The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 536 Afterwards
Jiang Hui, along with nearly three hundred other candidates who took the exam with her, were all taken back to the military law department.

Because this matter was no longer just a personal grudge, the collusion and cheating in a major examination had already touched upon the issue of the empire's talent selection, and it immediately alarmed the higher-ups.

Their group of candidates was directly suppressed, and their subsequent exams were also postponed.

It is said that all staff members and examinees involved in this matter will be required to participate in the investigation, and the exam cannot be completed until the situation is clarified and suspects are identified. Therefore, the driving test, originally scheduled for three days, has now been extended to an unknown number of days…

Of course, the matter of passing the preliminary test that day also needs to be clarified, otherwise it may be difficult to explain later.

Jiang Hui's question that day finally received an answer.

Whether she passes the preliminary test depends not on what the officer says, but on whether she can meet the time requirement to get to shore.

Normally, candidates must swim from the inlet to the outlet within two weeks to pass the preliminary test. On that day, only 35 candidates reached the outlet within two weeks, accounting for less than 10% of the total, which is less than in previous years, demonstrating how many people were affected by this series of whirlpools.

These individuals should normally be considered as having passed the initial screening. Since they followed the normal procedures and successfully passed, this is the proper assessment. It is unrelated to the experiences or accidents of others and should not be considered a case of survivor bias.

Of course, if it is later discovered that the forces behind them or even the individuals themselves were involved in the incident, their exam results will naturally be cancelled as suspects.

Besides these people, there is another group of people who originally had the ability to pass the exam, but were unexpectedly dragged into the vortex by the mastermind behind the scenes, which prevented them from passing the exam... In principle, these people should not have passed the exam.

However, many of these people come from influential families. But would they accept this outcome? Being implicated for no reason, they would naturally be unwilling to accept this result. Given their general nature, they might even use their family's influence to attack the instigators of all this, or even put pressure on the military to fight for the legitimate rights of their children who are taking the exam.

Although the military was not afraid of the power of these aristocratic families, it was still a rather thorny issue. The military did not want to add to its own troubles, so it naturally had to come up with a proper solution.

The military's initial plan is to give these individuals another chance. However, the criteria for this will depend on their abilities, and it certainly won't be as simple as the previous preliminary test. They will have to pay a price to regain their chance, and the pass rate this time will be lower than the average of any previous session.

As for which type Jiang Hui is... she is neither.

Hers was truly exceptional. In fact, Jiang Hui reached the shore precisely within two stars' worth of time. Her sensor belt detected her height above the waterline, beeped once to read her arrival information, and then stopped recording. This was recorded in the system, and could also be corroborated by Zong Ting and others who witnessed her arrival.

She landed at exactly one hour and fifty-nine minutes, not a minute more or less, right on time. By this standard, Jiang Hui passed the preliminary test.

However, the problem was that the exit she reached on land wasn't the designated exit for the exam, but rather a different, open exit in the water. Jiang Hui was thrown out of the water by a series of whirlpools combined with the recoil of her own projectile. Even if the timing and the exit weren't right, could she still pass? The answer is yes.

If the exam proceeded normally, with Phillips taking the test in the designated examination area—a location with specially designed entrances and exits—there would be no deviation from the intended route. Therefore, if Jiang Hui exited through a different passage, he would naturally fail.

However, Phillips deliberately avoided the testing site because it happened to be in the sensitive mission area, and instead created a shallow body of water as a temporary testing site. Furthermore, because it was a very hastily created site, the various routes, exits, and entrances were not well-planned. Just as they hadn't calculated the distance to the whirlpool and the chain reaction, they hadn't completely blocked the shallow water from other escape routes, which is why Jiang Hui and Taylor ended up there.

Taylor nearly drowned in that spot because he was left unnoticed. If it weren't for Jiang Hui, he probably would have drowned silently in that water, even though he was less than a hundred meters away from where the Shangzong Court was stationed.

Therefore, from any perspective, Jiang Hui's situation can be described as one of passive, irresponsible circumstances. Despite this, she still met the requirements for passing the preliminary exam, and ultimately, under the joint judgment of examiners including Phillips, she was allowed to pass.

As for Sanger Taylor, it might be as compensation. Although Jiang Hui carried the last 100 meters for him, he and his aircraft did reach the shore within the time limit, and were therefore allowed to pass.

Whether he can wake up and take the exam before the next one depends on himself.

It's said he was seriously injured, suffering from near-death hypoxia and severe shock, and apparently also developed cardiopulmonary complications. After being revived, he was kept in the intensive care unit. For some reason, the military transferred him to the medical department of the military law office and assigned appropriate medical personnel to monitor him nearby, which is quite tragic.

Compared to her opponent, Jiang Hui felt that she was already quite fortunate to have only suffered from mild cerebral hypoxia and mild mental disturbance. The only problem was the strict management of the military law department; she couldn't move around freely. Aside from that, everything else was fine.

She later heard that apart from herself and the two prime suspects, everyone else was separated in batches, which basically meant they were all temporarily detained.

Jiang Hui is considered the main prosecutor in the case and an early witness to the cheating incident, making him particularly prominent and important in this case.

The military law department immediately arranged a VIP single room for her.

During this period, Jiang Hui is temporarily unable to contact the outside world in any form, to prevent her from colluding with outsiders; the same applies to others. Furthermore, theoretically, she cannot leave her quarters until all her hearings are completed.

Apart from that, everything else was quite good. The military law department provided them with comfortable accommodations, and everything else was provided, even books and entertainment. In particular, the food at the military law department was excellent, to the point that one might suspect it was specially supplied.

Jiang Hui experienced a brief period of cerebral hypoxia, and her condition wasn't great. While it didn't cause functional damage, it did lead to some minor aftereffects. She was still thinking about passing the next exam, so naturally she needed to get plenty of rest and recuperation to prepare for the next challenge.

(End of this chapter)