Depths of the Living
Chapter 366

Abnormal Assessment

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[Exploration Bureau, Personnel Department]

It is a special department mainly responsible for personnel changes.

The staff of this department is not fixed. They are mainly members of the Ten Exploration Departments who are available and not currently need to go to remote corners, and they take turns to fill in.

Primarily responsible for performance evaluation tests for new employees.

Set up an effective assessment that can fully showcase the characteristics of newcomers, confirm their overall qualities, and determine whether they can move around normally in the corner.

Such scene setups often require a significant amount of manpower and resources.

Therefore, only new talents who meet the various "performance" standards are eligible to be assessed by the Exploration Bureau.

Newcomers are naturally divided into different levels.

Among them, new recruits from the General Investigation Bureau's Special Operations Department have extremely high priority.

Most members from the Special Operations Department are exempt from assessment. Their overall competence is judged directly based on their "achievements" in suppressing, killing, and capturing monster avatars.

in,

Yu Ze was their primary target, an extreme talent who would inevitably be included in the Exploration Bureau. Unexpectedly, he came here on his own initiative today.

Another person who has been the focus of attention recently is the "Moon Eclipse Murderer".

However, Luo Di is only twenty years old. Although they are paying close attention to him, they are far from actively poaching him.

To everyone's surprise, Luo Di actually came to submit his application to join the organization.

certainly,

The Exploration Bureau is also willing to allocate resources to test this young "murderer." However, even if he passes the test, they will require Luo Di to return to the General Investigation Bureau and come back when he is of appropriate age.

After all, the overall progress of the Exploration Bureau is going smoothly, so there is no need to urgently recruit more people.

However, assessing Luo Di is also a problem.

His profile has been presented via hologram, and one of the things listed is too outrageous.

[Saiwei Resort Island Incident]

Secretly infiltrating the Sorceress Society, Pseudo-Human organization, she joined forces with several high-ranking Pseudo-Human to execute the most difficult Corner Wanted Order and successfully eliminated the secondary incarnation of ' Mr. Kraft '.

It was approved by Mr. Kraft and absorbed by the pituitary gland (Star Color) via heterologous feeding.

It is also a connector, and the world it connects to is being recorded for the first time in the archives, with an expected world level of A or above.

An agent reviewed Luo Di's file and gave his assessment:

"With such an experience, it's no wonder that the Special Operations Group made contact immediately."

Moreover, according to the physical scan Luo Di underwent during his visit to headquarters, he seemed to have completed an important journey to another world while in prison, bringing back a number of hellish items.

His physical structure has also changed, especially his spine, which has evolved beyond the human body.

His current overall individual strength is estimated to be at the human limit, enabling him to kill some ordinary monster avatars on his own.

Conventional adversarial assessment designs are incompatible with it.

The suggestion here is to address the psychological aspect by issuing an "Assistance Notice" in the yellow Containment Zone to see if the monster avatars are willing to cooperate. The reward for cooperation could be a Grade B.

"Received! Transmitting assistance notification."

The Exploration Bureau often uses the monster avatars imprisoned in the Containment Zone to assess new recruits.

Combined with spatial technology brought out from the corner, special corner-like scenes are simulated to test newcomers, which is currently the most effective assessment method.

Newcomers who pass this test will at least perform well in their subsequent real-life interactions with the community.

At the same time.

Within the Containment Zone marked in yellow.

The monster avatars that were taken in and imprisoned in different types of areas all received notifications in the form of audio, electronic images, or paper.

After carefully reading the information above, although the rewards were quite high, very few monsters volunteered. Some were simply lazy, while others sensed the "danger" of the task.

Of course, when faced with a reward, there will always be someone willing to help.

Inside a secluded room decorated like a children's playground, a child building clay figures reaches out and grabs a piece of soft paper that falls from the sky, touching the text on it.

He himself had no mouth, yet voices came from the mouth of a clay figure:

"A B-level reward? It's been a long time since we've been given such a big job. If I can get the reward, I can leave here early and won't have to stay locked up anymore."

And this person seems quite interesting, I'll take the job!

As soon as the child pressed his fingerprint, the Exploration Bureau immediately began a matching test, and a green light indicating a high match quickly lit up.

Luo Di continued to move forward in the cramped space, no matter how much the height of the ceiling decreased, how much the walls on both sides compressed, or how much darkness permeated.

He showed no change in expression and continued moving forward.

The final passage even turned into a strip-shaped gap no more than a meter long, requiring Luo Di to compress his skeletal structure to some extent and even use his tentacles to wriggle through it.

After squeezing through the gap, the space became spacious.

What appeared before him was a dimly lit "single-person restaurant," giving him the illusion of returning to the 1990s, and even reminding Luo Di of his childhood.

The restaurant has a rather strange layout.

The term "single person" refers to a room consisting of only a metal-framed folding table, a plastic stool, and a ceiling fan that creaks when it rotates.

The restaurant has a square structure, with food serving windows on all four walls.

The glass, covered in grease, was covered with various window signs taped on it with red tape.

Each window had a long string hanging from an old tungsten filament bulb, which was the only light source in the restaurant.

The dishes seemed to have just come out of the pot and were still steaming, but there were no serving ladies in sight.

Luo Di didn't seem to want to stop. It had taken him ten hours to get here from the prison, and he was starving.

The announcement had already been made when we took the red elevator earlier.

Before the real assessment begins, newcomers will have a meal.

Since the real assessment hasn't started yet, Luo Di naturally wants to have a hearty meal. Who knows, the assessment might take several days, and then there won't be such an opportunity to eat.

Take the aluminum cutlery from the food serving window.

Luo Di reached directly into the window, intending to serve himself.

However,

The moment his hand grasped the metal spoon, a sharp chill swept over him.

Upon closer inspection, a pale, cold hand was found to be holding a cooking spoon, the two hands touching. And there was only this one severed hand.

But Luo Di wasn't startled or showed any strong emotional fluctuations. Instead, he released his grip with an apologetic expression.

"Sorry, I thought it was a buffet and didn't notice."

Give me some braised beef with potatoes, minced pork with cowpeas, sweet and sour pork ribs, and fried small yellow croaker.

Also, give me three bowls of noodles, one with beef sauce, one with dry-mixed fried sauce, and one with pork intestines.

If you have barbecue here, give me two pounds of grilled Brain Flower, five skewers of chives, and ten skewers of pork belly. That's all for now, but I can order more if needed.

Luo Di had just been released from prison, tried to return to his previous life. After ordering food in a seemingly normal way, the atmosphere became a little awkward.

The pale, severed hand holding the iron spoon was held firmly in mid-air, and for a moment, no one knew what to do.

In the end, the severed hand slowly disappeared and faded away, handing over ownership of the place to Luo Di, turning it into the buffet he had envisioned.

Luo Di shrugged and immediately started cooking, even finding a larger window to crawl through and begin cooking noodles.

Soon, the only metal folding table in the restaurant was piled high with food, almost overflowing.

During his meal, Luo Di could feel the stares from multiple food serving windows, as if even the slightest waste would bring danger.

The food, which filled the room, was all prepared within half an hour.

Luo Di only let out a shallow burp, and when he got up, his belly was not even visible.

The gazes from the window all dispersed, and the long-absent mechanical broadcast voice returned:

<Investigator Luo Di, your assessment test is ready. The four doors currently correspond to the start of the assessment, the bathroom, the warm-up room, and the rest room, respectively.>

You have one hour to prepare; please use your time as you wish.

When Luo Di looked up, he saw that the previous food serving windows had all disappeared and been replaced by a door set up alone in the middle of the wall.

He showed no intention of resting. He wiped the grease from the corner of his mouth, got up, and walked toward the unmarked, mottled wooden door directly behind him.

Push open the wooden door,

The wind howled.

There was also a cordon outside the door, the kind of cordon Luo Di was very familiar with, used by the Investigation Bureau, specifically for area lockdown, indicating that there were Pseudo-Human in the area.

Strangely,

Luo Di did not see any investigators operating here.

In front of them is a resettlement community with a distinctly vintage feel.

Faced with this scene, a strange smile appeared on Luo Di's face.

He had been in hell for so long that he had almost forgotten what Pseudo-Human looked like and what it felt like. The scene before him seemed perfect as a form of rehabilitation exercise.

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