Multiple Assessments

"Um..."

Lu Xin's answer left the old professors unable to react for a moment.

Fortunately, Chen Jing explained at this point, saying, "As for these figures, they were already very clear when he dealt with No. 041 special pollution source. We can skip the bullet-dodging test. After all, the professors only have limited time to stay in Satellite City No. 2, and we still have many things to test next, so everything should prioritize efficiency..."

The professors had no choice but to agree, shaking their heads and sighing one after another.

Lu Xin felt a chill run through him. What was with the look of regret on these old men's faces?

However, the tests that followed quickly drew all of Lu Xin's attention again.

Before the formal testing began, he had not expected there to be so many items to test.

After completing the firearms-related tests, Lu Xin cooperated with several other tests, including short-distance speed, bodily perception, high-complexity fine-movement memory and imitation, and even the seemingly impossible test of infiltrating a micro-space.

The results of every test were astonishing.

The astonishing part was mainly that they astonished Lu Xin himself.

During the hundred-meter sprint test, with Sister's help, Lu Xin ran one hundred meters in five seconds. He only felt that every muscle in his body had coordinated and worked together at that moment, allowing him to complete the entire distance in the most efficient state.

However, a big-bellied professor seemed somewhat disappointed by this. Shaking his head, he said, "This is your weakness!"

"A cheetah's top speed can reach one hundred meters in three seconds, but that's only an ordinary animal. Given that you can precisely control every bone and muscle in your body, you should be able to unleash even more astonishing speed. Of course, the human body isn't especially suited for short-distance bursts of power. You may need to figure out some adjustments of your own..."

"When Gecko was tested before, his best result was also 3.9 seconds, which was much faster than you..."

"So, why don't you try crawling?"

"..."

Lu Xin fell silent and refused. In the end, he only agreed to try it himself if he ever got the chance.

The reason was simple: it was too embarrassing!

The big-bellied professor expressed his regret with a slight shake of his head.

During the bodily perception test, Lu Xin could sit motionless and accurately name everything that touched his back, including its tactile path, the amount of pressure, and even its shape. During the high-complexity fine-movement memory test, Lu Xin could easily see through subtle and intricate movements and reproduce them with the help of his control over his body.

What surprised him most was the micro-space infiltration test.

How could he, standing 1.75 meters tall and weighing seventy kilograms, hide inside a wooden box only one foot square?

Yet Gecko could easily fit inside.

The key was that, with Sister's help, Lu Xin himself actually managed to get inside too.

When Lu Xin's legs hooked around his neck, his chest nearly pressed against his buttocks, his head almost completely shrank into his body, and his twisted arms left him curled into a ball, hiding in a cramped space in an extremely awkward position, Sister said with a giggle, "Big Brother, have you forgotten? Back when Father used to hit me, I could hide inside the room's ventilation duct."

Sister spoke to Lu Xin with a giggle, showing off that she could do even better.

Still, not every test went smoothly. For example, during one of them, an old professor held a knife that looked extremely sharp and gestured toward Lu Xin a few times as he explained, "In theory, a Spider-type ability user should be able to control the muscles around a wound to close it after being injured, preventing excessive bleeding and even accelerating the wound's healing..."

"So, if you don't mind, shall I make a cut on your arm first?"

"..."

Faced with Lu Xin's firm refusal, the professor put away the knife with a look of regret.

Lu Xin felt extremely bewildered. You're a researcher—how can you be so passionately fond of playing with knives?

"..."

During a telekinesis test, a researcher with thick, jet-black hair and a white lab coat sneakily bit into an apple, then ran three or four meters away and said to Lu Xin, "In theory, every Mental Mutant should have developed telekinesis. In fact, as long as one's mental strength exceeds sixty units, telekinesis will emerge. The only difference is its strength."

"Most ability users can't directly use telekinesis. They only use it to sense other mental powers and evade attacks!"

"Your telekinesis was observed long ago. Come on, make an effort and bring this apple over..."

"..."

Lu Xin sat in a chair while a circle of people watched him.

After sitting there for quite a while, Lu Xin finally looked helplessly toward Sister.

"I'm your sister, not your employee..."

Sister ran back and forth across the ceiling, bored and completely uncooperative. "It would be one thing if you were in danger, but nothing's happening now. Why should I stupidly fetch an apple for you? Now, if you wanted me to pull off his wig..."

As she spoke, her eyes lit up as she fixed her gaze on that thick, jet-black hair.

In the end, Lu Xin helplessly chose to give up again.

He warned Sister with his eyes not to get any ideas about the man's wig, while also discovering a problem...

So this professor was bald too...

"Do you need to rest for a day and undergo the corresponding tests tomorrow?"

After completing the various ability tests, blood draws, sample storage, and other procedures, Chen Jing came to Lu Xin's side and asked with concern.

Lu Xin was slightly startled. "What else is there?"

Holding a folder in her arms, Chen Jing smiled and said, "The tests afterward will determine whether you have the potential to uncover any other abilities."

Lu Xin hesitated. "Can these be skipped?"

Chen Jing watched his expression and smiled. "Yes. In that case, you only need to take the final test!"

Unexpectedly, the final test was merely a conversation.

A middle-aged woman in a white lab coat who looked gentle and kind chatted softly with Lu Xin for more than half an hour.

"This should qualify as C-class, right?"

At that moment, in another office, several old professors were rapidly organizing their data. Unlike their usual smiling, kindly appearances, they all looked solemn now, carefully checking or calculating the series of data that had just been obtained. Some of their expressions grew increasingly grave, while others even looked somewhat feverish...

After they had organized the data for a while, a pot-bellied, bald old man sighed and said, "C-class?"

A bald man in a white lab coat repeated the words. He chuckled quietly and said, "The ability is C-class, but the potential..."

"How did the psychological test go?"

As they murmured among themselves, the psychologist in a white lab coat walked in while flipping through a folder.

The entire office suddenly fell silent.

Everyone raised their heads to look at her, as if her report were even more important than all the other assessment reports combined.

"There's a major problem..."

After a while, the psychologist in the white lab coat slowly spoke.

"What problem?"

Everyone grew visibly tense.

"Too normal!"

Only after a while did the psychologist give her answer. "He's practically more normal than I am..."