Gao Wu: If this BOSS isn't nerfed, is it even playable?

Chapter 84 Transfer
Your ranking on day one was 14th, keep up the good work!

Looking at the pale blue light screen projected in front of me.

This result was both within Lin Ye's expectations and unexpected.

He didn't sleep a wink all night, and with the help of the T-3 exoskeleton armor, he slaughtered half the night like a perpetual motion machine.

The hunting efficiency was much higher than he had anticipated.

Even so, there were still 13 people ahead of him.

Lin Ye's fingertip swept across the virtual screen, and the complete leaderboard was clearly displayed before his eyes.

His gaze fell downwards, and he quickly found his teammate's name in the upper middle of the list.

[46th Place: Zhang Yuqing, Dongjiang No.1 Middle School, Hunting Points: 185]

Lin Ye's gaze continued upwards.

One by one, names he had never heard of occupied the top spots on the list.

Until fifth place.

[Fifth Place: Yan Hui, Dongjiang Experimental Middle School, Hunting Points: 449]

Yan Hui.

This was the only name Lin Ye remembered.

In the last joint diagnostic test of the five schools in the East District, this person dominated all the test items with an indisputable advantage.

Even so, he only ranked fifth overall.

Lin Ye's gaze passed over Yan Hui and continued upwards.

Fourth place, third place, second place... all unfamiliar names.

Their scores were very close, with the difference being only a hair's breadth.

however.

When Lin Ye's gaze fell on the name at the very top of the list, a name that seemed to be on a completely different level from everyone else below, his pupils suddenly contracted.

[First Place: Xue Wangshu, Tianxing Martial Arts High School, Hunting Points: 1269!]

This is not a competition of equal magnitude.

From second place to his fourteenth place, everyone's scores are within a relatively reasonable range.

But this first place winner got an extra digit in points!

Tianxing Martial Arts High School has long been renowned as a top-tier martial arts high school that receives the most support from prestigious families and the Education Bureau.

Although Dongjiang Experimental Middle School, like Dongjiang No. 1 Middle School, did not receive much support from aristocratic families, it has adopted an elite education approach over the past decade or so, raising its admission standards and improving the overall quality of its student body.

However, it still lags far behind Tianxing Martial Arts High School, which is the true number one high school in Dongjiang.

1269...

This is definitely not a number that can be achieved simply by killing monsters.

Could it be that they completed some hidden special mission?

Or perhaps... he found some way to mass kill mutated beasts?

Lin Ye closed the leaderboard and did not delve further into the matter.

He understands the principle that there are always people better than you better than anyone else.

Lin Ye composed himself and turned to walk towards a corner of the ruins.

Zhang Yuqing was curled up there, sleeping soundly, but her delicate brows were tightly furrowed, as if she were experiencing a battle even in her dreams.

Lin Ye walked to her side without saying a word, but gently touched her armor.

"Well……"

Zhang Yuqing uttered a muffled murmur, her eyelashes fluttered a few times, and she opened her eyes with difficulty.

The moment she regained consciousness, a wave of soreness and weakness emanating from her limbs overwhelmed her like a tidal wave.

Dry mouth.

My stomach is empty.

She felt like a machine that had been drained of all its energy, and even lifting a finger was incredibly difficult.

From yesterday until now, she only humiliatingly gnawed on those few spider legs before she was poisoned unconscious.

The intense fighting and running had already exhausted all the energy in her body.

Zhang Yuqing struggled to sit up, and was about to complain when she saw Lin Ye place several items in front of her.

Those were several large pieces of roasted meat from an unknown mutated beast. Although they weren't nearly as fragrant as spider legs, they looked much more filling.

In addition, there was a small bunch of wild fruits of various colors that looked fresh and juicy.

"Eat quickly."

"Let's eat and get going. The monsters in this area have almost been wiped out. We need to head south."

Zhang Yuqing swallowed back all the words that were on the tip of her tongue.

Last night, she went to sleep. Lin Ye was still awake.

When she woke up, Lin Ye had already woken up and even prepared food.

At that moment, Zhang Yuqing suddenly felt that if she complained again, she would really be less than human.

Zhang Yuqing picked up a piece of meat, disregarding all ladylike manners, opened her mouth, and took a big bite.

It wasn't very tasty; it even tasted a bit sour.

But Zhang Yuqing saw that Lin Ye was also enjoying his meal.

I know this meat shouldn't be poisonous.

A hungry stomach instantly voiced its most honest desire.

Zhang Yuqing could no longer care about anything else and wolfed down the piece of meat in her hand.

Then came the second piece, the third piece...

The two ate very quickly.

Three minutes later, all the food was devoured in a flash.

A warm current rose from my stomach, quickly flowing throughout my body, dispelling fatigue and bringing the purest sense of strength.

Zhang Yuqing felt like she had come back to life.

Lin Ye had already stood up.

He secured the spare energy module to the magnetic backpack on his back, while carrying his long gun in his hand.

"Walk."

The two did not choose the energy-intensive flight mode.

Two figures, one after the other, shot out of the shelter like arrows released from a bow, rushing at high speed towards the direction Lin Ye had already planned.

During the latter half of his nighttime hunt, Lin Ye climbed to the tallest building in the area.

He then briefly ascended into the air using the exoskeleton to get a bird's-eye view and roughly memorize the macroscopic topography of the entire competition venue.

This virtual ruin was much larger than he had imagined.

Its area is almost equivalent to two or three abandoned cities in Dongjiang.

They were currently in the northwest corner of the map.

The hunting grounds that Lin Ye chose for the second phase were located in the far south of the map.

The central region undoubtedly has the highest monster density, but he knows very well that it is also where the most people are concentrated.

……

The journey lasted four hours without any breaks.

Before the competition, this level of running would have been enough to exhaust Zhang Yuqing.

However, with the assistance of the T-3 exoskeleton, the consumption of physical strength was minimized.

The armor's kinetic energy assist system makes every step incredibly effortless for them, allowing them to run with incredible speed, comparable to a high-speed car.

The buildings in the south area are noticeably lower and more dilapidated than those in the west area.

Vast stretches of low-rise residential buildings and abandoned factories lie silently under the gray sky, like a crouching behemoth.

In the center of that complex of buildings, an unimaginably huge circular crater tore the earth apart.

The pit was estimated to be over ten kilometers in diameter and bottomless, with its edges composed of fractured rock layers and twisted steel bars.

It's as if a meteorite once fell from the sky, smashing everything here into the earth's core.

On the cliff face of the pit, dark gaps can be vaguely seen.

That was a severed section of the city's extensive subway network.

Lin Ye's gaze swept around, and he keenly noticed that there were very few people here.

It seems I made the right choice.

Fewer people means more monsters than where they originally lived.

Lin Ye rose into the air again, reaching a height of 100 meters, quickly scanning the surrounding terrain and selecting the next temporary base.

He led Zhang Yuqing to an abandoned convenience store.

The glass door was shattered, the shelves were overturned, and the floor was covered with a thick layer of dust and debris.

The two walked in.

Lin Ye cautiously checked every corner, and only relaxed after confirming that there was no lurking danger.

Zhang Yuqing exclaimed in delight, as if she had discovered a new continent.

In the convenience store's rest area, she found a dusty but still structurally intact two-seater sofa.

She didn't care about the dirt, she pounced on it, sinking into the soft sofa with a satisfied sigh.

Although it's old and dusty, lying on it is a million times better than sleeping on a hard, cold, uneven cement floor.

(End of this chapter)