Chapter 19 Entering the Ancient City
Fang Ruoxi glanced at Xu Miantu but ignored him. She looked at Zhou Wen and asked, "Zhou Wen, which school are you planning to apply to?"
"I haven't thought about it yet." Zhou Wen said.
Fang Ruoxi nodded and said, "That's right. With your abilities, you can choose any college you want. Don't worry. Okay, I'll do my best to complete the test. I hope I won't be too far behind you."
After saying that, Fang Ruoxi waved to Zhou Wen, turned around and left, ignoring Xu Miantu from beginning to end.
Xu Miantu was upset, but he couldn't bring himself to vent his frustration in such a place. He simply glanced at Zhou Wen and said to Jiang Hao and Li Xuan beside him, "People from small towns are just ignorant. They have a nice appearance but unfortunately have neither brains nor vision."
Jiang Hao didn't say anything, but Li Xuan became somewhat interested in Zhou Wen. He looked at Zhou Wen and asked, "I heard that you were once the top genius at Guide High School. It seems that's true. That girl seems to admire you very much."
"It's just encouragement between classmates. She is very outstanding, no worse than me. No matter where she is, she is one of the few cultivation geniuses." Zhou Wen said.
Xu Miantu could tell that Zhou Wen was contradicting him, so he said disdainfully, "If you're really that good, why would you let us take you with you?"
Li Xuan did not tell Xu Miantu and the others about Zhou Wen. He just said that he was helping a friend and bringing a student to participate in the actual combat test.
Zhou Wen did not make any excuses, nor did he bother to argue with Xu Miantu.
Li Xuan interrupted Xu Miantu who was about to say something: "Alright, stop talking, it's time to go in, everyone, cheer up."
After Li Xuan spoke, Xu Miantu had to swallow back the words that were on the tip of his tongue and glared at Zhou Wen in displeasure.
The invigilators have begun to verify the students' eligibility for the exam. They have formed teams of four and passed through the instrument together with their admission tickets. The instrument collected their fingerprints, scanned their admission tickets and belongings, and confirmed that they were the ones on the registration list and that they did not carry any cheating items. Only after all four of them were present would they be allowed to enter the ancient city.
Most of the students were not nervous, but their relatives who sent them to participate in the practical test were so nervous that they almost fainted outside the cordon. They watched the students enter the ancient city with their eyes wide open, as if they were about to have a heart attack.
Zhou Wen and his three companions lined up to pass the inspection, walked through the protective net passage, and arrived at the gate of the ancient city.
The gate of the ancient city has been opened, but there seems to be a fog inside, and the scenery inside the ancient city cannot be seen clearly no matter how hard you look.
"Stop looking and go in quickly. There are people queuing behind you." The fully armed soldier guarding the gate of the ancient city urged.
Zhou Wen followed Li Xuan and the others to the gate of the ancient city. Seeing Li Xuan and the other three walking into the ancient city one after another, he followed closely behind them. However, after the three of them walked into the gate, he could no longer see their figures.
Zhou Wen hurriedly walked into the fog of the gate and suddenly felt a strange dizziness, with goose bumps all over his body.
But it was just this one step, and the scene in front of Zhou Wen suddenly became clear. The fog in the ancient city seemed to have disappeared, and he could clearly see the stone streets in the ancient city and the various ancient buildings with blue tiles and red walls on both sides of the streets. Li Xuan and the other two were walking in front, not many steps away from him.
"Those scientists speculated that the extra-dimensional realm is equivalent to another spatial dimension. It seems that there is some truth to it." Zhou Wen thought to himself.
After most of the students came in, they looked at the scenes in the ancient city curiously, just like Zhou Wen.
Although I have seen some images of Guide Ancient City in the school's video materials, when I really arrived here, I had a different feeling. The antiquity and vicissitudes of life could not be captured in the video.
The invigilator gathered all the students who were taking the exam, explained some precautions, and then the practical test officially began.
All the students taking the test rushed to the streets of the ancient city, hoping to kill the most skeleton soldiers and get better test scores.
Of course, some people hold on to a glimmer of hope that it would be even better if a few dimensional crystals could be found during the test.
The Earth Federation has clearly stated that during actual combat tests, the dimensional crystals exploded by students will belong to the students themselves.
But the invigilator just said it very clearly: everything that happens during the practical test is the responsibility of the students themselves.
According to federal law, after reaching the age of sixteen, one can freely choose whether to undergo combat testing, and the responsibility is borne by oneself. Even in the event of death, the federal government will not provide a single cent of pension.
Unlike the huge crowds of people taking the other subjects in the college entrance examination, there are only a few hundred students in a city who actually take the practical test. In the ancient city after the mutation, they are not conspicuous at all.
Zhou Wen followed Li Xuan and the others into the depths of the ancient city. At the beginning, there were too many students and the skeleton soldiers that appeared were not enough to kill. Li Xuan and the others had no intention of competing with other students, so they bypassed the battlefield and went deeper into the ancient city.
Xu Miantu and Jiang Hao were leading the way. When they encountered the skeleton soldiers, they were basically defeated with one blow. Groups of skeleton soldiers were also vulnerable. Their strength was indeed strong.
Among the skeletons of the withered skeleton soldiers, there is a bone the size of a grain of rice. A withered skeleton soldier has only one such bone. If the bones are collected together, the score of the actual combat test will be determined by the number of bones.
However, the number of bones can only determine the ranking of the team. The ranking of the four people in the team is determined by the number of dimensional crystals.
I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but the direction the four people were heading was exactly the direction Zhou Wen tried in the game. They rushed all the way here, and all the scenery was exactly the same as in the game.
Not only the ancient buildings in the ancient city, but even the number of those skeletal soldiers that appear are exactly the same as in the game.
"If that's the case, won't we run into that guy riding the skeleton horse later?" Zhou Wen thought again, that place was already outside the examination area, Li Xuan and the others shouldn't risk going there.
But things turned out to be beyond Zhou Wen's expectations. Xu Miantu and his men rushed all the way forward, and when they reached the edge of the examination area, they did not stop, but rushed out of the examination area directly.
"Li Xuan, we have left the examination area. Should we go back?" Zhou Wen said to Li Xuan beside him.
Before Li Xuan could say anything, Xu Miantu said contemptuly, "The examination area is so small, and the number of withered skeleton soldiers is very limited. Even if we capture them all, how many will we have? If you're afraid, just wait here for us to come back. There's no need to follow us."
Li Xuan also smiled and said, "Don't worry. We have more complete information about the Guide Ancient City. If we go another twenty or thirty miles, we will only encounter skeletal soldiers, not legendary extra-dimensional creatures. The examination area is divided conservatively because we don't want any students to get into trouble. Just like Mian Tu said, the few skeletal soldiers in the examination area are not enough for us to get high scores. We must move forward."
(End of this chapter)
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