DHMB - Chapter 3
Chapter 3
Rows of question marks surged out, filling the entire comment section.
This should be a moment worth remembering. The old hands, accustomed to slaughter and schemes, were actually bluffed by a girl who had just come of age.
While they were collectively protesting, Kai Yun had already successfully walked out of the mutated tree area.
However, leaving this place didn't mean safety; rather, the danger was just beginning.
The view ahead opened up, and the terrain also became more complex. It was filled with swamps indistinguishable to the naked eye, and pits hidden by bushes and weeds.
A typical team would have to slow down from this point on to avoid stepping into hidden traps or disturbing other enemies.
The livestream administrator wondered what Kai Yun would do next, vaguely feeling she might create another miracle, so he kept the main camera focused on her.
To his disappointment, Kai Yun didn't make any astonishing moves. She just stood there like an old monk in meditation, looking at the flat ground before her.
About a minute passed, and she didn't move at all.
The scene became awkward again. Viewers started asking if the stream was frozen.
The livestream administrator wanted to bang his head against the ground. He felt his salary for the month might not be enough to cover the deductions; he hadn't made such a mistake since graduating. Students from the Mobile University were truly incompatible with him.
What kind of situation was this?
He angrily tapped the keys, switching the view to the intense battle zone.
The center of the intense battle zone was indeed on Lei Kaiding. Because his team had pulled off a flashy move early on to firmly draw aggro, and then unfortunately missed the best escape opportunity, they were now under siege.
The background sound in the livestream room was filled with wailing and howling.
The administrator behind the screen laughed happily. This was the rhythm he was familiar with. He picked up his cup, and before he could even take a breath, his peripheral vision caught sight of Kai Yun moving.
His hand trembled, and he quickly switched the screen back. Kai Yun's posture, suspended in mid-air, reappeared on the main screen.
The viewers were still savoring the excitement of the melee when they suddenly saw a "bird-person" and were momentarily stunned again. After adjusting, they realized this person was actually that girl of unknown origin.
Seeing Kai Yun's Lightness Skill for the first time, they were instantly amazed, forgetting even the anger they had just felt.
Facing this swamp area, which was disguised and impossible to identify safe landing spots without special detection equipment, Kai Yun actually chose to break through by recklessly flying.
It had been many years since such a hero appeared in the Tournament. One should know that this long stretch of traps was fifty to sixty meters long. As a lone wolf, no one would come to save her. Even a tiny mistake could directly declare the end of her match.
The viewers held their breath, wanting to see how she would directly charge through the second test area.
However... there were no thrilling or difficult scenes. Time after time, she simply steadily and monotonously lifted her energy and moved through the air.
Perhaps because Kai Yun was slender and had excellent balance, when she spread her arms and moved up and down, it was like a light swallow flitting by, pleasing to the eye.
She controlled her landing points extremely well. To avoid stepping into the swamp traps constructed by the system, she only lightly tapped the stones that were visible with her toes.
The distribution of these stones also had a purpose. An average student's Lightness Skill, while maintaining forward momentum, could cover three to four meters, while students skilled in Lightness Skill might be able to consistently cover over four meters, with bursts reaching over five meters. This was also the basis for the Tournament's parameter settings.
The distance between the stones was generally between four and five meters, approaching five meters. Few people could leap across directly without resting. Coupled with the fighting and interference between candidates at that time, it was enough to make all the students take a bath in the mud and get dyed.
However, for Kai Yun... such a distance was nothing. Moreover, she seemed very familiar with this forest area. If this map hadn't been randomly generated before the start, everyone would have thought she had scouted the location beforehand.
"Whoa! Swallow Treading Skill?"
The invigilator's eyes lit up as he watched the screen, and he stroked his chin with interest.
This was a high-level Lightness Skill most favored by the Alliance military.
It was easy to use but difficult to learn; failing to learn it well was like drawing a tiger but ending up with a dog. Any high-level martial art was like this; besides effort and experience, talent was even more important.
Of course, talent determined the ceiling, while effort determined the floor.
He hadn't expected to see a student who could perform this skill to such a level in the university tournament. She was truly a dark horse. The subsequent stages probably wouldn't be difficult for her either.
The invigilator asked curiously, "In this era, are there still students who specialize in Lightness Skill?"
Amidst the viewers' astonishment, Kai Yun crossed the dangerous area in just a few leaps, without making a single unnecessary sound. The originally meticulously arranged traps posed no difficulty for her.
She was seen yawning, and without pausing to rest, she continued forward. It was as if this was just an ordinary test that couldn't even be called a challenge.
A "?" slowly appeared in the comment section again.
"Did they go easy on the Tournament this year? This isn't what I wanted to see!"
"Tell us! What's her background? Are all the students in this test area ringers?"
"This... it's over just like that?"
"Don't fool me, okay? I'm an old viewer, don't try to trick me like this!"
"Missy is too cool, right? Can we get a close-up of her face?"
"Why haven't I gotten her information yet? All the netizens this year should drop out and retake the course!"
The direction of public opinion quickly shifted, mixed with a lot of boos.
No! It's not like this!
The livestream administrator roared in his heart and switched the camera back to the intense battle zone. At this point, the candidates who had been lingering at the entrance had gradually moved the battlefield to the swamp trap area.
They fell into the mud as expected, pulling at each other, dedicated to mutual destruction, using various insidious moves for area damage.
Before long, everyone was covered like loaches rolling in muddy water, the only difference being that some sank and were never seen again.
"Damn! Is this map setting unreasonable? I can't fly across at all! After running all this way, where would I have the strength?"
"Someone pull me up again, give me another chance, I can still fight!"
"If I can't leave, none of you can either! Isn't failing together fun?!"
"This mud must weigh twenty pounds, damn it? Sanyao is getting more disgusting, they actually changed the parameters to deliberately make things difficult for me!"
The livestream administrator was almost moved to tears of joy.
This! These are normal candidates! These are the people who are genuinely competing!
The viewers looked at this miserable scene and suddenly couldn't bring themselves to mock.
What kind of poor little things are these? They probably couldn't imagine even in death that someone on the same map was using a different kind of cheat.
Thus, the subsequent livestream footage began to develop in a schizophrenic direction.
One moment it was like a peaceful stroll through time, the next it was a fierce, life-and-death struggle where you killed or were killed. Even the viewers were left speechless and choked up.
Finally, when more than half of the candidates were dead or injured, Kai Yun was the first to reach the finish line.
She used the nameplate on her chest to check in at the finish line, successfully earning 30 points for first place.
Generally speaking, 30 points was enough to safely pass the first round of selection.
"Oh!"
The invigilator watched her score shoot up to the top few places, and a feeling of extreme relief welled up. After being happy for a moment, he realized that Kai Yun wasn't from their school at all.
What was he so happy about then?
The invigilator still smiled.
Students who specialized in Lightness Skill were relatively few, but someone who could reach her level could play a particularly important role in the Tournament.
Excellent Lightness Skill plus outstanding looks should be enough for her to form a good team later on. Maybe she could even make it into the finals with the protection of her teammates.
His hand moved towards the upper right corner, feeling that the highlights of this test area should be over. The livestream administrator clearly had the same idea, as the screen had already been switched back to the main arena.
However, just as the invigilator was about to close the interface, the screen jumped and unexpectedly switched back to Kai Yun's perspective.
The invigilator inwardly complained, "Why is this camera administrator always so jumpy this time? Acting like he's never seen anything before, someone with this level really needs to be replaced."
He took a closer look and realized that Kai Yun, carrying her bag, was actually walking back towards the starting point.
Huh?
The invigilator's inner state could no longer be described as mere confusion.
A lone expert specializing in Lightness Skill, in a team competition, got ranking points but didn't withdraw. What was she trying to do? Go feed kills?
...Could it be that she didn't know you could withdraw from the match early?
Oh, yes, she was a Planet Inheritor. It wasn't strange for a Planet Inheritor to make any kind of common-sense mistake, no matter how big.
The invigilator sighed. He felt sorry for this champion who was about to meet her demise.
Kai Yun was, of course, thinking of going back to farm some more points. But she had been at the finish line for a while, and returning the same way might run into the main groups, so she chose a quiet side path halfway, to see if she could get lucky.
Sure enough, there was a straggling team.
Kai Yun heard footsteps and turned her head to look.
The two sides unexpectedly met head-on, with nowhere to hide. Then they stared at each other, wide-eyed.
She counted. The other side had six people.
Kai Yun thought fighting six at once was a bit dangerous, so she decided to find an easier target first. She consciously turned around and walked away, taking a detour.
"Stop!"
The other side immediately let out a thunderous roar.
It was hard to say if it was fate or just a narrow path, but it turned out to be Lei Kaiding's team.
They had just broken out of a group attack and were looking a bit disheveled at the moment.
"It's you, right?" Lei Kaiding said excitedly. "It must be you! You're the only one with long hair on the map! You bastard!"
Kai Yun tilted her head, looking at him in confusion.
Lei Kaiding said fiercely, "Don't look at me with those eyes! Do you think I'll pity you? There's no gender on the battlefield, your seduction won't work on me!"
Kai Yun: "..."
Lei Kaiding's teammates behind him shrugged at her, signaling her not to mind this idiot.
Lei Kaiding gritted his teeth, trembling slightly as he said, "If it weren't for you..." Dad would have already stood out and been ready to debut!
"And you think you can just leave like this?!"
Kai Yun asked blankly, "Who exactly are you?"
"You..."
Lei Kaiding's mouth hung open, his face showing an expression of being severely wounded. What was this called? Injured him, yet wanted to just walk away without even giving a smile?
His entire face darkened, and he said coldly:
"Draw your saber."
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