Chapter 46 Training Complete, Reborn!

3:50 AM.

Li Xingyue sat up with a yawn, stretched lazily, and then got out of bed to wash up.

Because the training room was too vast and contained very few items, his snoring echoed loudly last night, waking himself up several times and leaving him severely sleep-deprived.

At this moment, Wang Li strode into the training room, intending to begin the training session immediately.

"Instructor, why won't they let me out? I still can't reach my brothers, and I want to go outside and check on them!"

"Don't you think the most important thing right now is your own training?"

Li Xingyue immediately retorted, "But my brothers..."

"Stop! Focus more of your mind on your training. You are the only one who hasn't broken through, yet you're worrying about others. Taking a step back, even if something happened to them, what can a mere Tier-2 do if you go out there?"

Wang Li patted him on the shoulder. "Elevate your own strength first; that is the primary rule of the apocalypse!"

Li Xingyue fell silent for a moment, then nodded. Wang Li was entirely right. Being a Tier-2, he would be utterly useless if he encountered trouble.

"I can let you in on a secret: in the coming days, aside from physical training, I will also teach you combat techniques for killing. Of course, how much of this you can absorb and what level you achieve depends entirely on you."

"If everything goes smoothly, you can leave in half a year at the earliest. But if you don't strive to improve yourself, hehe..."

This time, Li Xingyue did not speak after hearing this. He simply raised his head, looking at Wang Li with an unwavering, determined gaze!

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Year 10 of the Post-Apocalyptic Era, October 3rd, inside the VIP training room.

Wang Li wore a rare smile, looking at Li Xingyue with a mixture of pride and satisfaction. "Congratulations, you have successfully broken through to Tier 6!"

An expression of uncontrollable excitement bloomed across Li Xingyue's face, and he bowed deeply to Wang Li.

"Thank you, Uncle Wang. Without you, I could never have reached Tier 6 so quickly!"

Wang Li shook his head. "Let's skip the polite formalities. Your physical fortitude is already extremely high; you could even successfully break through by injecting a Tier-7 serum right now. However, I still advise you to stabilize your foundation for a while longer first."

Li Xingyue nodded. "Understood, Uncle Wang. I will keep up my training."

"Alright, you have graduated, and I will be leaving this place as well."

Li Xingyue looked somewhat puzzled. "You're leaving too? Where to?"

"…Ark City. That's where I came from, and now I plan to go back."

Li Xingyue looked surprised. "I thought you were a local of Freedom City. I never expected you to be from the capital. Then why did you come to this wretched place?"

Wang Li stared at him for a long while before speaking slowly, uttering only a few brief words: "Take care of yourself, and live well."

Seeing that Wang Li was about to walk out of the training room, Li Xingyue hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to ask the question burning in his mind: "Uncle Wang, can you tell me what tier you are?"

Wang Li stopped in his tracks without turning back. He dropped just two words, then walked away directly.

A minute later, the food delivery person arrived. Before he even reached the spot, his voice echoed ahead of him.

"Brother Yue, I heard you're leaving soon, so I came to keep you company for this last meal!"

The delivery guy stepped into the training room and immediately spotted Li Xingyue standing not far away, only to find him frozen in place, staring blankly with an expression of utter astonishment!

The delivery guy waved a hand in front of him. "Hey, come on, Brother Yue, I'm just here to share a meal with you; you don't have to look like that, do you?"

Li Xingyue snapped out of his daze and noticed him. "Ah? Oh, it's Delivery Bro. Just put the stuff right there, you can go back to your busy work."

Over the past six months, Li Xingyue and the delivery guy had met three times a day and had grown very familiar with each other. Li Xingyue called him Delivery Bro, and Delivery Bro called him Brother Yue.

Delivery Bro looked speechless. "Big brother, were you even listening to me? I came to share a meal with you, and look, I even brought a few bottles of fine wine!"

"Ah, sorry, brother, I just zoned out for a moment. Let's dig in then."

Li Xingyue had indeed been too shocked just now, primarily because the answer Wang Li gave before leaving was simply too explosive!

Li Xingyue was now a Tier 6, yet when facing Wang Li, he still felt the man was unfathomably deep, completely powerless to fight back during their sparring sessions. That was why he had asked that question.

And the two words Wang Li had uttered back then were "Tier 9."

Damn it, Li Xingyue never imagined that he had spent half a year in the company of a Tier-9 human powerhouse, who had even personally guided his training. If word of this got out, probably nobody would believe it.

After all, in everyone's collective understanding, Tier-9 powerhouses represented the ultimate peak combat strength of humanity!

Logically speaking, such super-powerhouses should be holding down a major city or living a life of luxury in the central district. Yet he, of all people, came to this most chaotic Freedom City to act as a coach.

Forget it, ordinary mortals like them could never fathom the thoughts of the mighty.

The meal that followed lasted over two hours with Delivery Bro. He was very talkative, and Li Xingyue mostly just listened.

Delivery Bro put down his chopsticks, let out a satisfying burp, picked up a beer bottle, and looked at Li Xingyue. "Brother Yue, it's been a real pleasure drinking with you. Who knows when we'll meet again after today? Take good care of yourself!"

"You too!" Li Xingyue also picked up his beer bottle and clinked it against his. "You as well!"

After finishing the meal, Delivery Bro left. Li Xingyue packed up his belongings, cast one final glance back at the training room, and then departed for good.

He went to the front desk to settle the final balance. Over the span of a little more than half a year, he had spent a total of 60,000 contribution points, mostly consumed by the continued rental of the training room and the evolutionary serums. In comparison, food expenses were minimal.

After bidding farewell to Wang Hai, Li Xingyue left the Monster Hunter Branch.

At this moment, the sunlight outside was brilliant. Li Xingyue felt slightly unaccustomed to it as soon as he stepped out, having spent months inside a training room where the outside world was invisible and only artificial lights confronted him every day.

"Hah~, finally out!"

Sighing involuntarily in exclamation, Li Xingyue walked toward District B, intending to head straight into District B to find Yellow Teeth and the others.

They hadn't seen each other in so long; if he suddenly appeared, they would definitely be pleasantly surprised!

As he was speculating, many people around him suddenly began to run, every single face tainted with a hint of panic and terror.

"It's over, it's over! They're coming again!"

"Why are they here again?? Damn it, are they even going to let people live?!"

"Dammit, if we can't complete any missions, we're going to starve to death!"

"Let's go, let's see if we can take down some low-tier ones like last time!"

Seeing the reactions of these people, Li Xingyue wore a look of utter confusion and hurriedly grabbed a fleeing man.

"Brother, let me ask you, what happened? Why is everyone panicking like this?"

The grabbed man was startled, but relaxed slightly upon turning his head and seeing Li Xingyue.

"Damn, you scared the hell out of me!"

"What the hell, were you just born today? The zombies have been besieging the city for months now, and you're still asking what happened? You're hopeless!"