154: Chapter 154 Attention from the Dragon Roar Holy Academy

"I, I actually pulled out a super red..."

Song Jiaojiao's pretty face was illuminated brilliantly by the gorgeous and dreamy [flower of eternity] before her, and after seeing that the item she pulled out turned out to be a three-by-three super red,

she was almost so excited she could suffocate.

Almost in an instant, she immediately thought of something.

"Chu Hong, quick, quickly put the item away, let's evacuate quickly!"

The moment after the excitement passed, a strong sense of fear, like a flood surging over the walls of her heart, instantly turned Song Jiaojiao's face pale.

The calves beneath her mage robe trembled faintly.

Even the surrounding Palino Bio-Group researchers, who had turned a blind eye to their actions all along and looked like mere textures, became alert.

"W-Will they suddenly attack us? Looking at the item's description, it seems that this faction called Palino Bio-Group has been looking for this thing all along..."

Song Jiaojiao gripped her staff tightly, preparing herself at any moment to deal with a sudden attack.

How could Chu Hong not be nervous or excited?

A thirteen-million nine-grid super red!

In his memory, the most expensive [heart of the overlord] he had previously pulled out from the [Cliffside Epidemic Hospital] was only twelve million.

Chu Hong directly put the item into his own backpack.

Nowadays, he indeed urgently needed various red collectibles to enhance his strength.

He wouldn't be polite or decline this kind of thing either.

However.

"I will compensate you later."

Looting materials really involved some metaphysics; he had looted a dozen or so "scratch cards" without opening a single red item, yet Song Jiaojiao looted just one and opened it right up.

And it was even a super red like the [flower of eternity]!

"There still seems to be a team camping the extraction point in the match..." Song Jiaojiao reminded him with full of worry.

Chu Hong nodded.

Without even needing Song Jiaojiao's reminder, at this moment he completely stopped pretending.

The [cobweb brain-computer interface] display cabinet effect was activated.

In an instant, all biological activities within a radius of one thousand meters were taken in by him at a glance.

Meanwhile, halfway up the mountain near the already collapsed [Ecological Observation Tower], several figures were crouching within the bushes, divided into two groups.

One group was camping the conventional extraction point.

Another group had already set up sniper rifles aimed at the newly appeared helicopter extraction point in front of the [Waterfall Cave].

Such a huge commotion happened in the secret realm, yet instead of evacuating, they still wanted to continue camping the extraction point?

They really loved whatever trade they were in...

A cold glint flashed in Chu Hong's eyes.

If it were any other time, he might have exchanged experiences on camping extraction points with these "disciples and grandchildren," but now, carrying a super red, he truly didn't want any mishaps to happen.

Inside the [Waterfall Cave], BOSS Cliff Yang stood with his hands behind his back, watching the group's staff collect valuable research materials within the cave.

Upon seeing Chu Hong and the others, he didn't react at all either.

Until Chu Hong walked forward.

"Mr. Director, someone on the outer hillside is attempting to poach the group's assets..."

With a simple sentence, followed by reporting the positional information of this extraction-camping squad, a trace of red light instantly lit up within Cliff Yang's technological prosthetic eye.

He nodded faintly: "Rest assured, our soldiers will resolve all troubles."

Meanwhile,

above the [Waterfall Cave], halfway up the mountain.

Wearing ghillie suits and hiding in the bushes, the members of the squad whose sniper scopes were pointing at the helicopter extraction point were breathing somewhat hurriedly.

"This is a benchmark mission in the match! This team actually triggered a benchmark mission, and it looks like they even completed it..."

"Their harvest must be huge. Benchmark missions have a very high chance of dropping red-quality collectibles. As long as we keep them here, we'll make a fortune this wave!"

"A super red! With a red-quality collectible, entering [Source Energy University] directly gets you treated as a key cultivation target..."

Their thoughts were quite wonderful.

In order to camp Chu Hong and the others coming out, they had even prepared themselves mentally for getting lost in the secret realm.

Even if they couldn't loot it, they absolutely could not let this squad take the super red out!

Jealousy is the original sin; sometimes it always makes people go to any lengths to cause trouble for the other party.

"They're coming! Someone's coming out!"

"There are three of them in total. In a moment, I'll snipe that fat guy, and the two of you lock onto your respective targets. Make sure to kill them in one hit..."

With a click, the bullet was chambered.

All three immediately entered a state of full concentration and shooting preparation.

However,

right at this moment, a faint white light coming from the edge of the sniper scope made their hearts tighten abruptly.

They hurriedly turned their heads to look.

Several sniper rifles were shockingly pointing at them from afar at this moment. The bright light emitted by those scopes made the hearts of several people seem to stop beating at that instant.

"Bang!"

And the very instant the gunshot rang out,

several heavy artillery pieces set up in the direction of the opposite pier suddenly opened fire with a boom.

Halfway up the mountain at the conventional extraction point,

fierce artillery fire instantly landed on those few people who had always thought they were hiding extremely well.

"F*ck! Are these people sick!? How could they even discover this!?"

...

"Material Score: 4552"

"Kill Score: 674"

"Elimination Score: 148"

"It's only the first day of the assessment, yet he's already leading by a massive fault line... Although there's the factor of camping extraction points, this kid named Chu Hong's strength is already completely incomparable to these novice Pioneers."

Assessment Supervision Office.

Inside the light screen floating above the huge conference table, a middle-aged man with meticulously combed hair and black-framed glasses, looking like a scholar, spoke.

Meanwhile, inside the Qianchongzhai Base City Secret Realm Examination Hall Supervision Office, even Kong Mingde wore a cautious and nervous expression on his face at this moment when facing this man much younger than him.

"Yes, Chief Long, currently Chu Hong's latest strength has broken through to the seventh stage of the Qiyuan Realm. Judging by his speed and activity efficiency after entering the secret realm... before the assessment ends, he might even improve by another stage."

The man nodded: "From activating source energy to taking the assessment now, one month's time to reach the eighth stage of the Qiyuan Realm is indeed good talent, but this initial skill..."

The man's brows knitted slightly after seeing Chu Hong's information.

The grade-less skill [Investigation].

This was basically no different from having no skill at all.

Kong Mingde hurriedly spoke: "Although the initial skill is grade-less and indeed quite low, since he managed to improve to the eighth stage of the Qiyuan Realm so quickly, he surely possesses extraordinary potential. Perhaps when he enters Source Energy University and completes his secondary awakening, he will awaken a very good secondary skill?"

However, hearing this, the man gently shook his head.

"Supervisor Kong, your thought is indeed correct, but after all, this is a probabilistic matter. From the current situation, Chu Hong being able to get this score indeed shows he has a certain talent in intelligence collection and integration, but I rather think that his two teammates, especially that fat guy with the [Stack] skill, played a higher role."

"The quota for the Ascending Dragon Class is limited; let's observe a bit longer for now."

"This..." A look of regret instantly appeared on Kong Mingde's face, and Jiang Xingdong also wore an expression of disappointment.

However, right at this moment, on the real-time scoring light screen of Chu Hong in front of several people, the numbers suddenly jumped again.

"Material Score: 6021"

"Kill Score: 697"

"Elimination Score: 148"

The sudden change startled everyone at first, and then when they clearly saw that the material score had instantly increased by over a thousand, everyone successively took a sharp breath of cold air.

"This, this is tens of millions of source energy points in a single match... They hit a drop?!"