Assessment!

Today was a special day. After today, everyone's fate would be completely different!

Once everyone turned eighteen, they would receive one chance at Life Simulation. Life Simulation was not like the college entrance exam—if you did poorly on that, you could retake it. But once a Life Simulation failed, there would be no second chance!

Today, some people were destined to fail their Life Simulation and lose forever their chance to become Official Simulators.

Others would succeed in their Life Simulation, become Official Simulators, and soar to the heavens in a single step!

A huge plaza was surrounded by high walls. Powerful Simulators stood atop them, and the faint aura leaking from some of them was enough to warp the surrounding space.

At the entrance to the plaza, eighteen-year-old students entered under the guidance of their respective teachers.

The enormous plaza held nearly a hundred thousand people. Even though only a small number were talking, and they spoke softly, once there were enough people, what they thought were whispers could gather into a roar like mountains collapsing and seas howling!

Groups of two and three students spontaneously formed little circles across the plaza. Many wore excited expressions, their spirits soaring. Before failing, everyone believed they were the protagonist.

Others were filled with worry. These people had a clear understanding of their own abilities and knew that, with their capabilities, they likely had no chance of passing this simulation.

As time passed, fewer and fewer students entered through the gate. Finally, at a certain moment, the plaza entrance slammed shut!

Dense Runes lit up across the entire plaza. A group of powerful Simulators continuously poured in energy, and a beam of white light connecting heaven and earth shot into the sky, tearing open the firmament!

When the white light vanished, the vast plaza stood empty. All the students had disappeared without a trace.

"Ah, there are two hundred and eighty thousand senior students in Jiang City this year. I wonder how many will become Official Simulators."

Wu Chuan stood on the High Platform, looking at the empty plaza below, and could not help sighing.

The logistics director beside him, bald on top with a protruding beer belly, picked up the conversation. "I don't know about the others, but I do know that this year is already the best result in Jiang City First High School's history. Let's not go too far back—just the year before last, not a single student from Jiang City First High School became an Official Simulator."

Jiang City First High School's performance had been abysmal the year before last, infuriating Jiang City's upper management. They had directly carried out a complete overhaul of the school, and it was then that Wu Chuan had been parachuted straight into the position of principal.

A fawning smile appeared on the logistics director's fleshy face. "But this year, thirty-seven students from our school have already passed Life Simulation and become Official Simulators in just the first and second batches!"

"Even in the worst-case scenario, even if not a single student in this third batch becomes an Official Simulator, the combined number of Official Simulators from all the other schools in Jiang City still won't exceed our school's!"

"And our school's outstanding results would not have been possible without your contributions, Principal! Thanks to your tireless efforts and wise leadership, Jiang City First High School is going to make a huge showing before the higher-ups this year!"

"Bootlicker!"

The others beside them only realized it belatedly and hurriedly chimed in, while bitterly cursing in their hearts.

Damn it!

Why hadn't I thought of sucking up first?

How was this logistics director so fast and so practiced at it?!

"Not at all. Such results could not have been achieved without everyone's efforts. This honor belongs to all our teachers and students. I hope everyone continues to keep it up next year and strives to reach even greater heights!"

A smile appeared on Wu Chuan's face. Jiang City First High School's results this year were nothing short of dazzling.

Xia Country was vast—so vast that Chu Prefecture alone had a population of over four billion. Every year in Chu Prefecture alone, nearly sixty million students who had turned eighteen began Life Simulation.

Yet out of those sixty million people, fewer than ten thousand would ultimately stand out and become Official Simulators!

Jiang City was merely one of the lower-ranked cities among Chu Prefecture's thirty-some cities, with a permanent population of just over thirty million. Jiang City First High School was only one of Jiang City's seventeen Simulator academies.

One had to know that in previous years, only forty or fifty people in all of Jiang City could become Official Simulators!

But this year, Jiang City First High School had risen like a new force. Even without counting the third batch of students before them, thirty-seven had already become Official Simulators!

Many people were secretly overjoyed. This result was enough to move many positions across Jiang City up a notch!

"This logistics director isn't bad after all. Sure enough, judging people by their appearance is wrong." In the past, whenever Wu Chuan saw the logistics director's fat head and oversized ears, he could not help wondering how much money the man had embezzled. Now, the more he looked at him, the more pleasing he found him.

Outside the plaza, countless parents stood beneath the blazing sun, their faces full of unease. They seemed even more nervous than the students undergoing Life Simulation.

Among them were quite a few well-known, powerful Simulators from Jiang City, yet they too were as anxious as Ordinary People.

To them, even if their children did not become Official Simulators, their own strength could still ensure that their children lived well. They could even make their children as strong as some low-ranking Simulators.

But that was all. Only Simulators possessed an infinite future!

Among the anxious parents, one youth was especially eye-catching.

The youth's expression was simply too calm. His eyes were unfocused, as though he had drifted off.

"It's been eighteen years since I came to this world. Time really flies."

Wang Pan sat in a wheelchair and sighed inwardly.

"Pan'er, do you think your sister can become an Official Simulator?"

Zhang Yao rested her hand on the back of Wang Pan's wheelchair. It was unknown how many times she had asked this already.

"Mom, don't worry. My sister will definitely become an Official Simulator."

Wang Pan came back to himself, his expression gentle as he soothed a mother worried about her daughter's future.

"Your sister's goal since childhood has been to become an Official Simulator. If she fails this time, who knows how heartbroken she'll be."

"If you ask me, it's fine even if she doesn't become a Simulator. Living an ordinary life is not bad either. Being a Simulator is so dangerous."

Zhang Yao sighed. Everyone thought becoming an Official Simulator meant soaring to the heavens in a single step, but becoming an Official Simulator was only the beginning.

After becoming an Official Simulator, one could be considered a Ninth Rank Simulator. Simulator strength, from low to high, was divided into Ninth Rank through First Rank, followed by the Soldier Realm, Martial General Realm, Marquis Conferment Realm, Human King Realm...

While enjoying the benefits that came with being a Simulator, one also had to shoulder a Simulator's responsibilities.

Quite a few Simulators died every year for all sorts of reasons!

"Oh, right, Pan'er, how are you feeling? Are you uncomfortable anywhere? If you feel unwell anywhere, you must tell Mom..."

"It's so hot today. I told you to stay home, but you insisted on coming out with me."

Zhang Yao looked at Wang Pan with concern, her expression tense as she anxiously questioned him.

"Mom, don't worry. I'm fine. My body has always been like this. Haven't I lived this way all these years? I'm long used to it."

"Besides, today is the most important day of my sister's life. If I weren't here, Xiangxiang would nag me to death after she got home."

Wang Pan did not mind in the slightest, and his gentle smile remained unchanged.

"It's because your father and I are useless. We haven't been able to cure you after all these years."

Mist welled in Zhang Yao's eyes as she spoke through a choked voice.

Over the years, Zhang Yao and Wang Jun had gone to no small amount of trouble over Wang Pan's illness.

The Simulation Points spent on Wang Pan's treatment over the years were no small sum.

The Simulation Points spent over the years had left this family with a Sixth Rank Simulator struggling under an unbearable burden, and they had even accumulated considerable foreign debt.

"Mom, don't say that. Being able to be your son is already my greatest fortune."

Wang Pan was not lying. That was truly what he thought.

Wang Pan had long known that he was not Zhang Yao and Wang Jun's biological son.

For them to do so much for someone unrelated to them by blood, all Wang Pan felt was warmth and gratitude.

Perhaps Zhang Yao and Wang Jun believed they had hidden it well, but Wang Pan was a transmigrator, Born with Knowledge!

Wang Pan still remembered the first person he saw after he was born: his biological mother in this life.

She had been an incredibly beautiful girl of fifteen or sixteen. Yet when she looked at Wang Pan, her eyes were full of disgust, before she tossed him into the roadside greenery.

All Wang Pan could do was sigh, Young in years, but ruthless at heart.

It was precisely because Wang Pan had been abandoned in the freezing winter just after birth that it had already been too late by the time Zhang Yao and Wang Jun found him. Large parts of his body had necrotized.

Over the years, Wang Jun had exchanged Simulation Points for quite a few Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that nourished the body. Otherwise, Wang Pan would have died long ago.