Chapter 64
The five-minute countdown ended quickly.
Jiang Yunu automatically quit the game.
Before she completely left the game world, she had already moved away from this forest battlefield, leaving behind the sounds of flying sand and rocks mixed with angry curses.
But there was a moment when Jiang Yunu had not completely left the woods and could still catch a glimpse of and hear the movement behind him out of the corner of his eye.
Her inherent warlike instincts drew her to the battle, causing her to glance back twice on her way out—just in time to see the newly emerged stranger leap up from behind the elemental beast, his sword drawn in mid-air.
The other person's body language seemed strangely familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it before.
Jiang Yunu didn't think too much about it. The only thing that came to his mind was the regret that she couldn't participate in the battle.
Alas, that’s someone else’s practice monster.
It was not easy for her to join in the fight against the elemental beast that had run across most of the grassland. Even if she could join in, she would be forced offline in a blink of an eye and would not be able to fight for many rounds. Alas.
Jiang Yunu walked away from the woods with regret. Just as she returned to the grassland outside the forest, the countdown number in the translucent pop-up window turned to zero, and she was offline.
So she had no idea—
In the game, there is a battlefield in the forest.
The black-haired boy who appeared later joined the battle. As soon as he arrived, he slashed the elemental beast in the air and forced it back to the "blockade zone" that had been originally marked.
Several people in the woods had been busy for half a day, but they were not as fast or efficient as he appeared and struck with one blow.
"Team."
"Team!"
Several people moved closer to him, with him as the center. Those who had previously complained about the uselessness of this kind of practice stopped complaining and became obedient after the black-haired boy appeared, as if they only dared to secretly talk about the practice behind his back when he was not around.
The young man who was called "Team" nodded without any expression, with a long sword in his hand. He himself was like a long sword, standing upright and sharp in the woods.
The black-haired boy spoke, his voice as cold as his demeanor: "I thought you would be quicker."
“…” No one dared to respond.
The massive elemental beast was still roaring, and its powerful thigh muscles and paws were causing the ground to tremble - but the people in the forest were obviously not as wary of it as before.
Before attacking the elemental beast with a knife, the boy who was called "Team" cast a vague glance to the side of the woods.
Then he jumped up and personally supported the people in the woods who had been working in vain for half a day.
With him present, the person who had always been unable to control the movements of the elemental beast finally succeeded in controlling the monster twice. After confirming that his teammates had gained something, he did not stop and killed the elemental beast with the next clean blow.
Leaping down from the elemental beast's corpse that was tilting toward the ground, the black-haired boy took another look at the side of the forest.
Someone noticed his little movement, thought it was a little unusual, and asked, "Team, what's going on in the woods over there? Is there a problem?"
"..." The black-haired boy was silent for a moment, which was rare in the eyes of his teammates. Then he asked his teammates, "Your attempt to block the elemental beast just now failed. Did you accidentally hurt an NPC?"
The teammate was shocked: "Huh?"
The black-haired boy cast a third glance towards the side of the forest, confirming that the "NPC" he had seen before had long disappeared.
——The “NPC” he was talking about was Jiang Yunu.
Jiang Yunu had no idea that she had temporarily become an "NPC" in the mind of a stranger. Her spatula weapon was really deceptive. People who were used to seeing normal weapons and props would find it difficult to think of the spatula as a player weapon at first glance.
Maybe you thought she was holding an ordinary item belonging to an ordinary resident NPC.
Jiang Yunu had already logged off and left the game. Even when she returned to the dormitory, she was still thinking about a battle that had not been fought. She was also a little upset that she had only killed two primary fire elemental beasts in two hours of computer time tonight.
"This is my precious, rare gaming time that I finally squeezed out from classes and competition preparations." Jiang Yunu buried his face in the pillow and sighed.
As soon as she returned to the dormitory, she washed up. It was late at night and she was afraid of disturbing her roommates who were already resting in the building, so she buried her face in the pillow to physically lower her voice.
Joyson fought more battles on the plane tonight than Jiang Yunu - even though he only killed four slimes in one go.
Joyson's novice trial mission seems to require collecting enough elemental crystal cores in the novice combat map before leaving this stand-alone map and entering the complete world with interactive functions.
Jiang Yunu was somewhat puzzled by the difference in strength between the monsters they encountered during the Novice Trial, but he also felt that this indirectly proved that this game was truly random, with even the difficulty of the Novice Battlefield being so random.
Joyson only complained, "But the drop rate of crystal cores from slimes doesn't seem to be high. You can't get one every time you kill one."
This is the problem that Jiang Yunu did not encounter.
Her elemental beasts are more challenging and more ferocious, but they are always sure to take down their crystal cores.
"Maybe this is the problem with the game system," Jiang Yunu consoled Qiao Yisen. "Either it increases the difficulty level, requiring you to spend time carefully figuring out how to beat it, or it might seem easy, but you'll need to spend time gambling on the odds."
In short, there is one principle - take your time.
Regardless of the difficulty level, it will not be easy for novice players to pass the trial.
It's no wonder that when Jiang Yunu said that she might be able to enter the novice battlefield in the next two weeks, the members of the Crystal Core Group reacted so strangely.
When Jiang Yunu thought of the Crystal Core Group, she remembered the agreement she had made with them. She opened the terminal screen and sent a message to the group member whose contact information she had added, informing her that her novice trial had passed tonight.
It’s so late, the members of the Crystal Core Team will definitely not reply immediately.
Jiang Yunu pushed aside the terminal screen that had sent the message. She continued to lie there, her thoughts returning to the "battle in the forest" she had witnessed tonight.
"...Are they also a crystal core group?" Jiang Yunu made a logical association and preset a set of identities for those people.
When she thought of those people, Jiang Yunu couldn't help but think of the stranger she met last before logging off.
Not only did the other party not even bother to greet her, but he also looked away within a few seconds of seeing her.
This person can't be someone who "can't look girls in the eye when talking to them", right? This little problem shouldn't be so common among teenagers, right?
Jiang Yunu followed her memories and suddenly she remembered that she had just left the valley rock map not long ago that night, and she still maintained the "unruly" appearance of having fought against the stone giant on the lava ground.
He ran from the grass into the woods and even withstood an attack from an elemental beast on the edge of the battlefield.
"I understand." Jiang Yunu carefully recalled his image at that time and suddenly realized.
She concluded from the stranger's averted gaze: "Does he think he's encountered a wild man in the woods?"
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that this was indeed possible. Jiang Yunu suspected that the stranger looked away because he was scared by her wild image, and she felt a little sorry for him.
——There was no way she could have guessed that, in fact, she felt sorry for him.
The background data refresh of the game system is synchronized in real time, but for people who monitor the data, regular manual review has date intervals.
A new record quietly entered the game database of District 19, refreshing the "Shortest Clearance Time for Novice Trials" and marking the difficulty as "Highest".
By the time this data record was seen by someone, it was already Monday of the new week, when people started working at the backend data monitoring post.
Monitoring personnel have long been accustomed to these data that have not changed in ten years. Generally, they do not look at them personally. Instead, they let the artificial intelligence directly start the automatic screening mode, summarize the data items that have changed, and then the artificial intelligence will perform a second screening, according to the pre-set conditions, to select the data items that have changed and are worthy of human review.
The staff only looks at the last form after these two screenings.
But generally speaking, the last table is actually nothing to look at.
This holographic game that is popular in all star regions does have a lot in common with the virtual battlefield next to it. The game also contains many levels specifically designed to test the user's combat capabilities. To a certain extent, it is a hidden auxiliary tool that can create stronger superpower warriors.
But what does this have to do with their 19th District?
District 19 belongs to the seventh largest star region, so it's not the last one, nor is it completely excluded from the numbering. But is there a big difference between the second-to-last district and the last-to-last district? Aren't they both looked down upon and despised by the higher districts?
People in backward star regions are not good enough. The economy is not good, the education is not good, and the children are not good enough. No one can become a famous supernatural genius in the Federation, and not many can even trigger the hidden tests in the game.
"There won't be any significant changes in this table today." The data monitoring staff member muttered to himself as he received the table file sent by the artificial intelligence.
However, before he could finish his words, the staff member's casual gaze swept across the beginning of the form, and suddenly, he was fixed on the content of the first line of the form.
The staff member stared blankly at the line of data for a moment before seeming to find his voice again.
His voice was filled with disbelief again: "Someone broke the record? Although it's only the Novice Trial Field, the difficulty has automatically been triggered to the highest level, and..."
The staff's eyes drifted to the small words at the back of the record, which was more surprising than the record being refreshed in a long time.
——[Player Dynamic Tracking: Enabled]
——[User potential assessment: unknown, but the potential is extremely high, it is recommended to track and explore]
These two lines of small words reflected in people's eyes are like burning their retinas directly.
The staff member, convinced he wasn't mistaken, jumped up from his workstation. "Where did this data come from?! If it's located in our district, then at least the personal terminal is linked to our household registration, right? Right?!"
However, as the uploader of the data, Jiang Yunu was unaware of all this.
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