In the dark jungle, an agile figure shuttled quickly.

Two ultramarine pupils looked particularly bright in the forest.

"clatter."

Kurosawa stepped on a huge high rock somewhere.

Take a short pause.

The nightmares and little Shinings lingering around him gathered around him.

This is the second hour after departure.

Kurosawa, who has developed the power of nature and super-sense, quickly moved around the designated outdoor area, looking for the prop balls needed for promotion.

Unfortunately, I didn't notice anything strange for the time being, and the candidate bracelet in my hand didn't make any sound.

"I wonder what happened to the others?"

Kurosawa held the little Shining and sat cross-legged on the stone to rest.

Although he has found nothing so far, he is not too worried about whether he can find the predetermined promotion items.

In this assessment process, he has a great advantage over other candidates.

First of all, his powerful perception ability provides him with more possibilities to find the target object.

Secondly, his strong physique helps him run for a long time in the forest.

Unless his luck is extremely bad, it will not be difficult for him to find promotion items.

What he needs to pay attention to is other candidates he may encounter on the road.

His current strategy is to quickly move towards the final base and then avoid encounters with other people as much as possible.

No matter whether that person is stronger than yourself or weaker than yourself.

There are more than 700 candidates distributed in a huge forest. The probability of encountering them is high or low.

If a conflict arises, it doesn't matter whether you win or not. It can easily attract other candidates who are aware of the movement.

Not long ago, a candidate rode a flying elf gliding high above his head, and he was very alert to this.

Because for some candidates, their strategy may not be to find promotion props, but to find other candidates.

Kurosawa took a few mouthfuls of dry food, finished feeding the two elves, and then started searching again.

Another five hours passed.

It was approaching dusk, and a figure was crawling in the bushes.

In the distance is a calm lake, and several wild elves are drinking water on the shore.

"Nightmare, prepare to use hypnosis."

Kurosawa gave the psychic command and at the same time winked at the Elf Nightmare beside him.

Nightmare nodded, understanding.

The next moment, its purple body suddenly disappeared into the air, just like ice and snow melting.

Half a second later, it appeared silently on the shore.

The lake at dusk reflects the last afterglow, and the water surface sparkles.

"Huh!"

Before the nightmare could use its skills on the target, the wild elves drinking water on the shore instinctively smelled a dangerous aura.

He immediately started running wildly.

Kurosawa immediately activated his spiritual energy and used hypnosis skills in conjunction with Nightmare.

Fortunately, the proficiency of the hypnosis skill is level 3, and he also had early warning, so the skill was released very quickly.

Although the creatures in the lake had noticed something was wrong and turned around to hide in the depths, the next moment they were followed by a powerful energy explosion from the nightmare.

A drowsy aura spread out, seeped into the water, and enveloped it.

Under the water of the lake, a half-meter-long big herring stopped moving on the spot, as if it had been cast on a body-holding spell.

If you look closely at its fish eyes, you will find that it has been covered with a layer of purple mist, without any sense of agility as a living creature.

Nightmare rode on the back of the fish, took a deep breath, and picked up the big herring from the water.

It "struggled" to carry the plump big herring to Kurosawa, who had already walked to the shore.

Kurosawa touched its head and said a few words of encouragement.

He's really lucky.

The air pressure was low today, so I happened to see this big herring with a prop ball hidden in its body come up to the surface for air.

Moreover, although the elves drinking water on the shore were inevitably disturbed during the process, fortunately, the herring was not let go, and the capture was successfully completed without any danger.

If you let this big guy dive to the bottom of the lake, it won't be that easy to catch it all at once.

After all, he doesn't have a water spirit, so he can't capture it underwater for a long time.

Moreover, the area is relatively open, so staying too long can easily attract the attention of other candidates.

He glanced at his left wrist.

The small display screen of the candidate's bracelet above has changed.

Replaced from "0" to "1".

The distance between the big herring and him is less than 3 meters, and the data of the prop ball in its body has been successfully transferred to Kurosawa's candidate bracelet.

He glanced at the motionless big fish in his hand, falling into a deep sleep.

He had no other thoughts and gently returned the big herring to the lake.

At the same time, let Nightmare disable the hypnosis skill.

When the herring touched the water, its head was dizzy and blank. The next moment it noticed two terrifying smells on the shore, it shivered and immediately twisted its body towards the bottom of the lake. In a flash, the figure disappeared.

.

Kurosawa washed his hands on the shore.

Looking at the sky, the sun was about to set, the light gradually dimmed, and there was only a trace of lingering clouds on the horizon.

"Let's go."

Without any intention of staying, he led the elf towards the forest.

Night falls quickly in the mountains.

Not long ago it was dusk, and the next moment it was pitch black.

A faint chill overflowed from the depths of the forest.

"Chi chi chi——"

Weird animal sounds wandered through the woods.

The forest was wet and cold at night, but Kurosawa had no idea of ​​lighting a fire.

After simply filling his stomach, he patted his legs and stood up from the ground.

The frosty, silvery moonlight was cut into pieces by the dense leaves, casting mottled light on the ground.

Looking at the deep dark forest, the corners of his mouth curved slightly.

Nighttime is a good time to be on the road.

Now that the points have been obtained, the goal of the next stage is to find a way to reach the final base smoothly.

The journey is not far, and if he runs at full speed, he should be able to reach it in three hours. Unfortunately, it is difficult to reach full speed when traveling at night, and he must be wary of all kinds of opponents he encounters on the road.

From time to time, he has to avoid the target in advance, which will add a lot of trouble to his journey.

During the day today, with his stronger perception, he had already avoided several encounters with others.

Perception is like an enhanced version of vision, which can often have an early warning effect like the sixth sense. Especially in wild areas where the field of vision is severely limited, the abilities of the five senses are blocked in an extremely narrow range due to layers of trees.

, the role of perception is infinitely magnified.

Whoever has strong perception ability will be able to smell subtle changes earlier and take the initiative whether to leave, stay, or take the initiative to meet them.

...

The night is already deep.

The stars are twinkling in the sky, and the number of stars is gradually increasing.

A full moon hung high in the sky, and the entire forest was covered with a light silver gauze.

The fog is a bit heavy tonight.

There was a layer of misty white mist floating everywhere.

"call out!"

"Crack!"

"call out!"

A nimble figure jumped rapidly among the treetops.

His movements are extremely skillful.

His body drew a beautiful arc and was thrown into the air. The next moment he stretched out his body.

Without even opening his eyes, he raised his hands above his head and hooked a thick branch branch.

The flexible body relied on inertia to circle and half around the branch.

Then the potential energy did not decrease, and the body was thrown forward high up.

The series of movements were so skillful that they didn't even look like movements that humans could perform.

"call--"

The scenery in the corner of my eyes was retreating rapidly, being pulled into threads, and was left behind before I could even take a look.

Kurosawa left everything to his blurred vision and his powerful perception to determine the direction and avoid obstacles.

But amidst such seemingly unstable high-speed travel, he didn't feel any uneasiness in his heart.

Instead, I was enveloped in an extraordinarily free feeling.

It was as if I had transformed into a bird, soaring freely, and every cell in my body was breathing briskly.

The wind howled across his cheeks.

Suddenly, after passing through a clump of leaves, his eyes widened.

Go to lose the target that can be grabbed.

He didn't panic either.

"beep!"

A bolt of lightning flashed across.

A golden light appeared in front of him.

Kurosawa reached out and grabbed the little Shining's bird claw.

The figure of a man and a bird sank visibly to the naked eye.

Immediately, the little Shining flapped its wings desperately, and quickly brought Hezella up to the height.

It wasn't until it flew over the clearing and entered the woods again that Kurosawa let go of its bird's talons and stepped on a branch to stand still.

"Huhu——"

He reached up and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Kurosawa let out a long breath.

The chest rises and falls.

Call up the candidate's wristband to check the specific location.

The end point is not far away.

According to the previous traveling speed, we can arrive there in about an hour and a half.

A ball of purple energy spread out behind Kurosawa.

Gathering and taking shape in front of him, it was an elf nightmare.

Nightmare put her hands on her hips and wiped the sweat off her forehead, imitating Kurosawa's example.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Kurosawa smiled.

Being able to drive as fast as he did just now, even though his body has been strengthening during this period, is inseparable from the help of the two elves.

Nightmare, in particular, has been diligently hanging on his back like a schoolbag, exerting force in the opposite direction to help Kurosawa escape from the shackles of gravity.

Kurosawa was not jumping up and down the trees to look cool.

It's because the leaves on the forest floor are too thick.

If you want to move fast, you will make a lot of noise, and you won't be able to use your hands and feet.

Kurosawa called up the system panel to check.

While traveling at high speed, a series of system prompts sounded. He did not listen carefully to the content at the time, and now he had time to check it while he was adjusting his breath.

"Through the excellent cooperation with Elf Nightmare, you can independently acquire the joint skills!"

"Nightmare Linkage Ability: Ghost Transformation"

"Ability details: During the process of semi-merging with the Elf Nightmare, you will gain some of the characteristics of the ghost elf and lose a lot of weight."

"Current Level: Level 1"

"Tips that the next level will add a new ability effect: ghost vision. Please practice this joint ability more."

"..."

After a brief silence, Kurosawa had a surprised expression on his face.

Unknowingly, he awakened the third linking ability.

This made him happier than whether he could pass the first round of the qualifying competition.

The previous two combined abilities [Arcane] and [Zeus] have very strong effects, but unfortunately they are all limited to the little Shining.

There has been no movement on Nightmare's body.

He was about to give up thinking about it, but he didn't expect to receive this unexpected surprise.

Perhaps because it was the first time to rely on independent training to acquire the linking ability, Nightmare's [Ghost Transformation] was able to be upgraded.

It seems that it can gradually release more diverse effects.

No wonder he didn't feel much restraint in his body when he was jumping and flying just now. It turned out to be the effect of [Ghost Transformation], and his weight was greatly reduced.

"Next, let's get to the finish line in one go."

After resting, Kurosawa was in a good mood.

.......

"call out!"

A cool breeze blew through the quiet forest.

The sound is fleeting.

A man in a jacket below suddenly raised his head.

All I could see was the layers of leaves and branches swaying gently under the deep night sky.

Apart from that, there is nothing else.

Feeling wrong?

Or some elf?

But the psychic obviously didn't feel the strong fluctuations of attribute energy?

He quickly summoned back the elves patrolling in front of him.

He didn't dare to move even half a step, and looked warily at the shadows around him. There might be hunters lurking in the darkness that could launch a surprise attack on him at any time.

He was sure that he indeed heard an extremely clear movement.

As for why he didn't notice the other party, he could only guess that it was a stealthy and agile elf who was extremely good at speed.

Moreover, his situation was very dangerous, and continuing to march rashly would only give the missing elf a chance to sneak attack.

In the cold night, there was a gloomy feeling behind him, and beads of sweat could not help but form on his forehead.

Where exactly?

...

Kurosawa, who was traveling rapidly, did not know how much mental shadow he had caused to a male candidate by his accidental passing.

He had noticed in advance that the candidates in the previous route were relatively weak, so he did not take any detours.

As expected, the other party did not cause any interference to him above his head.

As for why the opponent's ordinary professional strength was able to arrive near the end base so quickly, it can only be attributed to the fact that he did not search for prop balls during the day and was always on the road.

It is advantageous for ordinary candidates to arrive at the finishing base within the specified time. Although they cannot pass the assessment and advance to the next round because they have no points, they can increase the group score for their city's representative team, 10 points per person.

Of course, if you get points and reach the finish line, you can increase the group score even more, 50/person.

Cities with higher team scores can increase the number of participants in the coming year.

The 53 municipal districts, according to the quota determined by the competition, can only have 636 contestants at most, but the number of participants in the first round of this qualifying competition was more than 700.

The extra 100 places are the places that were filled in by the city representative teams that had the top ten team scores last year.

And even without looking at the increased number of places, the group score ranking itself is of great significance.

Ordinary people and provincial leagues refer to the overall strength ranking of each city based on the provincial competition team points.

Begonia was 33 last year.

An average-to-lower result is roughly in line with Haitang City’s ranking of strength within the province.

Can't go up or come down.

Those at the bottom are all county-level cities.

Each time, it relies on the guaranteed points from the first round of qualifying.

Those with more will get hundreds of points, and those with less will get tens of points.

No matter how bad Haitang City is, it will not be worse than this kind of city representative team, but it is far from those strong third-tier or second-tier teams with thousands of points.

Thinking about these things, more than half an hour passed.

Kurosawa's eyes lit up and his vision suddenly widened.

In the distance is a brightly lit forest base.

Perhaps it was because he was extremely fast and there weren't many people nearby.

There were only a few players similar to the guaranteed player I met just now, walking slowly in the woods.

From ten o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock in the evening, the twelve hours are basically the time that a normal person would travel non-stop.

Kurosawa's movements were too fast, and coupled with the super-sensory evasion of the force of nature, he did not encounter any strong opponents along the way.

"Da da!"

Kurosawa stretched his body and jumped into the open space.

Beside him, a girl just squeezed out of the woods.

The long journey made her look a little embarrassed, her hair was messy, and there were many leaves and strange foreign objects hanging on her hair.

Looking at the tall figure that suddenly fell next to her, she glanced at Kurosawa curiously.

Clean clothes, hair neatly scattered, and bright eyes reflecting cyan light in the moonlight.

So handsome!

She recognized the team logo on Kurosawa's uniform. Was it from Haitang City?

"Brother, you are so fast."

She stepped forward and said with some intention of striking up a conversation.

If it were Nagakawa and other members of the second-tier team, she would definitely not have the courage to come forward and talk to them.

Well...the gap between Haitang and their county team is not that big.

In her opinion, Kurosawa probably also received guaranteed points.

It's just that compared to himself who was rushing along in a panic, he looked much more relaxed and relaxed.

"It's not bad, you're not slow either."

Kurosawa took a breath.

He reached out and brushed his slightly messy bangs on his forehead.

A clear red light flashed across the girl's sight.

The bracelet worn on Kurosawa's left wrist clearly displayed red numbers.

"1"
Chapter completed!