Trials (VIII)
The selection venue was silent.
When Ying Yungui came back, he happened to see the guy named Sasa walking into his own team.
Lin Zhouze's face was very solemn. Ying Yungui rarely saw such a solemn expression on his face, so he asked, "What's wrong?"
At this time, Labriel next to him was about to speak with a look of horror, but Lu Zhiqi quickly covered his mouth.
Lin Zhouze's spiritual sharing unfolds.
Lu Zhiqi: [That Sasa represented the entire team in the second round of preliminaries.]
Ying Yungui: [What’s the result?]
Lin Zhouze: [One against ten. Now their team has the same points as us, both 300.]
Labril: [That guy is a monster! How could someone of his level suppress someone to this degree?]
Same-level suppression, psychics of the same level easily defeat their opponents and win the battle.
Ying Yungui was not surprised that there would be a situation of same-level suppression in the Orb selection, but he did not expect that there would be a situation where one defeated ten.
Ying Yungui: [Lin Zhouze, what are the results of his analysis?]
While watching Sasa's ring match just now, Lin Zhouze had been analyzing the information, but unfortunately each of the opponent's battles ended too quickly, and the information he could collect was too little, and the content he could analyze was even less.
It was as if that person was deliberately trying to end the game quickly in the least revealing way.
Lin Zhouze: [The win was too quick and too easy, and each game ended differently. This was probably intentional.]
[But there is no doubt that his control over energy is impeccable, and his physical fitness is beyond that of an average psychic. Currently, the most likely psychic ability is 'bio-marking' or 'assimilation'.]
Ying Yungui: [Send the video material to me.]
The subsequent ring matches continued until dark, and the number of people in the venue continued to decrease. Some went to recuperate, while others found places to train. Most of them were preparing for the main competition later.
Only after the remaining three places in the main competition were decided did Lin Zhouze stop recording and analyzing. His cheeks turned slightly red due to excessive brain usage.
"The second round of preliminaries is over! Congratulations to the ten teams that made it to the finals. All necessities have been prepared on the island. Everyone, rest assured and adjust yourselves. We will all travel to the finals venue in three days," Christopher announced. "The finals will first be broadcast live within the association. A team competition will determine the top four teams in points who will advance to the semifinals. Then, the highly anticipated global broadcast will begin."
Christopher couldn't contain his excitement at the thought of the upcoming spectacle. "As for the teams that didn't make it to the finals, you can heal your injuries on the island before leaving, but remember to leave before the finals begin~"
Lin Zhouze listened to these words thoughtfully and looked up at the dark night sky.
Ying Yungui was still watching the footage of Sasa's match over and over again. Pei Chanbai had long since disappeared, and Lu Zhiqi and La Bairiel had also gone back to rest.
"These three days will not be peaceful." Lin Zhouze suddenly spoke, and Ying Yungui noticed that the preliminaries were over.
Lin Zhouze: "Christopher almost wrote 'You have three days to act' into the rules. What are you going to do?"
Ying Yungui stroked his earrings with his fingers. "Didn't he say that a team leader must have the courage to lead? Leave the rest to me. I'll leave Luo Zhao and the others to you and Pei Chanbai."
Lin Zhouze: "Before coming here, I compiled the information of all the psychics above level 7 in the association and have sent it to you. Although it is definitely not comprehensive, it can be of some use." He knew from the beginning that the Orb trials would be bloody and the struggle would not be limited to the participating teams.
How well the team leader can do is the key to determining how far the team can go.
Therefore, in order to achieve ultimate victory, their consensus now is to find a way to eliminate the strongest competitor before the main competition begins.
The coldness on Ying Yungui's face finally melted a little. He said to Lin Zhouze, "Thank you. You should also take care of yourself and don't overload yourself. The team still needs you." He paused for a moment and asked, "To what extent has your sense of smell deteriorated?"
As the first experimental subject at the District 8 Association's base, Lin Zhouze already possessed a number of supernatural products. However, because he couldn't use his own energy to neutralize negative influences like Kulin could, he inevitably had to pay a price.
Just like now, Lin Zhouze has completely lost his vision and taste, and his sense of smell is also degenerating.
One day he will lose all his perception because his body can no longer bear it.
But Lin Zhouze has no regrets.
The chip in his brain, the particles in his limbs, the shell surrounding each internal organ, and the mixed energy that constantly merges into his blood are all helping him perceive the world infinitely.
Omniscience has turned from his dream into an obsession.
"It has degenerated to the point where I can't even smell the scent on it anymore." Lin Zhouze said as he took out a pair of tumbler dolls from his pocket and placed them in his palms. The originally hollowed-out eyes on the dolls were glued shut and were emitting a strong bitter orange scent.
Ying Yungui smelled that scent and thought of someone: "Yan Zhiyuan's?"
Lin Zhouze: "Well, I accidentally broke it last time, and Shen Buhui helped me glue it back together. I asked her to put a scent seed in it for me to test the changes in my sense of smell."
Ying Yungui: "Over the years, I have arrested many people from the Security Bureau and killed many. But I have never found his whereabouts."
Lin Zhouze touched the bulging eyeball of the left tumbler with his fingertips and said, "Don't worry, I know he's still alive. We'll meet again eventually."
"There are some things I have wanted to ask him for a long time." Lin Zhouze is no longer as irritable as he was when he first lost his sight, nor is he as pure as he was when he worked in the Information Department.
Now he has the steadiness of Yan Zhiyuan, the calmness of Shi Youchen, and even a bit of Ying Yungui's arrogance.
In the past two years, many people in the association have commented on and had the impression that Subject 8001 is so intelligent that it's almost like a demon.
In the brief silence of a few minutes, Ying Yungui and Lin Zhouze had different thoughts. When they finally parted ways, Lin Zhouze said, "If you hadn't come back, I would have led the team to win the game myself."
Ying Yungui knew he couldn't see, but he still rolled his eyes: "I'll explain the tactics to them in the next three days, especially Luo Zhao. I'll give them one-on-one intensive training before the main competition begins, so just be prepared and wait."
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Somewhere on the island, Bai, or rather Hexian, was being punished.
"Oh my God, is this really my fault? It was obviously Little Conch...Li Sen who made the mistake, why did they only punish me? I don't accept it." He Xian endured the pain in his waist and mopped the floor, his face full of dissatisfaction.
The white-haired old man who led the team was not there, so he dared to wail like that.
Sora, who was in charge of supervision, spoke. It was the same male voice that Luo Zhao had heard in Area A. "Teacher said that Li Sen is a pure support type, so we put you on the same team. No matter what the process was, the result was that you didn't get 100 points and had to rely on the captain to participate in the second round. It's your fault."
At this time, Wenyuan walked into the room and asked Kong: "How is the leader going to punish me?"
He Xian looked at him with a twisted expression: "Yan Zhiyuan, are you a masochist? Are you asking for punishment?"
Kong coughed twice and said, "The teacher said that after He Xian finishes cleaning up, you two will be punished to go to the same place."
He Xian was fed up: "Are you kidding me? You're punishing me? My back injury hasn't healed yet!"
Sora: "You two are the only ones who didn't achieve the original goal. You ruined the teacher's plan, and he's very angry."
He Xian: "Let's not talk about Li Sen being a pure support type, what about Moriel? She must have combat capabilities, right? Why not punish her?"
At this time, Shi Youchen pushed open the door and asked, "What's the punishment? Do you want a detoxification and healing psychic to fight alone?"
He Xianyi shrugged: "What detoxification and healing system? She obviously..." Then he received Shi Youchen's calm and sharp gaze and shut up.
"You can't do this to me. I'm really hurt." He muttered.
Shi Youchen walked over to He Xian and extended his hand to him: "That's why the teacher asked me to come here. He knows that you can't go to the treatment room on this island, and he also knows that you were injured to protect Li Sen."
"Although he is angry, he doesn't intend to ignore you."
Just when He Xian was about to be moved, Shi Youchen healed his back injury and said ruthlessly: "But you not only disrupted the teacher's plan, but also put me at risk, so you must be punished."
The attitude he had towards Youchen was no longer what it used to be. Now he treated him as the boss of 07, nodding and agreeing with everything he said. "Captain, you're absolutely right."
He Xian: ...
Yan Zhiyuan reacted: "Does the team leader think someone will come to cause trouble for you?"
Shi Youchen glanced at the extra bracelet on He Xian's hand and said, "I'm so prominent in the arena, do you think they can just sit there and do nothing?"
Yan Zhiyuan murmured, "Perhaps the Association will also investigate you. After all, the team in Area I is the Association's experimental team. They must also want the Kalangka clan's secret magic qualifications."
Shi Youchen said, "Right now, instead of looking for trouble with me, what they want to do is to win me over and win over our team."
He Xian's waist and back pain were gone, and he spoke with more confidence: "Be it the Visa family, the Ryan family, or the Feller family, anyone with a bit of common sense can see that they are no match for the Association's experimental team."
Kong also nodded: "Teacher said that those powerful families are too arrogant to take the risk of recruiting members from outside the family, for fear that there will be some accidents in the final secret skills qualification."
"So, while those teams may seem to have strong backgrounds, their actual lineups are awful. They have no advantage at all in the team competitions. They only seem impressive in the qualifiers."
Yan Zhiyuan was worried: "So the most troublesome team is actually Ying Yungui's team." He felt complicated when he thought of Lin Zhouze's expression.
Because he had been immersed in researching the inferiors at the Maintenance Bureau and had rarely left Mirage Abyss and the Floating Island, he was not fully aware of the Association's aggressive recruitment of experimental subjects. As a result, the next time he heard about Lin Zhouze, it was long after he became Experimental Subject 8001.
The association has a very complete confidentiality mechanism for experimental subjects. Some people from the maintenance bureau once tried to sneak in to investigate, but they were never able to come back.
So Yan Zhiyuan didn't know what had become of Lin Zhouze.
It was not until the start of this selection competition that he saw with his own eyes the experimental subject 8001, who was said to be so intelligent that he was almost a demon. His Deputy Minister Lin, the simple and pure Lin Zhouze was no longer there.
When He Xian heard Yan Zhiyuan's words, he thought of Pei Chanbai, and a smile involuntarily appeared in the corners of his eyes. His expression was in stark contrast to Yan Zhiyuan's frown next to him, which was very strange in Kong's eyes.
"These two useless guys..." Just when Kong was about to ask the captain for help and ask what the next arrangements were, he turned around and saw Shi Youchen's face, which looked a little sad, or rather, a little heartbroken and pitying.
Kong had never seen such an expression on Shi Youchen.
"No way, could it be that even the captain..."
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