Comprehensive Evaluation

Zhou Qi could feel it: with every meditation session, his brain was evolving.

Memory, calculation ability, spatial imagination.

Had his reaction speed gotten faster too?

Zhou Qi thought it had, but whether it truly had would have to wait until after the test.

He sat down in the chair, let out a long breath, then looked at the screen and clicked Start.

Color change, click.

Color change, click.

He had no idea how many times he clicked. Completely focused, the only thing left in his mind was clicking that green dot. It was only when the button changed shape and he instinctively moved to click again that he realized it was over.

"194!"

"!!!" Seeing the final result, Zhou Qi was shocked, yet also felt it was only natural, as if his long-held guess had finally been confirmed.

Meditating here really could evolve the brain!

"My turn!" Smoker rolled up his sleeves. "Watch me get below a hundred!"

He was judging based on the previous test results. After all, his scores had always crushed Tashigi's.

Zhou Qi smiled. The limit of human reaction speed was one hundred. Could he really get below that?

I don't believe it!

Then again, maybe it was possible. What if someone used Observation Haki to foresee the future and cheat?

Smoker definitely would not. As for Koshiro, that was hard to say.

Smoker rubbed his hands together, first clicking the mouse to get used to the feel, then opening the software. He had already learned it after watching twice.

Of course, only this software.

Color change, click.

Color change, click.

Color change, click.

Color change, click...

A minute later, the test ended, and three large words appeared on the screen.

161!

"Huh?" Smoker's eyes widened. "How is that possible? Let me try again!"

"That's already very strong!" Zhou Qi said with a smile. "You're thirty, right? With reaction speed like that, you could play esports!"

Esports required reaction times under 240 milliseconds. The old Zhou Qi definitely would not have qualified.

But Smoker had no problem at all. Even among the geniuses of the LPL, his reaction speed would have been considered top-tier.

Yet Smoker still thought it was slow and tried twice more.

Unfortunately, software did not make mistakes. It even discarded the highest and lowest scores, eliminating anomalies before taking the average.

So across the three tests, he got 161 the first time, 162 the second, and because he was getting flustered, he actually got 173 on the third!

"Smoking is harmful to your health, and it lowers reaction speed too!" Zhou Qi said with a smile. "Maybe you should try quitting!"

"Quit smoking?" Smoker shook his head. He would never quit smoking in this lifetime, and he did not think his reaction speed was slow.

Maybe that number was already among the very best for humans!

"Would you like to try too?" Smoker looked at Koshiro.

This Great Swordsman was older than me. Although he was stronger than me, his reaction speed might not be faster than a young person's!

"Sure!" Koshiro sat down with a smile and opened the software with practiced ease.

His calm demeanor made Smoker uneasy.

It was the same familiar process. A minute later, the result came out.

135...

"Impossible, that's impossible!" Smoker's eyes widened. "How can you be so much faster than me?"

Koshiro smiled, opened the software again, and took the test once more.

But this time, his gaze suddenly sharpened, and his entire presence changed drastically!

It was still the same process.

A minute later.

109!

"Holy shit!" Smoker blurted it out with perfect pronunciation, even earlier than Zhou Qi had ever said it!

Who knew who he had learned it from.

Zhou Qi was also utterly shocked. What was going on?

Wasn't the limit of human reaction speed supposed to be one hundred? His reaction speed had actually approached the limit?

Nine milliseconds could practically be considered nonexistent!

"Did you use Observation Haki?" Zhou Qi asked curiously.

"Huh?" Smoker immediately looked at Koshiro as well. I never expected you to know Observation Haki?

No, he was a Great Swordsman. It was normal for him to know Observation Haki. It would be strange if he did not!

Koshiro merely smiled, though he was somewhat surprised as well. "After activating Observation Haki, not only does my perception of the world around me become extraordinarily sharp, but my own reaction speed also rises to the limit of my body. Even so, my reaction speed is still 109?"

"Of course!" Zhou Qi said. "Human neural responses rely on electrical currents to transmit signals. The eyes receive a signal and send it to the brain, then the brain makes a judgment and issues an order, and the signal travels to the hand. All of that takes time!"

"Where I come from, the scientific community generally believes that the limit of human reaction speed is 100 ms. But in reality, no one can reach that limit!" Zhou Qi said. "To surpass it, you would have to practice the legendary Ultra Instinct!"

"Ultra Instinct?" Koshiro paused. "What kind of technique is that?"

"A technique that exists only in fantasy!" Zhou Qi said. "It supposedly lets the subconscious spread throughout the body make its own judgments when danger appears, without needing to pass through the brain. Since one step is removed, a person's reaction speed gains an unprecedented boost!"

"Isn't that muscle memory?" Koshiro asked. "When swordsmanship has been mastered to the limit, one can use a sword technique before the mind has even reacted when facing danger!"

"It is muscle memory, but it means every muscle throughout the entire body has muscle memory!" Zhou Qi said. "And swordsmanship is limited to only a few sets of moves..."

"That's true..." Koshiro nodded, wondering whether it was possible to fill every part of the body with muscle memory.

Difficult, very difficult!

Even one sword technique required a tremendous amount of time to practice until the body moved before thought. Not to mention every muscle in the entire body.

But with enough lifespan and enough time, it might be worth trying.

"Right, today's testing subject is Tashigi. Let's hurry on to the next item!" Zhou Qi recorded the reaction speed result as well.

"The final item: strength!"

"Strength is divided into two categories: pulling force and grip strength!" He had wanted to add weightlifting, but without professional training, it was easy to get hurt, so he decided against it.

Dynamometers and grip strength testers, on the other hand, were everywhere.

Zhou Qi handed Tashigi an electronic dynamometer. "Use all your strength. Pull it to your limit!"

Tashigi took the dynamometer. It was a device with an instrument in the middle and two pull rings on either side. The user held one ring in each hand, then straightened their arms and spread them apart with all their strength.

Tashigi spread her arms with all her might, but the dynamometer's upper limit was quite high. There was no way she could pull it to the limit.

"Fifty-five kilograms!" Zhou Qi glanced at the result and recorded the number.

There were no world competitions that measured it this way, so naturally there were no corresponding world records.

Mainly because this posture made it inconvenient to exert force. The final number would not be very high and would not excite the audience.

If the audience was not excited, no one would watch. And if no one watched, no one would hold such a competition.

Still, with that kind of strength, Tashigi should be able to draw a hundred-pound bow. That was still incredibly impressive.

"Ah!"

Zhou Qi had just finished writing when he turned around and saw that one of the dynamometer's pull rings had fallen to the floor, with a long wire trailing behind it.

As for the dynamometer itself, it was in Smoker's hand!

"I broke it!" Smoker's face was full of guilt. "How much was it? I'll pay for it!"

"It's fine. This thing wasn't expensive."

Still, Zhou Qi was speechless. The upper limit of this dynamometer was 150 kilograms!

But then he thought about it. Smoker was a Headquarters colonel, after all. His Doriki Value had to be at least two or three thousand. Pulling 150 kilograms was probably effortless for him.

"Don't bother trying this grip strength tester either. It probably can't measure your limits!" Zhou Qi handed the grip strength tester to Tashigi. "Here!"

The result came out quickly: 125 kg!

"Huh?" Zhou Qi was somewhat surprised. This time, she had not broken the world record!

The world record was 195 kg. Not only had she failed to break it, she was still far behind!

Even so, it was still incredibly impressive.

Zhou Qi had tested himself after buying the grip strength tester, and he had only gotten 53 kilograms.

Zhou Qi wrote down this result as well, then looked over the final overall results.

Speed: 9.45 seconds per 100 meters.

Standing long jump: 3.68 meters.

Reaction speed: 189 ms.

Pulling force: 55 kg.

Grip strength: 125 kg.

Overall, her speed and explosive power surpassed those of the very best humans. Her reaction speed was slightly slower, but still second only to the finest athletes, placing her in the second tier.

Her pulling force and grip strength could not compare to those strongmen weighing hundreds of pounds, but if a weight class were created based on Tashigi's body weight, she could still win the championship with utterly crushing results.

In short, she was superhuman, but not completely superhuman.

Next came testing her stats after eating a Devil Fruit.

Zhou Qi handed the Devil Fruit to Tashigi. "Go ahead!"

"Okay!" Tashigi looked at the Mera Mera no Mi before her, which resembled a Fire Dragon fruit, and swallowed slightly. She looked around, but the three grown men did not seem to have prepared a fruit knife for her.

Then she could only bite into it!

Tashigi buried her face in it.

"It tastes awful!"