97: Chapter 97 Unified Examination (Part 8)

Shi Yuanlong and the others looked at each other, wanting to say something but hesitating.

Shi Yuanlong: "The issue in Venue 88 hasn't been clarified yet. Isn't it a bit reckless to connect several exam venues together now?"

Just moments ago, a drone had discovered many candidates' corpses inside Venue 88.

Upon observation, these students had all died from having their flesh and blood drained; it clearly wasn't the work of the fierce beasts in the exam venue.

The security personnel in the monitoring room concluded that unidentified individuals had entered the exam venue and attacked the candidates.

Si Yueze had ordered strict monitoring of Venue 88, insisting that the perpetrator must be found.

Yet, having just turned around, he was now planning to connect dozens of exam venues. Wouldn't doing this be akin to releasing a tiger back into the mountains?

Furthermore, night was about to fall. Connecting the exam venues meant the start of the battle for dominance between venues; wouldn't that increase the pressure on the candidates even more?

Facing the questions from these university admissions officers, Si Yueze did not respond. He simply signaled for the proctors in the monitoring room to open the teleportation devices for each venue and use the scoreboards to mark the location of every student.

In this way, candidates from different venues could find their teammates or opponents based on the coordinates on the scoreboards.

After all, at the very beginning, the proctors had already stated that candidates could also plunder points from each other.

"I originally intended to save this for the end, but since everyone's enthusiasm is so high, we might as well serve this grand finale dish directly."

The corners of Si Yueze's mouth curled upward; he couldn't wait to watch the show.

In the exam venues, the candidates who were originally resting quietly suddenly exploded into chaos.

They only heard continuous prompts coming from the scoreboards: "The teleportation arrays leading to each exam venue have been opened, and the location coordinates of all candidates will be displayed on the scoreboards. Please seize the opportunity, candidates."

Tang Mo vaguely felt that this matter had to do with the candidates crazily farming the fierce beast nests today.

"This person in charge of the Unified Examination is quite cunning. No sooner had the hidden fierce beast nests been cleared than he immediately thought of another way to eliminate candidates. He is truly twisted!"

Wang Kaiwen's position on the leaderboard had already dropped to the top forty, and he felt somewhat let down by this.

Moreover, it was almost night, and at that time, all candidates would not only have to guard against attacks from fierce beasts but also against sneak attacks from candidates in other venues.

Thinking of this, many protective shields lit up in the exam venue in an instant.

In this situation, self-preservation was the wisest choice.

If one were really sneak-attacked by a candidate from another venue, not only would they be eliminated, but their points would also be plundered, and all their previous efforts would be in vain.

It was better to give up early and preserve one's own score.

Although using a protective shield would mean losing the qualification to continue the exam, the score would still be retained.

Inside Venue 88, on an empty sand dune, Zhao Wenwu's chilling voice came from under his black windbreaker:

"Heh heh heh... Heaven is truly helping me!"

"They must have already discovered the corpses of those candidates. As long as I mix into other exam venues, no one will be able to find me!"

"Tang Mo, you just wait. Blood for blood; I will make you pay ten times, a hundred times the price!"

Inside Venue 33, Zhu You, with his fiery red hair, was overjoyed after receiving this news and immediately wanted to set off for other venues.

Ji Lianlei said somewhat worriedly: "Wouldn't that be too risky? With our current scores, even if we don't go to plunder others' points, we can safely enter the top five universities."

Guan Yushi nodded upon hearing this. "This Unified Examination is simply crouching tiger, hidden dragon. Blindly engaging in combat with other candidates is indeed too risky."

Zhu You, Ji Lianlei, and the others were all from the same middle school. After meeting in the exam venue, they had gone together to clear two fierce beast nests and gained quite a few points.

Every time they wiped out a fierce beast nest, Zhu You contributed the most and took the most points. He was currently fifth on the leaderboard.

Ji Lianlei, Guan Yushi, and Feng Yuankai were ranked 190th, 220th, and 301st on the leaderboard, respectively.

Achieving such results among nearly a million candidates was already enough to be proud of, and entering one of the top five universities was almost a certainty.

Furthermore, whenever they thought of the first-place Tang Mo and the second-place Zhao Wenwu and the others, Ji Lianlei and the others felt a sense of trepidation.

They were especially clear about Tang Mo's strength.

Now that there was another Zhao Wenwu, and the proctors had opened teleportation between exam venues, it was even more unsettling.

Ji Lianlei and the others just wanted to preserve their current results and were not very concerned about their ranking on the leaderboard.

But Zhu You cared.

As the recognized strongest Professional from Hai City No. 1 Middle School, he had been suppressed by others throughout this Unified Examination, and Zhu You felt very unhappy about it.

He would take the opportunity of the teleportation opening to compete with the other leaders on the leaderboard; otherwise, Zhu You felt that even if he got into Xiafu University, he would still have regrets.

Challenging the strong was Zhu You's favorite thing to do, and fighting with the strong made him unable to stop.

Seeing that their persuasion was ineffective, Ji Lianlei and the others stopped speaking.

There were many others who held the same mindset as Zhu You.

Wen Xuefeng, Bian Zimo, Fang Hao, and others had all gathered groups of their own people, planning to go to other exam venues to challenge others.

Sure enough, before it was even dark, many students from other exam venues began to teleport to other venues.

However, everyone seemed to have a tacit understanding not to choose Venue 26.

Because Tang Mo was there.

Even a warlike person like Zhu You did not come directly to challenge Tang Mo; most others still wanted to find someone to practice with first.

Tang Mo was not having it. What was this? Banding together and not letting him play? If they wouldn't let him play, he would just show up at their door himself.

Tang Mo directly locked his target onto the second-place Zhao Wenwu. "If I'm going to do it, I'll do it big. Once this job is done, my points will be completely secure, and then I can go directly to hunt fierce beasts with awakened bloodlines."

After saying goodbye to Tu Xiaoxia and the others, Tang Mo used the scoreboard to teleport directly to Venue 53.

According to the scoreboard, Zhao Wenwu had already arrived at this venue in advance.

"Huh? This teleportation function actually has a thirty-minute cooldown?"

After arriving at Venue 53, Tang Mo was surprised to find that teleportation between exam venues was not something one could do at will.

There was a cooldown time required to teleport from one exam venue to another.

Tang Mo inwardly complained about the twisted humor of the designer; this was clearly meant to make candidates cannibalize each other.

Imagine, if a candidate from another venue entered your exam venue, then their purpose was very clear.

This could be said to be a provocation, and also a challenge, to the candidates of an exam venue.

I'm afraid that any Professional with a bit of spirit and strength would directly start fighting with them.

However, the candidates in Venue 53 did not come to challenge him.

It wasn't that they lacked spirit, but with the top two on the leaderboard both here, was there any point in struggling?