The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 629 Drop
The person opposite me immediately turned pale. Although I didn't know why they were reacting so strongly, I still felt it was a personal attack.

"You didn't apply to this school, did you?"

The man grew even more embarrassed and annoyed, his voice filled with displeasure: "Hey, can't you say anything useful along the way? We really can't count on you. After all this time, we haven't seen any sincerity from you in cooperating..."

"So you really applied to this school?"

"..."

"If you don't want to team up, you can leave with your people now." Anyway, there's no point in looking for anything with a bunch of people blocking the way here. He even doubted the feasibility of forming an alliance with this person, since he hadn't gained anything from all that messing around.

The other person was taken aback by the sudden outburst of harsh words and frowned, asking, "What do you mean?"

"I should be asking you what you want to do!" the person who felt mocked said in a deep voice. She wondered if the other person had done it intentionally or unintentionally—

She did not apply to Landis Academy. Although Landis Academy was her mother's alma mater and possessed admirable qualities, it was ultimately not a suitable place for her. If she wanted to pursue the future she desired, she had to go to a higher place, and she had always been clear about this.

With her qualifications, it would be a failure if she didn't get into the Joint Military Academy. She came here aiming for either the First Military Academy or the Capital Military Academy.

Is this person mocking her?

"...You were the one who agreed to the cooperation. Although the agreement wasn't very detailed, if problems arise, both parties will share the responsibility. It sounds like you're blaming us." Trying to shift the blame onto them? No way!
"You need to understand that this is a national unified enrollment area, not your territory, and you can't do whatever you want here..."

Don't think we can only cooperate with you; we don't know who's actually benefiting.

As the argument between the two escalated, tensions also rose among the dozens of people around them. They were actually in two separate teams, each initially following one of the two individuals, but now these two were engaged in a heated argument…

If the two eventually fall out, then their team will be disbanded.

That's not the problem. They were a group of people who were going their own way anyway, so there wouldn't be any problem if they went their separate ways. The real problem is that if the two groups that were arguing fiercely suddenly started fighting each other without any regard for the consequences, it would be a waste of their fighting strength.

But actually, their cooperation along the way has been quite good.

Unfortunately, although they were nominally partners since the start of the collaboration, they were actually more familiar with their respective chosen leaders, so conflicts easily surfaced.

The atmosphere at the scene was extremely tense, with swords drawn and a fight seemingly imminent.

The group immediately stopped what they were doing and almost all looked up at each other, their expressions a mixture of confusion and wariness.

The two, who had been arguing like cross-eyed cocks, exchanged a glance, as if they had instantly reached an agreement, and said in unison, "Let's go, over there—"

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Jiang Hui quickly hooked onto the long branch and, using its resilience, swung across to the other side. This was the fastest and simplest way she knew to reach the other side—rough but fast enough, though it was a bit too much for the tree.

Little A followed behind, stumbling and falling behind by a considerable margin, and he couldn't move around as freely as Jiang Hui.

She had originally told him to stay where he was and wait, but he insisted on following. Jiang Hui could only tell him to be careful, and if he really couldn't keep up, to just wait where he was until things were over... and she would come back. There was no doubt about that; Jiang Hui had taken the initiative to connect with the other person, and with the mental marker, finding them was relatively easy.

Right now, she had no time to care about the other person; her heart was set on something else—the prey she had been waiting for.

Sensing the power flowing closer and closer to the entrance of the passage, Jiang Hui quickened his pace.

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Since entering this unified entrance examination, everyone in the examination room has experienced a complete wilderness survival exercise.

Everything has to be created by ourselves. Without a clear direction, we even have to find our own path. If we are not careful, we may go completely astray.

However, this is not a true wilderness survival exercise. The unified recruitment is for selecting talents for the empire, so naturally there must be a hierarchy and some distinguishing characteristics and academic knowledge.

At this point, the various props and how each person uses them become especially important.

The names themselves suggest that the purpose of "unified recruitment" is simply to "recruit" students, not to genuinely provide a more comfortable environment for all test takers. So, in the end, these props are for the benefit of everyone.

Just like the initial setup of different majors for students, the existence of weapons and props is necessary to disrupt the entire situation.

The various weapons and tools found in the forest are certainly better than nothing compared to being empty-handed. However, these items are insufficient in a major battle; they are too basic and offer little use in combat or hunting.

As the candidate who has hunted the most exotic plants in the forest so far, Jiang Hui feels qualified to say this.

Furthermore, she and Little A circled around the inner circle for a long time, killing countless alien plants and collecting them from various places. They picked up a lot of items from the existing drop points, but the actual drop rate was not high.

They've collected no more than ten relatively useful firearms so far, and six of them were all dropped in the same spot, which shows how rare the items dropped in the forest are.

A normal person might find that after collecting items from a dozen or so places and realizing they are useless, they would probably give up on this meaningless collection, because there's no point in collecting more.

But Jiang Hui didn't. She treated it like practice, gradually developing a bit of bloodthirstiness. She just killed her way through, casually grabbing whatever she could find, not caring much about whether she could obtain important supplies...

That's nonsense, it's because she hasn't encountered anything truly great yet!

Jiang Hui's words and the "prey" she was waiting for naturally had a reason. The connectivity she described earlier was not just for show; it was something she had actually experienced in the data world—a portion of data transmission.

Everything in this world is made up of data, like a fluid of power flowing through it, showing the fluctuations that have existed there.

The moments when those alien plants unleashed their power in the face of her, or the defensive fortress that blocked them like the Chu-Han border, or the final stream of power that dissipated after killing the alien plants... all these have traces.

Everything he sees right now is fake, it's data, and it can be traced back to its source.

Therefore, he can sense the data stream that remains as marker information after the prey, which serves as the data model, collapses, and he can also sense the activity of distributing certain special supplies.

(End of this chapter)