79: Chapter 79 This is mathematics, not metaphysics!

"Hahahaha! This feels so good!!"

The speed of the human-powered armored vehicle had soared to match a high-speed train at full sprint, and Chen Mo's legs were pedaling so fast they appeared as blurs.

Everyone in the car was exceptionally excited, especially Wen Wan, whose hands were rubbing the steering wheel so hard it was creaking.

The armored vehicle flew up along a small hillside, tracing a graceful arc in the sky.

Directly below them, several Abyssal Race scouts lying on the back of the hill looked up, dumbfounded, at the armored vehicle soaring high above.

"I see people! Hit them!"

Chen Mo let out a roar, and the armored vehicle, having just landed, pulled a 180-degree drift and charged toward those Abyssal Race scouts.

Seeing the fire-spitting steel behemoth charging at them, the first reaction of those Abyssal Race scouts was to run.

Without a moment's hesitation, the several Abyssal Race scouts scattered and ran in different directions.

Unfortunately, their speed was far slower than the human-powered armored vehicle; in just a few seconds, the people in the car felt the vehicle jolt once.

An arm flew into the air and slapped against the front windshield with a splat.

"Next one, next one! Look at how high this efficiency is!"

Seeing this, Chen Mo pedaled even harder, and the bike chain turned bright red, emitting a heat high enough to burn skin.

"Is the National Joint Examination actually this easy?"

Su Qingyue began to doubt her life; she had prepared to risk her life in the National Joint Examination, but it turned out she could just take off by trailing behind Chen Mo and eating his exhaust...

"By the way, what rank was that Abyssal Race scout just now?"

"How do we prove that we killed the Abyssal Race scouts?"

Lin Ye raised a critical question.

The Abyssal Race scouts from just now had been smashed into Lego bricks; they would have to super-assemble them before they could bring them back...

Chen Mo also heard their discussion and slammed on the brakes.

The human-powered armored vehicle left a long skid mark on the wasteland, and Lin Ye and the others were almost thrown out of the car.

"I think we can follow ancient customs."

Chen Mo pondered for a moment and said to the others who had just climbed up from the ground.

"What ancient customs?"

They all looked puzzled; how did the ancients confirm military merit again?

"It's very simple: cut off their heads and hang them on your waist."

"Then we can just calculate the points based on the heads!"

"..."

For a moment, the armored vehicle fell into silence.

They realized that ever since they arrived at the National Joint Examination, Chen Mo had become increasingly brutal.

However, this was indeed a very good method; otherwise, it would be hard to calculate points after returning.

Plus, the aura emitted by the warrior corpses could be used to determine their rank, which would indeed be much more convenient.

"Sure!"

"Let's go! Let's catch some people!"

Originally, clearing scouts around the fortress was an extremely dangerous task, as those who could come to participate in the Joint Exam were only students.

The highest martial arts rank among them was only 3rd-rank, and that was the type of newly promoted 3rd-rank who had just entered the rank.

Facing veteran 3rd-rank Abyss Warriors who could serve as scouts, it was quite dangerous for these kids who hadn't experienced much battlefield slaughter.

Not to mention that the vast majority of students participating in the Joint Exam were only 1st-rank or 2nd-rank Martial Artists; once they encountered a 3rd-rank Abyssal Race scout, it was a death sentence.

That was why the higher-ups had raised the difficulty of this task to A+ level and attached the label 'Extremely Dangerous'.

But as luck would have it, this task encountered its strictest father: Chen Mo.

A human-powered hundred-ton king that could easily ram a 2nd-rank to death and send a 3rd-rank flying.

If it weren't for the fact that the gap between the middle 4th-rank and the lower 3rd-rank was about the same as the gap between Tyson and Taro, Chen Mo might have even been able to spar with a 4th-rank.

After establishing a clear combat strategy, it was time for the human cheat code, Su Qingyue, to take the stage.

Her eyes flashed with blue light, causing the others to marvel.

"Tsk tsk tsk, my Vector Deflection doesn't have such cool special effects."

Xia Li clicked her tongue, wondering why others' talents had such cool special effects while hers had nothing.

"Same here, my Time Dilation doesn't either; only the effect appears, you can't tell at all that I used my talent."

Shen Zhou curled his lip, but to be honest, his Time Dilation was still better than Vector Deflection.

Lin Ye didn't say anything at all; compared to the talents of these few, his Spatial Anchoring was just a speed bump...

As he thought about it, Lin Ye turned his head to look at Chen Mo.

Yup, a trashy speed bump that couldn't even stop a hundred-ton king.

Soon, the blue light in Su Qingyue's eyes disappeared, and a streak of crimson blood flowed down from her nostril.

"Don't make me do this kind of work next time."

"My True Sight Eye performs deductions after seeing established facts, it doesn't create something out of nothing..."

"But I still predicted a few places where Abyssal Race scouts are most likely to appear."

As she spoke, Su Qingyue took out a map.

In the Abyssal Rift, except for a few specific electronic products made from materials found in the abyss, everything else would malfunction.

There were no satellites here, let alone GPS signal positioning, so they had to rely on the most primitive methods to find direction and location.

Su Qingyue wrote and drew on the map for a while, marking a dozen or so locations where Abyssal Race scouts were most likely to appear.

"Alright, that's it."

"Let's go investigate these places first, and after we're done, we'll take a lap around Luofeng Fortress."

Just as Su Qingyue finished speaking, Chen Mo got back into the car, his hands covered in blood.

A twisted and deformed head was hanging from Chen Mo's waist, making the others feel nauseous.

"Are the locations confirmed?"

"Then let's go!"

...

The catfish effect is sometimes very useful.

Just like the sudden appearance of Chen Mos Squad, which directly stimulated the remaining teams to start involution like crazy.

Those who weren't strong enough took on more simple tasks, while those who were strong enough took on dangerous tasks.

The entire Luofeng Fortress was filled with the busy figures of candidates, and their points were growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It's just a pity that they didn't have the brute-force stats of Chen Mo, so they could only make up for their shortcomings through crazy involution.

This led to everyone's points inflating; anyone who dared to slow down even a little would be overtaken directly by the people behind them.

No one dared to stop, and almost everyone was getting less than four hours of sleep.

A full seven days passed, and the points of many teams were about to catch up to Chen Mos Squad's 2288 points.

Leading the pack were Wang Jun's team and the team that Zhuo Jida was in, with 2171 points and 1990 points respectively.

They only needed to work a little harder to catch up to Chen Mos Squad's 2288.

Congratulations, congratulations.

During these seven days, Chen Mos Squad seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth, and their points had stopped growing.

Even Zhang Lianqi felt something was wrong, suspecting that these little guys had met with an accident outside the toxic zone; otherwise, why hadn't they returned for so long?

They had only brought three days' worth of supplies when they left; logically, they should have returned long ago...

"Captain! Chen Mo and his team are back..."

The walkie-talkie on Zhang Lianqi's waist rang, and hearing the strange tone from inside the walkie-talkie, his heart immediately jumped into his throat.

"What's going on? Did they suffer any casualties?"

"Uh..."

The guard on the other side of the walkie-talkie was stunned for a long while, completely unsure how to explain the scene before him.

"Captain Zhang, why don't you come over here yourself..."

"I really can't explain this scene; you'll know what's going on once you see it with your own eyes."