The Keyboard Warriors vanished on the spot.
Hu Jiu was stunned for a moment; this guy was damn fast.
Looking at the Toy Factory not far away, he felt a little tempted.
He desperately wanted it, and had even begun to fantasize about the immense power he would possess once he became the factory owner!
His thinking can interfere with reality.
Without realizing it, he had taken a step forward.
Then it came back.
No, something's wrong!
The Toy Factory seemed to be luring him inside!
Even a fool would know that the inside of Toy Factory is a thousand times more dangerous than the outside!
Once he goes inside and encounters danger, he will definitely do whatever it takes to protect himself. At that time, he might unintentionally destroy the black vines outside the Toy Factory, freeing the Toy Factory.
With his feverish mind cooling down, Hu Jiu began to ponder.
When he first came in, he was quite interested in the Toy Factory.
It's normal for people to be curious.
But without realizing it, his curiosity seemed to be growing stronger and stronger.
I wonder if the Toy Factory's allure was targeted at him alone, or at everyone participating in the assessment?
The latter is fine, but if it were the former...
Do Toy Factories possess the intelligence to perform targeted screening?
Hu Jiu didn't think about it anymore, left a mark on the spot, and turned to leave.
On Star-Time Island Black Door, many people had already left the examination hall and were waiting in the rest hall.
Some of them couldn't adapt to the dark environment; others felt they had enough Toy Ghosts under their control and didn't need to keep consuming them, so they came out early.
Some were just unlucky; they ran into a bunch of Toy Ghosts as soon as they entered, and couldn't handle them.
Luck can also be considered an invisible filtering mechanism. When dealing with Supernatural events, one may face more complex and dangerous situations, where good luck and bad luck can occur at any time.
In another room, Kaiyang, his clothes gleaming, was playing chess with a transparent figure.
Kaiyang held a chess piece in his hand, hesitating. "The assessment is almost over, and there are still a third of the people who haven't come out yet."
"I hope they're all alive and well." The transparent figure's voice carried a hint of melancholy.
Kaiyang placed a piece and said, "This time, it's not just the top players sent from Headquarters; there are also many dark horses who have emerged from among the Ordinary Employees. It's best if none of them get eliminated."
"Geniuses are always dying halfway through their journeys; very few can truly grow into something great." The transparent figure, accustomed to death, didn't hold much hope for any so-called dark horse.
Suddenly, Kaiyang frowned, and the chess piece in his hand fell directly onto the chessboard.
"What happened?" the transparent figure asked anxiously.
Kaiyang picked up the chess piece and quickly regained his composure. "It's nothing. The Toy Factory just had a sudden, violent commotion. It happens every now and then, it's nothing serious."
The transparent figure trusted Kaiyang's judgment and continued playing chess.
Hu Jiu had already left the Endless Corridor and was studying the silver bracelet.
The bracelet itself is for one-time teleportation, but the strange patterns engraved on it are actually miniature prisons. When you forcefully break the bracelet, the break will avoid those patterns.
When the assessment time was over, Kaiyang, with that compassionate look on his face, counted the number of people.
The silver bracelet was handed in and taken for data analysis.
While participating in the third assessment, the results of the first two assessments were already released. Shortly after, the results of the third assessment would also be released.
"Congratulations to all participants! This year's Big Dipper year-end assessment has successfully concluded. The top 10 performers will receive a huge reward..."
At this moment, Kaiyang seemed to be just like any other school leader, spouting a lot of nonsense.
The difference is that, apart from the top few, the assessment results are not made public.
This was probably done to save face for the participants.
As the number one, Hu Jiu's existence is somewhat of a slap in the face to Big Dipper.
Although his written test score wasn't great, in the third assessment, after the Keyboard Warrior left, Hu Jiu used a Fierce Ghost Summoning.
Big Dipper did not engage in such a low-level act as falsifying its results.
When Kaiyang announced the results, there wasn't much surprise, given Hu Jiu's previous easy victory over Yan Lou.
However, Yan Lou's face looked particularly bad; his already slightly swollen and deformed snake-like face became even more distorted.
After announcing the results, Kaiyang immediately called Hu Jiu away to have tea together.
If Hu Jiu's strength is not strong enough, even if he represents Headquarters, Kaiyang will not be very polite to him and will treat him like a special subordinate.
However, Hu Jiu's strength was much greater than expected, and by a significant margin. Some of the conversations that had been prepared would now have to be rephrased.
"You can truthfully report everything you see and hear here to Headquarters," Kaiyang said in a friendly tone.
Hu Jiu nodded; that was a pointless statement.
In any case, the cooperation between Headquarters and Big Dipper will continue to deepen in the future, and they will know what they need to know sooner or later.
"The situation is actually quite critical now, isn't it?" Hu Jiu asked tentatively.
"The Prophet told me the situation was bad. Just how bad? Could you elaborate?"
Kaiyang calmly sipped his tea and then launched into a powerful statement. " Of the Seven Stars of the Beidou Organization, only three remain."
Hu Jiu froze for a moment, but before he could ask any more questions, Kaiyang continued, "The visitors from Otherworld are becoming increasingly rampant, and Big Dipper is being tied up with too much energy trying to eliminate them."
Hu Jiu was puzzled. "Those transmigrators from Parallel Worlds are still human after all, so why must we eliminate them? Can't we cooperate?"
Kaiyang sneered, "The last person who wanted to cooperate with a time traveler was Tianji, and he actually did, and then... he was almost killed by the other stars working together."
Hu Jiu's expression turned serious. "The reason?"
Kaiyang countered, "You've been to school, so you should understand what immune rejection is, right?"
Hu Jiu instantly understood. "You mean those visitors from Otherworld are like foreign pathogens, triggering an immune response in the real world?"
"More or less." Kaiyang nodded.
"Those stowaways from Parallel Worlds carry some kind of Otherworld aura that we cannot understand. Their arrival will trigger some incomprehensible phenomena."
"If our real world is healthy and normal, it can certainly accommodate 'time travelers' and allow them to gradually assimilate into the local culture."
But now, our world... is sick.
"In short, you must remember that as long as visitors from Otherworld exist, reality will reject them, especially Ghost Tamers from Otherworld. These kinds of people will cause continuous instability and turmoil at the border between reality and the Ghost World."
"Given our current situation, we simply cannot afford any further disruption."
"To us, Otherworld Ghost Tamers are even more terrifying than intelligent, Fierce Ghost!"