Chapter 46
"We're here."
Fang Mujian stopped the car a little further away, looked up at the crowd over there, frowned slightly, and said, "Why are there so many people today..."
Su Xingyuan asked curiously, "Aren't there always so many people at the association's headquarters?"
At least that was the impression he had during these few times, so whenever he left the Hunter Association headquarters, he left as quickly as possible to avoid being blocked by the NPCs in the game.
Fang Mujian shook his head: "The first floor of the association is where the level assessment is conducted. Usually there are reporters and headhunters waiting here. But there are too many people today..."
He looked over there carefully again, and then he vaguely remembered something:
"It seems that a rookie hunter needs to be rated."
Once a hunter who has the potential to reach level B or above appears, there will be a lot of reporters, and this hunter will also be popular on the Internet for a while, just like Gu Xiu who went to the high-speed rail station to intercept Su Xingyuan before.
What's more, some guilds focus on creating internet celebrities and star hunters, so they will naturally grasp this first step in their debut.
Su Xingyuan blinked his eyes. He felt a little strange about the behavior of the NPC in the single-player game, so he suddenly opened his phone and checked the trending searches.
[Today's Level Assessment for the Black Silver Guild's Strong Newcomer Han Cheng]
[Han Cheng modestly stated that his strength is probably A-level, so please don’t make excessive assumptions]
And the one at the top -
[Han Cheng is suspected of killing a B-level hunter in a second at the high-speed railway station (explosion)]
Su Xingyuan:?
It’s hard to say what it feels like to eat a melon on yourself.
When Fang Mujian saw the subtle expression on the black-haired boy's face through the rearview mirror, his heart skipped a beat reflexively. A bad premonition arose, prompting him, a man who had never paid attention to hot topics, to quickly open his phone and take a look.
Then, seeing the hot search, Fang Mujian: "..."
He was already starting to choke.
It seems that some people are living too comfortably. Nowadays, hunters with weird tempers rarely appear in public, which makes them have the lucky mentality that "it won't be a big deal if I touch porcelain."
Being alive is really a lucky thing. Why do you want to die? Just do it yourself. Why do you have to drag others to death with you!
Fang Mujian frantically scrolled through the comments and found that almost all of them were flattering. The few who had seen the black-haired boy either didn't go online like Fang Mujian, or had no evidence and no traffic.
Moreover, those bigwigs who are unsure of Su Xingyuan's attitude will not take any action to clarify, but will wait and see.
After all, there are more than one or two hunters with weird personalities, especially those who need large-scale magic output, almost all of them have their own little problems. Therefore, in addition to avoiding possible pitfalls, doing this may also add some fresh material to Su Xingyuan's personality analysis.
...But how come he happened to encounter such a bad thing?
Is he so unlucky?
Fang Mujian finally understood why Ning Baiquan asked him to send the list to Su Xingyuan instead of letting Su Xingyuan come back to get it.
Curiosity kills the cat. He shouldn't have been curious about Su Xingyuan's current level and mentioned it so that he could do a level assessment.
Fang Mujian said with a pale face: "Are you... feeling okay?"
The black-haired boy didn't look angry at all. Instead, his eyes sparkled as if he had seen something interesting. Hearing this, he asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Isn't this interesting?"
Fang Mujian was silent for a moment: "If it were me, I would just want to slap him a few times."
Su Xingyuan blinked.
——The part where you explain to the NPC why it’s interesting makes the whole thing more interesting.
He smiled and said: "If you play the game and encounter such a smart group of NPCs, you will also find it very interesting."
Although he already knew that the NPCs were very intelligent, he would still stop and admire them every time he saw them taking new actions.
If there weren't so many dungeons that hadn't been conquered yet, Su Xingyuan might even take a small notebook, randomly pick a lucky NPC to record his daily life, or choose a building and energetically visit the windows of every resident there.
But by that time, Su Xingyuan's name might appear on the Hunter Association's bounty list:)
At this moment, Fang Mujian, who heard the NPC's remarks, was caught in an incomprehensible brainstorm for a moment.
"Let's go, don't waste time."
Ending the topic, Su Xingyuan got off the car. Before getting off, he took a box of tissues and a pack of disposable masks from the car very naturally.
Fang Mujian, who witnessed the whole incident, said: "..."
Not hearing any sound from behind him, the black-haired boy turned around, seeming a little confused.
"...Coming." Fang Mujian wiped his face and walked towards the association hall with Su Xingyuan.
After Su Xingyuan walked near the crowd, he took a look at the density and directly lit up the attribute enhancement of [Backflip]. He flipped over their heads and landed perfectly in front of the Hunter Association headquarters.
After standing easily, the black-haired boy turned around and looked at Fang Mujian with sparkling eyes.
Fang Mujian felt extremely pressured when being stared at like this by Su Xingyuan, but he couldn't do such weird movements in front of so many people, so he could only squeeze through the crowd.
There was a isolation line at the bottom of the stairs, and the black-haired boy was not worried about being squeezed by others. He just waited for him attentively without moving a step during this period.
His temperament and appearance were so outstanding that even though it was very quiet at the moment, the reporters below couldn't help but keep their eyes on him.
Many of them are low-level or retired hunters, so they have magic power on them and are not disturbed by the fashionable black windbreaker.
"…Is he a staff member of the Hunter Association? Or a new hunter? How come I've never seen him before?"
"Hiss... With a face like that, he'll be dragged out to be the face of any guild, right?"
Before the atmosphere on the scene could get heated up because of the black-haired boy, many reporters got the first-hand information from the company group -
There is a young hunter who can cause a lot of discussion just by looking at his face. It is suspected that he conquered an A-level portal alone today and rescued twelve hunters trapped in the portal.
Just when they were about to express their admiration for the explosive news, they suddenly discovered something -
The hunter in the picture seems to look... exactly like this quiet black-haired boy?
“…”
After a brief silence, the scene immediately became lively.
All the major guilds also began to send people as quickly as possible. Even if they couldn't bring anyone in, it would be good to make themselves familiar to the people.
Su Xingyuan ignored everyone. After seeing Fang Mujian coming, he continued to backflip and entered the hall of the Hunter Association without any burden of being a handsome guy.
Fang Mujian: “…”
Fang Mujian's forehead was throbbing violently.
The originally excited crowd seemed to have been silent for a moment as if the mute button was pressed.
At this moment, a voice came from nowhere and said happily:
"As expected of you, the hunter who saved... the A-rank portal! Even your way of traveling is so unique!!"
crowd:"!"
That makes sense!
Fang Mujian was so shocked by Su Xingyuan's operation that he almost suffocated because he didn't have time to catch up with the other party. He looked back with an indescribable look and saw a flaxen curly-haired person in the middle of the crowd.
An Qian, who was secretly trying to guide the conversation, noticed Fang Mujian's gaze in an instant and blinked at him happily several times.
However, Fang Mujian noticed that the mobile phone he was holding tightly in his hand appeared to be displaying a hot search list.
Oh no.
At this moment, Fang Mujian felt a little sympathy for the unlucky Han Cheng. Why would he mess with Su Xingyuan when there are so many people to mess with?
Even if he was lucky enough and the lunatic himself didn't bother him, there were still fanatics waiting who would beat their own president into bed just to be the first to see the "savior".
Fang Mujian didn't think any more and turned around and walked into the hall.
He thought the black-haired boy had already quietly found a room to start the level assessment, and he only needed to supervise the necessary tests for him, but he actually...
Still doing backflips.
Fang Mujian really had a stomachache. He repeatedly told himself that genius was always elusive and he had to keep a normal mind. So he patiently asked, "Can we start?"
Su Xingyuan: "No, I want to make 50."
Fang Mujian: “…”
Fang Mujian smiled: "Okay, I'll do it with you."
However, just as he did one, he saw the black-haired boy stop, and his beautiful green cat eyes looked at him as if he was watching an animal show.
The black-haired boy humbly asked, "Why are you doing backflips in a place where you are being graded?"
After saying that, he turned around and asked the staff member 1 who was gradually standing there in a daze: "Do I need to do a backflip to warm up before the level assessment?"
Staff 2, who was confused but shocked, said: “Maybe… maybe… right?”
Fang Mujian: “…”
His lifelong reputation!
And wasn’t it you, Su Xingyuan, who did the somersault? Did you know that it's wrong to do a backflip when you disagree with something? !
He resisted the urge to vomit blood, covered his eyes, and said weakly: "Arrange a first-level test room for the Xingyuan Hunter."
Under the guidance of the staff, Su Xingyuan arrived at a 5X5 all-white room. The walls of the room seemed to be made of special materials.
After the door behind him was closed, an enclosed space was instantly formed here.
The staff's guiding voice came from the camera: "Please gradually release your magic power to compete with the magic power stored in the room."
Su Xingyuan glanced at his intelligence bar which had not yet fully recovered, but didn't care. He nodded and started the test.
After all, his goal was only to complete the mission, and the level measured by the Hunter Association was meaningless to him.
What's more, due to the differences in abilities among hunters, their actual combat capabilities and development directions are also very different. The Hunter Association itself has stated that their test is only a reference.
Soon, strands of pressure began to spread, and at this level, Su Xingyuan didn't even need to use magic power.
Outside the room, Fang Mujian said calmly: "Just push the intensity to level five."
The staff member looked at him with some surprise, hesitated for a moment, and finally took action.
She has been working here and knows that gradual progress is the best option. If you force pressure right from the start, even if you can actually hold on, you may collapse directly because you cannot adjust instantly.
What's more, this is comparable to the fifth level strength of an A-level hunter.
However, after the intensity jumped directly to five, nothing happened in the room.
The black-haired boy didn't even blink at the sudden change in pressure, as if regulating and controlling the magic power in his body was just a natural instinct, like breathing.
Fang Mujian's eyes slowly lit up.
He took a deep breath and said with a burning gaze, "Raise the intensity to the maximum and start the S-level standard time record!"
He is about to witness the birth of another S-level hunter!
In an instant, the concentration of magic power in the room rose by more than one level!
Su Xingyuan, who had a player's perspective, clearly saw that magic power of other attributes was constantly squeezing towards him, competing with his own magic power.
He did not choose to slowly fight with the magic, but calmly raised his eyes and scanned the entire room inch by inch.
Fang Mujian, who was originally excited about the "one extra S-level hunter in our country", felt his heart suddenly sink when he saw this situation, and a bad premonition spread throughout his body.
At this moment, the black-haired boy was just like a large feline that was looking for an opportunity to kill its prey with one blow. When the turquoise cat's eyes swept across the camera, Fang Mujian only felt that the black-haired boy's gaze swept over him, making people feel cold from the bottom of their hearts.
He turned his head and saw that the staff member's condition was even more serious. He was directly in a state of stiffness. Only then did he feel much more balanced.
However, when Fang Mujian came to his senses, the instrument suddenly issued a beeping alarm.
Before he could even check what was going on, the lights in the test room dimmed instantly and smoke came out of the operating table.
Finally, a line of large characters appeared on the screen: [Reverse invasion of magic power, storage of magic power failed, the instrument has been destroyed]
"……What?"
Fang Mujian had often presided over level tests for potential new hunters before, but he had never encountered a situation like this!
No, this situation has never happened in the entire history of grading!
What does "reverse invasion of magic power, failure of stored magic power, and destruction of instruments" mean?
He subconsciously looked at the black-haired boy in the room. The other party seemed to know that someone would watch him through the camera. He raised his head and gave an innocent smile to the camera.
Fang Mujian: “…”
His hands are shaking.
Because he realized one thing belatedly.
Every test room in the Hunter Association was built at great expense in cooperation with foreign hunters. Not only is the production cycle ridiculously long, but this thing is expensive! And the first-level testing room is even more expensive!
And now, it says it's scrapped.
Fang Mujian desperately wanted to breathe oxygen at this moment. He could already see his desperate life of working overtime day and night to pay off his debts.
At this time, the people who had heard the news and were waiting outside the door were also puzzled by the sudden abnormal fluctuation of magic power.
The test room is made of special materials, so logically, there shouldn't be any magic power leaking out, right?
And...it's only been a few minutes? According to Su Xingyuan's strength, the test should take longer.
Ning Baiquan was about to open the door to check the situation when he heard a surprised voice: "President Xue, Vice President Ning...are you all here?"
A handsome young man walked over. When he saw the other two people, a smug look flashed across his eyes: "Isn't this Assistant Wang from Tongtian Tower and Vice President Liu from Zhuichuan Guild?"
You know, Xu Banmeng and Fu Duoxing are both workaholics. One is now abroad and the other has gone through a portal. The fact that they can let their first deputy be here is already the greatest recognition of him!
So many big guilds, are they preparing to offer conditions to snatch...
"Wait," Xue Yinglong frowned, "Who are you?"
The young man's smile froze on his face.
He found that things seemed to be different from what he imagined: "I am Han Cheng who booked the first-level test room today...? Didn't you come here because you heard the news-"
"Han Cheng?" Ning Baiquan pushed his glasses and chuckled, "I'm really surprised that you have the courage to come here and ask this question. Why, does Hunter Han think that we are all fools who are easy to deceive?"
Han Cheng's face turned pale instantly.
He does know that these people are smart, but what he wants is not their affirmation, but the attention of netizens!
As long as these big guys show up here and he gets a good result, he can ask for whatever he wants then, right?
Being fought over by several parties, this is undoubtedly another huge gimmick.
As for whether it would be annoying...these big guys wouldn't be so tasteless as to bother with a newcomer with huge potential.
He had asked someone to estimate his level in advance, and his minimum level was B, and he could even try for A!
Han Cheng wanted to say something, but Xue Yinglong waved his hand impatiently: "Ning Baiquan, don't delay the business. What's going on inside?"
"The test is over."
The door was opened, and Fang Mujian, with an expressionless face, and Su Xingyuan, with a normal look, walked out together.
Han Cheng's heart skipped a beat when he saw someone coming out of the room.
Why is someone using the first-level testing room... Could it be that these big guys came here to wait for this person?
Fang Mujian said tiredly: "Highest intensity."
The eyes of the other people present lit up instantly, but Han Cheng's face became even stiffer.
The highest strength, the minimum is S level!
How is this possible!
How is it possible that an S-rank hunter appears again, today!
Fang Mujian continued: "...it lasts for one minute."
As soon as the words fell, the scene fell into deathly silence.
After all, only if it lasts for more than three minutes can it reach the minimum standard of S-level strength. If it is less than three minutes, it can only be counted as one level lower, that is, A-level.
Although it was a level worthy of competition among all guilds, perhaps because the S-level just preset was too high, Han Cheng was secretly happy when he heard that there was only A-level.
Ning Baiquan and Xue Yinglong looked at each other and said, "The growth rate of the old hunter is rare in a century. I believe that breaking through to S level is just..."
"——Just listen to what I have to say."
Fang Mujian took a deep breath and finally couldn't help saying, "It only lasted for one minute. It's not because Su Xingyuan couldn't hold on any longer, but because the equipment was broken! Broken! Can you believe it?!"
He turned his head and looked at Su Xingyuan with gritted teeth: "And it was destroyed because of the invasion of magic power!"
The black-haired boy, who had always been well-behaved, smiled innocently when he heard this.
The whole audience was silent.
Ning Baiquan said dully, "It seems that there is only one first-level test room in our country. The Suxingyuan Hunter..."
Su Xingyuan: "Thank you, I won't compensate you."
Ning Baiquan: “…”
He frantically tried to push up his glasses, but still tried to calmly ask, "Tell me how you did it. The association will reimburse you for the expenses."
Su Xingyuan recalled: "It's very simple. Find the place in the room where the magic power is the most concentrated or the most diluted. Then, use all your magic power to stab it."
The description was indeed simple, but Ning Baiquan found it even more unbelievable.
How is this possible?
The fact that he was able to find a test room of the same strength in a very short time and that slight difference in magic power was outrageous enough, he could actually ignore his body's defensive instincts and, under the squeeze of magic power, directly gave up using magic power to create a protective shield for himself and chose to attack without hesitation!
He saw the black-haired boy curl his eyes without any malice: "Isn't the purpose of your association doing this test to tell new hunters that 'passive defense will only drain your vitality, and only by giving it a try can you see the light'?"
Ning Baiquan: “…”
It was well said, but full of irony because they hadn't even thought about it, and he suspected that the black-haired boy did it on purpose.
And because the test room was indeed a mechanism to see how long the hunter could last until he was exhausted, Su Xingyuan's words made so much sense that he couldn't refute them at all.
Ning Baiquan sighed helplessly.
"I'm sorry for having identified you as an A-rank hunter just now. Hunter Xingyuan, I can now announce on behalf of the Hunter Association that you are the fourth S-rank hunter to walk out of the Hunter Association's testing room in the past seven years."
The assistant next to him handed over Su Xingyuan's hunter qualification certificate.
Xue Yinglong laughed happily: "Finally, there is one more S-level hunter. I will treat you to a drink someday! The other two, one is obsessed with money, and the other only knows how to work all day long. It's really boring!"
Su Xingyuan smiled and said, "Okay."
The next moment, his eyes finally fell on the young man standing in front of him.
"Are you the Han Cheng who pretended to be me?"
As soon as these words came out, Han Cheng broke out in a cold sweat on his back.
He raised his head stiffly and looked at this officially stamped S-rank hunter, feeling dizzy for a moment.
How is it possible...How could that strange hunter be him? !
He had clearly analyzed the hunter and thought that the other party had only killed a B-level hunter, and that he could do the same, so he was just trying to take advantage of the popularity. He never expected that the other party would be an S-level hunter, one of the few in the country that could be counted on one hand!
The dark-haired hunter smiled and said, "Relax, it's a lovely thought, isn't it?"
The other party didn't seem to be angry.
But he could feel that the black-haired hunter's gaze fell on him, as if he was looking at an ant on the side of the road. He was so superior and nonchalant that he could regard even this level of offense as cute.
Logically he should be thankful, but he felt cold all over, because the black-haired hunter could let him go today without any hesitation because he didn't regard him as a fellow of the same level. Then another day, he could just as easily kill him.
Seeing that Han Cheng had a Chaos debuff added to his status, Su Xingyuan looked away in boredom and said, "The process should be over. I'll be leaving first. - By the way."
He turned around and took one last look at Han Cheng: "I'm afraid you can't use the first level room today, how about trying the second level?"
【Name: Han Cheng】
[Rank: B]
He smiled friendly and said, "After all, at best you are just a B."
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