321: Xiao Goutian Shimulberry

“Why is everyone so quiet? It's so silent?”

Xiao Yun looked at the silent examiners before him, feeling a bit confused.

After all, before the assessment began, these examiners were all privately chattering amongst themselves. Logically, the officials shouldn't have restricted them from speaking during the assessment.

“You… Holy crab, I don’t even know what to say! These results are too astonishing!”

A foreign black examiner was about to ask a question, but he found he had no idea where to start.

The other examiners, seeing this, all nodded in agreement.

The performance of Xiao Yun's team in this assessment had shocked them too much!

There were too many shocking aspects, leading to too many questions they wanted to ask. At this moment, a pile of doubts accumulated in their minds, making them unsure what to ask!

“Alright, in any case, your first assessment was completed beautifully. Now you can return to the city to prepare. Remember to report back here promptly at 3 PM. The second assessment will begin today at 3:30 PM.”

As the General Examiner, George was the calmest among them at this moment.

No matter how shocked he was by Xiao Yun and his two teammates, the assessment process still had to proceed. It couldn't get stuck here because of a small surprise.

“Okay, if there's nothing else, we'll be leaving first.”

Xiao Yun nodded silently and led Liu Shihhan and Lu Xueqing away from the restricted area's platform.

During their departure, he also quietly observed the expressions of the examiners.

Most of them seemed surprised by the assessment results. Even if they pretended not to care, their eyes would inadvertently glance at Xiao Yun and his two teammates.

Except for one Dragon Country examiner who showed appreciation, most of the other examiners had suspicion in their eyes, and some even cast hostile glances at Xiao Yun.

Although these examiners didn't say anything to Xiao Yun, from their eyes and expressions, Xiao Yun discerned everyone's attitude.

However, Xiao Yun didn't really care about these things.

As long as these people didn't hinder his assessment, whatever they thought internally was none of his business.

“Xiao Yun, the foreign examiners' gazes towards us don't seem very friendly.”

After walking a certain distance, Liu Shihhan also whispered a reminder.

She had naturally noticed the expressions of those examiners, so she felt a little worried.

Liu Shihhan understood the saying 'the gun shoots the bird that sticks its head out.' Since they had found so many supplies in the restricted area, those foreign examiners must be envious, jealous, and hateful.

“I just hope they don't try to trip us up in the assessment.”

Liu Shihhan sighed, silently lamenting.

“Ah? Are those foreign examiners that bad?”

Hearing this, Lu Xueqing also frowned.

She hadn't paid much attention, but after Liu Shihhan mentioned it, she realized that the examiners' gazes towards them were indeed off.

“No need to worry too much. This is, after all, a joint assessment by more than a dozen different countries. According to them, this is a special situation within GTI. The GTI Headquarters probably attaches great importance to our assessment, so it's unlikely they'll let them mess around.”

Xiao Yun analyzed calmly.

“We'll just stick to our plan: search when we should, fight when we should, and retreat when we should. Just pass the assessment.”

“Mhm mhm! Leave the searching part to me!”

Lu Xueqing's motivation reignited, ready to contribute more luck to the team.

“Then the combat part, leave it to me, your master.” Xiao Yun said with a faint smile.

“…Wait, what about me? Am I responsible for retreating? That’s too untechnical, isn’t it?”

Liu Shihhan sighed, saying somewhat helplessly.

…

“General Examiner, you just let them leave?”

At the restricted area entrance.

After Xiao Yun and his two teammates left, the examiners remained there.

They were each recording data, analyzing the data changes from the previous round, and then calculating the three scores for Xiao Yun's team in this assessment.

And just as everyone should have been scoring, the short examiner from Sakura Country walked up to George.

“General Examiner, don't you think Xiao Yun and their data is too exaggerated? Don't you have any doubts about them?”

“Hmm? Who's speaking?”

George heard the movement behind him and quickly turned to look.

However, he only heard the voice but didn't see the Sakura Country examiner's figure.

“Cough cough, sir, I'm here.”

The Sakura Country examiner coughed twice awkwardly. Clearly, he hadn't anticipated that the height difference between himself and the 1.8-meter George was too great, requiring the latter to bend down to see him.

“Oh! You're that Sakura Country examiner… What's your name?”

George's face showed a gentle smile, asking him as if he were addressing a child.

“My name is Ogota Ishi! General Examiner, you are being disrespectful to me!”

Ogota Ishi said with slight anger.

“Oh oh oh, sorry sorry, you're too short. I accidentally thought of treating you like a child, hahaha!”

George suddenly laughed, and his words made Ogota Ishi's face flush red, constantly wanting to get angry but still forcefully holding it in.

“Oh, Examiner Ogota, don't be too angry. Westerners speak directly like this. He doesn't mean any harm to you.”

Seeing the tense atmosphere between the two, the female examiner from South Korea also walked over.

“Yes yes, I didn't mean anything bad. Oh! Beautiful lady, are you looking for me for something?”

At the first sight of the South Korean female examiner, George's gaze was immediately drawn to her.

“My name is Park Gwacheon. This is my first time participating in a transnational assessment. It's a pleasure to meet you.”

Park Gwacheon shook hands with George with a beaming smile, not forgetting to bow several times, showing great respect for George.

“Miss Park, are all you East Asians so polite?”

Park Gwacheon's series of actions made George a bit confused.

At the same time, as the General Examiner, he kept muttering to himself.

These two, could they want my help with something?

“Why aren't you calculating the scores at this time? Do you have a question?”

George asked suspiciously.

And Ogota Ishi and Park Gwacheon were waiting for exactly that sentence.

“There's a problem, a big problem with this assessment!”

“Oh? What problem?”

George's face showed confusion, and Ogota Ishi's lips curled slightly at this moment.

As if, as soon as the next conversation began, his plan would succeed.

Although Ogota Ishi was short, he looked quite confident at this moment.

“General Examiner, I'd like to ask you a question first. In the professional assessment tests you've supervised before, what was the highest amount of supplies brought out in a single round?”

“Well… Let me think. That must have been quite a long time ago, seven or eight years, I suppose.”

George said while pondering.

“At that time, a team from our Lighthouse Country achieved the highest search score record in Aerospace during the sixth round I supervised…”

“Right! The highest search record you've ever seen wasn't as exaggerated as this one, was it!”

Before George could finish speaking, Ogota Ishi eagerly spoke up.

“Our Sakura Country's highest record was only withdrawing with 6 million in supplies, which is even only half of what Xiao Yun and his team got! So, sir, don't you think their score is outrageous, so outrageous that it's unrealistic?”

“What?”

Facing Ogota Ishi's statement, George's face grew even more puzzled.

“I didn't say that the highest record I supervised brought out less valuable supplies than them!”