Chapter 85

When the news first reached the outside world, it was only a very general announcement: "Contestant Zhou Jinxue of the Enge School Team has been ruled out."

Jiang Yunu was stunned when he heard the news: "Who?"

Her ears did catch the two pieces of information, "Enge School Team" and "determined to be eliminated". Her brain clearly knew that someone from her team should have left the field. However, Jiang Yunu had strong doubts about the name in the notice.

She suspected that she had not heard the name in the notice clearly.

There are seats in the waiting area outside the venue for teachers who want to observe the game in real time and students who want to watch.

Xie Shi was sitting next to Jiang Yunu. She raised her hand and poked Xie Shi's arm. "Did you hear the name in the announcement? I thought it was talking about Senior Sister."

The official students of the Enge school team are half and half by gender. Of course, there is more than one senior sister, Zhou Jinxue. However, more than 90% of the time, the "senior sister" called by Jiang Yunu specifically refers to Zhou Jinxue. This is an unspoken consensus among Enge people.

Xie Shi's face looked a little ugly. He didn't argue with Jiang Yunu, nor did he take the opportunity to mock her about why her ears weren't working well today.

"I'm talking about Senior Sister Zhou." Young Master Xie said with a grim expression. He turned his head and looked at Jiang Yunu with a worried look.

Zhou Jinxue was selected as a seeded player to compete in the last round of the team.

In a competition like this, where points are the key to determining final rankings, it's naturally better to start scoring early. Scoring early means opening up a gap and gaining an advantage. Therefore, nearly every school deploys one or two key scoring players in each of the two rounds, hoping to earn points and begin successfully killing mechanical elemental beasts early on.

Zhou Jinxue performed well and lived up to the expectations of her teachers and classmates. On the first day of the practical competition, the Engel school team killed a total of two mechanical elemental beasts, earning 6 points for the school at the start.

Don't underestimate these 6 points.

For students at the elementary supernatural school, killing a physical mechanical elemental beast in a simulated combat arena was no simple task in itself. Even a mechanical elemental beast had a chance of causing harm to these students who had not yet entered the advanced school.

Zhou Jinxue led the team to score 6 points on the first day, which is a very good result.

As long as she can continue to work hard with the other Engel players from the previous round and kill one more mechanical elemental beast than the "King of Curls" school team, she can achieve the chief handover between Engel and "King of Curls", allowing Engel to jump to the first place in the overall ranking!

At such a morale-boosting moment, all the Engel people outside the field hoped that Zhou Jinxue would continue to work hard today and score points for the school.

Then a notice came out - Senior Zhou has been ruled out?

Lu Xixi left her seat as soon as the announcement came. She wanted to find out the details. The remaining students in the audience, including Jiang Yunu, whispered to each other for a while, and then turned to look at Reis Daniel who was still in the audience.

Leis Daniel's expression was also serious. Seeing Jiang Yunu and Xie Shi looking at him, he took a deep breath and asked, "Why are you two still standing there?"

Jiang Yunu said, "Ah?"

Xie Shi, however, reacted faster: "Teacher, is it our turn now?"

Reiss Daniel nodded, his eyes falling on Jiang Yunu. He seemed to be about to say something, but his personal terminal suddenly made a "beep" sound, which made him stop talking and look down at his terminal to communicate.

When Reiss Daniel raised his head again, his expression became more serious than before.

"It's your turn," Reisdaniel said. "Another player on the school team has been disqualified. We need two more players from the reserve team. Prepare to enter through Channel C."

Jiang Yunu subconsciously stood up with Xie Shi.

The two of them left the auditorium one after another and followed the guide to the contestant preparation entrance. Jiang Yunu then realized that according to the rules, the official player lists for the two rounds of the practice competition were drawn up at the outset and submitted to the competition system. This meant that if a regular player from the previous or next round was eliminated, there would be no official players available to replace them, and they would have to rely on reserve players.

Allowing reserve students to perform is something that might only happen once in seven or eight sessions, but it actually happened in their session!

The audience seats for the practical competition were not connected to each other, but they were all in the same district. Songnan was wealthy, so each school had its own large audience box.

When Jiang Yunu and Xie Shi left Enge's box, students in other boxes frequently turned their heads to look at the situation through the large glass facing the corridor.

Seeing that the student Jiang Yunu was on the way to the contestant passage, there was a slight discussion in other boxes.

But soon the discussion suddenly became louder, and there was a commotion in the box closest to Jiang Yunu and the others.

"What are they arguing about?" Shesh said impatiently. "Forget it. Don't bother with it. Don't you want to stop and watch the fun?"

Jiang Yunu didn't stop, just glanced to the side: "This is the Flea's box."

Before he could finish his words, the door of the audience box of the "Flea" school was swung open - the people inside didn't even wait for the electronic door to open and close automatically, and pushed the door open with their own strength and rushed out.

Several shadows passed by Jiang Yunu and the others like the wind.

A familiar-looking "flea" student ran past Jiang Yunu, turned back, and continued running while greeting her. In the blink of an eye, the person was three or four meters away, but her voice could still be heard from afar: "You are also going to the contestant channel. The reserve students are going to play, right?"

Jiang Yunu's mind moved, and she said, "Yes, you too?"

The corridor has a natural sound-collecting and echoing structure, so there is no need to increase the volume intentionally, and the human voice can also be expanded forward and backward.

The "Flea" student answered loudly: "Yes! Three of our regular team members have been eliminated!"

Upon hearing the voice, Xie Shi couldn't help but look in the direction of Jiang Yunu, but Jiang Yunu didn't look at him, but looked towards the end of the corridor.

Jiang Yunu's expression was still strange.

The practical competition only started on the second day, and regular team members from two schools were successively eliminated, and reserve students were needed to take their place.

Jiang Yunu suddenly remembered the several "chance encounters" with Xue Zhanxing before, and her own speculations about the little golden retriever's remarks. She intuitively felt that something was wrong, but she still had to go on stage.

Soon, Jiang Yunu and Xie Shi arrived at the contestant passage together.

The "flea" students who were noisy before were not here. They were assigned to other entrance channels.

In Channel C, Jiang Yunu and Xie Shi were each given a player badge, which can be pinned directly on their clothes.

"The badge has a signal transmitter and real-time location tracking. Teachers can keep track of your movements at any time even outside the venue. They can also use the location signal to determine whether each of you has entered the safe rest area at night."

The staff at the channel gave a brief explanation, the content of which had already been covered in detail in the pre-match training.

But Jiang Yunu still had doubts, just like when she was in the training class before.

"What if this badge is accidentally lost or damaged on the field?" Jiang Yunu asked, "wouldn't it be disconnected from the outside world?"

The staff member replied, "If the badge is damaged and the signal is lost, the system will automatically determine that you have been eliminated, and a teacher will come to the venue to pick you up. However, if the badge is lost and the signal remains in a certain place for a long time, you must quickly enter the nearest safe area and transmit a signal through the terminal in the safe rest area to indicate that you are still in the competition. Otherwise, if the signal remains inactive for more than a certain period of time, you will still be judged out."

It is said that the latter rule of "elimination based on time spent" was set up specifically to prevent some students from slacking off after entering the venue, refusing to deal with the mechanical elemental beasts, and just staying somewhere to kill time.

Jiang Yunu didn't know whether the committee had prevented the contestants from slacking off. She also found it hard to imagine that anyone would choose to slack off in such a competition.

She just subtly felt that the safety measures for the contestants in this competition seemed inadequate.

"What are you thinking about?" Shesh urged from the side, "Put on your badge, we should go in immediately."

Young Master Xie's voice was a little tense, as if he was still worried about the contestants eliminated from the school, and was trying hard to restrain his excitement about being able to play.

Jiang Yunu put away her distracting thoughts. She was still worried about Zhou Jinxue and wanted to rush over to her senior to ask her what was going on. However, she just quickly put on her badge and said neatly, "I'm fine. Let's go!"

At the end of the contestant channel is an infrared gate. Two people wearing contestant badges walked to the gate. The inspection light scanned their bodies to confirm the contestant's identity information and admission qualifications, and the gate opened automatically.

Songnan specially set aside an entire back mountain as a practice competition venue. Behind the gate, one can see large woods and lush grasslands.

Jiang Yunu had a strange sense of déjà vu for a moment, and she remembered the holographic game she had been addicted to in the Engel simulation cabin.

When she walked out of the gate, the feeling she had was very similar to walking out of the novice training area of ​​the game and seeing the novice battle map for the first time.

"...Jiang Yunu."

Like Jiang Yunu, Xie Shi was entering this real-life combat area for the first time. He couldn't help but stare at the scenery in front of him for a few seconds. Then, he suddenly called out Jiang Yunu's name in a dry voice.

Jiang Yunu asked, "What?"

"..." Master Xie was silent for a moment before he said, "Which direction do you think we should go?"

Jiang Yunu: “?”

Jiang Yunu didn't expect that he would ask him about such a thing, and looked at him in surprise.

Young Master Xie usually doesn't look like someone who would ask her for advice, but the two of them are currently entering the venue together, and the practical competition is continuing. They are each other's only teammates at the moment, so Jiang Yunu has no intention of wasting her energy on teasing this young master - it's a waste of time to tease people when there are tasks.

"Let's first go find our team and reunite with the rest of the school team," Jiang Yunu said. "If we encounter mechanical elemental beasts on the way, we can defeat them and earn some points for the school."