Chapter 34
Ye Xuan followed the registrar to a room for his ability potential assessment.
“The assessment result is related to your team assignment. During the test, ability user, please make sure to use your full strength.”
Ye Xuan nodded, indicating that he understood the rules.
He walked into the room. It was a very spacious room, with only one set of equipment in the center. Ye Xuan knocked on the wall, and his knuckles hurt. The wall surface was probably made of some kind of alloy to prevent ability users from damaging it.
A mechanical voice without the slightest emotion suddenly sounded.
“Ability user, please put on the virtual equipment. The assessment will begin shortly.”
Ye Xuan walked to the center and put on the equipment.
His vision gradually blurred. Three seconds later, he entered another world.
A pure white world. Around him stood five zombies.
The mechanical voice sounded.
[Space ability user assessment officially begins.]
Ye Xuan stood where he was, remaining unchanged to respond to all changes. From this position, no matter which angle an attack came from, he was confident he could dodge it perfectly.
A zombie flashed to the front of his left arm, its sharp claws attacking him. Ye Xuan twisted his waist and dodged down to the right. Immediately afterward, another zombie attacked the back of his waist. He braced himself against the ground, sprang up, and dodged through the gap between the two zombies.
The formation returned to five surrounding one.
Was this assessment only testing the speed of a space ability user, or did he have to kill all five zombies in this world?
They had not told him anything.
Was discovering the rules also part of the assessment?
Ye Xuan looked around at the five zombies and dodged a zombie that suddenly flashed to his right shoulder with its bloody mouth wide open.
Then he would test it.
A zombie attacked straight toward his face. Ye Xuan bent his knees and slid across the ground. As he brushed past the zombie, he reached out and quickly held the zombie’s face in both hands.
Crack.
Ye Xuan slid to the opposite side, pressed one hand against the ground, and smoothly stood up.
The zombie lay on the ground, motionless. Ye Xuan thought it might not be dead yet, but then he saw the zombie suddenly disappear.
[One zombie eliminated.]
Just as he had thought. He had to eliminate the five zombies in this world.
Then next, he just had to do the same as before and find chances to kill the zombies.
But was it really that simple?
Ye Xuan kept dodging the zombies’ attacks, and he soon realized something was wrong.
As the first zombie disappeared, the zombies’ attack speed grew faster, and the intensity of their attacks also became higher.
If killing each zombie would strengthen the remaining zombies, then the ones left would only become harder and harder to deal with.
The best method was…
To make them kill each other.
Ye Xuan slowed down, dragging one zombie along as he ran toward another zombie.
Zombies were zombies, nothing more than bodies controlled by a virus.
Even if this was a virtual world.
Just as the two zombies in front and behind were about to bite him, Ye Xuan suddenly disappeared from between them. The two zombies had no time to brake and bit each other instead, crashing heavily to the ground. A few seconds later, they vanished from this world.
[Three zombies eliminated.]
There were still two zombies left.
Before Ye Xuan could even catch his breath, the two zombies began attacking him, one from the left and one from the right.
Their speed was extremely fast, already reaching a level invisible to the naked eye.
Ye Xuan tried the same trick again.
It failed.
Just as the two zombies were about to collide, they flashed to both sides at the same time and brushed past each other.
The method of making them kill each other no longer worked.
Wearing them down?
That was impossible too. He would be exhausted to death outside the virtual world first.
What should he do?
The zombies’ attack speed and movement speed grew faster and faster, and their attack moves became increasingly fierce.
Ye Xuan was already feeling exhausted. There were a few attacks he failed to dodge, and the zombies’ claw-like hands tore open his arms.
The wounds were fake, but the pain was real.
It felt as if his hand had truly been clawed open by a zombie.
This could not go on.
His mother had once said, when something could not be done perfectly, then do it with all your strength.
Ye Xuan stopped dodging. He stood at the position where the assessment had begun and waited for the two zombies to attack him.
Puchi.
The two zombies’ hands pierced through his heart. At the same time, Ye Xuan used his last bit of strength and snapped the head of the zombie in front of him.
[Four zombies eliminated.]
[Ability user’s virtual life signs have disappeared. Assessment ended.]
The two announcements sounded at the same time.
Ye Xuan removed the equipment. He still had not pulled himself out of the battle just now. The pain of his heart being pierced had felt too real.
He supported himself against the wall and walked out of the room.
Xia Chenxi immediately supported Ye Xuan and teased him, “I thought you were taking a bath in there.”
Ye Xuan glared at him.
Ye Xuan’s whole body was soaked in sweat. Even the ends of his hair were drenched and stuck to his forehead. Anyone who did not know better would really think Ye Xuan had taken a bath.
“The assessment result will take a while to come out. Please follow me back to the registration desk and rest for a moment.”
The registrar brought the two of them back to the registration desk.
Ye Xuan and Xia Chenxi sat down on the chairs to the side.
“You’re a strength-type ability user. How was your assessment done?”
Ye Xuan was quite curious. Space ability users had to be tested on speed and overall control, so the assessment for strength-type ability users should be even harder, right?
Xia Chenxi thought for a moment. “Just like that.”
Ye Xuan dissatisfiedly glanced at Xia Chenxi, then turned his head to the side and muttered, “If you don’t want to say it, then don’t say it. What do you mean, ‘just like that’?”
Xia Chenxi naturally placed a hand on Ye Xuan’s shoulder and turned his face back. The flesh on Ye Xuan’s cheeks was squeezed toward the center, making him look like a fat-headed goldfish.
So cute.
Xia Chenxi could not help pinching him a few more times.
Ye Xuan slapped the back of Xia Chenxi’s hand hard, leaving a red mark. “You’re going too far. You won’t tell me, and now you’re teasing me.”
Xia Chenxi let go with a faint smile.
“I told you. It was just like that. Punch after punch, headshots. Then I passed.”
Ye Xuan: “…”
Before absolute strength, technique and speed were both useless.
Then what did all his exhausting, desperate efforts to find ways to kill the zombies count as?
And what did that heart-to-heart exchange with the zombie count as?
Ye Xuan leaned his head back against the chair and let out a long, deep, envious sigh.
Xia Chenxi pinched his right cheek and comforted him.
“As a space ability user, you already did very well.”
The registrar appeared at a very inappropriate time and told Ye Xuan that his assessment result was out.
Ye Xuan sprang up from the chair like a carp flipping upright.
The soft flesh in his hand disappeared. Xia Chenxi looked gloomily at the registrar. If this third wheel had not appeared, he could have pinched him a little longer.
The registrar stiffened all over, stood on tiptoe, turned 180 degrees, and quickly walked forward.
He screamed internally. Where exactly had he offended that big evil god?
The registrar handed the assessment report to Ye Xuan.
It was just a thin sheet of paper. In truth, it could have been sent directly to the ability user’s wristband, but maybe the paper form had more commemorative meaning.
The first thing Ye Xuan looked at was the result.
[Team Assignment: Team 2B]
Ye Xuan raised his left eyebrow, then his right eyebrow, then both eyebrows together.
What kind of team insisted on calling itself Team 2B?
Was that appropriate?
The registrar thought Ye Xuan was disappointed with his assessment result and kindly said, “As a space ability user, you’re already very impressive. Most space ability users end up assigned to Team C for reconnaissance.”
