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After a brief silence, Hong Yuan hoisted the giant axe onto her shoulder.

"Then let's just make it cold!"

The confusion in her eyes vanished instantly. Yin Chen was speechless. If you're going to give up, then give up. Why be so enthusiastic?

With a score of 2:1, his objections were ineffective, and he had no choice but to reluctantly agree.

The Scarlet (Resignation) Squad was truly formed at this moment.

"So," Yin Chen turned to Chen Guan, steer the conversation to the core of the plan, "what do we need to do now? We estimate we'll have to wander this icy plain for a while longer."

Chen Guan turned around and looked at the Xuanwu Tower that had been silent for thousands of years.

After a long while, he finally looked away.

"Let's aim for first place in this training camp first."

……

Thousands of kilometers away from this far north, a windowless, sealed room operates amidst the hum of its equipment.

The entire wall is a piece of dark crystal.

Billions of blue data streams cascaded silently like a waterfall, illuminating the only figure in the room.

The man wore frameless glasses and had a cool, aloof demeanor.

He stood ramrod straight before the data waterfall, motionless, a stark contrast to the torrent of information flowing behind him.

Dozens of semi-transparent interfaces floated in the air in front of him, displaying the coordinates of all the trainees in the training camp in real time.

A visible distortion appeared in the air, and the figure of the white tiger stepped out from it.

He slumped into a chair, crossed his legs, and rested them on the control panel.

"I'm telling you, Nan Dou, your plan is just like you—cold and hard."

The white tiger's drawn-out voice, tinged with a sleepy languor, broke the tranquility of the secret room.

"They almost scared away the promising talents I had selected. If they had quit, my trip would have been for nothing."

The man known as Nandou did not turn around; his gaze remained fixed on the data stream.

"According to the model's deduction, your unauthorized improvised script increased the probability of the Scarlet Squad taking shape ahead of schedule by 12.7 percentage points, which is within the controllable error range."

"Look at you, always calculating." White Tiger pouted. "Everything is within your calculations, how boring."

Nan Dou lightly tapped the virtual screen in front of him with his fingertips.

The data waterfall freezes in an instant, and billions of points of light then scatter and recombine to form a vast three-dimensional star chart.

The center point of the horoscope is the training camp.

Countless threads, some visible and some invisible, extend from the camp, connecting coordinates across China.

"The rats in this year's freshmen are just a fuse," Nandou explained.

"Its purpose is to detonate the big fish lurking behind the scenes in the upper echelons of various universities, and even higher."

"The entire freshman training camp was a selection process from the very beginning."

"We'll filter out people like Long Ao and Yin Chen, and then use them to trigger this trap."

The White Tiger abandoned its nonchalant expression, sat up straight, and stared at the astrolabe with great interest.

"What about the coffin?" he asked. "Is that biggest variable also included in your calculations?"

For the first time, Nan Dou's gaze shifted from the screen to Bai Hu.

The lenses reflected a pale blue light from the data, obscuring the emotions in his eyes.

"Chen Guan's behavior patterns cannot be predicted by existing models and are therefore uncertain."

"However," Nan Dou's tone remained unchanged, "his core demand is constant. Around this core, I have prepared three interconnected redundant plans for him. No matter which path he chooses, he will ultimately be anchored on this chessboard and play the role we need."

"In any case, he has accepted the position of Xuanwu. Now that he has obtained that token, he should go where he belongs."

After hearing this, the white tiger whistled.

Nan Dou is such a jerk, he even betrays his colleagues, he has absolutely no empathy.

Beidou's team has no normal people at all; they're either brats or lunatics.

If it weren't for Lord White Tiger's superior skills, he probably would have been severely tricked as well.

Nandou ignored him and turned back to face the screen.

He traced his fingertips through the air, and a window zoomed in.

One of them was a demon core that was completely black but had starlight flowing around it, with a line of small characters marked below it: Void Beast Demon Core.

The white tiger was surprised for a moment when it saw this: "Oh? You actually took this thing out?"

"We need to create a large enough lure to bring up everything hidden underwater."

Nan Dou then asked, "How is the situation on Zhu Que's side?"

"Same as always, single-minded." White Tiger shrugged. "But he's made considerable progress. The return of the Four Symbols went smoothly. You know what, these little guys together are actually quite interesting. It's just that we still can't find Azure Dragon. Not only can we not find him, but I don't even know where Azure Dragon's token is."

"The boss said that when the time comes, the Azure Dragon will naturally appear. I just don't understand why the boss, like Beidou, loves to engage in this kind of mysticism."

"Be careful Beidou doesn't hear you." Nandou offered a rare, kind reminder. Baihu has many identities and is the one who appears in public the most, but Beidou is no less so.

His little black figures were truly everywhere.

Life-type beings are unreasonable, unlike weak spiritual beings like him who can only hide behind the scenes.

"It's okay, I guess he already heard it, as long as the boss doesn't hear it."

Baihu didn't take it seriously. Beidou was the kind of creature who loved to eavesdrop on other people's conversations in a sneaky way. However, he had never said this to Nandou's face. Nandou might not respect the boss, but he definitely respected Beidou.

Putting everything else aside, Baihu still greatly admires Beidou's personal charisma.

Nandou fell silent, and the command room returned to silence, with only the faint glow of flowing data remaining.

……

"Winning first place in the training camp is not difficult."

He opened a simple map, which marked known high-risk areas.

His knuckles tapped on a scarlet mark in the center of the map.

"The Golden Beast King, a peak sixth-tier beast, resides in the glacial rift valley and is the undisputed king of this training ground. If we take it down, we will be number one."

Hongyuan clenched her five fingers, gripping the cold axe handle tightly.

The thought of challenging the peak of the sixth rank was like a fire burning in her chest.

Yin Chen frowned, pointing out the most crucial obstacle: "My family told me that last year a small team tried to encircle and kill it, resulting in three deaths and two serious injuries. Its strength far exceeds that of other classes. The three of us..."

Although his arrogance had increased, he was not so confident that he could compete with beings close to the seventh rank.

"I'm here."

Chen Guan's simple words dispelled the hesitation in Yin Chen's eyes.

Yes, just because he's not good enough doesn't mean this fierce demon in front of us is.

Previously, the scene of Chen Guan single-handedly surrounding numerous demonic beasts in the icy plains was still vivid in Yin Chen's mind, and he had no doubt about Chen Guan's combat prowess.

Even now, he and Hong Yuan are probably no match for Chen Guan. They've both strengthened, and so has the Fierce God.