Dungeon: Silicon Valley Base

Instantly, no one asked further. Although everyone was curious about how the school's only Awakened had performed in the cultural subjects, it would be unwise to rub salt in the wound when it was clear that he had messed up.

Only those deliberately trying to mock and provoke would press the issue.

Although some of the boys at Seventeen Middle School felt a vague sense of jealousy towards Bai Pu's popularity, they still understood that Bai Pu's arrival was a good thing for the school and for everyone.

That set of virtual combat equipment allowed many Combat Class students to experience virtual combat before the college entrance exam, like doing a practice exam beforehand. The Combat Class students had greatly increased confidence in the virtual combat subject exam.

Teacher Ren came over and comforted Bai Pu, "It's okay, even if you can't get into the Eight Famous Schools, with your identity as an Awakened, you can at least get into a key university in the Jiangnan District."

Bai Pu didn't bother to argue, he just asked, "When will the results for the cultural subjects be released?"

"Now everything is scanned and graded by the Intelligent Assistant, it's very fast," Teacher Ren said. "I estimate that tomorrow, after your virtual combat subject exam, the results for the cultural subjects will be released together."

The virtual combat scores are announced immediately after the exam, no waiting required.

Bai Pu asked in confusion, "Intelligent Assistant scanning and grading? For those subjective questions, there may be more than one valid answer. Is the Intelligent Assistant capable of flexible identification?"

Generally speaking, the personality of the Intelligent Assistant is quite rigid, and it is difficult to accommodate multiple styles of answers like a real examiner.

"Each subjective question on each paper will be scanned by eight Intelligent Assistants with different preset personalities: aggressive, conservative, emotional, rational... Then the highest and lowest scores are removed, and the final score is calculated."

Teacher Ren said with a smile, "Don't worry, the college entrance exam has been around for over nine hundred years, and artificial intelligence grading has been going on for several hundred years. In the last hundred years, artificial intelligence grading hasn't made a single mistake."

Bai Pu had personally experienced the usefulness of the Intelligent Assistant Xiao Bai, who was practically a considerate butler. In the field of artificial intelligence, humanity has indeed made great strides.

The next day, the virtual combat subject exam officially began.

Amidst the envious and admiring gazes of his classmates, Bai Pu stepped into the exam room exclusively for Awakeners – the Virtual Dungeon.

Just like the virtual dungeon "White Bone Dungeon" at the God Strategy Army Xi City branch, this virtual dungeon called "Silicon Valley Base" was designed based on a future-tech style Intersection Lands.

In the circular base of Silicon Valley, there were ten corridors extending from different directions on the periphery to the core area of the Silicon Valley Base.

Along the ten corridors, there were rows of hibernation pods. Beside the hibernation pods were two rows of weapon racks.

As the examinees entered, the power system would gradually activate, the hibernation pods would open one after another, and Combat Robots would appear.

These Combat Robots were the examinees' opponents, and also the exam questions.

Defeating a Combat Robot would earn the score for that "exam question."

In the "Silicon Valley Base" Virtual Dungeon, the Awakened's profession skills, talents, combat skills, equipment, items, and Storage Space were all restricted by the rules and were unusable.

The only things the examinees could use were the weapon racks next to the hibernation pods, which contained various attribute-less weapons.

The priority of this restriction rule was as high as 10 points! At the Awakened stage, even a Heroic Profession only had a base priority of 4 points. Adding the 3 points of priority from a three-star skill, it could barely reach a total priority of 7 points. Raising it by even 1 more point was a pipe dream, and reaching 10 points of priority was an insurmountable gap.

In other words, the virtual combat subject exam tested the Awakened's combat expertise.

Of course, the college entrance exam rules did not prohibit Awakeners from using skills – if an Awakened had the ability to break the 10-point priority restriction and use their skills, it meant that the Awakened was strong enough to defy the heavens, and prohibition would be superfluous.

Bai Pu opened his personal attribute panel.

He glanced over it.

Flesh Armor, Leaping Strike, Unstable Shield, Whirling Throw – all the skills were grayed out.

However...

The three talents of the [Evolution Heart] are still lit, available! The priority of the Evolution Heart's talents exceeds 10 points! Bai Pu was shocked. No wonder the Superpower Corporation values Evolution Source Blood so much. It seems the origin of Evolution Source Blood is far greater than Bai Pu imagined, not just a special product of the Flesh Plague: Origin Plane! This speculation is based on the fact that the highest priority of the Spirit Realm planes explored by Awakened is 10 points. The Evolution Heart's talents can exceed a priority of 10 points, so its origin must be higher than the Awakened planes.

"Calm down, calm down. High priority is good, but it also depends on the skill's strength and applicability. The [Pure Blood Guard]'s ability to convert servants is useless against robots, so it's mostly wasted..."

The principle of [Pure Blood Guard] is to create Pure Blood, inject it into the enemy's body, causing physical distortion, thereby subjecting them to Bai Pu's enslavement and control.

In principle, the scope of this skill's limitations is already clear—it must be carbon-based creatures, creatures with flesh and bones as their bodies! Robots have silicon-based bodies and are not even considered "biological" in scope. It would be a miracle if they could be controlled by Pure Blood.

Of course, Pure Blood can also be injected into Bai Pu's own body, providing up to 7 points of free attribute bonuses. But considering that there is a more crucial Spirit Realm Exploration Subject exam coming up, the two drops of Pure Blood Bai Pu has stored are better saved for the Spirit Realm Exploration Subject.

These thoughts flashed through his mind, and Bai Pu collected his thoughts.

He stepped into the passage entrance.

The first hibernation pod in front of him had already been successfully powered on.

Accompanied by a series of clicking sounds, the first Combat Robot appeared!

Jiangnan District Education Examination Institute, General Control Room 1.

On the large screen, combat footage of Awakened examinees was being projected.

Seven or eight people sat on either side of a long table. Each person had the air of a superior, the majesty cultivated from long-held power and command.

One of them was wearing a military uniform, and judging by his epaulettes, he had overlapping wheat ears and two gold stars. Compared to Li Ling's one bar and three stars, he was several levels higher.

This gold-eared, two-star military big shot was not in the main seat at the long table, but rather the first seat on the left.

A group of big shots.

"There's no need to show the Awakened with ordinary professions," the big shot sitting in the chief main seat said with a smile. "Our Jiangnan District even has Heroic Professions this year, so there should be quite a few enhanced elites, right?"

The executive officer standing behind the big shot was a middle-aged man with glasses. He reported in one breath: "Secretary Qiao, there are a total of 104 enhanced elite professions in this year's class."

"More than a hundred is not bad. Just show the process of these people passing the levels," Secretary Qiao said. "Give each committee member a remote control. Anyone who sees a promising talent can bring it up for everyone to see."

"Yes." The dean of the Jiangnan District Education Examination Institute, who was seated at the end, wiped his sweat and quickly presented eight General Control Room remote controls.

As a world event, the Spirit Realm Will would supervise the fairness of the college entrance examination throughout the entire process. These big shots sitting in the General Control Room to watch the battle would not undermine fairness; everyone knew the importance of this.

If anyone dared to interfere with the college entrance examination and undermine fairness, the Spirit Realm Will would withhold the rewards for the world event. That would be a major accident, and everyone present would suffer the consequences.

"Let's take a look at the Xu Family's child first. This is our Jiangnan District's only Heroic Profession, the banner of this year's college entrance examination candidates."

The big shot sitting in the second seat on the left clicked the remote control first, and the picture he selected quickly zoomed in, filling the entire screen.