Jiangzhong City, Jingxin Lake Villa.
After Jiang Ying got up and washed, when she came to the living room, she saw that her big brother had already prepared breakfast.
"Brother, I already told you not to get up so early."
Jiang Lan took the fried egg out of the pot, poured some soy sauce, and brought it in front of Jiang Ying, "Anyway I wake up early, and can't stay idle. Breakfast outside is expensive and not necessarily hygienic."
"Brother, our family conditions are already good now, second brother earns so much money, just hopes you can enjoy life a bit." Jiang Ying said while scooping the white porridge in her bowl.
Jiang Lan smiled slightly, "Even if the conditions are good, it's temporary. I heard Jiang God and Hei God say, Beast God has already evolved armor that defends against super cannon, the threat of Beast God is getting greater."
Jiang Ying nodded, "Last time Brother Jiang came back from the battlefield he was even injured."
"Right, brother, do you know the thing on the internet recently? About second brother."
Jiang Lan sighed lightly, "Of course I heard, now the forums are all talking about the Endless Abyss."
"Second brother is really wronged, first to discover the secret realm, yet still so many people curse him."
Jiang Ying angrily put down the chopsticks, pouting, "Exactly, how can these people be like this, selectively ignoring? Even the military came out to clarify for second brother, it wasn't that he chose it, it was drawn."
"Those keyboard warriors only care about their own interests!"
Jiang Lan shook his head, "I think this matter might not be that simple. Logically, since the military already gave official explanation, those people should realize they shouldn't push the blame onto Kai."
"But I looked at some forums this morning, still many posts cursing Kai, saying really unpleasant things."
Jiang Ying frowned, "Brother, you mean, someone is guiding public opinion?"
Jiang Lan nodded, "I think it's very possible." Speaking, Jiang Lan took a deep breath, turned his body, looked out the window and fell silent.
Their villa's living room, one wall is all glass, through the glass you can see the front yard, swimming pool, and Jingxin Lake.
Even though he and Yingzi had already moved in for some time, till now, Jiang Lan still felt a bit unreal.
From a few-square-meter shack in the slums, suddenly moved to this spacious and bright big villa...
Second brother silently paid too much.
Jiang Ying noticed, the hand big brother placed on the table, didn't know when it was clenched into a fist.
Jiang Lan turned his head to look at Yingzi, "Yingzi, you being alone, can take care of yourself okay?"
"Big brother, I'm fine, but what are you going to do?"
In Jiang Lan's eyes, a trace of determined expression appeared, "No matter who Jiang Kai offended, I can't watch others bully him!"
Jiang Ying was stunned for a moment, in her mind, it seemed like the scene when they just arrived at Jiangzhong City appeared.
At that time Jiangzhong City's order was still not stable, a large number of refugees poured in, making Jiangzhong City chaotic.
Refugees fought for shelter, scrambled for food, every time someone came to snatch the food in her and Jiang Kai's hands, Jiang Lan would always stand in front of them, even if covered in wounds, he would protect his younger brother and sister.
So many years passed, second brother's height already long surpassed big brother, yet whether in Jiang Kai or Jiang Ying's heart, big brother was always the one they could trust and rely on.
Waking up from memory, Jiang Ying smiled slightly at big brother, "Brother, don't worry about me, I will take good care of myself."
"You go to Ghost Star with peace of mind!"
Jiang Lan smiled slightly, touched Jiang Ying's head, "Hurry up and eat."
...
Next day, Huaxia military gathered 40 free evolvers, again attempted to clear Endless Abyss first level.
However, this batch of fourth-rank strong evolvers that the military placed high hopes on, still no one succeeded in clearing.
At the same time, Country Y had another 5 people pass Endless Abyss first level.
Ghost Star time, around 8 PM, globally third in territory F Country, discovered hidden goddess ruins, successfully activated Endless Abyss.
Their difficulty was also third rank "burden" level.
That night 6 people cleared the first level.
Next morning, Huaxia players woke up angrily, and again received a piece of news.
Neighboring island country also activated Endless Abyss.
Their difficulty reached fourth rank "hell" level.
But this island country had already gathered large number of free evolvers to challenge, the first batch had 100 free evolvers simultaneously challenge, up till morning 7 o'clock, they already had 31 people clear Endless Abyss first level!
At 11 AM, strongest country M Country activated Endless Abyss, after this news spread, it stirred up another wave of heated discussion.
M Country's Endless Abyss difficulty reached sixth rank "chosen by heaven".
By 4 PM, in 5 hours, M Country had 200 people, one after another, launch challenge against Endless Abyss.
In the end 22 people cleared Endless Abyss first level.
Although in terms of ratio, M Country's clearance rate was very low, but anyway, they had people clear it.
At this time, on various countries' resistance to abyss sky ranking, competition between strong countries became increasingly fierce.
Sky ranking only considers level and time taken, not the difficulty of Endless Abyss, if level same, whoever takes less time ranks higher.
Some say, what sky ranking reflects is "luck is also part of strength", drawing high difficulty is just bad luck, no compensation on leaderboard.
As more and more countries discovered Endless Abyss, Huaxia, the first country to discover Endless Abyss, ended up with Dragon and Heaven rankings both empty, naturally became the target of mockery by other countries' players.
"Heard that Huaxia's both rankings now don't even have one person, our island country's Dragon Ranking almost reached 50th place."
"Always say your difficulty high, our M Country has sixth rank difficulty, first batch already had 22 successful challengers, you guys still not even one."
"Note, correcting a mistake, Huaxia's difficulty is not sixth rank, but hidden difficulty, exactly how much higher than sixth rank is hard to determine, maybe not as hard as Huaxia people say, just that they are incompetent!"
"You Huaxia won first place in championship by luck, what's the use, Endless Abyss is most important for national development, Huaxia, just wait to be crushed by our island country!"
In the championship, Huaxia led many weaker countries to seize first place from those strong countries, making those strong countries spend lots of resources to buy quota, now they finally had chance to vent anger, naturally wouldn't let Huaxia go.
Hua Tianchen personally logged off, went to psychological counseling center.
The soldiers resting there, seeing Hua Tianchen, immediately stood up, "Commander!"
Hua Tianchen nodded, "Everyone worked hard."
"General Hua, sorry, we failed the mission, we embarrassed Huaxia!" A northeast man said with head lowered.
Hua Tianchen smiled slightly, "You all saw those forum posts right. Those are just netizens' thoughts. In my opinion, when we needed you, you came back immediately. In Endless Abyss, our 50 warriors, not one gave up midway, this shows you are all excellent!"
"As for online comments, don't mind them."
"But… General, Huaxia's both rankings till now still have no one!"
"Yes, Endless Abyss relates to rewards, national soul, especially national soul. We discussed before, maybe there will be large-scale team competitions, side with stronger national soul will have great advantage."
Hua Tianchen patted that person's shoulder, smiled, "So what if both rankings are empty, I can confidently tell you, all countries are still in exploration stage, this equals what? Practice!"
"We got some intel, though first level's reward is very powerful for fourth-rank players, it's not that scary. Other three countries that activated Endless Abyss, their national soul blessings are still negligible."
"Currently, all countries are in early stage of Endless Abyss development, and our Huaxia has the highest difficulty."
"According to your feedback, we compared with other countries' players, deduced by difficulty, our Endless Abyss is not sixth rank, but seventh rank!"
"Seventh rank?!" Everyone looked at Hua Tianchen shocked.
"Jiang Kai's luck, really can't be denied…"
Hua Tianchen smiled at everyone, "Regarding Jiang Kai, I hope everyone can maintain a correct stance. He opened the Endless Abyss for Huaxia without any support, this is a great contribution."
"As for difficulty, we military emphasized many times, it was drawn! Other countries also drew their difficulties, this kind of thing, I think we shouldn't blame it all on Jiang Kai."
"Everyone remember, we Huaxia people never fear hardship, the harder it is, the stronger our fighting spirit!"
"I dare say, if we Huaxia can't beat this tribulation-level difficulty, no country in the world can clear tribulation-level difficulty!"
Everyone's spirits lifted after hearing.
Leader's words were like a shot of stimulant, gave everyone confidence!
Hua Tianchen smiled at everyone, "Anyway, don't overthink, just adjust yourselves well."
"You all have opinions about Jiang Kai right, that's easy. How about this, when that brat comes back, I'll let him personally experience seventh rank difficulty."
"Everyone say, okay or not."
A burst of laughter in the ward, after Hua Tianchen's persuasion, all previous opinions disappeared.
"Good, let that brat taste what it feels like to lose 10% stamina every second, and 50% penetration weakened."
"You're already being kind, I encountered, agility decreased by 50%, true qi completely blocked! That's not all, the beast buffs, too terrifying, how to fight!"
"Anyway let Jiang Kai have a good taste of being ravaged by beasts, let that brat know what bad luck feels like!"
Coming out of the lounge, Hua Tianchen looked at Tian Feng, "Old Tian, any news about Jiang Kai?"
Tian Feng shook his head, "No, our several exploration teams outside, all reported not encountering Jiang Kai."
"This brat, where did he run off to…"
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