I feel like your device can't fit in it.
Liu Xia only realized when he got closer that although there seemed to be nearly a thousand contestants gathered here from a distance, in fact, many of them had already been counted and were just standing there watching the fun and not leaving.
Human curiosity still plays its role even in the wasteland world.
These players all want to know how everyone’s performing. Those with more trophies want to see if they have the possibility of entering the S-level, while those with less trophies want to see who will get this honor.
However, most of the contestants who had the hope of entering the S-rank hunting team had arrogant expressions on their faces. They did not get as close as the others, but just watched from a distance with a look of indifference. This included the contestant known as 'Ghost'.
He was lucky this time. Relying on his ability to hide and assassinate, he quietly killed a team of Hyena Gang members and seized more than 40 alien beast cores. In addition to some gains after entering the contaminated area, he is a strong contender for a place in the S-level hunting team.
The monitoring team No. 3 chosen by Liu Xia now had four or five players lined up. The player at the front was covered in scars, and his protective suit was stained with blood and was extremely dirty. He was carefully taking out a dozen alien beast cores from his backpack.
Most of them were at the second and third levels, and they had achieved such results in just one day and one night. This was already a good result among ordinary players.
But this is the selection of the S-level hunting team after all, and a dozen low-level exotic beast cores are not a remarkable achievement.
After registering, he did not leave, but turned around and stood aside to watch with others.
Liu Xia discovered that the man was actually Wang Qiu, a male contestant who had both hands equipped with mechanical prosthetic limbs and was rescued in the contaminated area before. It seemed that Wang Qiu had still hunted a lot of mutant beasts after separating from her last night. She wondered if he had not completely given up the idea of joining the hunting team.
Liu Xia kept an eye on the direction where the jeep was parked. After waiting in line for several minutes, he heard the sound of a metal barrier slowly rising amid the sound of hydraulics at the entrance of the venue. Behind him, he heard the friction of car tires driving in, and a hot wind mixed with the smell of blood and radioactive dust whistled in.
The newly returned hunters got off the troop carrier and walked towards the inspection team with heavy steps. The red slime on the soles of their boots left hideous trails on the ground.
The man walking in front was two meters tall. Like Scarhead, he also had a strong hairstyle. He was carrying half a human spine on his shoulder. Judging from the gray cloak on the corpse, he was a member of the Hyena Gang.
The burly man's bare chest was covered in metallic lines, which moved strangely with every step he took. He was a madman whose body was almost 70% transformed into machinery. "What fucking bad luck! It's bad enough that I ran into a bunch of mad dogs, but I have to queue up on my way back?"
The contestant who got off the car with him was a woman with half of her face completely mechanized. She was using an alloy dagger to pick at the flesh embedded in the fingers of her metal prosthetic limbs, making a "crunching" sound.
As they walked, the two separated and went to different teams.
The contestant next to Liu Xia lowered his voice, his face pale as he muttered to himself, "Don't come to our side! It's really terrible that we ran into Feng Ziqiang. This guy is even more reckless than Mad Dog Scarhead."
"I heard he tore apart three Level 5 mutant giant lizards with his bare hands in the Contaminated Core Area No. 6," another contestant said in a trembling voice. "Even the patrol team didn't dare to mess with him..."
The contestants at the end of the line looked at Feng Ziqiang who was gradually approaching. The oppressive feeling that filled them with satisfaction made them consciously make way for him.
The ground seemed to tremble with every step he took, and the part of the spine connecting his shoulder to his upper body creaked as he squeezed it.
Feng Ziqiang grinned with his big mouth full of steel teeth and walked arrogantly straight to the end of the team No. 3 with the smallest number of people. Wherever he passed, the other players retreated unconsciously. He was forced to stop only when he walked behind Liu Xia who was unmoved.
"A good dog doesn't block the road." Feng Ziqiang's eyes were like a poisonous snake, locked on the motionless woman standing in front of him.
He casually threw the half of the body on his shoulder to the ground with a "paji" sound, and the blood that had almost been drained out flowed out again due to the impact.
The contestants near the end of the venue suddenly became eerily quiet, and it was obvious that many people knew them.
Feng Ziqiang's tall shadow almost completely covered her. He had judged from the exposed part of the other party that the degree of mechanical prosthetic modification on the woman in front of him was very low. She was either a low-level hunter or an outsider, so he exerted his pressure fearlessly.
Liu Xia was already second in line at this time. After one more person was tested, it would be her turn. She was originally feeling a little bored because of waiting in line, but suddenly a stranger spoke shamelessly in her ears in a muffled voice, which made her extremely angry.
"Go away." She replied coldly, not even bothering to turn her head.
Seeing that Liu Xia was unmoved and even spoke wildly, Feng Ziqiang became even more certain that the other party was a newcomer who had never seen the world. He decided to be generous and give him another chance.
"Get out of the way, little girl! Is that little scrap in your hand worth registering? Don't make me angry." Feng Ziqiang leaned over and approached Liu Xia. His breath seemed to carry the stench of rotting meat. He clamped his large hands firmly around Liu Xia's shoulders and threatened, "Otherwise... I won't let you even have a chance to cry once we leave this place."
The competition rules of the "Leviathan" organization made him dare not act rashly. After all, the guards around him were not vegetarians. If any contestant dared to start a fight now, they would not let it go.
Feng Ziqiang's big hand on Liu Xia's shoulder was very strong. Although he held back, an ordinary girl still couldn't bear it. He was deliberately using force to force the other party.
Even if a stronger man were to take over, it would be difficult for him to remain unaffected by such force.
Liu Xia finally responded this time. He turned his head to look at the hand on his shoulder, sighed impatiently, and with a casual move of his right hand, he forced Feng Ziqiang, who was originally standing behind him, to kneel on the ground.
All this happened in just one minute. Before the people around him could even see clearly, Feng Ziqiang knelt in front of Liu Xia.
Liu Xia turned around and looked down at the arrogant man kneeling in front of him. His eyes were as cold as ice: "You can try."
Even Feng Ziqiang hadn't imagined that he would be easily forced to his knees by a woman two heads shorter than him. This was something he had never dreamed of in the past thirty-six years of his life, and yet it actually happened.
Not only that, this incident happened in full view of everyone, in front of almost all the hunters in the Black Gold City.
Feng Ziqiang's arm was twisted tightly by the huge force, and he knelt on one knee uncontrollably on the ground, and his right knee smashed two deep cracks in the wooden floor.
The guards who were originally patrolling nearby were also alarmed by the noise and gathered around while shouting.
"You little bitch! Are you looking for death?!" The two-meter-tall giant glared at Liu Xia like a wild beast with its neck pinched.
Feng Ziqiang, who always thought highly of himself, went completely crazy. His eyes quickly became bloodshot and he slammed his fist on his chest. The metal chest emitted a dazzling red light, which was the light produced by a mechanical heart working crazily. He didn't even care about the guards present.
Before Feng Ziqiang could stand up, a huge black gun muzzle was already pointed at his head. It was loaded with incendiary bombs. Even if you had an alloy head, you would die instantly at such a close distance.
The brain inside the alloy skull cannot withstand such an impact.
"Watch your mouth. I hate you guys who cut in line..." Liu Xia looked at him calmly, "I don't want to cause any trouble right now. You'd better stay in line honestly."
"You..." Feng Ziqiang's anger had died down before it could fully ignite. He looked at the word "Song" carved on the butt of the gun, his Adam's apple rolling unconsciously. For the first time, his voice was uncertain. He couldn't even break free from the seemingly slender arm. "Who are you?"
Liu Xia sneered and did not answer the question.
The whole place was dead silent.
"What are you doing?"
When the guards shouted at the onlookers and approached, the battle was over. After taking a few glances at the contestants, they left and returned to their posts.
Minor fights between players are common, but they are not a problem if they do not cause any major problems.
Liu Xia was still standing in her original position in the team, and Feng Ziqiang dragged the half-body on the ground back to the end of the team, even making some space for the contestants who were originally in the front, and lined up honestly.
He is crazy, but he is not brainless. There is no need to mess around with someone who doesn't know his own limits. Otherwise, Feng Ziqiang would have died eight hundred years earlier.
He knows better than anyone that you should pick the softest persimmon to squeeze.
The woman with the half-mechanical face had been watching the farce from a distance. She had no intention of helping and continued to queue in an orderly manner.
There were several other contestants who behaved in the same way as the woman with the mechanical face. They had all registered long ago but had not left. They all cast inquiring glances at Liu Xia, the unfamiliar new face.
Most people knew Feng Ziqiang, but it was the first time for most people to meet Liu Xia. However, not all of them knew her for the first time, like those contestants who had seen her physical examination on site.
"Isn't that the woman who scored SSS in the physical test? Her name seems to be...Liu or something?" A thin man suddenly grabbed his companion's arm and muttered to himself.
His companion narrowed his eyes and suddenly gasped, "Yes, yes, Liu Xia! The woman who can break the body measurement instrument without prosthetic limbs!"
"Fengzi Qiang has hit a wall this time..." someone chuckled in a gloating voice.
Wang Qiu and archer Xu Jingjing, who were in the waiting area, also spotted Liu Xia and were delighted. They had already become die-hard fans of this lifesaver and began to share their experiences of being rescued in the contaminated area with the surrounding players.
The discussion spread like a tide, and finally died down after the guards repeatedly called for silence.
But at this time, many people already knew Liu Xia's origin, the woman with the legendary SSS-level physical test score.
The order of the testing team returned to normal again, and the new contestants no longer dared to act rashly. Everyone lined up peacefully.
Originally, "Leviathan" arranged ten inspectors to work together, and the speed of testing and recording was actually very fast.
Although it seems that there are thousands of people in the venue, in fact, most of them have already been tested. As long as everyone can line up in an orderly manner, it won’t take long for everyone to be tested.
When it was Liu Xia's turn in Team No. 3, the woman with half a robotic face from Team No. 5 next door also happened to have her turn. She was lucky because the spoils brought back by the previous contestants were very limited, so she was able to register early despite being in the latter queue.
The woman with the mechanical face had already started testing. Although there were not many alien beast cores in the backpack, only a dozen or so, they were basically all level three and level four colors. The columnar indicator light stopped when it climbed all the way to orange, which was the second color after red.
"A very good result." A smile appeared on the originally gloomy face of recorder No. 5. They would naturally show due kindness to the players who might become high-level hunters in the future.
To achieve such results in just one day and one night, he is already considered a leader among the contestants.
Under the envious gazes of the other players, the woman with the mechanical face walked to the waiting area with an expressionless face and observed the performance of the remaining players. This was related to whether she could enter the S-level hunting team.
On the other side, Liu Xia was looking at the detection instrument in front of him, seeming to be hesitant to speak. It was an oval orange basin with a columnar indicator light on the edge for testing the energy of the alien beast's core, with specific energy values on it.
However, the size of this basin is only that of a small or medium-sized washbasin, and it is probably difficult to hold the massive amount of exotic beast cores in her backpack.
Recorder No. 3 did not recognize Liu Xia, an outsider, and did not see the contestant put the alien beast core into the detector for a long time.
The man who had been recording the visitor's identity with a gloomy face couldn't help but raise his head and looked at her, urging her, "If you haven't hunted the exotic beast core, leave and don't affect our work efficiency."
When there was a minor friction with Feng Ziqiang before, the recorder did not see who the real person was because there were many people blocking the way.
In addition, there was no sign of mechanical prosthetics on Liu Xia's body, so it was easy to think that this outsider did not have time to obtain spoils in the selection time that was suddenly shortened to one day. Such low-level players who came up empty-handed had appeared before.
Some players even know that they will not be selected, and they enter the competition area specifically to obtain the core of the alien beast. There are not so many players entering the heavily polluted area on weekdays, and the corresponding risk factor will be greater.
Although there are more players entering the contaminated area this time, it will be more difficult to obtain the cores of the alien beasts, but the mutant beasts will be more dispersed, which is safer than entering the battle alone or in a team.
"This detector is a bit too small. I don't think it can fit." Liu Xia answered honestly.
"Heh, you're a newly registered outsider with quite the guts. Why don't you try to show off and see if you can fill this instrument up?"
Recorder No. 3's words hinted that Liu Xia was "pretending", and the double entendre was very obvious. However, despite saying so, the recorder still watched Liu Xia's next move with interest and did not immediately let this outsider go away.
Liu Xia saw through the other party's double entendre, curled the corners of his mouth and did not intend to argue. He would take as much as he could fit in, and keep it if he couldn't fit it in anymore.
When he took the fully loaded tactical backpack off his shoulder, it seemed easy, but the vibration when he placed it on the steel inspection table and the sound of the heavy object falling to the ground still exposed the fact that the bag was very heavy.
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