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Chapter 379 - 328: Passionate Civil Engineering

Chapter 379: Chapter 328: Passionate Civil Engineering

Zhang Yu switched to Qi Vein Flow, feeling the rapid recovery of his mana, and nonchalantly said, "It’s fine, you just focus on improving the quality of your mana quickly."

"You should be able to feel it, right? Your mana is about to break through a bottleneck."

Le Mulan nodded. Recently, she had felt her inner mana becoming increasingly cold. Although it didn’t harm her directly, it sometimes leaked out uncontrollably, causing various phenomena in the outside world.

Le Mulan had a feeling that if she continued at this pace, her mana would undergo a qualitative change within one or two weeks.

Such a rapid improvement in mana quality couldn’t be separated from Zhang Yu.

The enhancement of mana quality made her cultivation more efficient, speeding up her achievements, and secured more resources from the second layer of the Le family.

Thinking of this, Le Mulan glanced at Zhang Yu with a slight sense of wonder. She hadn’t expected that the investment she’d made in him before would return double-fold to herself in this manner.

Just then, Zhang Yu handed Le Mulan a measuring cup: "By the way, this batch is for you too."

Le Mulan nodded and said, "Once spirit coins are transferred, I’ll send them to you."

Feeling the warmth from the measuring cup, Le Mulan immediately judged with her rich experience: "It must have been produced shortly before I arrived; that’s really fast."

"Zhang Yu’s production efficiency has been so high recently... Is it because of consuming too many supplements?"

After recovering his mana, Zhang Yu quickly left the dormitory and rushed to the construction site again.

Most of the cemetery repairs were completed, and now he needed to seize the remaining time to gather more Spiritual Mechanism on the cemetery site.

"Unfortunately, the remaining time won’t have President Wang’s company."

Walking through the familiar underground passage, Zhang Yu arrived at today’s assigned work location.

Then, as usual, he activated the detection ritual within him and scanned the positions of nearby cameras.

Given the many secrets he carried, Zhang Yu had developed a habit of checking and remembering the camera locations to avoid unnecessary trouble.

But this time, feeling the feedback from the ritual power within him, Zhang Yu glanced at the wall on the left and suddenly frowned slightly: "There’s a hidden camera here?"

"Could it be specifically placed to capture me?"

Thinking of this, Zhang Yu activated the power of the monitoring ritual inside him, trying to control this camera. The next moment, he acquired the monitoring view of the camera.

"This is..."

Looking at the content in the monitoring footage, Zhang Yu discovered it was a multi-angle camera, able to see both the construction site and the hidden path behind a wall.

"There’s a hidden path here?"

Controlling the monitoring camera, Zhang Yu looked at the chaotic hole dug behind the wall and thought to himself, "This doesn’t seem like a formal construction; rather, it looks like someone secretly dug it."

Zhang Yu’s curiosity was piqued. Who was behind this hidden path?

But after some thought, Zhang Yu didn’t dwell on it.

Who knows what secrets might lie within, what interests might be involved, and what dangers might lurk?

So in the coming days, Zhang Yu acted as if he hadn’t discovered this hidden path, continuing to work and absorb like usual.

This day, he received a message from Master Lei Jiao in the class group.

Master Lei Jiao: Students interested in participating in this year’s architecture competition can register now, those interested can let me know.

Seeing this message, Zhang Yu’s eyes lit up. He knew that with the convening of various competitions, there were more channels for students to improve their comprehensive scores.

Hence, relying solely on grades from coursework alone wouldn’t suffice to consistently rank high in school.

Thus, Zhang Yu went to Master Lei Jiao to learn more about the architecture competition.

He found out this is an annual competition important to architecture and civil engineering students, encompassing architectural design and civil engineering content.

The competition’s arrangement began with internal selection at Wanfa University, and the selected teams were then sent out to compete against delegate teams from other universities.

"This year’s finals will be held at Sky Demon University, scheduled at the end of the year."

"But the department’s selection round starts in the second half of the year."

"Though the formal competition is after the end-of-semester exams this term, team registration and formation start now, as teams require time for coordination."

Soon, Tu Lishan also sent a message to Zhang Yu.

Tu Lishan: You know about the architecture competition, right?

Tu Lishan: There’s a team recruiting members; you should give it a try.

Tu Lishan: You’re only a freshman, so don’t worry about results—just focus on accumulating experience.

Following Tu Lishan’s recommendation, Zhang Yu specifically set aside time the next day to head to the construction site on the 667th floor.

Upon arrival at the agreed location, he saw a slender girl doing warm-up exercises.

Looking at her not-so-sturdy figure and the ranking above her head, Zhang Yu was surprised: "There’s actually a girl of this physique in the Civil Engineering Department?"

Cong Na, a Foundation Establishment Student ranked fifth in her class from the Civil Engineering Department, casually said, "You’re Zhang Yu, right? Here’s the situation..."

Through her explanation, Zhang Yu understood that this competition team had already assembled 5 students and needed to recruit one more Civil Engineering department student to take charge of project implementation.

Cong Na twisted her limbs, causing a crisp cracking sound, and laughed lightly, "I’m here... to give you a test."

"Although you are a student recommended by Mr. Tu and ranked second in your class, you are still just a freshman."

Even though she didn’t explicitly say it, Cong Na thought... putting a freshman in the competition team is purely a burden, isn’t it? The other party is just here for odd jobs, maybe even hoping to snag a rank.

Even if the other party’s strength is indeed impressive, Cong Na would prefer to choose a senior student with equivalent strength, as they have more construction experience.

So Cong Na’s idea was simple.

"Let him retreat in the face of difficulties," Cong Na thought to herself. "Make this kid understand that competitions are not something freshmen should participate in."

Zhang Yu nodded and asked, "How will we test?"

Cong Na handed the blueprint to Zhang Yu, then pointed at a set of scaffolding and said, "I’ve already sent you the blueprint."

"Within 10 minutes, if you can assemble the rebar as shown in the blueprint, you will have passed the test."

"But just like the competition simulates wartime environments, I will attack at intervals to stop your work while you’re assembling the rebar."

"Any problems with that?"

Zhang Yu glanced at the blueprint and thought to himself, "Damn it, are they using the test as an excuse to make me work for free? Truly a team introduced by Tu Lishan, all the same."

Even so, Zhang Yu nodded and said, "No problem."

So as the countdown 3, 2, 1 finished, Zhang Yu’s figure flickered, and he charged forward with surging Gang Qi.

He waved his palm, and the rebar from ten meters away was swept up, all falling onto the scaffolding.

Then, with a flick of his fingers, waves of Gang Qi oscillated swiftly, causing the tie wires to jump several meters away and wrap around the rebar.

Watching Zhang Yu’s swift actions, Cong Na lightly nodded, "Not slow at all."

"Then I’ll give you more pressure..."

Cong Na took a step forward and struck towards Zhang Yu’s back, employing the Bone-breaking Palm, capable of twisting most of the rebar.

With the Bone-breaking Palm strength contained in this strike from Cong Na, she was confident that if it hit, she could twist all the rebar Zhang Yu had set, rendering his efforts in vain.

She even thought if she hit Zhang Yu a few times, his bones might be twisted by her.

With his Three-Eyed Divine Power, Zhang Yu had already been observing Cong Na, and almost at the very first moment she moved, he struck out as well, sending layers of spiraling Gang Qi towards her.

With a banging explosion, Cong Na scattered Zhang Yu’s Gang Qi with a palm strike and continued approaching without pause.

She snorted coldly to herself: "The conductivity of the Gang Qi is too low, this amount of force... isn’t even enough to slow me down. A freshman is indeed unreliable."

With a cold snort, Cong Na was already beside Zhang Yu, swinging heavy palm shadows towards him, forcing Zhang Yu to turn and defend himself.

Zhang Yu thought: "So this competition is all about hot-blooded civil engineering? Constructing while having to fight?"

But under Cong Na’s interference, Zhang Yu found it difficult to continue working.

As an outstanding senior student, Cong Na’s strength and speed surpassed his. Once the fight started, even if Zhang Yu used his 55 split attack strategy to mimic her moves, he could only fend her off but not maintain his work, let alone drive her away.

At this moment, Zhang Yu showcased the vulnerabilities in his combat system.

"Quite durable, though," Cong Na assessed as she suppressed Zhang Yu, "but durability alone is useless in a competition."

Seeing her attacks completely halted Zhang Yu’s work progress, Cong Na thought, "Is engineering stopped merely by fists and kicks? A real competition is countless times more perilous than this."

Cong Na mused: "Too big a gap, should be backing down in the face of difficulty by now, right?"

Just as Cong Na was thinking this, a humanoid Gang Qi figure flashed in front of her, pouncing ferociously.

"With such low Gang Qi conductivity, turning into a humanoid won’t do any good."

As Cong Na was about to easily break through this humanoid Gang Qi, she realized it executed the same moves exactly like hers.

"Mimicking my moves with Gang Qi?"

"Nonsensical."

With a resounding boom.

Cong Na’s palm collided fiercely with the humanoid Gang Qi’s palm, and then she was surprised to find that not only were the moves identical, but the impact force within the Gang Qi was also identical, both being Bone-breaking Palm strength.

"Huh?"

After just one blow, the humanoid Gang Qi dissipated into the air.

But the next moment, as Cong Na stepped out, another humanoid Gang Qi charged at her, blocking her path.

Boom!

A humanoid Gang Qi dispersed, and another one arrived.

In Cong Na’s bewildered gaze, each humanoid Gang Qi used identical moves and palm strength to hers, astonishingly holding her tightly in place.

Under the protection of the Gang Qi, Zhang Yu turned around and continued working, his hands creating heavy afterimages that swept back and forth over the rebar.