Backstage, Sky Eye Room.
Zhang, the head of the gene company, and Li, another head, watched the live competition from their school's surveillance room.
“This competition is a speed race…” Brother Zhang said, “There are 200 spots to advance. I wonder how many of our people will make it this time.”
Brother Li said with his arms crossed, "No matter how many people advance, most of them are just cannon fodder. Our main fighting force is still White Beast and Monkey. Only the two of them have the ability to survive to the final round to compete for first place and win the special prize for first place."
The special prize here does not refer to the "Soul Chaser" weapon that is publicly displayed as a prize.
The winner of each National Freshman Competition also receives an additional mystery prize.
This prize is not publicly available.
Aside from the competition organizers, only the winner of the final prize will know.
Coincidentally, Brother Zhang and Brother Li, along with the gene company behind them, had already found out in advance through some channel what the "hidden prize" of this year's competition was.
Brother Zhang looked troubled: "I'm afraid it'll be a bit difficult... Actually, with White Beast and Monkey's strength, if this were a few previous years, I'd dare say they would have won the championship 100%! But this year, there are just too many strong competitors..."
Brother Li narrowed his eyes: "I do have a solution."
"What method?"
"Just take out all the threatening fighters before the final round of the ring matches."
"This...isn't that too risky? Our gene company was just caught red-handed by the Yan government not long ago. Although we managed to shift the blame to Yecheng's supervisor that time, if it happened again..."
"What are you afraid of?" Brother Li sneered. "As long as we don't break the rules of the competition, isn't that enough? The only rule of this competition is that we can't kill people, right? Everything else is fine."
"..." Brother Zhang was speechless: "Then you give the order yourself. If something goes wrong and the higher-ups investigate, it's none of my business."
"Coward." Brother Li curled his lip. "Fine, I'll do it then."
As he spoke, he opened the system panel and issued orders to the contestants from the gene company.
......
"Hey Nai, are you afraid of heights?"
Meng Feifei stood beside the large pit, glanced down, and said with a complicated expression, "I wonder what's in this deep pit."
Lin Nai: "I don't know, at most it's just some traps and mechanisms."
Meng Feifei was somewhat worried: "Given the way the competition organizers behaved in the first two rounds, will they pull some kind of trick on us this time?"
Linnaeus did not respond.
Behind him, several contestants from the gene company huddled together, staring at Lin Nai's back.
They all received orders from the person in charge.
"Brother Hu Xiong, what do we do?" a student sighed. "The person in charge actually wants us to reveal our identities to those seeded players to ensure that Bai Shou and Monkey make it to the finals."
Hu Xiong's face was gloomy, and he clenched his fists, clearly displeased with the order.
Tiger: "Are you willing to be eliminated like this?"
"Of course I'm not willing to accept this..."
Tiger: "In that case, you will all follow me."
"....ah?"
Tiger's eyes flashed sharply: "I don't want to go back to living in that stinking ditch. I was always a stepping stone for others before, and now that I'm in the gene company, you still want me to be a stepping stone for them? Dream on!"
The student said bitterly, "But what if I disobey orders..."
"White Beast and Monkey also disobey orders every day, and they're fine, aren't they?" Tiger sneered. "Do you know why? Because they're valuable! They can prove their worth, so the company will protect them! They can't bear to get rid of them! Otherwise, people like us who can't prove our worth, even a small manager can stand on our heads and shit on us, making us do whatever they're told!"
The students pondered in silence, and all agreed that what Hu Xiong said made sense.
"Brother Tiger, you're right."
"We'll do whatever you say."
"Fine." Tiger Xiong said coldly, "Those who don't want to be stepping stones for others, follow me. We need to prove to the company that our value is no less than that of White Beast Monkey and his gang!"
......
Chief Referee Scar announced the start of the match.
One by one, the contestants jumped into the deep pit.
Because the pit was so deep, all that could be seen was darkness, and soon their figures completely disappeared into the darkness.
Lin Nai patted Meng Feifei on the shoulder next to her: "See you at the finish line."
After saying that, he leaped into the endless abyss of darkness.
"Sigh!" Meng Feifei looked at Lin Nai jumping down and said helplessly, "I've never jumped into such a deep pit before..." With that, he also jumped down after her.
Linnaeus fell vertically at lightning speed.
In the darkness, he activated the Gray Eyes.
This abyss is indeed bottomless.
Even with the Gray Eyes activated, it's impossible to see where the end is.
But this race is definitely not going to be as simple as just falling behind like this.
Lin Nai pondered. Just then, he suddenly realized that several people seemed to be following him.
Linnai turned his head. The dark tunnel was pitch black, but through the Gray Eyes, Linnai could barely see anything.
They are the companies from those gene companies.
What are these guys up to?
Lin Nai pondered to himself.
Whoosh—!
A cold glint suddenly flashed by.
Linna reacted immediately and dodged.
It was a sharp dagger that flew towards him, narrowly missing his chest and tearing open his clothes!
Lin Nai looked closely and, sure enough, it was a white fang!
Bai Liao was falling alongside him at the same speed, almost parallel to him.
In the darkness, the white fang's eyes glowed like those of a hungry wolf, as it licked its lips: "Heh heh, not bad..."
Lin Nai said expressionlessly, "Looks like your arm has healed. You just suffered a setback in the round before last, and you've already forgotten how to play again?"
Bai Liao's expression darkened, but he quickly grinned again: "I've never let any of my prey get away. Especially a prey that dares to provoke me, that excites me even more."
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