For the trainees who didn’t know in advance that the next instance was a group instance, the fifteen-minute team-up time was way too short and fleeting, and it was nowhere near enough to find suitable teammates.
The system really tested the trainees’ communication skills here. The more new trainees were in this kind of place, the more they exposed their shortcomings in now knowing how to work in a team.
Many rookie trainees braced themselves and went up to higher levels to ask those teams that were not yet full whether they would accept people. For example, Zong Jiu’s five teams, almost all of them were short a person or two, not all teams had 30 people.
Seeing others go up to ask, many newcomers who wanted to look for opportunities couldn’t sit still.
This was a matter of life and death, not some family-friendly competition. Humbling themselves and losing face was nothing before the weight of their lives.
However, unfortunately, they went up with smiles to the top team to ask, but most of them got ruthless and immediate rejections.
Like the Night Clan team led by Van Zhuo, although there were almost 30 people in the team, everyone had a very clear division of labor and tasks, and there were strict regulations on who did what and who was responsible for what. The Night Clan’s strength was not bad, but they are also notorious for not supporting idlers. Survivors who did not contribute to the organization, even if they obtained the ability of half-vampires, could not stay in the Night Clan.
The abilities of these newcomers were there, and their personalities could be seen from their slick tongues. They couldn’t make contributions and could only hold others back. High-rank trainees were used to listening to flattery, and no one was willing to divide the strength of the team to protect these delicate newcomers.
Except for the Holy Temple.
The Temple was the most responsive, and all the newcomers who applied first to join their team had been accepted, including the team led by Messiah himself.
“Sorry, our team is full.”
The over-enthusiastic newcomers surrounded where the Holy Temple was and many temple executives could only wave their hands apologetically.
Other than the teams from the Temple, the teams led by Zong Jiu were the most popular.
But he was also not interested in helping newcomers, especially the newcomers who come with the purpose of “I want to hug your thighs”.
There was immediately a rejected newcomer who was angry, “Fuck, how pretentious, just a newcomer yourself and now you pretend to be a boss after becoming an A-rank.”
“That’s right, acting like some 258 thou’. Easy to see he’s someone who forgets his roots.”
“Wasn’t he also just an E-rank rookie back then… Let me tell you, who knows how he has such a good relationship with the other S-ranks. With S-ranks taking care of all the instances, can his score not be high? “
After being rejected by the Magician, the jealousy of these newcomers broke out in unison.
In their eyes, Zong Jiu’s level was not much higher than theirs when entering the game, or even lower.
But on the way, he received appreciation at the casino, getting the words “in order to reward beauty and courage”, and he directly got the starting capital of 5,000 chips from the dealer. And then No. 1’s gift of flowers in public. Later, in the Famine Village instance, he was escorted by No. 3. Before the King’s Game, he received an invitation letter from the Night Clan. And in the #1 High School instance, it was said that many S-ranks were willing to listen to his plans and suggestions.
It was ironic to say that when Zong Jiu entered the game, those who harbored ill will towards him were mostly those low-rank veterans who didn’t want to be squeezed out, mostly C-ranks.
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Now that he had shown enough strength, brains, and communication skills, the veteran trainees who had been observing from the sidelines were the first to accept him. Every organization had shown friendly intentions to him even if they didn’t try to recruit him.
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The current situation of low-rank trainees was that they had no strength and no courage. Once someone emerged from their members, there would always be a bunch of unscrupulous trainees rushing up, dying to pull the emergent person back into the quagmire.
Even Xu Su was a traitor who hugged the Magician’s thigh in their eyes and kept pointing behind his back.
“Don’t worry about these people, just do well yourself.”
Zong Jiu waved his hand indifferently, his tone flat.
To criticize this kind of thing, whether it was in his previous life or after transmigrating into a book, he had never lacked it. If Zong Jiu cared about these things and kept his hands and feet tied by them, then it was impossible for him to reach this stage.
However, not all newcomers were useless.
A rookie who applied to join their team caught Zong Jiu’s attention.
“Don’t be in a hurry to reject me.”
A polytechnic-looking man in a T-shirt touched his glasses and suddenly took them off his face.
“Because I have a special ability.”
The next moment, everyone saw the eyes behind his glasses.
Those were not the black and white eyeballs of ordinary human beings, but a pair of extremely dark eyes, and there was even a strange faint layer of dark light floating over it.
Anthony, who was standing behind Zong Jiu, exclaimed, “Yin-yang eyes?!”
That was right, as the second highest ranking member of the Night Clan, Anthony did not lead a team himself, nor did he join the Van Zhuo team. Instead, he followed Magician’s team and condescended to be a subordinate.
The current Anthony was not the original Anthony who made trouble for Zong Jiu when they disagreed in the casino and Famine Village instance. After experiencing the reminiscence between his immediate boss and Zong Jiu, and experiencing the strength shown by the Magician’s rocketing up to A-rank, he could now be a quiet vampire subordinate without a flicker in his expression or heart.
Nobody knew how shocked Anthony was.
The Yin-Yang Eyes was a famous special ability in the infinite loop.
The most famous Yin-Yang Eyes was the enhanced ability in the S-rank Seeing Luoyin Instance. Although other instances had them, the activated Yin-Yang Eyes were not as strong as those of the Seeing Luoyin Instance.
There was once a survivor in the infinite loop who got this top-rank Yin-Yang Eyes ability in the Seeing Luoyin Instance. But unfortunately, he fell into a certain instance later on and there had not been any records of Yin-Yang Eyes since.
In addition, there were many holders of ordinary Yin-Yang Eyes.
The abilities of Yin-Yang Eyes were somewhat similar to those of psychic mediums, the difference being that psychic mediums could not see the spirits of psychic beings, but Yin-Yang Eyes could.
Being able to see the spirit body, bind the spirit body, and even see through the origin of the spirit body at a glance, was the biggest advantage of this ability. The information it could provide was something that psychics couldn’t provide, and there was no need to worry about the psychic being attacked or possessed by evil spirits.
But compared to psychic mediums, Yin-Yang Eyes’ attack ability was inferior. It had to be known that the attack ability of psychics was already very poor, and Yin-Yang Eyes were even worse, infinitely close to zero capabilities.
Therefore, rather than saying that a psychic was someone who only large organizations had the power to train up, it was better to say that the Yin-Yang Eyes were the true mascots of a large organization.
The Night Clan had a Yin-Yang Eyes user.
So Anthony had some idea about this special ability.
Being able to make the whole eye show a deep black color was absolutely impossible for ordinary Yin-Yang Eyes!
“That’s right.”
The C-rank rookie put on his glasses again and said flatly, “My family’s ancestors in reality are the famous ghost-hunting family in Xiangjiang, and this is also inherited Yin-Yang Eyes.”
The newcomer said that his name was Zhong Yiyuan, and he had the Yin-Yang Eyes ability long before he entered the infinite loop.
Therefore, he did not spend extra survival points to purchase any props for himself, nor did he perform other expensive physical enhancements, but chose to directly upgrade his Yin-Yang Eyes.
Who knew if his ability was brought from the real world. It stood to reason that even if this type of ability was strengthened, it could only be obtained and strengthened from instances, but he was able to choose to strengthen it directly from the system.
In this way, the reason why he was unable to quickly improve his evaluation even though he had valuables came out.
Anthony lowered his voice, “Yin-Yang Eyes has almost no attack ability and it can only be activated with the cooperation of other trainees with attack ability.”
This was equivalent to having a pair of Yin-Yang Eyes alone without the cooperation of a high-strength partner. It was like guarding a mine without a shovel.
Speaking of which, Anthony’s tone was a little sour.
Their Night Clan’s Yin-Yang Eyes was even a high-rank leader, and they specially went to that instance to escort him and give him the ability to get it back. It turned out that the Magician had it better. Just by putting up a sign, there were Yin-Yang Eyes automatically coming to the door. And it was even the Yin-Yang Eyes from the real world.
If this news spread, other big organizations would bash their heads to try to rob.
The unlucky Magician didn’t know the value of Yin-Yang Eyes yet but still nodded his head indifferently, “Okay, you are allowed to join the team. But let’s make it clear first, my team does not support idlers, you must display your value after you come in to prove you deserve it.”
Zhong Yiyuan, “Okay.”
This time, the Zong Jiu’s team successfully gathered thirty people.
Soon, fifteen minutes passed.
[Fifteen minutes is up, stop teaming up]
[Please select the captain of each group, and finally confirm the number of teams and submit it to the system]
Zong Jiu was naturally the undisputed captain.
After he confirmed the number and content of the team submission, the system opened a space door next to their team.
The interior of the space door was dark and nothing could be seen clearly. Only the dark purple border around the edge flashed an ominous color.
“Is everyone ready?”
Zong Jiu looked back at the team behind him.
“All ready!” Everyone answered in unison.
“Okay, then let’s go—?”
The white-haired Magician was about to bring people into the instance, but unexpectedly, a black-haired man in billowing robes led a team and charged into the space door behind him.
Zong Jiu: ???
Everyone: ???
Xu Su reacted immediately, “Wrong way, wrong way, your space door is over there!”
Both of their teams were standing on the same platform, and the space door was very close. If they hadn’t opened one after another, a mistake was inevitable.
See, Zhuge An made a mistake.
“Huh?”
The trainees who followed Zhuge An immediately stumbled to a halt.
He hesitated, looking at the majority of the team that had entered the space door ahead, and became panicked, “What should I do? Our captain and the others have already entered.”
“It’s fine.”
Zong Jiu glanced at the backs of those people who disappeared into the purple space door, and said deeply, “You go with them, it’s just the space door being different. We can just go to the instance by going through your door. It’s no problem.”
He probably did it on purpose didnt he
How sly
I feel!!! Like I’m seeing Zhong Chengshuo!!! Look at this serious glasses boi….
Who’s zhong chengshuo?
ML from Evil as Humans novel! Psst, he sleeps with a nightcap on
thank you for the chapter!
author is sending fresh teammates for our dear magicians XD
Starting to doubt Zhuge An’s intentions. It all seems very suspicious. 🧐
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Glasses are probably a big problem in terms of survival
Thank you very much for the translation 💙🤍🤍
Accidentally on purpose because of what he “saw” in the eight trigram prop?
Is it that Zhuge An wants to shoulder the difficult task or Does Zhuge An plan on robbing the magician’s luck??
Now I wonder if ZA saw smth and went into that door purposefully.
Thx for the ch ٩( >ヮ<)۶
Now THAT was sus.
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