Is This an Assessment?

"Hello? Uncle Zheng?"

In the car, Lin Mo received a call from Zheng Heping.

"Little Mo, I... thank you."

Over the phone, Zheng Heping hemmed and hawed for a long while before finally managing only a word of thanks.

"Uncle Zheng, what are you doing? Why are you being so polite with me? Who are we to each other? If we kept thanking each other, I'd probably have kowtowed myself stupid over all these years."

"You brat!"

Hearing Lin Mo's slick, unserious tone, Zheng Heping was amused into laughter.

"By the way, Little Mo, you awakened?"

"Huh? Haha, yeah. I accidentally awakened."

Caught off guard by Zheng Heping's sudden question, Lin Mo quickly laughed it off.

"You brat, you awakened and didn't even tell me. I only found out after getting home from work today."

"Haha, it happened so suddenly. I thought I'd go get certified, and it somehow turned out like this."

"Your awakening was too sudden. It doesn't make sense." Even now, Zheng Heping still felt as though he were dreaming. It did not feel quite real.

"Yeah, could it be because I drank the potion you gave me?" Lin Mo thought for a moment, then started spinning another tale.

"Huh? Could that be it?"

"Why not? I'd never had a Supreme Vitality Potion before. Maybe it triggered my awakening. Not long after I drank it, I felt something was wrong inside my body."

Lin Mo spoke with grave seriousness, making it sound as though such a thing had truly happened.

"Oh? This is the first time I've heard of something like that."

"Uncle Zheng, I won't talk anymore. We're almost at the Elite Camp. I'll contact you after I get settled."

Seeing that Zheng Heping seemed ready to get to the bottom of things, Lin Mo hurriedly changed the subject and ended the call.

"Alright, take good care of yourself at the Elite Camp. Call Uncle if anything happens."

"Okay."

After hanging up, Lin Mo let out a long breath.

"Hehe, Brother Mo, your lying skills aren't all that great."

At that moment, Lin Dabao's chubby, oversized face leaned over, grinning and waggling his brows.

Awakening after drinking a Vitality Potion? Who was he trying to fool?

"You brat, don't get so close. I'm not interested in men."

Lin Mo shoved Lin Dabao's fat face away and chose to ignore him.

Lin Dabao did not continue either.

Every Awakened had a different way of awakening, and each had secrets of their own.

After a while, Lin Dabao leaned over again.

"I'm saying, do you have some special hobby or something? Why do you keep getting so close?"

Seeing this, Lin Mo once again pushed the dead fatso away.

"No, listen to me." As he spoke, Lin Dabao looked around at the others, then furtively leaned close again.

This time, although Lin Mo frowned, he did not push him away.

"I'm telling you, listen for my signal later. And make sure to stick close to me."

"?"

Hearing the dead fatso's baffling words, Lin Mo looked at him with a face full of question marks.

What signal? Why did he need to stick close to him?

Was this fatso sick in the head?

Yet no sooner had that thought arisen than a screeching burst of brakes sounded out.

In an instant, the students who had been resting with their eyes closed were thrown sprawling in every direction.

"Go, stick close to me!"

Just as Lin Mo was puzzled, Lin Dabao's voice rang out.

The next second, Lin Dabao smashed the window with a single punch, shattering even the outer protective railing along with it.

Then his bulky body moved with astonishing agility, darting out in an instant.

Whoosh!

With no time to think, Lin Mo sprang out after him, full of confusion.

The moment he jumped out, Lin Mo discovered that among the twenty-five vehicles, many people had done just as Lin Dabao had—breaking through windows and running toward the nearby forest.

Boom!

As he was thinking, the two buses at the very front erupted with earthshaking explosions.

The entire vehicles were blown into two pieces, flames spreading in an instant.

"Ah! Help!"

"Run!"

Immediately afterward, densely packed black-clad figures appeared on both sides of the gorge ahead, weapons in hand as they charged this way.

"Enemy attack!"

The Military Department personnel traveling with the convoy shouted and immediately rushed forward to meet them.

A fierce battle erupted in an instant.

"What's going on?"

Even now, Lin Mo was still somewhat dazed.

"Lin Mo, why aren't you running?!"

Lin Dabao shouted at Lin Mo from afar.

Seeing that, Lin Mo immediately chased after him.

"What happened? Heretics?"

The first thing Lin Mo thought of was the Heretics.

He had heard that every year, the Heretics assassinated and hunted down geniuses and important figures from various places.

Had they become targets of the Heretics?

After all, the twenty-five vehicles here were filled with the geniuses of Southern Province.

"Yes and no. We'll talk while we run." Lin Dabao said this, grabbed Lin Mo, and ran.

Sure enough, despite Lin Dabao's hefty build, he was not slow at all.

"What exactly is going on? What do you mean, yes and no?"

"It's all staged!"

"Staged?"

"That's right. Do you remember Commander Lu's final words?"

"What words?"

"From this moment onward, the Martial Alliance Elite Camp's assessment has begun."

"Huh? You mean this is part of the assessment too? So those people who look like Heretics are all disguised? It's all for the assessment?"

"That's right!"

"Then if it's staged and meant for an assessment, shouldn't all the students unite and fight back?"

"Fight? This assessment isn't testing combat. Didn't you see that the weakest among them are Fifth Rank? There are plenty of Sixth-grade ones too. Look at those three on the mountaintop."

As he ran, Lin Dabao pointed toward the three figures atop the mountain peak on the left side of the gorge behind them.

"Those are... Seventh-grade?"

"That's right. With strength like that, what are you going to fight them with? Looking to get beaten up?"

"This... then what exactly are they assessing?"

"They're assessing whether we can hike through the wilderness to reach camp!" Lin Dabao rolled his eyes and continued.

"Huh?"

"Up ahead is the Star Beast Forest! Look again at the map we were given before departure. Our destination is north of the Star Beast Forest."

Lin Mo quickly took out the map and examined it as he ran.

Comparing the two, that was indeed the case.

However, their current location was nearly two hundred kilometers away.

And now that they had been driven in here, they could only reach it by passing through the Star Beast Forest itself.

Two hundred kilometers—even running at full speed on level ground would take several hours.

Not to mention that this was the Star Beast Forest.

Third- and Fourth-grade Mutant Beasts were everywhere inside, while Fifth-grade and even Sixth-grade Mutant Beasts appeared from time to time.

Deeper in, there were even King Grade Seventh-grade Mutant Beasts.

It was perilous in the extreme!

For a group of Third-grade Martial Artists to traverse two hundred kilometers through this place was practically as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

But they were all Awakened, their combat strength far surpassing that of ordinary Third-grade Martial Artists.

Naturally, the assessment set for them would be anything but ordinary.

"Damn, this is playing with our lives!"

After figuring everything out, Lin Mo could not help but curse.

At the same time, however, he looked at Lin Dabao in confusion.

This guy seemed to have known the assessment information beforehand.

"Don't look at me like that. I'm not interested in men either." At that moment, Lin Dabao looked at Lin Mo and grinned.

"Go to hell!"

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