No miracles, but do you want a scare?

"Here they come!" Zhao Yan grunted.

However, in the next second.

The pupils of both of them contracted sharply, and then the light in their eyes dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The golden ID [No Need to Say More], which they had placed their hopes on and had topped the charts yesterday, had disappeared.

It was replaced by foreign names.

[1st Place: Aurelia Alice (Eagle Country)]

[Location: Weird Island (S-class)]

[Record: Killed Wandering Corpse (E-class) x 42]

[Points: 4200]

[2nd Place: Muraguchi Nissuu (Cherry Blossom Country)]

[Location: Weird Island (S-class)]

[Record: Killed Shadow Person (D-class) x 1, Killed Corpse Wolf (E-class) x 29]

[Points: 3400]

Looking at the top ten, almost all of them were names from Eagle Country and Cherry Blossom Country.

That string of foreign words and kana names felt like a series of slaps, fiercely striking the faces of the two men.

Only two names were struggling to hold on.

[9th Place: Huaxia First Deep Affection (Huaxia Country)]

[Location: Weird Island (S-class)]

[Record: Killed Hanged Ghost (C-class) x 1, Wandering Corpse (E-class) x 4]

[Points: 1900]

[10th Place: Yekaterina (Su Country)]

[Location: Weird Island (S-class)]

[Record: Killed Butcher Ghost (C-class) x 1, Wandering Corpse (E-class) x 3]

[Points: 1800]

Looking further down, the bottom ten were even more horrific.

[11th Place: Yang Wei (Huaxia Country)]

[Status: Deceased]

[Location: Weird Island (S-class)]

[Record: Killed Elemental Scarecrow (D-class) x 2, Weird Scarecrow (E-class) x 6]

[Points: 1600]

Note: After death during the novice period, rewards will be transferred to recognized and surviving companions.

[18th Place: Stocking Bandit (Huaxia)]

[Location: Weird Island (S-class)]

[Record: Killed Weird Infant (E-class) x 10]

[Points: 1000]

The remaining spots were almost entirely taken by the Cherry Blossom Country and the Eagle Country.

"Finished."

Zhao Yan's body went limp, as if his spine had been removed. He collapsed heavily onto the Chair.

He painfully covered his eyes, no longer wanting to look at the despair-inducing Rankings. A long sigh echoed through the office:

"No Need to Say More... gone."

"A flash in the pan, truly a flash in the pan..."

"Although Yang Wei surged to 11th place, the result still showed 'Deceased'!"

"That Stocking Bandit is also about to fall out of the top twenty."

Despair.

A deep sense of powerlessness enveloped the iron-blooded soldier.

Suddenly, Zhao Yan took a deep breath and grabbed an Alloy Battle Saber from the wall.

"Damn it! Those strategists and their Crow's Mouth!"

"I'm going to go chop them up! Whatever they say, happens!"

"Old Zhao! Sit down!"

Wan Changzheng slammed the table and roared, "Are you the Chief of Staff or am I?!"

"What kind of Boss tells his second-in-command not to attack someone?!"

"Put the saber down! Don't show off your Donkey Temper here!"

Yelled at by his old superior, Zhao Yan gritted his teeth, his chest heaving violently, and finally, resentfully, threw the saber back onto the table.

"Clang!"

He slumped back into the chair, staring blankly at the ceiling.

"Sir... what do we do now?"

"Are we just going to watch those Foreign Devils shit all over us?"

"They cheat with firearms, and our people have to fight them with their bare hands?"

Wan Changzheng fell silent.

He wanted to say something, but found his throat felt blocked.

In this dead silence.

"Click."

The office door was pushed open.

The sound of High Heels clicking on the floor echoed.

A woman in a white coat, with neat silver-white long hair, walked in.

She was tall, with a cold and stunning aura like an iceberg, holding a tablet computer.

Seeing the newcomer, Zhao Yan's temper flared up again.

Because this woman was the leader of that bunch of "crow's mouths."

Chief of the Base Think Tank, Chief Engineer of the Research Institute, Shen Lian.

She was a true genius, a graduate of the National Defense Science and Technology University!

Three years ago, she transmigrated and awakened the A-Class Mental System Supernatural Ability [Supernatural Brain]!

Possessing Thinking Computing Power comparable to a Supercomputer.

But none of that was important.

What was important was that this woman's mouth was even more formidable than her brain.

Zhao Yan still remembered their first meeting, when this woman told him Expressionless.

"Chief Staff Officer Zhao, with your Brain Capacity and Muscle Density Ratio, I suggest you switch careers and become an Assault Trooper."

"Making you a staff officer is an insult to the profession."

Zhao Yan had almost suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on the spot back then, and he held a grudge to this day.

"Chief Engineer Shen."

Wan Changzheng quickly restrained Zhao Yan, who was about to explode, gave him a look, and then looked at Shen Lian helplessly:

"Don't mock Old Zhao. He almost had High Blood Pressure just now."

"This time... consider us defeated, alright? Your Think Tank wins."

Wan Changzheng said with a wry smile.

This Shen Lian was good in every way, except that she was serious, competitive, and had a venomous tongue that always hit people's weak spots.

However.

To the surprise of both of them.

Shen Lian did not adopt a victorious posture. Instead, she gently shook her head.

"No."

"No what?!"

Zhao Yan was furious and pointed at Shen Lian's nose, scolding her.

"Little girl! Don't push your luck! I'm only tolerating you because you're talented!"

Shen Lian looked at the enraged Zhao Yan, still expressionless.

"You've misunderstood, Old Zhao."

She bowed slightly. "Actually... I've come to apologize."

"Apologize?"

The two were startled and looked at each other.

"Your judgment was accurate; I made a mistake."

"My model's prediction failed completely."

Shen Lian's voice remained cool.

"What is this all about?"

Zhao Yan was bewildered. "Didn't No Need to Say More disappear already? He's not even on the Rankings anymore, so what are you apologizing for?"

As they were confused, Shen Lian cut to the chase and walked forward.

She placed the tablet computer in her hand on the desk in front of them.

"See for yourselves."

The two looked down.

The screen displayed a single data bar.

[Rank 9527: No Need to Say More (Huaxia Country)]

The air was silent for three seconds.

Then.

Wan Changzheng and Zhao Yan exchanged a look, both displaying the "old man on a phone" meme expression simultaneously.

"Chief Engineer Shen..."

Wan Changzheng's mouth twitched. "Are you treating us like fools?"

"Even though I'm an old man, and Little Zhao is almost sixty, we're not senile!"

Zhao Yan was even more amused and angry. "Yeah, this girl is too cunning, playing with us again?"

"Doesn't the Novice Ranking only show the top one thousand? And only the top twenty have detailed data. What the heck is this 9527?"

Facing the two people's doubts, Shen Lian expressionlessly pushed up her glasses.

"I never said this was the [Novice Ranking]."

"Also, I think you two might need to get your eyes checked, or perhaps get a new pair of reading glasses."

"You..."

Zhao Yan was so choked he almost couldn't breathe.

But he still suppressed his anger and leaned closer to the tablet, taking a careful look.

As he looked...

His gaze instantly froze on the golden title at the very top.

[Global BOSS Kill Ranking]

"What is this?!"

"BOSS Kill Ranking?!!"

With a "whoosh!" sound.

Wan Changzheng and Zhao Yan practically sprang up from their chairs, their backs straightening, their eyeballs about to stare out!

What was the concept of the BOSS Kill Ranking?

That was a ranking that gathered all the veteran transmigrators from around the globe!

The top combat forces from the major bases!

And even the old monsters who had lived in this world for N years!

Only those who had truly killed Lord-level Monsters were qualified to get on it!

Why... would a newcomer who had only been here for three days appear on this ranking?!

"This... this..."

Wan Changzheng's hands were trembling.

Seeing this, Shen Lian lightly tapped the screen with her slender fingers, opening the detailed information.

[Rank 9527: No Need to Say More (Huaxia Country)]

[Current Points: 10000]

[Bosses Killed: 1]

[Target Killed: Watcher Scarecrow (S-class BOSS)]

[Time to Kill: 59.9 seconds]

[Kill Record Time: Barbaric Calendar 1314, March 7th, 00:01 AM]

[Kill Scene Replay: Inquiring if you wish to display... Please wait.]

Wan Changzheng and Zhao Yan were completely stunned by the astonishing data.

Their mouths hung open, their gazes as vacant as a newborn's, their minds blank.

S-class...

An S-class BOSS?!

And within a minute...

No, within less than a minute, solo killed?!

It wasn't until Shen Lian picked up a cup of cold water from the table and poured a glass for each of them, forcing them to drink, that the two men managed to snap back to reality.

"Commander..."

Zhao Yan's voice trembled, tinged with a sense of existential doubt.

"Do you remember... what we were doing on the third day of arriving in the Barbaric Realm?"

Wan Changzheng stared blankly ahead, muttering, "Let me think... I think we were being chased all over the mountains by a pack of werewolves..."

"I even lost a shoe."

"So... what was the strength of those werewolves?"

"About the same as D-class enhanced humans... and they were just mobs."

As soon as she said this, both men fell silent.

Comparing oneself to others was infuriating.

This person, on their third day in the Barbaric Realm, with only a day and two nights having actually passed, had already crushed an S-class BOSS!

And back then, they were chased like dogs by D-class mobs.

"Commander..."

Zhao Yan swallowed, his tone filled with awe and fear.

"Although I don't want to say it like this, in the words of young people today..."

"I seriously suspect, did 'No Need to Say More' cheat?!"

"How the hell can he be so strong!!"

"It feels like in front of an S-class BOSS, he's the real BOSS!!"

Wan Changzheng was so excited he couldn't speak coherently, his hands trembling: "This... uh... I... this is a miracle!"

He didn't know what to say, but he knew one thing.

Today, the entire Barbaric Realm, and even the entire Blue Star, would not be peaceful.

Because the appearance of [No Need to Say More] had completely shattered the ceiling of this world's combat power perception!

Just as the two were still immersed in immense shock...

Shen Lian suddenly spoke again.

"So, gentlemen, he didn't fall off the Novice Ranking."

"It's just that the timing coincided with the third day, causing his name to be absent on the second day."

"Besides that..."

"This 'No Need to Say More' just chose to publicly release his [Kill Scene Replay]."

Shen Lian pushed the Tablet Computer forward, the corner of her mouth lifting slightly.

"There might not be a miracle, but do you want a scare?"