204: Chapter 203 Performing as Usual! The Most Unpredictable Black Iron Squad

The group of five quickly finished filling out the forms.

Li Mei looked them over carefully, finally letting her gaze rest on the section filled out by the team leader, Chen Lin.

"Mr. Chen, your... law enforcement videos aren't passing the review?"

Li Mei looked up, her tone a bit hesitant: "Are they very non-compliant?"

Chen Lin's mouth twitched, and his face darkened: "They just keep rejecting them, saying I'm too weird."

"Weird?"

Li Mei paused for a moment, then immediately revealed an understanding smile: "Actually, in a High Martial World, fighting and killing martial artists is quite normal."

"Even if it's slightly non-compliant, we can understand it, and it usually passes."

"But yours..."

"It just won't pass, anyway." Wang Gu chimed in from the side, "The reviewers' reasons for rejection are either that it's fake, claiming a bunch of Black Iron ranks fighting like that is unreasonable."

"Or they say the leader's laughter was non-compliant."

???

Li Mei nodded thoughtfully, not asking any more questions.

She looked down to continue checking the forms, then suddenly pointed to a blank space and asked: "Right, Mr. Chen, you have one part here that isn't filled in—what is your special trait?"

Chen Lin thought about it and said: "Great Strength."

"The problem is I just forgot how to write the character for 'strength' in 'Great Strength', so could you help me fill it in?"

Li Mei: ...

Simp Zhang, at the window next to them, had been pricking up his ears listening for a long time, and now couldn't help but lean over with an expression of trying to hold back laughter.

Can't write?

In this day and age, there are still people who can't write?

Chen Lin, you guy...

Li Mei glared at Simp Zhang, and he immediately shrank back.

"Alright, I'll fill it in for you."

Li Mei maintained her professional smile and neatly wrote the characters for "Great Strength" in the special trait column: "You all go to the Assessment Site 42; I'll take you there."

As she spoke, Li Mei left the window and personally led the five of them through the lobby, winding their way to a metal door marked 42.

Pushing the door open, inside wasn't an arena, but a teleportation array glowing with blue light.

"Teleporting over will take you to the assessment site."

Li Mei stood by the teleportation array and explained: "The content of this assessment is to enter a restaurant filled entirely with aliens."

"Furthermore, aliens are divided into good and bad..."

"Your task requirements: find the proprietress and kill the alien disguised as the proprietress. It's very simple, the difficulty isn't high."

Chen Lin nodded: "It's indeed not high. But are you sure it's entirely aliens inside? No humans?"

"I'm sure."

Li Mei said with a smile: "This assessment is mainly to see how you handle cases. Our manual review needs to first understand your law enforcement style, so just perform normally in a moment."

"Alright, that's easy."

Chen Lin waved his hand, and they stepped into the teleportation array one after another.

A blue light flashed, and the five of them disappeared into the array.

Li Mei watched them leave, then turned and walked toward the monitoring room.

She still held the form in her hand, flipping through it as she walked.

Law enforcement videos not passing review... saying it's weird... just how weird could it be?

...

In the monitoring room, the reviewer, Old Zhao, was sitting with his legs crossed, chatting with a female colleague, his phone hidden in the drawer while he scrolled through short videos.

"Oh, let me tell you, that last squad was truly something else. The five of them dressed like fortune tellers, and they even drew lots before going in..."

As he was speaking, the door was pushed open.

Old Zhao reflexively straightened up, his phone sliding deep into the drawer in one fluid motion.

Seeing that the person arriving was Li Mei, he breathed a slight sigh of relief, but he didn't dare to slack off again.

In the entire Inspection Bureau, who didn't know that Li Mei took her work most seriously? Slacking off in front of her was just asking for death.

"Yo, Xiao Mei, what wind blew you here?" Old Zhao asked with a chuckle.

"There's a manual review needed, a Black Iron-level inspection squad that can't seem to rank up."

Li Mei handed over the form: "Their case-handling rate is 100%, and their mission completion rate is also 100%, but because their law enforcement videos don't pass the online review, their rank hasn't been able to go up, so they've come here for a manual review."

"Oh?" Old Zhao took the form and glanced at it nonchalantly.

This glance was enough to make him laugh out loud.

"What did they fill in the ability column? Great Strength?"

"Come on, buddy, it's a High Martial World, and you're still playing that 'Great Strength' game?"

"Who doesn't follow the elemental path, weapon path, or skill path these days?"

"Great Strength? What's the use of Great Strength?"

"Do you think you're Pangu?"

Old Zhao was amused and handed the form to the female colleague next to him, who also covered her mouth and giggled.

Li Mei frowned; these two were truly annoying.

Although Great Strength wasn't the current mainstream martial arts path, there was no need to mock them directly.

All roads lead to Rome, after all.

Sigh, this bunch of people...

Li Mei knew these reviewers had been working for too many years; their tongues had become oily, and they loved to tease others.

"Alright, alright, let me see."

Old Zhao licked his lips and continued reading, "Why did this squad fail the review again?"

"The team leader said their squad is weird." Li Mei replied.

"Weird?"

Old Zhao immediately curled his lip in disdain, "Damn, I've seen plenty of these people."

"Who comes here for manual review and doesn't claim to be weird?"

"To put it bluntly, they're just not good enough!"

He leaned back in his chair, crossed his legs, and spoke with the tone of someone who had seen it all: "Last time there was a squad that said they were too violent, but during the manual review, all five team members were there casting fortunes, and they even went to a bathhouse halfway through. That wouldn't be so bad, but the key was that when they were fighting monsters, they were more cowardly than the next, hiding in the back and shouting 'Go!'. Tsk tsk tsk..."

"You don't know, these youngsters all want to save face; you can't believe what they say."

Li Mei opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but swallowed her words.

She was afraid that if she said too much, Old Zhao would review them with bias, which would be unfair to that squad.

"Alright, then watch the surveillance."

"Assessment Site 42, they just went in."

Li Mei pointed to the big screen on the wall.

Old Zhao picked up the remote and pulled up the footage for Assessment Site 42.

On the screen, Chen Lin and the five were standing at the entrance of an eighteen-story restaurant.

The restaurant was decorated magnificently, and through the carved doors and windows, one could vaguely see figures moving about inside.

The sounds of giggling and chatter could be heard even through the screen.

Inside, there were scantily clad waitresses everywhere, revealing glimpses of snow-white skin as they weaved between the seats.

The guests were even more varied: some had horns, some had tails, some had scales all over their bodies—they were all aliens.

A few alien guests were hugging waitresses and pouring drinks, the scene chaotic and messy.

Old Zhao whistled: "This assessment is interesting."

Li Mei ignored him and watched the screen intently.

In the surveillance.

Chen Lin and the five entered the restaurant.

"Brother Lin, what do we do?" Ye Huang asked from the side.

Chen Lin loosened his shoulders and stretched his neck.

"Before we came in, that young lady also said, let's perform normally."

"Besides, this restaurant is full of aliens."

"You brothers know what's going on now, right."

Saying this, Chen Lin wore a ferocious smile on his face.

Then, the next second, he spread his arms:

"Wang Gu, close the door!"

"Leave none alive!!!"