"Alright, you have three minutes to prepare. Once everything is set, the assessnt begins."
After saying this, the Raccoon Admin imdiately left the field.
Hearing these words, Mi Yao's two teammates imdiately approached him to discuss their next strategy.
"Um, our abilities are—"
Without waiting for his two teammates to finish, Mi Yao didn't even look up, focusing on playing with the silver-grey handheld console in his hands.
"Unnecessary."
Mi Yao played his ga and said impatiently, "Once inside, you two hide yourselves and don't bother ."
"..."
Hearing this, the smile of the Mundane Male teammate froze on his face, and his heart imdiately sank.
Did he guess what we were thinking?
They had tead up with Mi Yao precisely because they planned to let Mi Yao attract the attention of the pursuers at the critical mont, allowing them to hide.
Because, by all appearances, Mi Yao was the strongest among the three of them.
It was only logical for the pursuers to go after him first.
Furthermore, Mi Yao was just a temporary teammate they t in a 'random match,' so they had no psychological burden selling him out.
However, Mi Yao's words seed to indicate he had seen through their intentions, so he showed no sign of wanting to communicate with them.
Seeing this, the Mundane Male opened his mouth, wanting to say sothing more, but the Mundane Female next to him tugged at his sleeve.
The two exchanged a look, ultimately not daring to speak further, and could only retreat to the side dejectedly, quietly discussing a contingency plan.
Their situation was observed by the other teams.
It also made Chen Kong montarily anxious.
After all, he, An Qin, and the Caraman Bro were also a temporary team.
If they encountered danger later, would his teammates also think about 'selling him out,' like Mi Yao's teammates?
Once the seed of suspicion is planted, it is not so easy to remove...
Before Chen Kong could reach a conclusion, the Raccoon Admin's voice chid in.
"Alright, preparation ti is over. The second assessnt begins!"
Amidst the Raccoon Admin's slightly playful voice, Mi Yao's trio was imdiately teleported to a certain location within the surrounding maze.
At the sa ti, a large screen appeared above everyone's heads, broadcasting the real-ti footage from inside the maze.
[Assessnt Maze - City Ruins Area]
The mont Mi Yao's trio landed, they imdiately looked around.
Cracked asphalt roads, collapsed modern high-rise buildings, remnants of graffiti on the walls, and a few wild weeds sprouting from the crevices of the ruins.
The scene strongly resembled an urban ruin after an apocalypse.
"Let's find a hidden spot first to observe the situation. The Star Energy detector scans every five seconds. Running around aimlessly will only reveal our location."
After briefly observing the surroundings, the Mundane Female teammate spoke imdiately.
As she spoke, she pulled out a palm-sized tablet from her backpack.
This was a special 'Terrain and Life Detector' she had prepared, capable of real-ti mapping of the surrounding 3D model, as well as life forms within a certain range.
She pressed the button on the tablet, and a pale-blue Star Energy fluctuation spread out.
Before long, a simple model of the surrounding ruins appeared on the screen.
But in the next second, the Mundane Female's face turned pale, and the tablet 'clattered' to the ground.
"Wh-What's wrong?"
The Mundane Male quickly picked up the tablet and looked at the screen.
When he saw the situation on the screen, his pupils instantly contracted.
The 3D model was densely covered with red dots.
And among these red dots, one dot glowed a bizarre crimson, slowly moving toward them.
"An Apocalypse-level Star Beast fluctuation?!"
"How can there be an Apocalypse-level Star Beast in this assessnt? Did the admin put it in, or was it an accident?"
The Mundane Male's voice was terrified, clearly not expecting such a situation.
In contrast to the panic of the two, Mi Yao calmly put away his handheld console, looking up towards the depths of the ruins.
"A little interesting. So there was such a big 'surprise' hidden here."
After speaking, Mi Yao didn't notify his two 'teammates.'
He turned and walked toward a certain direction in the ruins.
[anwhile, in front of the Rest Hall Holographic Screen]
Chen Kong stared at the ruins scene on the screen and suddenly froze.
His gaze was fixed on a dilapidated sign in the corner of the image, where he could still clearly read the four characters for 'Sunshine Kindergarten.'
The color, font, and even the chipped paint marks on that sign were identical to the kindergarten he attended when he was a child!
The Caraman Bro noticed his anomaly and turned his lens to the screen, curiously asking, "What's wrong, do you recognize this place?"
Chen Kong did not answer. Blurred fragnts of mory suddenly flashed in his mind.
A collapsed teaching building, his mother's shouts, the dense swarm of Star Beasts...
Without delving further into the mories, Chen Kong shook his head and said, "N-Nothing, maybe I just saw it wrong."
Did he see it wrong?
Watching Chen Kong lost in thought, the Caraman Bro imdiately grew pensive.
And did Chen Kong really see it wrong?
Naturally, he did not.
Because whether it was the kindergarten on the screen, the elentary school not far away, or the park further beyond, they all looked exactly like the city he lived in during his childhood!
"What is it, Tendo?"
"Nothing, I just suddenly saw sothing familiar."
Hearing this, Caroline imdiately looked at the city ruins on the screen.
In just an instant, Caroline found area characteristics highly similar to these ruins in her 'Quantum Database.'
If the data was correct, the prototype of these ruins was the SSS-Rank Fallen Zone - teorite Site.
And the forr na of the teorite Site was an unremarkable small city in the New Federation: Tianhui City (Sunshine Tutoring Center).
And this city, apparently, was the place where Tendo lived when he was a child...
Thinking of this, Caroline imdiately began to ponder.
Because she didn't think the appearance of these city ruins was a coincidence.
And the dinsional viewers at Site 13 were also starting to ponder.
'Wait a minute, this looks like the city where Tendo and Chen Kong lived when they were kids, right?'
'It should be correct. That park and the tutoring class appeared in a previous flashback chapter.'
'Is it a coincidence, or so kind of suggestion?'
Dinsional viewers familiar with the production process of an animated series knew well that every fra had a aning for a mature production team.
Because these fras required a huge number of people and a large amount of resources to create.
Unless it was a production team where the leader was just fooling around and didn't care about the cost.
Otherwise, fras like these that are released must have been strictly reviewed.
Adding to this, the core area of this hide-and-seek scene seed to be the city where Tendo and the others lived when they were children. It looked intentional on the part of the production team, no matter how you looked at it.
'Is this setting the stage for a special plot later, or is there sothing unique about this assessnt?'
'Hard to say. Perhaps this assessnt is not as simple as imagined.'
'Speaking of the Apocalypse-level Star Beast, do you think the one appearing this ti might be the one Tendo encountered in his childhood flashback?'
'To the comnter above, that might actually be possible.'
Besides speculating on the plot, a portion of the dinsional viewers also thought of more things.
Because up until now, the storyline of Tendo and the others' childhood had only briefly appeared in flashback chapters.
And according to the typical trope of classic hot-blooded ani, these places are definitely going to have foreshadowing buried in them.
Coupled with the fact that Tianhui City has now beco the Fallen Zone - teorite Site.
And the explorers' mission is to explore the Fallen Zones.
In that case... the subsequent plot might feature Tendo and the others revisiting their old ho.
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