Should he give up? Cheng Ming asked himself.
He was asking both himself and that voice—the voice of the mysterious girl.
She did not answer.
Cheng Ming was already beginning to retreat. His only goal had been to join the hunter corps, and now that he had achieved it, there was no need to continue this so-called combat assessment.
But at the same time, he recalled the mysterious girl's earlier demand—that he rush toward the most dangerous places on the battlefield. To take on the most dangerous missions, he had to demonstrate sufficient strength. If he entered the hunter corps with merely a passing score, he would likely only be assigned marginalized combat duties, making it difficult for him to stand out during encirclement operations.
Cheng Ming had always kept a low profile in his dealings with others, yet the mysterious girl wanted him to do the opposite. That left him deeply conflicted.
Before Cheng Ming could make a decision, G09 began to change.
With its back to Cheng Ming, its entire upper body lowered, and both arms touched the ground.
Then, the Anomaly tissue attached to its mechanical skeleton as "muscles" suddenly swelled, enlarging G09 several times over—in the blink of an eye, G09 transformed from a humanoid bioreactor into a beast-shaped robot.
"A gorilla?" Cheng Ming muttered softly as he looked at G09 on all fours.
"What form is this?" A gaunt male "interviewer," who appeared to be at least in his sixties and whose forehead was covered in deep wrinkles, turned to the burly man known as Instructor Meng. "I recall that G09's mechanical skeleton shouldn't support this degree of transformation, should it?"
"Gorillas, like humans, are primates, so they possess highly similar skeletal structures. When G09's mechanical framework was designed, a certain margin for transformation was