Chapter 673: Center of Attention
Meng Yishan and Bai Suxin looked over. She was right. Their son was there, swaggering and posing at the most eye-catching spot in the square formation of Agricultural University. No, it would be more accurate to say that he was doing it in the most eye-catching spot of the entire victory parade.
Speaking of which, Meng Chao really took advantage of the situation and stood in the spotlight during the victory parade today.
Before the alliance of the five universities were the Red Dragon Army and the elite squads of the mega corporations, and they placed an emphasis on discipline and teamwork. They wanted to give off a stern and imposing demeanor. Even those at the peak of Heaven Realm would not flaunt their personalities too much.
However, the youth defenders from Dragon City University and the alliance of the five universities were young and full of vigor. They were at the age where they wanted to let the people know about their personalities.
They were unlike the disciplined squads and formed a uniform square formation that walked in uniform steps.
Instead, they wore clothes of all sorts of colors and used a lot of spoils of war to decorate their own formation, making their square formations so full of decorations that they looked like they were doing a float parade.
Among the six best universities, Agricultural University (Monster University) was the most eye-catching.
After all, they captured a lot of monsters alive on the battlefield and implanted chips, metal skeletons, and self-destruct collars on them. Then, after a series of biochemical modifications, they turned these originally fierce and wild beasts into biochemical war beasts that followed humans obediently and listened to their every command.
There was nothing else even more exciting and pleasurable than making their enemies of the past submit completely to them and making them work for them.
When the students from Agricultural University rode the monsters and walked through the street in a swagger, the area around them instantly erupted with thunderous applause.
But the spoils of Agricultural University were not limited to these biochemical war beasts alone.
They also had the Demonic Mountain with them!
After hundreds of harvesters worked three days and three nights, the Demonic Mountain’s flesh and organs were all removed.
However, since its skeleton looked really mighty and domineering, it was processed and refined to become the most eye-catching character in the entire victory parade.
This was a monster that was nearly one hundred meters tall, but it fell under the humans’ sabers and artillery. Its skull shone with a metallic light, and the terrifying holes and intersecting cracks just told the people how terrifying the humans’ military technology was.
This scene instantly caused millions of citizens to feel their pride as Earthlings explode.
The Red Dragon Army, mega corporations, and the other five universities had also killed their share of Apocalyptic Beasts, the problem was, the Apocalyptic Beasts they killed were either not as big as the Demonic Mountain and did not provide such a major visual impact, or their bones could not be preserved for a long time, which led to them being ground to powder and sent for further processing.
Hence, they could only watch as Agricultural University used the Demonic Mountain’s huge skeleton to boast about their achievements and strength!
As for Agricultural University, Black Tortoise Zong Yue should be the one to lead the squad that killed the Demonic Mountain.
Nevertheless, with Zong Yue’s status as someone who had led Agricultural University’s martial arts course for decades, there was no need for him to join the youth defenders and be judged by millions of citizens. It was impossible for him to do so as well.
As a Deity Realm superhuman, he had the right to sit at the rostrum platform.
Blade Dancer Gu Jianbo, Griffin Li Yingzi, and the other tutors were also a.s.sured of their statuses, and they had no need to fight for flowers, glory, and the chance to be at the center of attention with their students.
Hence, Meng Chao was the one who benefitted from this, since he was the only student who joined the fight to kill the Demonic Mountain. He stood on the Demonic Mountain’s skull and represented Agricultural University to be judged by a few ten million citizens.
Speaking of which, Meng Chao had carefully dressed up for an entire night so that he would not embarra.s.s his university.
Inside, he wore a black nano fighting suit, and on the outside, he wore a soft armor made of an Apocalyptic Beast’s leather. On his chest was Agricultural University’s emblem. Aside from that, there were all the medals he had gained from his national college examination and the recent battle in the lair.
Two of them were from the Red Dragon Army. They were commonly known as the Artillery Medal, and they were proof that soldiers had contributed to the war effort. One of them was given to him during his national college examination’s practical exam, and the other was for the northern offense.
Three of them were from the Survival Committee. They were commonly known as the Dragon Medal, and these were the proof that citizens had contributed to the war effort. They were for his national college examination, the northern offense, and the n.o.ble Descent Hotel ambush.
Another three were from the Supernatural Tower. They were commonly known as the Star Medal, and they were proof that superhumans had contributed to the war effort. These were given to him for the Blessed Paradise murderous pets case, the n.o.ble Descent Hotel ambush, and the battle in the lair.
The newest Star Medal he received looked like it was made of a crystalline, red gem. He wore it over his chest, and it trembled due to his heartbeat, causing it to shine with a faint, blood-red light.
The citizens who knew stuff immediately understood that this was a blood medal, the highest-ranking medal that was the hardest to get among the five-tiered achievement reward system in Dragon City.
Usually, they could only be obtained by martyrs who spilled their blood.
In other words, only when martyrs sacrificed their lives and died would they gain the honor of receiving the blood medal.
There were only a handful of people alive who received the blood medal.
Among them, the ones who remained with all their limbs intact and did not have any mechanical prosthetics or synthetic organs placed in them were even rarer.
All of them contributed greatly and were legends who were crucial to the survival of Dragon City.
“The blood medal? It’s really the blood medal!”
“It’s a living bearer of the blood medal!”
“That’s Meng Chao?”
A squad of biochemical war beasts, an Apocalyptic Beast skeleton that was one hundred meters long, and a living blood medal bearer.
When these three topics were grouped together, it was just too shocking and amazing.
Not only did the citizens on the spot cast fervent gazes on Meng Chao, even the drones and armored airships who surrounded the parade pointed their cameras —which looked like guns—at Meng Chao.
The screens of the buildings around the area and the live streams on the citizens’ handphones and computers instantly showed Meng Chao’s determined face, which was covered slightly in makeup. They also showed the shining blood medal on his chest.
The broadcasting channel only gave him a simple introduction and said that he was “Meng Chao, representative of outstanding university students.”
However, Meng Chao’s deed of entering the tiger’s den in the lair and turning the tides around during a critical moment had been exaggerated and gained dozens of versions before it spread to the people.
He had no choice. Even though Meng Chao himself was someone who did not care about fame.
Unfortunately, for the sake of Dragon City’s future development and to have greater power when it came to making decisions, he could only agree to Lu Siya’s plan and use the promotional department in Sky Pillar Corporation and Superstar to live stream, make advertis.e.m.e.nts, buy popularity, and organize offline meets with the fans. They also looked for quite a number of good-looking and eloquent people in the lair to create all sorts of versions of the heroic deeds that he could not say and publicize them on various channels so that it would occupy the people’s eyes and ears.
In the end, Meng Chao and Lu Siya’s fame as the golden duo rose again.
Meng Chao then entered the public eye with Golden Tooth Saber while keeping a low profile.
For example, with Golden Tooth Saber on his back, he helped an elderly woman cross the road. With Golden Tooth Saber on his back, he gave up his seat on a bus to a pregnant lady. With Golden Tooth Saber on his back, he held talks about the Demonic Halberd Pig’s biological structure to the children in kindergarten. These friendly and cordial scenes were filmed by people accidentally and spread to every corner of the internet.
It caused concepts like Meng Chao, wielder of Golden Tooth Saber, and successor of Saber Jin Wanhao to be bound tightly together and entered the hearts of the people.
At that moment, a large number of citizens who received fees from Sky Pillar Corporation and Superstar to promote Meng Chao started shouting Meng Chao’s name loudly in the crowd.
Quite a number of internet celebrities with a few ten hundred thousand fans up to a few hundred thousand fans also eagerly repeated Meng Chao’s glorious deeds on the social media platforms.
Even if Meng Chao’s mind was as strong as steel and loved torturing his body to contribute to civilization, so he was not that interested with these average human girls, he was still touched by the citizens’ fervor. He nearly could not keep a cool front and almost started giggling like an idiot.
‘No, I have to keep it cool.’ Meng Chao sucked in a deep breath and dug his fingers deep into his palm to keep his heart from racing. ‘We’re off to a good start in our long journey, and we’ve barely begun. The others might not know, but I do. Dragon City has only half a foot out of the newbie village!’
With that thought in mind, his thoughts pierced through the cheering crowd and went to the boundless battlefield in the Other World as well as the burning apocalypse.
Time waited for no one. Even if they had really won the Monster War, they did not have a lot of time to celebrate and catch their breath, much less lay on the seemingly abundant spoils of war and sleep.
After all, the ultimate war that was going to sweep through the Other World was going to be so huge and intense that it was more than ten times the scale of the Monster War!
Of course, before considering how Dragon City should join the world war in the Other World, he must first verify something.
Was the monster civilization really defeated?
Over the past half a month, Meng Chao carefully combed through the memories of his previous life and dug through every information he had about the Monster War.
This was the conclusion he came up with, the main forces of the monster civilization had really been defeated, dispersed, and crippled during this battle.
Unless the monster civilization could use a method that made absolutely no scientific sense and create a force that was twice or thrice bigger than what they had in his previous life, then, Monster Mountain Range truly belonged to the humans’ steel army now. The remaining monsters could only cower in the corners and wait for the humans to drown them with artillery sh.e.l.ls. This was the only ending they had.
Now that he thought about it carefully, even though the invasion of the large monster horde this time was sudden, to the monster civilization, this was their only choice. After all, after they lost the northern offense, they lost every other subsequent battle and always returned in failure as well as suffered major losses to their forces. Their only option left was to launch a decisive final battle while Dragon City made their pie bigger and was at the limits of their development. The reason was, at that time, Dragon City’s forces and firepower was lacking, and this was a window of opportunity for the monster civilization.
Honestly speaking, the chances of chaos in the lair was really high, and the monster civilization had a high chance of victory in the battle. It was worth it for them to stake everything in this battle.
There should be nothing strange about this battle.
Since the humans crushed the monsters’ scheme in the lair and their offense at the borders, the Monster War should end a few years earlier, so they should have no need to fight in those battles with countless casualties and multiple powerful fighters dying anymore, right?
All they needed to do next was to destroy the enemies’ hideout and drag out the monsters’ mastermind once it had no more monsters to command.
Everything seemed to be perfect, in fact, it was too perfect.
But there was one small question that remained in Meng Chao’s mind.
‘Where are the rest of the Supernatural Ent.i.ties hiding?’