest." Chen Xing drew a big cake for Si Xiang.

Will the master have other beasts to control in the future?

Hearing the master's words, Sixiang fell into a brief trance, and the power of soul impact accidentally increased.

With a loud bang, the card instantly exploded into countless pieces, and the surrounding air seemed to tremble. Si Xiang was stunned. He looked at his paws and then at the fragments, with a trace of annoyance flashing in his eyes.

 Then pick up another card from the side and continue training.

 There are two ways to manifest soul skills, one is more "magical" and the other is more "physical". Soul impact is a damage skill that is more "physical".

At the same time, Huang Haoming walked back from the woods in a hurry, recalling the scene of the other party training to control the beast, and his thoughts drifted away.

The four of them graduated from the same university, but after graduation, due to the pressure of money, rice, oil and salt, they also gave up the idea of ​​becoming professional beast masters. Moreover, the university was not a top institution, just an ordinary university.

The current combat power of the beast master is not even as high as it was before graduating from college. Although his level has been improved by several levels in the year after graduation, the beast master has gained a lot of weight due to neglect of training.

 After all, if you still want to develop into a professional beast master after graduating from university, you have to go to a foreign land.

 But if you go to a foreign land, you must be prepared to hang your head on your waist at all times.

I heard that the annual mortality rate for beast masters who go to foreign lands is about 20%, which may not sound high. There is also an 80% survival rate, but this is the annual mortality rate.

 Cumulatively, not one out of ten ordinary beast masters can survive for ten years.

 He has no blood feud and no reason to go there.

Parents, elders, and relatives are all at home, and he also has a few good friends around him, so he chose another way of life.

Find a decent job, marry a girl you like and like yourself, and wait for her to come home after get off work every day, or she waits for him to come back at home. After dinner, the two of you can hold hands and take a leisurely walk by the river. A wonderful future.

 Ordinary and extraordinary, no matter which road you take, has its own beautiful scenery. “Over there?” The friend’s voice interrupted Huang Haoming’s thoughts.

“Someone is training to control the beast. It should be fine. Don’t disturb them and we can get there quickly.” Huang Haoming said.

 Leaving from the side, Huang Haoming looked back at the position where Chen Xing was training the beast.

The girl who was invited turned her head and looked at him secretly. She felt that Huang Haoming, who just took the initiative to explore the way, was quite manly and could stand up at critical moments.

 Boom! There was another deafening loud noise, as if the world was shaking.

 The surrounding sky suddenly darkened, as if shrouded in a huge black curtain.

 Chen Xing's heartbeat accelerated instantly, and he felt an unprecedented sense of oppression.

 Putting down the tablet and looking around, he found that he was surrounded by countless huge walls.

These walls are gray-brown, simple and majestic, as if they have stood here since ancient times.

At regular intervals, bronze candles are automatically lit on the wall, and the blue firelight sways in the darkness, adding a mysterious and weird atmosphere to the space.

 Chen Xing's expression changed suddenly. He suddenly closed the tablet and looked around, feeling as if he was in an ancient maze.

He quickly discovered a blind spot: although these walls looked very real, they gave people an "illusive" feeling.

He stretched out his arm to explore, and his arm went straight through the wall, as if the wall was just a thin phantom.

 “Illusion?” This thought flashed through Chen Xing’s mind.

 When he was in school, Coach Kuang once took him to do some illusion training, so he still has a certain ability to distinguish illusions.

However, he soon dismissed the idea.

 Because if it is an illusion, electronic devices like tablets should not be able to capture any images.

 He took out his tablet and started recording, and was surprised to find that the surrounding scenes were realistically displayed on the tablet.

 Chen Xing was stunned, because this meant that everything he experienced could not be explained by illusion.

 Isn’t this an illusion?

 What is that, a real projection?

With such a large-scale real projection, Chen Xing suddenly thought of some possibility.

 The secret realm has arrived, a mirage.

I didn’t expect that such a rare chance would happen to me.

 He recalled all the rumors he had heard about the secret realm.

It is said that after the projection, the secret realm will fall into silence, waiting for the next arrival.

This waiting time varies, some may only be a few days, and some may span decades.

Just like the Secret Realm No. 03 in Nightmare Swamp, it took ten years from the time the projection appeared to the actual arrival of the secret realm.

Chen Xing still remembers that when the secret realm of Nightmare Swamp came, there was a heated discussion on the local forum.

Various gossips emerge one after another, and some secret information is also exposed, which is difficult to distinguish between true and false.

 Some people claim that when projecting in the secret realm, it is not as simple as pure projection. It will briefly pull all life within the projection range into the secret realm, and have a brief "intersection" with the real world.

The time of this intersection is very short, maybe only tens of minutes to a few hours, but it is enough for people to get a glimpse of the real scene of the secret realm.

This intersection is like a collision between nodes from two different worlds, sparks will briefly burst out.

However, very few people are able to encounter this intersection.

 Because it is not as traceable as entering a stable secret realm, secret realm projections often appear suddenly with few signs.

Chen Xing doesn’t know how long it will take for the sparks generated by this collision to temporarily descend the secret realm, but at present, it seems that the secret realm has not completely arrived yet.

 He realized that if he wanted to leave, there might be time now.

 So he began to observe his surroundings carefully.

 Chen Xing hesitated for a moment, and decided to consult his instructor first.

However, when he took out his mobile phone to contact his instructor, he found that there was no signal on the mobile phone and no messages could be sent.

 Chen Xing stood there, feeling a little uneasy.

 He looked around at the huge maze-like scene.

 From the current observation, it does not look like a natural scene in the wild.

This huge maze looks like it was built the other day. Chen Xing thought in his mind that for the sake of safety, he decided to leave here first.

 Although he knew that he now had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the opportunity also represented the same danger.

However, just as Chen Xing was about to turn around and leave, an anxious voice suddenly broke the silence around him: "Brother, we seem to be trapped here. What should we do if we can't get out? There seems to be an air wall in front of us. What should we do?" You can’t get through it either.”

Chen Xing followed the sound and saw a group of four people trotting over.

 They looked panicked and were obviously aware of the current predicament.

Si Xiang's deep voice sounded again: "It was him behind the tree just now." Chen Xing nodded slightly, indicating that he understood what Si Xiang meant.

 He looked at these four people and couldn't help but feel a little confused. These four people did not look like professional explorers or animal handlers, but more like ordinary tourists.

 How did they get here? How could he be trapped in this secret projection?

Chen Xing suppressed the doubts in his heart and asked, "Where is the air wall you mentioned?"

One of them pointed to a place not far behind him: "It's right there. You can see it if you go over there."

Chen Xing walked in the direction pointed by the other party and soon discovered the invisible wall of air.

It is like a transparent film, quietly blocking the front. Chen Xing stretched out his hand to touch it, only to feel a cold and hard feeling.

He couldn't help but frown, sighing secretly at his bad luck.

I didn’t expect to encounter such trouble just after encountering the secret projection. He speculated that this air wall might be a self-protection mechanism of the secret projection, preventing outsiders or objects from entering it at will.

 But while blocking people from outside from coming in, it also blocks people from inside from leaving.

“Brother, do you know what’s going on?” Huang Haoming asked.

Chen Xing expressed his speculation, "A secret realm may be born in the new area, and the surrounding area should be the projection of the secret realm before it arrives."

“Oh, it turned out to be just a projection, I was shocked.”

“But the projection will also turn into reality for a short time.” Chen Xing’s faint voice continued.

 The four people's expressions froze.

 Brother, can you finish it in one breath?

 (End of this chapter)