15 was caught

◎As long as you are brave enough...◎

The time is almost up and students are arriving one after another.

As the saying goes, they put on a full show. Canxing really acted like they were issuing an important notice. Except for the instructors who were going to give lectures and lead the team on the ground today, almost all the staff in the Canxing White Tower were present.

But Kong Wei didn't come.

Such a grand occasion, whether as a special education instructor or the head instructor in charge of their class, should not be absent. But Yan Xunzhi glanced around twice and didn't see a single person.

If she were there, given her level and position, she would definitely be at the forefront.

Thinking of Jingting saying that today was not important at all... she felt a little jealous and deeply suspected that Kong Wei was slacking off and didn't come.

After all, it was hard for her to think too much about the character of an instructor who had to rush through the door even during training.

The long speech was the most boring part of the gathering. Yan Xunzhi figured out a new use for the auxiliary exoskeleton, keeping it stiff and then breaking the chain. Then, relying on the exoskeleton for support, he dozed off in the team.

When the meeting was over, Ping Yihuai pushed her and said, "Wake up, the extension has been matched."

Yan Xunzhi woke up as if from a dream, yawned, and shook his head to wake himself up a little. Just as he was about to walk, his legs felt heavy and he couldn't move them. Suddenly, a tearing pain came.

I forgot I was wearing an exoskeleton! She grimaced, gasped in pain, and completely perked up.

Hurry up and connect to the exoskeleton to catch up with the team and enter the simulation matching warehouse.

The simulation machine resembled a mental training chair, but larger and more enclosed. Trainees wore sensors and a special mental field-sensing helmet, half-sunken inside the machine.

Only after they truly began did they understand why the Federation had requested this simulation. Mind matching required the full spectrum of their mental faculties to be utilized in order to create a pair, and since they used their mental energy so often, they might not have even explored the true nature of their own mental realms.

Yan Xunzhi fumbled for a long time before she saw the outline of her own spiritual realm appear on the screen. The long period of high concentration made her dizzy. After exploring for a while, she had to completely empty her mind and rest for a while.

After an unknown amount of time, the outline of the spiritual realm finally began to emerge on the machine.

After Yan Xunzhi outlined the last point, he heard a voice prompt in his ear: Please confirm that your spiritual realm display is correct.

She clicked confirm, and a loading dialog popped up. She thought it was over, and breathed a sigh of relief, when she suddenly heard the voice continue: "We are about to begin the dynamic mental field mapping. Please put on your helmets and pay attention." We are about to begin the dynamic mental field mapping. Please put on your helmets and pay attention.

Voice broadcast twice.

The helmet was half-wrapped, not the hard shell you'd find on the ground, but rather very soft, fitting almost perfectly when attached. Yan Xunzhi reached out and touched it; the helmet was tightly wrapped and didn't budge.

What is this for... Just as she had half a question mark in her mind, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her brain.

“!”

She opened her mouth but couldn't even scream.

This was followed by a series of blunt blows that continued to hit her mental realm.

This kind of pain went straight to the bottom, as if someone had dug open her skull and kept kneading and pinching her brain!

The wall of the spiritual realm was about to be damaged, and one step forward would mean spiritual invasion. Yan Xunzhi hurriedly controlled his mental power to repair it.

Unexpectedly, wherever she adjusted her mental power, the attack there would be more powerful.

She was beaten so hard that she felt dizzy, seeing stars, and could only feel the world spinning and buzzing.

My strength wasn't in my mental strength to begin with, and repairing the damage didn't heal it, only making the pain worse. So I just gave up. Anyway, this was a simulated match, and in all the years at the White Tower, I'd never heard of anyone dying from a simulated match machine.

She no longer controlled her mental strength to support herself, but instead softened her blows. Yan Xunzhi was already numb, not even aware of the pain.

It felt like a long time had passed, and then I heard a "beep" sound in my ear.

Her vision gradually focused as she felt the machine, which had nearly swallowed her, slowly open. Yan Xunzhi's stomach was filled with acid, and she couldn't wait to jump down, bending over and dry heaving twice.

Shu Chi, who had crawled down diagonally in front of him with weak legs and feet, had already vomited once while holding the machine. Yi Rong frowned at the sight, "You stood there for so long and didn't even listen!"

Turning around, he saw Yan Xunzhi was also extremely uncomfortable, almost jumping up and down. "I'm really impressed by you two. You can sleep even after listening to the instructions! I told you not to use mental protection when detecting the outline of the mental field. Really!"

Yan Xunzhi's eyes welled up with tears, thinking, who knew the second half would be useful...

However, it was obvious that they were not the only two who did not listen at all. At least a quarter of the people got off the plane with headaches, nausea, and turned pale from exhaustion.

Even someone like Yi Rong, who had listened to all the precautions, didn't look very good. After all, if he didn't control the protection, he would still be beaten up first.

"Spiritual matching is suffering." This was the only way she could summarize it.

The backstage was matching people in real time. The students took a short break and went to the big screen outside to check the results.

Of the more than 300 people, about 140 pairs achieved a 60% match, exceeding the federal standard. However, the machine was not accurate this time, and the final results are still inconsistent.

Yan Xunzhi tried hard to find himself and saw his name in the second half.

The person she matched with was more inclined towards being a sentinel. She remembered the name and thought he was from the next class, but she suddenly lost interest.

Anyway, I won’t be paired with her in the end.

This is basically the reaction when finding your own name - the matching object is probably of the same differentiation tendency, and even if it is different, the matching degree is not very high. In the end, it may not match after shuffling again, so it has no reference value.

What is worrying is the batch that was not found.

Of course, there might be one or two unlucky people who are matched up by others due to bad luck, but if they are not matched up the first time, it at least shows that the spiritual realm is quite unique, which is worrying.

Not being a match wasn't about grades or level, it was just pure luck. Even Shu Chi was a match, so Ping Yihuai was eliminated.

She read the list three times over and over again, her expression even uglier than Yan Xunzhi's, "This shouldn't be the case..."

She was a guide, so her spiritual realm couldn't possibly be narrow. The number of guides who weren't matched could be counted on one hand.

Yan Xunzhi patted her shoulder and said, "It's okay. It's not accurate anyway. There are still two rounds of matching after the division."

By the time it’s almost finalized, you’ll really cry if you don’t find a match.

Ping Yihuai thought about it and it made sense, but he still felt a little frustrated. He sighed and was stunned for a while before he composed himself and prepared to leave.

It was already past lunchtime, and the students had half a day off in the afternoon, so they went to eat one after another.

After getting my meal, I found Yi Rong already in the cafeteria, chatting with Zheng Qingan, and there were a few students from their class sitting next to them.

Yan Xunzhi had been their classmate for a while, and he took Shu Chi to sit over there in a very familiar manner.

They were talking about today's match, and someone was sighing that Canxing was really exaggerating, actually pulling out all the instructors and lining them up. Yan Xunzhi interrupted and said, "Not really."

"Instructor Kong didn't come, Kong Wei." She was still thinking about being able to run.

"ah?"

The other students in the experimental class looked at each other, as if they wanted to say something but didn't know whether they should.

After Yan Xunzhi finished speaking, he lowered his head to eat, not noticing their strange expressions.

Although I experienced it myself today and understood why it is necessary to adapt once before differentiation... the mental strength will also increase after differentiation. If it is directly increased to the intensity after differentiation, how many students will roll their eyes and look down during the first simulation.

Until Zheng Qing'an nudged her lightly with his elbow, she turned her head to look at her, and heard the sudden turn of events.

"Don't you know? Coach Kong has been arrested."

This time it was Yan Xunzhi's turn to say, "Were we caught?"

"Yes." Zheng Qing'an nodded vaguely, holding the chopsticks in his mouth. "A few days ago, a group of people came. They seemed to be from the Investigation Department. They said a few words and took her away. Many students saw it... Oh, you were in the hospital, so you didn't see it."

Yan Xunzhi was quite surprised. Kong Wei was high-ranking, and he could directly set up a lab to exchange EV potions. He probably had extensive authority, so why was he arrested?

The questions were inconclusive, and the students at the table were all shaking their heads. "They went into the room to chat, and when they came out, they were taken away. No one knows what happened."

Only the gray-haired student sitting nearby hesitated. "Maybe... I'm just saying it's possible. I heard a few instructors speculate the other day. Maybe it's because of the danger on the ground. That mutant creature is beyond its level. There shouldn't be creatures of that level in the White Pagoda area."

Yan Xunzhi was surprised, "What does the super-level have to do with Instructor Kong? Isn't that an oversight by the military district?"

In addition to missing out on creatures that are too low-level to detect, the military district will occasionally deliberately release some low-level mutant creatures for the White Tower to deal with.

First, it was to train the White Tower students and give them a transition. Second, the last time they went to the ground, they had already lost some lifespan. The military district had trained their sentries, so it wasn't worth it to go up there for such a low-level creature.

The gray-haired man scratched his head and lowered his voice. "Yes... Logically speaking, the military district shouldn't have such a mistake, so some people speculate... that Instructor Kong let it in on purpose."

When the people around heard this for the first time, they were a little shocked.

Yan Xunzhi took a bite of his steamed bun as usual, slowly chewing on the memories. Kong Wei hadn't explicitly said that this experiment would result in death, but the experiment that was expelled from the Central White Tower was definitely not very merciful...

For the sake of experimental data, it doesn't seem impossible... Anyway, the lives of the students in the marginal White Tower are cheap. Even if one team dies, there are still two teams left.

But if that was the case, why did she shoot... Yan Xunzhi was a little confused when he thought about it.

It would be quite difficult to hide it from the military district or make a deal with the military district to put super-level foreign objects in. If she really did it, could she be moved by compassion and turn herself into a variable in the experiment?

That's really a fantasy.

He paid a heavy price for his narcissism last time. The exoskeleton was still tied to his legs as a constant reminder. Yan Xunzhi didn't dare to guess about himself this time.

Are you kidding! If Kong Wei really wanted to protect her, he could just prevent her from going to the ground. Why would he need to go through so much trouble?

She thought while eating, but after thinking for a long time, she still couldn't understand the logic. She felt that Kong Wei's brain circuit was like an underground drainage pipe, winding and branching everywhere, which was really difficult to understand.

But before she could figure it out... the real owner came to clear up her confusion.

【Author’s words】

The holiday is over, the next update will be on the 9th! It's not that I don't want to update daily, I just don't have the ability to update daily, I'll stop when I'm busy TT