Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 12 Breaking Free from the Cage (Part 2)

"This is your training uniform."

"OK, thanks."

Hunzhen took the black package from the receptionist, nodded slightly, and walked into the training camp.

"I have to say, as expected of the company headquarters, the quality of these receptionists is top-notch. Not to mention the tough guys in Night City, they're comparable to the top stars and models from an entire planet in my past life."

As Hunzhen walked, he couldn't help but glance at the young lady again.

From the outside, the training camp looks like a giant white dome building, while the interior resembles a huge, brightly lit gym with extremely detailed partitions.

With their ID cards, they quickly completed the registration and entered the first section, the "fighting zone".

There were already more than a dozen faces dressed in training uniforms inside.

The company owns hundreds or even thousands of inhabited planets, and these guys are naturally planet-level geniuses promoted from various inhabited planets.

Upon hearing Hunzhen's footsteps, these geniuses all stopped what they were doing.

Hunzhen could see the competition and hostility in their eyes, but... beings of this level were no longer worth his attention.

Over this long period of time, he had come to know that these people, like him, were among the early recruits who were specially invited by the Black Oak Company headquarters to join the training program.

The worst ones are those who grasp the true meaning in a very short time; otherwise, they wouldn't be able to break through to the planetary level by relying on company resources.

With a little polishing, it should be able to break through to the Hengxing level within a few decades to a few hundred years, with a sliver of hope of breaking through to the cosmic level.

However, he is already at the second level of the field.

Even if the simulation system were removed right now, his probability of breaking through to the Domain Lord level through normal cultivation would still be among the extremely high.

Things like comprehension and aptitude are not static; they are shaped by experience and opportunities.

Having undergone hundreds of simulations and countless life-and-death battles that an ordinary person could not even dream of in a lifetime, Hunzhen, in terms of his own qualities alone, truly deserves the title of genius.

Of course, there are differences even among geniuses. In terms of race and the universe, the difference is like heaven and earth, like a mudfish and a dragon.

But at least at this moment, Hunzhen has the right to look down on them.

He stepped into the fighting area with remarkable ease, amidst the gazes of the crowd, looking around with the curiosity of a country bumpkin visiting a grand garden.

"So this is where the Sims struggled!?"

Hunzhen sighed inwardly.

"Feed".

A cold snort came from behind. Hunzhen swept his mental power and saw a cold-looking female winged person with exaggeratedly long legs.

The so-called Feathered People are not freaks with feathered faces, but rather a branch of the human race whose appearance is similar to that of angels in Western fantasy stories.

Are you looking down on us?

Upon hearing the winged man speak, the others who had previously shown dissatisfaction and hostility towards Hunzhen restrained their impulses and adopted expressions of watching a good show.

Since there's already a leader to stand out, they'll naturally sit back and watch the show, to see what the newcomer is really made of.

Hunzhen turned around and looked at the winged woman with a furrowed brow and an angry expression, but his expression remained natural, as if he wasn't the one who had been choked.

"Planetary Stage 2, he should be close to breaking through to Planetary Stage 3, which should place him in the top three among these dozen or so people."

Hunzhen observed and silently drew a conclusion.

Based on the simulation records, at this training camp's frequency, it would have taken this winged person only one or two years to reach this level.

However, compared to his "Planetary Level 3" cultivation level demonstrated during registration and physical examination, his evaluation within the company was completely incomparable.

Based on this evaluation, the company will allocate more resources to him in the training program, which makes Mr. Domoto from the equipment department think highly of him.

Even without the difference in life level, he could still completely crush a first-tier planetary being based solely on his realm.

The winged woman, unaware of Hunzhen's thoughts, saw him scrutinize her with a silent, indifferent gaze, as if judging an object. She felt increasingly slighted and immediately attacked.

The members in the training camp compete with each other, and as long as no one goes too far, even if someone is injured or disabled, they can be healed quickly and there will be no problem.

Therefore, the tentacles of the winged women were naturally used without any restraint.

She even wanted to demonstrate her strength and qualifications in hopes of getting more resources allocated to her!

Hunzhen continued to observe, not at the Feathered People, but at himself, a possibility that had vanished.

The grotesque faces of the Feathered Man, who was striving for advancement, made Hunzhen vaguely see his own alien counterpart as if he had traveled through time and space.

"Do simulated humans struggle like this in that future that no longer exists? Never letting go of any opportunity to show themselves for even the smallest resources? No, they won't."

Hunzhen shook his head inwardly, his eyes resolute: "He would never wag his tail and beg."

"—!"

The winged man's pupils suddenly contracted.

No one saw how Hunzhen made his move; all that was seen was a flash of green light, and Hunzhen had already severed the winged man's left arm and wing, before gracefully sheathing his sword.

He didn't use any domain; he simply followed the direction of the airflow and made the perfect cut.

As the trainees watched Hunzhen's departing figure, they all revealed wary looks, and no one dared to provoke him again.

Several hours later, the hundred or so people in the training camp assembled at the instructors' command.

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Hunzhen went up on stage as ordered, and amidst the instructor's introduction and the insincere welcome from the crowd, announced that he had joined the training.

Hunzhen knew that he no longer belonged here.

After half a day of training, as night fell, an old man with a toad-like face hurriedly arrived at the training camp.

"A genetic disease?"

The instructor frowned as he looked at the doctor's report.

The face presented in the report is naturally that of a true likeness.

The attending physician nodded repeatedly: "Yes! I'm very sorry, sir. There were some oversights during the examination this morning. I only discovered the serious genetic defect he has just discovered during the re-examination. Fortunately, it was discovered in time, and with prompt treatment, he can return to training in three to five days! He will be fully recovered within a month!"

"Well... okay."

The instructor, recalling Hunzhen's performance that day, finally stamped his approval.

If it were any other trainer, would he care so much? If he was in a bad mood, he would just let the other person wait until the holidays to solve the problem. After all, if they can't even overcome their genetic defects, they're unlikely to amount to anything in the future.

But given his innate talent, he really couldn't bear to let a small flaw ruin it.

Everything proceeded smoothly and Hunzhen's departure did not cause much of a stir.

About an hour later, the toad-faced doctor led Hunzhen toward the spaceship's landing pad.

"What are you doing?"

The guard glanced at the two of them, his expression wary.

The toad-faced man, extremely respectful, produced the documents: "Sir, this is a trainee from the training camp. He has suddenly been diagnosed with a genetic disease. In order to treat it, we are lacking a certain medicine and need to go to XX life planet. All the information is here."

"Okay, let me see."

Having confirmed the special stamp on the document, the guard had no suspicions and readily allowed them to pass.

Hunzhen hijacked a spaceship and headed into space.

As the spaceship gradually ascended, looking down through the glass window, Hunzhen knew that things were not over yet.

"Beep—".

Inside the building at the heart of Black Oak, a man suddenly opened his eyes.

Just now, his auxiliary intelligent computer told him that another student who had just joined the training camp had left.

A perfect disguise can fool planetary-level or even equal-level beings, but it cannot fool the eyes of cosmic-level powerhouses.

It was just a mental scan.

"Ninth-tier Star Realm!?"

The man burst through the window, his face contorted with rage: "This guy, disguised as a newly promoted planetary-level officer, actually managed to slip past so many layers of security?! Are all these people incompetent?! What a bunch of useless trash!"

(End of this chapter)