LAN also followed the crowd into the evaluation room. He was curious how such a small room could accommodate so many of them, but as soon as he entered, he knew that inside the room was a completely different plane. The grand hall was like the building outside, and nine managers were sitting on the gleaming high platform.
"Is it one item per person?" LAN whispered to Tianying beside him.
Each person is responsible for nine items. The first to be evaluated is the concentration, control, and flexibility of energy. Then there are physical responses, pressure and flexibility; Finally, knowledge, tactics, and adaptability." Tianying smiled sweetly and explained that these explanations were not within her responsibility, but she was still willing to answer LAN's questions.
There are human rights to optimizing intelligent humans, although they are created for the purpose of serving others, but if it is beyond the prescribed function, they can completely refuse others' requests.
Hearing Tianying answer LAN with a clear voice, people around look at her with envy.
"Be quiet!" On the high platform, the manager sitting right in the middle spoke to stop the chattering below, "Now the requirements for the first test, energy condensation, please look up." A water ball with a radius of more than three meters appeared in mid-air. "Please condense as large a water ball as you can. Requirements: the elements inside are still and the surface is smooth and round. Neutral ones who cannot use the water element, come up to the stage, others can begin."
If you come one by one, it's easy, but when so many come together, it's much more complicated. There are only so many water elements in the space. If you want your water ball to be larger than others', you have to seize the water elements condensed by others. In such a struggle, it is simply impossible to keep the surface smooth and round.
"No matter what the result is, you must condense water droplets, the neutral loser will be dealt with." Tianying carefully wrote this on LAN's back.
LAN wasn't worried at all. With just a few moves, all the water elements around had already been taken into his hands. A moment later, a round water ball with a diameter of about half a meter appeared, and it was still growing. However, LAN didn't want to wipe it out completely. Although he didn't know what "dealing with" meant, he was certain that it wouldn't be a good thing.
"A neutral person who doesn't even have the element is a failed work." With a word from the manager on stage, several neutrals who admitted that they couldn't condense the water element were immediately reduced to powder.
A look of astonishment and uncertainty fell upon the warbler's eyes, "This is the deal." She wrote carefully behind him. In just a moment of writing, a few neutrals who couldn't get the water element were also dealt with.
"Next comes the second test, Control: Ask to keep the status quo."
Most people thought it would be simple, but when LAN Zheng was puzzled that it would be fine, a high-pitched, shrill whistling sound came out of the neutral on stage, not at first, but later, the frequencies of the whistling sounds of the nine managers were getting closer and closer, creating a terrifying resonance.
It took LAN a lot of effort to stabilize the water ball in his hand, seeing Charles not far away still looking relaxed, but the water ball was half smaller, while on the other side, Nanako's water ball had irregular ripples, and the palace master's was almost on the verge of collapse.
Fortunately, the whistling did not last long, and the palace master heaved a great sigh of relief. In the blink of an eye, the number of neutral people in the hall was reduced by more than half, and LAN couldn't help sighing at the cruelty of this evaluation.
"Finally, it's a workaround. Please turn the water ball in your hands into a flower and give it to the optimizer beside you." The cold manager said the last question, "You may think the evaluation is cruel, but you should understand that your power comes from the magic crystal, and if you can't control the power, then sooner or later you will become chaotic beings, enemies of the manager! So it is absolutely necessary to get rid of the unqualified works!"
Anyone can shape water into the shape of a flower, but the question is how to keep it in that shape when handed over to an optimizer.
Just as everyone wants to see how others do it, suddenly a thick weapon pops up out of nowhere, and everyone can only see the Optimizer standing close to themselves.
LAN turned the water ball in his hand into a basket of lilies and then turned the water into ice. When the ice flower was handed over to Tianying, the mist around was lifted up at once. Tianying sent the flower basket to the high platform, and the chief manager nodded approvingly and made a gesture. Tianying immediately summoned the writing board and filled it with something.
LAN looked around and saw that Nanako had done something similar to him. She had sealed the water-made flower in a block of ice, and then Nanako's assessment was over. The palace master has made great efforts. She has completely changed the molecular structure of the water, and what is handed over is a delicate rose. Charles is the most amazing. His wind chime flowers are still water, but they have a stable form.
No one died in this round of the exam.
"Take a 5-hour break and then continue." With this sentence, the round of the exam was considered over.
"It will be over soon at this rate!" As LAN walked, he chatted with Tianying, intentionally or unintentionally.
"There is an hour interval between each round, three hours per round. This round has the fewest people lost, and more than half will be eliminated in the next round. Only when 200 are gathered will we proceed to the third round." "Tianying explained.
LAN made a rough estimate. Only about 80 people came out this time. If 200 people were gathered for the next round, there would be at least three rounds.
"You had 107 people in the previous game, 82 in this one, and surely more than 11 in the next one, that's why I told you to rest for five hours." "But the second round usually only has a one-tenth pass rate, so there will be a long break in the third round," explained Tianying.
"Brother LAN!" Apart from the evaluation room, Nanako just jumped in. "How many points did you get just now? Nanako only got 25 points."
"Lord Kozuki Ran got 30 points." Tianying replied with a smile.
"Good - impressive! A perfect score!" Nanako shouted exaggeratedly, her sharp eyes seeing Charles come out too, she rushed over and pulled him over.
Charles was startled, thinking that Nanako was coming to settle accounts with him again, and he didn't know how to comfort her little butt.
"Hey! How many points did you get?" As Nanako asked, she went to greet the palace master who had just come out, "Sister Piggy! Here! Here!"
The palace master was stunned for a moment before realizing that the "Little piggy sister" was calling her, and came over, laughing and crying at the same time, "I'm palace master, palace of palaces, master of masters!"
"Oh, never mind! Anyway, your name sounds strange to me, and I just keep thinking about it." Nanako sniffed, looking very cute. "How many points did sister get?"
"17." The master looked at Charles, who was scratching his head beside him. "What about you?"
"20."
"Ah! "Brother LAN is the best, full marks, then Nanako, 25 points, Charles third, Sister Piggy fourth!" Nanako counted on her fingers.
"Just say I'm last!" "And don't call me piglet, my nickname is Nini," said the palace master with a wry smile.
"Little Piggy Sister sounds better than Nini sister!" Anyway, Nanako has made up her mind not to change her words.
"Nanako's scores are 9, 8, 8, none full marks, but that's not Nanako's strong point. We'll see Nanako perform well in the next round!" Nanako put her hands on her waist, looking like she's going to be the boss.
"I am 8, 4, 5." "Among the neutral ones of the palace family, I'm quite strong, but I can only get this little point," said the palace master. It has a bit of an air of superiority.
"Why is my last item a zero?" " Charles muttered under his breath, fearing others would laugh at him.
"The last one is to be flexible, to change the water. To put it simply, you have to be an ice flower." Tianying explained, "So Lord Huangyuelan's approach is the most straightforward and earns full marks; Ten-character Nanako probably didn't understand the meaning of the question, but the appearance of ice proved that she was flexible, so she got 8 points; Although the Lord of the palace managed to be flexible, his approach was too complicated to be considered inflexible, so he could get 5 points; Lord Charles Gadmon, your work shows no flexibility at all, but you can only get 0 points. After all, we evaluate ability, not instinct."
"Being smart!" Nanako giggled and reached out to grab Charles.
Charles was on guard all the time, but still did not hide.
"Just as the communication element of the Soul-headed family is an instinct, so is the physical reaction of the Eishi family." The palace master said with envy, turning his gaze to LAN, "What is the instinct of the Night family?"
LAN smiled, spread out his palm, and a seed gradually appeared in his hand, then grew, blossomed, bore fruit, withered, and finally turned to dust. The three children looked at each other in bewilderment, not understanding at all what it meant.
"It's life and matter." The warbler suggested.
"It's the transformation of chaos and order, but I can't understand that power." Seeing that the others still did not understand, LAN had to explain further, "the creation of matter and life from nothing is the transformation from chaos to order, and the annihilation of life and matter is the transformation from order to chaos, this is the force of the universe's origin, but because I cannot understand this force, I can only create life, not consciousness."
Nanako reached out and wiped the saliva that was about to flow out. "Brother LAN is so handsome!" Just because of this one sentence, the topic was completely diverted. The palace master couldn't be so generous and didn't know what to say for a moment.
LAN smiled nonchalantly, "Well, thank you, Nanako, for your compliment."
"By the way, where are you planning to go after your review?" Nanako has a childlike nature and can't stay still for a moment, one question after another.
"I'm definitely going back to being a manager," said the Lord of the palace somewhat helplessly. She had intended to be a manager, but after meeting other people, she didn't want to be a manager at all. However, the education she received in the past forced her to do it. "The palace family is planning to expand. I'll find you when I have time later!"
"That will be difficult! Because no one has ever thought about where to say... What about Brother LAN?" Nanako shook her little head and was already riding on Charles' head.
"Lilith Eye, numbered Y0002-P1-O33765 plane." LAN said, "Y represents the first letter of the family, 0002 after it represents the ranking of the power of the plane manager within the family, P represents the planets with humans in the plane, 1 after it represents the number of planets, O represents the degree of planet development, and the number after it represents the ranking in the degree of development."
"The manager there is actually the second in the family!" Charles was a little surprised. "The Night family's internal ranking disputes are very intense. If the manager there can be ranked second, it will be very difficult for you to get that plane."
"That's the area my brother is in charge of. I can go there whenever I want, and my brother never participates in the internal ranking. The second place is forced on him by them." LAN didn't think there would be any trouble at all.
"Huh?" "Oh!" The first was an expression of disbelief, and the second was an excited knock from Nanako, who was riding on her head.
"Nanako is going too!" Nanako was waving one hand and pulling Charles' hair with the other. Charles covered his head with a bitter face and dared not shake Nanako off, lest the little girl get worse. Nanako twisted restlessly, "Charles, let's go together!"
"This is not good." Although Charles had no particular intention, he would not be willing to be with the little girl anyway, and although he looked like the eldest in appearance, he was called "Charles" by Nanako, "Charles", while LAN and the palace master were called "brother" and "sister".
"What's wrong with that! Brother LAN won't stop us from going!" "Don't forget you, you haven't comforted..." cried Nanako.
"I'll go! "I go!" As soon as he heard that Nanako was going to bring up the past, Charles immediately gave in, and later he was eaten up by the other three.
"Let the harem master come if he has the chance. Brother won't mind." LAN laughed.
"But why does Brother LAN have to go to the Lilith Eye?" Before the palace master could answer, Nanako's new question popped up, "Is it fun there? Nanako had been on Earth before coming to Erin, and it was fun there too. I'll take you there next time if I have the chance!" Suddenly frowning again, "Um! Wait until I beat that stinky Taoist!"
"That guy is..." Nanako was about to explain that their respective optimized intelligent beings had already appeared beside them.
"The second round of evaluation begins, please follow me." Four optimized intelligences said the same sentence at once.