Douluo Dragon King: I'm creating a golden age behind the scenes!

Chapter 90 Interlude

The task Zhou Mingyu accepted was rather special. It was a forging task directly issued by the Federal Research Department, which required the large-scale acquisition of rare metals. Although in terms of task requirements, it could only be considered a purple-level task, the quantity required was huge. The basic quantity required for the task was one hundred pieces of metal for one hundred forgings and twenty pieces of metal for one thousand forgings, but there was no upper limit to the required quantity. In other words, the more finished products you submitted in this task, the more points you would get.

Normally, long-term tasks with high demand like this would be quite sought after, but for second-year students with limited assessment time, it is undoubtedly extremely time-consuming and not cost-effective, so no team chooses to take on this task.

However, for the members of Zhou Mingyu's team, who have basically secured the victory and have a much higher score than other teams, this is a task that is more suitable for passing the time.

So, after nearly seven more days, Zhou Mingyu and his team finally managed to gather the required forging quota.

At this moment, they are sitting on the Soul Guidance Train traveling from Shrek City to Mingdu.

However, since their team consisted of nearly 30 people, and all of them were students of the Spirit Transmission Academy, the Soul Guidance Station, upon learning of this, instructed the train conductor to arrange a separate carriage for them.

At this moment, a group of people are sitting in pairs inside the Soul Guidance Train carriage, enjoying a rare moment of peace that has lasted for the past two months.

To get some rest, Zhou Mingyu chose to sit in the back row near the window. However, the college considered that Zhou Mingyu's team was too large and that they were dealing with a classified department like the Federal Research Department, so it would be difficult to hand over the work to only a group of students.

Therefore, in order to ensure their safety and success on this trip, the Spirit Transmission Academy specially assigned them a team leader.

At this moment, he was sitting next to Zhou Mingyu. He was a burly adult man named Shen Xuanming, a teacher working in the security department of the Spirit Transmission Academy. He was also Zhou Mingyu's senior brother and the eldest disciple of Wang Yupeng, the tower master of the Spirit Transmission Tower in Tianhai City. Although he was not as talented as Zhou Mingyu, he was still a rare genius among the younger generation of the Spirit Transmission Tower. At only thirty-something years old, he was already an eight-ring Soul Douluo.

His master, Wang Yupeng, once said that barring any unforeseen circumstances, Shen Xuanming has a very good chance of becoming a Super Douluo in his lifetime.

The original plan was to keep him in Tianhai City for further training, so that when Zhou Mingyu became a Limit Douluo, he would definitely be able to become Zhou Mingyu's capable assistant.

However, due to the early establishment of the Spirit Transmission Academy, the higher-ups of the Spirit Transmission Tower suddenly summoned Zhou Mingyu to study at the academy. Considering that Zhou Mingyu was still too young and worried that he might be plotted against, and also in order to make it easier to keep in touch with Zhou Mingyu about his cultivation progress, Wang Yupeng arranged for him to enter the Spirit Transmission Academy as a teacher so that he could take care of him.

Shen Xuanming himself knew the importance of Zhou Mingyu to the entire Tianhai faction, so for the sake of the overall situation of the Tianhai Alliance, he gladly accepted his master's arrangement.

He himself volunteered to join the team on this trip.

However, although he has been quite cautious along the way, things are at least peaceful for now.

The Soul-Guiding Train was always traveling at high speed, and staff members would occasionally push carts around to ask passengers if they needed a meal.

"A rare moment of rest." Zhou Mingyu looked out the window at the scenery that had become somewhat blurry due to the high speed of the soul-guided train.

However, even the best scenery can become boring after a while, let alone the blurry view outside the window. Zhou Mingyu soon closed his eyes to rest.

The Soul-Guided Train was traveling a considerable distance towards Sun and Moon City, and Zhou Mingyu fell into a light sleep on the train.

Suddenly, several fluctuations of soul power woke him up. When Zhou Mingyu probed out with his spiritual power, he discovered that there was a commotion in the second carriage behind him.

Suddenly, a dozen or so masked men stood up from their seats in the carriage. After sensing them for a moment, Zhou Mingyu discovered that the leader of the bandits was probably a five-ring Soul King, while the other bandits were only two- or three-ring Soul Masters. However, each of them was holding a Soul Guidance Gun.

"Everyone stay still!"

Zhou Mingyu spread his spiritual energy and looked around. He found that there were still quite a few passengers in that carriage. The lively scene of laughter and chatter from before had all disappeared. Everyone was just sitting trembling in their seats, not daring to move.

Then he saw the bandit leader give a few instructions to his men, and the bandits began to scatter, preparing to go to the other carriages and take control of most of the soul-guided train.

At this moment, several bandits also walked towards Zhou Mingyu and his group's carriage.

This series of disturbances naturally caught Shen Xuanming's attention. He turned and exchanged a glance with Zhou Mingyu. After realizing that Zhou Mingyu was aware of the situation and was on guard, a hint of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.

He then turned his head away without making any further movements.

Although he remained outwardly calm, Zhou Mingyu's mental perception revealed that the muscles beneath his clothes were beginning to tense, and his soul power was slowly circulating, clearly indicating that he was fully prepared for battle.

Soon, two bandits entered Zhou Mingyu's carriage from the back. When they saw the carriage full of students, they were stunned for a moment. But after looking around and finding that there was only one adult, Shen Xuanming, they realized that this was a college carriage. So, they walked straight up to Shen Xuanming, raised their soul-guided guns, and aimed them at Shen Xuanming's forehead.

He said threateningly, "This train is ours now. Tell your students to behave themselves, or don't blame me for smashing your heads!"

After saying that, he pointed the gun at Shen Xuanming's forehead and jabbed it a few times.

For a moment, all the students in the carriage stopped their attempts to resist when they saw this scene, but a hint of pity and schadenfreude flashed in their eyes.

The two thugs who were trying to continue brandishing their weapons and threatening the students also sensed that something was wrong in the carriage. The air around them seemed to have frozen, and they could only feel an indescribable eeriness in the students' eyes.

However, before they could react, everything suddenly went black, and they were plunged into eternal darkness.

"Knock knock!"

As the two headless corpses fell, Shen Xuanming stood up from his seat and addressed the students in the carriage:

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"You all stay here and don't move!"

As he stood up, a suffocating pressure of soul power instantly swept through the entire carriage!

Then, Shen Xuanming's soul power burst forth, and his figure seemed to grow taller. Several strands of tiger-striped fur grew from his body, sharp claws sprouted from his hands, and sharp teeth grew from the corners of his mouth. Violent blue arcs of electricity occasionally emerged from his body, and eight soul rings of purple-purple-purple-black-black-black-black appeared around him. A tiger phantom flashing with lightning appeared behind him.

It was his martial spirit, "Thunder Tiger," a top-tier martial spirit with high attack speed and defense.

"I'll clean up the rest of the scraps!" Shen Xuanming's low growl echoed like thunder.

Then he crouched down, and the phantom of the Thunder Tiger moved in sync with him, assuming a pouncing stance. After gathering his strength slightly, he transformed into a bolt of lightning and rushed towards the carriage behind him.

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