"Registration for the sixth cohort of new students at Huasheng Academy has concluded..."
"Wait, me too!"
Jiang Yuan started shouting from afar, but it's easy to imagine how many people there were—100,000. He had to wade through the sea of people to hand his school badge to the examiners.
"Why are you so slow, classmate?" the examiner said impatiently.
"I'm so sorry, I had some urgent business on the way, so I was delayed!" Jiang Yuan said apologetically.
"Alright, collect pupil and soul aura data, connect the school badge to the Tianqi campus network, and then wait in your respective colleges!" The examiner signaled Jiang Yuan to begin.
Jiang Yuan was a bit confused, and in the end, Gu Anlei helped him fix things, which took more than ten minutes to complete.
"Look, aren't those two the people who publicly announced their sexual orientation at the start of the school year?"
Jiang Yuan and Gu Anlei hadn't walked far when they faintly heard people talking about them, and these comments sounded particularly grating to Jiang Yuan's ears.
"Damn it, when did I ever publicly reveal my sexual orientation? And does sexual orientation even need to be revealed?!" Jiang Yuan cursed.
Upon hearing this, Gu Anlei glanced guiltily at the Comprehensive Academy and then said, "Jiang Yuan, your Comprehensive Academy is over there. The academy will announce the assessment details later. Just follow what the people next to you are doing and do it the same way! Try your best to get a good disciple status so that you can have a higher status among humans after graduating from Huasheng Academy in the future."
Looking at the desolate city he was in, Jiang Yuan felt a sense of crisis from his long-developed intuition. He casually grabbed Gu Anlei's hand.
"Jiang Yuan, don't do this!" Gu Anlei instinctively tried to pull her hand away.
"Don't move. Here are a few ways to save your life. If you encounter danger during the assessment, be sure to act accordingly!" Jiang Yuan did not let go, but continued to channel life force into Gu Anlei's palm.
The two of them are from different schools, one a psionic academy and the other a general academy. They definitely won't be together all the time during the upcoming assessments, so it's good to prepare early.
"Don't worry too much. In the past, the mortality rate in assessments never exceeded one percent, and most of those who died were the weak. People like us who have experienced the baptism of war have a much higher survival rate!" Gu Anlei said.
"Be smarter! If you die, no one will clean my room!" Jiang Yuan stopped after transferring three streams of life force, then gave some instructions before returning to his affiliated comprehensive academy.
"Hey bro, were you just seeing your girlfriend?"
Unexpectedly, just as Jiang Yuan got away, another talkative young man approached him.
"You're talking to me?" Jiang Yuan glanced at the other person. The other person's strength was the same as his, only at the first stage of the True Spirit Realm. Such strength was not considered strong in the entire freshman team, barely considered average.
"Brother, I really envy you guys who make a living off your looks. You've already found girlfriends before school even officially started! As for me, I still haven't gotten a single woman's contact information!" the young man sighed. He had wanted to ask Jiang Yuan for advice before, but he was too embarrassed to speak up when Gu Anlei was there.
Jiang Yuan completely ignored the first half of his sentence and said instead, "Excuse me, why is the school making us wait here? How much longer do we have to wait?"
"That's easy. Since every assessment is a random task, they're just discussing this one! But I think it'll be the same as last year: all the freshmen will have a free-for-all in Seoul, plundering points from students in different colleges!" the young man said confidently.
“This place is more than a hundred miles away from the academy. Isn’t Huasheng Academy afraid that something might happen to us here?” Jiang Yuan noticed the special nature of this city when he arrived.
Seoul was initially nominated as a safe zone, but because Seoul is located at the junction of three provinces, using it as a safe zone would cause an imbalance in the population of the other three safe zones. With a population of over one billion in China, it would be impossible to accommodate everyone in the forty-nine safe zones without achieving perfection. Therefore, the proposal to use Seoul as a safe zone was ultimately scrapped.
Moreover, the problem in Seoul is not only due to the imbalance in population, but also because the Han River area has nurtured too many beastmen, and is known as one of the ten origins of beastmen in the Nine Provinces. Therefore, the beastmen in this area have an innate advantage.
If a city were built here, the result would be predictable: a small battle every three days and a major battle every seven days.
"Are you kidding me? With three safe zones near Hancheng, plus the forces in Zhongzhou City on the outskirts, we can wipe out as many beastmen as they want!" The young man was very confident, as if the human race could easily control the beastmen as long as they dared to come.
However, Jiang Yuan didn't think so. Only by truly witnessing such an overwhelming beast tide could one truly feel the insignificance of individual strength. And he was the most qualified to speak on this matter; under the endless onslaught of the beast tide, no matter how many people there were, they were nothing more than dust beneath the iron hooves of the beasts.
"Quiet!"
With a powerful command, the 100,000 new students gradually quieted down and began to listen to the instructions from above.
"Dear students, I am Feng Qingzi, the vice dean of Huasheng Academy!"
The speaker was a middle-aged man around fifty years old, whose ethereal and otherworldly appearance made him seem more like a hermit cultivator from a remote mountain temple.
Feng Qingzi looked at everyone present with utmost solemnity, then said in a deep voice, "Today is the day to prove your ability to join Huasheng Academy, so I hope you will give it your all!"
"Now that everyone is here, I'll explain all the details of this freshman assessment!"
Everyone held their breath, quietly waiting for Feng Qingzi to make the announcement.
"The main objective of this assessment can be summed up in two words—survival!"
Feng Qingzi raised his hand and slowly said, "At that time, we will close Hancheng. All new students will spend ten days here. Only those who survive will be qualified to join Huasheng Academy!"
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