146: The results are announced, Hangzhou and Haikou are the top scorers!

“They’re here, they’re here! The long-awaited rankings are finally out.”

Hundreds of millions of people across the country almost simultaneously logged onto the official examination websites of various Base Cities to check the examination rankings.

For a moment, the servers of all major official websites almost simultaneously crashed.

“Damn it, the examination has been held for so many years, can’t the official website be more stable?”

“It’s clearly your phone that’s too crappy; get a new, leading-edge one.”

Amidst the complaints and discussions, many people managed to log into the website.

Hanghai Base City.

“Who do you think will be the Zhuangyuan this time? Jin Kailun or Ren Mingyuan?”

“I think it might be Fang Bingcong!”

“At the last moment of the examination, they teamed up to kill a Two-star Early Stage Demonic Beast, but who knows who ultimately got the points.”

“The points of the three of them are very close; whoever gets the points from that boss will be the undisputed Zhuangyuan!”

Jin Kailun, Ren Mingyuan, and Fang Bingcong were among the most outstanding Geniuses in Hanghai Base City this year.

Other Geniuses had already been pre-admitted by major top academies.

For many top Geniuses in Base Cities, participating in the examination was merely a waste of time.

Their Martial Arts Aptitude was sufficient for them to keep up with the progress of advanced Martial Dao academies ahead of schedule.

Therefore, they had already entered those top academies for further study.

They did not need to participate in the regular examination.

However, these individuals usually did not show themselves publicly.

Ordinary people would not know about their deeds.

Therefore, what most people cared about most was who was superior among these three.

But when they saw the person ranked first, everyone was stunned.

“One: Li Canglan, Points: 52666!”

Immediately, the Hanghai Base City forum exploded.

“Can anyone tell me, who exactly is this Li Canglan?”

“Fifty thousand points, where in the world did this Prodigy come from?”

“Damn, Fang Bingcong, who is ranked second, only has 10086 points, which is already higher than the scores of many Zhuangyuan in previous years.”

“This Li Canglan is four times higher than Fang Bingcong? Is he not letting anyone live?”

“I didn’t miss a single second of the examination live broadcast; I stayed up all night to watch the entire broadcast, but I didn’t see this Li Canglan.”

“At that time, Li Canglan’s name wasn’t on the leaderboard in the live broadcast room either, what exactly is going on?”

“Could it be that the Education Bureau made a mistake?”

“Do you think there’s a possibility that Li Canglan isn’t from Hanghai?”

“What do you mean, is Li Canglan from another Base City?”

“I mean, could he be a Genius from one of the satellite cities below?”

“Impossible, absolutely impossible! How could such a small place produce a Genius of this caliber?”

“It’s not that I look down on those satellite cities, but Sanyang and Luofeng satellite cities are simply too barren; there are no decent resources at all.”

“It’s much harder to produce a Genius in such a place than in Hanghai.”

“If this person came from a satellite city, I’ll livestream myself riding a five-speed electric fan!”

“Damn, are you trying to drive traffic to your live stream?”

“I bet a hundred, you definitely won’t livestream riding an electric fan!”

These citizens discussed while searching online for information about Li Canglan.

Then they found information that left them utterly bewildered.

“It’s actually a Genius examinee from the satellite city of Luofeng City?”

“But why can’t I find any videos of his performance in the examination online?”

Not only them, but also many principals of Base Cities and leaders from various sectors were full of doubts.

For example, the principal of Hanghai Elementary Martial Dao Academy.

Its name, bearing the name of a Base City, indicated the school’s status in Hanghai Base City.

Unlike Guo Kai, who was a Four-star Martial Master.

This principal, Zhou Xu, was a Six-Star Martial Master!

Fang Bingcong, Ren Mingyuan, and Jin Kailun were his students.

An unfamiliar face took the first place from his students.

Zhou Xu was naturally unconvinced.

Therefore, after seeing the rankings, he immediately called Lu Ye, the director of the Education Bureau.

“Director Lu, are you sure there’s no problem with these examination rankings?”

Lu Ye had already received several calls and was thoroughly annoyed.

His tone of voice was naturally not very good.

“Principal Zhou, are you perhaps questioning the fairness of our Education Bureau?”

Zhou Xu was startled; it was just a normal inquiry, no need to be so serious, right?

“Director Lu, please don’t misunderstand, I’m just curious, I’m not questioning the Education Bureau.”

Not only Zhou Xu, but many others also called the Education Bureau staff to inquire.

Lu Ye, having no choice, could only issue an announcement through the Education Bureau’s official website.

“Luofeng City suffered a spatial rift disaster and had to end the examination early; based on the early end time, all examinees’ scores will be doubled proportionally.”

“Due to the disaster, all monitoring and drone facilities were destroyed, so no examination videos can be provided.”

Upon seeing this announcement, the citizens finally understood why Li Canglan had such a high score.

Most people only cared about their own small concerns.

If it weren’t for Lu Ye’s announcement, they wouldn’t even know that Luofeng City had just experienced a spatial rift disaster.

“But even so, fifty thousand points is a bit too exaggerated, isn’t it?”

“Although I sympathize with the examinees of Luofeng City, I, on a personal note, question this unreasonable score.”

“All the videos are damaged, which means there’s no evidence, right? So they can just claim any score they want?”

These netizens were only questioning online.

Even if Lu Ye was strong, he couldn’t stop the endless chatter.

Normal examinations do indeed have live and recorded broadcasts.

Even if someone questioned, as long as the videos were presented, it would shut them up.

However, this disaster was too sudden.

All live broadcast equipment was destroyed.

For this city-wide live broadcast, only a portion of people took screenshots.

But no one would specifically record videos of the battle process.

Lu Ye was also helpless in this regard.

However, Director Zhou Bohao, who was supervising the examination in Luofeng City, was from their Education Bureau.

Lu Ye still had full trust in Director Zhou Bohao.

Even if they were to cheat, there’s no need to tell such an easily exposed lie.

If Li Canglan didn’t have real ability.

Entering a higher Martial Dao academy with such great honor would eventually be exposed.

At that time, he would only end up in a situation where he could never recover.

The admissions offices of those higher Martial Dao academies naturally understood this principle.

They directly decided to send people to Luofeng City for recruitment.

Whether it’s a mule or a horse, leading it out for a walk will make it clear.

Surely no examinee would say that practicing Martial Arts was their plan B, right?

If they truly had confidence, they would definitely not refuse their invitation.

If they refused, it meant they had something to hide.

They wouldn’t even need to refute the rumors; Li Canglan’s reputation would naturally be ruined.