"I slept so well, what time is it now, Wang Dong?"
Su Yu open his sleepy eyes and wake up Wang Dong, who was still cultivating.
Wang Dong looked at the energetic Su Yu and smiled knowingly at him, "It's almost lunchtime. By the way, how's your grilled fish technique that you and Yu Hao are learning? Let me try your cooking sometime."
"Let's eat, let's eat. We'll talk about the future later. Let's go, let's go..."
Actually, in the class, Su Yu was the closest to Wang Dong. The two of them had often bickered. In the original work, due to the Martial Soul Fusion Technique, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong's relationship was once quite ambiguous. If Wang Dong hadn't actually been a girl, Huo Yuhao probably would never have been straight...
'But to be honest, with Wang Dong's appearance, she was...
uh, never mind, not suitable for children, stop, stop...'
The two of them walked arm in arm, mocking each other about how they looked during the competition. Anyway, since the start of the semester, these two haven't had a single peaceful moment.
It was either that Wang Dong disliked Su Yu, or Su Yu and Wang Dong were constantly arguing about the course content. The worst part was that whenever Wang Dong lost an argument, he'll resort to a spirit-based duel. Whenever Su Yu see Wang Dong being a sore loser, he could only roll his eyes helplessly; this guy was always cheating.
"What, not going to Yuhao's grilled fish stall to get some supplies? I've seen you eating quite heartily."
The two sat at the gold spirit coin window in the cafeteria, and Wang Dong, without any politeness, directly asked Su Yu to treat him.
"Tch, eating the same thing every day, how about a change today? You try starting a fire." Wang Dong verbally refused, but he turned the conversation to Su Yu.
Su Yu took a big bite of some kind of spirit beast meat, each bite feeling like an extra cultivation session. "Eating is eating, good food can't shut you up."
Even a mosquito's leg is still meat, after all, this gold spirit coin window was extraordinary.
Wang Dong clearly knew the function of the Gold Soul Coin window, but he always insisted on getting Su Yu to treat him to meals, claiming it was payment for Wang Dong protecting him.
"What's wrong? With this handsome guy protecting you, what's wrong with you treating me to a meal?" Wang Dong's slightly arrogant personality made him seem perfectly justified.
Su Yu: "..."
...
When Su Yu see Huo Yuhao again, Yuhao's aura had changed slightly. After greeting him, Huo Yuhao left.
Su Yu wanted to go somewhere, and since Wang Dong was free anyway, he went with him.
Before leaving, Su Yu went to Zhou Yi's office, saying he wanted to check out the Soul Guidance Department. Zhou Yi didn't beat around the bush, directly handing Su Yu a hexagonal silver token and telling him to go to Gate Twelve of the Experimental Area.
After wandering around the map for a long time, they still couldn't find the location of the Soul Guidance Department. Wang Dong snatched the map from Su Yu's hand.
"Su Yu, you idiot! You even got lost with a map! You're holding the map upside down!" Wang Dong shout to Su Yu loudly.
'Damn it, my reputation is ruined... ' Helplessly covering his face, Su Yu was led to the location of the Soul Guidance Department by Wang Dong, who was relentlessly mocking him.
The gray building in front of them looked extremely heavy, not only constructed of brick and stone, but also with many parts of its surface having a metallic sheen. Low rumbling sounds constantly emanated from within the building, and Su Yu and Wang Dong could even feel the vibrations beneath their feet from time to time.
"Speaking of which, what are you doing in the Soul Guidance Department? Shouldn't you be in the Martial Soul Department?" Wang Dong was somewhat puzzled by Su Yu's actions; Su Yu's current strength was more than enough to secure a place in the Martial Soul Department.
Seeing Wang Dong's confused look, Su Yu reached out and tapped Wang Dong's forehead, saying, "Of course I plan to join the Soul Guidance Department in the future. Otherwise, what would I be doing here, just to freeload?"
He pulled Wang Dong along into the Soul Guidance Department's experimental area. The Soul Guidance Department's experimental area was entirely made of metal, exuding a strong sense of modern technology. Although the development of Soul Guidance in Dou Er was still in its early stages, the future was already completely dominated by Soul Guidance technology.
However, it turns out that both the Extreme Individual Soldier Project and Shrek Academy's development strategy overlooked the importance of Soul Guidance Technology.
Considering the timeline, in Mingde Hall, the first experimental subject had already developed a humanoid Soul Guidance Device, albeit still in the experimental stage. What was truly terrifying was the defense of Mingdu, the capital of the Sun Moon Empire; the matrix defense of Soul Guidance was practically the pinnacle of technology of its time.
Yet, the world's perspective remained stuck on Shrek Academy's alliance with three empires to defeat the Sun Moon Empire's invasion, still believing that Soul Guidance couldn't dominate Soul Masters or control future development.
But in reality, the later Soul Guidance Armored Legion swept through the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Douling Empire. If it weren't for Huo Yuhao's intervention, the Sun Moon Empire would have already unified the continent.
The subsequent developments are predictable. Shrek's continued dominance must have stemmed from its use of methods to dismantle and absorb everything in Mingde Hall; otherwise, if Shrek had continued to prioritize Soul Masters, it would never have reached the power of the third generation of the Douling Empire.
After all, The victor is king, the loser is condemned.
History is always written by the victors, but unfortunately, even an incredibly powerful empire eventually came to an end. The reason for this was that it threatened Shrek Academy…
After entering, there was a long, horizontal corridor, somewhat resembling the dormitory area, but with a door every thirty meters on one side, labeled with names like Experimental Zone One, Experimental Zone Two, etc.
Following the description in the original work, Su Yu arrived at Gate Twelve and directly pressed the token Zhou Yi had given him onto the door.
"Huh, how do you know how to open this door?" Wang Dong looked blankly at the slowly opening door, wondering how Su Yu could be so familiar with the place. There wasn't even a keyhole on the door; how did Su Yu know how to open it?
Su Yu rolled his eyes at Wang Dong and said, "Do you think everyone is as stupid as you?"
"Fine, you dare call me stupid!" Wang Dong raised his hand and tapped Su Yu on the head.
Su Yu rolled his eyes as he watched the metal door slowly open, saying, "I'm too lazy to argue with a pig like you..."
The door opened to reveal a completely different world. Thick metal plates divided the area into different sections, like individual metal boxes. Inside these boxes was the group's experimental area.
Looking at this unfamiliar place, Wang Dong felt a strange curiosity; his large, pinkish-blue eyes revealed a thirst for knowledge about new things.
He led Wang Dong to the largest area, an open space about two thousand square meters in size and over ten meters high. At the edge of the area, some people were experimenting with soul-guided devices.