Roadmap to the Bound Book 3, Chapter 92: Tournament

Book 3, Chapter 92: Tournant

When Chen Chuan returned to his room, he received a ssage from Hongfu.

“Congratulations on passing the mandatory technique exam. You’ve received the highest mark possible. You’ll be able to check your updated assessnt points after the end of the sester.”

Upon hearing that, Chen Chuan’s mood improved.

There were plenty of ways to increase his assessnt points, but most of them offered only a ager increase, and they were all one-ti things, such as getting a point for guiding a new student around the campus, like Tan Zhi had done for him. After that, even if the student guided other new students, they wouldn’t get more assessnt points.

The easiest way to increase assessnt points was by getting stronger, such as increasing one’s chances of reaching the Third Limit. By getting more than an 80% chance, his assessnt points had shot up. So, getting stronger was much easier than doing anything else.

For example, Chen Chuan had also gotten assessnt points for passing his technique exam, though he would argue that it was more accurate to say that he just recovered the assessnt points he lost. After all, those who didn’t need to take the exam had higher assessnt points than those who did. That was, of course, if the student managed to perform outstandingly during the exam, like Chen Chuan did today.

Still, it was rare for lecturers to be willing to give a high mark, like today. Besides, even if the lecturer was willing to do it, how many would be able to earn it?

This ant that the best way to increase assessnt points was to reach the Third Limit. The mont a student did that, they would get absolute priority for all services offered by the university.

Even now...

Chen Chuan did a quick check and found that he was among the first to get the Radiant Light session this month. His na was no longer near the bottom of the list, like before.

After so thinking, he contacted Mr. Zheng. “I passed my technique exam today.”

The news delighted Mr. Zheng. “With how quickly you’ve been improving, you should have had no problem passing your exam. It was just a matter of what mark you would get. Who was your examiner?”

“Mr. Jiang Tian,” Chen Chuan answered.

Mr. Zheng laughed at that. “Xiao Jiang? Did he do sothing completely out of the ordinary?”

“He took great care of ,” Chen Chuan answered sincerely.

“Did he now? That’s good. I’ll have to thank him,” Mr. Zheng said.

Chen Chuan nodded at that and said, “Yes. I was thinking the sa.”

“While you’ve passed your exam, it doesn’t change the fact that the Resolution Departnt recomnded

to be your tutor. If you want to continue your lessons with , you can still drop by my house,” Mr. Zheng offered.

“I’ll definitely co,” Chen Chuan promised.

Mr. Zheng had only taught techniques that Chen Chuan could master at his current level, so there was a lot more to be learned from him. But even if Chen Chuan didn’t consider that, Zheng Tongtong’s existence alone would make him co back. He wouldn’t be able to find another excellent sparring partner like her.

Since the Resolution Departnt had given him such a good learning resource, there was no reason for him to give up on it.

After the call ended, he checked the calendar on the wall. It was already June. Before he knew it, he had been in Central City for half a year, and there was less than a month until the end of the first sester.

Even though he always made sure to call his family on his days off, it had still been a long ti since he went back. He was determined to go back to Yangzhi City during the break to visit his family, ntor, and friends.

At this point, his mind wandered over to Yu Gang.

Yu Gang and Lu Ke had arrived in Central City earlier than he did, but since they didn’t exchange any contact information, Chen Chuan didn’t know where they went. He only knew that they were in the lower city district.

It was a huge place, though, and he had absolutely no idea where they were or how their lives were. After he went back to Yangzhi City, he was going to check whether they left any ans for him to contact them.

Since Chen Chuan had just finished his exam, he didn’t train. Instead, he made himself a hot drink, sat down on the sofa, and started reading the news from the niche channel.

Aside from local news, the niche channel also provided news about the entertainnt industry. When Chen Chuan wanted to relax, he would browse it. Recently, the hottest topic in the entertainnt section was the tournant in Central City.

There were plenty of discussions about it. The mont Chen Chuan went to the platform, he saw tons of voice ssages in the chat. The most popular topic was the tournant’s participants.

He took a look at the list and found that so of the more famous students had their pictures uploaded. There were even so videos of their previous fights.

These participants were believed to have a high chance of reaching the finals or semi-finals. Among them was Cao Rui, the student Chen Chuan had run into in the elevator, so he paid more attention to him and checked the videos of his fights.

Cao Rui’s overall strength was pretty good. He hit hard and had great battle instincts. Chen Chuan would even say that he was not that much weaker than the official students.

This should be due to his implants making up for the weaknesses of his mutated tissue.

But after taking a closer look, Chen Chuan found that while these students had a lot of implants, they didn’t have as many as the martial artists on Rhinoceros’ Horn, nor were they as crazy-looking. Instead, they seed to naturally belong to the students. If Chen Chuan ignored the embedded lines and the traces blatantly left behind to show that they had implants, they looked no different from normal students.

It seed that the external students were highly compatible with their implants. Of course, there was also a possibility that those with a low compatibility rate had already been eliminated.

Since the tournant was a fight to the death, the students didn’t fight against each other. Instead, their opponents were usually criminals, thrill-seeking martial artists, and mbers of various anti-corporation groups.

After being captured, they were forced to participate in the tournant, where they had to kill their opponents to survive. Not all of them were martial artists, but they were allowed to use all sorts of weapons, thus increasing the level of brutality and entertainnt value. It was no wonder why it could attract so many people, then.

Chen Chuan checked the videos of previous fights. Of course, if he wanted to watch the full fights, he had to pay, so he only watched the highlight reels. This helped him save a lot of ti.

While watching, Tan Zhi suddenly contacted him, and Chen Chuan answered it right away.

“Chen Chuan, I heard that you had to take a technique exam this sester. Did you pass it?”

“I just did,” Chen Chuan answered.

“That’s great. I heard that with the university’s newest policy, those who don’t pass will have their assessnt points deducted, and the ones at the bottom will be demoted to external students. Did you know that? And think about what external students are! They’re just tools dancing in other people’s palms,” Tan Zhi said.

“Didn’t you say before that if you don’t pass, you can just pay the university money?” Chen Chuan asked.

“I was just going to talk about that. That was in the past. Apparently, the university managent had a eting and didn’t just increase the price for passing, but also limited this offer to a one-ti opportunity. This is bad news to the students who are used to paying to pass their exams,” Tan Zhi said with a sigh.

After so thinking, Chen Chuan said, “I also heard that those with less than a 50% chance of reaching the Third Limit will be sent to beco tutors for the external students.”

“I’ve heard about that as well. This affects quite a lot of students, you know? They can’t even drop out. I think that we’ll soon start seeing official students fighting in tournants. I just hope that this axe will never fall on our heads,” Tan Zhi said fearfully.

Chen Chuan grunted at that.

They talked a little longer. When they were about to end the conversation, Chen Chuan gave Tan Zhi a reminder, “Wei Wusheng has been murdering the martial artists who boarded the cruise ship. You have to be careful. Tell that to Pan Xiaode and Qi Huixin too.”

Upon hearing this, Tan Zhi sighed. “Don’t even bring that up. I don’t dare to step outside my room now, much less go out to dance. I can only do it in my own training room. I heard that those two have been grounded at ho for this reason too. They complained about it to

yesterday. By the way, aren’t you part of the Resolution Departnt? When are you guys going to arrest him?”

“I can’t say. He’s a Third Limit martial artist, after all. If he wants to hide, it’s hard for us to catch him,” Chen Chuan pointed out.

Tan Zhi sighed yet again. “Which ans we have no other choice but to wait. I don’t want that guy coming after my life.”

“It shouldn’t take much longer,” Chen Chuan said.

“That’s good to know. Anyway, I’m going to hang up now. I’ll treat you to coffee whenever we et again,” Tan Zhi said.

“Sure,” Chen Chuan said, and they ended the call.

Tan Zhi had thought that Chen Chuan was just comforting him, but he wasn’t just giving empty promises. If the Resolution Departnt was unable to arrest Wei Wusheng as he kept on murdering martial artists, he was bound to approach Chen Chuan, and he would use that chance to get rid of him.

But Chen Chuan also had a feeling that Wei Wusheng wasn’t going to find him until he was fully prepared, because even though Chen Chuan had been so active outside lately, Wei Wusheng never ca knocking at his door.

Ti passed as Chen Chuan continued reading the news and various other information. When it was almost 10 p.m., he got up to wash up and go to bed, but Ni Qianqian interrupted him.

“I saw that you passed your technique exam, Chen Chuan. I asked around and heard that your examiner gave you a really high mark.”

“I was lucky and t a good examiner,” Chen Chuan replied.

Ni Qianqian was quite surprised. “Is that so? Are you sure you’re talking about Jiang Tian? He’s... I don’t know what to say about him. Oh well. That has nothing to do with you. Since you were studying under Mr. Zheng and preparing for your technique exam, I didn’t give you any tasks, but now that you’re free, you need to start paying attention to the tasks from the departnt.”

“What do you need

to do?” Chen Chuan asked.

“You know about the tournant, don’t you?”

“Yes.”

“It will start at the end of June and will last until September. Since Jibei Road’s Central City is the only place in the country that has this sort of tournant, I’m pretty sure that people from other Central Cities will co here too. That’s why we have to figure out a way to get rid of the problem known as Wei Wusheng before the tournant.”

“Does the departnt have a plan?” Chen Chuan asked.

“We tried working with the martial artists from Rhinoceros’ Horn so that the mont Wei Wusheng showed up, we could take action, but the results weren't good. We just found out that Wei Wusheng has a junior brother who might be helping him. Perhaps we can find so clues from this guy.”

“Is he part of the Heavenly Pardon Gang?”

“No. He was kicked out a long ti ago, but he received help from Wei Wusheng before, so they might still be in contact. Tomorrow, the departnt will send a person to make contact with him.

“You don’t have to worry about this. But we’ve put too much manpower into this recently, so we’ve been slacking off in a lot of other areas. The departnt wants you to work with the officers on duty at Glowing Dew District. They’ll send soone to pick you up, so just wait for their ssage.”

“Got it. I’ll wait,” Chen Chuan said.