77: Chapter 77 Four-Digit Integrals

"I f*cking know that!"

Chen Mo exerted force with both feet, driving his shins straight into the road surface.

The armored personnel carrier, now reduced to just a frame, was flung high into the air, eventually crashing head-first in front of Zhang Lianqi.

"..."

Zhang Lianqi stared at the tree branch poked in front of him, his brain momentarily overloaded.

What is this situation?

"Yo, Captain Zhang."

Chen Mo flipped the vehicle over again and crawled out with the others.

"Uh, are you free right now? Could you help us settle our mission?"

"Hoo..."

Zhang Lianqi took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.

"Wait a moment, there's still a tail that hasn't been dealt with."

With that, Zhang Lianqi took a long spear from a guard nearby and walked toward the toxic belt not far away.

Two figures were seen crossing the toxic belt at extreme speed, glaring viciously at Chen Mo.

"You have crossed the line."

Zhang Lianqi raised the long spear in his hand, his body tensed, and his blood qi surged outward to envelop the spear!

Screech!

A sound like the cry of a phoenix exploded in everyone's ears as the long spear in Zhang Lianqi's hand turned into a beam of red light and shot toward the two Abyss Centurions!

The two Abyss Centurions realized something was wrong the moment they saw the steel fortress in front of them and tried to turn and run, but it was too late.

The long spear pierced through their bodies with incredible ease, pinning them both firmly to the ground.

Chen Mo and the others watched this scene, dumbfounded. Only now did they understand just how strong this ruthless man, who had served as a captain in the Scout Squad for ten consecutive years, truly was.

Two Centurions, equivalent to Steel Skin martial artists, had just been insta-killed like that.

"Have you all forgotten what was taught in the Scout training class?"

Zhang Lianqi turned his head, his brows furrowed.

"Eliminate the tail behind you and keep things clean!"

"Look at you two, you actually let two Centurions chase you all the way to the internal fortress!"

Chen Mo and the others kept their heads down, not daring to speak. Zhang Lianqi had indeed emphasized this point in the previous Scout class.

But they couldn't help the situation just now; if they hadn't run quickly, they would have been left behind...

"This kind of mistake happens only once!"

"Normally, you would be confined for at least a week, but considering you are only here for the Joint Exam, and this is your first offense..."

Zhang Lianqi pondered for a moment, feeling that the punishment for these kids couldn't be too harsh, but it couldn't be too light either, or they wouldn't learn their lesson.

"Your points for this mission will be halved, 40% of the value of the harvested medicinal herbs will be taken as a fine, and you must write an eight-hundred-word self-reflection. That will settle the matter."

Upon hearing that their points would be halved and they would be fined, the group instantly wilted.

Especially Chen Mo, whose face immediately fell.

"You don't need to think of me as heartless; this punishment is already quite light."

"You need to understand, this is Luofeng Fortress!"

"The front line of Great Xia's resistance against the Abyss, facing harassment and attacks from powerful enemies every day!"

"Don't think this is a game; this is the military!"

"If we followed the standard disciplinary regulations, you would all be facing over three years of imprisonment right now!"

"I'm just deducting points, fining you, and making you write a self-reflection—I'm already letting you off easy!"

Seeing that the group was still somewhat unconvinced, Zhang Lianqi recited the formal disciplinary regulations directly.

Well, that did the trick; the group suddenly felt that a few deducted points were nothing, and they were even willing to pay the fine...

"Alright, let me see what you've brought back."

Zhang Lianqi shook his head. These children had not yet undergone real military training and did not have enough awe for the rules.

They also couldn't strictly follow orders, so some mistakes were understandable.

"By the way, why did you bring back a tree? Where did you get this thing..."

After tallying the harvest for a while, Zhang Lianqi fell silent.

He looked at the six teenagers in front of him as if they were monsters, suddenly understanding why those two Centurions had lost their minds and chased them all the way here.

This motherf*cker was a Red Blood Fruit tree!

Although the Red Blood Fruit was only one of the raw materials for Rank 2 and Rank 3 blood qi pills—basic materials that middle-rank and high-rank martial artists had absolutely no use for.

But!

As long as the environment permitted, this thing could continuously produce Red Blood Fruit all year round.

He, Zhang Lianqi, had some understanding of the social structure within the Abyss.

Unlike Great Xia, that place was purely an old society; a single Red Blood Fruit tree could buy the lives of at least three or four hundred Rank 2 Abyss Warriors.

No wonder that Centurion was chasing them for his life; they had uprooted the guy's lifeline...

"You kid are really strong..."

Zhang Lianqi couldn't help but sigh; besides being strong, this kid Chen Mo was also particularly reckless.

The Red Blood Fruit tree could also be considered a scarce resource for the current Great Xia, and it could be exchanged for quite a lot of money and points.

It was just that the roots had been ripped off by this kid using brute force, so the survival rate would decrease; it would probably take a year or two of care for it to bear fruit again.

"Five hundred and seventy-six stalks of Rank 1 medicinal herbs, ninety-five stalks of Rank 2, and fourteen stalks of Rank 3."

"The quality is not bad, but the harvesting technique was too rough, leading to serious loss of medicinal properties..."

After some rigorous calculations, Chen Mo's team had harvested a total of 20 million in cash and 4,577 points.

After deducting the fines and halving the points, the final harvest was 12 million in cash and 2,288 points.

"Sigh..."

The group sighed; after all that trouble, they only got two thousand-plus points.

"Alright, let's split the 12 million among the six of us."

Chen Mo waved his hand. Two million was enough for him to use for about two months now, and he was quite satisfied.

"By the way, we've been out for almost a day, how are the other teams' points doing?"

Speaking of which, Lin Ye pulled out a tablet from the wrecked military vehicle.

At the same time, many teams were deep in thought as they looked at the point leaderboard.

"Is there a bug?"

Zhuo Jida rubbed his chin, staring at the 2288 in first place on the leaderboard, deep in thought.

They had been struggling all day and completed quite a few missions to get only 70 points, so how did Chen Mo and his team get four-digit points?

After a few seconds, Zhuo Jida finally accepted the reality.

"Damn it! Is that Chen Mo cheating?!"

"This is f*cking ridiculous!"

"What did they do to get so many points? Did they take out the City Lord of Baiye City?"

Baiye City, the closest Abyss city to Luofeng Fortress; the previous Centurions were from Baiye City.

Unlike the startled candidates, the audience outside the screen was laughing their heads off.

It wasn't for any other reason, just that the candidates' reactions were too funny.

Basically, no one believed that anyone could manage over two thousand points in a single day; there had never been anything this outrageous in the entire history of the Joint Exam.

Normally, four-digit points were numbers that only the top three could reach at the end of the Joint Exam.

In other words, the six-person team led by Chen Mo was destined to be in the top three on the very first day of the official competition.

It's no wonder the other candidates were stunned; whoever it was would have to be stunned for a while to recover.

"Are they all this bad?"

At this moment, Chen Mo frowned as he looked at the points in first place.

"Why don't they do the high-point missions, and instead insist on doing those slow and unrewarding ones?"

"..."

Everyone except Chen Mo looked at him with an extremely speechless expression.

This old kid seemed to have forgotten one thing.

If it weren't for his ridiculous stats, others wouldn't even be able to get past the patrolling Rank 3 Martial Artists.

Not to mention ridiculous things like spinning Rank 3 Abyss Warriors like tops or super flying-kicking an Abyss Centurion.

Now that they thought about it carefully, their mission this time seemed comparable to risking their lives, right?

If there had been even one mistake, or if anything had gone wrong, they would probably have already perished in the herb garden by now.