The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 169 On and Off the Field (Part 1)

Inside the arena, the freshmen displayed their unique talents, while the audience outside thoroughly enjoyed the spectacle.

The orienteering race has been going on for almost eight weeks, but we're only a quarter of the way through. The freshmen will have to endure another day and night to finish the race.

However, judging from the number of freshmen eliminated so far, the elimination rate is still quite high, with nearly half of them having lost their eligibility and been teleported to the rest area outside the arena.

Strangely, more people were eliminated in general majors, while only about one-third of the people went to military majors. The processes were different in the two categories.

Currently, the students, both inside and outside the venue, are in good condition, with no casualties reported. Even if there are injuries, they are only minor and easily treatable.

The principal was very satisfied, thinking that this was worthwhile after he had specifically reported the monitoring issue to the board of directors. To be honest, the process of wrangling was really annoying; getting those old guys to pay more money was like asking them to die. Fortunately, it was finally resolved in the end.

I really don't understand what they're thinking. Aren't the two previous accidents enough to make them realize the importance of student safety?

To be honest, they might not be as sensible as a young student who has never even entered society.

Fortunately, they reluctantly approved the proposal in the end and found professionals and manufacturers to install the equipment, upgrading the entire monitoring system. This orienteering race has now become its first testing ground, and so far the results have been quite good. After all, such timely rescues were impossible in previous orienteering races, so the money wasn't wasted.

He also hoped that the competition would end smoothly without any further mishaps. Otherwise, if three accidents occurred during this month-long military training, he might as well quit being the principal.

Thinking of this, Principal Xia seemed to remember something, his gaze falling on a name at the very top of the list—a poor little guy who had been caught twice. He paused for a moment, then chuckled. This score… the little guy really did live up to expectations.

Meanwhile, some people in the faculty seats on the other side were also looking at the list.

Jiang Hui's initial score was very high, reaching 245 points, more than 100 points higher than the second-place player. In this situation, even if he just lay low for the entire game, he could probably stay on the leaderboard indefinitely.

Moreover, Jiang Hui would never simply give up like that.

From solo play to forming a temporary team with Zhou Xiuwen, she kept climbing the ranks without stopping, and her speed was no slower than the top players in the grade.

Now her total score has exceeded 300, reaching a terrifying 314 points.

In other words, she "killed" 69 people and scored 69 points since she entered the game, which is an incredibly high score for an individual player.

Only two people in the grade can rival him. One is Hodge from Class One, whose team is currently the strongest in the entire military category, with an individual score of 72 points, making him the highest-scoring student in the entire grade. The other is Clarence, Jiang Hui's classmate and even an acquaintance. Like Jiang Hui, Clarence is also fighting alone and hasn't formed any team or even a temporary one yet. He entered the competition with a total score of 65 points—no, it should be 67 now. The scores have just been formatted, and he is currently ranked seventh in the entire grade.

Of course, someone is still firmly in first place because of their extremely high base score. However, this is probably also because their initial score was already so high that it was already incredibly conspicuous. Therefore, no matter how many points they accumulate, it doesn't stand out much, and it's taken for granted, unlike Hodge Clarence and several other popular players.

Only those who have been paying close attention see the results as they are, and they naturally have their own scales and judgments. For example, Stark didn't show any particular satisfaction with Jiang Hui's passable result.

However, his actions ultimately betrayed his true feelings. Apart from the students who qualified, he reviewed Jiang Hui the most, and Stark would even pull up the corresponding video footage to check a person's performance at different times when the rankings changed abruptly.

He also witnessed Jiang Hui and Zhou Xiuwen's frantic climb to the top. Something seemed to touch a nerve, and Stark's usually cold and hard expression softened, revealing a look that was both helpless and somewhat amused. This was noticed by Instructor Tan, who was standing nearby.

Since becoming a teacher for the first-year students at Beska Intermediate Academy, Teacher Tan has devoted considerable effort to scheduling and managing them, and naturally understands the personalities of these first-year class advisors.

To be honest, just like this year's high-quality freshmen, their school also welcomed a group of high-quality teachers, each with their own unique skills and character. Especially in the military-related majors, there are seven highly decorated officers, twelve lieutenants, and more than ten outstanding second lieutenants. These are all teachers that the Eighth Army Corps spent a lot of manpower and resources to recruit for Beska Intermediate Academy, all to teach these future battlefield stars.

Of all these captains, the easiest to understand was actually Captain Zou, who had a rather bad temper. He came from a good family and had some real combat achievements. However, his personal conduct and temper were truly lacking; he often exploded at the slightest provocation and was not easy to get along with. But he wasn't a bad person either; he was still relatively easy to understand.

Teacher Tan was a bit annoyed by the other person's troublesome nature.

The most worry-free person was Captain Lynch from the third squad of the individual combat department. He was a very experienced instructor who had done similar work before, but not at the Beska Intermediate Academy, so he never had to worry about anything.

The only person he couldn't understand was Captain Stark from the second squad of the combat unit. It wasn't that the other person was difficult to get along with, but he was just too opinionated, and his personality was naturally cold and hard, almost unapproachable.

The officer's impressive resume and distinguished military achievements lend him an air of mystery. It's hard to believe that such a promising officer, clearly in the prime of his career, would choose to come here for a training mission.

Heaven knows that even Instructor Tan couldn't help but feel some pressure when facing Stark.

Even with his seniority, he no longer needed to fear any soldier below the rank of lieutenant general. However, Instructor Tan was inherently unable to handle this type of person, after all, his former superior was also a person with a very similar personality.

So the instructor was actually quite troubled about how to communicate with Captain Stark.

Until recently, he learned from a familiar second-year colleague about Captain Stark's confrontation with the Carls in the principal's office that day... Today, it seems to confirm this, as the other party seemed to value one of their students quite a bit.

(End of this chapter)