Chapter 10: Sandstone City, Graystone Forest
1Translator: Lordbluefire
Thereafter, Lu Yuan continued to chat with Fu Langming about gene fighters. Time passed by very quickly, and it was soon night time.
Lu Yuan then bade goodbye to Fu Langming and returned to his small room.
Sitting on the bed, he turned to look out of the window.
Under the quiet night sky, neon lights were flashing in the distance, bringing out Xili City’s prosperity.
After taking in a deep breath, he emptied his nervous emotions and then closed his eyes.
It was time to start.
His consciousness integrated into his gene battle tattoo.
As a result, the golden prints on the gene battle tattoo flickered with a faint glow.
In Lu Yuan’s consciousness, the white fog was seething and it formed a door of light at the edge of the genetic chain.
Although Lu Yuan hadn’t entered it before, his instincts told him that this was the door leading to the Land of Origins.
Lu Yuan pursed his lips and his consciousness got close to the door of light.
At the next moment, his consciousness turned dark, and when he opened his eyes again, what he saw was a red scorching sun. His body instantly felt the hot temperature and dry air.
After looking around, he saw that he was in a huge square and there were many yellow buildings surrounding it.
The sky was the color of a dull yellow, covered in sand.
A hint of astonishment flashed in Lu Yuan’s eyes.
This Land of Origins was really miraculous. To think that it could let him come to an unfamiliar place.
It was said that all intelligent races in the entire universe could enter the Land of Origins.
This meant that the Land of Origins connected the entire universe!
No one knew where in the universe the Land of Origins was and why it could connect all intelligent races together.
All of a sudden, noisy sounds brought Lu Yuan back to his senses.
“Looking for a guard-type fighter to go to the yellow sand bugs’ nest! Only want elves!”
“Team led by an elemental-type fighter with elite-grade gene to kill sand scorpions at the stone walls! All races are accepted, except kobolds!”
“Human race newbie wants to join a human race party. Is there any big shot who is willing to help carry a newbie?”
When Lu Yuan listened to the sounds that seemed like they belonged in a marketplace, his expression was a little strange.
There were many lifeforms gathered in the square, shouting out to form parties.
Lu Yuan noticed that other than the human race, there were other races here as well.
The elves that often appeared in Earth’s fantasy stories had tall and slender figures, pointy ears, and beautiful faces.
There were also kobolds who had dog heads.
When Lu Yuan saw a beautiful-looking cat girl with a pair of cat ears and a tail that was wagging endlessly, his eyes opened wide.
(A cat has really come to repay a favor?!)
(Which l*cher would be able to hold his ground against these cat ears and tail?!)
Lu Yuan felt elated inside.
This world was really wonderful!
In this square, there were only four races: humans, elves, kobolds, and catfolks.
This was an initial city for these four races.
As for where this city was, Lu Yuan had some sort of an idea.
The scorching high temperature, the sand on the square, the murky air… This clearly looked like the stone walls area in the desert.
Amongst the four initial cities for the Great Revelation Planet’s humans, only the Sandstone City was in the desert’s stone walls area.
At the thought of the Sandstone City, Lu Yuan recalled the information he had read previously.
The Sandstone City was situated in the desert region, surrounded by sand and stone walls. Most of the monsters in this area were rock-type, poison-type, and wind-type.
As Lu Yuan was recalling the surrounding environment and monsters, someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder.
Lu Yuan frowned slightly and turned to look over.
A handsome-looking elf wearing yellow leather armor stood there, beaming.
“Human friend, are you alone?”
Lu Yuan raised his brows and said, “Is anything the matter?”
“Hahaha, we’re planning to hunt some graystone beetles. Do you want to join us? We’ll distribute the gains based on contribution.”
As the male elf said this, he pointed to three others behind him who weren’t far away. There was a tall and skinny elf, a kobold, and a human.
Lu Yuan took a look and then shook his head. “No need, thanks.”
Lu Yuan turned and planned to leave, but the male elf stopped him.
“Hey friend, don’t leave. It’s very dangerous to adventure outside by yourself. Why don’t we go together?”
Lu Yuan looked at him and answered confidently.
“Who said that I’m alone? My friend is already waiting for me outside.”
After hearing this, the male elf’s smile stiffened up.
“Oh, so you already have a partner? Alright then. I won’t be disturbing you anymore.”
He made way and Lu Yuan walked by him.
After that, the male elf’s lips twitched and he said, “So unlucky.”
The trio who weren’t far off walked over.
The kobold smiled and asked, “Leader, how is it?”
“That guy has a friend outside.”
Hearing this, all three of them wore disappointed expressions.
“That’s such a pity. Based on his reaction, he should be a complete newbie. I didn’t expect him to have someone to guide him.”
“Let’s change our target.”
The male elf let out a sigh. “It’s getting increasingly harder to deceive the newbies these days. Should we make some changes?”
“It’s too hard to do that. Why not find a time to call for a meeting and improve our deceit skills?”
“That works too. If this really doesn’t work, we’ll just go out and kill graystone beetles.”
“En.”
…
After Lu Yuan left the square, he assessed the surroundings.
Sandstone City’s streets were covered with sand, and there were buildings built from yellow rocks on both sides of the streets. Many rock giants were walking along the streets.
Lu Yuan had read about this in a post previously.
Every initial city came with constructs from the Land of Origins that could maintain the city’s minimal level of operation.
These rock giants were the constructs that came with the Sandstone City, and they maintained public security. Fighting in the city wasn’t allowed.
Sandstone City was very big. Due to time restraints, Lu Yuan jogged out and it took him two hours before he saw the city walls.
The walls were also built from yellow rocks and were about 30 meters tall.
There were huge canons on the city walls, as well as many constructs patrolling.
At this moment, Lu Yuan arrived at the city gate that was guarded by two constructs. However, there wasn’t anyone performing checks, so all the gene fighters could leave or enter the Sandstone City directly.
Lu Yuan then walked out of the city gate and what came into sight was a stretch of barren stone walls. Strong gales were blowing and sand was blown everywhere.
Lu Yuan covered his nose, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Each of the four initial cities for humans had its own horrible conditions. For example, the Storm City was surrounded by storms and if one wasn’t careful, they might get blown into the sky.
As for the Sandstone City, the degree of air pollution was too serious. One would take in a lot of sand with each inhale.
It was a little hard to get used to.
After discerning the directions, Lu Yuan then moved toward the right of the Sandstone City.
The place he was heading to was an area called the Graystone Forest.
The primary ferocious beasts in that area were graystone beetles, which were very weak ferocious beasts even amongst those at the probational tier.
The drop rate for genetic armaments and extraordinary genes from them was close to zero, but their stone armor was a material to forge genetic armaments and could be sold for money.
To Lu Yuan, it was a safe and steady option.
However, as he hadn’t contracted a mount in the Land of Origins, he could only rely on his legs to travel there.
Two hours later…
After entering the Land of Origins for four hours, a stone walls area that was covered with gray stone pillars finally appeared before Lu Yuan.
This was the Graystone Forest.
He couldn’t see the ends of this stone walls area. In one of the posts that he had read, it stated that a gene fighter had especially gone to measure the size of this area.
The Graystone Forest had a radius of close to 100 kilometers. It was absurd.
After taking in a deep breath, Lu Yuan took out one bottle of water to have a big drink and then ate some energy bars.
He had run all the way here and felt like he was going to be dried up by the sun.
After replenishing his stamina, Lu Yuan then stopped to rest for a bit before entering the Graystone Forest.
Not long after entering the Graystone Forest, Lu Yuan heard the sound of fighting in front.
He saw two catfolks, one holding a longsword and the other holding bow and arrows, attacking a graystone beetle that was the size of a small dog.
There were five to six other graystone beetles’ corpses on the ground.
The catfolk with the bow and arrows had great archery skills and when they shot, the arrows were like a stream of light, entering the graystone beetle’s eye.
It was an instant kill.
Lu Yuan’s pupils couldn’t help but contract.
There weren’t many precious resources in this area, so experts definitely wouldn’t come here.
Because of that, those who came here were mostly gene fighters who hadn’t awakened for long and didn’t have the capabilities to explore other areas.
Despite this, there was still a difference in their strength.
Lu Yuan felt that he might not be able to win against that archer even if they were to go one-on-one.
As expected, he was still a newbie and had to continue to work hard!
Lu Yuan cheered himself on and then quietly left.
This wasn’t the city and fighting wasn’t prohibited. Even those from the same race might fight each other, let alone those from different races.
It’d be a huge loss if he were to die.
For security purposes, Lu Yuan moved in a direction where there weren’t any sounds of fighting.
After another 20 or more minutes, his surroundings became very quiet.
Just then, Lu Yuan saw a graystone beetle under a stone pillar in front of him. Its huge mouth was chewing on rocks.
It was crunching away, looking like it was enjoying its food.
Lu Yuan looked at the surroundings and his eyes lit up.
He didn’t expect to encounter a graystone beetle that was alone by itself. This was great!
Attack it!