"Sister Tianying, please explain the second round of evaluation to us!" LAN is always able to win favor with both people and robots.
"The second round of evaluation items are physical response, pressure resistance and flexibility." The nightingale smiled slightly, "Reaction is mainly about evasion, pressure is about defense, and as for flexibility, it's about adaptability, but it requires the most direct approach."
"Hehe, these are all Nanako's strong points!" Nanako hopped and skipped into the test room.
"It sounds no danger." Charles let out a breath.
"It's better to be careful." The palace master is not so optimistic. Who knows what strange tricks these tests will come up with, plus that nearly half of the people died in the last one. Just thinking about the tests makes one feel heavy.
"Just remember to do your best to stay alive." LAN has a bottom line, but it's not appropriate to say it to scare them at this time.
However, no one managed to escape. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't. The city was only so big. Where could they escape to? And the city of Irene has been drifting all the time. Even if you rush out, who can guarantee that you won't be hunted down by the law enforcement managers?
Although it's still the same room, the scene is completely different when you go inside. The original hall was turned into a cave, the ground into a bottomless abyss, with only a few stone pillars standing in the middle, winding with strange vines, some of which grew up from below, some hanging down from the top. The vines were covered with tiny spherical objects with tiny sharp teeth, and it was obvious that they were carnivorous plants.
After entering the door, there was only one person's place to stay. Many people were caught off guard and fell into the abyss, while the quicker ones jumped onto the stone pillars or climbed onto the vines. Those who fell into the abyss never came up again, and LAN found that magic could not be used in this space.
Optimize the intelligent man to spread his metal wings and fly into the air,
Nine managers' high platforms hover in the air, and the half-illusory image suggests they are in another space at the moment.
"Now announce the first test, reaction: Please find your own platform to land on and collect 10 'demon balls', which are the spherical objects on these vines."
Not to mention finding a place to stay, everyone was already doing it. The teeth of the balls growing on the vines were so sharp that they could bite through a wrist. In less than a moment, less than half of the 200 neutrals were left, and the survivors all saw the shock in each other's eyes.
LAN was also startled, but a little relieved to see that the palace master, Nanako and Charles were all safe and sound. Looking closely at the ball-shaped objects called "demon balls", it was found that the stems attached to the vines did not turn, meaning that the demon balls could not bite the stems, which made things much easier.
Between the gathering of the demon balls, many more people fell into the abyss.
"Now we announce the second and third tests, Pressure and Flexibility: Please feed the balls in your hands to the balls on the vine." One manager made an example with two magic balls.
LAN Xian was stunned for a moment. Flexibility is fine, but what is this called pressure?
The reason for flexibility is that the demon balls do not gnaw at their own kind. If they are far away, the two demon balls will avoid each other. If they are close, they will bite your hand again. To make the two demon balls bite each other, you have to pry open the "mouth" of one of them. However, these small balls are extremely hard. If the movement is not done well, your finger will be bitten off. Moreover, when handling one demon ball, you also have to be on guard against other demon balls on the vine.
LAN was not in a hurry to move, and for a moment he couldn't think of any solution. But he remembered that Tianying said the second was to test defense, and the third was to test adaptability. Although he saw many neutral ones using protective gear or changing the texture of their skin, it was just a matter of biting a few more times against the little fangs of the demon ball. It's not really a solution, but someone has already managed to feed the demon balls to each other.
"Be quick, or you'll be in trouble." The warbler couldn't help reminding.
LAN was still confused. As in the previous round, the second item, the resonant whistling sound rang out again, the standing stone pillar began to collapse, and the vine and the demon ball began to grow strangely. Only then did he realize that the demon ball was testing flexibility, but the whistling sound was bearing pressure! This time the resonance was even more terrifying than the last one. Many neutrals were caught off guard by the demon ball and fell into the abyss.
LAN carefully flew among the vines, understood the range of the test, and naturally it was much easier. Last time the workaround was element transformation, this time it was material transformation, wasn't it? Without a second thought, he turned the demon balls into a soft texture like dough balls, so that he wouldn't be bitten and it was easy to feed them. The demon balls on the vines didn't recognize these plucked variants at all, one at a time, easy to handle.
The transformation of matter was the palace master's strong suit, but survival in shock waves was not her strong suit. Several times she nearly fell into the abyss, it was Nanako who pulled her on the side. Charles was far away, and material transformation wasn't his strong point either. Until the end of the evaluation, he still had four demon balls that hadn't been transformed well.
The stone pillars kept rising from the abyss, and the vines broke.
"No matter what is appropriate, one must not lose vigilance." The manager spoke slowly, and in an instant, the number of neutral people present was reduced by more than half, leaving only about 20.
The stone pillars were gradually pieced together to form a flat ground, and the optimizers were filling in the scores for their respective neutrals.
"The next test time will be announced later. Please do not try to escape." The warning is very strong.
Apart from the evaluation field, the palace master nervously patted his chest, "It's really terrifying. If it weren't for that last warning, I would have run away! But even if I manage to escape, I'll die in the end. The manager is terrible!"
"It's better to be neutral all the time, Nanako finds it terrifying too!" Nanako was so devoted to Charles that she treated him as her own toy. As soon as she was separated from her optimized intelligent man, she clung to Charles, and Charles was afraid that she would threaten him again with the butt incident, so he had to let her do as he pleased.
"A neutral person will die." LAN said, "I was sent here by my brother for no reason, but he probably thought that if I couldn't become a manager, I would die somewhere he knew."
"To die? Is death terrifying?" "Asked Nanako.
"It's a bit like the maximum penalty for breaking the covenant of order." "But I never 'died'," Charles explained.
"It's not like that. When you die, you're gone, your consciousness is gone, it's completely gone, and soon no one remembers it, all existence is wiped out." "I died once, but I came back to life thanks to my past and my brother's efforts," LAN added.
"The past you?" " Nanako is always a curious baby.
"It should be the memory of the past me left in this body." LAN smiled, "I'm going to see the Wall of Wisdom. Are you interested in going together?"
"I want to look at the coordinates of the plane and then decide on my territory." "The Lord said.
"Nanako is going to see whose plane the earth belongs to now, Nanako decides to take it!" Nanako declared, "Charles, let's go!"
Charles wanted to see the Wall of Wisdom, but was called by Nanako, so he had to follow them.
Ran didn't mind, "I'll be there until the third test anyway, you can come and find me." He wanted to see if he could run into that odd old man again.
The Wall of wisdom was shining as always, and the information on it was flashing more and more.
"Only the absolutely necessary information here refreshes over and over again, and everything else flashes and disappears from the memory." The old man appeared behind LAN, looking very serious.
"Are you a manager?" LAN turned around, wanting to see the old man's expression clearly.
The old man chuckled and asked in return, "What is a manager? Is it fun?" Back to the cynical look we had when we first met.
LAN was stunned for a moment and did not smile that the old man would answer him like this. "Forget it, forget it. If you don't answer, forget it. HMPH." The way to deal with a madman is to go mad with him, that's experience.
"Oh! You're angry!" The old man doesn't care at all. "Managers are what you call after you go out. We don't say that here. We only have neutral, optimized intelligent, and drifters. They are actually managers without territory!"
"Manager without territory? Isn't a manager's territory very casual? If you don't want to manage it, destroy it all, and you can go free." LAN was a little puzzled.
"They did have their territory, but since they had entrusted it to a friend to manage, they were too embarrassed to go back after a long time, and they wandered around without a place to return to, so they came to help Erin." The old man was very serious as he explained.
LAN didn't know much about managers, except for immortality and domain, only some basic rules. After all, he had never thought of becoming a manager himself, and in his opinion, being neutral was fine.
"Little fellow, your companions are here." The old man chuckled, his eyes flashing, not knowing what he was thinking about.
"Brother LAN!" " Nanako was calling from quite a distance.
A flash of alarm flashed in the old man's eyes. "Why is this little girl here too? "!"
"Oh dear! Grandpa Old Rascal is here too!" Nanako darted to the old man's shoulder, "You lost to Nanako, keep your word!"
"Why did he lose to you?" LAN laughed, "Tell me about it!"
"Don't say it! Don't say! If you say it, you're not counting!" The old man immediately panicked and jumped up and down, waving his hands and feet.
LAN guessed in his heart that it was probably a very embarrassing blunder like Charles', and then felt that he should also be careful not to be tricked by this little girl at any time.
"Let's not talk about it," he said. Nanako giggles, "Grandpa Old Boy keeps his word."
"Keep your word! Keep your word!" The old man said hurriedly, "How did you do in the second round?"
"Nanako got a perfect score! Hehe! Amazing!" As she spoke, Nanako pulled out a demon ball and placed it in front of the old man's nose. "Look, he secretly brought one out!"
This time the old man threw Nanako away without a second thought, "Take this damn thing away!" But he looked so scared.
"Wah wah wah... Wow!" Nanako burst out crying, "Waaaah... You bully someone! Wah wah wah... So old and bullying kids! Wah wah wah..."
"Little girl, keep your voice down..." The old man was crying and laughing as he circled around Nanako. He was really scared just now. "Little girl, stop crying. If you keep crying, I'll... I just..." And I just won't come out.
"Woo woo woo... You bully someone..." Nanako won't dump him.
"Enough! Stop crying!" The soft won't work, so hard! This shout startled both Charles and the palace master standing by.
LAN shook his head with a smile. The old man clearly didn't know how to coaze a child, especially a fearless one like Nanako.
Nanako was also stunned for a moment, but only for a moment, and then cried even louder, causing the old man to scratch his head, Shouting "Auntie" on one side and "Auntie" on the other, almost kneeling down to beg for mercy.
"All right, Nanako, don't cry." Ran finally grew impatient, though the old man's impatient look made him feel comfortable, but it wasn't a pleasant thing to keep hearing Nanako crying.
"Brother LAN..." Nanako stopped crying with a look of grievance.
LAN reached out and picked up Nanako. Nanako was only the size of a five or six-year-old child, so LAN didn't find it awkward to pick her up. "Nanako is the most well-behaved, but brother doesn't like to see Nanako cry."
"Yeah! Then Nanako won't cry!" Nanako wiped her tears with her hand and laughed, "but Grandpa Old Naughty Boy will make it up to me!"
"Compensate you! Compensate you!" The old man said hurriedly, having made up his mind that he would run far away from this little witch in the future, or he would be signed with many unequal treaties.
LAN saw the old man's attention at a glance and whispered something in Nanako's ear, and Nanako's eyes sparkled with excitement and she nodded vigorously.
Not only the old man, but also Charles and the palace master have a feeling - the big devil and the little devil have come together!