Chapter 87
The green crystal core thrown into the air was recovered by Jiang Yunu and was taken into her hands along her supernatural rope.
Holding the crystal core, she jumped down from the tree which was several meters away from the previous path and walked steadily back to Shesh.
"Why haven't we heard about the change in points yet?" she asked puzzled.
Shesh didn't respond to her immediately.
Young Master Xie was in a daze, still staring at the mechanical elemental beast frozen in front of him.
Jiang Yunu suspected that the previous command had caused the young master to be so close to the beast, which frightened him. She stretched out her hand and waved it in front of the other party: "Thank you for what? Thank you, young master? The unlucky guy who had the title of 'youngest student on the team' taken away by me?"
The last name was the most irritating. Just as Jiang Yunu finished speaking, Xie Shi's blank face lit up and he shouted angrily, "Who are you calling an unlucky bastard?!"
"No one." Seeing that the man had come to his senses, Jiang Yunu withdrew his hand and blinked, saying innocently, "Why did you suddenly mention the unlucky guy? Did I scare you by stopping you just now, so you're hallucinating now?"
Xie Shi angrily said, "I'm not hallucinating! You just called me that!"
Seeing that he couldn't fool her, Jiang Yunu showed his thick skin and said, "Yeah."
Xie Shi: “…” She is the most shameless one!
The green crystal core was very conspicuous on Jiang Yunu's fingers, which were paler than those of ordinary people, and could be seen by just lowering one's head.
Young Master Xie, who couldn't win the verbal battle against Jiang Yunu, simply changed the subject: "How...how did you come up with the idea of attacking the crystal core in this way?"
When asked about Jiang Yunu's crystal core attack method, Xie Shi seemed to have a toothache. The scene of Jiang Yunu taking out the crystal core of the mechanical elemental beast made him feel a phantom pain all over his body.
Jiang Yunu weighed the crystal core in his hand twice. "Have you heard of the most old-fashioned tooth extraction method? It involves putting a rope around the child's tooth that needs to be extracted. The adult pulls hard, and the child runs in the opposite direction. With the instantaneous burst of force from both ends—bang! The tooth is pulled out smoothly."
Shesh was now beginning to feel a phantom pain in his teeth.
He gasped and covered his cheek.
"...How can there be such a tooth extraction technique?" Xie Shi clutched his cheek, incredulous. "Is this really not illegal? And I've never heard of anyone in Chat City extracting teeth this way."
It’s not like he hasn’t been to Chat City before!
Jiang Yunu shrugged: "Not in Chat City."
"That……"
Xie Shi was about to ask more, but Jiang Yunu had already changed the subject. She held the green crystal core in her hand in front of Xie Shi and said, "Don't worry about such trivial matters. Come, take a look at this first."
Xie Shi didn't think the existence of such a seemingly inhumane tooth extraction method was a trivial matter, but when the crystal core was held in front of him, he also focused on the business first: "What's wrong with this crystal core?"
Xie Shi asked as he took the crystal core from Jiang Yunu's hand, held it in front of his eyes for a closer look, and commented casually: "This is indeed artificial. The texture is obviously fake. I have seen the real one at home."
Jiang Yunu didn't care about Master Xie's implicit show-off. She was only focused on the question she had just asked.
"We've successfully defeated a mechanical elemental beast," she said, "but we just didn't hear the announcement about giving Engel extra points."
Jiang Yunu asked doubtfully, "Where's our share?"
Yeah, what about the points?
The scores of the practice matches are always updated in real time. Once a school team scores a point, not only will there be a notification inside the field, but the score will also change immediately on the monitoring screen outside, so that everyone inside and outside the field can know the score trends at the first time.
Jiang Yunu and Xie Shi had just killed a metallic monster, but they heard nothing.
Xie Shi hesitated and said, "Is it possible that... your 'tooth extraction' technique is a bit unorthodox?"
So the assessment system didn’t give any scores?
Jiang Yunu said firmly, "Impossible! The rules don't say that we must use a certain standard fighting style to deal with mechanical elemental beasts. The rules only say... Wait! I think I know."
When Jiang Yunu talked about the rules, an idea suddenly occurred to him.
She remembered that the rules of the competition stated that the crystal core would self-destruct after carrying energy exceeding the threshold. The mechanical elemental beast would stop moving as the elemental crystal core was destroyed, and it would be considered a successful kill.
She did indeed make the mechanical elemental beast lose its mobility, but the crystal core was still in Shesh's hand.
Jiang Yunu's eyes fell on the crystal core in Xie Shi's hand. "Does it have to be destroyed to count as a kill and to get points?"
Xie Shi was stunned. He looked at Jiang Yunu and stretched out his hand in his direction. Seeing that Jiang Yunu had no intention of taking the crystal core back, he said uncertainly, "Me?"
Jiang Yunu gave him a look that said, "Why are you asking this?"
"You can't come?" she said.
Xie Shi couldn't stand this kind of provocation: "It's not that I can't come! It's just..."
The young master hesitated for a moment, "You got this crystal core, and I was the one to inject the superpowers into it. It seems like I'm taking credit for your work. I didn't do anything, but I earned points for the school."
Jiang Yunu didn't expect that Young Master Xie would still care about this. The other party was quite clear about gratitude and resentment.
Xie Shi didn't want to take advantage of Jiang Yunu and make himself look like a loser in the competition, but this kind of thing itself could not be considered as "taking advantage".
"Come on, hurry up." Jiang Yunu said, "We are now an action team. Whoever injects superpowers into it will be counted as points earned by the two of us for the school, and also counted as points for Enge."
Xie Shi finally stopped talking.
Xie Shi was a wind elemental being, and the amber-golden wind elemental power quickly gathered in his palm, completely wrapping up the artificial crystal core that was as green as the bottom of a beer bottle.
Within seconds, a cracking sound was heard from his palm.
At the same time, an announcement was finally made simultaneously inside and outside the practice arena: "The Enger School team successfully killed a mechanical elemental beast. Enger Junior Supernatural School scored 3 points."
Got the points!
Because the score was announced to the entire stadium, the Engel team, heading to the safe zone, also heard the score. Initially, the team's morale was somewhat low, and everyone's expression brightened slightly as the score increased. Then, most people's expressions turned to confusion.
The people in the school team looked at each other.
Some people couldn't help but ask: "Who scored this?"
The remaining main forces of the school team are here. Zhou Jinxue has been eliminated. The two people who left the team before were temporarily appointed supply explorers. They set off for the nearest supply point, preparing to get some supplies first and then go to the safe rest area to meet up with the main force.
The main force did not encounter any mechanical elemental beasts, and the two who set out to explore for supplies had already discussed with everyone before leaving, saying that if they encountered metal monsters on the road, they would hide if they could and avoid fighting as much as possible, giving priority to ensuring the safety of the supplies and preserving the number of official team members on the field.
Including Zhou Jinxue, the school team already had two regular members eliminated. If one more player was eliminated, they would have to recruit one more from the reserve pool...
Um?
"We didn't score, and most likely it wasn't the two from the material exploration team who scored," said the temporary team leader who replaced Zhou Jinxue. "Who are the reserve players who have been added to the field?"
The school team has received the news that the reserve students have entered, but as for the specific personnel arrangements for the reserve students, this information is not transparent, and the regular team members on the field do not know who the teachers will choose.
The person who had asked who scored was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "I suspect there's a 'cheerful version of Xiao Zhou.'"
Jiang Yunu didn't even know he had a new nickname.
Zhou Jinxue is two grades higher than her and is undoubtedly Jiang Yunu's senior, but the junior supernatural school is a four-year system, and there are seniors above the seniors.
Only students who are one grade higher than Zhou Jinxue and are in the graduating class this year can call Zhou Jinxue "Xiao Zhou".
Jiang Yunu is Zhou Jinxue's direct junior schoolmate. She is an extrovert and seems to be able to chat with anyone, even with non-humans. However, she is also very hardworking. She was forced by Lu Xixi to do one-on-one training for many consecutive days, and her personal relaxation time was basically gone. She had no complaints. She did not become gloomy because of Teacher Lu's devilish training, and she did not look like she was complaining about the world every day. Her mental outlook was still positive.
He loves to study and can withstand pressure, which makes him deeply appreciated by Lu Xixi, but he has a more enthusiastic and cheerful personality, so the members of the graduating class team privately call Jiang Yunu "the cheerful version of Xiao Zhou".
"Cheerful Xiao Zhou" surnamed Jiang continued to lead Xie Shi towards the safe rest area.
The field in the back mountain of Songnan was large enough, and half of the members of the four school teams were present. However, after Jiang Yunu and Xie Shi entered the field and fought a mechanical elemental beast, they continued to move forward for a long time, but apart from the few "flea" students they had seen at the beginning, they did not encounter any trace of other people.
It can be seen that the area of Songnan Back Mountain is vast.
"Do you know how many mechanical elemental beasts will be deployed in the practical competition?" Jiang Yunu said.
She had been pondering this question in her mind for a long time.
Shesh said, "What kind of weird question is that? The exact number has never been announced."
Jiang Yunu narrowed his eyes.
She said, "Not publishing the numbers always makes me feel like there's an opportunity. A school that was originally at the bottom of the points list could suddenly earn a lot of points by spawning monsters at a certain time."
Xie Shi had never really thought about it this way. He was stunned for a moment, and then he really thought about what Jiang Yunu said, and found that this situation was indeed possible.
but……
"...Why do I feel like you almost led me astray?" Young Master Xie suddenly realized something was wrong. He looked at Jiang Yunu like a monster, "What are you talking about?"
Even if a large number of mechanical elemental beasts are encountered in a certain period of time, the number of monsters that everyone can resist at the same time is limited. No matter how excellent the school team is, it cannot withstand a continuous battle with mechanical elemental beasts.
During the two people's actions, the on-field announcement sounded twice, and the "Flea" school and the "Curl King" school each scored three points.
As of noon today, the Songnan school team has not yet released any scores, and it seems that they have achieved nothing.
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