Li Yi opened his eyes and immediately felt countless eager gazes fixed on him.
Looking around, the others in his group wore equally bewildered expressions.
"Hahaha, looks like you ran into some major challenge at the end."
Sun Duxiu burst out laughing and bounded over from afar in two or three leaps.
His eyes darted around as he grinned.
"The expressions on your faces when you got kicked out didn't escape me. I've been watching you the whole time. Tell me, did you enter the third stage? What powerful enemy did you encounter?"
Li Yi was speechless. Sun Duxiu might have been easy to fool, but his stubborn single-mindedness had actually let him notice something.
Everyone in the group looked at Li Yi, so he smiled and said,
"That's right, we entered the third stage. Looking at all of you, don't tell me you still haven't figured out how to clear even the first obstacle of the second stage?"
Sun Duxiu choked for a moment before saying,
"Forget us. Class 2 is completely stuck at the second stage."
"Class 2 is that weak? Has anyone from Class 1 reached the third stage too?"
Li Yi asked in surprise.
"That's right. Class 2's strength is that their experts are distributed fairly evenly, so half their groups can reach the second stage. But that also means they're badly stuck there. Even the group led by their strongest, Yang Hao, couldn't break through the encirclement of four mechs."
"As for Class 1, they're great at clustering all their experts together."
"First-ranked Zhou Huoze, second-ranked Lin Susu, third-ranked Cai Zheng, plus sixth-ranked Lin Xian Xian and eighth-ranked Gou Wenyuan. Five top experts joined forces—their lineup was even fiercer than Fang Tao's group. They forced their way through an encirclement of six mechs at the