At this moment, in the control room on the fifth floor, Hu Chi looked at the split screen of his section and said with a sigh, "Colonel, the qualifications of the applicants this year are quite good. So many people made it through..."
Lu Tingying couldn't stand his nonchalant attitude and interrupted him, "Colonel, including the 61 people who were just abandoned, 358 people have been sent back. Now there are 711 people left in the illusion."
An Yan nodded, glancing at a screen separated from the center. Thirteen people sat in a room on the screen. Among them were the red-haired, red-eyed Zuo Han and Shi Li, whose mental powers had mutated. They were the first to emerge from the illusion. The other eleven had successively entered the hidden realm-breaking checkpoints and passed the tests within.
Checking the time, it was already 17:08. An Yan glanced at the remaining 711 split screens and said, "Major Lu, let's start now."
"Yes, Colonel!" Lu Tingying walked to the center of the room and activated her special ability. Invisible energy penetrated the floor, directly passing through the fourth, third, and second floors, and quickly arrived at the lobby on the first floor, connecting and echoing with the phantom energy in the eight square column energy slots one by one.
At the same time, the candidates who were struggling in the desert all discovered a green tree standing far away on the flat sand.
Shi Yuqing saw very clearly that the entire stretch of sand was originally empty, but at that moment, a tree suddenly appeared.
Thinking back to when the test began, it seemed like the scene had suddenly changed. This random shifting of scenes and manipulation of objects was very similar to Jiubao's virtual mental world.
For those who had walked for over eight hours in the desert, this tree was like an oasis, bringing endless hope, especially since it appeared during the assessment. The remaining 711 people couldn't help but suspect that this tree was the end point, the chance to escape the "endless desert."
Some people ran towards it madly with joy, some walked towards it crying, and some staggered towards it...
No matter what, they all managed to reach the tree, including Miss Shi.
When I got closer, I found that the tree was so huge. The thick trunk was so big that five people couldn't hug it. The huge crown covered nearly 100 square meters of sand, completely dispelling the dry and hot air around it.
Shi Yuqing put down her backpack and slowly walked around the trunk, carefully observing and stroking the smooth brown bark. After a circle, she concluded that the tree's skin was quite good. Although the color was not white at all, it was very smooth, without a single scar, and there was not a single pore on its body.
After leaning against the trunk and pondering for a moment, she slowly released her mental power, enveloping the entire tree. Under the mental network, she finally saw the rich inner meaning beneath the smooth bark. Perhaps her previous suspicion was correct, and this tree was not real, but an illusion.
Because, inside the tree, she could not feel the vigorous vitality.
But despite this, she still couldn't find anything special about the tree.
Huh? This is...
Inadvertently, her mental power swept across the shadows of the trees on the yellow sand, and she discovered a very tiny circular light spot mixed in the dense shadows.
Transferring his mental power to the ground, he saw that there were more than one, seven light spots in total.
Shi Yuqing retracted his mental network and, following the locations in his memory, attempted to direct his mental beams into the seven light spots simultaneously, quietly waiting for the scene to change...
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