The Strongest Team

After bringing Jing Liuli into his team.

Tiandao took her over to Caroline, who was still conducting extensive data analysis.

Caroline was currently staring intently at the Tactical Tablet.

Massive streams of data cascaded through her jade green pupils like waterfalls, while literal white steam rose from her head. Her brain had truly overloaded in the physical sense.

Seeing this, Tiandao immediately raised his hand and flicked her forehead.

"Tiandao?"

Caroline belatedly looked up, completely unaware that a small patch of her forehead had turned red.

"Stop calculating, Caroline. That thing's Star Energy Value alone is over thirty times ours. Even if you calculate until tomorrow, our chances of winning will still be zero."

"But..."

"No buts."

Tiandao took a piece of candy from his pocket and stuffed it into Caroline's mouth.

"What do you think those old geezers released that thing for? Wasn't it just to give us a show of force?"

"Anything you can think of, those old geezers have definitely thought of too. So there's no way we can defeat that thing."

"So, relax. Our goal isn't to beat it. We just need to find a way to make those old geezers' jaws drop."

Hearing Tiandao's words, Caroline gradually calmed down and carefully savored the candy in her mouth.

Seeing this, Jing Liuli immediately looked longingly at Tiandao's jacket pocket with her big eyes. "T-Tiandao, I need to replenish my sugar too."

"Huh?"

Looking at the greedy Liuli, Tiandao impatiently waved his hand. "Shoo, shoo. Your brain only gets going once every ten days or half a month. Do you really need candy to replenish your brain's sugar? Go play somewhere else."

Jing Liuli was immediately displeased when she heard that.

"Who says so? I'm good at thinking too, okay? Tiandao, don't underestimate me!"

"Huh?" Tiandao raised an eyebrow. "What's ten times twenty-five?"

"Huh?"

Liuli's pupils instantly turned into spirals as her fingers waved wildly through the air.

"Ten twenty-five, um..."

"It's two hundred and fifty, idiot!"

"I-I knew it was two hundred and fifty! You just answered before me!"

To prove she had not been lying, Liuli huffily pulled out her phone. After tapping around for a while, she brought up an IQ test report.

"Tiandao, I'm not an idiot! Look, this is an IQ test I paid a hundred bucks for last time. It's a full..."

Tiandao snatched her phone away and stared speechlessly at the incredibly crude IQ test report on the screen.

"No, if you were willing to spend a hundred bucks on this kind of test, then you really are an idiot through and through."

"Because only idiots would believe this kind of scam app and actually pay for it."

"You're lying!"

With tears in her voice, Liuli gritted her teeth and glared fiercely at Tiandao.

She neither wanted to admit that she was an idiot nor admit that she had been scammed.

Seeing this, Caroline could not bear it and said, "Um, Liuli, I've actually taken a similar test before too."

"Really?!"

Jing Liuli looked at Caroline excitedly, like a drowning person clutching at her last lifeline.

But before she could ask Caroline about her test result.

Tiandao exposed the truth first. "Idiot, don't get your hopes up. Someone as sharp as Caroline either said that to comfort you, or she took the test but definitely didn't pay in the end."

"You don't really think everyone is as easy to fool as you, do you?"

"Tiandao, shut up!"

Tiandao raised both hands. "Fine, fine. I'll stop, I'll stop."

Caroline shot Tiandao a glare, signaling for him to stop talking. Couldn't he see that after hearing those words, Liuli had been struck dumb, her whole world turning gray and white?

Tiandao turned to look at Liuli. After suffering his string of blows.

She had gone from mysteriously confident to mysteriously self-conscious, constantly muttering about how she had been scammed out of a hundred bucks.

That suddenly made him feel a little guilty.

It seemed like he had been a bit too harsh. Maybe... he should comfort her?

However, just as Tiandao was wondering whether he should console her.

Jing Liuli seemed to think of something. She suddenly set down her beloved pillow, then took out a marker and scribbled across it.

Tiandao and Caroline curiously leaned closer, wanting to see what she was writing.

But when Tiandao saw the words on it, his little sunglasses nearly slipped right off his nose.

Because Jing Liuli had written: Tiandao is a liar who only knows how to bully people.

That made Tiandao very unhappy.

"Let go of me, Caroline! Let go! She's slandering me! She's slandering me! Am I, Tiandao, the kind of person who likes deceiving people?"

"Calm down, Tiandao. Calm down. Why are you getting angry with a child?"

"Calm down? I can't calm down at all today!"

Jing Liuli looked at Tiandao, whom Caroline was holding back, then hugged her beloved pillow and turned away with a huff.

It was as if she were saying that Tiandao was a big liar—and the kind of big liar who loved bullying people.

"Caroline, look! She's still provoking me! Let go of me! I have to settle this with her today, or I'll write the four characters of Tiandao Siming backward!"

"Bleh, bleh, bleh!"

Rather than being afraid of Tiandao as he flailed about, Jing Liuli made a face at him, utterly brazen.

Watching Tiandao and the others still fooling around despite the Final Assessment drawing near.

Chen Kong said enviously, "Sis, do you think Brother Tian Dao and the others can pass the Final Assessment?"

"It doesn't seem like they take this assessment very seriously..."

Chen Xing answered the question rationally.

"Tiandao in first place, Liuli in third, plus Caroline in fourth. Just judging by their individual strength on paper, they are already the strongest among the twelve teams."

"Not to mention that their Star Cores can complement each other. If even they can't pass the Final Assessment, then I really can't think of anyone else who could."

"All right, instead of worrying about them, you should worry about yourself. If you dare hold me back later, I definitely won't let you off easily."

"U-Understood..."

At the same time, a similar conversation took place behind a pane of one-way glass directly above the central arena.

"No matter how you look at it, Tiandao's team is the strongest, isn't it?"

"But even so, I still can't see them having even the slightest chance of winning."

"After all, a Rank 2 Earth Dragon Lizard is a renowned ferocious beast. Its combat power is among the best at its rank. Even Tiandao and the others would struggle to last three minutes against it, let alone those other teams that are far inferior to Tiandao's."

"Doctor, are you sure there's nothing wrong with this Final Assessment arrangement?"

Hearing Canary's words, Doctor revealed a meaningful expression.

He looked down at Tiandao beneath the glass and said something no one had expected.

"No, I think this Rank 2 Earth Dragon Lizard is just right."

"Just watch carefully, everyone. That child Tiandao will definitely bring you quite a surprise."

"Oh, this is interesting."

The Griffon Man rose to his feet and stood before the one-way floor-to-ceiling window, watching Tiandao's team below as they headed toward the arena.

The Final Assessment had begun.