Chapter 159 I Don't Want to Be Optimized!

Li Mengyao spread her hands: "What are you thinking? With 370,000 people, only the top one hundred can get rewards! The probability is even lower than winning the lottery!"

Wang Mengmeng scratched her head: "Is it possible for our team to make the list? Brother Yu is so amazing!"

Shen Qingci shook her head: "Take a look at the regional chat..."

Everyone opened their chat boxes one after another and switched to the [regional chat] channel.

Surprisingly, everyone was talking about this too.

Messages were still scrolling rapidly, but they were much clearer than before.

[Zhao Tiezhu: As long as there is one team in our zone that consistently makes the list, then... at worst, we can get two hundred units of random building materials. That's 1,400 a week!]

[Lin Xiaolu: Yes, yes, yes! I was just about to say that! When one person succeeds, the whole team benefits!]

[Zhou Mingyuan: In our school, the one most worth looking forward to is the murderer, right? He's the most terrifying one...]

[Sun Qiaoqiao: Indeed, if the murderer can make the list, we can follow along and have some soup.]

[Zhang Dabiao: What are you thinking? I don't doubt the murderer's strength, but have you seen any of the girls in their team take action?]

[Li Mei: It seems this murderer is also a lecher; he doesn't look for strong partners at all, just brings a bunch of eye candy every day.]

[Wang Tiezhu: Are you tired of living?! How dare you talk about the murderer like that?!]

[Li Mei: I'm already on Road to Survival, and he can't catch me, so what's there to be afraid of?]

Wang Mengmeng looked at these messages, her face turning red with anger: "Who are you calling eye candy?!"

Li Mengyao pulled her: "Shh, don't make a scene."

Shen Qingci smiled: "Let them talk."

Wang Mengmeng muttered: "I'm clearly a massage instrument! In the apocalypse, when it comes to relieving fatigue, I'm the best!"

Zuo Shi shook her head helplessly, glancing at the scrolling messages: "But they are right about one thing. Among 370,000 people, there are surely not a few S-tier Talents. In our team, only Chen Yu and the Class Monitor meet the standard..."

"In other words, we are dragging Chen Yu down?"

Wang Mengmeng looked at everyone with a mournful face.

Shen Qingci leaned back in her chair: "Don't look at me. I'm S-tier, so I don't really count as dragging him down, right?"

Zhang Wanyue said calmly: "I am A-tier."

Deng Yuxin nodded along and whispered: "I'm A-tier too."

Yang Kexin turned back from the driver's seat: "I have Equipment Manufacturing, A-tier, so I shouldn't be dragging him down either."

Li Mengyao coughed: "I'm B-tier, Camouflage, but I have obtained a prototype machine..."

Zuo Shi put her arm around Lu Xiaoyu and added leisurely: "I'm A-tier, and Xiaoyu is also A-tier."

Qiao Xi leaned back in her seat, eyes closed: "S-tier Perception, don't count me."

Wang Mengmeng looked left, then looked right.

Looked left.

Looked right.

The carriage was quiet for two seconds.

Wang Mengmeng pointed at herself: "I'm the one dragging everyone down?! I, with 5.1 vision, am dragging down the whole team?!"

Deng Yuxin couldn't help but laugh: "Hahahaha..."

Zuo Shi laughed until she leaned on Lu Xiaoyu: "Xiaoyu, if you want to laugh, just laugh, don't hold it in, hahahaha..."

Wang Mengmeng: ???

Lu Xiaoyu, huddled next to Zuo Shi, couldn't help but laugh, then quickly covered her mouth.

Wang Mengmeng glared at her: "Xiaoyu, you're laughing at me too?"

Lu Xiaoyu's face turned red, and she shook her head frantically.

Wang Mengmeng snorted, rolled her eyes, and quietly leaned towards Zhang Wanyue.

"Class Monitor."

"Hmm?"

Wang Mengmeng lowered her voice, acting mysterious: "You gave the massage last night, so it should be my turn today, right?"

"Bu... but I already agreed with Chen Yu, today..."

Wang Mengmeng's eyes widened: "Agreed? What did you agree on?"

Zhang Wanyue pursed her lips: "It's just... agreed that today also..."

Wang Mengmeng asked in surprise: "Class Monitor, you wouldn't really... have given a pretty good massage, would you?"

Zhang Wanyue was silent for two seconds. Then she nodded gently: "Something like that."

Wang Mengmeng's sense of crisis hit its peak.

She grabbed Zhang Wanyue's arm: "Class Monitor! Save me! I don't want to be optimized! You can't teach the apprentice and let the master starve!"

Zhang Wanyue: "..."

Wang Mengmeng looked bitter: "You are all S-tier or A-tier, and I'm the only D-tier! And Class Monitor, you have an A-tier strategic Talent, Brother Yu definitely won't get rid of you... Just let me go tonight~~~"

Zhang Wanyue looked at Wang Mengmeng's pitiful appearance and sighed helplessly: "Alright, I'll tell Chen Yu tonight."

"Hmm."

Wang Mengmeng hugged her: "Class Monitor, you're the best!"

Although the other women didn't know what Wang Mengmeng was whispering about, they could guess roughly.

Chen Yu sat in the back and waved his hand: "Alright, forget about making the list. It has nothing to do with you. Our team has too few people, and our overall level doesn't reach the top tier."

"Ah?" Wang Mengmeng was stunned: "Our team has ten people, it's full, is that still too few?"

Chen Yu shook his head: "Full is full, but strength is strength. The Vehicle comprehensive rating looks at the whole picture. The number of people is definitely a standard for measurement. Moreover, some organizations start with twenty or thirty people, and invitation cards are only issued to those with A-tier and S-tier and above..."

Zuo Shi frowned: "Twenty or thirty people? How big must that Vehicle be?"

Chen Yu explained: "Maybe it's a bus, maybe it's a modified truck."

Wang Mengmeng scratched her head: "Then we should recruit people too, aren't there plenty of people on this road? And we have invitation cards..."

Zhang Wanyue shook her head: "It's easy to recruit people, but what abilities they have, whether they will drag us down, and whether they can be trusted are all factors that can easily lead to unpredictable consequences..."

Chen Yu nodded, before he could say anything.

Outside the window, the sound of rain suddenly changed.

Just a moment ago it was a light drizzle, but now it had become dense.

The frequency of the wipers increased significantly, and before the water scraped across the glass could flow away, a new layer covered it.

Yang Kexin gripped the steering wheel and leaned forward: "The rain is getting heavier."

"Yeah, it's getting heavier and heavier."

"What's going on..."

"Never mind that for now, when will that leaderboard actually..."

[Vehicle Comprehensive Assessment Initiated]

[Calculating]

[The following are some dimensions —]

[Vehicle Basic Performance: Space, structure, environmental control, power system, etc.]

[Passenger Team Quality: Number of people, Talent level distribution, Talent diversity, actual combat power, etc.]

[Combat and Survival Potential: Offensive Talent, Defensive Talent, Support Talent, Reconnaissance Talent, etc.]

[Historical Mission Performance: Mission completion rate, survival record, special event handling, etc.]

[Equipment and Material Reserves: Number of items, item rarity, weapon strength, etc.]

[Special Assessment Factors: car owner strength, team cohesion, potential risks, etc.]