Chapter 12: One vs. Seven

The subsequent group competitions were carried out in an orderly manner. Xu Xizhen's team, which was assigned to venue A, performed particularly smoothly. The opponents had basically given up, and she finally won the victory by passing four people alone.

Due to their speedrunning, there was a large time difference between groups A and B. By the time Xu Lingqu's group started, only they and their opponents were left on the field.

The students who had finished the initial assessment basically gathered in groups of three or five to chat, and almost no one came to watch this final game.

After all, the information of the members in this competition is unremarkable no matter how you look at it. It is better to take this opportunity to socialize with them. If there is a form of self-formed teams in the subsequent assessment, it is important to seize the opportunity to choose good teammates through this social interaction.

Therefore, the students with stronger and more outstanding performance were surrounded by a lot of people. Xu Xizhen was standing in the Group B field to cheer for Xu Lingqu, and there were several people around him. It was obvious that they had other intentions, but no one dared to take the initiative to come forward and talk to him.

After all, Xu Xizhen looked rather cold from the outside, but her title as the Miss Xu family was there, and her long golden hair sparkled in the evening sun. She was like a precious yellow gemstone, and people could only admire her from afar.

At the beginning of the game, facing opponents who were all in the combat direction, several teammates from the analyst command department had actually tried their best, especially the little girl Lin Xiao, who was obviously trying to consume the opponent's physical strength as much as possible to delay time, but the gap in strength was there.

Although the strength of the students in the combat field varies, they are all the best from the local galaxy military academies.

Especially when seeing that the first player sent by the opposing team was their strongest player, the top five players in Xu Lingqu's team had basically no ability to fight back against him.

Xu Lingqu watched the five of them being carried down one by one, and finally it was Sun Liao's turn to face him.

Sun Liao's face was livid as he stepped onto the stage. The man was Wang Qihu, and he knew him. The selection process for the six military academies in the Second Star System was different from that in other systems. To ensure the admission rate of the six academies, the Second Star System had a single large military academy, which centrally managed and trained all the students. After internal selection, students could apply to the six academies. Wang Qihu was one of the best students in the Second Star System, having been rejected by Longyuan Military Academy to come to Moye. If he hadn't used his family connections to bribe the school's leadership, he wouldn't even have been able to get into Moye.

In short, the strength of the two people in the military academy of the second galaxy is very different.

It can be said that Wang Qihu was arranged to be the first one, which completely overturned his previous calculations. The consumption of the first five people was nothing in the face of absolute strength.

On the stage, Instructor Chen announced the official start, but Sun Liao raised his hand at this time.

He coldly glanced at Xu Lingqu, the only remaining member of his team, and said through gritted teeth, "Instructor, I surrender."

He was the only one who proposed surrendering directly throughout the entire assessment today. Instructor Chen was stunned for a moment and pursed his lips: "Are you sure?"

They did not stipulate that students could not choose to surrender during the assessment, but as military academy students, this behavior of "deserting at the critical moment" is really despicable.

Sun Liao can't care about so many things now.

His thinking was that while this was a bit embarrassing, it would preserve his strength to the greatest extent possible. He was already certain to lose this point, and would also be penalized. If there were any important training assessments coming up, he could earn back the points if he had the physical advantage.

"Teacher, I'm sure." Thinking of the people before him who had fought so hard but still lost like clowns, Sun Liao felt no guilt at all, and instead wanted to laugh. He felt completely certain that his teammates deserved it. If it weren't for them dragging him down, he wouldn't have reached this point.

After saying that, Sun Liao walked off the stage very easily.

He stared sinisterly at Xu Lingqu who walked onto the stage calmly, thinking that if this woman was smart, she should surrender like him to save trouble... If she overestimated her own abilities, he hoped that Wang Qihu would not show mercy.

At first, he only knew that this was the daughter of the Xu family and was a little afraid of offending her, but after learning that this person was an adopted daughter, Sun Liao was left with only complete contempt for Xu Lingqu.

The scorned Xu Lingqu stood on the stage. Wang Qihu was already annoyed with Sun Liao, who didn't even dare to compete. He thought Sun Liao's surrender was the result of a team discussion. He simply said to the frail girl in front of him, "Why don't you surrender too? I'm still not used to fighting with women."

Among the group in front of them, Wang Qihu felt the most headache when dealing with Lin Xiao.

Xu Lingqu ignored him and just nodded to Instructor Chen to indicate that the competition could begin.

Tsk, if you don't accept my toast, you'll have to pay the price. Wang Qihu snorted in his heart, and was thinking that he should be gentle when he picked up the sickly girl in front of him and threw her off the stage to avoid any accidents.

The next second, the sickly girl's legs were in his face.

He was completely unable to react to the speed of her attack and had no time to block her attack. Wang Qihu was knocked to the ground by a side kick in an instant. While he was still in shock, the next kick came at him mercilessly. It only took her two moves to deal with him and kicked him off the stage.

She didn't even really do anything.

Wang Qihu collapsed to the floor, still in shock. His entire body was numb, and it took several seconds for him to feel the sharp pain in his neck and abdomen. Xu Lingqu hadn't held back a single blow. Unbelievably, he scrambled to his feet, clutching the painful area. He stared at Xu Lingqu on the stage, his eyes wide open, unable to utter a single word.

The students who were originally chatting in groups of three or five in the audience also fell silent. The whole venue was quiet for a while, and the only sound was the rustling of leaves in the wind.

In real life, seeing a frail young woman toppling a 6'9" burly man would be breathtaking, let alone this being a military academy duel, a command department battle. Judging from their appearance alone, the two men couldn't be more different, but Xu Lingqu, as the "earth," poked a hole in the "sky."

After a few seconds, Xu Xizhen's applause and cheers broke the silence. Her eyes lit up and she jumped up, which was seriously inconsistent with her cold appearance. But she couldn't care less now, her sister was so strong!

In this way, she can justifiably and confidently pester Xu Lingqu to form a team in the future, and no longer be afraid of Xu Youwen's face!

With Xu Xizhen's demonstration, the others caught on instantly, and applause erupted like a symphony orchestra. A crowd gathered around the previously uninterested competition; even the instructors came over to watch.

Everyone started chattering and asking questions like crazy.

"Isn't this person in charge of the direction?"

"Who could see her movements and tactics just now?"

"I felt like it was so fast that it left an afterimage. Is this speed and power serious?"

"Is this acting? Is this really not acting? That Wang Qihu is so strong, she can take him down with just two kicks?"

Xu Lingqu didn't feel anything about the reaction from the audience. He just watched the second person from the other team come on stage and nodded, indicating that the competition could begin.

This time she used her hands, but her attack was also faster, and she punched the opponent's upper abdomen. Although the man was also strong in the fighting direction, his strength was far inferior to Wang Qihu. Xu Lingqu didn't have to exert much effort. Seeing that he could no longer stand, she stretched out her foot and tripped him, sending him down easily.

Soon after, their third and fourth players took the field. With the two previous examples in mind, it was clear they still didn't have the same disdain or contempt for Xu Lingqu that Wang Qihu had for her. They had made thorough defensive preparations, and Wang Qihu himself even went over to discuss countermeasures with them, but they were still beaten badly, lasting only five moves at best.

Wang Qihu was looking at Xu Lingqu on the stage from the audience, and thinking that he was actually beaten down in this way, he actually felt a little better.

Her moves were too fast, her attack positions too tricky to predict, and she had no defensive posture at all. Time and again, she launched straightforward, all-out attacks, with no visible weaknesses at all. It seemed completely natural for her to be defeated.

As his teammates were easily dealt with one by one, Wang Qihu's back slowly straightened up.

He was not the only one who was embarrassed. Besides, facing someone as terrifying as Xu Lingqu, it was normal for him to lose.

He wasn't the only one whose mindset shifted; the students watching from the audience were completely enthralled. This was completely different from the exciting duel between Shen Shouli and Liu Zheng. Their high-level, evenly matched duel was certainly impressive, but the exhilaration of Xu Lingqu's heroic one-on-seven victory far surpassed the former.

As the last person to take the field, he was given the task at a critical moment. He was a student in the command department who was generally considered fragile. However, he almost defeated an entire team of military academy students in the combat direction on the opposite side by himself.

Who wouldn’t be excited after seeing this?

Xu Lingqu's name kept coming up, and when people asked who she was, Xu Xizhen stood in the crowd and proudly boasted to everyone, "She's my sister!"

Jin stood next to Shen Shouli. The two did not come closer, but just looked at Xu Lingqu on the stage from a distance. He played with his red hair with one hand and put his other hand on Shen Shouli's shoulder: "Isn't this the daughter of the Xu family? You are more familiar with her, right? Her moves are so strange. Can you see what's going on?"

“I can’t tell.” Shen Shouli slapped Jin’s hand away and frowned.

"Tsk, are you still mad at me? All's fair in war. Why are you so petty?" Jin shook his reddened hand in grievance and said, "Who do you think is stronger, Liu Zheng or her?"

He pointed at Liu Zheng, who was standing in front of him and was also attracted by Xu Lingqu's attention, and asked curiously.

“I’ve never fought against her.” Shen Shouli looked at Xu Lingqu on the stage with a gloomy look in his eyes.

Xu Lingqu's moves are strange and it's hard to tell what they are doing.

She sent the sixth person off the stage with a backhanded move, which once again caused the whole audience to boil. Now all the instructors gathered around, and the scene was even more lively than the first focus battle.

Xu Lingqu twisted her numb hands. It was normal that she couldn't see clearly. These "moves" were the muscle memories and body reactions that she had formed through repeated battles with mutant beasts and infected humans.

In fact, no matter how powerful the students are, they are only brought up in a greenhouse. They are sensitive to moves only because the fighting is all "textbook" collisions. There is too much talk on paper. However, Xu Lingqu, who has experienced hundreds of life-and-death moments, really goes for the opponent's vital points.

These Kion instructors also saw it.

Ever since Xu Lingqu defeated Wang Qihu with two moves, he had already walked over and stood beside Instructor Chen: "If she had a sharp object in her hand, even just a needle, it would be difficult for her opponent to survive."

Instructor Chen nodded in agreement: "These things cannot be defined by moves. This is pure killing."

Awesome and elegant.

Kion's expression was mixed with joy and worry. Seeing the seventh man being easily dealt with by Xu Lingqu, he pinched the bridge of his nose with his hand and said, "This is exactly the style of those crazy people in Ares..."

As he said this, some bad memories flashed through his mind.

Kion suddenly felt a pang of pain in his teeth. The most profound memory was that he had the honor of watching Ares enforce the law against a traitorous officer in the military headquarters. The group of people entered the office area unimpeded and shot the officer through with a single shot without mercy. The officer's brains splattered everywhere, and even some flew onto Kion's clothes.

The man was an officer after all, and his death was so tragic that Kion didn't think it was a big deal. It was just the result of desertion, but the brain matter was really too disgusting.

But then, he watched as the leading officer, Ares, took off his leather gloves and gouged out one of the man's eyes.

At that time, Kion was just a student working as a handyman in the military secretariat. He went home that night and vomited into a trash can. Later, he was transferred to the front line of the battlefield and became accustomed to life and death, and he felt much better.

But the incident of gouging out his eyes that day still left a big shadow on him.

"But her mental strength level is only B, and she fainted during the jump. She doesn't meet the requirements of those crazy people at all. It's impossible for Ares to come to our school to select talents, right?" Instructor Chen noticed the faint anxiety in his partner's mood.

He patted Kaion's shoulder, signaling him not to think too much, stood up, walked to the center of the stage and announced the victory of Xu Lingqu's team.

Lin Xiao in the audience was very excited from the beginning when Xu Lingqu easily defeated Wang Qihu. She almost cried at the end. However, when she thought that according to the rules, the shameless Sun Liao would also have to share the fruits of victory, her face darkened.

"Congratulations, you have achieved the feat of defeating seven enemies at once." Instructor Chen said to Xu Lingqu with a smile.

The audience was cheering for this wonderful counterattack in which the opponent defeated seven opponents at once, but Xu Lingqu himself did not feel very good about it.

She didn't manage to eliminate all the enemies within thirty moves, and she had to force herself to complete some of the subsequent moves while she was dizzy.

By now her body was completely overloaded. Every time she opened and closed her eyes, she felt like she would pass out in the next second. Her subconscious told her that she had to go downstairs and rest.

But Xu Lingqu still held on and said to Instructor Chen, "I'm really good, so can I make a request?"

Instructor Chen had congratulated many students, but this was the first time someone had come to him with a request: "What's wrong?"

"I demand that our team won't get any extra points for surrendering," Xu Lingqu said directly.

She has always been a heartless and vindictive person. She even suspected that it was because of this that she was able to serve as a law enforcer for so long in the apocalypse without breaking down.