111: birthday gift

"On this point, everyone must believe me!"

Aunima said this, his eyes locked onto Chen Du, radiating a firm gaze, and he spoke in an incomparably confident tone.

"Chen Du deceived me by hiding his identity like this right from the start, and he is still acting now!"

"He... absolutely has no stamina left!"

"If we let him leave now, once he recovers, we will all be eliminated by him!"

Chen Du watched Aunima, who looked so confident, and had to admit that his analysis did indeed make sense!

Even his previous analyses had been quite accurate, but unfortunately, the information he possessed was always incomplete.

He absolutely did not know about the recovery ability of the Crystal Space.

Chen Du's stamina at this moment had already recovered to the state it was in when the competition first began!

"Aunima is right! He is bluffing."

"Come to think of it, this is a god-given opportunity for us!"

"Normally speaking, the top ten is our limit."

"But if we eliminate Chen Du here, we can not only reach the top ten, but even have a chance at the top three!"

Orleans, who was from the White Horse Domain and served as captain alongside Aunima, let out a low roar and charged forward.

The few people around them, upon hearing this, no longer hesitated and rushed toward Chen Du together.

Chen Du gripped his short blade, looked at the "old, weak, sick, and disabled" ones surrounding him, and smiled confidently:

"The competition is over!"

Top floor of the luxurious villa.

Yan Yun took the elevator to the roof, looked at Zhou Ming standing all alone in front of the railing, and slowly approached:

"Anything on your mind?"

"You're not even watching the competition."

Zhou Ming turned his head to glance at Yan Yun, then continued looking at the distant horizon:

"No one stipulated that I have to watch the Seven Regions Genius Battle for 72 hours, without missing a single second, right?"

Yan Yun walked to a position parallel to Zhou Ming, turned around, and leaned his back against the railing.

He took out a cigarette, took a puff, exhaled slowly, and muttered to himself:

"I'm the type of person who just loves to overthink."

"Zhou Ming, tell me, isn't this competition strange?"

"The strength of the General Group is evenly matched, so everyone is destined to have similar points."

"Although Zhou Xiaogu stands alone at the top of the Lieutenant General Group, there are nearly 200 people in the Lieutenant General Group, which is the largest number."

"It's impossible to eliminate everyone, and there isn't enough time either."

"The Junior General Group is in a dual-A mode, so it wouldn't be strange whoever wins."

"When we were designing these rules, we intended for the first place to emerge from among these three A-ranks."

"Although doing this is somewhat unfair to other students, top-tier resources like the secret treasure heart are very rare."

"The higher the level of the student who obtains it, the better, for sure."

Yan Yun stopped here, suddenly paused, and changed the subject.

"What if..."

"What would happen if the entire Junior General Group was cleared out?"

"What are you trying to say?"

Zhou Ming frowned, glanced at Yan Yun who was leaning on the railing beside him, and asked back.

Yan Yun did not answer immediately, exhaled a breath of air, watched the slowly rising smoke rings, and said leisurely:

"Nothing, it's just that I'm the type of person who likes to think of people a bit more maliciously."

"Tell me, isn't the appearance of that alien creature strange?"

"An alien creature whose maximum combat power doesn't even reach level 15, yet it somehow managed to break out of the D Zone and come to the C Zone?"

"Let's think about it in reverse, what if this series of events was all man-made?"

"If Chen Du and Long Shan hadn't managed to defeat that alien creature?"

"Then wouldn't the ultimate beneficiary be destined to be Zhou Xiaogu?"

"Or rather, your brother Zhou Cheng's daughter!"

"Yan Yun!!!"

Zhou Ming's voice suddenly raised.

"I advise you not to talk nonsense without evidence!"

"This is a result we all voted on together."

"Besides..."

"You were the deciding vote!"

"If we really have to say it, the person who led to this result is you!"

"If it really is man-made, you are the biggest suspect!"

Yan Yun laughed:

"Old Zhou, I have never doubted you. I said it, I just like to let my imagination run wild."

"Look at how anxious you are!"

"However, there is one thing I am curious about. The D Zone is clearly under the responsibility of the Limit Martial Hall."

"How did you manage to let that thing out?"

"You really didn't suspect me at all!"

Inside the luxurious villa.

Kruuna looked at Baiwei Adam, who had just returned from the restroom and sat back in his front seat, and muttered to herself:

"12 seconds."

"What 12 seconds?" Baiwei Adam turned his head and asked Kruuna, looking puzzled.

"The time it took you to go to the restroom this time was 12 seconds longer than your usual time."

"Boring."

"You guys from the Technology Martial Hall, your heads are full of data. I really can't stand it."

After Baiwei Adam finished speaking, he shifted his gaze to the projection screen.

At this time, Chen Du had already finished clearing the field, and everyone in the Junior General Group, except for him, had been eliminated!

Kruuna's gaze was also fixed on the projection screen, and she then spoke as if to herself:

"Adam, I feel like you don't seem very happy."

"Isn't this the outcome you hoped for?"

"Kruuna, I admit I'm a little handsome, but you are not my type!"

"Don't pay so much attention to me, I'll be shy!"

Baiwei Adam did not answer directly and retorted bluntly.

"Get lost, how old are you already!"

"I'm just habitually observing the parameters of the people around me, okay?"

"Expression parameters, time parameters, behavioral parameters, habit parameters—these are as natural as breathing in my eyes!"

Outside the Seventh Ecological Circle, a ten-person squad stopped here.

"Minister Zhou, are we not leaving yet?"

A young woman wearing a combat suit looked at Zhou Cheng, who was sitting to the side and concentrating on his bracelet, and said calmly.

"Wait a little longer. Once we pass this 10,000-meter warning line, the bracelet will completely lose signal."

The woman fell silent upon hearing this and stood quietly to the side. Her name was "Xia Li."

She was Zhou Cheng's secretary when he was the principal at Hai City No. 1 High School.

As a long-time colleague of Zhou Cheng, she rarely saw Zhou Cheng in this state of "full of anticipation for a child's National Higher Education Entrance Examination results, yet also somewhat nervous."

After a while, Zhou Cheng's bracelet vibrated.

As a Mental Energy Martial Artist, Xia Li was particularly sensitive to the surrounding environment.

She subconsciously glanced at it; it was a message.

The sender was Baiwei Adam.

Xia Li was very familiar with this name; the other party was also from the Limit Martial Hall.

When the other party was not yet a Sky Soaring Warrior, Zhou Cheng had saved him once.

Out of professional integrity, she naturally would not be curious enough to peek at Zhou Cheng's privacy and instinctively stepped back two steps.

Seconds later, Zhou Cheng stood up expressionlessly, with a hint of faint disappointment revealed between his brows.

"Let's go."

"Minister Zhou, is something on your mind?"

Although Xia Li was Zhou Cheng's subordinate, Zhou Cheng did not put on airs, and they got along almost like friends.

She would show concern from a friend's perspective regarding some questions that a normal subordinate would not ask.

"It's nothing."

"Because of the Dynasty project, I can't return to the Seventh Ecological Circle for a short time."

"Naturally, I can't attend Xiaogu's 18th birthday coming-of-age ceremony."

"I originally wanted to give her a birthday gift in advance, but I didn't expect to lose it on the way."

"The kind you can't buy?"

Xia Li asked in surprise.

A gift that could make someone in Zhou Cheng's position feel disappointed must either be valuable or have extraordinary significance.

Zhou Cheng smiled professionally and did not answer this question:

"Let's go, let's not mention sad things anymore."

"The people from the Fifth Ecological Circle are still waiting for us."

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