305: Assessment begins

In Jinghai City, on a mountaintop along the Great Wall, surrounded by mountains covered in ancient oil pines.

Since a portal to the Aerospace Base appeared here after the restricted area descended into the real world, GTI Official ordered the construction of a platform capable of accommodating two thousand people for activities.

At this moment, Xiao Yun stood on the platform, with Lu Xueqing and Liu Shihhan, his two teammates, behind him.

Due to running blades in the restricted area these past few days, both their ranks had reached Black Eagle 5, and Xiao Yun had also undergone a round of performance evaluation, with his rank now reaching Black Eagle 1, just one step away from the peak rank.

And with Xiao Yun's speed of producing big red items, reaching the peak rank would at most require another round of evaluation.

As an assessment candidate for the GTI Professional Team, starting the assessment with a Black Eagle 1 rank was unprecedented within GTI.

What's more, Xiao Yun and his companions were only 18-year-old teenagers, a level of talent that GTI Official highly valued.

Therefore, around Xiao Yun and his two teammates, there was a large circle of GTI staff in suits; and because GTI is an international organization, these people were of various races and from different countries, but without exception, they were all high-level administrators within GTI.

This unusual scene also attracted the attention of the agents who came to run blades nearby.

“Is this another new person participating in the assessment?”

“Oh my goodness? Why does a professional assessment require such a grand display? Normally, isn't it enough for three to five General Examiners to proctor?”

“I don’t know, so many proctors simultaneously overseeing a single match, this situation has never been seen before!”

“Damn it! I know why, look at their ages, they’re all so young and tender, are these kids even adults?”

“They should be just adult age, no wonder GTI is so serious about them, they’re probably genius teenagers from somewhere else.”

“Good heavens, if you put it that way, I have to go into this match and clash with them! Let’s see what kind of strength they really have!”

“I’m coming too!”

“You old geezers, aren’t you bullying the newcomers? I’m going to set up a sniper on the central control bridge this round; I’ll let the three of them pass, let’s see who among the rest of you dares to cross!”

“Brother, no, no, no, it’s not that serious.”

...

The surrounding agents were also discussing animatedly when they saw Xiao Yun’s team about to undergo assessment.

Since this was the restricted area of Jinghai City, the first city in the Dragon Country, and served as the entrance to the Aerospace Base, half of the teams that came here were GTI Professional agents.

The other half, although not GTI Professional, most had reached the Black Eagle rank, just not becoming professional players for various reasons.

Only a very small portion of people were Diamond rank; these individuals coming to the Aerospace Base basically had no intention of earning money or evacuating, only treating it as a way to hone themselves and improve their blade-running skills.

Therefore, everyone was quite curious when they saw a new team coming to participate in the assessment.

“Have you all understood the assessment rules? It’s fine, if there’s anything unclear, you can ask again, just wait for the next match to enter the restricted area.”

At this moment, a General Examiner standing next to Xiao Yun also asked.

He was an old man from Lighthouse Country, with white temples and a pair of deep blue eyes.

“It’s fine, the rules are all clear, let’s prepare to enter the restricted area.”

Xiao Yun smiled faintly, and said, preparing to enter the restricted area.

As for the content of the assessment, this General Examiner from Lighthouse Country had already given a detailed explanation.

The overall GTI Professional assessment is divided into three major modules: combat, search, and evacuation, with an assessment duration of five days, requiring two matches per day, for a total of 10 matches to determine the final score.

Combat scoring, as the name suggests, is based on the average number of agent kills in a match, as well as special kills of special forces and BOSS; the more kills obtained, the higher the score naturally.

Search scoring is comprehensively evaluated based on the number of containers searched and the drop rate; this scoring not only considers understanding of the map and the tactics and strategies adopted in each match, but also places more emphasis on luck, for example, a player like Lu Xueqing who can find big red items in every round, even if she searches fewer containers, but has many drops, her search score will also be terrifyingly high.

The final evacuation score is very simple, it just looks at how many times one can evacuate in a total of 10 matches.

And due to the diversity of restricted area playstyles, GTI Official also humanely formulated different scoring standards for different teams.

Full gear, half gear, running blades.

Under normal circumstances, when conducting the assessment on the Aerospace Base map, the requirements for a full-gear team of five are a combat score of 70 points, a search score exceeding 50, and an evacuation rate exceeding 30%, meaning evacuating three or more times out of ten.

For a half-gear team of four, the combat score only needs to be 50 points, the search score 40 points, and the evacuation rate is two evacuations out of ten, or 20%.

As for a running blades team, the evacuation rate is lower, only needing one evacuation out of ten, which is a 10% evacuation rate; the combat score is also relatively lower, only needing 30 points to pass the assessment, however, the search score is exaggeratedly high, needing to exceed 80 points to pass!

Therefore, whether it’s going all out with full gear or running blades with a hearing headset and a leg-shotgun, passing the GTI Professional assessment requires the team to have solid skills.

During the match, although GTI cannot provide full live streaming and recording in the restricted area, it requires candidates to wear a special wristband for data detection.

The wristband will display their real-time location in the restricted area, and as long as the candidate gets kills or opens containers in the restricted area, the wristband will display all of the candidate's actions in real-time.

Several GTI staff members holding tablets were precisely the ones detecting this series of data.

“Let’s go, first round, Aerospace.”

Saying that, Xiao Yun smiled faintly and was the first to walk into the restricted area entrance under everyone’s gaze.

Lu Xueqing and Liu Shihhan, who were behind him, also quickly followed, afraid of falling behind.

“Entering Aerospace Base!”

With a familiar prompt sound, Xiao Yun’s vision gradually blurred.

“By the way, did they not bring any equipment?”

Just as their team entered the restricted area, a GTI General Examiner suddenly realized something was wrong and quickly asked the General Examiner from Lighthouse Country.

“No way? I thought they were all wearing chest rigs and large backpacks?”

The General Examiner raised an eyebrow, recalling Xiao Yun’s and his two teammates’ equipment.

However, it was better not to recall, for upon recalling, the General Examiner suddenly remembered that they seemed to have not even brought weapons or armor!

These three children seemed to have only worn a large chest rig and carried a large red packet when they went in!

“They should have chosen the running blades route, but even for running blades, only bringing a chest rig and backpack is too dangerous!”

“What should we do? If that’s the case, does this match still count?”

The General Examiner who first discovered the anomaly asked doubtfully.