CH 56

Chapter 56 — That Person Was So Scary!

“Hurry up and pull up the surveillance footage!” Dong Qingxue urged him while her eyes were glued to the big screen.

Qin Shaojun did not care about spilling coffee all over his hands and floor. He wiped them on his clothes and hurriedly pulled up the surveillance footage.

When the surveillance footage of Passageway No.12 was displayed before them, even people like them who had been through a lot could not help but narrow their eyes slightly. Their expressions were dazed for a moment.

In the footage of Passageway No.12, they could only see a group of pale-faced youths hiding in a corner, trembling. One of them was even unconscious on the ground.

All of them were looking in the same direction with terrified expressions on their faces. They looked like ordinary people who had seen a monster in movies.

Following their gazes, Dong Qingxue and Qin Shaojun saw a mess strewn about all over the ground.

The ground was littered with broken mechanical puppets. Broken limbs and parts of the mechanical puppets were scattered all over the place, as well as other parts that had fallen from their bodies.

As the camera zoomed in, Dong Qingxue and Qin Shaojun saw the ghastly wounds on the mechanical puppets and the walls beside them.

The walls of the passageway, which were made of pure steel, were riddled with deep cavities … The entire passage looked like it had been ravaged by some terrifying monster.

“Damn it!” Dong Qingxue’s expression turned ugly.

The cost of building a Level 2 Mechanical Puppet was not cheap. So many of them were damaged at once. Moreover, it was not just ordinary damage. They were basically scrapped.

This was undoubtedly a huge loss of funds. After all, the base had just purchased this batch of Level 2 Mechanical Puppets.

“Fuck!” Qin Shaojun could not help but curse, “Even a Level 3 Martial Artist couldn’t beat up a Level 2 Mechanical Puppet like this. Their combat strength must be on par with at least Level 4 Martial Artists. Is there such a monster in this batch of students?”

Qin Shaojun turned to look at Dong Qingxue.

Dong Qingxue lowered her head and flipped through the information.

“Passageway No.12 was arranged for the Qingyuan City students. There aren’t any outstanding people in Qingyuan City this year …”

“Could it be that someone snuck in?” Dong Qingxue frowned. She wanted to grab the phone on the table and investigate, but she quickly put it down.

“Forget it. We’ll know when we get there.” Dong Qingxue was a little frustrated. “Are the supervisors of Passageway No.12 all dead? So many mechanical puppets have been destroyed, and they don’t even know how to stop them …”

She suddenly stopped halfway through her sentence.

Dong Qingxue and Qin Shaojun looked at each other and thought of the same possibility at the same time.

Perhaps it wasn’t that the personnel in charge of supervising Passageway 12 didn’t come out to stop, but that they didn’t have the ability to stop the person at all.

Thinking back to the horrifying scenes, she had seen earlier, Dong Qingxue’s heart skipped a beat.

“Hurry up! Let’s go to Passageway 12!” The two of them hurriedly rushed out of the control room.

…

Boom!

A mechanical puppet was sent flying by an invisible force and fell to the ground.

The mechanical puppet’s eyes flashed with a red light as it stood up shakily. There was a depression of a few centimeters on its chest.

Xia Lin looked at the mechanical puppet with vigilance. Only when she was sure that it was the same as the previous mechanical puppet and would no longer attack after being knocked down once did she let out a sigh of relief.

This was the last mechanical puppet.

This also meant that she had passed this time’s entrance examination.

Xia Lin quickly walked towards the exit. When she was near the exit, she stopped and looked behind her with a pensive expression.

Her spiritual strength told her that someone was hiding there.

A person who gave her a strong sense of danger was at least Level 3 or above.

He didn’t come out to stop me, which means that he’s not part of the examination. He should be one of the supervisors in charge of the examination … Xia Lin guessed.

Xia Lin reached out and opened the door to the exit. Light shone in from outside. Only then did she completely relax.

Xia Lin walked out of the small door.

She suddenly realized that there were many soldiers in blue military uniforms gathered outside the door.

However, these people were obviously not here for her. Each of them had a nervous expression on their faces, as if they were about to face a great enemy. They were staring in a direction to the side.

Xia Lin looked in that direction curiously. She saw another small door.

Just as Xia Lin was puzzled.

Creak~

The small door was pushed open from the inside.

The moment the small door was opened, Xia Lin, who had sharp senses, immediately noticed everybody’s bodies tense up. They seemed to be afraid and nervous about something.

Out of curiosity, Xia Lin released her spiritual power and carefully probed inside the door. Suddenly, Xia Lin’s body stiffened. She “saw” a person through her spiritual perception.

The person was dragging another while he was coming out.

And the person had obviously noticed Xia Lin’s presence.

From the darkness, that person slowly peeked out half of his body, revealing a fair and handsome young face. It was a young man about the same age as her.

Xia Lin looked at the young man’s eyes in a daze.

From those crystal-clear eyes, she could feel traces of scorching heat and even deeper coldness that had yet to fade away.

Swoosh!

In an instant, Xia Lin’s mental perception was like a startled tentacle that suddenly retracted and wrapped around her tightly.

This was an almost instinctual reaction, just like how one would immediately retract their hand after being burned by fire, or how animals would instinctively run away when they sensed danger …

Bam!

Shaylin quickly retreated into the small door that she had just walked out of and slammed the exit door shut. She leaned against the door tightly as her full chest heaved up and down violently. Her heart was beating wildly.

At this moment, there was only one thought left in Shaylin’s mind.

That person was so scary! …

…

— Author’s Notes —

Actually, I don’t really want to explain the problem with this setting because I’ve already tried my best to write it clearly in the book.

However, since it’s a free period, I’ll say more.

The difference between strength, speed, and defense is actually very easy to understand.

The fastest person in the world is about 1.5 times faster than a normal adult male, while the strongest person in the world is more than five times stronger than a normal adult male.

What does this mean?

This means that the difficulty of training strength is much lower than training speed and defense.

Moreover, in this book, the bonus of health points to a martial artist is more on strength.

The Combat Power Index in the book also measures the explosive power of a punch.

It’s not that the strength-type talent can’t grow, but after the strength talent grows, it will be overshadowed by the increase in BQV [aka health points]. Therefore, in the later stages, the bonus to a martial artist’s overall strength is not as obvious as defense and speed.

Even in many games, if you only focus on strength, in the later stages, you will definitely be trash.

Instead, if you focus on agility, health, and defense, you will be able to do well in the later stages.

At least that’s what I think, haha.

That’s about it, if you really can’t accept it, then there’s nothing you can do …